WINTER SOLSTICE PAGEANT Come Children, Come Parents, Come elders and siblings! Come Families and neighbors and budding folklorists! Bring your little Sugar Plum Faerie, your Snow Flake princess, Tin Soldier, Jack or Jacquie Frost* to learn more about the rich multi-cultural traditions of the age-old Winter Solstice. The Yule pageant will include music, storytelling, costumed characters, a family-friendly world peace meditation, a childrens' circle, an interfaith Solstice ritual, and much more! Co-Sponsored by Circle Sanctuary & the 5 Lakes CUUPS Group. Friday night, December 19th, 7 - 9 pm New Auditorium at the First Unitarian Society 900 University Bay Drive, Madison, Wisconsin Performers include: Lori Skelton - Narrator Peggy Burke - Reading Michael Doran - Music Ruth Barrett - Music Cecilia Farran - Story Nancy Vedder-Shults - Music & Story Selena Fox - Meditation & Welcome Yuletide Characters Include: Oak King - Reed Cockrell Holly King - Don Goodrich Amaterasu - Nancy Vedder-Shults Mother Holle - Susan Michetti Santa - Math Heinzel, Mark Hall, & Michaelino $10/adult; $5/youth suggested donation, bring food for charity food drive. Benefit for Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve, First Unitarian Society and James Reeb Unitarian Universalist Congregation A Community Fellowship gathering will follow the Winter Solstice Pageant. Please bring completely prepared finger food to share. * Children are welcome in costumes, jeans or warm Pajamas Articles, rituals, & more about Winter Solstice lore & traditions http://www.circlesanctuary.org/pholidays/wintersolstice.htm