2011 WORKSHOP LIST
for the Davis People's Free School
Winter Workshops (Jan-Mar 2011)
| "Guitar" with Erica (5 max attendants) |
| Contact: [email protected] |
| Location: Address released once enrolled |
| Description: Aimed toward people with no guitar experience. We will explore a few basic chords, fingering positions, and rhythmical styles that could be used for songwriting. Vocal improvisation may also be explored. Small group format, limited to 5 students. |
| Date & Time: Jan 4, 11, 18, 25, Feb 1, 5-6 pm |
| "Introductory Meditation" with Ray |
| Contact: [email protected] |
| Location: Pine Grove in Arboretum (Lobby in Olson if raining) |
| Description: The focus will be to devote positive time and space so students will be able to discover how best to use their own energy. Initial focus will be on breathing and posture, followed by energy visualization and channeling. |
| Date & Time: Mon 10-11 am, Tues 1-2 pm |
| "Introduction to Massage" with Kurt |
| Contact: [email protected] |
| Location: Domes Yurt |
| Description: Learn how to share your own healing touch. There will be a series of independent workshops, each one open to everyone but the last workshop comprehensive and only open to people who have attended the previous sessions. Workshop topic included with date. |
| Date & Time: Jan 12 (Arms, hands), 26 (Neck, scalp, face), Feb 9 (Legs, feet), 23 (Back), March 9 (Full body, only for attendants of previous sessions), 8-9 pm |
| "Hand-sewing Clothes Alteration" with Aria |
| Contact: [email protected] |
| Location: Pierce Living Room, Tri-co-ops (TB-14 Regan Hall Circle) |
| Description: We will offer various useful types of hand-stitches for mending or altering garments. It is for total sewing beginners to anyone who wants to learn! We will go over 5 types of stitches, including types of hemming, how to darn holes, and what the strongest hand-stitch is. Students can bring clothes with them that have problems and I can, to the best of my ability, teach them how to fix it! |
| Date & Time: Jan 22, 1 pm |
| "Acro Yoga" with Tom |
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| Description: We will start with yoga for warm-up and end with Thai massage. |
| Date & Time: Tuesdays 5-7 pm (of December) |
| "Witchcraft & Tarot" with Amber (15 max attendants) |
| Contact: [email protected] |
| Location: Address released once enrolled |
| Description: Join us for a talk about the history and practice of Wicca and tarot. |
| Date & Time: Thursdays 7 pm |
| "Cooking Different Cuisines" with Amber (15 max attendants) |
| Contact: [email protected] |
| Location: Address released once enrolled |
| Description: Learn basic cooking techniques for different cuisines, such as Middle Eastern, Mexican, Indian, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, and homestyle. Attendants should bring their own ingredients or money for ingredients. |
| Date & Time: Sundays 5 pm |
| "Anarchist Knitting" with Megan |
| Contact: [email protected] |
| Location: Address released once enrolled |
| Description: The first two sessions will focus on the knitting basics (essential for beginning knitters, but experienced knitters will learn plenty of new things too). Later sessions will be more project-oriented, geared toward folks who already know how to knit and purl. |
| Date & Time: Jan 4, 11, 18, 25, Feb 1, 5-6 pm |
| "Yoga for the Rest of Us" with Greg (6-8 attendants) |
| Contact: [email protected] |
| Location: Address released once enrolled |
| Description: If you always wondered if yoga was right for you but didn't feel you had the ability, were too embarrassed or couldn't afford the classes, this one is for you. This is a yoga class where we together design personal yoga routines individualized to each person's ability range and and which are an effective point to begin. |
| Date & Time: Determined based on enrollment (2 hrs, 3 meetings) |
| "Community Change Strategies to Meet the Future" with Greg (10-12 attendants) |
| Contact: [email protected] |
| Location: Address released once enrolled |
