Cob: International Natural Building & Permaculture Events

[janell kapoor]

Greetings dear friends, family, and earthen building
enthusiasts!

These past 9 months have been full of activity...
helping to build Thailand's first earthen village, a
tour of natural homes in New Zealand, and a
cross-country practicum in the States. See
www.kleiwerks.com for details and photos. 

Coming up in several months there will be events and
projects in Argentina, Brazil, Thailand, and India.
The focus is to work with grassroots communities while
creating sustainable models. Details are listed below,
or at www.kleiwerks.com. 

In this time of great change and impact on our human
and non-human family, I also want to take a moment to
acknowledge you in whatever you do to create peace in
this world. 

Many blessings,

janell kapoor
www.kleiwerks.com

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CALENDAR EVENTS are listed by date with more details
following below:


THAILAND
6 WEEK PERMACULTURE PRINCIPLES COURSE & NATURAL
BUILDING TRAINING: Design and build a sustainable
center for orphaned children in Northern Thailand.
November 6 - December 18, 2003
Phitsanulok, Central Thailand

ARGENTINA
2 WEEK NATURAL BUILDING TRAINING IN PATAGONIA
Build a Waldorf School with teachers, students,
activists, and the local community.
December 6 - December 20, 2003
El Bolson, Patagonia, Argentina

INDIA
4 WEEK INTERNATIONAL NATURAL BUILDING CAMP IN SOUTH
INDIA
Build a traditional village-based school complex for
children with earth builders from around the world.
December 28, 2003 - January 25th, 2004
Vellore, Tamil Nadu, South India (3 hours from
Chennai)

ARGENTINA
5 DAY NATURAL BUILDING WORKSHOP IN BUENOS AIRES
A hands-on intensive workshop to build a 'Garden
Sanctuary' at Soham Urban Permaculture & Spiritual
Center
January 7-11, 2004 
Buenos Aires, Argentina

THAILAND
2 WEEK NATRUAL BUILDING WORKSHOP IN NORTHERN THAILAND
Help Thailand's leading earthen builders create their
home and seed-saving center.
February 13-27, 2004
Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand

BRAZIL
(tentative) WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL NATURAL BUILDING &
PERMACULTURE GATHERING
Coming together through permaculture, natural
building, and sharing our stories.
April 2-11, 2004
Brazil, exact site to be announced.
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FOR MORE DETAILS SEE BELOW OR VISIT WWW.KLEIWERKS.COM.


THAILAND
6 WEEK PERMACULTURE PRINCIPLES COURSE & NATURAL
BUILDING TRAINING: Design and build a sustainable
center for orphaned children in Northern Thailand.
November 6 - December 18, 2003
Phitsanulok, Central Thailand
Co-sponsors/Facilitators: Rosemary Morrow (Australia),
Jon Jandai (Thailand), Jim Connor & Nao Sangkara
(Whispering Seed-Thailand), Em Ponna (Cambodia),
Kleiwerks (USA)

Join leading permaculture teachers from 3 countries
and 30 dedicated activists from Southeast Asia and
around the world. We will create a special place,
which will model sustainable living through
permaculture, natural building, organic farming, and
holistic education. The Whispering Seed is a
village-based community learning center and home for
orphaned and abused children. They focus on finding
the joy in serving others through cross-cultural
exchanges, sustainable living practices, and natural
childrearing. They are active in the international
alternative education movement, including organizing
and hosting international conferences and youth travel
programs. They have recently acquired beautiful land
which will be their permanent home...

In this hands-on intensive training course we will
come up with an overall design, develop the land, and
build the first earthen dwellings at the new home of
The Whispering Seed. The training includes the full
72-hour Permaculture Design and Practicum
Certification requirements, along with in-depth
hands-on application of your newly learned skills.
Also, Thailand's foremost earthen builders will be
leading the group in the construction of an adobe and
wattle and daub main house and other dwellings. 

We will create organic gardens, orchards, and
composting toilets; build bamboo and mud houses; and
learn how and where to plant and place things so that
functions and energy from each element serves multiple
purposes with the intention of creating a self-reliant
system. Time permitting, we will also work with rice
paddy and cotton fields and do restorative planting on
nearby land that was recently cut and burned.

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT WWW.KLEIWERKS.COM
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ARGENTINA
2 WEEK NATURAL BUILDING TRAINING IN PATAGONIA
Build a Waldorf School with teachers, students,
activists, and the local community.
December 6 - December 20, 2003
El Bolson, Patagonia, Argentina
Instructors: Janell Kapoor (Kleiwerks-USA), Carlos
Straub (Diversidad-Argentina),
Jorge Belanko (Diversidad-Argentina), Max Edleson, and
others. 

