SEPTEMBER 20 + 21

HARVEST MOON
RITUAL

FIRE & WATER FESTIVAL

Take part in a storytelling ritual under the Harvest Moon.

Join artists Mary-Colin Chisholm, Mary Fay Coady and Burgandy Code for an interactive storytelling piece at the Alderney Landing Fire & Water Cultural Festival, which coincides with the Harvest Moon. Set around a firepit and using music, folklore and bits of nature, this 20-minute experience is based on traditional Celtic rituals with a new, personal twist.

FREE EVENT

RUNTIME

20 minutes, repeating

VENUE

Alderney Landing Waterfront

PRICE

Free

EVENT

Alderney Landing's Fire & Water Festival is a celebration of Nova Scotia’s unique cultural diversity featuring music, dance, art, food, and fire performances.

Harvest Moon Ritual, 2022

(Photo by Daniel Wittnebel)

ARTISTS

mary-colin a white 67 yr old woman with long hair is wearing a black and red lumberjack style mackinaw, and holding a pitchfork with a big orange cat Kyo, on her shoulder

Mary-Colin Chisholm
Crone

Mary-Colin (she/they) is an actor, playwright, director and senior theatre crone. Playscripts include: Shadows in the Cove (Mulgrave) Half-Cracked (EFT, Neptune, Ship's Co. Theatre Baddeck) A Belly Full, co-written with Marcia Kash (Mill at Sonning UK, Theatre Aquarius Hamilton) and Strange Humours (EFT). Acting Roles lately... Sienna in The Great Kooshog Lake Hollis McCauley Fishing Derby (Festival Antigonish) Sissy Mary in Half Cracked (Theatre Baddeck). Recent Directing: The Myth of the Ostrich and Lauchie, Liza and Rory (Theatre Baddeck).

A white woman sits on a stool in the middle of the frame. There is a grey background behind her. She has blonde, shoulder length, messy hair, blue eyes, and a smirk. She wears a baggy white t-shirt and black jeans.

Mary Fay Coady
Witch

Mary Fay Coady (she/her) is an award winning actor and theatre creator living in Dartmouth, NS.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

EFT’s Harvest Moon Ritual was originally created and performed by artists Mary Fay Coady, Mary-Colin Chisholm and Burgandy Code with support from Kat McCormack in 2022.

ACCESS NOTES

Transit Access

The Halifax Transit Dartmouth Ferry arrives directly at Alderney Landing, and Alderney Gate is serviced by Halifax Transit buses #5, 6+, 53, 54, 55, 62, 158, 159, 161, 165.