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Solstice

Shabe Yalda

Join in on a winter celebration that helps keep the evil spirits away

Culture

Munching on pomegranates and nuts, listening to music and poetry: It’s all part of a winter festival that’s celebrated in Iran and by Iranians abroad.

The Seasonal Search to Secure Sensational Holiday Music

Winter Solstice Past and Present: Return of the Sun

Living on Earth’s Fifth Annual Winter Solstice Seasonal Storytelling Special

The Living on Earth Almanac

The World

Alaska Solstice

All summer long, visitors from around the world travel to Alaska to find the land of the Midnight Sun. They usually steal south with the eternal sunlight captured in their cameras. But commentator Geo Beach says those summer visitors are missing something special: the land of the Noontime Moon.

The World

Alaska Winter Solstice

All summer long, visitors from around the world travel to Alaska to the Land of the Midnight Sun. But commentator Geo Beach says those summer visitors are missing something special, namely the Land of the Noontime Moon. Writer Geo Beach arrived in Alaska fifteen years ago, on the winter solstice. He comes to us from […]

Holiday Special Storytelling Show Promo

Next week, Living On Earth presents our Third Annual Storytelling Festival, this year recorded in front of a live studio audience. A quick preview of the Winter Solstice themes of dark and light to come next week.

Reveling in the Summer Solstice

For the past 25 years, the Boston ?based musical group The Revels puts on shows celebrating the changing seasons and the coming of Summer. Steve Curwood talks with the director of The Revels, Patrick Swanson, about the music and traditions they work with, and why the group feels the summer solstice is worthy of celebration.

The Shortest Day

Steve Curwood reads a poem by Susan Cooper about the winter solstice.