Agenda
-expanding classes
-the free art’scool
-required/recommended courses and student groups
-ongoing projects; space prop, video proj, website, databases, econ classes
-red square idea
Expanding Classes
- Having free’scool most days of the week, do more things, more varied, make sundays more of a regroup day. Maybe core classes or ongoing discussion, or vote on what we work on that day
- There are other projects we can do on other days. What days work for people for different things
- The Free Art’scool class will happen on Wednesdays 5 pm - 11 pm at St. James Park, starting August 8th
5 pm - general visual art period: different artists with different styles. People can participate with the artists or just watch. Some artists are good instructors, some more just doing their own thing. There will also be crafts.
7pm - structured drama class, lead by Veronica
9 pm - ceremony and then music jam
- Supplies will come from the artists themselves and a bit from Veronica
- i thought it was interesting we talked about before to talk about ceremony, and at 9 we can do something simple, acknowledge censorship and issues of free speech. i feel the drama class will come up with it, and then after the music jam. good place for people to gather with their instruments and be welcoming for amateurs, not a lot of structure. Just the drama class and ceremony would be structured. Artists could start a structured course from there.
*careful of noise complaints
- Other than that, we should wait to change too much for this September because it will be taking on too much too quick
- However we can consolidate some ideas for the future, such as...
monday have various classes, and also semiotics and also graffiti or street/interactive art
-could bring things like economics into it with elitist and confusing academic language to discourage people from entering a certain topic
tuesday - human rights and mtg
wednesday - arts’cool and project building day
thursday - various classes
friday - feel good day, yoga, spirituality
saturday - field trips
Space and Outreach
chris- alternative thinkings has space where they often have free classes, and also gets into comm they are building. important to think about what we want to create and what we need to create it. we should talk to org.s and communities that we know and talk about expanding and report back here. i will talk to ____ for example.
Veronica - Sketch was busy with expansion and grants - i’m just waiting for the email to meet.
jo - what differs free artscool from sketch is that we are more intergenerational - can use that as an argument
roxy - we should talk to idea sessions
This Sunday
Roxy - i want to move Understanding Resistance to 6-8 slot because we usually have two classes there anyways and people usually disappear after 8
Dix - i wanted to talk about the structure of the economics class, problem with talking about how important it is to have it, but no one follows through. Not good to have these class conflicts, people are tired, etc. i don’t think it should be my responsibility to push this class because i have a language barrier. i have been very frustrated with how things have done. i want to bring economics into a wider perspective. Can’t do it when no one wants to join the discussion.
Laura - i think also, it could help to have it as an indoor class and we can also have more than one facilitator
chris - maybe it should be shorter because attention span seems to wane
jo - economics relates to many other topics, maybe run econ through other lenses, agree with suggestions, also having readings. i’d like to collaborate with you - how to get out of just theory, similarities with human rights
L- we did interdisciplinary education at my school, works very well
roxy - applies to the freescool trying to build our economy as an organization
nico - what if econ was one hour sometime during the week and then a half hour on sunday
Dix - what if democracy was only an hour and a half and econ is 4:30 - 5:30
Chris - i want to have projects that the students decide themselves
Roxy - we should dialogue with economists
jo- can provide readings too
Dix - we could move it to 4:30 for now, and i would do mimetics, put up article, discuss how politicians use propaganda, i would like someone to co-facilitate
chris - problem with base knowledge of econ, people don’t know, joined with problem of regular attendence. I want to go more classes
jo - you can help with facilitation, don’t need to know the expertise
nico - i think what needs to change is that theres no concurrent class
roxy - there were requests for multiple classes so there were more options at a given time
wilsun - we can chill if we don’t want to take a class. bottom line we are too low numbers for multiple classes
chris - democracy is a strong class, maybe a later slot for that and have econ earlier and see if that makes a difference
r - had this issue before
v- you suggested shortening classes, maybe this sunday for one hour this is a good discussion and those that want to more on to next class can move on to that, and the more dedicated students will be more committed that way.
dix - the most important thing is to be able to discern what is bullshit in the economic discourse today
jo - so why don’t we have two classes : big brother econ and creative econ
dix - i worked in international trade and ran entrepreneurial
laura- i’ll help facilitate econ
*need to confirm changes with TLs not present before finalizing next sundays schedule.
Website
nico - people in Montreal did something similar and there is a really good website platform for this kind of thing
chris - site will have resources and courses
