FESTIVALS

Recognizing the critical importance of both community and rhythm, in Enki programs we devote attention to seasonal changes as part of our ongoing work with the children. In the younger grades, K-4, seasonal displays, stories, songs, paintings and activities such as gardening, building, candle dipping and cooking deepen the experience of natural rhythms.

As well, celebration of seasonal changes is an important and unifying part of community life. We strive to develop festivals that are in keeping with the nature of each season. At the Fall Festival, we share our harvest bounty, enjoy the young animals born the previous spring, and play family games in the last of the outdoor weather. For our winter festival, the Lantern Walk, we walk together on the solstice under the starry sky, holding lanterns and singing winter songs, in keeping with the quiet and inward pulse of nature. Then as spring attempts to make itself felt, buds are aching to bloom and children are exploding with the energy they have stored all winter, we reach out to the larger community with a spring festival filled with crafts, stories, puppet shows, music, games and the like.

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