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Ideas and Assets to Create Your Ceremony

On this page you will find many ideas for your water ceremony. We have also created outreach materials for you to promote your ceremony. You can use the editable versions of the leaflets to add your text, QR codes and date/place of your ceremony and also use the printer-ready versions to send to a professional printer.

Download Stickers | posters | flyers

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Some Inspiration & Ideas

Community

  • Engage other river/water user groups to build a community of stewardsstewards.
  • Lead walks, clear litter/blockagesblockages.
  • Consider joining water testing group .
  • Offer Science Street Talk to other groupsgroups.
  • Share research to strengthen knowledge and connection to the waterwayswaterways.
  • Post on social media, highlighting local pollution issuesissues.
  • Discuss the change you want to see to the waterbodies you care aboutabout.

Art/Creativity

  • Create artwork,artwork
    • write
  • Write poetry,or read poetry
  • Make mandalas,mandalas
    • chant/
  • Chant/sing to rivers/make music,music use(more on this below)
  • Use Sound Bowls


Music/Storytelling

  • Song of the Thames (YouTube 29min) by Sam Lee - singer and song collectorcollector.
  • Traditional Native Storytelling - Salmon Boy (YouTube 12min) with Roger FernandesFernandes.
  • The Lost Words Blessing - (YouTube 4min) a song created from Robert Macfarlane's book The Lost WordsWords.
  • Collect storiesstories.
  • Running order [Dropbox 1 min] for the Ceremony for the River WyeWye.

Education

  • Share the ceremony with local authorities, politicians, other water users and engage schools & collegescolleges.
  • Incorporate Blue Plaques for Nature. This could include a QR code on the plaque which could point to the history of the river/waterway. blueplaquesRNN.png.

Puppets/Masks/Costumes

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