Get hands-on this summer with HAWAIIAN STYLE GREEN BUILDING WORKSHOPS as we offer a low-cost, week-long program focused on building skills in stone masonry, bamboo carpentry and the creation of a lush & green outdoor shower and bathhouse oasis to compliment "Rawberry: the Hawai`i Forest Eco Cabin."
Our two-part workshop will feature the tricks, tips and techniques of master teachers Rocky "Uncle Rock" Asing and Bobby "Bobby G." Grimes. These experts of Hawaiian-style 'lock-rock' stone masonry and grow-it-yourself bamboo carpentry will bring you up-close and personal working with site-sourced, reclaimed and recycled materials in the cutting edge field of custom tropical green building!!! Don't miss this one-of-a-kind small group learning experience by HAWAIIAN STYLE GREEN BUILDING
WORKSHOPS.
DATES & LOCATION
Monday, July 19 through Friday, July 23, 2010
Ahualoa Homesteads, near Honoka`a Town, Big Island of Hawai`i
SCHEDULE
First half of the week will be with Uncle Rock building retaining walls and doing foundation work. The second half of the week will focus on bamboo carpentry and putting up the bathhouse structure with Bobby G.
All participants will be invited as guests of honor to a big grand-opening house warming house party slated for the night of Saturday, July 24th!!!!
FEES & LOGISTICS
Cost is $250 with lunch and snacks included. Maximum enrollment of 6 students. Priority registration and scholarships available for apprentice-level students with building experience. Tenting and good fun after hours available on-site for $10 per night. Nearest offsite accommodations available at the Hotel Honoka`a Club --www.hotelhonokaa.com
CONTACT
For more information and to register, call Shawn James at (808) 775-8284. mahalo!
HAWAIIAN STYLE TEACHERS
Rocky Asing is a Kahuna Pohaku, or master stone carver and stoned mason, born and raised in the Papakolea Hawaiian Homesteads of Honolulu, O`ahu. An enthusiastic teacher and holder of all kines of folk-wisdom, Rocky also loves sharing his knowledge of hand-drumming, cooking and weaving fences and light structures such as sweat lodges and smoke houses from the abundant strawberry guava thickets of the Big Island. His lava rock carvings can be seen at the web-gallery of the Hawai`i Treasure Mill. www.hawaiitreasuremill.com/
Bobby Grimes is a former Motown G.M. engineer and self-taught finish carpenter who 'bluffed' his way into building a three hundred thousand dollar banister and stair case at one of the many luxury estates along the N. Kona Coast of the Big Island. Leaving the opulence and waste of mansion construction behind after falling for the look and the love of the bamboo lifestyle, Bobby recently finished work on a custom bamboo/reclaimed lumber tree house near the Kilauea Volcano and is an avid biodynamic farmer and creator of the special "vortex compost tea brewer." Photos of his work can be seen on the web at http://picasaweb.google.com/biodynamichawaii
