Sinterklaas arrives in Rhinecliff on November 28 with a wonderful procession in the hamlet. The big day-long Sinterklaas celebration is Saturday, December 5. It’s a day full of FREE events and workshops and entertainment with an incredible magical Children’s Starlight Parade and a wonderful pageant, too! Visit our website: http://www.SinterklaasRhinebeck.com
Don’t miss out on it this year! We’ll be sending email announcements and volunteer opportunities to you… and we encourage you to join us! Forward this note to your friends so they can get on our mailing list. sinterklaasrhinebeck@gmail.com
FRIDAY, 11/13 6:00 – 8:00 PM Origami Crane Workshop
Crane Maker Extraordinaire Karen Hinderstein will be at Celebration Space to teach you how to make origami cranes! We need to make 1000 of them before our parade. We supply the paper. We’ll tell you the story behind the 1000 cranes as well.
MORE ABOUT CROWNS AND BRANCHES
We need your help!
Don’t throw away those beads, bows and trinkets!
Donate them to a Fantastic, Town-Wide, Kid-Centered, Spectacular Rhinebeck Event!
Please Bring Us Anything FUN and SHINY!!
Call for Materials – Needed: beads, buttons, bows, trinkets, charms, lace, yarn, ribbon, glitter, oddities, shells, doo-dads, streamers, decorative papers, old ornaments, necklaces, artificial flowers, plastic jewels, …
WHY do we need these goodies? For our Crowns and Branches Workshops, of course!
Revived and transformed to reflect the values of all our community members, a town-wide Winter Celebration is returning… Sinterklass! An Old Dutch Tradition … with a Rhinebeck twist!
Bring all your donations to our Celebration Space. You can see a collection of our puppets inside. Come inside with your children to make their Crowns and Branches! This is one of the many free workshops and events that are part of our Sinterklaas celebration. We’ll be announcing workshop hours soon, so read your emails! If you come in before December 5th with your children to make their crowns and branches, then on Sinterklaas Day you will have more time to go to the many performances around town. You can also plan a party at the Celebration Space where you and a bunch of friends and their families can come all together and make Crowns and Branches. There is space to have a pizza party upstairs. Send us an email if you’re interested.
Community representatives from local government, business, education, civic, religious, and arts organizations and lots of private citizens are donating their time and energy to create this celebration of Rhinebeck’s rich cross-cultural past again this year. Sinterklaas has been celebrated in Holland in one form or another for time immemorial. The Dutch, both a sea-faring and pastoral people, possessed a unique blend of adventurousness and open-mindedness coupled with a strong mythic imagination. Like many winter-time celebrations, Sinterklaas focuses on the child as the symbol for faith in return and renewal and children play a vital role in these ritual events.
On December 5, 2009, the Children of Rhinebeck will be called to help us celebrate themselves and our entire community. Our children become kings and queens for the day, and they wear the crowns and carry the scepters (branches) that they create in our workshops now through December 5.
The Crowns and Branches need lots of joyful fittings!
See you soon!
Contact us with any questions!
Thank you!