SCHEDULE OF CLASSES & GATHERINGS
January - November 2008

February 2 - 25 Arts of Life, Hawai'i / Nurturing the Roots, Polynesia We will travel to O‘ahu for our annual work with the Kamehameha Schools (grades 1,2 & 7), musician/ community educator Brother Noland and others.

* March (dates to be announced) The Art of Tracking, O'ahu, Hawai'i. John Stokes will join Brother Noland, Miki Maeshiro and other members of our mentor network to offer an introductory tracking course. Participation will be by invitation. For more information, contact The Tracking Project.

April 24- 25 The Arts of Life, Olympia, Washington. We will join our friend Ruth Musgrave for two days of school visits in the Olympia area, grades K - 5.

May 12-27 Projeto Pegadas Brasil / Circulo dos Saberes, Cuiabá, Brazil. Solar Law and John Stokes will travel to Brazil for a series of presentations to include: A youth gathering in São Paulo; A training for the staff of Circulo dos Saberes—an indigenous youth and elder gathering to be held in October 2008 *A tracking course near Cuiabá for the public organized by our partners Projeto Pegadas Brasil. For more information, contact: edisonluis@pegadas.org.br

June (dates to be announced) The Arts of Life/ Nurturing the Roots, Hawai'i. A team from The Tracking Project will travel to O'ahu for further courses with Brother Noland. For more information, contact The Tracking Project.

* June 27 - 29 The Art of Seeing, The Way of the Tracker, New Mexico. Joel Glanzberg (teacher of permaculture and landscape design) will join John Stokes for an immersion experience in the art of seeing. Blending the pattern awareness of permaculture and tracking, this class is a deep exploration of Nature, its patterns and expressions. For information and registration, contact: TheTracking Project, (505) 898-6967. Cost: $200.

*July 5 - 12 Hawkeye Training, Cuba, New Mexico. A week-long skills camp for boys ages 12-18, held near Cuba, NM. Skills include tracking, survival, Nature awareness, music, story, dance, comedy and the martial arts. Limited to 30 boys. This will be the 22nd year of the Hawkeye camp! Click here for more info (pdf). For registration, contact: The Tracking Project, (505) 898-6967. Cost: $550.

* July 5 - 12 Hawkeye Scout, Cuba, New Mexico. This will be the tenth year for this advanced training camp for young men. Skills include advanced tracking, stalking, movement and living on the land. Limited to 12 young men. For information and registration, contact: TheTracking Project, (505) 898-6967, Cost: $550.

* July 26 - August 2 Dreamtracking, Cuba New Mexico. Our week-long skills camp for girls, ages 10 - 16, now in its thirteeth year. Offering basic tracking and survival skills, music, story, dance and natural movement training, this camp is a counterpart to our Hawkeye Training camp for boys. Limited to 30 girls. Click here for more info (pdf). For registration, contact: The Tracking Project, (505) 898-6967. Cost: $550.

* August 15 - 17 The Art of Tracking / The Arts of Life, Long Island, New York. John Stokes, Paul Wanta and others from The Tracking Project will offer this tracking course for people on the East Coast. Hosted by Journeys into American Indian Territory, this will be the second annual course on Long Island. To register, contact: Maddi Cheers /Bob Vetter, Phone: 631-878-8655, info@indianjourneys.com

* September 13 - 20 Tracking in the Southwest, New Mexico. Join us for the third year of our newest tracking adventure for the public—a hiking, camping and tracking journey to the heart and soul of northern New Mexico. A unique opportunity to learn about animal tracking,nature skills, Native cultures and the Arts of Life while camping out in the land of the Anasazi. Limited to 25 people. Cost: $950. Click here for more info (pdf). For registration, contact: The Tracking Project, (505) 898-6967, thetrackingproject@earthlink.net

October (dates to be announced) Circulo dos Saberes/ Projeto Pegadas Brasil. Our team will travel to central Brazil to take part in Circulo dos Saberes 3, an indigenous youth and elder gathering organized by Isabel Taukane, Andreia Taukane and others. *Following this gathering, we will travel to Brasília to hold a course for the public organized by Projeto Pegadas Brasil. For more information, contact: edisonluis@pegadas.org.br

* Please note : As a non-profit educational organization, we list our public courses together with our youth & community projects, which are not open events. Public events are marked with a star*.

We provide many other courses throughout the year. These listings are the dates which were fixed by publication time for this newsletter (December 26, 2007). Visit the Calendar page of our website for updates and additions to this listing.

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