Free Skool 2022 Summer Session info available now! Go to https://freeskoolsantacruz.wordpress.com/ with abundance of info and list of classes. 25 great offerings (and more when 2nd opportunity to submit classes opens in mid-July for August/September of the 2022 summer session). Download hand drawn copy of calendar and list of classes on other side.
Part of creating a new world is resistance to the old one, including the ways we learn and relate to each other. And let’s enjoy the summer together!
< First many days of classes! >
-Fábrica Open Hours – Saturdays / 2-5 p.m. and Mondays / 1-4 p.m. with Fábrica Collective (thefabrica@thefabrica.org)
Location: The Fábrica, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA
Description: The Fábrica is a community workspace where folks can come to learn and share knowledge about textiles arts. This includes Sewing, Knitting, Quilting, Embroidery, Crochet, and Bookbinding, among others. The workshop is operated by volunteers and funded by donations from participants.
Materials: We have sewing machines as well as generous amounts of fabric, zippers, notions, and the other tools and supplies one needs for most sewing and yarn-based projects. There is no charge to use the shop, but please consider a $5-10 donation to help with our operating costs.
Accessibility: Classes will take place in the courtyard or shop space of the Fabrica. The shop and courtyard are level with the sidewalk, with no steps up or down. A flexible range of participation is available and no previous sewing experience is needed. If you want to participate in the hands-on part of the class, it involves sitting in a chair at a table for 10-15 minutes at a time, some manual dexterity, and moderate to high visual acuity. The class will use spoken English and there will not be a sign language interpreter but you can bring interpreters or support people of any kind you may need. The Fabrica is approximately 450 feet from the Metro Station downtown, with city sidewalks with regular curb cuts between the station and the Fabrica.
-Practicing Abolitionist Principles in daily life & Lgbtqi+ Inmate snail mail workshops – Every second Sunday, June 12th, July 10th, August 14th, September 11th / time 1-4:30 p.m. with Stephanie/Burrito (Little.Burrito@yahoo.com)
Location: The Slough Brewing Collective, 65 Hangar Way, Watsonville, CA
Description: These courses will be open conversations about the ways we can reach out and advocate for LGBTQI+ Inmates, sharing statistics, the cycles of entering incarceration and the prison system, and how we can shift our way of engaging with others around us, approach and resolve conflicts in ways that no longer adhere to structures of the carceral state (cancel culture, detention, time out, silent treatment, “ghosting” etc.) the classes include art as a healing form and we will be making letters, photography, postcards and other pieces of snail mail to send to LGBTQI+ Prisoners!
Donations are always welcome to help fund the postcards and materials! If people are interested in directly sending funds to inmate commissary we will have a qr code that leads to that.
Materials: We will have some postcards and materials available, most prisons only accept color pencils and ballpoint pen.
-Really Really Free Market – Every second Sunday, June 12th, July 10th, August 14th, September 11th / 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. with the Really Really Free Market Crew. (subrosa@riseup.net)
Location: SubRosa Courtyard, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA
Description: ¡Tianguis Realmente Gratuito! Todo es gratis. Really Really Free Market – 11am-2pm. No money. No trades. Everything is free. This gathering is not about the “stuff” we give and take, but more about how we can freely give and receive from each other. ¡Todo gratis! No intercambio de dinero, no negocios, no trueques. Trae lo que gustes, toma lo que necesites. Este mercado gratuito es basado en una economía de regalar.
-Queer Yoga – Wednesday June 15th / 5-6 p.m. with Sapphire Yoga Collective (chloe.m.rosen@gmail.com or instagram @sapphireyogacollective)
Location: Ocean View Park, Santa Cruz, CA
Description: This is an all-levels yoga flow for queer, trans, and nonbinary identified folks. No prior experience necessary. The class incorporates traditional yogic practices including philosophy, meditation, pranayama (breathing) and asana (physical postures) — which stem from India — through a queer/abolitionist lens. Queer spaces are INVALUABLE, and queer yoga spaces, in particular, are radical by nature, as connection with the mind/body/spirit is essential in caring for oneself and thus practicing collective/community care.
Donations are kindly appreciated to compensate teachers for thoughtful preparation. Any donations appreciated.
Materials: Yoga mat or towel, water, blocks (if needed).
-Queer Poetry in the Forest – Thursday, June 16th, 23rd, 30th / 6-8 p.m. with River Eisenbach (They/Them)
Location: meet at Pogonip at the Spring Street entrance, Santa Cruz, CA
Description: In this class we will read poems from various queer and trans poets in an outdoor space. We will read poetry, discuss said poems, and write our own poetry as well. We will explore queer theory, the concepts of how the personal is political, nature, and analysis of poetry.
-Socialist Stitch and Bitch – Every third Sunday, June 19th, July 17th, August 21st, September 18th / 2-3:30 p.m. with Vicki Winters (instagram: @dsasantacruz.org, onyourleft2@gmail.com)
Location: Tabby Cat Cafe, 1101 Cedar Street, Santa Cruz, CA
Description: Join us for a session of hand stitching and the ruthless critique of all that exists! (co-sponsored by DSA Santa Cruz Auntie Fa Caucus).
Materials: Bring along your own embroidery, knitting, crochet, or other other handwork. Beginners welcome! Yarn, needles, thread and fabric will be supplied if you want to learn to knit or creative mending.
-Herbal Mutual Aid: Community Medicine-Making – Monday, June 20th / 5 p.m. with Michelle G. (https://schma.weebly.com/)
Location: SubRosa Courtyard, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA
Description: Join us to make herbal medicine for distribution through Food Not Bombs and other community events! We will bring the plant friends and supplies. Please only come if you are feeling well and please bring a mask!
-T-shirt Screen Printing – Tuesday June 21st / 2 p.m. with KID (Verdantmiasma@gmail.com)
Location: SubRosa Courtyard, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA
Description: Do you love art AND wear clothes?! Well, with screenprinting you can turn your art INTO clothes! You can even just print words in a cool font or random meaningless shapes or something! Who’s going to stop you? Anybody can do it! Come get messy and learn about how fun and frustrating it is to make your new favorite shirt! An info zine will be provided and a live communal print demo will be going down so bring stuff to print on and stuff to print in!
Materials: Stuff to print on!
–B40 and Before B40 – Wednesday, June 22nd / 6 p.m. with Blaize & Michelle (michelle.glowa@gmail.com)
Location: starts at Goss Ave. & N. Branciforte Ave. intersection (walking tour), Santa Cruz, CA
Description: If we look back to the past of our world, we can see that 1973 was an inflection point, a moment when things that had been going in one direction changed course and curved (abruptly and radically) the other way. Approximately 25,000 people live in Aulinta, formerly Santa Cruz. The buildings of the former downtown were moved out of the liquefacting floodplain after the 1989 earthquake. The downtown floodplain and the creeks that feed it are now in an ongoing program of painstaking restoration back into viable and vibrant seasonal wetlands, coastal prairie, and redwood forests. Come learn about B40 as it is in Aulinta and explore who you are in this new world.
Accessibility: There is a steep grade, and we will be walking on dirt.
And many more classes in the weeks ahead!
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