Join us for this 2-week intensive in the beautiful
valley of El Bolson, at the foot of the Patagonian
Andes in Argentina. As we construct this new Waldorf
School (La Escuelita), you will learn how to build
your own natural, affordable, and long-lasting
structure with materials that come directly from the
land. Learn through hands-on practice, demonstrations,
classes, slideshows, and discussions.

There will be an emphasis on the interface between
natural building and permaculture. Techniques include:
adobe, cob, wattle and daub, strawclay, window and
door installation, foundation work, hand-sculpted
earthen furniture, natural finishes including earthen
plasters, aliz clay-slip paints, and sculptural
relief. 

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT WWW.KLEIWERKS.COM
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INDIA
4 WEEK INTERNATIONAL NATURAL BUILDING CAMP IN SOUTH
INDIA
Build a traditional village-based school complex for
children.
December 28, 2003 - January 25th, 2004
Vellore, Tamil Nadu, South India (3 hours from
Chennai)
Hosted by Buddha Smiles
Co-sponsors/Facilitators: Kleiwerks (USA), Buddha
Smiles, Ramu Manivannan (India), Cobworks, Elke Cole
(Canada), The Bahn Din 'Earth House' Team, Thana
Uthaipatrakul & Ratchabodin Boonchaiyo (Thailand), and
others.

Join people from around the world as we come together
to build with earth. This 4 week international camp
will be hosted at a rural village in South India.
Natural builders, activists, architects, teachers,
students, and villagers will gather together to
construct a village-based school complex for children.
Over the month we will work with traditional Indian
builders from nearby villages, Thailand's leading
earthen builders, and instructors from Canada and the
US. This will be a cross-cultural experience,
supporting the revival of India's oldest building
methods. 

You will learn enough to build your own ecological,
affordable, and healthy home while helping others.
Techniques include: adobe, cob, wattle and daub,
natural finishes such as earthen and manure plasters,
clay-slip paint (aliz), sculptural relief, bamboo
work, thatch roof, window and door frame installation,
foundation work, and hybrid wall systems. There will
also be cultural celebrations and honoring of village
traditions; Tamil dance, song, and cookery; tours of
local cottage industries and grassroots community
projects, and more. 

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT WWW.KLEIWERKS.COM
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ARGENTINA
5 DAY NATURAL BUILDING WORKSHOP IN BUENOS AIRES
A hands-on intensive workshop to build a 'Garden
Sanctuary' at Soham Urban Permaculture & Spiritual
Center.
January 7-11, 2004 
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Instructors: Janell Kapoor (Kleiwerks), Cristian
Rodriguez (Soham), Max Edleson, and others.

This five-day workshop will provide an overview of
natural building techniques through the construction
of a small structure. The site is in the beautiful
edible landscape of the Soham Urban Permaculture and
Spiritual Center located in a suburb of Buenos Aires.
The construction will be complimented by discussions
and demonstrations of permaculture in the urban
context. 

Techniques include: adobe, cob, wattle and daub,
strawclay, window and door installation, natural
finishes including earthen plasters, aliz clay-slip
paints, and sculptural relief. 

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT WWW.KLEIWERKS.COM
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THAILAND
2 WEEK NATURAL BUILDING WORKSHOP IN NORTHERN THAILAND
Help Thailand's leading earthen builders create the
first dwellings of a sustainable learning center and
seed-saving bank.
Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand (at Ban Mea Jo)
February 13-27, 2004
Instructors/Facilitators: Jon Jandai (Thailand), Thai
(Thailand), Peggy Reents (USA), and Michel Spaan
(Holland).

Join Thailand's leading earthen builders on their new
land and sustainable seed-saving center. Friends and
supporters will join from many countries to play in
the mud and create 3 earthen dwellings at this
tropical paradise. This workshop will also help raise
funds to pay off the land and be debt-free. 

The 3 small huts will be places for people to stay.
One will be adobe, one bamboo, and one wattle and
daub. Materials will be from the land itself
including: earth, rice straw and husk, bamboo, water,
round wood, thatch, and stone. Other topics will
include seed-saving and organic gardening. 

A little about Jon Jandai...Thailand^Òs leading earthen
builder who has inspired thousands of fellow villagers
to move toward a simpler, happier way of life. 

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT WWW.KLEIWERKS.COM
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BRAZIL
(tentative) WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL NATURAL BUILDING &
PERMACULTURE GATHERING
April 2-11, 2004
Brazil, exact site to be announced
Presenters: Starhawk, Penny Livingston-Stark (PINC),
Janell Kapoor (Kleiwerks), Andre Soares (IPEC,
co-organizer-Brazil), and many others.

This international gathering will draw women from all
over South America and many other countries. We will
come together to learn, share, have fun, and build
based on permaculture principles and natural building
techniques. The host community is one of Brazil's
foremost models of intentional sustainability.

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT WWW.KLEIWERKS.COM
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