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Cob: Earthen Building Gathering/Training & Kleiwerks Updatejanell kapoor janellkapoor at yahoo.comTue Jun 3 23:55:43 CDT 2003
Hi friends and earth building enthusiasts, -Here's the latest on Kleiwerks & Sequatchie Valley Institute's big 10 day gathering/training, July 18-27. It will be an excellent learning exprience, with 15 techniques & 14 presenters. Be in touch soon if you'd like to join. More details below. -There's still room for a couple more participants in the Kleiwerks Practicum- a 10 week immersion in the world of natural building, July 3-Sept 13, 2003. If you are interested visit www.kleiwerks.com for an application. -Please pass this announcement on to your favorite listserves, calenders, and peoples. Thanks for talking dirty. -This mailing goes out to everyone on my list. If you'd rather not receive the occasional kleiwerks announcements, let me know and you'll be taken right off. -More info on my latest whereabouts are at the bottom of this message. Blessings, janell kapoor www.kleiwerks.com ... Kleiwerks Natural Building and The Sequatchie Valley Institute present: 10 DAY NATURAL BUILDING & DEEP ECOLOGY TRAINING/GATHERING - Learn the art of sustainable living & building. July 18-27, 2003 Near Dunlap, Central Tennessee, USA Join us for the big 10 day hands-on intensive in the beautiful hills of Tennessee. You will learn how to build your own natural, affordable, and long-lasting structures with materials that come from the land. We will cover 15 techniques, with 14 presenters. WHAT TO EXPECT: Through hands-on practices, demonstrations, classes, slideshows and discussions you will learn start-to-finish techniques. This is for people who are seriously interested in taking what they learn back home and putting it to use. Our intention is to see our efforts multiply, broadening the sustainable living and natural building movement. We expect a total of about 50 people, with multiple projects happening simultaneously. This gathering/training is filling quickly. Early inquiries are encouraged. 15 TECHNIQUES: -Adobe -Cob -Wattle and daub -Light straw-clay slip, infill systems -Dry stack rock foundations -Earth bag construction -Earthen plaster, aliz & other natural finishes -Basic carpentry -Post & beam timber-framing -Ferro cement -Stained glass -Tile-making -Adzing -Other innovations and use of locally salvaged leftovers from the nearby town that would otherwise be headed for a land-fill. TOPICS: -Characteristics of materials -Selecting & testing materials -Hybrid natural wall systems -Building strong structures -Appropriate passive solar design -Desiging a nest -A pattern language -Foundations, drainage & siting -Roofing -Model-making -Codes & resources -Visioning & grassroots activism -Building steps & planning -Deep Ecology & permaculture -Natural building around the world -Thailand's first earthen village HOSTS/CO-SPONSORS: We will be hosted at Moonshadow, home of Sequatchie Valley Institute, a non-profit environmental education center and living community on 350 acres near Dunlap, TN. On the land there are numerous examples of beautifully hand-crafted natural structures. Kleiwerks Natural Building is an international grassroots organization, teaching people how to build their own, appropriately designed, hybrid homes and community centers with affordable and indigenous materials. INSTRUCTORS: Janell Kapoor (Kleiwerks), Ashley & Patrick Ironwood (SVI), David Del Vechio (SVI), Johnny Kimmons (SVI), Mollie Curry (Earthaven Ecovillage), Allison Cerulli (SVI), Albert Bates (Ecovillage Training Center, The Farm), Howard Switzer & Katey Culver (Ecoville Architects), Chris Farmer (Forestry Cooperative, Earthaven Ecovillage), and other guests. PARTICIPANTS: We are most interested in working with representatives from organizations, schools, networks, communitites... anyone who is working on a grassroots level. For this reason, we encourage participants to get about half of the fee from people/sources within your community, with plans to share what you've learned upon your return home. Initial projects might be a slideshow presentation with a short hands-on demonstration such as a bench, oven, shed, garden walls, and so on. We hope to support more people becoming involved with natural building at the community level and will gladly help advise this process. TO REGISTER: Please answer the following questions. Keep your response brief, a few paragraphs is enough. Email us your name; address; how you found out about the training; which organizations, networks, communities you work with and any other relevant information; how you plan to use what you learn; how you plan to pay for this training; and how much you will pay. CONFIRMATION: Registration applications will be accepted until we are full. Within 2 weeks after receiving confirmation from us, you are expected to send in a $200 NON-REFUNDABLE deposit to reserve your place. Closer to the training we will send you more details with directions, what to bring, etc. We look forward to seeing you there... FEE: Training fee includes delicious organic meals, camping, materials, information packet and tuition. $650...with a $900-$400 sliding scale, allowing people with different financial situations to attend. Please give what you can. you are expected to meet the middle $650. If you can give more, it helps our organizations to continue offering similar events in the U.S. and abroad. If you really cannot meet the middle $650, please note this, explaining why in your registration. We will encourage you to make arrangements for partial sponsorship from your community, which will help ensure you bringing it home to them (see 'participants'). If this is really not possible, then we may ask for some kind of exchange for the remainder, but prefer to keep worktrades for people in our local community. CONTACT: For more information, or to submit an application, contact Ashley Ironwood at: Phone: 423.949.5922, 423.949.3021 Email: mediarights at bledsoe.net Website: www.kleiwerks.com, www.svionline.org CO-SPONSORED BY KLEIWERKS NATURAL BUILDING & THE SEQUATCHIE VALLEY INSTITUTE .................................. Janell Kapoor's whereabouts/update: *Nov'02 thru Jan'03- earthen building projects in Thailand. *Feb & March- presenting and visiting mudders of New Zealand. *April 18 & 19- Swarthmore College, presenting and brick-making workshop for peace wall. *May 5- presentation at New College, Santa Rosa, Ca. *May 6- presentation at Earth Activist Training with Penny Livingston & Starhawk, Cazadero, Ca. *May 9 thru 23- Portland Village Building Convergence, Share-It-Square in the Sellwood Neighborhood. *June 1 thru 8- Cobworks & Our Ecovillage, Mayne Island, BC, Canada. *Mid June- North American School of Natural Building, Blackbear Ranch, Skywater Educational Center Permaculture Skillshare. *June 24- presentation in Bolinas, Ca. *June 26 & 27- presentations at the Ecology Center in Berkekley & Urban Forage in SF. *July 3 thru Sept 13- Kleiwerks Practicum, 10 week immersion in the world of natural building. *July 6 thru 13- Build Here Now, Lama Foundation, NM *July 18 thru 27- Kleiwerks/Sequatchie Valley Institute 10 Day Training/Gathering, Tn. *August, all month long- building an earthen house, Earthaven Ecovillage, NC *August 8 thru 10- 10th Annual SE Permaculture Gathering, Earthaven Ecovillage, NC *August 31 thru Sept 7- Workshop with Kleiwerks interns, Asheville, NC. *Late Nov'03 thru April'04- South America; events in Argentina, Peru, & Brazil *Other kleiwerks events will be happening in Thailand and South India, winter 2003-04. ... More information about projects in Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Thailand, and India will be in our next mailing & will be posted at www.kleiwerks.com. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com
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