Santa Cruz Free Skool - calendar of classes for Winter 2010, collectively hand drawn.

About their project:

Free Skool Santa Cruz is a completely grassroots, collective effort to create an autonomous, mutual support network beyond institutional control. This is not just another alternative school, but a radically different approach to living and learning. Classes are informal, egalitarian, and are held in homes, social spaces, and parks. It is our opportunity to learn from each other and share what we know, to help create self-reliance, vital communities, and beauty in the world.

More than an opportunity to learn, we see Free Skool as a direct challenge to dominant institutions and hierarchical relationships. Part of creating a new world is resistance to the old one, to the relentless commodification of everything, including learning and the way we relate to each other.

A central aspect of our project is the refusal of the set roles of pupil, instructor, organizer, and the taking back of our capacity to learn for ourselves.

If Free Skool brings you a little closer to liberation, we are thrilled by your participation in the project.