Ely Folk School

Work with Your Hands - Learn from Your Peers - Create Something Lasting

The Ely Folk School offers classes, workshops & events for folks of all ages involving hands-on, cooperative learning. People are geared to create. Our ancestors survived by procuring or crafting all of life’s essentials. That hard-wired propensity for creation may no longer be critical for our survival, but it enhances our well-being. The contemplative nature of handwork skills still provides an enormous sense of satisfaction that allows people to lose themselves in time – an increasingly rare experience in today’s fast-paced lives.
The Ely Folk School is a haven for interaction and renewal. Our mission is to inspire, not compel. We are also inter-generational and non-competitive with no grades and no credits. We encourage learning for life instead of for exams