On Saturday, October 22, from 1pm-4pm, Artpark presents the 1st Annual Native Fall Harvest Celebration of thanks with traditional songs, dance, harvest storytelling, Lacrosse workshop, interactive activities and a Corn Husk Doll workshop.
There will also be traditional foods, beading demonstrations and an interactive native marketplace - just in time for the holiday season.
We will celebrate together in gratitude and give thanks to every living thing around for helping us live through sacrificing themselves to be food and clothing for us.
We celebrate the harvest of our Three Sisters: the corn, bean and Squash, the fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, fish, small game and other foods. We celebrate our ancestors' knowledge and their planting strategy practiced as we prepare Mother Earth for her blanket of snow and her time to replenish.
Guests will see continuous demonstrations throughout the day of unique crafts and skills at the vendors booths.
Admission is free.
Native American Harvest Celebration Activities Timeline: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
1:00pm | Preparing the Garden for her time of rest - Smudging with the medicines for those who wish to do so. Offering tobacco to the garden - all can participate.
1:20pm | Official Welcome Address with Jordan Smith.
1:30pm | Offer a Song and a dance of gratitude to Mother Earth and the plant world to help prepare the garden for her blanket of snow.
1:45pm | Harvest Teaching/Storytelling to Celebrate Mother Earth by Perry Ground.
1:55pm | Friendship Round Dance all participants may join in.
2:00pm | Weed and turn-over the soil so our Community Garden will be ready for her rest period.
2:00pm - 4:00 pm | Create a harvest pony-bead wampum strand, visit the largest Wampum Display in America and try drilling a wampum shell with Richard Hamell.
2:00pm - 3:00 pm Back by popular demand Lacrosse workshop! | Join Perry Ground in the Creator’s Game - Lacrosse workshop. Learn the meaning of the creators game from the Indigenous lens while working on several Lacrosse techniques through various activities.
2:15pm - 3:00pm | Corn Husk Dolls Session I (Open to 7 registrants) pre- register @ michele-elise-burnette@artpark.net
Corn Husk Dolls Workshop - Create your own and learn the teaching of the Corn Husk Dolls and the importance of the Harvest.
3:15pm - 4pm | Corn Husk Dolls Session II (Open to 8 registrants) pre- register @ michele-elise-burnette@artpark.net
Corn Husk Dolls Workshop - Create your own and learn the teaching of the Corn Husk Dolls and the importance of the Harvest.
