Northbay Free School is a de-centralized network of programs which offers the people an education of "Right Knowledge" including:
- Community building
- Small-scale agriculture- Personal expression and empowerment- History and global topics
Free School classes [updated 2012-01-15]:
Indoor Seed Starting Class
Richmond Grows
Tuesday, January 31st from 6:30-8:30pm
Richmond Public Library, Community Room
325 Civic Center Plaza, Richmond
Cost: Free
*** Please register at: http://richmondgrow sjan31.eventbrit e.com/***
Get a head start on tomatoes and peppers! Learn how to start your vegetable garden inside to get a jumpstart on your garden. We will cover the basics, from preparing your equipment through hardening-off the seedlings in preparation for transplanting.
For more information about Richmond Grows – please visit: www.richmondgrows. org/
*** Please register for the free class at: http://richmondgrow sjan31.eventbrit e.com/***
Witchcraft 101
[http://www.meetup.com/Tailends/]
7-9PM, every 2nd Friday of the month
Contact: witchyzing1955 @ yahoo.com
Location: The Red Raven magic shop [http://www.redraventreasures.com/index.html]
1505 Louisiana Street Vallejo, CA 94590
(707) 558-0808
The Red Raven takes donations for the space they are providing, but none will be turned away for lack of funds.
What to bring:
*$2.00 to cover expenses, such as paper and printing.
*Paper and pen to take notes, a folder to carry home handouts.
My intention is to present a series of classes about The Craft. We will begin with a bit of history. From there we move into ritual and its elements. All throughout this will be a generous sprinkling of actual ritual and energy workings. And more, there's always more!
Other Free School networks:
2012-01-10 "Free to be you and me; CAREERS AND EDUCATION: From self defense to GED prep, no-fee courses for the 99 percent" by Caitlin
[http://www.sfbg.com/print/2012/01/10/free-be-you-and-me]
FREE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Like many progressive organization, this year-old network of unpaid teachers and unpaying students has found new energy in Occupy's protests. Unlike many, it's not stumbling when it comes to the next step in the movement. FUSF has teamed with Occupiers to develop its upcoming round of five-week classes, which will start in February. At press time, courses included "Introduction to Political Economy," a class on subversive writers, and Chuck Sperry's "Occupy Art" guide to bringing down the system with propaganda design.
Spring term: Feb. 5-March 4. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Viracocha, 998 Valencia, SF. www.freeuniversitysf.org [2]
IMPACT BAY AREA
Some education strengthens your mind — some education strengthens your soul. Into the latter category falls self defense non-profit Impact Bay Area's free-to-the-public "Introduction to Personal Safety" classes. Open to ages 12 and up at Sports Basements across the Bay Area, the course teaches you how to keep your eyes open when walking the neighborhoods, with the end goal of living life with less fear and more fun.
Next class: Feb. 8, 6-8 p.m. Register at www.eventbrite.com/event/2704831223 [3]. Sports Basement, 1590 Bryant, SF. www.impactbayarea.org [4]
Get assertive at Impact Bay Area's free self defense class. PHOTO COURTESY BAY AREA IMPACT
EAST BAY FREE SKOOL
Not to state the obvious, but we live in the Bay Area. Henceforth, we can stop looking at learning the Spanish language as an extracurricular activity, and more as something that we can do to bring our community closer together. That's exactly the motivation behind the East Bay Free Skool's Spanish-English Collective, an educational meet-up which unites bilingual teachers and students for some real pragmatic, communication-based learning. Free Skool is big on knowledge that brings the 99 percent together — check its website for other amazing free classes, from anti-gentrification workshops to herbal medicine primers.
Various venues, Bay Area. tiny.cc/ebfreeskool [5]
CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO
At many of CCSF's 10-plus campuses across the city, you can take courses absolutely free of charge — and sign up for them at any point in the semester. What can you learn? GED prep, introductory construction skills, economics, US contemporary writers, and tai chi, to name but a few of the offerings. How has this vast resource network escaped the chopping block in California's beleaguered public school system? We almost don't want to press the issues — let's just sign up while these courses still exist.
Various campuses, SF. www.ccsf.edu [6]
CW ANALYTICAL
You've planted your own garden, gotten your card, and are committed to heightening endocannabinoid levels in your medical marijuana patient family and friends — but do you really know what you're doing making weed edibles? This marijuana laboratory offers intermittent classes for the cannabis food newbie or vet that teach about quality control, presentation, and applicable regulations.
