Learn to make fused glass, practice yoga, explore watercolour painting, or take part in a drumming circle. For those interested in the culinary and domestic arts, we offer workshops on canning and preserving, maple syrup production, and smoking meats and cheeses, as well as handcrafts such as needle felting and woodcarving. Instruction in carpentry and traditional building techniques form another set of offerings.
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If you are seeking a private retreat or a unique setting for a small meeting, Wintergreen Studios offers a variety of facilities to enhance self-awareness, relationship and community building, creative thinking, visioning, and wellness. Download the Event Planning PDF to help create your event.
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Guests have a choice of accommodation ranging in price and style. There are rooms in the lodge, as well as cabins and tenting sites. Local foods are served in the lodge where guests can mingle with staff and other guests at Wintergreen Studios. Facilities at Wintergreen are designed using sustainable practices.
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Free-of-charge open house days, concerts and entertainment, a fall harvest gala and other woodland adventures await you at Wintergreen. Tours of the straw bale lodge take place on open house days, when you can also view the cordwood buildings, our gardens, or take a hike on our wilderness property. Or come for dinner and entertainment. [...]
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Upcoming Workshops
September 17 – 19, 2010 (Friday evening to Sunday noon) Glass artist Kevin Kapler will teach you to cut and assemble pieces of glass so that they can be kiln-fired into a single piece of solid glass. By the end of the workshop you will not only understand the process of glass fusing, you will [...]
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October 1 – 3, 2010 (Friday evening to Sunday noon) Use the environment immediately surrounding Wintergreen to inspire you to create a piece of mixed media fibre art, ready to take home by the end of our time together. Participants will arrive on Friday afternoon, before 5 pm, so that there is an opportunity to [...]
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October 15 – 17, 2010 (Friday evening to Sunday noon) Join us for a wonderful weekend of drumming and printmaking, using rhythms and patterns from West Africa. African drumming integrates the body, mind and spirit and is a great stress reliever. Drumming, singing, and movement can also provide a wonderful physical metaphor for exploring themes [...]
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November 5 – 7, 2010 (Friday evening to Sunday afternoon) Are you interested in making a unique and beautiful gift for the holiday season? Artist and educator Alice Vander Vennen will help you explore the intriguing process of juxtaposing materials and methods into a compelling sculpted piece of fibre art. You will leave the workshop [...]
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July 4 – 8, 2011 (Monday noon through Friday afternoon) Are you ready to spend a week exploring prose and poetry with other writers, under the guidance of acclaimed writer and teacher, Helen Humphreys? Then this extended writers’ workshop is for you. You will try new writing techniques and exercises, and learn how the land [...]
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