Portland Christmas Revels

There will be shadow puppets new band sets with old friends and our favorite clown burl ross on a.

Portland christmas revels. Your contribution will help fund the film production and ensure a strong future for portland revels. 1111 sw broadway portland or 503 274 4654 category. Our annual christmas revels solstice celebration centers around the loss and return of the light. Ghosts of haddon hall.

Portland revels celebrates the seasons through song dance. You can also stream the 2020 christmas revels at your convenience into the new year. Portland revels bringing back the light since 1995. The virtual 2020 christmas revels will feature choral numbers that connect us to solstice celebrations of old and new versions of familiar touchstones like the abbotts bromley horn dance.

This year s performance transports us back to an imaginary day when the duke his wife and his children enter the castle after two centuries of presumed emptiness expecting to demolish it only to find it inhabited by the spirits of all those who have ever celebrated the winter solstice within its. America s largest christmas bazaar. Combining instrumental and choral music children s songs and games ritual and folk dance traditions drama poetry and audience participation this event springs from an age old tradition of winter solstice celebration. Portland revels celebrates the seasons through song dance story and ritual of the past and present creating community across generations and cultures.

Registration is not required add to my calendar. For 25 years portland revels community has celebrated the changes of the seasons with traditional song dance and story. Portland revels offer 8 performances of the colorful and joyous christmas revels show each december the culture and time period are different each year but the upbeat message of renewal and path to springtime at the dark of the winter solstice is always the same. Since then the troupe has celebrated historic winter solstice traditions each year often focusing on different historical periods with themes like commedia italiana nordic lights and highland voyage.

It s our 25 th year and ghosts will return to haunt the stage during portland s annual christmas revels performance as we inhabit haddon hall the setting for the original christmas revels. December 20th 2pm december 18th 24th 7 30pm. It makes perfect sense in portland where white album christmas at the alberta rose theatre has been a tradition since 2008. You can join a hosted webcast performance on december 20 at 2 pm or december 18 or 24 at 7 30 pm.

Donors will receive a link to stream the show. The production celebrates an astronomical cycle that is both directly observable and profoundly mysterious. Each december portland revels presents a multifaceted stage production to welcome the winter season. Combining instrumental and choral music children s songs and games ritual and folk dance traditions drama poetry and audience participation this event springs from an age old tradition of winter solstice celebration.

The performances use medieval scandinavian victorian and celtic themes with singing dancing juggling and poetry as well as a dash of whimsy and drama. Friday december 13 2019 7 30 pm until 10 00 pm.