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Ancient Technology Centre, Cranborne Chase, Dorset. Summer 2004 Courses

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Ancient Technology Centre - Courses 2004, including pole lathing, bow making, arrow making, blacksmithing, coppicing and hurdling, felt making and natural dyeing.

Live in the Past - spend a weekend at the Ancient Technology Centre! Saturday and Sunday 17 & 18 July. Try your hand at various ancient skills during the day, enjoy dinner and tall tales around the fire and then spend the night in an iron-age roundhouse. £30 for adults, £20 for children including dinner and breakfast.

Indigo and natural dyeing course - Tuesday 24 August. Activities will include indigo dyeing for adults and kool aid dyeing for children in the morning. After lunch, materials will be gathered from the hedgerows for natural dyeing.

Felt-making course - Wednesday 25 August. Various felting techniques will be taught that are suitable for adults and children. There will be the opportunity to make a small felt bag during the day.

These fun, hands-on days will be run by experts from the Corfe Castle Wool Workshop. Wool that has been dyed on the first day can be used on the second day. Each day costs £20 for adults and £12.50 for children (minimum age 6).

Pole-lathing course - Saturday 7th August. Dave Partridge will offer expert tuition on using a traditional pole lathe and tools to craft a small greenwood stool. If you are interested please contact us and we will send the date as soon as it is available. £30 for adults, £15 for children (min. age 12).

Bow-making course - Friday 10th to Sunday 12th September (residential weekend). The course will include an introduction to the history of bow-making as well as all the materials and instruction you will require to make your own longbow from ash or wych elm. Woodworking experience essential. Adults only. £150

Arrow-making course - Saturday 9th October. The course will include all the materials and instruction you require to make your own medieval-style arrows. Adults only. £60

Novice Blacksmithing course - Saturday 23rd October. A fantastic opportunity to experience working objects from red-hot metal under expert tuition. There will be the opportunity to take away small objects that you have made. £40 - suitable for adults only.

Coppicing and hurdling - November or December - date t.b.c. This day course will give you the opportunity to experience and learn about traditional woodland management as well as learning rural crafts. £40 (suitable for 16 years and over). If you are interested please contact us and we will send the date as soon as it is available.

All under-16s must be accompanied by an adult.

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Re: Ancient Technology Centre, Cranborne Chase, Dorset. Summer 2004 Courses by Anonymous on Monday, 05 July 2004
I am helping to run a two day residential at Magdelene Farm in Dorset with approximately 20 students on 4th and 5th October. I wondered if you travel to centres to do workshops. I was interested in the felt making workshop for the students. Is this a possibility and if so how much would it cost. Could you email me at [email protected]. I work for Bridgwater College.

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Kate Patay
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Storytelling and Musical events by Andy B on Monday, 14 June 2004
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Chirgilchin with Sarymai, Ai-Churek & Stephen Kent. Music & Throat Singing. Saturday 10th July 2004, 7.30 p.m. £10 for adults and £6 for children

Tuva is located in the Tannu Mountains on the Siberian border in northwestern Mongolia. Chirgilchin, the current Tuvan national throat singing champions, are a younger-generation ensemble of masters in this extraordinary traditional vocal technique, where a singer amplifies and manipulates the overtones in their voice to produce up to three distinct, unearthly tones at one time. Chirgilchin means mirage or miracle in Tuvan. Their songs are in the Tuvan language and the group plays instruments such as the Doshpuluur - a kind of lute with two strings, the Igil - a violin with two strings, and the Dungur - a rattle drum used by the Tuvan Shamans in their rituals.

Sarymai plays traditional Altai instruments, and imitates almost all sounds of nature, animals and birds. Just one song can sound like a performance played by several actors. Innovator on the global music scene, with the ability to trigger the imagination and transport the spirit, didjeridu virtuoso and composer Stephen Kent has done more than any other musician to bring the ancient Aboriginal sound into a contemporary context. Whilst Ai-Churek is one of the most powerful and well-respected female Shamans in Tuva.


The Earthouse at Cranborne Ancient Technology Centre is an ideal venue for this unforgettable musical experience! All of the above musicians are touring the country following their appearance at 'Beyond the Border' and we are privileged and delighted to have them perform in the Earthouse.

How to purchase tickets

Entry is by ticket only, available from: East Dorset Heritage Trust, Allendale House, Hanham Road, Wimborne Minster, Dorset, BH21 1AS. Telephone 01202 888992 to confirm availability before sending a cheque payable to A.T.C. Friends Account (enclosing S.A.E.).

The Earthouse was inspired by the much larger, probably unroofed, woodhenges built around Britain (including Dorset) in Neolithic times, and in particular by three Iron Age roundhouses on the Isle of Man. It is an ideal venue for magical storytelling.

A storytelling or musical event at the Ancient Technology Centre will transport you back to a time when people gathered in round wooden buildings, around a fire. There are no signs of modern technology as only firelight and oil lamps light the Earthouse. All you will see are wooden walls and rafters, a chalk floor, firelight and the stars through the skylight.

Jake Keen designed the Earthouse because the roundhouse where he held storytelling events before was too small for the demand. As the Earthouse seats over 200 people, this is no longer a problem!

http://www.dorsetcc.gov.uk/index.jsp?articleid=3568
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