Bay Winter Solstice 2023: Song & speech auditions
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That sounds lovely!
If I stumbled across this post in the distant future, I'd be painfully curious about the lists of songs and speeches, and the forms might no longer be publicly available. So I hope it's ok for me to copy those lists into a comment here:
Songs:
Life Is Too Short To Fold Underwear (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k877h5POs80)
Time Wrote The Rocks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaFNlohn3z8; instrumental track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihGK7bJnXZE)
Bitter Wind Lullaby (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32ODIEpIx1s; instrumental track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmZYlULAgvw)
Brighter Than Today (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZvIbQ9JQ9U; instrumental track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oJM4BtfGAI)
Ballad Of Smallpox Gone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32yPWJcq2AI; modified lyrics: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19xUlD0Qn_QM5yS6AaBqweml_ovDyGM6d99FTMOUyQiw/edit?usp=sharing)
The Great Transhumanist Future (lyrics: https://luminousalicorn.tumblr.com/post/175855775830/a-filk-of-big-rock-candy-mountain-one-evening-as; to the tune of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6F0IhdaaWI)
Son Of Man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiBaBca7-rY; instrumental track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2tihwyXJBM)
What A Wonderful World (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBrd_3VMC3c; instrumental track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkaOdoxNTB0)
Speeches:
"Half Monkey, Half God" by Nate Soares (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J-n3wdZ-uytCr2DsG_Ccbf3EaY-OHbmPA70smCLO7-E/edit)
"The Orange" by Wendy Cope (https://gladdestthing.com/poems/the-orange)
(Note for any future Solstice historians that this is not the full program! Also any future Solstice historians should bug me to put the program up on https://secularsolstice.github.io/ if I have not yet done this by January or so.)
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