Dear Friends,
Thank you for taking the time to peruse the April News. Thank you to our contributors! I hope you all had wonderful Spring festivals! Now we turn to Earth Day, which has been celebrated on April 22nd, every year since it began, in 1970, the year I was a senior in high school. A climate activist and a congressman joined forces and challenged people to stand up for the environment with the same force they had used in the anti-war demonstrations. The result: 20 million people took to the streets to protest Earth pollution.(The tipping point was a huge oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara!) Earth day has been celebrated every year since then. Many environmental laws were passed and the EPA was established by President Nixon in response to this movement! It has a fascinating history!
Now, 56 years later, it seems like all that work is at risk! What can we do now? I have been working on a Mother Earth puppet for a puppet show I am preparing for our May online workshop, where we will create a ring of fairies, from the story: ”A Maypole Dream”. It is a daunting task to create an Earth Mother figure. How many of you have tried it? It would be nice to see your examples. Humbled, I worked on this figure many times. Although she is not finished, and may never be, it is a wonderful journey to try to find expression for the living being of the earth. Wouldn’t this be a refreshing way to celebrate Earth Day, to create Mother Earth puppets? Please send in your pictures for our May News!
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Thank you for taking the time to peruse the April News. Thank you to our contributors! I hope you all had wonderful Spring festivals! Now we turn to Earth Day, which has been celebrated on April 22nd, every year since it began, in 1970, the year I was a senior in high school. A climate activist and a congressman joined forces and challenged people to stand up for the environment with the same force they had used in the anti-war demonstrations. The result: 20 million people took to the streets to protest Earth pollution.(The tipping point was a huge oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara!) Earth day has been celebrated every year since then. Many environmental laws were passed and the EPA was established by President Nixon in response to this movement! It has a fascinating history!
Now, 56 years later, it seems like all that work is at risk! What can we do now? I have been working on a Mother Earth puppet for a puppet show I am preparing for our May online workshop, where we will create a ring of fairies, from the story: ”A Maypole Dream”. It is a daunting task to create an Earth Mother figure. How many of you have tried it? It would be nice to see your examples. Humbled, I worked on this figure many times. Although she is not finished, and may never be, it is a wonderful journey to try to find expression for the living being of the earth. Wouldn’t this be a refreshing way to celebrate Earth Day, to create Mother Earth puppets? Please send in your pictures for our May News!
- Earth Day - Marjorie
- In Memoriam ~ Cherry Short-Lee - Shared by Janene Ping
- Sharings
- Easter in the Devon Christian Community - Joyce Reilly
- Puppetry at the 100 Years Celebration of Waldorf Kindergartens in Dornach -Janene Ping
- Third Grade Puppetry Projects - Jennifer Aguirre
- The Ugly Duckling, a developing puppet show - Mary Fisher
- More Online Collaborative Circles and Puppetry and Storytelling Workshops
- Calendar of Events
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