FOLKLORE FOR FUTURE - bridging cultures and communities

We aim at empowering eco-communities, rural retreats and ecovillages, rediscovering folklore as inspiration for non-formal education tools and above all bridging:
 
🌿 Scandinavian & Slavic cultures,
🌿 rural & urban,
🌿 culture & nature,
🌿 past & future!
 
We’re exploring folklore as the predecessor of non-formal education (socializing, learning soft skills, community building) and the narrative for handling future challenges (sustainability, resilience, solidarity, identity, belonging).
 
 

Co-founded by the European Union

2023-1-PL01-KA210-ADU-000160302

Art & Craft Residency at Hästekasen

Hästekasen Farm and Adventure Center

 13 – 26 May 2024

🫎For two weeks we’ve been immersed in Swedish nature and culture learning and absorbing traditional Scandinavian arts and crafts.

 

It’s hard to recollect all of the awesome things we’ve done but among them singing, wood carving, blacksmithing, sailing, baking, spinning, cutting trees, pottery, herbal walks, cow and seed farm visits, storytelling, stone wall, Sami and Scandinavian history lectures…

Linen/Flax Spinning by Anna

During Hastekasen Art Residency we had a chance to learn more about flax spinning and how to create your clothes from the seed. Anna from Denmark is growing her own flax and producing linen out of it. 

For two weeks we observed her working and to our surprise, we’ve been lucky enough to see the results – long threads of linen that are almost ready to be woven (they need to soften by ash bath and boiling first). 

Emil i Lönneberga

During Hastekasen Art Residency, in a straw clay Viking Hall we watched a classic children’s movie – Emil in Lonneberga. It is a 1971 Swedish film, the first of three films based on the Emil i Lönneberga books written by Astrid Lindgren.

 

Emil Svensson lives on the farm Katthult (“Catholt”), set in the village of Lönneberga in Småland around the year 1900, with his younger sister Ida, mother Alma and father Anton, the farmhand Alfred who shows great affection towards Emil and the farm maid Lina who, however, is unable to tolerate Emil’s pieces of mischief (hyss). Sometimes Krösa-Maja (“Lingonberry-Maia”) comes to Katthult to help with domestic work and tell Emil and Ida stories about “mylingar”, ghosts, murders and similar nasties.

 

When “Eeemiil” is called in Katthult, there is only one safe place on this earth for Emil – the carpenter’s shop. He lifts his little sister Ida up in the flagpole and puts his head in the soup terrine.

 

Emil does more “hyss” than there are days of the year, each time after being locked in the carpenter’s workshop for punishment, carving small figurines.

The movie shows well the culture of traditional farm life in Sweden in old times. 

Jan Seed Bank and Factory

 

Study visit in a very inspiring place – home for thousand of seeds. Old varietes of yummy vegetables and fruit

 

Reflection and Relations

Where do you belong? 

Do you identify with your culture? 

What part of your culture folklore do you cherish the most?

Breaking B(re)ad

 

When was the last time you’ve enjoyed home made bread? Have you ever baked it yourself?

This is a reminder to do it.

Here is a recipe:

 

Photo Gallery

THE PARTNER CONSORTIUM

Here are the names of our organizations and the links to our webpages and social media. We are all happy to talk about youth-friendly practices and policies in various countries – just find the contacts in the links: 
 

Nausika Foundation (Poland)

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Parallel Worlds (Hungary)

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