green woodworking course

WITH PETER LANYON

Build your own chair

Working and making furniture with green wood is one of the oldest techniques, recently rediscovered due to its unique characteristics. It allows working and being in nature and offers a wide range of possibilities in terms of design.

Green wood is a moist and soft wood, in a way easier to work with. But the work requires a solid knowledge of the raw material so that the drying processes and their reduction work in favour of our piece.

Not many tools are needed since everything is essentially done by hand. The pieces thus produced carry what we feel and give expression to our learning.

TAKE HOME YOUR HANDMADE WOOD CHAIR - A UNIQUE PIECE!

On the Green Woodworking Course learn how to make a wooden chair by hand freely and following your own design. We will use freshly cut round wood to create the seat, legs and backrest for your creative and unique chair.

Over these six days you will learn all the basic woodworking techniques, including carving the wood by hand, working the various pieces to a beautiful, delicate finish and then putting them together. We also teach you how to build your own bench, a knowledge that will allow you to continue practising your new craft when you return home.

"Free form" refers to a style of work that uses irregular and curved pieces of wood. On this course you will learn how to drill and make a perfect join of these elements. It is a course for people who want to make something unique and personal, something that is an expression of their personality.

Peter Lanyon presents himself as a designer and maker of wooden furniture, a teacher for green woodworking and a community project coordinator, but he is so much more.

He combines many years of experience of working as a designer and woodworker, both from a workshop based apprenticeship and at an academic level in the field of design and technologies, with countless jobs in public spaces and exhibitions with a great pleasure in sharing his knowledge and teaching, and that is what makes this artist week so unique.

GREEN WOODWORKING course details

SCHEDULE:

May 8th: 4 pm to 6 pm

May 9th-14th: 10 am to 6 pm (two hours lunch break)

CONDITIONS

• Enrollments up to 2 months before the course start date.

• Special discount for our community members.

THE COURSE FEE INCLUDES:

• Integration in a small workgroup (6 participants)

• Training 5-6 hours a day, speaking in English and with support in Portuguese;

• Lunch on course days;

• Welcome dinner;

• All the materials needed for the course;

• Free accommodation in our hostel during the course (upon availability). The hostel is equipped with a dormitory, kitchen, shared bathrooms, washing machine, towels, bed linen, and wi-fi;

• 10% discount on the base rate when booking an individual house (minimum of 2 nights). The base rate refers to a stay of 2 people and includes breakfast, equipped kitchen, towels, bed linen, and wi-fi.

ENROLLMENTS AND MORE INFO:

artsandcrafts@cerdeirahomeforcreativity.com

+351 913 989 281*

*(call to national mobile network)

CANCELLATION POLICY FOR COURSES AND WORKSHOPS

You may withdraw within 14 days of registration, paying the correspondent transfer fees. Following the EU consumer protection legislation, payments are not refunded past 14 days of registration. The payment will be fully reimbursed if the training cannot be held because of insufficient students.

Suppose the training is canceled by Cerdeira - Home For Creativity for reasons of significant force such as a pandemic, civil disorder, a natural catastrophe, medical or family issues of the teacher, and others beyond our control. In that case, Cerdeira will offer a voucher for a different workshop of your choice. The voucher is valid for two years.

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