Photography by Aivars Liepiņš press photographer at newspaper Diena
Introducing yurt in Naujene
When I was making a new cover for a small yurt, I had to put in up for measuring and fitting outside a flat-blocks, where I was noticed by local kids, who took a great interest in what I was doing and wanted to help. They got to learn what is a collapsable outdoor structure, how it can be turned into a small dwelling with covers and also let some of them have a go at helping me to make pattern for cover, measure and cut, have a go on the sewing machine. And also just leave yurt up for kids to play and do what they please with it.
We even made it to the national newspaper Diena and now trying to get funding to run a workshop where we could learn whole process of making an outdoor structure from scratch.