A Metamodern Holiday: Cross-Comparing Different Winter Festivals

By Moses Cirulis

Presented by Modest Metamodernist

“The Neo-Holidays and Me” by Moses Cirulis

Ah, Yuletide. The time of year when the days get dark, and we put on artificial lights, eat copious amounts of food, and complain about the new holiday cups from our favourite coffee shop. Beyond that, there are a great many variations on the winter holidays, and a great variety of perspectives from which to experience the holidays.

As a result, there have been recent attempts to sort of remediate these perspectives, bringing together various points of view in the form of new, multi-layered fusion holidays. From Festivus to Candlenights, let’s bring ourselves together for fun, inventive Neo-holidays.

Banner courtesy of https://wolfenoot.com/

A Day for Dogs

There are a number of Neo-holidays online, but I’d like to start with a relatively new tradition. Wolfenoot, to be exact. [1]

Created by the 7-year-old son of Jax Goss in 2018, Wolfenoot celebrates wolves, dogs and other canines every November 23rd. It became a new tradition thanks to social media-Jax posted about the holiday a few months prior to the event and it became picked up…