About Rendezvous

The Longest Running Primitive Skills Gathering East of the Mississippi

Earthskills Rendezvous is a primitive skills gathering that happens twice a year in the Southeastern United States.  The gathering is a week-long camping event where participants come for a day, weekend, or the whole week to learn ancient skills and experience a different pace of life. 

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Our focus is daily top quality instruction in dozens of ancestral and heritage primitive skills such as matchless fire making, foraging for wild edible and medicinal plants, stone tool creation and use, ancient weaponry and basket making, just to name a few.  After a full day of hands on instruction, evening programs give you the opportunity to join in the revival of the great oral tradition of storytelling around the council fire, or the option to pull up a chair in any of the many camps where homegrown and traditional Appalachian music is played, or the opportunity to answer the call of the drum and dance around the fire under a star filled sky. Striving for cooperation, generosity of spirit, tolerance and harmonious relationships, we welcome the skills, art, music and culture of all human ethnicities.

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Earthskills Rendezvous, Inc. is a 501c3 non-profit organization.  All donations are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.

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