Course Page

Welcome to Reclamation Ground.

This is where you’ll find the necessary resources for our course—including our Zoom Meeting ID and link (at the bottom). Given that you’ll be accessing this page weekly, please take a moment to bookmark this page or copy its URL. See you Monday(s)!

Enrollment  

Workshops are offered just a few times per year. When a date is announced, it will be listed on this page along with its topic. There are no dates currently set for 2024.

Fee: $480
Tea & coffee service is provided.
Vegetarian catered brunch is provided.
Scholarships available.

  • Workshops take place at Pastime Farm in the San Francisco Bay Area. The address will be provided upon confirmation of your registration. Until then, aim your travel plans toward Sunol, California.

  • Navigation systems will accurately direct you to the property. There is private parking on-site. Oakland Airport offers public transportation (BART) to Pleasanton (then travel 15 minutes by car).

  • The closest airport is Oakland (27 miles, appx 35 minutes) followed by San Jose (28 miles, appx 35 minutes) and San Francisco (40 miles, appx 1 hour). Travel times can double during commute hours.

Derek Walcott, Love after Love:

The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread, Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.