Now soliciting class proposals for any-time, all-the-time!

Who is ready to get rolling on learning all those things that you listed in your new year's resolutions? 2010 starts a decade of ABQ Freeschool.

There are so many talents and skills in the community of Albuquerque — share what you got, learn what you want! Don't hesitate to create a "class" of your own: if you're reading this, then you know something that others would like to learn. Want to study a particular topic with others? Make it a freeschool series! Important resources currently include: the Calendar, the Facebook and Duke City Fix groups, and the Teacher form! The social networking groups are useful for sharing ideas for classes, etc, on the discussion boards. You may want to browse through the links on the right side to other Freeschools for ideas on what this one could look like, directions it may move in, and potential classes.

There is no freeschool bureaucracy, no controlling organization. You are freeschool. To participate, all you have to do is share your ideas. Specifics currently needed:

• print and distribute flyers, get the word out. UPDATE: zip of flyer files! Also needed are people to approach organizations/businesses that might be interested in offering something to the Freeschool, or plugging into it as a forum to spread free education. Talk to your groups!
  
• class offerings! big or small, one workshop, or a series of a dozen academic study groups. What's your idea? Anyone can teach a class in anything they want. Didn't fancy yourself a teacher? Then re-fancy, 'cuz you are.
  
• others interested in helping to manage online tasks (calendar, websites, email, etc)
• free events already going on that could be listed on the calendar? Send 'em in! Know of a knitting club that meets biweekly at a cafe? Great, let us know! Free screening of a documentary on hippos in Africa? Let's hear it.

Send an email to freeschoolburque to help with any of these. We'll be happy to share the file for the general flyer. If you're teaching or facilitating a class, consider making flyers for your class specifically. No one else is gonna do it for you (unless you ask nicely, perhaps). Now for a relevant quote:

It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life. -John Holt (author and educator)

Learning is life.

Now accepting class proposals for Dec/Jan!

Oops! Mosaics is postponed, stay tuned for the rescheduled date. 

Albuquerque Freeschool and Skillshare is now open for (un)business! Below you will find a link to a form for submitting proposals for all your knowledge-sharing brilliance. Please read the form well in order to have an idea of what may be expected of you.

Expect to see offerings for bicycle maintenance, figure drawing, brewing kombucha, juggling club, creative writing and more! A kick-off potluck is under consideration. Stay alert for flyers and such around town, as well — and don't hesitate to email us if you could help out with making/printing/distributing flyers, have questions about attending a class, teaching a class, or anything else!

Click here for the teacher/facilitator form: TEACH!

The Calendar is now online, hooray! Calendar. Please RSVP to teachers if you plan on attending a class, so that they know who/what to expect.

A Facebook group is waiting for you, too: Join it! There is a discussion group where folks can list the things they are capable of teaching, and things that they want to learn. Add to it, don't be shy. You mouse, you. And just to extend the social networking cool points for Freeschool Burque, join the Duke City Fix group, too!

Albuquerque is growing a Freeschool!

We will share our knowledge, our skills, our resources. We will court community self-reliance. You don't need to be an expert, you don't need certification. We are all in this together, collaborate! Give this little seed some water. Give this little seed some compost. Give this little seed some New Mexican sunshine.