ANCESTRAL ARTS
Indigenous peoples’ stewardship of the land carries important lessons for us in the modern world…We desperately need to foster a new vision of human-nature relationships and the place of humans in the natural world”
–M. Kat Anderson
We can clearly see the negative impacts from misunderstanding and underestimating centuries-old traditions and techniques. More and more, people are searching out this relationship once again. The term ‘Ancestral skills’ encompasses a whole lifetime of education that never ceases and that you take with you everywhere: ethnobotany, biology, geology, zoology, astronomy, construction, watershed management, forest ecology, the list goes on. What compounds this are the layers of ritual, myth, storytelling, oral tradition, music and dance.
Interweaving Ancestral Skills with Symbiosis is a way of reuniting all these layers, of shifting our cultural schisms to a more integrated approach, while reaching out and sharing. We thank-you for the opportunity and invite you to join us by the sacred fire.
This year at Symbiosis we would like to bridge the gap between the realms of music, dance and art, restorative ecology and permaculture, with the knowledge and skills of our early ancestors.
ANCESTRAL ARTS WORKSHOPS
Bow and arrow making
and shooting zone
Hunting tools
(spears, atlatls, rabbitsticks, etc)
Firecraft
Cordage and fiber arts
Edged Tools use, care
Flint-knapping
Tracking by day/by night
Night-time star journey
Trade blanket
Story time
Nature Awareness, observation
Indigenous Cooking
Water Harvesting
Woodcraft, carving, etc.
Shelter
Herbal medicines
Weaving/Basketry
Earthen building, construction
Intro to methods and uses
of animal processing
Indigenous games
© SYMBIOSIS EVENTS 2012