Jan 25 - 29, 2018
Utopia School is hosting a 5 day pop-up school in January, 2018, focused on the practical aspects of opening a new community space in New York City and/or the northeast USA. This will be an opportunity to gather with like minded people interested in opening a long term space and begin to workshop. This session of the school is looking to incorporate talks and workshops on community land trusts, building coops, fundraising, and presentations from spaces working within rapidly changing cities.
The January 2018 Session of the Utopia School is hosted by Flux Factory.
Location:
39-31 29th St.
Long Island City, NY 11101
Scheduled classes
Thu, Jan 25
(All day) Experimental Barter Deli
11:00am - 2:00pm What We Need is Beautiful and Free
1:00pm - 3:00pm Sketching Our Dream Space
3:00pm - 5:00pm Disinheriting Capitalism
5:00pm - 7:00pm Transparency Tools Primer
7:00pm - 10:00pm ACE EVENING: A Sexual Series - screening, performance & workshop
Fri, Jan 26
(All day) Experimental Barter Deli
11:00am - 2:00pm What We Need is Beautiful and Free
12:00pm - 1:00pm Drawing as an Act of Resistance
1:00pm - 3:00pm illegalisms
3:00pm - 6:00pm Direct democracy, blockchain, problems and potentials
6:00pm - 8:00pm Atelier Populaire and the Basics of Screenprinting
6:00pm - 8:00pm Free Self-Defense Workshop w/ Pop Gym
6:00pm - 9:00pm People's Kitchen
8:00pm - 10:00pm Liberating Art and Artists From the Ultra-Wealthy
Sat, Jan 27
(All day) Experimental Barter Deli
11:00am - 2:00pm What We Need is Beautiful and Free
11:00am - 2:00pm Bike maintentance 101
11:00am - 2:00pm The TRUE History of NYC: An Anti-colonial, Anti-imperialist, Anti-capitalist walking tour of the big apple.
11:00am - 2:00pm Pancakes and Records
12:00pm - 2:00pm Introduction to code for people who don't necessarily like computers
2:00pm - 4:00pm Mapping as Memorial: Honoring Grief, Celebrating Lineage
4:00pm "Ain't I a Woman (?/!): Body-Presence and Utopia
4:00pm - 6:00pm Collective Songwriting for Collective Liberation
6:00pm - 8:00pm Community Forge: How to buy a 45000 sqft elementary school
6:00pm - 9:00pm People's Kitchen
8:00pm - 10:00pm A Guide to the Utopian Infrastructure of Albany's Mansion Neighborhood
Sun, Jan 28
(All day) Experimental Barter Deli
11:00am - 1:00pm Hip Hop Yoga Cipher: Gentrification $ucks
11:00am - 2:00pm What We Need is Beautiful and Free
4:00pm - 6:00pm Cobbling Together an Existence as An Artist
6:00pm - 8:00pm Gentrification, Colonialism, and UNITY THROUGH REPARATIONS - Presentation & Discussion
6:00pm - 9:00pm People's Kitchen
8:00pm - 10:00pm Commercial Community Land Trusts/Commerical Rent Control
Mon, Jan 29
(All day) Experimental Barter Deli
11:00am - 2:00pm What We Need is Beautiful and Free
Utopia School was pleased to participate in the September 2016 Alt-CPH Art Fair. Classes included Pancakes and Records, Architectures of Desire, Dictionary of the Present (A Dictionary Writing Group), Listening: English Conversation, as well as spontaneous classes. Here is a full program for Alt-CPH 2016.
Utopia School is an ongoing project that shares information about both failed and successful utopian projects and work towards new ones. For us, utopias are those spaces and initiatives that re-imagine the world in some crucial way. The school engages and connects people through urgent conversations, with the goal of exploring, archiving and distributing collective knowledge throughout this multi-city project.
The Utopia School is a temporary free school and social center for sharing information about both failed and successful utopian projects while working towards new ones. We define Utopia as those spaces and initiatives which re-imagine the world in some crucial way.
10 - 12 people from around the world are gathering to live together and run the school as a free space for all. We are open Wednesday – Sunday with workshops, tea/coffee, food share, and a regular People's Kitchen. Come drop in to say hello and teach/learn in one of our classes!
