Peritia School of Self-sufficiency and Arts

Peritia School of Self-sufficiency and Arts is an informal school of self-sufficiency skills and arts, located in rural NSW, where participants live, learn, and teach.

General notions

Self-sufficiency

Courses related to self-sufficiency (sustainable living) include:

• Growing food
• Promoting health (physical, emotional, interpersonal)
• Building and furniture construction and woodworking
• Clothing and fabric making (sewing, building and operating looms, creating fibres)
• Gardening
• Electric - 12V (e.g. lighting, motors)
• Chemistry (e.g. food, cleaning products, combustibles)
• Mining and recycling
• Metalsmith and toolmaking
• Engine and automotive mechanics

Arts

Courses related to arts include:

• Visual arts (e.g. painting, sculpture, printing, photography, 3D modelling and animation)
• Performing arts (e.g. theatre, film, juggling, circus)
• Literature (e.g. fiction, journalism)
• Music (e.g. composing, playing instruments, crafting instruments, mixing)
• Physical/spiritual and martial arts (e.g. kung fu, tai-chi, yoga)
• Health related (e.g. nutrition, massage, psychotherapy)
• Crafts (e.g. ceramics, woodworks)
• Cooking and food preparation