The Ucluelet Re-Skilling Festival

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Saturday, February 1st, 2014
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

The Raincoast Re-Skilling Festival is designed to provide local residents with the skills to begin the transition away from a globalized, fossil-fuel dependent community towards a more localized, self-reliant community. The Re-Skilling Festival provides space to share knowledge about specific skill-sets and to highlight individuals, organizations, and businesses in our communities that have teachable and important skills.

Hundreds of communities throughout the world are actively engaged in re-designing their futures by re-structuring their energy systems around local resources and by re-skilling local residents to develop diversified, local and resilient communities. As remote, west coast communities, we are especially vulnerable to the risks associated with overdependence on foreign markets; therefore, it is essential that we begin providing opportunities for the re-skilling of local residents immediately.

The Festival showcase the knowledge that our communities already have as well as identify potential knowledge gaps. Re-skilling is not a quick fix, but rather a commitment to the long-term process of re-creating resilient communities. Learning these skills takes time and now is a good time to start.
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2014 Ucluelet Re-Skilling Festival Workshops

10:00 am - 10:45 am: Wooden Bow Making - with Dan Law
11:00 am - 11:30 am: Yogurt Making - with April Robson
11:40 am - 12:00 pm: Building Transferrable Skills - with Alberni Valley Employment
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm: Making Nut Milks - with Lindsay Renton
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm: Health Talk on Fermentation - with Lindsay Renton
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm: The Healing Powers of Kombucha - with Christiane Watson
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm: Making Kefir - with Cindy Hutchinson & Janine Croxall
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm: Making Kimchi - with David Woodward
2:15 pm - 3:00 pm: Pasta Making - with Kasia Kromka
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm: Setting Traps & Snares - with Darryl Keeble
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm: Rope Making - with Darryl Keeble