Bay 2023

Bonfire

• The Circle by Taylor Smith ◦ Expanding the moral circle
• Introduction (Bay 2023) by Anna Tchetchetkine
• Life Is Too Short To Fold Underwear by Zoe Mulford
• Interlude: Song Nitpicking by Anna Tchetchetkine
• Time Wrote the Rocks by Cat Faber ◦ Truth is found in the world
• Underrated Reasons To Be Thankful (Part 1) by Dynomight
• Bold Orion by Leo Kretzner and Jon Bell ◦ A mythologically inspired ode to Orion the Hunter

Embers

• Underrated Reasons To Be Thankful (Part 2) by Dynomight
• The Fallen Star by Aleksandr Dolsky; translated by Anna Tchetchetkine and friends
• On Wanting Things by Anna Tchetchetkine

Night

• Interlude: Night by Anna Tchetchetkine
• Bitter Wind Blown by Raymond Arnold ◦ A lullaby for a child that is shivering in the cold
• High Stakes by Anna Tchetchetkine
• Hymn to the Breaking Strain by Rudyard Kipling ◦ Abide the twin damnation, to fail and know we fail
• For every ailment under the sun by Gretta Duleba
• Interlude: No One Survives by Anna Tchetchetkine
• No One Survives by Daniel Kahn
• Minute of Silence
• Songs Stay Sung by Zoe Mulford & Windborne, with edits by the Solstice team
• Call and Response: Defiance by Jai Dhyani (Abridged by Daniel Speyer)

Dawn

• Brighter Than Today by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our central anthem of hope, starting from the invention of fire
• Half Monkey, Half God by Nate Soares (abridged)
• Song Of The Artesian Water by Banjo Paterson and Anna Tchetchekine ◦ A song about human ingenuity in the face of challenges.
• Interlude: We Have Already Won by Anna Tchetchetkine
• I_Have_Seen [Not Available]

Morning

• Underrated Reasons To Be Thankful (Part 3) by Dynomight
• We will not die of this! by Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg
• Ballad Of Smallpox Gone by Leslie Fish ◦ Celebrating this victory

Tomorrows

• Underrated Reasons To Be Thankful (Part 4) by Dynomight
• Interlude: Part Of The Project by Anna Tchetchetkine
• Level Up by Vienna Teng ◦ An insistant yet triumphant invitation to grow
• The Orange by Wendy Cope
• Interlude: Building The Future by Anna Tchetchetkine
• The Great Transhumanist Future ◦ Lyrics by Hannah “Alicorn” Blume, to the tune of “Big Rock Candy Mountain” by Harry McClintock
• Interlude: What Future Do You Want? by Anna Tchetchetkine, with edits by Raymond Arnold
• Five Thousand Years by Raymond Arnold ◦ Looking to the far future
• What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong ◦ The world is awesome just the way it is