Last Saturday, Shawn Reeves of EnergyTeachers.org came over to Shira and Ari’s house to give a workshop on how to make a solar panel cooker using recycled materials. Visit the Shirari blog for photos and info on how to make your own!
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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!
“Animals & Our Actions” coming up on Dec. 13
Animals & Our Actions is coming up on Dec. 13th, 6-8pm. There will be vegan cookies!
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.
Video: Crafting Herbal Formulas for Individual Constitutions with 7Song – Ithaca Freeskool Distance Learning
Missed a class? Loved a workshop so much that you want to relive it? As part of D.I.Y. Movie-Making, we’re filming other Ithaca Freeskool classes and making them available online for anyone who wants to participate.
Part I of a 3-hour class taught by 7Song, Director of the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine on April 3, 2010. Learn how to treat common illnesses with local plants, for free!
Video: Juggle, Spin, Hoop with Lily and Tori – Ithaca Freeskool Distance Learning
Missed a class? Loved a workshop so much that you want to relive it? As part of D.I.Y. Movie-Making, we’re filming other Ithaca Freeskool classes and making them available online for anyone who wants to participate.
Learn how to start a D.I.Y. circus with Tori and Lily who taught us how to make hula hoops, poi fire spinners and juggling balls on June 11, 2010.
Video: Trap, Neuter, Release with Kristin – Ithaca Freeskool Distance Learning
Missed a class? Loved a workshop so much that you want to relive it? As part of D.I.Y. Movie-Making, we’re filming other Ithaca Freeskool classes and making them available online for anyone who wants to participate.
Local animal advocate and TNR expert Kristin Lang demonstrates how to trap feral cats so that they can be spayed or neutered and returned to the wild. This class took place on June 22, 2010.
TIME CHANGE: Literary Gathering/Talking- Reading-Writing-&-Eating- Party!
Hi all, we hope you’re excited about the upcoming Freeskool session, beginning June 1st! Click here for class descriptions. The following class has had a time change:
Literary Gathering/Talking- Reading-Writing-&-Eating- Party!
Facilitator: Emily Rand (781)-608-4388
Location: 137 Fayette st. #1 in Ithaca!
NOTE CHANGE: Date/ Time: Thursday, June 3rd 9 p.m.
A time and place to enjoy words and sentences and poems and stories and songs and plays and each others’ brains and cooking. Bring something you love that you read (from your favorite book, maybe, or the wall of a public bathroom– you don’t have to bring the wall, just the words that were on it)! Bring your latest verbal creation to share! Bring an idea for a writing exercise or game we can do together! Bring a little piece of feast! Bring one of those things or some of them or all of them. I’ll try to bring at least one of each, probably more. We’re all of us and each of us the teacher.
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.
