21st Annual Sunrise Ceremony

Citizens for the Carpinteria Bluffs is holding our twenty-first annual Sunrise Ceremony on Sunday, March 24, 2019 at 7 AM at the Mishopshno Meadow of the Carpinteria Bluffs.  The Citizens group suggests that early risers wishing to attend the dawn event should plan to arrive at the meadow by 6:45 AM. 

In partnership with Chumash descendant Julie Tumamait-Stenslie, Citizens for the Carpinteria Bluffs has been holding this annual spring spiritual observance since 1999.   As she has done in the past, Tumamait-Stenslie invites other members of the Chumash community as well as members of the general public to join her and the Citizens group in this annual gathering of celebration.  She encourages participants to bring a poem, story, or song to share in the language of their ancestors.

“This year is a time  to see and appreciate the beauty of renewal.With all the devastation and lost from the fires and floods, we are given a chance to restore, renew, and rebuild.We gather at the Carpinteria Bluffs as a community,as a powerful and loving force to offer up our gratitude for the beauty of Mother Earth and all the beauty that surrounds us.We bring our prayers and songs of peace,grace,love, tolerance and healing to the land and the All that live in it, Human, Plant and Animal. To bring  harmony and balance to a chaotic world. And beyond.Join us in this  circle.”
Julie Tumamait-Stenslie