Slow Building School Workshop Series
Slow Building School workshop series is a space for participants to learn how to operate basic power and hand tools while honoring their bodies, the materials, and the home-lands they are building with and for. This workshop series prioritizes BIPOC participants who want to learn building skills to support their communities and shared spaces.
The series will take place on September 5 and 6 from 11am to 4pm. On the first day, participants will go through a safety and tool demonstration and practice their skills by building altars they can take home. On the second day, participants will build outdoor benches for UC Gill Tract Community Farm. Attendance on both days is required. This workshop is for BIPOC participants or people who want to learn building skills to build for their communities.
The mission of Slow Building is to create opportunities where people can practice being part of their environments and home-lands as creative, skilled, embodied, and transformative beings. Slow building engages with spiritual practices, integral nonviolence, restorative justice both physically through construction, and through community building.
Pre-Requisites
Age 18+
No woodworking experience necessary
Accessibility
Do you have a low scent tolerance? We ask that our participants refrain from using extreme scents, though cannot guarantee the workshop space will be scent free. Please know that sawdust is present in the shop and we have masks available upon request.
Do you use ASL? We currently don’t have translation available, and would love to work with you about how you can access our workshops.
Questions? Reach Out.
Our Credo:
1. Give people independence and confidence
2. Create communities of people through project based collaboration
3. Learn from our mistakes
4. Access both financially & physically