Friday, January 20, 2012, 7-9pm
Fire On The Water Studios
317 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca, NY 14850
Come celebrate the end of last fall’s awesome session of free classes and get ready for the winter/spring session with Ithaca Freeskool! Classes start February 1st and, as always, are all ages and all free.
We’ll have:
New calendars!
Snacks!
Games!
Music!
Bring:
Your family!
Your friends!
Your thirst for free knowledge!
Picture by Alyssa Thornton
We have been hard at work getting the February – April 2012 Calendar together and it is unquestionably our best one yet. We’ll be offering up old favorites like Community Cinema, Maple Syrup, and Improv and throwing in some new with GNU/Linux for Beginners, Fermented Beverages, some Occupy Wall Street and much, much, more. All free stuff to make your winter and spring even more filled with learning new things, meeting new people and making Ithaca better without spending money. That’s awesome. We’re glad to facilitate it.
Thanks to all the great teachers and organizations that make this possible and thank you for coming out and participating.
Click on “Calendar” to see the new classes and expect paper copies out and about around town and available for download in the coming days. If you can help distribute calendars, contact us at ithaca_freeskool@riseup.net
Our Winter semester is almost over and now we’re gearing up for the Spring. Yes, we need teachers!
The semester will begin Feb 1st and go until the end of April 2012. We’d love to have class submissions from you. The deadline for submissions is Jan 1st. To submit your proposal please go here and fill out our new form. More details will greet you on that page.
Anyone can be a teacher. You don’t have to be an expert. So get in touch.
Thank you!
Freeskool Organizers
Ithaca Freeskool – You can afford it!
A letter from Swidjit founder, Alex Colket.
Hi Freeskoolers-
I hope your studies have been going well this semester, that you have all learned something from each other and hopefully a thing or two about each other as well 
I think what you all have going on here is one of the most beautiful things in Ithaca and I always tell people about it when I boast about the awesome place we live! However, I am a bit ashamed to admit that I have not attended class this semester, as I have been a bit obsessed with something else that I would like to
discuss with you today. It’s called Swidjit, and if you like to share or build community, I think you will like it.
Publicly, I often frame Swidjit as a platform for a local economy because that seems like a message that will resonate in this current economic climate. However, in my head and in my heart, I see it just as much as a platform for a collaborative community, a suite of tools to allow friends, neighbors and groups to share, network and organize in ways that provide easier access to local information and opportunities. Freeskool is a great example of the possibilities inherent in such a system of community sharing, as the number of useful skills or interesting experiences you can have on others generosity seems to grow each semester. Swidjit respects and embraces Freeskool and hopes to support and encourage it in many ways. For instance, I think it would be great if teachers/students had the option of creating a class community on Swidjit and using it to organize class meeting times, provide links to other useful resources, share relevant media files, host discussion topics, post notices, etc. It would be a way to easily supplement the hands-on, person-to-person teaching/learning/sharing nature of the freeskool with a virtual
collection of pertinent resources and a place to connect when not in class, for those who wished to take part in it. I believe that the Swidjit platform coming this spring is going to provide a lot of exciting opportunities to give and share and trade and connect with others around us and I hope that many of you organizing or instructing or attending Freeskool will share some of that energy with Swidjit and work with me to build another amazing community resource!
You can check out the Ithaca Freeskool page on Swidjit and see how they are already integrated. Classes appear on the public calendar, and viewing the Freeskool profile page will show you all the upcoming classes that are offered. You can even set an event reminder to have Swidjit send you an email the before to help you remember to attend. You can also use the calendar to find out about other community events or perhaps to discover other items related to the classes you are investigating. Much more will come down the road as I improve the platform.
Please feel free to contact me through the site to share ideas, feedback or questions.
Alex Colket
Check out the new Fall Calendar! October 1 through December 30, we’ve got a lot in store for you. Ithaca Freeskool – you can afford it!
Learn about all the classes here:
http://ithacafreeskool.wordpress.com/class-descriptions/
UPDATES: Natural Combatives canceled for Oct 10 and 11. But otherwise, you should come check it out – way fun.
Friday, September 23, 7-9pm
Come to Culture Shock to celebrate the end of summer and the beginning of the fall session with Ithaca Freeskool!
Check out some music and dancing, kombucha on tap, trivia with prizes, and the release of our brand new calendar. Trust me, you want to see these classes.
Got questions? ithaca_freeskool@riseup.net
Dear Freeskool Friends,
Our Summer semester is almost over and now we’re gearing up for the Fall. Yes, we need teachers!
The semester will begin Oct 1st and go until the end of December. We’d love to have class submissions from you. The deadline for submissions is Sept 1st, and as usual we ask for:
Your name, phone and email (specify public contact info)
Name of your class
Location
Dates/Times
A short description
Any requirements for students
You can find more details on this page: http://ithacafreeskool.wordpress.com/get-involved/
Anyone can be a teacher. You don’t have to be an expert. So get in touch.
Thank you!
Freeskool Organizers
SUMMER 2011 
Summer 2011 FREE classes are in and you’re always invited! Check out the PDF of our Summer Classes: Summer Class Descriptions
Or go to our Calendar page to see the details!
Ithaca Freeskool – You can afford it.
Join the Ithaca Freeskool in celebration of the end of another semester at our fun spring social. We’ll be hanging out in the newly cooperated Buffalo Street Books with snacks, trivia, live music, and maybe even some Freeskool buttons.
Most importantly, we’ll be revealing our Summer Session calendar! Come see what Ithaca Freeskool has in store for your summer. We’ll give you one hint: everything is free.
Bring a friend and take your brain out to party! Skool is kool.
We’re looking for passionate people who want to share their skills and knowledge in the upcoming Ithaca Freeskool summer session, June 1 to August 31. Proposals are due on May 1st. Click here for the flier, or click here for information about how to submit your class proposals.
Tell your friends, and feel free to share the flier!
Written by shiragolding
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