Those Poetry Gabriola volunteers are fast workers. Last Friday I showed you the yurt platform, with no yurt upon it. Now the whole thing seems to be done! (Well, they’ll probably add steps, and perhaps some cosmetic thing around the base.)
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Last time I went by the Gabriola Commons to see how the Gabriola Poetry Yurt was coming along, the foundations were there, but that was about it. But now, look: much progress! The platform is in place. Update of the update, March 5th, 2011: Wha-hooo! Lattice walls are up. You can see the structure from [...]
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Having heard about the Poetry Yurt at the Gabriola Commons, I stopped in to see what the site looks like so far. Like this! I guess they’re building a proper platform for the thing first. Will I be able to use the yurt if my art consists of drinking beer and eating mince pies?
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Poetry Gabriola announces that they’re building a poetry yurt at the Gabriola Commons. The Poetry Yurt is intended to be a year-round, multi-use venue for professional artists to research, develop, create, study, rehearse and workshop new works, and to gain depth and insight into current existing artistic practice. It is the intention of Poetry Gabriola [...]
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Here’s a shelter that could help homeless Haitians (or, um, homeless people on Gabriola). It’s cheap to build, and you can make one yourself. It’s a hexayurt. Wired.com explains. With just $100 worth of plywood and screws, almost anyone can build a shelter known as a Hexayurt that can last three years and possibly even [...]
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These days I spend a lot of time thinking about low-impact housing, small houses, and also inexpensive houses. Sometimes those topics intersect, as they might with some kinds of yurts, for example. Sure, it’s expensive to buy a yurt from one of those specialist yurt companies, but there are cheaper alternatives. One is the Gertee, [...]
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Do you know about yurts? They’re round dwellings, made of fabric over a light wood frame. (See a variety of Yurts here on Google images.) Traditionally used by nomads in places like Mongolia, yurts can be set up or collapsed within a couple of hours — just the thing if you want to move around [...]
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