Hard Skills for Hard Times — PART 1: Intro to Backpacking with Christina Mesiti

Part 1: Skills Workshop + Q&A
Saturday, April 25, 11 AM—1PM

FCCW: 3053 Rosslyn St. LA CA 90065
Info on our space here
Max participants: 25
Free

Join us for this introductory backpacking workshop led by artist, teacher, and outdoor guide, Christina Mesiti! Beginners encouraged. Part 1 of this workshop is meant to offer basic backpacking skills. Please note that Part 2, which is the overnight trip, is currently full, but this workshop should prepare you to go on future trips!

Part 1: Skills Workshop + Q&A
Saturday, April 25, 11 AM—1PM

For this workshop, we will meet at FCCW to cover the nuts and bolts of being able to walk and sleep outside: protecting our bodies, shelter, cooking, water treatment, first aid, trip planning, wildlife encounters. We will also discuss gear and how to obtain the basic necessities through rentals and used gear swaps in order to get folks outside more easily, sidestepping the siren song of recreational capitalism as much as possible. 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Christina Mesiti is an artist, teacher, and guide living full time within public land throughout the western US. She uses sculpture and photography to cultivate a friendly relationship with change and her own mortality. Before turning feral and moving into her self-converted short bus, she taught at Deep Springs College, Pitzer College, Pomona College, and Pepperdine University. She has attended residencies at the Edward Albee Foundation, Township 10, Art Farm, and the Vermont Studio Center. In 2021, she co-founded the Emplacement Society, a backcountry residency collective and publishing platform that experiments with collective, somatic knowledge creation at the intersection of art and the environment.