The Folk School of Fairbanks is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that offers year round classes and programs in a wide variety of hands-on disciplines. Their mission is to perpetuate the joy of hands-on learning. Classes include music, woodworking, outdoor and survival skills, crafts, working with birch bark and other natural materials, cooking, food preservation, basket weaving, fiber arts, blacksmithing, boat building, visual arts, log construction, and much more. Their premier program, Week in the Woods, is an immersion experience into the boreal forest with talented instructors from many disciplines.
