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SUMMARY:Ancestral Arts & Skills Immersion for Educators Class: Ages 18+
DESCRIPTION:Ancestral Arts & Skills Immersion for Educators Class: Ages 18+\nENROLLMENT OPEN – SIGN UP HERE \nIn this fast moving\, 2-day workshop you will learn the basics of crafting unique cultural items using only the tools and materials of the past. You will make the tools\, process the materials and learn the techniques of hand making a wide variety of culturally significant items that you can use in your classrooms and teach your students how to make.\nBeing an educator is not required to attend this class. It is open to anyone with an interest in ancient cultures\, bushcraft\, primitive skills\, human history\, archaeology\, or our human relationship with the natural world. \n  \nThis workshop not only explores the artistic materials and products of ancient peoples but the personal\, cultural and physical forces that went into everything they created. There was no “art” in these ancient cultures. Every nuance of color\, pattern and design often held multiple levels of meaning and importance to the crafter as they gave life and intent to each object they made. \nMuch of the workshop time will be used exploring how acquire and process the natural materials that you can gather from your own local environment. You will quickly realize that many of these materials are readily available in nearby open spaces. \nParticipants will learn to craft all their items without the use of modern tools and equipment: no knives\, scissors\, paste\, pots\, pans\, burners\, markers\, trays or boxes. By creating these items using only the materials and techniques of the past\, it is hoped you and your students will gain a deeper understanding and appreciation for past peoples and cultures. \n  \nBrushes and drawing tools\nYou will make and keep:\n\nMultiple stone and bone tools\, toys and games\, beads and ornaments\, bone and cane whistles\, a bullroarer\, paints and pigments\, paint brushes and other pigment application tools. You will also be given a slab of sandstone and extra materials to make more beads and ornaments for making at home after the class.\nYou will also receive detailed lists of material resources and gathering tips\, directions to locations to safely and legally gather\, modern material equivalents and for books\, website and scientific paper references.\nA variety of hard to find or make materials\, finished tools and books will also be available for purchase.\n\n  \nNorthern California Educators Immersion: – Projects:\nSkills and knowledge you will gain:\n\nLithic tool production for making all items in the workshop\, how to make and use spalls\, flakes\, sandstone and cutting edges.\nStone pecking and grinding technology.\nHow to make all tools and supplies for painting and drawing\, pigment selection and processing\, liquid binder selection and use\, paint application materials\, how to make positive and negative handprints\, charcoal use\, discuss cave painting/rock art\, motivations and realities\, using fat lamps to illuminate caves and work areas.\nCordage\, rope and binders.\nFriction Fire making and use as a tool and illumination.\nBone reduction and how best extract and use bone fragments to make tools\, ornaments\, projectile points\, scrapers. Using antler\, horn and ivory.\nBending\, straitening and splitting wood.\nChoose and modify found natural materials to create beads and ornaments.\nAnimal hide processing overview and use for clothing\, bags\, straps\, rawhide and tanning.\nAnimal tendon / sinew identification\, acquisition\, processing and use.\nIdentifying\, making and using pine pitch\, tar\, saps and glues.\nWhere to find / acquire materials used/needed for teaching these skills.\nMaterial storage: Containers-tubes\, seashells\, gourd bowls and bottles\, bags\, cairns.\n\nWhat you will make:\n\nDecorated cane and bone whistles.\nString and cord.\nA Hoko Knife.\nA split willow animal effigy\nBone tools and cultural artifacts: awls\, punches\, reamers and a gorge fishhook. \nEarth Paints and a wide variety of paint application tools; brushes from 3 different materials\, tubes for spraying and drawing.\nBeads and ornaments from seeds\, nuts\, bones\, antler\, teeth\, stones\, shells including ice age processes and techniques.\nToys\, buzzers\, spinning tops.\nGames: ring and pin game\, counting sticks.\nBullroarer and discuss making flutes\, clappers\, rattles as well as the importance of group singing and chanting.\n\nOverall Big Picture Themes\, Ideas\, Lessons\nTechnologies:\n\nBasic Stone Tools: flakes\, pecking and grinding technologies.\nFriction Fire and fire mastery.\nTextiles\, cordage\, fiber- plant and animal.\nOperational chains /manufacturing steps.\nSplitting Wood-Cedar.\nBending\, Straightening Wood-Heat.\nBone Working\, Cutting\, abrading\, polishing.\nMineralogy: tools\, pigments\, salt\, clay\, plaster.\nEnvironmental awareness\, Gifts from the Animal People\, Stone People and Plant Peoples.\n\nCultural Insights:\n\nBody and face paint\, jewelry and burial red ocher use\, why red?\nOverview of human complex thoughts and the beginning of abstract thought: speech\, logic\, symbolism in all things.\nGames as cultural lessons: ring and pin.\nDynamics in a hunter-gatherer group: the true human success story.\n\nEnvironmental Factors:\n\nHistory of pre-historic climate changes and why this matters.\nAvailable natural resources and modern counterparts.\nLocation\, seasonality\, flexibility of hunter-gatherer groups.\n\n2 – 7 hour days: $325 per person.\n  \nOverall class goals and objectives for ALL classes\, camps and workshops:\n\nLearn how prehistoric peoples created a multitude of art and culture items from the natural materials around them.\nLearn how ancestral peoples made the tools and acquired the plant\, animal and mineral resources to create art and culture items.\nLearn to appreciate the relationships these ancient peoples had with the natural world around them and how they lived in balance with it.\nLearn the STEM lessons presented from working with the tools and materials.\n\n 
URL:http://willowdeer.com/event/ancestral-skills-immersion-for-educators-ages-18-2/
LOCATION:Maidu Activty Center\, 1960 Johnson Ranch Dr\, Roseville\, CA\, 95661\, United States
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