Let's Celebrate 365

Jeremy Hunter has spent 35 years documenting ancient rituals and festivals in 60 countries. His photographs can be seen in his touring exhibition Let's Celebrate 365.

"Sing-sings in Papua New Guinea form an important part of cultural life as they represent an opportunity for the clans to express their tribal solidarity. I saw the black snake dance performed by the Apenda clan when they attended a sing-sing in Leh, near Morobe." The Guardian 

See his website for more.

Player Types and Celebration

I'm doing some work on play preferences and I haven't drawn conclusions yet.

But it looks like play preferences are dotted randomly around the population and are to some degree innate.

So in any given group of people you will have musicians, dancers, artists/creators, storytellers, jokers, directors and so on.

And between them, as I suggested in the previous post, they have all that is needed to create a fantastic celebration.

It helps, I guess, if people are able to know and develop their play preferences in life.

And it also helps, I guess, if tradition sets a backdrop for what to do, so that you don't have to start from scratch every time.

Christmas and Player Types

The Artist/Creators gather and make decorations; the wreaths, the ball-balls and streamers, the holly and ivy and mistletoe, the table decorations and candle decorations and long shiney lametta. Not to mention the costumes and food...

The Performers and Jokers get together to prepare the pantomimes.

The Musicians prepare and lead the singing; they provide the fiddles and the bells, pipes and drums.

The Kinaesthetes prepare and lead the dancing.

The Storytellers create the magic in the tiredness of the night around the winter fire.

The Directors make it all come together.

The Explorers come home, most years, bringing newness with them.