Check out the new classes and come to our Social on Friday to celebrate and get your paper copy!
Or check out the PDF version here:
Category Archives: Freeskool News
Ithaca Freeskool Spring Social
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.
Teach for Ithaca Freeskool’s summer session!
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!
Video: Ithaca Freeskool at Ithaca Ignite
Ignite Ithaca is a “high-energy evening of 5-minute talks by people who have an idea – and the guts to get onstage and share it with their hometown crowd.” Lily Gershon did a jam-packed presentation on Freeskool on November 6, 2010 at the Pixel Lounge.
Come to the first ever Freeskool Prom!
The Ithaca Freeskool will host the first ever Freeskool Prom dance party at the Tompkins County Workers Center at 115 The Commons, above Autumn Leaves Used Books on Wednesday, September 22nd from 8 pm to 1 am.
The event is free and will be DJ’ed by Bob Proehl, formerly of No Radio Records. The Freeskool Prom celebrates the end of the summer term and the release of the Fall term calendars, chock full of free classes for all ages. Everyone is welcome to come and get their groove on.
Attendees are encouraged to dress up for the prom, and yes, you get to decide what that means. See you there – tell your friends!!
Ithaca Freeskool on Shareable.net!
Ithaca Freeskool on the homepage of Shareable.net
“Shareable is a nonprofit online magazine that tells the story of sharing. We cover the people, places, and projects bringing a shareable world to life. And we share how-tos so you can make a shareable world real in your life.”
Freeskool organizer Lily Gershon wrote a great article about Ithaca Freeskool for the site called “How to Share an Education, ” featuring photos and a video by Shira Golding. You can read the whole article and here’s an excerpt:
You’re in the park surrounded by swaying willows, or maybe knee deep in goldenrod in someone’s backyard, or sunk into the couch in a small apartment on Cayuga Street.
Usually, one way or another, a circle is formed. What are you doing here with a professor from Maine, a few pink-haired chatty teenagers from town, a local diesel mechanic, and a retired couple who brought cookies? You’re here to learn how to weave baskets out of the long limbs of willow trees. You’re discussing how Thor got along with the giants in Norse Mythology. You are about to plant the first herb in your medicinal garden. You’ve been hearing about natural gas drilling, but want to get more information. Any one of these people might be your teacher today.
In Ithaca, New York, the Ithaca Freeskool offers you an alternative to traditional education. With classes like Mushroom Hunting, Bike Repair, Know Your Rights with Debtors, and D.I.Y. Movie Making, it’s a refreshing variety of completely free classes for people of all ages. Started only a few years ago and run entirely by volunteers, the Freeskool gives the community an opportunity to share their skills and knowledge.
Now accepting new class proposals
Click here for info on how to submit a proposal for the next Ithaca Freeskool session, October 1 to December 31. The deadline for proposals is September 1st, 2010.
Want to help the next session be a success? Here are some ways to help:
- Download, print and distribute our freeskool outreach handbills (there are four to a sheet – just cut it in quarters)
- Join our new mailing list so you’ll be sure to get updates
Wondering what it’s like to be a part of Ithaca Freeskool? Check out this ten-minute video!
Join our new mailing list!
Hi Freeskoolers! We organizers got together for a meeting last week and are excited to announce that we’re now accepting proposals for the next term. Please click here for details. Also, join our NEW mailing list! This low-traffic list will be our only mailing list from here on out, so be sure to sign up, even if you’ve signed up for one of our lists in the past. Tell your friends… thanks!
Summer Calendar is Up!
The summer calendar is done! We’ve got classes on basket weaving, bike repair, food preservation, growing your own herbal remedies, and open-source computing. We’ve got reading and writing and discussion groups, fun circus sports and singing events, and a lot of practical learning opportunities including a class called “Know Your Rights in the Workplace” and a workshop on how to help stray cats in your neighborhood. We can’t wait to go to these classes, and we hope you’ll find something you like, too.
New Calendar available! **UPDATED**
The new calendar is now available for pick-up in Ithaca, or download if you want to print it yourself. Get it here!
Note, two new classes have been added and several dates have been adjusted. Please make sure your calendar says “Second printing” on the cover.
If you can help distribute the calendar please get in touch with us.
