FW: volunteer to help with garden pageant

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Earth Celebrations [SMTP:mail@earthcelebrations.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, May 02, 2000 10:39 AM
> To:	Earth Celebrations
> Subject:	volunteer to help with garden pageant
> 
> PLEASE POST AND DISTRIBUTE THIS MESSAGE, thanks
> 
> Please let us know if you can volunteer to help with the garden pageant as
> a puppet marshal or  performer. We need volunteers all  day Saturday May
> 20th 8am-6pm to help with puppets, rotate volunteers, hand out programs.
> thank you, Felicia Young, Director-Earth Celebrations
> 
> VOLUNTEERS: Garden Pageant Workshops Wednesday Night - Saturday & Sunday
> 1-5pm
> 
> EARTH CELEBRATIONS
> 10th Annual
> 
> RITES OF SPRING PROCESSION
> TO SAVE OUR GARDENS
> Lower East Side, NYC
> 
> WORKSHOPS: APRIL-MAY  / PAGEANT: SATURDAY, MAY 20
> 
> NEEDED:
> Artists, Poets, Musicians, Dancers, Performers,
> Puppeteers, Gardeners, and Children for
> ART & ECOLOGY: GARDEN PAGEANT WORKSHOPS APRIL - MAY
> 
> CHILDRENS' WORKSHOPS (ages 8-12) FREE
> Creating Garden Totems for the Pageant.
> Saturdays from April 1 to May 13, 1:30-4:30 pm
> @ Green Oasis Garden - 8th St. (bet. Aves. C & D)
> in the Lower East Side
> 
> PUPPET & COSTUME WORKSHOPS (teens & adults) FREE
> Every Wednesday May, 6-9 pm
> Everry Saturday & Sunday in May, 1-5 pm
> @ Earth Celebrations, 638 E. 6th St. (bet. Aves B & C ) 3rd Fl.
> 
> PLANNING MEETINGS
>  Wed. May 3 - 7 pm
> Earth Celebrations, 638 E. 6th St. (bet. Aves. B & C) 3rd Fl.
> 
> RITES OF SPRING: PROCESSION TO SAVE OUR GARDENS
> Saturday, May 20 (Raindate: Sunday, May 21)
> 
> For more information call (212) 777-7969
> www.earthcelebrations.com
> 
> CALL FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE WORKSHOPS OPEN TO CHILDREN & ADULTS
> (212) 777-7969
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> On Saturday, May 20, 2000 (raindate: Sunday, May 21),  Earth Celebrations'
> 10th annual Rites of Spring: Procession to Save Our Gardens, to celebrate
> and preserve the network of over 50 magnificent gardens on the Lower East
> Side.
> 
> A spectacular procession of giant  puppets, colorful costumed garden
> spirits, mudpeople, and butterfly children dressed in glittering wings of
> tulle,will visit the gardens throughout the day-long journey from
> 10am-7pm.
> 		A Uruguayan, Samba, and Afro-Dominican Band, as well as a
> conch shell chorus
> lead the parade. The pageant celebrates the history of these gardens and
> their struggles to survive in the city with performance, dance, and
> poetry, presented at each garden. Within the pageant,  a mythic play is
> performed throughout the gardens, enacting the story of Gaia (representing
> the gardens), and her birth, marriage,  kidnapping, and saving by
> the butterfly children and community.
> 
> THE PAGEANT IS FREE
> VOLUNTEERS NEEDED & FOR MORE INFORMATION (212) 777-7969
> You can view our web-site @: http://www.earthcelebrations.com
> 


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