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Let’s celebrate, with Art, the Summer Solstice
By Ruben Cham - The Loft Gallery - June 2007
The association of local galleries that conform the Art Walk has confirmed that, during the next summer season, will follow open and in operations on their regular schedules. Thus, you will be able to continue visiting the galleries: Córsica, Beatriz Narváez, Omar Alonso and Des Artistes, Arte Latinoamericano, Pacífico, UNO, The Loft, Corona, De Ollas, Sergio Bustamante, Vallarta and 8 y Más, during the months of June, July and August.
In celebration of the Summer Solstice, the Art Walk association prepares, for the next June 20th, from 7 to 10 PM, a coordinated exhibition with the best authors from each gallery.
On of June 21st, in the North hemisphere, is celebrated the longest day of the year. In this date, the inhabitants of the northern region of the planet prepare themselves to be present at one of the most beautiful spectacles of the nature: the midnight sun. In some places, as the North Pole, the sun continues shining at the midnight of the 21st  of June. Definitively, the 21 of June is not a usual day. The nature, the mankind and the stars are arranged to celebrate a great festivity, impregnated with great power and magic. The fairies and other deities of the nature walk loose by the fields; the agriculturists thank for the summer, the harvests, the fruits and for having more hours to fulfill their tasks as well as giving themselves to diversion. It is the right moment to request by the future Earth fecundity and the prosperity of men; in addition one is due to begin to store foods in prevision of autumn and winter.
The celebration of the summer solstice, it is as old as the humanity itself. Back on time, there was a belief that the sun would not return to its total splendor, because after this date, the days became gradually shorter. Therefore, bonfires and fire rites of all class was ignited in the summer eve (Midsummer's Eve), or the 20th of June, to symbolize the power of the sun and to help him to renew his energy. In later times bonfires in the tops of mountains ignited, throughout the brooks, in half of the streets and at the front of the houses. Processions with torches were organized and hills and through the fields lay down to roll wheels down burning. Often, was usual to dance and jump around the fire in order to be purified and to be protected themselves by demoniac influences and to assure the sun Renaissance.
According with Colombian astronomer Jorge Enrique Senior, can be said that everything began near 5 thousand years ago, when our ancestors, compelled to observe the stars and to settle down their influence in our lives realized that, at certain time of the year, the Sun moves from a perpendicular position on the Tropic of Capricorn, until a perpendicular position on the tropic of Cancer. To these extreme days in the position of the Sun, solstices of winter and summer was called to them, which respectively happens the days December 21th and June 21th. These dates correspond to the North hemisphere and, on the inverse way, at the south.
Ruben Cham
Strawn / Cham Projects
Corona 176 – A, Zona Centro
Phone: 52 [322] 222-63 53 Cel.: 322 135-6303
E-mail: ruben.cham@yahoo.com.mx
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