| | Spring Quarter Calendar is Available! | Posted Monday 27 February 2006 - 00:09:28 | Spring Quarter calendar is out!
Greeting friends! At this Wednesday's Farmers Market, downtown, I will be tabling with a stack of Spring 2008 Free Skool calendars (which runs March through May). This is a chance to pick up a calendar and/or say hello to some of the folks involved in the Free Skool collective. I am excited about this Spring calendar, and even if you cannot make it tomorrow, then look around town for calendars.
We will post the calendar online here soon. In the meantime, pick it up in paper form all over town. Or download a huge printable one right here.
 Take a look at our calendar page here. From there you can see a graphical version, download and print a PDF, or browse a web version right there on our website.
Free Skool is a decentralized, non-institutional project -- in other words, you and I make it happen. There is no organization, foundation, agency, sponsor, or institutional bullshit behind this thing. If we want to get calendars out there, well, we have to uh, get calendars out there.
We have Distro Days at the Santa Cruz Farmer's Market the first Wednesday of each month of the quarter. We need you to take some of these calendars off our hands to relieve the burden of all this excitement
We've printed a lot of calendars and have already distributed them. Look for it in cafes, community centers, bulletin boards around town. Reliable locations where you can pick up a paper calendar are posted on the website.
We need help printing the calendar. Please consider donating cash to support printing costs. Use the Donate button on the main menu to the left.
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| Corrections & Changes | Posted Tuesday 06 March 2007 - 10:51:41 | Weapons Safety
Some of the scheduling for the Weapons Safety classes are messed up. Check with Pavl about correct times and dates. We'll correct this in the next printing.
Glenn's Classes
The phone numbers for Glenn's classes, Intuitive Piano, Open-Tuning for Guitar, Sauerkraut/Rice Milk!, and Contact Improv are buggered up. Glenn's phone number is 454-6342
Other Stuff
By all means, send any corrections you find.
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| Free Skool Marks Two Years of Learning Outside the System | Posted Saturday 24 February 2007 - 21:31:23 | Free Skool Marks Two Years of Learning Outside the SystemGrassroots project has grown to include hundreds of classes and continues to blur the line between teachers and studentsSanta Cruz, CA, February 1st, 2007: Two years ago this spring, Free Skool Santa Cruz started as an idea between friends. It was a resuscitation of an old idea: interactive and informal learning in a non-institutional, non-hierarchical setting outside of the monetary economy. In other words, friends sharing what they know with others in an informal skill-sharing network. And in two years, Free Skool has offered over 260 different classes on everything from DIY-philosophy such as bike repair and knitting to more academic subjects such as local and radical history.
In fact, looking at the quarterly-produced Free Skool calendar -- with classes offered almost every single day -- it is nearly impossible to easily summarize the breadth of the subjects offered. "History of the Future" falls next to "Don't Die! Wild Foods." " Polynesian Star Navigation" cozies up to "Surveillance Camera Walking Tour" on the Free Skool calendar. More mainstay classes -- languages, yoga, cooking, and art. -- also round out the schedule.
As much as possible, Free Skool works to blur the line between teachers, students, and organizers. Teachers make most of the arrangements for their classes including subject, material, timing, and location. Classes are informal, egalitarian, and are held in homes, social spaces, and parks. "We are all students and we are all teachers here," says the Free Skool website. And once a quarter, students, teachers, organizers, and community members all pitch in to put on the Free Skool Community Picnic.
Organizers view Free Skool as an intrinsically radical project. It is not only a framework in which students and teachers can share what they know, but a direct challenge to institutional control and the commodification of learning. It is a completely grassroots effort, with no outside funding or support, a bunch of individuals working collectively and autonomously to make it happen.
New Free Skool teachers are always welcome. Prospective teachers should check out the Teach link on the website.
Spring Quarter runs March 1st to May 31st. Calendars for the new quarter will be available mid-February on-line and at most cafes, bookstores, and community centers in Santa Cruz and beyond. The Free Skool Santa Cruz website, which offers the current calendar, class reviews, and discussion, is at [link] Read/Post Comment: 0 |
| Know Your Rights | Posted Sunday 12 February 2006 - 16:55:22 | Know your "rights" before you find yourself in hot water. Keep yourself safe from police repression.
The Know Your Rights information here came directly out of a Free Skool Santa Cruz workshop on the subject. We created a Know Your Rights handbill and poster that we hope you'll find useful.
Download the PDF poster and handbill. We encourage all of our friends to hang the poster next to the toilet in their co-op houses where we know it will get read.
Read the Free Skool Know Your Rights article.
Know Your Rights WorkshopPlease attend the Free Skool Know Your Rights workshop:
Resisting the Police State: Know Your Rights
Sun Apr 8th (Easter Sunday) 1-3pm
O'Neill Plaza, Cooper & Pacific
Keep yourself safe from police repression. Know your "rights" before you find yourself in hot water. We will cover detentions, arrest, searches, interrogation, jail, warrants, and police infiltration. Learn the phrase "I'm going to remain silent and I would like to see a lawyer."
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| Where Can I Get a Paper Calendar? | Posted Tuesday 29 November 2005 - 09:28:41 | As well as in cafes and community centers all over town, we have reliable stocks of calendars (usually in our nifty homemade calendar boxes) at the following places:
Downtown Santa Cruz:
Bike Church, 703 Pacific Ave
Saturn Cafe, Pacific & Laurel
Main Library, 224 Church St
Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave
Pergolesi, 418 Cedar St
Hide Gallery, 131 B Front St
Literary Guillotine, 204 Locust St
Cafe Bene, 1101 Cedar St
Eastside Santa Cruz:
Sacred Grove, 924 Soquel Ave
Staff of Life, 1305 Water St
The Bagelry, 1636 Seabright Ave
Chill Out Cafe, 1222 Soquel Ave
Gateways, 1126 Soquel Ave
Coffeetopia, 3701 Portola Dr
Westside Santa Cruz:
Food Bin, 1130 Mission St
UCSC
McHenry Library Atrium
Baytree Plaza Newsstand
San Lorenzo Valley
White Raven Coffee, 6253 Hwy 9, Felton
Snail House Gallery, Hwy 9, Felton
We'll also be having another Distro Day at the Farmers Market on Wed Apr 4th and May 2nd where you can pick up a calendar from us right out of our hot little hands.
If you'd like to help distribute the Free Skool calendar, please contact us at freeskoolsc@riseup.net We'd especially like to hit the south county, far east and west sides, the beach corridor, UCSC, and all the points in between. Free Skool is a non-institutional grassroots project. That means people just like you and I are working to make it happen.
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