Forgotten Skillz offers hands-on workshops, outdoor experiences, and experiential education programs across Long Island. Our events explore the connections between nature, traditional skills, cultural history, craft, science, stewardship, and human ingenuity through direct participation and discovery.

 

Programs may take participants into the woods to learn fire-making, navigation, foraging, ecology, or wilderness skills; into the workshop to explore historic crafts and technologies; or into the past through activities inspired by the ways people have created, adapted, solved problems, and understood their world. Events are designed for a range of ages and experience levels, with opportunities for children, teens, adults, families, homeschool communities, and the general public.

 

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Wilderness Survival Series: Primitive Firecraft (Brookhaven)

August 8 @ 18:00 - 20:00
Wilderness Survival Workshops at CEED in Brookhaven | Forgotten Skillz

CEED in Brookhaven

Fire has always been more than warmth.  It’s light, safety, and the foundation of civilization itself. In this powerful hands-on workshop, participants will explore the science, history, and artistry of creating fire using friction-based methods such as the bow drill and hand drill, while reflecting on the deep ingenuity behind these ancient technologies.

In honor of the Indigenous and ancestral cultures that first mastered these skills, we emphasize that “primitive” does not mean crude or outdated — it refers to the first, innovative steps on the human skill tree, when new ideas forever changed how people lived, gathered, and thrived.

Participants will learn to gather and prepare natural materials, form an ember through perseverance and technique, and safely nurture it into flame.

Each spark is a reminder that progress begins with patience, observation, and respect — values just as relevant today as they were tens of thousands of years ago.

Highlights:

  • Learn to make fire using traditional friction methods
  • Discover how firecraft shaped human innovation across cultures
  • Practice patience, coordination, and resource awareness
  • Understand fire safety and environmental stewardship

Earn your Primitive Firecrafter micro-certification toward the Wilderness Survival Level I Certificate

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Every Forgotten Skillz event is built around learning by doing. Whether you are trying something for the first time or building on skills you already have, our programs invite you to experiment, ask questions, work with real materials, and discover new ways of looking at the natural and human world.

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