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About Rendezvous

The Longest Running Primitive Skills Gathering East of the Mississippi

Earthskills Rendezvous is an ancestral skills gathering that happens twice a year in the Southeastern United States.  The gathering is a week-long educational camping event where participants come to learn ancient skills, connect with nature, and experience a more community-oriented atmosphere. Join us!

Our focus is 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, basket making, and wood working 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.

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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Tickets ON SALE NOW! 
Online ticket sales end April 12

Rivercane Rendezvous    

April 15-21, 2024  
2024 Dates
April 15-21, 2024
October 14-20, 2024
About Us
Why Join Us?

Why Join Us?

Skills

Learn dozens of survival skills and primitive technologies from world-class instructors.

Culture

Experience how we do things differently, whether through a visit to our Ancestor Fire or attending our board meeting.

Celebration

Join in a drum circle or fireside dancing session to move your body and celebrate life!

Community

Experience village life for a week, where meals, classes, and evening activities weave together to connect folks of many different ages and walks of life.

Craft

Practice heritage arts and crafts with simple, sustainably sourced materials.

Connection

Unplug from the rat race and find that sense of connection to land and community that you've been longing for.

Testimonials

"Rendezvous quite literally altered the course of my life.  I came looking for skills and stayed for the community."

- Past Participant

Contact Us!

General Coordinator
EarthskillsCoordinator@gmail.com

Leadership Council 
EarthskillsLeadership@gmail.com

Or Use This Form

Instructor Coordinator
Earthskills.Instructor@gmail.com

Work Trade Coordinator
EarthskillsWTC@gmail.com

Youth Program Coordinator
Earthskills.YouthProgram@gmail.com

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Need to Report an Incident?  Click HERE to submit an incident report form.

Event Site: Avalon, 444 Patterson Rd, Westminster, SC 29693

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