Workshops will be offered throughout the weekend to empower us all toward greater healing, justice, creativity
and connection to nature! Most workshops will be offered on Saturday afternoon during the performance break.
Saturday Afternoon Workshops (3:30 to 5 p.m.)
Glorious Impromptu Chorus: Singing in Community
Saturday from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Location:
Facilitated by Elise Witt
Bring whatever voice you have to discover, explore, and expand the joy of singing in community. This workshop is
open to everyone from new singers to professionals, and music reading is not a prerequisite. We will learn songs
from the global community, and we will explore the rainbow of colors inherent in our voices. Most of us use just
a tiny fragment of the huge range of possibilities in our voices. In this workshop, we will join with other daring
singers to create vocal landscapes, soulful harmonies, and impromptu sonic masterpieces. Songs come from
Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Elise's imagination.
Race Peace
Saturday from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Location: Meet Near the Stage
Facilitated by artists from M.U.G.A.B.E.E. and Mondo Bizarro
Race Peace is a project that seeks to explore the radical disconnect at the heart of our country. We attempt to
reach back to the beginning—to the point where racial stereotypes first take root—through an innovative blend
of multi-disciplinary performance techniques and town-hall style meetings. We believe that by peeling back our
histories to arrive at those formative moments, we can create a space for intervention, a space for performance
to step in and help participants to actively pursue solutions.
Rocket Stove Construction
Saturday from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Location: Meet at the Ceremony Campground’s Fire Circle
Facilitated by Daniel
“Rocket” stoves burn varied fuels (like trash, twigs or split wood) efficiently with low smoke and high, focused
heat output. This workshop will demonstrate construction and operation of two practical rocket stoves. Come to
learn or contribute your expertise!
Telling Your Story on a Necklace
Saturday from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Location: Meet at the Healing Canopy
Facilitated by Pamela Cveticanin & Glenda White
An opportunity to create a work of art that is drawn from a meditative and sacred space. A necklace will be
assembled that reflects important events, people and challenges of the individual. After completing the piece,
stories will be shared. The workshop is for adults only since we will be dealing with adult themes and issues and
a small donation to cover the cost of beads is requested.
Tour of an In-Process Natural Cob Building
Saturday from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Location: Meet in the Parking Lot near the Gate
Led by Diane Jennings
Our neighbor down the Creek has been working with a number of community members and weekend-
long workshop participants throughout the summer to construct a small guest house using natural building
techniques. The building is still under construction and will be plastered while the festival is underway. If you
are interested in seeing the cob building in process and checking out the recently installed Geo Thermal Solar Air
Conditioning system, please sign up at the information table by noon on Saturday to arrange for a short drive
over to the site near the old Disputanta post office.
Wild Foods Walk
Saturday from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Location: Meet at the Root Cellar Near the Solar Structure
Led by Tim Hensley
Come and join us for a stroll around the Clear Creek Festival Woods with a focus on how to identify, harvest and
prepare a wide variety of wild edibles & medicinals. We will discuss wild foods that grow other times of the year,
share experiences about wildcrafted foods & medicines, harvest what foods we can for the evening meal and
enjoy the abundance that Mother Nature has to offer! Tim Hensley and Jane Post regularly offer workshops &
retreats at their home in the Appalachian Foothills, not far from the Clear Creek Festival Site. Topics include wild foods, gourmet mushroom cultivation, organic gardening and raw foods.
Workshops At Other Times
Off-Grid Solar Power Demonstration
Saturday at 9:30 a.m.
Location: Gather at the Solar Structure
Led by Josh Bills
We recently completed the installation of an off-grid photovoltaic energy system on the Clear Creek Festival
Grounds with the support of MACED (the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development) and a
number of community members and weekend-workshop participants. The installation was led by Josh Bills and
master electrician Jerry Bogie and Josh will lead an on-site demonstration of the new system which is powering
the Festival all weekend long!
Guided Meditation and Healing Circle
Sunday at 11:00 a.m.
Location: Gather at the Healing Canopy
Led by Lauren Harkrader
Part workshop, part ceremony, all love and evolution. Come together in fellowship and praise. Learn and feel
your energy system such as chakras, release energetic blockages, implement manifestation techniques, be
supported. First timers welcome! Lauren is originally from North Carolina and now lives in Brooklyn working
as a DJ and a healer. She is a Reiki Master Teacher with 13 years of experience and is a student at the Barbara
Brennan School of Healing. In addition to offering this workshop, she is available for individual healing sessions
throughout the festival.
