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Join us for a daylong, hands-on workshop with multi-media artist Primrose Coke as we dive into the fascinating world of Crankies—a centuries-old storytelling tradition experiencing a vibrant revival! Beginners welcome.
Using split kudzu vines, you will sew them back together again in a coiled basket.
Cherokee cultural stories told and discussed.
Learn songwriting with Sparrow Smith. No musical experience necessary, beginners welcome.
Have you ever wanted to carve your own eating utensils, but didn't know how to start? Come learn how to carve a spoon from green wood! We'll start at the very beginning, learning about the kinds of wood that are good for carving and how to select a piece to work with. Then we'll learn how to use basic hand tools to turn that piece into a beautiful, functional spoon that you can take home and use!
A guided painting session with Sarah Mathilda Stewart of Rattlesnakes and Rainbows. Sarah will provide all the necessary materials and instruction and guidance on how to interact with plants and sacred geometry as muse. Beginners welcome.
We will bring you a few different songs in dense and beautiful harmony from places we've spent a bunch of time, likely including one from Southern Appalachia and one from Ukraine. Elizabeth is a world-renowned ballad singer and scholar from rural Virginia and Brian is an ethnomusicologist and choir director has studied folk music all over the world.
Learn weaving and wisdom from National Treasure, Nancy Basket. Weave a small freeform laundry basket with split kudzu while hearing Cherokee stories and wisdom.
Join us to view a documentary of Katherine's journey to grow her own burial shroud from flax seed and reconnect her mortality within nature's cycles. She will speak to how this practice has sparked a community movement to reclaim home-based death and grief care—rituals that root us more deeply in connection to each other and the earth. Filmmaker Charly Louise of Venus Rising Media will join us for discussion and questions. We’ll close the gathering with a participatory song circle led by Danny Blose & Lucy Perry, where we’ll learn songs to offer to our dying—growing the generosity and care within our end-of-life spaces.
A survey of some of the fiddle players in the lineage of J.D. Harris (Osey Helton, Bill Hensley, Manco Sneed, Marcus Martin, etc) and the banjo playing styles of the region (up-picking, 2 finger, etc).
