Crafted: MAKE:CAMP - Build a Star-Gazey Seat in the Woods

Friday 30th September 4pm to Sunday 2nd October 4pm
Tickets £150, students £75, includes camping, forest bar, fireside food, friends, craft, wild swimming, yoga, time and space…

With Tabatha Pope, Ambrose Vevers and Darren Sutton
Spend a weekend in the woods delving deep to make the essentials of any good camp using your hands, basic tools and local materials. You will be learning to make fire the way the ancients did, cook food over the fire and build a group star-gazing structure. Along the way there will be time to swim in the Dart, do yoga, make music and friends.

At MAKE:CAMP you will fell trees using handsaws, peel the poles using drawknives and cleave the poles to build the star-gazey structure, which will then get roped together and completed with arched doorway and seats.

Tabatha Pope is a qualified architect registered with the ARB in the UK, maker and collaborative design facilitator. She is passionate about creating meaningful spaces that help connect people to nature and to each other, structures that inspire play, discussion and performance, quiet spots for solitary contemplation, celebratory shelters for communal gatherings, places for real experience and dreams.

She likes working with natural materials and collaborating with people from all different backgrounds. She is passionate about helping groups of diverse individuals to work together to bring forth great ideas. She has facilitated several participatory design labs, including the Woodland Design Lab 2011, and the Greenpeace at Glastonbury creative weekend workshops for the past few year.

Ambrose Vevers is a local furniture-maker who has taught many courses making beautiful, contemporary furniture using traditional tools and local materials.

Darren Sutton has an MA in social sculpture and is an artist, activist and builder with ecological persuasions.

This course includes dinner on Friday night, three meals on Saturday, and breakfast and lunch on Sunday.

You will need to bring your own camping equipment.

For more information visit https://www.dartington.org/whats-on/event/?id=187997