Saints & Sinners: 8th Annual Summer Solstice Festival

Moon Serpent & Bone
presents

8th Annual Summer Solstice

Friday, June 19th
6PM – 10PM

1113 Wolcott Ave

Beacon, New York

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Within the bones of a church that has been lost in time, where voices once rose in devotion, another current stirs.

Candlelight gathers along worn walls. Smoke coils upward like prayer rewritten. The air thickens—not with spectacle, but with presence. Saints & Sinners opens as a threshold, where the sacred and the profane are no longer opposites, but reflections.

This is not a show.

It is a living rite.

Throughout the night, the space moves with intention—live ominous performances, a fire show that cuts through shadow and light, and moments that pull you deeper into the current.

The Fire Petition Ritual calls offerings into flame—written desires, releases, and intentions given over to transformation. A seance that opens the veil further, inviting contact, listening, and the unknown to move through the room.

For almost a decade, Moon Serpent & Bone has carved its place in the Hudson Valley as a gathering of depth and intention. A convergence of skilled readers, dedicated practitioners, and artisans whose work carries weight beyond the surface. The caliber is not accidental—it is cultivated, returned to, and remembered.

Where others offer spectacle to be consumed, this space asks for something different. Attention. Presence. Participation. You do not watch from the edges—you cross the threshold and become part of what is unfolding.

On the longest day, as the light begins its slow descent, we gather in that turning.

Saint and sinner.
Witness and participant.
Fire and ash.

Enter and be changed.

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18 years of ald and over. Performances are not suitable for children.

Parking available at City Hall, Fire House, Beacon Train Station & Beekman Street (free on holidays and weekends)

DO NOT PARK IN LOCAL APARTMENT COMPLEXES.

10-15 minute walk or 5 minute car service from Beacon Train Station

Beacon Free Loop Bus closest stop is at Main Street & Wolcott Ave (Route 9D)

https://beaconny.gov/index.php/2019/08/07/beacon-free-loop-new-schedule/

Info: Within the height of light, when the sun stands longest in the sky, there is a threshold—an opening where intention carries further, burns brighter, and transforms more completely.

This ritual petition is an invitation to cross that threshold.

Participants are called to inscribe what is ready to be released, transmuted, or awakened—whether it be burden, desire, vow, or truth long held beneath the surface. Each word becomes an offering. Each mark, a declaration.

As the flames rise during the ritual performance, petitions will be surrendered to the fire—where they are not destroyed, but transformed. Fire, as witness and conduit, carries these intentions beyond the physical, returning them to the unseen currents that shape becoming.

Enter with intention.
Write with honesty.
Release without hesitation.

What is given to the fire does not vanish—it changes form, and in doing so, begins its work. Purchase your ritual paper to participate

Info: SÉANCE merges music, poetry, ritual, and performance into a live act of invocation. Drawing from selections of Ghost Pipe, the work unfolds as a contemporary conjuring—layered, immersive, and deliberate.

Tamalyn Miller leads with voice, electronics, and her handmade horsehair fiddle, joined by Irman on cello. Together, they create a soundscape that feels summoned rather than composed—carrying fragments of melody, message, and atmosphere from beyond the visible.

Echoing the structure of a Victorian parlor séance while moving through the textures of psychedelic folk, the performance navigates the boundary between presence and absence, the known and the obscured. It is subtle, disorienting, and precise in its construction.

Info: Diiiotima Arts presents Saints & Sinners as a living tableau—where devotion and transgression occupy the same body.

Religious iconography is stripped from stillness and set into motion. Veils, relics, and symbols of sanctity are reworked through burlesque and sideshow traditions—sensual, uncanny, and deliberately charged. The sacred is not discarded; it is bent, tested, and reanimated.

Performance moves between reverence and spectacle: slow, ritualized gestures give way to bold, embodied expression. Each act carries the tension of contradiction—purity and indulgence, discipline and abandon—held in careful balance.

Threaded throughout is the influence of ritual magick and witchcraft. Not as aesthetic alone, but as undercurrent—guiding intention, shaping atmosphere, and opening space for transformation.

This is not parody. It is not imitation.
It is an offering that stands at the threshold—where saints burn, and sinners are made holy.

Info: Diiiotima Arts completes the evening with a final act of fire—marking the height and release of the Summer Solstice.
Flame becomes the central language. Bodies move in controlled intensity, tracing arcs of heat and light through the dark. What has been built over the course of the night is brought forward and offered to the fire—intention, excess, memory, and weight.

This is not spectacle alone. It is a deliberate closing. A burn to seal the threshold.

The performance draws from ritual structure and elemental practice. Fire is held as both witness and force—clearing, consuming, and transforming. Movement remains precise and grounded, allowing the flame to lead without losing control.

As the final act, it signals completion: the longest day acknowledged, its energy spent, its imprint carried forward.

What remains is heat, ash, and the quiet shift that follows.

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