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Radical Pedagogy for Teachers, EXCO Facilitators, Youth Workers, Community Educators and Organizers
This course will explore how teaching and pedagogy can create radical learning spaces for disrupting power, movement building and moblization.
The first half of the course will explore how capitalism, whiteness, heteronormative gender oppression, ageism, and other forms of oppression impact our abilities to create transformative learning spaces. We will address the issues we find most salient to our particular teaching/organzing contexts, make connections related to teaching and learning across these varied contexts. We will gear the readings and discussions toward those issues and connections. During the second half of the session, we will build our facilitator and pedagogical skills through practice, learn and share strategies and tactics for facilitating in anti-oppressive ways, and find concrete ways to further support each other in our future pedagogical work.
This class is for anyone who facilitates or wants to facilitate meetings, classrooms, youth programs, and other learning spaces.
We can address some of the following questions, depending on interest:
How can we productively address oppressive discourses as they arise in a learning space?
How do systems of oppression constrain our learning spaces, and how can we address some of these constraints through pedagogy?
What is learning, how do we know when it's happening, and how do we make it productive for social struggles?
How do we mobilize people through pedagogy?
How do we address the dominant, individualizing discourses that can shape the way we and others approach teaching and learning?
Class will consist of 10-25 pages of weekly reading and discussion, and snacks!
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The Flowing Tiger: A Modern Approach to Self Defense
The course is designed to teach students proven-effective techniques at defending against real-world threats. Curriculum includes:
-For Women: defending against unwanted advances and prevention.
-Defending against an armed attacker.
-Basic/intermediate striking: punches, kicks, blocks.
-The philosophical aspects of a passive, but strong self-defense
Students will also be asked to do a small research assignment on one aspect of martial arts history or a style that interests them personally.
This is a student-oriented class, specific and personal lessons may be granted upon request.
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Mind-Body Meditation, Spring 2012
Being calm in daily life can often be the difference between performing well and performing poorly. Meditation teaches us to calm our mind, even in the face of adversity and challenges. In this class, we will learn and practice a variety of meditations. Practiced regularly, these meditations help us to cultivate oneness of mind and body and true calmness in daily life.
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Complete Bicycle Overhaul at Cycles for Change (formerly Sibley Bike Depot) (May)
This intermediate class will build upon the skills taught in the Basic Bike Maintenance class and expand through overhauling an entire bicycle. It's recommended that students have taken the Basic class or have a similar beginning familiarity with bicycle repair. Participants will take apart, clean, and repack all bearing systems, including hubs, headsets, and bottom brackets. In addition, the will install new cables and housing on brakes and derailleurs as needed, and lubricate/adjust all shifting systems. In full, folks attending this class will learn how to perform a complete tune-up/overhaul of a bicycle. Participants will work with the same bike through the class, in order to see the complexities and intricacies of one specific bicycle. Note: All class participants will fix up SHOP BIKES during this class! Bikes fixed up will go into one of Sibley's many community programs designed to promote biking!
The class will be 5 Sundays: Apr 29 and May 6, 13, 20, and 27 from 5-7pm each day.
Please contact me with any questions!
Micah
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Basic Bike Maintenance at Cycles for Change formerly Sibley Bike Depot (April)
This class is designed as a complete introduction to the basics of maintaining your bicycle yourself. Learning to fix your own bike can save you money, ensure access to reliable transportation, and be a rewarding personal experience to understand how your vehicle functions. Participants aren’t expected to know anything beforehand – the only thing you need to bring is your lovely selves, your bike if you want, and a creative desire to learn!
In addition to providing technical explanations and building mechanical knowledge and confidence, this class will attempt to provide a basic overview of the role of community bike shops throughout the country and world, as we work to build sustainable transportation movements locally and globally.
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Screenprinting with Living Proof: Workshop for People of Color
This 2-day workshop will take place Saturday, March 31st and Sunday, April 1st from 1-4pm. thanks!
Participants are invited to join members of the Living Proof Print Collective for a two-day workshop covering the fundamentals of screenprinting exclusively for people of color. We will emphasize Do-It-Yourself (DIY) methods so folks can take their screenprinting skills out into their communities! Because of its DIY nature and capacity to efficiently create multiple copies of an image, screenprinting has historically been an art medium used to widely spread messages. We’re hosting this workshop specifically for people of color as a way to create a space to consider our positions as art-makers in our communities.
The first day, Saturday, March 31st 1-4pm we will focus on designing images to print and exposing screens. The next day, Sunday, April 1st 1-4pm we will be printing and sharing prints! By the end of the workshop, participants will make their image into a one-color print that they can put on paper or fabric to share and post widely and wildly. We will cover print shop basics, introduce materials and alternative inking and printing processes.
We are definitely open to participant input on class structure, though we will be cramming a ton into a short period of time so it would be great to hear from you with any questions or hopes before the actual workshop begins. We will be sending out some prep materials before the workshop and we encourage you to check these out to be more prepared for class when it starts.
IMPORTANT: Due to space limitations, we can only allow 6 participants for this 2-day workshop. Please sign up only if you can attend both days, in addition to self-identifying as a person of color and/or indigenous. We are planning to offer these again in the future so just let us know if you're interested in future workshops and we'll keep you in the loop.
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Awaken The Mantis: Self Defence with Pete Wong
Awaken the Mantis is a series of Self Defense classes taught by
Metropolitan State University alumnus, Pete K. Wong. In this series
practitioners will gain an introduction to applying martial arts in
their everyday lives as they are provided a foundation to acquire
the necessary skills for Self Defense and self-discipline through the
means of martial arts and community building.
Martial arts is a form of expressing yourself honestly with the goal
of safety and protection for yourselves or others. This can only be
achieved through constant monitoring, experimenting, building,
and repetition of the body.
These classes are FREE and OPEN to all staff, faculty, students, and
community members of Metropolitan State University!
Awaken the Mantis Inside you Today!
RESERVE YOUR PLACE BY CONTACTING:
Asian Student Organization President:
Gao Vang | vangga04@metrostate.edu
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Información de Cáncer
los miercoles, 5-7pm
Descubrir el cáncer y sobrevivir. Ésta clasees para todos que tienen interés en cáncer. Información cómo superar del cáncer y de la depresión. Será un grupo para discutir experiencias, para aprender ideas de la cura nuestras vidas diarias... ejercició para reanimarse, medicinas naturales
Reverence: Being Alive in the Sacred and Accountable to the All?
Is reverence about being alive in the sacred and being accountable to the all?
Does reverence precede religion?
If the basis of reverence originates from "do unto others as they would do unto you", does reverence exist?
The purpose of this class is to openly and deeply explore the true sacredness of reverence and bringing reverence into the place of a daily, ongoing process.
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