Pulping Rodeo Mystery: a workshop

It’s pulping time! Come join the R.A.W. posse in Philomath for PULPING RODEO MYSTERY . . .

On Sunday, October 30, the R.A.W held a public pulping workshop at the Philomath Frolic & Rodeo Grounds in Philomath, Oregon. “Pulping” is an evolving process that experiments with locally-sourced materials and methods—alongside some wilder propositions—for making newfangled, off-the-grid stories with untold others in places we inhabit together.

As the home of the annual, award-winning Philomath Frolic & Rodeo since 1953, these Rodeo Grounds offer a deep and richly cultured space in which to encounter both the historic visible structures and the more hidden flows of time, weathers, and peripheral lives that animate this central place within a rural Oregon timber town.

The Pulping Rodeo Mystery workshop brought together a posse to encounter and search deep into the structures and secret flows of the Rodeo Grounds, both in and beyond the boards of the arena. This event also included an invitation to visit to the R.A.W. Pasture later that afternoon.

This event was sponsored by the University of Oregon’s Center for Environmental Futures and the Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute through a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation.

Let ‘er pulp!