Tentative (!) 2015 Schedule

Believe it or not, I have had people asking me about the 2015 courses schedule for several weeks already!

	Basic Course	Teaching	Research	Iron Smelt	Retail Shows
	Special Course	Tenative	Tentative	Demonstration
						NOTE
JANUARY	3 - 4	10 - 11	17 - 18	24 - 25	31 - (1)
FEBRUARY	(31) - 1	7 - 8	14 - 15	21 - 22	28 - (1)
		Basic (two day)		Casting
MARCH	(28) - 1	7 - 8	14 - 15	21 - 22	28 - 29	FITP = Turf to Tools
		Basic (two day)		Welding	FITP
					Waterloo
APRIL	4 - 5	11 - 12	18 - 19	25 - 26		EI4 = Smelt demo?
		Basic		Early Iron
				Olivebridge NY
MAY	2 - 3	9 - 10	16 - 17	23 - 24	30 - 31	ICMS = Aristotle
		Basic	ICMS	Iron Smelt		ICMS = Turf to Tools
			Kalamazoo MI
JUNE	6 - 7	13 - 14	20 - 21	27 - 28
	DARK Upper Canada	Basic	Iron Smelt	Bladesmith
	Morrisburg
JULY	4 - 5	11 - 12	18 - 19	25 - 26
	CanIRON 10	Basic		Layered
	Badeck NS
AUGUST	1 - 2	8 - 9	15 - 16	22 - 23	29 - 30	Celtic College = Glass
	Celtic College	Celtic Festival	Summerfolk	Viking
	Goderich	Goderich	Owen Sound
SEPTEMBER	5 - 6	12 - 13	19 - 20	26 - 27		Known World = Iron Smelt
	Known World	Basic		Quad State
	Minnesota			Troy - OH
OCTOBER	3 - 4	10 - 11	17 -18	24 - 25	(31) - 1	ReARC = Iron Smelt ?
	Basic	Iron Smelt	ReARC	Zombie	Iron Smelt
			Gastonia
NOVEMBER	(31) - 1	7 - 8	14 - 15	21 - 22	28 - 29
	Iron Smelt	Basic		Casting
DECEMBER	5 - 6	12 - 13	19 - 20	26 - 27
		Basic (two day)

NOTES:

The main change for 2015 is that I have attempted to place all the workshop courses at the Wareham Forge on either the second or fourth weekend of each month. Introduction to Blacksmithing (Basic) are all offered on the second weekend. Various specialty courses are offered on the fourth weekend. 

Basic (two day) : This program will be limited to TWO students, working only PROPANE. Only offered in the cold weather months!

Viking : This is a new 2 1/2 program - Forging the Viking Age, no previous skills required.  It will compose of an evening lecture, first day working modern equipment but making Norse objects, second day working with a Norse charcoal forge and bellows combination.

Experimental Iron Smelting has been shifted to coincide with the Summer Solstice and Samhain, plus the normal Thanksgiving, weekends.


Those who wax poetic about the 'free and easy life of the artist' might note that 2015 is still not even here yet, but already my schedule for next year leaves me only FOUR 'open' weekends - from mid May to mid November!