Upcoming Classes and Events

This list, like life, is always under construction. Just because you don't see something here doesn't mean it might not happen! To keep informed of what's up and coming with Buckskin Revolution, sign up for mailing list using the form on the home page

Also, please note that because I am focusing on writing and film projects currently, I am keeping my class schedule light these days but will return to more in person teaching once my book projects and on-line courses are completed. Also note that you the option to schedule custom classes or speaking events on the "Learning Opportunities with Woniya" Page.  

 ( Winter Count                                                                 February 9-15 2020
Florence Arizona
Wintercount is a highlight of my year. It is an annual primitive skills gathering that takes place in the Sonoran desert, amongst towering boulders and saguaro cacti. It offers a hands-on interactive learning environment with classes that strive to reconnect people with ancestral ways of making fire, tanning hides, forming metal, weaving baskets, hunting, gathering, and much more.
I will be offering classes in buckskin sewing, connection and survival practices, wellness through movement, and more. Join us! Follow the link below to register.
https://wintercountcamp.com

As of today, March 19, 2020, my spring teaching scheduled is all cancelled due to the important protocols to help arrest the spread of the Corona Virus. It seems likely at this point that this will also be true of my summer European dates. I encourage folks to look into the "Learn to sew Buckskin" Kit in the On-line store to teach yourself at home or to sign up for video skills consulting for support with your projects at home 

Sierra Foothills Audobon Spring meeting                        April 2 2020
Nevada County, CA
I am very excited to be the key note speaker at the spring meeting of the foothills Audobon Society chapter in April 2020. in this one hour presentation I will talking about my experience living off the land by myself just south of the arctic circle in the fall of 2018, and the many ways that birds played into my journey there and how they fed me, both literally and figuratively, during that time. 
cancelled due to Corona Virus

Willow Basketry                                                                  April 5 2020
Nevada City, California                                                                 9:30am-5:30 pm
This class will focus on european wicker techniques. Students will learn about harvesting and preparing willow and will make a medium sized round basket. $94, materials and instruction.
cancelled due to Corona Virus. Hoping to reschedule later in the season if possible


Birds and Nature Connection: Connection is a Survival Skill     April 15 2020
Litchfield, Connecticut (pending)
Spend a day with expert Bird Mentor Kristi Dranginis and Woniya Thibeault focusing on birds, birds language, nature connection and why it matters, and ancestral skills. cancelled due to Corona Virus


Guest Speaker at Earth Week at Purchase College                       April 21 2020
Purchase,  New York (pending)
With a masters degree in Environmental Science and 25 years of study and practice of ancestral lifeways, Woniya bridges the practical hand on skills for long term wilderness survival with a deep understanding of and love for the natural world. Her message is that these skills and knowledge are part of our human heritage and are available to all of us. They are important. They speak to that place inside us that remembers what it feels like to know the world around us intimately, to shape the substance of our lives from the raw materials around us. They remind us what it is to be human and connected to the wild within and around us. Her talk at Purchase University will focus on these themes and the time she spent applying them on Alone Season 6. cancelled due to Corona Virus


Buckeye Gathering                                                             May 3-9 2020
Lake Concow, California
Buckeye exists in service to the wonderful complexity of simple living and the growing commitment to learn from past generations how to thrive sustainably for generations to come. We invite you to join us this coming Spring as we gather again to learn to integrate older ways, to begin to fathom what a village might be like for us today, and to see where inspiration takes us!
I am excited to return to the Buckeye Gathering to teach about buckskin sewing, connection as a survival skill, and more! follow the link below for more information:
Buckeye gathering
cancelled due to Corona Virus

First Circle Wilderness Survival Camp                      May 10-15 2020
Mt. Shasta, California
I am excited to be joining Lifesong Wilderness Adventures to help lead this course. It features empowering survival skills emphasizing primitive and modern technology. First Circle Camp provides outstanding hands-on outdoor survival skills.

To learn more and register follow this link: First Circle Survival Skills
cancelled due to Corona Virus

European dates are all currently pending, as it is hard to say when travel restrictions may lift
Sewing with Brain Tanned Buckskin                           June 26-28 2020
Netherlands, Europe (Pending, depending on when travels restrictions lift)
I am thrilled to have the opportunity to travel to the Netherlands June 2020 to offer this weekend course designed to teach you everything you need to make your own one of a kind buckskin clothing. We will be learning all of the fundamentals of working with buckskin, from how it is made and why it is so special, to designing your own projects, to deciding what seam and stitches to use in them. I will be offering this class as a guest instructor through EXTRA bushcraft.
https://www.extrabushcraft.nl/aanbod/crafts/buckskin-Woniya/

Brain tanned Buckskin                                                             July 3-5 2020
Germany (pending)

Brain tanned Sheep Skins                                                         July 2020
Denmark (pending)

Ancestral Skills as Permaculture                                               July 2020
Denmark (pending)

Continue to check the schedule for those classes still listed as "pending". More is in the works and will be finalized as soon as possible.




                                     CLASSES FROM PAST YEARS

Global Bushcraft Symposium                                         June 10-14  2019
Bowden, Alberta Canada
An international gathering to promote bushcraft, survival, and traditional skills instruction through the open exchange of philosophies, pedagogical methods and dissemination of best practices within the industry.
I will be presenting about making your own gear, and the role of mental attitude in survival situations.

Saskatoon Circle                                                                 June 17-23 2019
Methow Valley, Washington
Saskatoon Circle is  week long experience of classes and workshops with skilled instructors to deepen your "hard skills" like friction fire, hide tanning, basket weaving, wildtending, wild foods, herbal medicine, flintknapping, bushcraft,  buckskin sewing, and too many others to list
I will be teaching buckskin sewing and likely more as well

Oregon Country Fair                                                             July 12-14 2019
Veneta, Oregon
The Oregon Country Fair creates events and experiences that nourish the spirit, explore living artfully and authentically on earth, and transform culture in magical, joyous and healthy ways.
I will be part of Archaelogy Park, where a crew of ancestral skills instructors and archeologists offer presentations and short workshops throughout the fair. I'll be demonstrating hide tanning and joining in the frivolity that is this wonderful wacky festival

Echoes in Time                                                                     July 21 – 27, 2019
Monmouth, Oregon
A gathering of past and present place based traditions. Echoes in Time is a week long ancestral skills conference held every July in Oregon's Willamette Valley and the Traditional Territory of the Kalapuya, near Monmouth, Oregon. Our mission is to unite people from different demographics, communities, and backgrounds though the sharing of common traditions of place based ancestral living skills.
I will be teaching, topics yet not confirmed

Rabbitstick Rendezvous                                   September 15-21 2019
Rexburg, Idaho
One of the oldest and longest running primitive skills events in the country. Considered by many the grandfather of them all.
I will be teaching, topics not yet confirmed.

Quill Festival                                                                  October 16 2019
Tiburon, California
I'm excited to be the featured speaker at this Aubodon Society event focused on Bird Language, Climate Change, Togetherness, Bird Tattoos, and more. Come hear tales of my arctic adventure and the ways birds and bird language were a pivotal part of my experience.
https://ca.audubon.org/conservation/quill-festival




Buckskin Revolution is dedicated to positive change, social justice, and equal access to learning and other resources for all people regardless of race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation. Recognizing there are socio-economic factors that can result in less access and other harms, we work toward equity and reparations by offering scholarships and discounted rates for indigenous, black and transgender people. Contact Woniya to apply or for further details.
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