Next London FreeSchool / Call out for workshops

The London FreeSchool collective has decided to organise another week-end of skillsharing on March 6-7.
This will be the fifth London FreeSchool event since september 2008. We had tons of workshops, hosted in many different social centres scattered around london and lots of very diverse people doing and attending workshops!

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This next free school is organised around issues of gender oppression and emancipation, but in a very particular way. We are open to all manner of workshops, discussions, seminars, etc. which aren't specifically about feminism or gender, however, whatever the workshop (origami, stoic philosophy, language lessons) there would be an engagement with how gender figures into what is being learned.

This calls for interesting facilitation, and could be done in many different ways - it's up to you.
Although we want the workshops to end with a kind of debrief wherein participants review the gender politics at play in the experience.
The idea is to get a wide range of people coming, including some that have not been in feminist spaces before, and integrate these issues into more general activities.

The workshops can be way to directly engage with how gender oppression affects what is possible, not possible, and how this still matters. The intention is to upset the traditional ways abilities, skills and access to conventional power are tied to "male", while emotional labour, and certain abilities are tied to "female". Enough, let's have a free school!

So if you're up for it, please contact us with a short description of what you have in mind.

you can:
- send an email to londonfreeschool at riseup.net
- come to one of our next meeting. The next meetings will be on Thursday 28th Jan 7pm(195 Mare st in Hackney) and Thursday 11th Feb.
- publish a comment on our blog http://londonfreeschool.wordpress.com

Deadline for workshops proposal is Feb. 11.

Contact:
londonfreeschool at riseup.net
to join our infoline text "freeschool" to 07905774037See our blog to know more about the project:
http://londonfreeschool.wordpress.com

Links:

http://londonfreeschool.wordpress.com

Contact email: londonfreeschool at riseup.net