[Scpg] The "Hand-Sculpted House Tour" shows-Nov. 14,15 & 22

[EWerb at aol.com]

South Coast dates:
Thursday November 14, 7pm at Santa Barbara Public Library’s Faulkner Gallery, 
40 E. Anapamu St., 

Friday Nov 15, 6:30pm at Great Pacific Iron Works® (Patagonia® store) in 
Ventura, 235 W. Santa Clara St.

Friday, November 22, 7:30pm at Ojai Public Library, 111 East Ojai Avenue.
dinner with Ianto before talk, 5:30 pm, Farmer and the Cook, 339 W. El 
Roblar, Meiners Oaks 805-640-9808

The "Hand-Sculpted House Tour"

Ianto Evans and Linda Smiley, directors of Cob Cottage Company in Oregon, are 
coming to the South Coast for a special lecture, slide show, and 
book-signing. They will introduce cob and natural buildings from around the 
world. Ianto and Linda’s new book, The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and 
Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage, illustrates the ways that cob 
buildings use hands and feet to form lumps of earth mixed with sand and 
straw, creating a sensory and aesthetic experience similar to clay sculpting. 

A lecture & slide show will be held on Friday Nov 15, 6:30pm at Great Pacific 
Iron Works® (Patagonia® store) in Ventura, 235 W. Santa Clara St. - at Olive 
St. Books will be available for signing by the author. Please call Santa 
Barbara Permaculture Network at 805/962-2571 for more information, or email 
sbpcnet at silcom.com. Visit the Cob Cottage website for details on the book at 
<A HREF="http://www.deatech.com/cobcottage">http://www.deatech.com/cobcottage
</A>, Other area presentations in this 14-city tour are scheduled for 
Thursday November 14, 7pm at Santa Barbara Public Library’s Faulkner Gallery, 
40 E. Anapamu St., and Friday, November 22, 7:30pm at Ojai Public Library, 
111 East Ojai Avenue. A $3 donation is requested, except in Ojai which 
provides a library stipend.

The book and slide show answer the question, What is a cob building? Discover 
the possibilities of working in balance with the earth, from beautiful 
ancient ten-story earthen buildings to small modern cottages. Thousands of 
comfortable and picturesque cob houses in the British Isles have been 
continually occupied for centuries, and are still in highly valued. Cob is 
easy to learn and inexpensive to build. Its viability has been thoroughly 
proven all over the world for centuries. During the past ten years, The Cob 
Cottage Company has trained more than a thousand students. 

Ianto Evans is an applied ecologist, landscape architect, inventor, writer 
and teacher He has experience building earth structures on six continents. 
Cob is a traditional construction technique in his homeland Wales. He has 
consulted on ecological building worldwide, including indigenous peoples, US 
AID, World Bank, and Peace Corps. Linda Smiley is a master cobber and 
recreational therapist. She teaches workshops in cob, sculpting sacred 
spaces, intuitive design, and natural plasters and finishes. 

The slide shows and lectures are part of a 14-city California tour by the 
authors, who are also developing future workshops in these areas. The 
"Hand-Sculpted House Tour" cities and dates include Arcata 11/4, Marin 
11/7-8, Santa Cruz 11/9-10, Fremont 11/11, SLO 11/13, SB 11/14, Ventura 
11/15, LA 11/16, Laguna Beach 11/18, SD 11/19-21, Ojai 11/22, Berkeley 11/23, 
and Vallejo 11/24. For all tour information, please also see <A 
HREF="http://www.islandseed.com/scpg.html">www.islandseed.com/scpg.html</A>.