9/10/2014 Schumacher College: A Maker's Journey

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A Maker's Journey

9 – 13 December, 2013

With Richenda Macgregor, Nick Kary, Dolly Kary, Duncan Passmore and Julia

Ponsonby

Fees:

Non-residential rate: £235

Residential rate: £450

This course is open for bookings.

Join us for a five day exploration into what it means to live a more handmade life.

Natural materials are in abundance all around us and our historical survival has depended upon

a healthy relationship with them. But in our modern industrial world many of us have become

separated from our potential to make and value beautiful, useful objects from our landscape.

Through stories, clay, pigments, wood and food we will seek to explore and enlarge that relationship between our hands, natures materials and each other.

This course will include both philosophy and practise of craft. It will contain taught elements, conversation and debate, storytelling and hands-on projects of your

choice, as well as our usual field trips and other emergent happenings. There will be plenty of ‘making time’ with the teachers and you will be mentored in a variety of

making techniques.

From the course you can expect to learn:

Why making/re-skilling is so important at this time

How to re-connect to material/the earth/relationship with ‘the more than human world’

How making can become part of our daily lives

How to become more sustainable through the use of natural materials around us

How others are making a living through Craft

Practical skills in your choice of the activities on offer

How to start at home …

Teachers

Richenda MacGreggor

Richenda is an an Artist working in the field of Art and Ecology. She originally trained as a production potter and glassmaker and spent ten years

working professionally as a Maker, Teacher and Trainer. Having learnt the effectiveness of holding space in this way, using skill and the environment

to allow for deep process work to happen within individuals and groups, she now works to facilitate a transformative way of being in the world. One in

which each individual finds a stronger connection to the natural world and their community.

Duncan Passmore

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Duncan is a natural builder of 12 years, with particular expertise in carpentry. At 24 he began his career as part of the team building the Brighton

Earthship project and as a consequence worked in the US with the renowned ‘Garbage Warrior’, Mike Reynolds. This experience culminated in

Duncan building a hybrid Earthship project in Brittany in 2008, which was featured on the television programme, Grand Designs. After completing the

French project, he and his wife Sian moved to South Devon, There were many reasons for this, one being that this part of the world has a particular

gravity about it where Natural Building is concerned. Needless to say, he’s been getting stuck in on a whole host of local projects since then, working

on cob buildings, traditional timber frames and some more contemporary style eco-builds.

Duncan became a student of the School for Social Entrepreneurs at Dartington in 2009. Through this, he became involved in a number of affordable housing initiatives

using natural build and self build methods. His work/practice/journey with wood continues to evolve and nowadays is more guided by the possibility of ever widening

relationship through the material and tools as well as the intertwined and dual aspect of coming to know ones place within it all. He is currently busy delivering furniture

commissions from his workshop and working on naturally-built shepherds huts at Schumacher College.

Nick Kary

Nick has worked as a designer and maker of furniture for the last 27 years, learning his trade from apprenticeship, college, and long practise. He has

built a wide range of furniture, objects and structures over the years, and developed a broad and highly tuned set of skills and knowledge. A profound

love and respect of the natural world from which his materials come, underpins the philosophy on which his work practise is based. He is a trained

facilitator and university lecturer and uses his relationship with word and making as a means of communicating stories that connect us to the natural

world of which we are all a part.

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Dolly Kary

Coming from a family of artists, Dolly’s innate relationship with creative exploration led her to pursue an early career in murals, paint finishes and

public art while bringing up a young family and studying Public Art and Design at Chelsea. Experimentation in a wide variety of media and skills has

led, over the years, to a deep and soulful relationship between her artistic expression and her own journey through life. Familiar with the handling of a

broad variety of media including mosaic, glass, paper,ceramic and textiles, her recent work has been mainly 2 dimensional multi-media work

including portraits, landscapes and the documentation of domestic life.

Over 30 years of practise, including work as a facilitator and cook on The Journey programme at Embercombe, and running her own ‘Creative Being’

courses, Dolly has developed a broad range of skills and techniques through which to help others tap into their creative energy and let go of self-judgement. She is a

powerful and quiet guide for those seeking to explore their creative path.

Julia Ponsonby

Julia coordinates catering at the college. She has been at the College since the beginning and occupied various roles- including being a participant

on the first course (Gaia theory 1991). Before the birth of Stephan and Julia’s son Oscar in 2001, she worked full time as the Catering Manager and

put together the college cookbook Gaia’s Kitchen which won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for best veggie cookbook. Her new book will be

published in 2014.

Only at Schumacher College where the steamier side of the culinary world eclipses under the banner of team work and love of good fresh local food

could I have enjoyed catering for so long. It’s exciting to see the importance of food (preparation, sourcing and growing) being put at the forefront of

some of the cutting edge movements of today – the Transition movement and the Slow Food movement – and to realise that as a learning ground for holistic cooks,

the College k itchen has a lot to contribute.

Fees

Thanks to our bursary funding we are able to offer this course at a subsidised rate to encourage wide participation. We are also offering this course as non-residential to

make it easier for local people to attend.

Non-residential rate: £235

Residential rate: £450

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