Dear Friends,

Are you going to be able to make it to the Free Skool weekend in Santa Cruz in January? It'll be the weekend of January 20th and 21st. You might already know we're doing our quarterly Community Potluck and Running a Free Skool workshop. It's not only a good opportunity to talk about free skools, but a great excuse for us to make connections with radical folks far and wide. We've been wanting to do a lot more outreach and connection building as we hit our two year mark.

Some of this info you might already have if you have the current free skool calendar, but here it is again:


Saturday January 20th kicks off a special Free Skool weekend with our Free Skool Community Picnic noon at Ocean View Park. This is our quarterly potluck where students, teachers, organizers, and community member get together to enjoy food, music, and companionship with new and old friends. We have fun, we meet people, we eat, we talk, we have workshops, we play soccer.

The next day, Sunday January 21st, we are hosting our Running a Free Skool workshop at noon at the Big Yellow House. It is our opportunity to hear from other free skools, from students, from teachers, and to discuss what we've done right, wrong, or otherwise. We host folks from Free Skools elsewhere to come for the weekend. Last spring, folks came down from Portland, Berkeley, and Olympia. Hope you can make it!


Again, we can make a weekend of it, with a campfire on Friday night. We'll be happy to put you up at the Redwood House in Felton. Bring basic sleeping stuff. Feel free to email for directions, pickup, etc.

Actually, at the end of this quarter will be our two year anniversary and we'd like to make it a big deal, so we hope we'll see you there to help celebrate with us.

Love,
Free Skool Santa Cruz

P.S. Check out this quarter's calendar if you haven't already. 68 classes?! Taught by an amazing variety of folks. You can see the calendar on the website.