Next class: "Labeling Your Medical Edible," Jan. 19, noon. RSVP to reserve class space and to emily@cwanalytical.com [7]. (510) 545-6984, www.cwanalytical.com [8]
Eastbay Freeskool
[http://eastbayfreeskool.wikia.com]
Free University of San Francisco
[http://fusf.wordpress.com/]
- The following video shows the introductions of the participants at the initial organizing meeting for FUSF: [http://charleskruger.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/excitement-san-francisco-free-university/]
- 2011-01-11 "Revolution 101 - CAREERS AND ED ISSUE: Free University of San Francisco takes a run at the system" by Caitlin Donohue from "San Francisco Bay Guardian" newspaper:
[http://www.sfbg.com/2011/01/11/revolution-101]
The Historic First Teach-in of THE FREE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
All courses here listed take place at Viracocha, 998 Valencia Street@21st,
the Mission District, SF, CA Other locations & courses TBA.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2011
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Sat., 9:30-11:30 AM “Criminal Procedure and Sentencing”
Instructor: MATT GONZALEZ is an attorney and former president of San Francisco County's Board of Supervisors.
Sat. 11:30-1:30 “Jack Kerouac, Thelonious Monk and Jackson Pollack”
Instructor: ALAN KAUFMAN is author of Matches (Little, Brown), Jew Boy (Fromm/FSG) and editor of ‘The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry’ and ‘The Outlaw Bible of American Literature/co-edited with Barney Rosset (Basic Books/Perseus)
Sat., 2-4 PM “Vision and the Visionary Poem”
Instructor: DIANE DI PRIMA is the Poet Laureate of San Francisco and a Beat legend.
She is the author of 43 books of poetry and prose, including Pieces of a Song (City Lights) and her memoir, “Recollections of My Life as a Woman” (Viking/Penguin).
Sat. 2-4PM "San Francisco Labor History and the Great Strike of 1934"
Instructor: BOBBY COLEMAN is an attorney and co-founder of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011
Sun., 9-11:00 AM “Restoring San Francisco's Urban Wildlands”
Instructors: MARTIN HOLDEN is a writer, restoration ecologist, and partner in University Press Books, Berkeley. SHARON BEALS is a Bay Area environmentalist and professional photographer, specializing in native habitats and restoration efforts. Her most recent book, Nest: Fifty Nests and the Birds that Built Them (Chronicle Books) will be in bookstores in May.
Sun: 11:30-1:30 RE/Search Publications: V. Vale and Charles Gatewood
V.VALE , publisher of RE/Search Publications and CHARLES GATEWOOD, legendary underground photographer will present and discuss. The books in the RE/Search library are a constant source of imagination, curiosity and challenge to all preconceived notions of the world. An abiding interest in transgressive lifestyles manifested RE/Search’s best-selling volume Modern Primitives, as well as Modern Pagans and Angry Women.
Presented will be a 25 minute DVD in which Vale explains the conception and growth of the ideas behind "Modern Primitives," as well as giving a small publishing history of RE/Search. San Francisco photographer Charles Gatewood has been studying and documenting alternative culture since the mid-1960s. In 1977, Gatewood began collaborating with V. Vale, and he was a major contributor to the Re/Search books Modern Primitives and Modern Pagans.
Sun., 2-4PM “Abolishing Corporate Personhood to Create Authentic Democracy”
Instructor: DAVID COBB was the Green Party candidate for President of The United States in 2004. He is currently a national spokesperson for Move To Amend, a national coalition calling for a constitutional amendment to abolish of “Corporate Personhood."
PHILOSOPHY COURSE SCHEDULE:
Monday, February 7, 6-7:45 PM:
TITLE: Marx from Modernity to Postmodernity (labor, time, fantasy)
LECTURER: Susan Shin Hee Park
OBJECTIVE: use a Cultural Studies approach to engage students in a discourse about a theoretical topic with immediate socio-political, concrete applications
Monday, February 7, 8-9:45
John Cage and the Spirit of Dada
Instructor: John Smalley
This class examines the life and work of American composer John Cage (1912–1992) in relation to the early 20th-century avant-garde art movement known as Dada.
Tuesday, February 8, 6-7:50 PM
Lecturers: Jordan Bohall and Elena Granik
Title: Critical Thinking (Introduction to Logic)
This special session of “Critical Thinking” aims to give a thorough understanding of the rudiments of logic.
Tuesday, February 8, 8-10 PM
Introduction to Nietzsche
Lecturers: Evan Karp and Andrew Paul Nelson
Brief introduction to the life of Friedrich Nietzsche, with a reading of select passages from various works with a special emphasis on Thus Spoke Zarathustra and a discussion on the themes and style that make this book so unique and important.
STAY TUNED FOR MANY MORE CLASSES, COURSE TITLES AND OTHER DETAILS....AND PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS HISTORIC OCCASION! Your attendance is your stand against the corporate privatization of university education. Join us!
