The Summer Solstice is when the summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere and for us living in Mountain Time Zone that moment is “officially” occurs at 4:51 AM on Saturday, June 21. Known as Litha in many pagan traditions, there are many celebrations that take place around the globe and and in many creative ways.

Summer Solstice and the Midsummer Night

In Northern European countries, Midsummer is a very important celebration that revolves around the Summer Solstice. Sometime known as St. John’s Day, this celebration is as important as Christmas and New Years Day. The celebration is often celebrated with bonfires and there is usually a clear inter-mingling with Christian rituals.

Rail Yards Market Fun

Along with our usual fantastic food and local growers we have a plethora of activities planned for you and your family at the Rail Yards Market this Sunday!

The Live Arts Zone is deeply honored to welcome our very own Ramona Snow Teo Graphic Designer, Co-Founder and Manager of Albuquerque’s Guerrilla GraphiX  Ramona will be joined by gifted local Artist Hammon Buck for an all day Mandala set that will knock your socks off and inspire the Sacred Mind.

In the Children’s Zone, super artist and educator Stephanie Galloway will be making animal masks to welcome the Summer! These wonderful fun masks will be decorated by children in whatever stylings their creative minds inspire them to. Come join Stephanie in the Children’s Zone!

The Traditional Zone will be featuring Seed Blossoms Art Seed Jewelry. “Seeds. The entire life of a plant contained in a little tiny package, a miracle waiting to unfold. These pieces celebrate the miniature miracles that link the cycles of life together.” These awesome artists want to bring attention to the plight of seeds, invaluable life crucial to our existence, that are decreasing in genetic diversity due to corporate exploitation.

Music and Entertainment

As always we will have an exciting lineup of musicians, poets and entertainers:

• Richard Vargas
• Unidos, 508 youth Slam Team
• Andean Flutes from Ecuador
• Sunlight Main Stage
• Kitty Joe Creek Band Main Stage
• Gabriel Angel Fuentes Main Stage
• Blue Rose Ramblers Main Stage
• Desert Darlings (see video below)

The Rail Yards Market is truly a #CommunityPowered event. So come on over help us out around the RYM or just watch the sun come up with us. Sure we will be a day late  but rising for the morning sun is always worth the wait. See You Sunday!!

Alex Paramo is an Author and Co-Founder of Community Publishing. Community Publishing brings local artists of all mediums together in creative collaborations for distribution as multimedia eBooks while promoting literacy in our communities.

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