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2004
[March-April 2004]
-- Sunday March 21: Otomi People 8000 Drums Ceremony. At the fire circle just south of the basketball court. A new park friend, Maria Elena Casa, came to the park to book a spot for her group's contribution to a world-wide indigenous-peoples ceremony at 12 noon on the first day of spring. The call to do this ceremony was issued by the Otomi people in Mexico, and it involves fire and drumming. Various indigenous people will be coming to our park to drum for about one hour in the fire circle. Maria Elena emphasized that anyone is welcome to join in. She says, bring a drum if you have one - or if you don't have a drum, you should bring two stones or just "the drum of your heart." The fire will be started at 10.30 a.m. and the drumming will begin just before noon. There is a potluck afterwards, using the zamboni kitchen.
-- Sunday March 21, 8 p.m.: the broadcast of Cavan Young's short film about our zamboni and the visit from the inspectors, on CBC's Newsworld. The film is called Citizen Z. This little 10-minute film turned out very well, with lots of fun around the puppets and wonderful shots of the zamboni. Parents and grandparents and friends of little kids: put on a tape and record this, if the kids in your life like to watch the zamboni at the rink. They can add the video to their big-earth-movers collection. And you can send it to your relatives in far-away countries, to show them how truly peculiar your neighborhood is.
Citizen Z will be broadcast together with three other short films in a series called "Democracy." The other films are equally lively, even gripping. This will be a very good evening of television. And if you miss it, we'll have a public showing of Cavan's segment in the park in May, hopefully accompanied by a live performance by Larry Lewis and friends, of the song Larry composed for the film, called "Ice resurfacer" (a term that works wonderfully with a Cuban beat).