One week practical workshop

We will restore and transform the old barn into a new art studio. We have invited again Peter Mogensen from Denmark to lead the workshop. Peter was with us last autumn when we built a clay oven in the yard of Botanica Guest House. He is a teacher in sustainable construction at Brenderup Folk High School, Denmark.

As the task we have set ourselves this time is more voluminous, we will dedicate a whole week to it. We will restore an old cob buildingq and we will transform it into a workshop/studio for creative activities. We will replace rotten beams, put in wooden window frames, rearrange the old tiles and plaster the walls with clay and thatch. We will also use recycled wood.

If you want to learn more about nature-friendly construction and learn techniques for working with natural materials, if you want to meet new interesting people, if you want to dip your hands in clay, you should join our workshop!

Registration:

Please, send an email to info@botanicalife.org. In the e-mail, indicate the three names of those wishing to be registered for participation and a mobile contact number. After receiving your request, we will contact you. Bookings are accepted until places are taken. Participation in the workshop is not guaranteed before it is confirmed by us.

Working languages: English and Bulgarian.

For information: tel. 00359 (0)894412349

Registration deadline: 12.09.2022

Participation fee:

Early bird registration until 30.08.2022г - BGN 450 (VAT included).

Late registration until 12.09.2022г - BGN 495 (VAT included).

Payment is made by bank transfer to the account of Botanica Life Foundation.

The fee includes:

• Participation in the workshop;

• Accommodation and breakfast in the premises of Botanica Life Foundation for the period of the seminar (6 nights).

The fee does not include meals but our guest house has a kitchen, and during the workshop, vegetarian food will be offered, prepared mostly with products from our farm. Participants will also have the opportunity to use another kitchen to prepare their own food.

Our guest house is newly built, holding a three stars certificate for accommodation. Each room has its own bathroom. Accommodation will be in rooms with 2/3/4 beds.

Peter Mogensen - teacher in adult education and traveller of the world.

Areas of experience: international relations and projects (Poland, Bulgaria, Germany, Nepal), outdoor activities, sustainability with a focus on building practises and small-holdings, organic farming.

Areas of interests: how we as humans connect with Nature, hiking/trekking in the mountains, philosophy/ways of meeting the living world.

Peter has been a friend of Botanica Life Foundation since 2017. Our team visited Brenderup Folk High School, where we observed the Danish educational system of democratic schools. In 2018 we sent two volunteers to a three-week sustainable construction training course, led by Peter Mogensen himself.