How can ancestral life skills help us repair the broken relationship with more-than-human kin? Welcome to a performative workshop where we explore this question with fire as our guide!
When: February 11 at 14.15-16.00
Where: The event will take place in Stadsskogen, in Uppsala. A more specific location you find here: 59°50’48.2″N 17°37’19.6″E, see map here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/E4rRLHZGGh3gPN6o8. This is the northern most designated fire place. Towards the east from the the fire place, there is an entrance into the forest, at the crossing between kåbovägen and Södra Rudbecksgatan. If you enter the forest here, you will find the fire place a 100m further on your right side.
How: Dress yourself warm! We will be outside and sitting still for the duration of the workshop. Feel free to bring a snack or something sweet to have with the tea :)
The workshop includes:
- demonstration of bow drill – one of the ancient techniques of starting fire by friction, and
- guided tasting of fireweed tea – a forgotten wild herb that has been historically harvested and used in the North.
A unique way to spend your afternoon ‘fika’ and discover new perspectives on nature around you.
Maxim Vlasov is a researcher-practitioner from Umeå with interest in ancestral skills and cultural rewilding, including applications of these ideas in the contemporary outdoor education and recreation. Alongside his academic work, he runs his own practice as wilderness guide and currently teaches at the year-long course Naturliv at Munka Folkhögskola, for more information about the course, see: www.munkafolkhogskola.se/naturlivskurser/.