C is for Christmas and the Celebration of Light

Yes it's November and I am talking about Christmas.   the Quaker commitment to our event The Celebration of Light.

If you have never experienced or helped with this event yet, please consider coming

There is :experience the Peace garden lit with hundreds of small candles
                same with craft for children
                the same with storytelling and music making for the children
                the same with craft for the children

There is also refreshments for adults and children

This event is entirely free and supported by Wellington Quaker Meeting and the Area Meeting Members

Take a look at last year's preparations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3NuWgY8EQw

Celebration of Light

 

Quakers have organised this event for the people in Wellington and beyond. It is intended as a secular event.  The Peace garden which is used as a quiet place to sit and reflect in The Quaker Meeting House Wellington ( next door to the One Shop), is transformed by greenery and hundreds of tiny candlelit lanterns. People who know about it come back year on year.  We intend it as an alternative Christmas Celebration, that of appreciating light in the darkness and the silence. ( there is little light pollution in the Quaker Peace Garden ).  Children are often overawed by the experience. We invite peopled to come and look on the same day the lights are switched on in Wellington ,  Children are particularly welcome One of the features is to walk the spiral of light and perhaps reflect on the non commercial meaning of Christmas and our love for one another and all living things including our own planet.

 

Children and the Celebration of Light

 

We have various things to interest the children

Nov 26th there will be craft and free coffee and tea for parents.  Craft will be making Christmas decorations using mirror card.

 

Dec 3rd there is storytelling and music which the children are invited to join in the music making. This year the story is Hans Christian Anderson's" the Snow Queen." Many children are familiar with the film Frozen. Frozen was derived from this story and it is a lovely story. HCA wrote stories of hope and love.

 

I shall also be reading my story available on my website, www.zoe ainworthgriggbooks.com It will be about "The Fabulous Miss Flimp" with free illustrations by Sue Hammond Lovatt to colour  of Miss Flimp in a fairy  dress.

For a free ebook "Christmas and Miss Flimp"
https://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=zoe+ainsworth-grigg