Ann Arbor ReSkilling Festival

Feb 4, 2012
9:30 am until 4:00 pm

Learn skills for resilient, low-energy living. This day-long ReSkilling Festival will focus on winter skills, which may include sessions such as clothes mending, winter botany, meditation, and, of course, planning and preparing for spring gardens! Part of the Transition Towns movement, the concept of reskilling is about preparing for our low-energy future by acquiring new skills related to what we eat, wear, use, and live in. As Transition Towns founder Rob Hopkins points out, “we no longer have many of the basic skills our grandparents took for granted.” Reskilling means providing for ourselves and our communities by growing, preserving, creating, building, and teaching.

The last Ann Arbor Reskilling Festival, held in July, was a great success, with over 150 participants choosing from 25 different sessions on such topics as maple sugar making, primitive wilderness skills, hand-tying a quilt, using human-powered machines, wild edibles, landscape painting in tempura, mending clothes, making herbal shampoo, and singing rounds!

Registration begins at 9:30 the day of the Festival.

Rudolf Steiner High School
2230 Pontiac Trail
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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