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Spring Catalog 2013

 

Welcome to Whatcom Folk School, a non-competitive adult and family education opportunity! We are here to inspire people to teach and learn some of the skills, techniques, knowledge, and crafts of everyday life to add to the vibrant, creative force of Whatcom County’s urban and rural countryside; to build resilience and strength by empowering ourselves.

Today a lot of people believe that as food and energy prices rise we’ll all need to work together to make sure our basic needs are met – to make sure everyone has food and warm shelter. We need to keep our local economy functional, to make sure our towns and neighborhoods are secure and safe for our children, including the natural world we all depend on.

Whatcom Folk School provides an opportunity, through each of you who are willing to teach, to strengthen and bring resilience to the communities of Whatcom County.

We are looking forward to hearing from you whether you are interested in teaching a class, taking a class, advertising your business in our catalog, or supporting the mission and vision with a donation!

Enjoy exploring the website and considering how YOU fit into our local folk school – Whatcom Folk School!

To offer access and opportunities to learn practical skills and knowledge that promotes greater sustainability and resilience in Whatcom County for the individual, the family, and the community.

An ecologically sound and vibrant community of skilled and prepared citizens adapting gracefully to an empowered way of life and participating in a true living democracy.

• Sustainability is ‘meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.’
• Resilience means ‘our ability to face and deal with adversities in ways that help us get through them or even become strengthened by them.’

 

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*IMPORTANT NOTICES*

 

 

WFS IS NOW ACCEPTING BONUS CLASSES FOR SPRING QUARTER

- (MARCH 21ST THRU JUNE 20TH) -

 

 

NEW BONUS CLASSES HAVE BEEN ADDED 5/16/2013!

CLICK ON THE BONUS CLASSES TAB ABOVE

 

Want to know more about WHATCOM FOLK SCHOOL by listening to a great podcast of a radio show from 9/22/11?   Fun to listen to it while you wander through the website.

KBAI The Joe Show with WFS’s Jodi Tranter and Terry Garrett

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THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS

ANGELS

BENEFACTORS


Click here to view classes offered through the Community Food Coop

Katie Vestal

Transition Whatcom

SUPPORTERS


Cindi Landreth & Rick Dubrow

CONTRIBUTORS


David Marshak      Kate Clark      Many Hats Administrative Services; Alicia Wills     

Transition Whatcom      Anna  Hardesty & Josh Hardesty (Heard)      Laurie & TOM Hardesty Kubiak

Jodi Tranter      Monique Arsenault

 

DONORS


Maryn Gunning      Patrick Martin      Cipriano Mauricio & Monica Sjursen      Adrienne Cobb      Laura Maudsley

Nikki Williamson      Karen Ghio      Gary Koch      Linda & Dave Welch      Susan and Jeff Palmer      Tina Poley

 

Charity & Shawn Serdahl      Linda Fels      Kathy Devine      Melody Cappelletti & Anthony Somoza

 

     Elizabeth Graham      Sandra Bramwell      Madelynne Nore      Joyce Mihalovich      Kelly Timpson      Tim Flores

 

       Colleen Simmons      James Berntson      Kestral & Chaska Blackburn      Bill Haugen      Betty Kellow

       Ken Russell      Lawrence Gmeiner   Rhett Winter      Marissa Seko      Andy & Kelsey Schene

 Kathleen Bander      Rene Laventure      Richard Reese      Annie Heard