Fire Making w/ a Hand Drill
With Mother Nature Center & Ibrahim Loeks
Fire Making w/ a Hand Drill
With Mother Nature Center & Ibrahim Loeks
Monday, November 9th
6-7:30pm PDT . 9-10:30pm EDT
Join Ibrahim Loeks on ZOOM HERE
Meeting ID: 876 1730 3916
Passcode: 90848
ABOUT THIS CLASS
MAKING FIRE: Friction Fire Making practiced by almost all peoples in almost all environments of the world. From the Bow Drill to the Hand Drill, the Fire Saw to the Fire Plough. In this class we will focus on dialing in your Bow Drill skills and briefly touch in on and demonstrate other techniques.
Learn how to make fire using collected materials and made fire kits. Using a hand drill is one of the simplest friction methods, but high speed can be difficult to maintain because only the hands are used to rotate the spindle. It works best in dry climates.
PRE-ORDER YOUR FIRE KITS
This class can be done with or without pre-ordered fire kits. Kits are $40 included shipping any where in the US. Kits need to be ordered by Aug 17th in order to arrive to you in time for the class.
Kits are not required for sign up to this class session, if you do not pre-order a fire kit, you can still just watch the instructional information. When you select the pre-order kit ticket Dancing Earth will contact you for your mailing address. All kits will be mailed out by facilitator Ibrahim Loeks & Mother Nature Center.
PRE-ORDER KITS INCLUDE
Kits include a Wooden Fire Board, Wooden Bow Drill w/ Nylon Cord, Wooden Spindle & kindling.
NO ONE TURNED AWAY
FOR LACK OF FUNDS
If you come from a financially marginalized background, and/or your finances have been devastated by Covid, and you are not able to pay or need to pay an amount less than listed ticket prices, please contact tisinat.dancingearth@gmail.com. Dancing Earth supports Indigenous & diverse community members to connect with, share & learn ancestral teachings, culture & roots. Dancing Earth welcomes community members of all ages, and cultural backgrounds.
photos by Louise Lodigensky
About PPAKPracticing Principals of Ancestral Knowledge
PPAK is a sustainability and life ways series that follows traditional Indigenous teachings and practices. These workshops are aimed to connect people back to living in balance with the Earth through traditional living practices of Native people. As all Indigenous cultures historically lived in balance with the cycles of nature, PPAK instructional series will incorporate these ways into contemporary teachings, demonstrations and Indigenous philosophy taught by Native community members and practitioners who have learned skills from Native elders.
ABOUT DANCING EARTH
Dancing Earth Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations dynamically activates our mission to support Indigenous dance and related arts, to encourage and revitalize awareness of bio-cultural diversity through artistic expression, for the education and wellness of all peoples.
Dancing Earth has been named by Dance Magazine as “One of the Top 25 to Watch,” and are recipients of the National Museum of American Indian’s 2010 Expressive Arts Award. Dancing Earth recruits, cultivates, and creates opportunities for emerging global Indigenous talents in all aspects of artistic collaboration - including dance, choreography, music, costume, lighting, video, stage managing, and arts administration.
Dancing Earth gathers Indigenous collaborators, including: Nations of Blackfoot, Metis, Coushatta, Ixil and Tzeltil Maya, Papanga, Cambiva, Yaqui, Purepecha, Shoshone, Dine, Tsalagi, Hopi, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, and Keresan of North Central and South America. They balance a commitment to share dances with regional, national and international communities at venues as varied as festivals, Universities, elementary-high schools, Native wellness gatherings, youth leadership symposiums, art museums, desert canyons, dried river beds, and symposiums for social-environmental justice.
Dancing Earth inspires creativity and cultural consciousness through community art practice, energetic dance training workshops, site specific rituals and full length eco-productions.