Presented by Rick McBride

Day: Saturday, October 22nd

Time: 11am to 3pm---Cost: $35, cash only _______Call 954-771-0026 to sign-up in advance .

Long ago the ancestors who lived with the Standing People would sometimes wake in the night to hear their children crying. They would sometimes hear their sisters and brothers cry, too. They came together to see if they could understand why, but they could not. So they asked the Spirit Helpers, and the Spirit Helpers told them that the people had not yet learned of dreamtime, so some dreams would feel good to them and others would feel bad. To help them with this the Spirits gave the ancestors the dreamcatcher and told them that when the dreams came, the dreamcatcher would capture all of them.

In the morning, the sun would return and it would burn away the bad dreams caught up in the web. But the good dreams would know how to make their way to the hole in the center, and when they would, they would go down into the feathers and be there until they would be called back another night. And this way the children and the adults had a way to be safe at night and to dream the dreams of happiness and goodness.

Rattles are similar to drums in that they call the spirits as they raise our energy and quickness of thought. Making a rattle is fun, using a rattle can be for fun and social, as well as for healing. You will make a hafted rattle and if you have time, a palm rattle. You'll be given some ideas on how to personalize your rattle and if you choose to dedicate your rattle to healing work, you'll be invited to wake it up at the next drumming.

We'll be working with wet rawhide, so to help it dry faster, please bring a hair dryer if you have one. Wado!