Bushcrafts: Cordage and Braids

🌻 EVENT DETAILS:

Bushcraft is the study of skills that our ancestors have used to survive and thrive in nature for 1,000s of years. To begin the Bushcraft Series at Kindness Farm, we will be starting with the most basic of skills: making cordage from natural fibers! Using materials foraged within the Johnson Creek Watershed, participants will learn basic processing techniques, twisting of fibers, and how to braid cordage to increase its tensile strength.

🌞 This event will take outdoors at Kindness Farm.

🌲$20 suggested

Pay what you can. No one turned away.

🍄 Please get your tickets here before the event! This really helps us with logistics and preparing for the event.

🚙 PARKING

Please park on the farm side of the street anywhere up or down the street. Do NOT park on the grass across the street from the farm (you will see "No Parking" signs). This is important for safety vehicles to pass through. We reserve 2 driveway parking spots (in the gravel, on the right) for folks with accessibility needs.

🌼 ACCESSIBILTY INFORMATION

Venue is not certified ADA accessible. The farm's bathroom is not technically ADA accessible, but has been used by folks with wheelchairs. The majority of the farm itself is accessible, though not all parts are (we have some narrow pathways). Note that we use woodchips for the majority of our pathways.

🐝 COVID-19 & Other Illness:

If you’re feeling unwell, we kindly ask that you rest at home and join us another time. Masks are not required for this gathering, but you are encouraged to mask or distance in whatever way feels right for you.

🌷 ABOUT KAWIKA

Kawika Kalama is a multiracial māhū interdisciplinary teaching artist, scholar, weaver, poet, photographer, diviner, healer, and cultivator of land. They were born and raised in Troth Yeddha’ and Tth'eetoo' (Fairbanks, Alaska) by parents deeply rooted in subsistence, reverence for land, and traditional ways of being. Kalama’s work weaves place-based arts education, reindigenization, and cross-cultural community belonging into tangible, embodied experiences that collectively explore the sacred.

Kawika’s lineages hail from Cebu, Kaua’i, Guangdong, the Pretanic Isles, Norway, and France. They are eternally grateful for all the elders, culture bearers, and ancestors who laid the foundation for all they practice.