The Eric Sahlström Institute has an event in January each year, in which prospective students can come try out the year-long course and meet the teachers (Prova På) and former students come back for a playing workshop and reunion (Återträffen). There were 65-plus people on Saturday January 24th and a lot of positive energy for workshops, lunch, build-a-taco dinner, and a dance. I think this is a brilliant strategy to combine these groups of people. We current students were involved in making and serving food, and attended the prospective student workshops.
I really got a sense that we are a community associated with this institute — former, current, and future students and teachers.
Current students helped prepare the taco components. I sautéed 5 kilos of ground beef.
One of several evening jam sessions.
Olov playing for dance.
Ditte playing for dance.
Building tacos
Happy eating.
Seems like good fun! 🙂
How much longer is the course going? I will be going to Sweden with some other nyckelharpa players in August, to visit Josefina Paulson (I was at one of her workshops recently and it was so great that we decided that we need more 😉 ). Maybe we’ll have time to visit the ESI, since it’s not that far away. Then I could thank you in person for your interesting blog 😉