Firefly Gathering
Registration:
Pre-registration is closed.
Day passes and Full admission (Fri-Mon) passes will be available for purchase at the gate.
Additional materials:
- Directions (8 miles from Asheville)
- Equipment Checklist
- Poster
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