I hate winter in my hometown more every passing year - when the light goes and the frigid temperature extinguish the last growing thing more efficiently than a fire I feel like abandoning hope it will ever return. This year with an overloaded end of year work schedule, unexpected family crisis and the onslaught of frozen precipitation of all kinds, hope is an extremely dim thing. So to make it through the darkness some my extra projects got thrown aside and blogging was one of the first to go. But something popped in my mailbox from an Urban Culture Project email blast that reminded me green and growing is around the corner.

These folks whomever they are, are here to raise a torch in this the season of artificial light to mark the shortest day which is fast approaching and I for one can’t wait to get to the other side of that astronomical event. It’s easy to understand why it is so celebrated buy Pagans, Christians and almost every culture that wasn’t based at the equator.

From the Urban Culture Project email blast: Carnal Torpor hosts MANAFEST: THE WINTER SOLSTICE

la Esquina / 1000 W 25th, St. Kansas City, MO 64108
Sat, Dec 22, 6:08 am - midnight

It is astronomically inevitable and geographically correct that on December 22, 2007, artist collective Carnal Torpor will host MANAFEST: THE WINTER SOLSTICE within a new iteration of the CalmDome at La Esquina.

Beginning at 6:08 AM and continuing each hour until midnight, the solstice will be celebrated in a multitude of transdenominational forms, taking on abstractions of all types. There will be ritual feasting, gift giving, light therapy, caroling and a guided meditation upon the omni-point perspective embedded within the sacred geometry of the Metatron’s Cube. There will be performances of both formal compositions and spontaneous revelations by numerous participants. A 20 foot diameter geodesic model of the CalmDome containing an interior tent structure held in tension within will be the stage for the activities.

Hummm

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