The School will be located in Fabrikken, upstairs from the Byens Lys cinema in Christiania. If you have trouble finding it, see if you can ask a local Christiania resident to point you in the right direction :) If you get really really lost, give us a call on the Utopia School phone and we will come get you!
Email: newagebeverages@gmail.com
Facebook: Utopia School
Twitter: @utopiaschool
Scheduled classes
An Intro to So Shall It Be. How to make loving yourself fun!
Mon, Aug 1
3:30pm - 6:30pm A Walk in Christiania
9:00pm - 11:00pm Last Utopia School Recap
Tue, Aug 2
3:00pm - 5:00pm Utopia School: Intentions
6:00pm - 9:00pm Asylum System in Denmark
Wed, Aug 3
11:00am - 1:00pm Fitness Club
5:00pm - 7:00pm foodsharing Copenhagen - workshop
5:00pm - 7:00pm Ashtanga yoga sessions
6:00pm - 9:00pm Decolonizing Utopia –– A working group
8:00pm Utopian Cinema
Thu, Aug 4
8:00pm - 9:00pm Dictionary of the Present
Fri, Aug 5
11:00am - 1:00pm Fitness Club
5:00pm - 7:00pm (Un)Safe Space?
6:00pm - 9:00pm Raze to the Ground/Politics of Playgrounds
7:00pm - 9:00pm AFRO EMPOWERMENT CENTER lecture and workshop on Afrophobia /People of African Descent.
Sat, Aug 6
11:00am - 2:00pm Pancakes and Records
12:30pm - 2:00pm Utopian Book Club
12:30pm - 2:30pm English Conversation
2:00pm - 7:00pm Make-Believe, Or, How Roleplaying Games Can Make You A Better Person
6:00pm - 7:00pm Meetha Pani (Sweet Water)
7:00pm - 11:00pm People's Kitchen/Open Mic
8:00pm - 9:00pm The Collective Animal
Sun, Aug 7
1:00pm - 6:00pm "Love In The Age Of Utopia" - Love Letter & Collage Workshop by A.muse Berlin
1:30pm - 3:00pm Dictionary of the Present
3:00pm - 5:00pm Design Your Own Utopia
6:00pm - 8:00pm People's Kitchen: Sister's Cuisine
8:00pm Utopian Cinema: L'an 01 & Metallurgy of the Subject
Wed, Aug 10
11:00am - 1:00pm Fitness Club
3:00pm - 5:00pm Queer and Racial Imaginaries
5:00pm - 7:00pm Ashtanga yoga sessions
6:00pm - 9:00pm Decolonizing Utopia –– A working group
8:00pm Utopian Cinema #3: Born In Flames
Thu, Aug 11
3:00pm - 5:00pm Utopian Book Club
5:00pm - 7:00pm Open House Meeting
7:00pm - 9:00pm People's Kitchen
8:00pm - 11:00pm Spirituality and Deconstructing the Layers
Fri, Aug 12
11:00am - 1:00pm Fitness Club
5:00pm - 8:00pm Dictionary of the Present
6:00pm - 8:00pm Architectures of Desire
7:00pm - 3:00am Support Party For Freedom of Movements
Sat, Aug 13
11:00am - 2:00pm Pancakes and Records
12:00pm - 5:00pm Practical Filmmaking
12:30pm - 2:00pm Utopian Book Club
12:30pm - 2:30pm English Conversation
2:00pm - 7:00pm Make-Believe, Or, How Roleplaying Games Can Make You A Better Person
3:00pm - 5:00pm Performing Utopias: Solvognen Action Theatre Group in Christiania (1972 – 1983)
5:00pm - 7:00pm Glitterlickin #Ourtwork
7:00pm - 11:00pm Recipes for Utopias
Sun, Aug 14
12:00pm - 5:00pm Practical Filmmaking
4:00pm - 6:00pm “The Passions Are Proportional to the Destinies”: A Brief History of (Mostly 19th Century) Utopian Socialism
4:00pm - 6:00pm Decolonizing Utopia –– A working group
6:00pm - 8:00pm People's Kitchen: Sister's Cuisine
8:00pm Utopian Cinema
Wed, Aug 17
(All day) Tarot Counseling Sessions the week of Aug 14th thru August 21st
11:00am - 1:00pm Fitness Club
3:00pm - 5:00pm Queer and Racial Imaginaries
5:00pm - 7:00pm Ashtanga yoga sessions
5:00pm - 7:00pm foodsharing Copenhagen - workshop
7:00pm - 9:00pm Decolonizing Utopia –– A working group
7:00pm - 9:00pm Auroville: Economics for People and the Earth
9:00pm Utopian Cinema
Thu, Aug 18
(All day) Tarot Counseling Sessions the week of Aug 14th thru August 21st
2:00pm - 4:00pm An Intro to So Shall It Be. How to make loving yourself fun!
