2 showings of 6-min documentary Shelter coming up

Filmmaker Jason Sussbertg’s 6-min. movie of our homestead, called “Shelter,” is being screened this Sunday, March 20th (3:30 PM) at the 4th Annual Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival. I’m going to go, as it will be followed by a Q and A. It’s at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 6780 Depot Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472.

It’s being shown the next week as part of the “How-to Homestead” group’s workshop on building solar ovens in San Francisco —  Sunday, March 27th. The workshop starts at 3PM, there’s a potluck dinner at 6, and the film will be shown around 7 PM. It’s at the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center. 660 Lombard Street, San Francisco, CA 94133.

About Lloyd Kahn

Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include Shelter, Shelter II (1978), Home Work (2004), Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008), Tiny Homes (2012), and Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:

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