YOUNG MAN: I don’t know! But I’ll figure it out. GRANDMOTHER: But how will you do it? How will you know where to look? And which way to go? YOUNG MAN: Grandmother… I will bring back the light! I will bring back day and night, and summer and winter! The world has been trapped in darkness long enough! But then, all at once, he felt something warm stirring in his heart. NARRATOR: The young man shivered – partly from the cold, and partly from the thought of being forever lost in the wide-open wilderness. They’ve either come back empty-handed… or never come back at all. GRANDMOTHER: Oh, a few brave – or foolish – souls have ventured out onto the tundra to try and bring back the light. YOUNG MAN: Has anyone tried to find it, and bring it back? One day, the light just… vanished! Disappeared! Without a trace. GRANDMOTHER: Nobody knows, my dear! Nobody knows. YOUNG MAN: But what happened, Grandmother? What happened to the light? And from that day forward – or should I say “that night forward” – our world was trapped in darkness. Every year we patiently waited for summer to return, so that we could bask in all of that radiant, luminous light! (beat) But then… one summer… the light never came! The sun set and never rose again. Some nights the sun would never even set! Then winter would come, and the sun would barely even rise. GRANDMOTHER: Well, my dear… Way back when I was a young girl, we did have light! In the summer, we enjoyed long, beautiful days filled with sun. YOUNG MAN: Grandmother, why is it always so dark in the world? Why don’t we have any light? In some places, there’s none whatsoever.īut once upon a time… long, long ago… the whole world was bathed in darkness all year round! And during this time of eternal night… in a village way up north… there lived a young man and his grandmother. So long, the sun shines high in the sky past midnight!Īnd in the winter… well… in the winter there’s hardly any sunlight at all. NARRATOR: Way up north… where glaciers gleam and mountains loom and the tundra stretches on for miles… summer days are long. to country, jazz, and Eric Shimelonis’ expressive, mystical-sounding score for this supernatural Circle Round story! The electric current then goes to an electronic device known as an “amplifier” (or “amp,” as it’s often called) which changes the current to the sound you hear in many musical styles, from blues, rock-and-roll and pop. Unlike the acoustic guitar, which has a hollow body and depends on the acoustic properties of its own materials to amplify the vibration of its strings, the electric guitar relies on electricity! The electric guitar is embedded with wire-wound magnets called “pickups,” which convert the vibration of the guitar’s steel strings into electrical current. Share your artwork with someone you have fun with – and, if you’d like, share it with us! Grown-ups, you can snap a photo of your kiddo and their drawing and email it to Spotlight: The Electric Guitar Eric Shimelonis playing an electric guitar custom built by Jay Pawar. Then find a piece of paper and draw a picture of all your favorite winter, spring, summer, or fall things to do. Pick one of them and think about things you love doing during that season. Thanks to the sun, we have four seasons: winter, spring, summer, and fall. Our resident artist is Sabina Hahn and you can learn more about her HERE. We'd love to see it! To access all the coloring pages for past episodes, click HERE. We’re also keeping an album so share your picture on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and tag it with #CircleRound. Our artist is Sabina Hahn.ĪDULTS! PRINT THIS so everyone can color while listening. Original music and sound design is by Eric Shimelonis. This episode was adapted for Circle Round by Rebecca Sheir. Kennedy is currently starring as Milky White in the hit Broadway revival of Into The Woods at the St. Voices in this episode include Feodor Chin, Jessica Rau, Dawn Ursula, and Kennedy Kanagawa. Our story is called “Finding the Light.” It’s inspired by traditional tales told among Alaska Natives in the United States and First Nations communities in Canada. And when he refuses to give up, the results are dazzling! We’re about to meet a character who knows how you feel. Have you ever faced a challenge that felt nearly impossible, yet you refused to give up?
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