- A Fairy House Adventure:
The Ritual and Craft of Making a Home for the Fairies - John Curtis Crawford & Bridget Wolfe
4 day workshop: May 17 - 20, 2012 - Skalitude Retreat, Twisp, Washington
- "Everyone always wants to know 'How do you make fairy houses?' And what they’re thinking is 'How do you perform the craft operations of making a fairy house?' and in truth, that’s the simplest part of it. The thing that’s the most important is the mindset with which you approach it. Because we’re not just trying to make a model – we’re trying to create a living creature, for all intents and purposes. This is going to be a Fairy House. It’s not a bird house, it’s not a miniature house; it’s a Fairy House and it’s intended for the habitation of Fairies."
- John Curtis Crawford from Gateways to Faerie - event page
From backyard gardens, to wild places, lovers of art and the natural world have long fashioned miniature dwelling places for Fairies and other nature spirits. Whether whimsical or deeply metaphysical, these creations offer a home for the mythic imagination, a place for magic to emerge from the ecosystem and create a gateway to allow enchantment to pass into our lives.
In the Fairy House Adventure workshop, we will gather twigs, stones, and sand, engaging the spirit energy of each in conversation and discovering how the spirit guardians of different materials guard the gateway to home. We will bring our materials back to the studio and fashion a house, working to keep alive the life history of the twigs and stones of which it is constructed. We’ll learn John Crawford's unique sculptural process of working in a bed of sand to mold the walls, using the twigs as a form; then we’ll form the roof from real shake shingles.
When the structure of the house is finished, we’ll call the guardian spirits of the wood and stone that have shaped it and ask them to whisper their memories to us. With their input, we’ll write a brief story, poem, or song, planting the seed of the living myth that is our Fairy House, our own Nature Spirit Home.
Costs:
$675
Includes lodging and breakfast & dinner
Register Early! After April 23 price goes up to $710
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Lindsey Swope |
contact Lindsey if any questions!
509-997-1032
skalitude@gmail.com
There is one work trade opportunity available, mosty food prep and cleaning. Preference given to folks who have attended the Fairy Congress.
You will need to bring a few hand tools; detailed list in registration materials.
John and Bridget will also be presenting at the Fairy & Human Relations Congress,
June 22 - 24, 2012 details here …
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