Forest Halls Calendar

Events denoted with * are sponsored by Forest Halls. Others are ones that we participate in or partner with.

2009

Past Events - 2008

Hosts and facilitators:
Carol Spangler, contemplative retreat leader
Betty Hawkins, labyrinth designer
Jane Valencia, storyteller and harpist

Cost: $50 (includes lunch and snacks). For further info or to reserve a space: 206-567-5302 or 206-577-4774

July

Past Events - 2007

July

August

Bring your wire-strung harp and join with a comraderie of harpers!

Tues-Thurs., Aug. 21-23, 10:30am-1PM.
Ancestor Camp. Vashon Island, WA. x816. All ages welcome.

This relaxed three-day session plays with 'ancestral' ways of being with place. Bring your lunch and snacks each day.

Tues. - Meet at Burton Acres Shell Midden. We'll explore, adventure with primitive skills surrounding harvest, simple food preparation, and fire, wonder about what indigenous living was like here on the Island and would be like for us.
Wed. - Field trip to the Chittenden Locks in Ballard to watch the salmon run. Meet at 11:15am.
Thurs. - Return to the Shell Midden to revisit our adventures with new eyes and deepened ideas, and imagine and perhaps create a ceremony for welcoming the salmon people as they journey through our waters.

Note: The Burke Museum of Natural History at University of Washington in Seattle is featuring an exhibit In The Spirit Of The Ancestors that would be a marvelous one-your-own companion experience to this camp. The exhibit ends Sept. 3.

September

Saturday, Sept. 28 and Sunday, Sept. 29,8:00PM - 10:00PM.
Vashon Allied Arts New Works Series Presents BLOOD. Blue Heron Arts Center, 19704 Vashon Highway, Vashon Island, WA. Info: 206-463-5131 www.vashonalliedarts.org

Island movement artist, Stacy Hinden, brings together a group of Island dancers and non-dancers to perform her multi-media show, Blood - bringing cutting-edge choreography to the New Works Series. A new evening-length dance/movement work, Blood explores the embodiment of life force energy and our human experience of falling in and out of balance with cycles of bonding, connection, desire, and passion.

Jane Valencia provides music direction and cultural mentoring for this piece, as well as oboe, harp, vocals, misc percussion, and even some movement.

October

Sunday Oct 14th Workshop: Blessings of Community: tools for transitions from grief to healing. Noon-5PM. Vashon, WA
KotaPress in partnership with WA MISS Chapter, and Reiki Masters Jane Valencia, Kara Jones, and Lisa Mathias will offer this full day workshop on Vashon. Karen Handpainter and Kara Jones will be henna'ing sugar skulls!! As soon as we have details, we'll post here.

November

In this ritual gathering we will honor children in our lives who miscarried, were born still, who were never conceived, or who passed on in youth - the 'innocencias' or 'angelitas'.

This will be a simple honoring, singing, & blessing time of these souls who have graced our lives (and who continue to grace us) - and a time to honor & bless those of you who carried, cared for, or carried in your dream-being these children ... Please join us for part or all of this time!

Please Bring (if you wish): something for the ofrenda (altar) in honor of the child or children you are remembering. Flowers ... simple toys ... Perhaps a simple food to offer to Las Innocencias and to share with each other.

Photo to right: Ofrenda in honor of Las Innocencias - 2006

December

Updated October 18, 2008