Help
Sign In
build
November 2009 
YURT HOME JOY LOVE HEART SING - (build yours)
TimeToShine
A special 10-day yurt-raising at Margaret Matthewson’s Ancient Arts Center near Alsea, Oregon.
10/6-15 (10 days, or two 5-day sessions), at the Ancient Arts Center, in Alsea, OR (http://www.ancientartscenter.com <http://www.ancientartscenter.com> )
William Coperthwaite has spent decades learning and documenting traditional craft around the world in the interest of finding simpler, more peaceful ways to live. His signature design is the multi-level, rigid-walled, permanent yurt, an adaptation of the traditional Mongolian traveling yurt, or ger. Bill has led hundreds of workshops and is the author of A Hand Made Life (Chelsea Green Publishing); his work has been featured in Becky Kemery’s Yurts, as well as Lloyd Kahn’s Homework, among others. [His three- storey circular home is one of the most beautiful buildings I’ve ever been in, and the only round building I’ve ever been in that really works. Photos are easy to find on the web if you search on “Coperthwaite.” – Kiko.)
Kiko Denzer is a craftsman who has worked with earth as a sculptural and structural material since 1994. He has built ovens, buildings, art installations, and done decorative work for settings both industrial and traditional.
Margaret Matthewson is a basket-maker, willow-grower, martial artist & teacher. Her Ancient Arts Center attracts students and teachers of all kinds.
In this workshop, we will build a two-tiered, rigid-walled yurt, using hand-skills in carpentry, basket-making, and earthen plasters (wattle and daub). The walls will be woven from willow withies grown and harvested on the property. We’ll plaster them with a combination of lightweight, insulative mud, finished with earthen and/or lime plasters. The roof will be a “living roof” planted with native plants and setums; depending on time and interest, we may build some ovens/stoves on the side.
INFO: contact Kiko at 541-438-4300 (handprint@cmug.com), or contact Margaret through ancientartscenter.com.
FEE: $900 for 10 days of framing, weaving, mudding, plastering, eating, and sleeping (dorm bed or your tent). A $400 deposit holds your place. 15% discount for full payment before August 10th. Fees are refundable (less a $50 administrative fee) if we receive notice before August 31st. After August 31st, we will refund as enrollment allows. Please inquire about scholarships/fee-reduction. If you can’t get free for the full ten days, there may be some room for 5-day enrollments at ½ price.
About the Center
Ancient Arts Center is situated in Lobster Valley, one hour from Corvallis and one hour from Waldport in the lush mountains of Oregon's Coast Range. Facilities include a 700 square foot round classroom, guest house and kitchen, campfire circle and outdoor house, rambling country gardens packed with colorful flowers and a serene green woodland and shady creekside for swimming, dabbling in rocky pools or basking on the bedrock benches. http://www.ancientartscenter.com/about/
WITH THANKS TO JANE HILLHOUSE FOR THE TIP!: http://www.finalfootprint.com/
May we tread lightly on the Earth
from birth
to vibrant life
to our triumphant
Passing….
CCR McF
*~*~*
Bury me in a basket
Curled around
A spiral coil
Of gratitude
In the ground
Let me go like compost
Turning to earth
Morph into topsoil
Till my worth
Let Earth rejoice
when you lay me to rest
Make me food for the ones
Who gave me their best
CCR McF
The 'Bury Me In A Basket' poem is not portending my imminent death(!) but one of our friends did Pass and his burial arrangements came to $13,000)... besides which, he was so trussed up for burial that I was looking on aghast; how the heck was that body supposed to de-compose (compost as it should!!). all this just reminded me these things must be in place if we are to reclaim all the acts of our lives.
Love,
Corrina
Access: Public
