Experience the rebirth of Winter SolstiCelebration! 

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Winter SolstiCelebration 2011: Our Human Journey, written by Amy Martin, explores how deeply the need to evolve is encoded in our humanity 

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The stage was decorated by Rebecca Winn in graduated tones that evoked human progression 

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One of our sub-themes - balance - was captured in by Rebecca Winn's Tree of the Sun... 

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... and Tree of the Moon 

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Event producer Rodney Steman ponders before the service 

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Geoffrey Ricketts on harp, and storytellers Gene and Peggy Helmick-Richardson are ready for the evening to begin. 

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Some of the ensemble performers center themselves beforehand so their spirit could shine through 

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Winter SolstiCelebration host and creater Amy Martin introduces the event 

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Drums Not Guns prepares to invoke the Earth element and sanctify the space with a mighty vibration 

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... with the stellar Earth/Africa Dancers raising the energy... 

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... in a most colorful way. 

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Monica Blossoms channels water's emotive properties with her beautiful FLowetry dancers 

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Marie Martin of Circus Freaks stirs the winds of change with her ribbon dance... 

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... while Russ Sharek of Circus Freaks brings to life air's wondrous intellectual qualities. 

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The liberation of air was visualized by magician Bryan Lankford with an unepected release of 100s of paper butterflies 

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With fire emerging from Bryan Lankford's human hand... 

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... he passes the flame to Rachel Hullet of Circus Freaks, one of many times in the evening showcasing the visual metaphor of how passing the flame from one to another has kept human culture alive. 

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Rachel Hullet of Circus Freaks dances with fire as Robin Hackett sings of changing the world by changing the way we think. 

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Rachel Hullet of Circus Freaks mesmerizes... 

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... so evocative of catalytic transformation. 

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Storytellers Gene and Peggy Helmick-Richardson, in a balcony tribute to the Muppetts' Statler and Waldorf, thread the service with a continuing debate: Can the human mammal be redeemed? 

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Gene Helmick-Richardson is rather sketical about that. 

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Joe Tinker as Everyman pours his soul out as a man struggling with the meaning of life. 

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