Building community by providing learning experiences that celebrate the wilderness, heritage, art, history, culture, and craft of the people of northern Minnesota.
As the leaves are changing color around us, learn about transferring one-of-a-kind pigments from the world around us on to fabric! Join Joan this Saturday, October 17th for her Nature's Colors: Dyeing with Extracts & Flowers class! I have a confession, I never thought I’d still be here in Ely. I first arrived in 2016 to be a summer intern at the Voyageur Outward Bound School thinking it would be a fun, temporary adventure. I was immediately thrown into the beauty and challen
While some of us may see the final quarter of the year approaching and feel emotional about the too-quick passage of time, I personally welcome October. It’s the beginning of a season of rest and recovery after a summer that was filled with uncertainty here in Ely. How can we make sure we’re appreciating the slow down and giving our bodies and minds what they need?
Thankfully, the Ely Folk School offers plenty of ways to engage these essential parts of the autumnal change ov
The power of community gatherings, and especially the joy and magic that comes from the gatherings that focus on music and dance, have been covered fairly extensively in our other blog posts. As participants in our community dances may know, it’s easy to be swept up in the movement and partnership of the dance and forget that there’s a delicate art (and a rich history) to the unsung conductor of such ceremonies: the caller. The caller, armed with nothing more than a head mic
