[TheForge] Christiania blackmiths

[Ben Barrett]

Nice find, Mike :)  If anyone is having difficulty with basic navigation and
knows little Danish like myself,
this automated translation might help.  Most things come through
understandably....
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=kvindesmedien.dk&sl=auto&tl=en

cheerio,

Ben


On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca>wrote:

>
> I'm always interested in blacksmiths who work in unusual locations.
> At the 1990 ABANA there were a couple of guys who were set up on the
> lower east side of Manhattan in a vacant lot.  They had to weld their
> anvil to a big chunk of something to keep it from being stolen.  My
> own little adventure was to  put together a working forge from
> collected junk on Sable Island when I spend a couple of weeks working
> there.
>
> The Free City of Christiania in Copenhagen was in the news because the
> organzers of the global climate conference feared that the residents
> -- anarchists, communards and the like -- would riot or at least
> protest.
>
> I hadn't been aware of Christiania.  It occurred to me that such a
> community was likely to have a blacksmith so I went poking around the
> web.  It does, indeed, have a blacksmith.  In fact, it has three and
> they're women!
>
>      http://www.kvindesmedien.dk/
>
> Dorte Eilenberger, Charlotte Steen and Gitte Christensen do all sorts
> of stuff.  Text is all in Danish but there are lots of pics.
>
> FWIW,
> - Mike
>
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