Teaching and Learning for Sustainable Living
Opening Summer 2012!
Prairie Coteau Folk School’s mission is to create opportunities for intentional community-building through a progressive curriculum in the arts, earth-centered skills, and practical wisdom derived from the world’s many cultures. Our vision is to provide a venue for teaching and learning the arts and skills needed to lead a sustainable life.
The Prairie Coteau Folk School was founded on the principles of inclusivity and openness, re-skilling for resilience, informal education, and community-building. We help raise awareness of what it means to create and lead a sustainable life, offer a program designed to train people in practical skills to assist them in moving toward a sustainable life, all the while building an intergenerational community of people with common interests.
Courses will be offered with an eye toward preserving local, indigenous, and multicultural/international knowledge and wisdom. We encourage an appreciation of the arts as a vital component of a sustainable life, promote lifelong learning in a non-competitive, intergenerational environment, and foster personal and community connectedness through positive and meaningful learning opportunities. Courses include half-day and full-day participatory workshops in the following broad categories: arts and artisanry, ecological horticulture, traditional skills, and health and wellness.
