Yestermorrow is excited to be partnering once again with the Vermont Festival of the Arts!
 

Open House at Yestermorrow, Saturday August 1st, 10am - 3pm

Explore the Yestermorrow campus at our annual Open House. View a brand-new art installation by Philadelphia artist and Yestermorrow instructor Diana Nicholas using recycled building materials.  See our universally accessible treehouse, student-built cabins, and the recent renovations to the main building.
 

 

Don't miss this rare opportunity to view some of the incredible and innovative residential architecture masterpieces of the Mad River Valley. Tour five spectacular homes led by the architects who designed these homes along side the owners who live in them. Tour leaves from Yestermorrow at 9:30am and returns at 4:30pm.  Tickets are $50.00 including lunch. Advance registration required - call 802-496-5545 to reserve your seat on the bus.
 

 

All lectures are every Wednesday, begin at 7pm, free, open to the general public, and on-going through the end of August.

August 5
Li Ling Young (bio)
Residential Energy When the Energy Runs Out: Beyond Energy Efficiency 
You’ve replaced all your lightbulbs with compact fluorescents, insulated your water heater and sealed air leaks in the basement. What’s next? In this presentation we’ll discuss why energy tinkering is not enough. Come hear about the leading edge of energy efficiency. You’ll be invited to think about your next steps to reduce your reliance on purchased energy, the best places to spend your energy dollars, and what happens when one takes energy efficiency to the extreme—or maybe logical—conclusion.

August 12
Melinda Moulton (bio)
Redevelopment of Burlington's Waterfront:
A 25-Year Journey of Green and Social Design & Construction
Melinda Moulton, the CEO/Redeveloper of Main Street Landing, will share with you her 25-year journey creating a healthy, vibrant, and socially conscious environment on the Burlington Waterfront. From developing a "team approach to design, development, construction, and management" Melinda has taken a unique and unchartered course in creating over 250,000 square feet of built environment on the shores of Lake Champlain.

August 19
Buzz Ferver (bio)
Beyond Compost: Advanced Uses of Compost and Geotextile Materials
Learn about advanced uses of compost and geotextile materials for stormwater treatment, urban gardening, building "living" retaining walls, greenroofs and more. Join compost visionary Buzz Ferver for a night of pictures and stories on how compost can help restore and regenerate the built environment.

August 26
Mark West (bio)
Pressure Building (Concrete Falls in Love):
Flexible Fabric Molds for Forming Cast Concrete Structure and Architecture
Mark will describe a wide range of simple techniques for forming concrete in inexpensive fabric sheets. For the past 20 years, he has developed a series of unique and efficient fabric formwork methods for constructing reinforced con­crete columns, beams, trusses, walls, precast panels, and thin-shell vaults and panels. This work has been developed from a sculptural practice as well as fundamental structural (and construction) logic and is focused on extraordinarily beautiful and practical de­signs given by the natural deflections offered by simple flat sheets of fabric loaded with concrete.

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