ROCKNOCKERS RENDEZVOUS

SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION & WORKSHOPS

Monday, October 21

As always, on the evening before the Symposium commences there will be a convivial get-together concurrent with the SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION. This event, the ROCKNOCKERS’ RENDEZVOUS, will take place at the Second Street Brewery in downtown Santa Fe. Symposium participants from elsewhere are encouraged to arrange to arrive on October 21, get settled in and register at the Pub (which also serves meals). PLEASE register then because there will be little time to do so once the Symposium schedule commences.

 

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

 

The schedule will be as we’ve had it the past few years.

 

MORNINGS:

 

Symposium attendees may do as they choose. Santa Fe is there to explore.
A tour or tours will be organized. Demonstrations of stone carving and stone cutting and stone knapping will be given.
Stone ball bocce will be played.

 

AFTERNOONS and EVENINGS:

 

At noon Symposium attendees will assemble at the Symposium venue (as yet undetermined) for lunch (which is provided). Following lunch there will be a program of interesting and informative presentations. After which attendees will disperse throughout the town for dinner and return for an evening program of presentations.

 

These programs will include short presentations by rank and file Stone Foundation members of stonework that they’ve done or by which they have been impressed.

 

TOURS

 

On Wednesday the 23rd there will be a morning tour of the Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque.
On Thursday the 24th there will be a day tour of Chaco Canyon .

 

WORKSHOPS

 

October 15 through the 21st

 

There will be workshops in:
DRY STONE WALLING, Instructor: Sean Adcock, idiosyncratic master dry stone waller from Wales
LIME MORTARED STONEMASONRY, Instructor: Pat McAfee, notable Irish stonemason, gentleman and scholar
ARCHITECTURAL STONE CARVING , Instructor: Nicholas Fairplay, Master stone carver
GRAVESTONE RESTORATION, Instructor: Jonathan Appel, expert in cemetery stonework
STONE LETTER CARVING, Instructors: not yet determined.
also, perhaps,
LIME AND EARTH PLASTER
(Patrick, Sean, Nick and Jonathan will also be giving presentations at the Symposium)

 

ALSO

 

The Lithic Olympics‐Stonework oriented games:
Lithobolos (stone ball bocce), the Wheelbarrow Steeplechase, Cairn-Building Competition, Co-ordinated Leverage, Stone-Putting, Eye-Balling

 

Stone Balancing demonstrations in the Santa Fe River.
And some sort of group Sculptural/Structural Stonework Project (maybe the cairn-building competition).
And a General Membership Meeting (probably on Friday night) during which the future form, function and activities of the Stone Foundation will be discussed.
And a Communal Meal on Saturday night.

 

If you wish to be informed of new information as it becomes available, tomas@stonefoundation.org, by phone: 505-989-4644, by letter or card: 116 Lovato Lane, Santa Fe, NM 87505.

 

CLICK HERE FOR A DOWNLOADABLE REGISTRATION FORM