| Description: In this class we will explore probable future scenarios, evaluate how well current efforts are moving to accommodate this change, and then develop realistic strategies to move this process in the most effective directions. The class will be facilitated so that each person will have an opportunity to contribute. |
| Date & Time: Determined based on enrollment (2 hrs, 6 meetings) |
| "Affordable Solar, Conservation and Food Production For the Davis Home" with Greg (6-8 attendants) |
| Contact: [email protected] |
| Location: Address released once enrolled |
| Description: In this hands on class we will survey affordable ideas for making a low carbon footprint homestead in Davis. Topic will include Solar air and water heat as well as electricity, rain water and grey water recycling, edible landscaping, and conservation measures such as retrofit windows, pex plumbing, etc. These ideas will be demonstrated and students will have the opportunity to participate in building some of them. |
| Date & Time: Determined based on enrollment (2-3 hrs, 6 meetings) |
| "Bee Charming" with Derek (10-20 attendants) |
| Contact: [email protected] |
| Location: Village Homes (contact teacher for directions) |
| Description: Learn many lessons from the hive and how you can support this super-organism in its time of need. |
| Date & Time: Determined based on enrollment (Jan 15, Jan 29, or Feb 5, noon-1:30 with honey tasting intermission) |
| "5 (or more) Ways to COMPOST" with Derek (10-20 attendants) |
| Contact: [email protected] |
| Location: Village Homes Compost Demonstration Site (contact teacher for directions) |
| Description: Bio-intensive composting, worm composting, sheet-composting, trench composting, and chickens will be covered, with additional methods to consider. |
| Date & Time: Determined based on enrollment (Jan 15, Jan 29, or Feb 5, noon-1:30) |
| "Spanish Conversation Night" with Sonia & Megan |
| Contact: [email protected] |
| Location: Delta of Venus (122 B Street) |
| Description: ¡Bienvenidos estudiantes de español! This weekly 2-hour workshop is for anyone who has a desire to practice their conversational Spanish, no matter what level you're at. Even if you don't know Spanish, you're welcome to sit in and listen - just keep English to a minimum, please. Feel free to drop in at any time and any week, as this workshop is not a series. ¡Nos vemos pronto! |
| Date & Time: Tuesdays 6-7:30 pm |
| "The Bike Collective" with Robbie |
| Contact: [email protected] |
| Location: The Bike Collective (1221 ½ 4th Street, corner of 4th and L) |
| Description: A hands-on workshop teaching the different parts of the bicycle. The first workshop will be an overall beginning class and will be followed by classes on more specific parts of the bicycle. |
| Date & Time: Third Mondays 6-8 pm |
| Jan 17 (Intro to bike), Feb 21 (Bottom bracket), March 21 (Wheel maintenance), April 18 (Drive train), May 16 (Brakes & shifters), June 20 (Frame alignment), July 18 (Wheel building part 1), Aug 15 (Wheel building part 2) |
| "Body of Knowledge" with Karl Frost |
| Contact: [email protected] |
| Location: University Club (Old Davis Road/Arboretum Dr.) |
| Description: This workshop will introduce material from Body Research's upcoming performance works, Body of Knowledge and Axolotl, both being investigations of our sense of selves in relationship to others in the world. Material from the workshops will include connecting body awareness to emotional states and tracking subtle details of body use and reaction and seeing how these subtle, unconscious actions create who we are in the world. |
| Date & Time: Mondays 8:30-11 pm, starting Jan 10 – Feb 14 |
| "Women Trans Friends (WTF) Bike Repair" with Sarah |
| Contact: [email protected] |
| Location: Bike Forth (corner of 4th & L St. |
| Description: WTF is a gender-positive space where you can share your experiences in the bicycling world and learn how to fix your bike. Every week, we begin by explaining how to repair a different part of the bike. Then, you can either work on your own bike project, or practice applying what you just learned on one of our donated bikes. |
| Date & Time: Sundays 4-6 pm |
| Jan 9 (Wheels), 16 (Brakes), 23 (Bottom bracket, cranks, and pedals), 30 (Derailleur, chains, and shifters), Feb 6 (Headset, handlebars, and fork), then begin with wheels again |
