A Simple Sing-Along Solstice

This is an early draft and not complete!

What is this?

People have been celebrating Secular Solstice for over a decade now, in our small community. Many different programs and versions have been collected at Secular Solstice Resources (and elsewhere). The amount of material can be overwhelming. Many Solstice programs are based around original material being written or updated, speeches that are specific to the speaker, and other things that make it challenging to reuse.

The goal for this website is to be an easy-to-follow, easy-to-reuse Solstice program for a group celebrating Solstice for the first time, or the first of a few times, possibly a small group, possibly without many resources.

Additional editorial notes about this Solstice:

• I have focused on using the most commonly-reused songs and speeches from Solstices past. See appendix.
• I have focused on using material that is less specific to a particular time and place than others, though near-everything in Solstice relies at minimum on factual claims that may need to be updated from time to time. It is a value of our community to update in the face of evidence, so if this gets too wrong or out of date and I don't fix it, please don't use material you regard as wrong!
• Where possible within other constraints, I have tried to use songs that are easier to sing along to and/or produce. Reference materials are included to help you learn them. (TODO: add reference materials to everything.)

The Program (Summary)

Day

Twilight

Darkness

Dawn

The Program (Expanded)

TODO: Add a link to click through here to a printable HTML page with the full contents of the program.

TODO: make a printable PDF (and booklet version) and put it here. Ideally also include Markdown/pandoc commands so they can be updated with not too much difficulty.