4:00pm - 7:00pm Dictionary of the Present
5:00pm - 7:00pm Open House Meeting
7:00pm - 9:00pm People's Kitchen
7:15pm - 8:00pm Meta-Ritual Technology
8:00pm - 10:00pm My Mom Is a wolf, My Dad is a...
Fri, Aug 19
(All day) Tarot Counseling Sessions the week of Aug 14th thru August 21st
11:00am - 1:00pm Fitness Club
3:00pm - 5:00pm “The Passions Are Proportional to the Destinies”: A Brief History of (Mostly 19th Century) Utopian Socialism
5:00pm - 11:00pm People's Kitchen Field Trip –> Trampoline House
Sat, Aug 20
(All day) Tarot Counseling Sessions the week of Aug 14th thru August 21st
1:00pm - 11:00pm Women's* Club Workshops (All Day)
2:00pm - 6:00pm Critical Masculinities
Sun, Aug 21
(All day) Tarot Counseling Sessions the week of Aug 14th thru August 21st
2:00pm - 3:00pm LIBERTÆR & ANARKISTISK PÆDAGOGIK
4:00pm - 6:00pm Articulating Your Theory Of Change
6:00pm - 8:00pm People's Kitchen: Sister's Cuisine
8:00pm Utopian Cinema
Wed, Aug 24
11:00am - 1:00pm Fitness Club
4:00pm - 5:00pm Grow Heathrow
4:00pm - 6:00pm Architectures of Desire
5:00pm - 7:00pm Ashtanga yoga sessions
8:00pm Utopian Cinema
Thu, Aug 25
4:00pm - 6:00pm Dictionary of the Present
5:00pm - 7:00pm Open House Meeting
7:00pm - 9:00pm People's Kitchen
8:00pm - 10:00pm Alternative Economies
Fri, Aug 26
11:00am - 1:00pm Fitness Club
3:00pm - 5:00pm Herbal Walking Tour
4:00pm - 6:00pm Reading of Errico Malatesta
5:00pm - 7:00pm Freedom of Movement - Building a World Without Borders
7:00pm - 9:00pm FOLK CHOIR
Sat, Aug 27
11:00am - 2:00pm Pancakes and Records
12:00pm - 5:00pm Practical Filmmaking
12:30pm - 2:00pm Utopian Book Club
12:30pm - 2:30pm Listening
12:30pm - 2:30pm English Conversation
1:00pm - 3:00pm Apocalyptic Donuts
3:00pm - 4:00pm Synthesising a New Utopian Food Culture - A Case Study in Entomophagy
4:00pm - 6:00pm Gender and Inflation
7:00pm - 11:00pm People's Kitchen/Open Mic
Sun, Aug 28
12:00pm - 5:00pm Practical Filmmaking
6:00pm - 8:00pm People's Kitchen: Sister's Cuisine
8:00pm Utopian Cinema
Wed, Aug 31
11:00am - 1:00pm Fitness Club
Utopia School is an ongoing project that shares information about both failed and successful utopian projects and work towards new ones. For us, utopias are those spaces and initiatives that re-imagine the world in some crucial way. The school engages and connects people through urgent conversations, with the goal of exploring, archiving and distributing collective knowledge throughout this multi-city project.
Over time, we will create a comprehensive open curricula on utopian thought and practice. Some examples of what we will be studying include physical places, relationship dynamics, systems of organizing, political contexts, common roadblocks, and the methods used to create and sustain these projects.
