NY Woodlanders Gathering
2010 New York Gathering
August 21-22 at Warwick Center Campgrounds, Hoyt Rd, Warwick, NY
starts 9AM Saturday and ends Sunday afternoon
Theme: Illness, Wellness and Natural Materials
- Dan Mack talks about his work with at-risk youth and natural materials; advertising on Facebook and new thoughts on how rustic mind fits in.
- Dan will give a 1hr summary of the recent Alchemy Seminar
- Lynn Hoins will do a workshop and exercises on Journaling
- Body Work has a more central place in the workshops
- There are regular Tool Talks and Technique Demos with natural materials
- Carver Eric Bunn has offered a workshop on Sharpening
Hey, WHAT Exactly HAPPENS? Some of the following are 60-90 minute scheduled workshops; others are materials and tools available both days on tables; others are history, wishes and fictions.
TOOL and WOODHEAD ACTIVITIES
Making a Rustic Cedar Stool, Bill Olendorf
Using a Shave Horse, draw knife and spoke shave, Dan
Keeping Tools Sharp, Eric Bunn
Make a Bench Hook: a portable work area
Wood Slabs with Gary McNabb
Making a small rustic chair
JUST MAKING THINGS
Bull Roarers, Rich Pillar
Bamboo Flute, Matthew Fallon if he comes
Making a Grimoire
Mask making
Body Adornments and jewelry Woodland Garments: imaginal tribal clothing
Working with Barks: Birch and Palm barks
Mark-Making with Mud, Clay or Charcoal
MailArt
WELLNESS
What's Illness?
Yoga Nidra--Yogic Sleep, a meditation technique, Victoria Mowrer, Not this year
Early Morning Dream Workshop, Kim, Andrea and all, Likely
Gyrokinesis, Hannah Maxwell Likely
HEALING: Tissue Paper Collage, Arlene Geiger Likely
HEALING: Mattering Spirit: Imaginal Cards, Dan Mack YES
HEALING: Making a Rope Labyrinth, Jim Caulfield++
HEALING: Mattering Spirit: Imaginal Tool Workshop
LANDWERK
Dan's organizing to make a debris shelter or "earth womb" Likely, need helpers
The lives of animals: Tracking and Bird Songs
Woods, Water and Road Tyme: field trips to natural locations with Laurie Seeman
COMMUNITY BUILDING Play in Nature: 
PICNICS, POT LUCKS, BONFIRES
Build and Burn a Rustic Willow Man,
Caulfields and others
Kinetic Art in Nature
Meditation:Tibetan Singing Bowls, Craig Cowling
A Community Loom/Trellis: everybody weaves something in
DISCUSSIONS: WOODLANDERS back in the WORLD
Using Media and Social Media: tweets, Facebook, LinkedIn, Plaxo, blogging?
Applying Woodlander skills and sensibilities: Working in healthcare?
Should Woodlanders form chapters of the Children and Nature Network?
HEALING: long distance entanglements/meditations, David Weiner.
OFF-SITE TRIPS
Those before us: Visiting a Lenape Rock Shelter 2 miles away
Visiting a Lenape churt quarry
Pacem in Terris: a spiritual center and nature/art center built on a stream behind a junkyard. A MUST VISIT 2 miles away
AREAS for email your interests
Display of Work: bring your work to show
Interesting Objects: bring interesting things to show like:
to Swap: anything you want to return to the stream of making
to Sell: stuff you don't feel quite right about swapping, yet
May 23, 2010
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