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.
Explore the ancient innovation of friction fire, learning how early firecraft represented humanity’s first technological leap — and how those lessons in patience, focus, and creativity still inspire us today. Hosted by the Sands Point Preserve.
Explore the ancient innovation of friction fire, learning how early firecraft represented humanity’s first technological leap — and how those lessons in patience, focus, and creativity still inspire us today. Hosted by the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum.
Explore the ancient innovation of friction fire, learning how early firecraft represented humanity’s first technological leap — and how those lessons in patience, focus, and creativity still inspire us today. Hosted by CEED.
Forgotten Skillz is joining Wilderness Summer Camp for a special day of outdoor adventure on Monday, and you're welcome to join us for just the day or stay for the entire week!
Explore the art and science behind early writing, how natural materials became vibrant marks of communication, and how ink transformed from simple marks to powerful symbols of culture, identity, and change.
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.
Explore the calendar above to find upcoming Forgotten Skillz workshops and events throughout Long Island.
