Winter Wildlife Track + Sign
Saturday, January 27th in Swanville | 12:30pm – 2:30pm
We’ll gather together in the wintery woods and explore who is living there, what they are doing during the winter months and why. We will look at wildlife track and sign, and do some trailing if conditions allow.
Dress for the outdoors, we’ll be outside for the entirety of the workshop. You may want to bring note taking materials. Please do not bring pets.
This event is for LGBTQIA+ teens and adults.
You are welcome to attend alone or with others!
Sliding scale $5 – $45. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Your contributions support Wild Geese Collective’s continued efforts to organize LGBTQIA+ events in the north east.
We appreciate pre-registration, and will cap at 12 participants. If this session fills we’re excited to offer more dates in the coming weeks!
Arrival instructions and directions will be sent to all who register.
Text Meg at 207.279.0240 with questions.
Meg (she/they) is a queer, white, able bodied, trying to be a mostly feral animal of middle class background. She also identifies as crazy, a scorpio, and attempts to fight capitalism, racism and imperialism, dreaming towards biocentrism and collective liberation. They have been prioritizing sharing skills with marginalized communities engaged in resistance and survival. Meg has ten plus years of experience with wildlife track and sign and is a has completed the challenging certification evaluation with CyberTracker in wildlife track and sign. She has taught tracking to a diverse group of audiences, including public school children, after school groups and a wide variety of adults. They enjoy foraging for wild foods, especially seaweed, making plant medicine and nerding out hard about mammals and birds.
Spoon Making
Saturday, January 6th in Swanville | 11am – 3pm
A fun and informative session around the fire carving spoons or bowls. Using coals from the fire we will hollow vessels, we’ll also cover blade tool safety, wood selection, and finishing. All are encouraged to bring their own knives and blanks; we will also provide materials and equipment for those who need them. Bring a pair of workable gloves that give some warmth and get excited to create something beautiful.
Dress for warmth and bring lunch and snacks.
We will be outside for the entirety of this workshop.
This event is for all ages and abilities. Please do not bring pets.
Ages 10 and under welcome if accompanied by an adult.
You are welcome to attend alone or with others!
Sliding scale $5 – $45. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Your contributions support Wild Geese Collective’s continued efforts to organize LGBTQIA+ events in the north east.
We appreciate pre-registration, and will cap at 12 participants. If this session fills we’re excited to offer more dates in the coming weeks!
Arrival instructions and directions will be sent to all who register.
Text Caitlin at 207.505.6878 with questions.
Caitlin Horigan (she/her) is an advocate of self-directed education and anti-oppression changework. She has been facilitating place-based nature connection programming in the nonprofit sector, public schools, and after-school programs throughout the North East for ten years.
She is on a journey of reconnecting with her ancestral lineages through deepening relationship with the skills and traditions of these lineages and the people indigenous to the land she lives with now. Caitlin is a Wilderness First Responder, certified in CPR, and pursuing a Recreational Maine Guide license. In 2019 she completed a graduate certificate in Ecopsychology through Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is also a Certified Forest Therapy Guide. Caitlin is committed to increasing the accessibility of programming she offers and continues to explore how to survive in a capitalist system while doing so.