hammertime

=Hammer Time Free School= Fort Collins, CO

**Free School** is an opportunity for people of all identities to come together to share knowledge in a non-commercial, decentralized setting to strengthen community. Education is (or can be) a way to achieve transformation, equality and freedom in its truest sense. Everybody has something to teach and something to learn. By stepping out of our traditional teacher/student roles (as Paulo Freire would suggest), we can strengthen self-reliance and the DIY (do-it-yourself) ethic. By sharing our skills and talents, as well as knowledge and information usually only accessible in expensive institutional settings, we can break away from the commodification and hierarchy of education, and start building  a more interdependent, interdisciplinary way of leaning as a process of transforming ourselves and our society.  Classes have included oil changing, bike repairs, Marx lectures, veganism, street art, wind power, tool safety, know your rights, sewing, film studies, political theory, cointelpro, and much, much more!
 * __Mission Statement__**

**__Free Schools __**
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 * We do a once per week free school, at this point no ongoing classes as to make it fair for everyone who wants to teach.
 * Classes are chosen in a rather informal consensus style discussion once a month during our Friday meetings on a first come first serve basis by our volunteers
 * No classes are denied as long as they do not contain overtly oppressive content.
 * We typically teach at our facility but have also taught at real universities, coffee shops, houses, parks, and any place with the space. As much as we don't like teaching in environments where there is a product that was being pushed (ie a coffee shop) it's real easy to get those spaces because it benefits them as well.
 * Outreach includes a monthly handmade calendar we print and distribute to as many places as we can get to, email lists, social networking sites, craigslist.org, couchsurfing.com,
 * Here's a list of our fundraising events/ideas. Some pertain to if you have your own space while others are for everyone. Feel free to rip them off and alter them in whatever form you would like!
 *    Open house + silent auction (lots of stuff from donors, jazz band, snacks, shwank.)
 *    Bar games - youtube dance party, veggie dawg contest, speed dating
 *    Restaurant Games - eating contest (tacos?)
 *    Movie Nights
 *    Block party/festivals
 *    Bake sales
 *    Fat guy car wash
 *    Cupcake/Chile contests
 *    Sexy Calendars
 *    Open mics
 *    Bike Races/Games (jousting, bike toss, little kid bike race, fire jumping)
 *    Anything with prizes (by genre - bike race = bike places, etc)
 * <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">   Parties at shitty places (Frats.)
 * <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">   Film Festival (lend out camera to friends, compete in 5-10 min shorts)
 * <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">   Art show/sale/auction
 * <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">   Turtle/Dog race – turles, or whatever, in a circle, racing out. Prizes?
 * <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">   Kissing booth

Feel free to contact us with any questions!"

[] electronic mail: hammertimeprojects+freeschool (at) gmail.com