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Registration:

Pre-registration is closed.

Day passes and Full admission (Fri-Mon) passes will be available for purchase at the gate.

Additional materials:

Transportation:

To carpool, please search or post at rideboard.com using keyword "firefly".

For carpooling from Asheville... carpools will leave from Asheville on Friday at 10:00am, and Sat, Sun, and Monday at 8:45am. Click here for departure location directions.

Kids Program:

A kids program will take place during all class sessions. It will be staffed by teachers, work traders and parent volunteers.

No dogs, please.

Prices:

Full Admission: $75-150 sliding scale, includes camping, classes, facilities access June 27-30

Day Pass: $25-50 sliding scale, includes classes

Kids: Children 7 and under enter free. Full admission for kids 8-14 is $40-80 sliding scale. Day passes are $15-30.

Some instructors may charge materials fees for classes. Food is not included in the costs above. For more information on meals, click here.

Schedule:

Click here for the event schedule.

Contact:

www.fireflygathering.org
fireflygathering@yahoo.com
206-661-6550 or locally at 828-230-0960

Classes may include:

  • Archery
  • Atl-atl making
  • Bamboo utensils
  • Basic car repair
  • Beekeeping
  • Bird calls and identification
  • Blacksmithing
  • Book making
  • Breadmaking
  • Brewing (meadmaking)
  • Buckskin pouches
  • Bullroarers
  • Butchering
  • Candle making
  • Canning
  • Composting toilets for your home
  • Cordage
  • Debris hut making
  • Deer leg usage
  • Diaper free parenting
  • Drop spinning
  • Drumming
  • Felting
  • Finger weaving
  • Fire (bow drill, hand drill, flint and steel)
  • Fire building
  • Flintknapping
  • Herb walk
  • Hide tanning
  • Kudzu basketry
  • Moccasin making
  • Net bags
  • Pelt tanning
  • Pigment paints
  • Pine needle basketry
  • Pottery
  • Primitive cooking
  • Primitive instruments
  • Quillwork
  • Rivercane flutes
  • Salve making
  • Scouting and camoflauge
  • Soapmaking
  • Solar
  • Storytelling
  • Tincture making
  • Tracking
  • Trapping (modern and primitive)
  • Veggie oil conversions
  • Wild woods walk
  • Wilderness awareness
  • Wilderness first aid
  • Womens' herb walk
  • Wood carving

Kids' classes may include:

  • Awareness games
  • Capture the flag
  • Cooperative games
  • Cordage
  • Debris shelter building
  • Pottery
  • Scouting and camoflouge
  • Spinning
  • Tool safety

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