North House Folk School Winterer’s Gathering & Arctic Film Fest
Nov 16, 23 - Nov 19, 23
North House Folk School Winterer’s Gathering & Arctic Film Fest
Join us for the annual North House Folk School Winterer’s Gathering & Arctic Film Fest on November 16-19, 2023 at the North House Folk School in Grand Marais, Minnesota. Winterer’s Gathering & Arctic Film Festival is a multi-day educational event that celebrates the crafts, customs, landscape, history and stories of winter travel and traditional life ways in the north. Winter travel enthusiasts and northern culture admirers merge on the North House campus for four days of winter travel seminars, courses and workshops complemented by multiple evenings of inspiring thought-provoking international films about arctic life.
The Winterers—or Les Hivernants as the early North American Voyageurs referred to them– were brave, experienced individuals who signed on after the summer’s end to work at winter outposts scattered throughout the ‘interior’ of North America. In respect for the skills, traditions and spirit of this devoted group, the annual Winterer’s Gathering happens each year at the North House Folk School campus on the shore of Lake Superior.
Location
North House Folk School
500 W Highway 61
Grand Marais, MN 55604
For More Information: Call (218) 387-9762; Email info@northhouse.org
Current Year Event Detail
For daily activity detail, visit the Winterers’ Gathering & Arctic Film Festival website.
About the North House Folk School
North House Folk School, host of the annual Wooden Boat Show and Summer Solstice Festival, was founded in 1997 by a small handful of inspired locals passionate about traditional craft and cooperative learning. When we published the first catalog of 12 courses (including Inuit kayak building, Scandinavian bowl carving, and canoe paddle making), North House didn’t yet have a home — or even a classroom. However, two old forest service buildings on the harbor serendipitously became available, and North House settled in and began building a campus. Campus has changed and expanded over the years, but those two original buildings — the red building and the blue building — are still at its heart. North House has thrived over the ensuing two decades, and now hosts over 350 classes and 3,000 students per year, and connects students and instructors from all over the state, country, and world.
Mark your calendar today so you don’t miss the next North House Folk School Winterer’s Gathering & Arctic Film Fest in November at the North House Folk School in Grand Marais, Minnesota.
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