September 2016 workshop program.
Better late than never! The September workshop program is finalised, with a few adult workshops and lots of kids workshops taking place in the first week of the Sept/Oct school holidays. Check them out! you will find them under the Upcoming Workshops link. A new workshop for kids aged 8-14. Knifework. Remember when kids all had pocket knives and loved to use them, shaping the end of a stick? WHAT WENT WRONG? How come we took the knives away and wrapped our kids in cotton wool? All the fun was taken out of public playgrounds too, as we somehow got all risk-averse and incredibly boring. It's taken more than 20 years, but at last there is some sense returning. Have you noticed the high climbing frames and big swinging stuff returning to the public playgrounds. Hooray! It is well understood that kids need to learn through taking risks, through physical challenges, and through engaging in nature. If kids in earlier generations could learn to safely use pocket knives, there...