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In many ways FY is already an informal school - a space for teaching, learning, thinking, making and sharing knowledge. The FYSS is simply an experiment in temporarily changing the cadence and timings of what already happens at FY. What happens when we concentrate?
== Attending ==
All the sessions are at Frontyard, 228 Illawarra Rd, Marrickville NSW 2204.
Most sessions are open to everyone, so feel free to show up and spread the word :) A few sessions have limited spaces, and require an RSVP.
RSVPs will be managed by the organiser of the sessions, so contact them using details below, or through the [[Slack|Frontyard Slack]] chat room.
Session organisers should make it clear that their session requires an RSVP by adding something like "(RSVP required)" to the title, or "(fully booked)" if the session is full.
== What would you like to learn? What would you like to share? ==
* Read [https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/attachments/2._berlant-cruel_optimism_0.pdf 'Cruel Optimism' by Lauren Berlant] together.
* Read [https://www.writeonjustice.com/no-friend-but-the-mountains-writing-from-manus-prison/ 'No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison' by Behrouz Boochani] together.
=== How to's ===
'''Morning and Afternoon Sessions:''' Open to proposal
==== '''5pm - 8:30pm - Hands on introduction to web scraping workshop (3 spots leftfully booked)''' ====
Organiser: Luke Bacon
=== Wednesday, 21st Nov ===
'''Morning, Afternoon, Evening Sessions:''' Open to proposal ==== 6pm - late - Ignoramus Anonymous ====Ignoramus Anonymous is a support group for the ignorant (i.e. for anyone and everyone). The hour-long meeting is a space to ask questions, without necessarily looking for answers to them. It is a space to talk about your ignorance and receive support from one another present, with a form of pedagogy taking place in this support. You are welcome to bring something to discuss, but feel no obligation. RSVP not necessary, but for more information email: malcolm.whittaker@gmail.com
=== Thursday, 22nd Nov ===
'''Morning, Afternoon Sessions:''' Open to proposal
==== 6pm - late - Open Door Reading Group + Potluck Dinner : Lauren Berlant ''Cruel Optimism'' ====A night of collectively reading Berlant's [https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/attachments/2._berlant-cruel_optimism_0.pdf Cruel Optimism]. No need to have read the text before the night. We will be reading the text together, with open space for conversation as we progress through the text. Bring along some food to share.
=== Friday, 23rd Nov ===
==== '''9am -1pm DIY Radio transmission 1''' ====
Organiser: Sally Schessell; Teacher: Sophea Lerner
'''FULL''' (still a couple of places in week 2)
Part 1: Building a mini FM transmitter
=== Sunday, 25th Nov ===
'''Morning & Evening Sessions:''' Open to proposal
==== 2pm - 5pm - Sunday afternoon chess ====
Casual games of chess on a Sunday. Nothing more, nothing less. If you have never played - come and learn how.
RSVPs not necessary.
=== Monday, 26th Nov ===
'''Morning & Afternoon Sessions:''' Open to proposal
==== 6:30pm - 8pm - Reading group - The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study ====
Discussion on chapters 4, 5, and 6.
Bring snacks and stories.
Text is available free as a PDF here - http://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/undercommons-web.pdf
=== Tuesday, 27th Nov ===
==== 10am - 12:30pm - How to investigate local development, companies and landholders with Wendy Bacon ====Learn how to investigate and report on development and construction. Organised by Wendy Bacon, activist, investigative journalist, long time journalism educator. '''Morning, Afternoon, Evening Sessions:''' Open to proposal ==== 6:30pm - 8:30pm - How to investigate local development, companies and landholders with Wendy Bacon ====Learn how to investigate and report on development and construction. Organised by Wendy Bacon, activist, investigative journalist, long time journalism educator.
=== Wednesday, 28th Nov ===
'''Morning, Afternoon, Evening Sessions:''' Open to proposal ==== 6:20pm - late - Reading group 'Translating into English' from 'An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalisation' - Gayatri Spivak ====Reading and discussing Gayatri Spivak’s text ’Translating into English’. We will go in and out of Spivak’s text and into practice, with Beth Sometimes and Julia Bavyka speaking about their related projects - such as the collaborative project ''Apmere angkentye-kenhe'' that Beth is involved with in Alice Springs, and Julia’s Language School proposal. The text will be used as a starting point to talk about language work and translation. It was published in Spivak’s book "An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalisation” (2012). For a PDF of the text email: bavyka.julia@gmail.com This will be a relaxed discussion with an improvised dinner. Bring along some food to share. Organisers: Julia Bavyka and Beth Sometimes
=== Thursday, 29th Nov ===
'''Morning, Afternoon , Evening Sessions:''' Open to proposal
==== 6pm - late - Open Door Potluck Dinner =Friday, 30th Nov ===
'''Morning, Afternoon, Evening Sessions:''' Open to proposal
==== '''9am -1pm DIY Radio transmission 2''' ====
'''Sign-up: https://goo.gl/forms/iyKlr0P017xRRn6X2'''
Organiser: Sally Schessell; Teacher: Sophea Lerner
Sign-up: see week 1
Part 1: Building a mini FM transmitter
About the teacher: Sophea has 30 years experience as a creative broadcaster, technical producer and teacher of audio production, sonic arts and transmission practices. She has worked for pirate, community and public stations and pioneered distributed, participatory, open content radio that combined digital and analogue networks.
==== 3pm - 5pm An annotated bibliography ====A book browsing session live annotated by Benjamin Forster and Melissa Ratliff Sharing a collection of books and journal articles in our possession on topics of alternative education, radical pedagogy, artist-run art schools and contemporary art schools. '''Afternoon, Evening Sessions:''' Open to proposal
=== Sunday, 2nd Dec ===
'''Morning, Afternoon, Evening Sessions:''' Open to proposal ==== 2pm - 6pm Alternatives, Maybes, A Peer to Peer Web Workshop with Benjamin Forster ====This workshop will be a practical introduction to Beaker Browser. Beaker Browser is a new web browser for the peer to peer (P2P) web - think Chrome or Safari but for the P2P web. Are you asking yourself, "What is the P2P web"? This workshop will answer that question - but maybe its an escape from the capitalist fuck trap which is google/amazon/facebook. This workshop is for anyone interested in publishing on the web (including writers, visual artists, musicians, sound artists, bloggers, or anyone on social media). Bring along your computer. You will learn how to install and use Beaker Browser to create and share content. Together we will build a small temporary P2P network at FY, sharing content between ourselves in constellations. We will also learn how to connect our private networks, with each other and the mainstream internet. Spaces limited. RSVP to benjamin@emptybook.net == Summer School Left Overs == ==== Thurs 6th Dec, 6-8pm: WAGE COMMONING ====A group discussion and shared reading list around wage commoning. At Frontyard, we’ve been loosely talking about setting up a workers co-operative. Most often co-ops are based on a ‘profit share’ methodology, but that places it inside the capitalist model, in that it determines that one of the things to be produced is ‘profit’. Let’s decide and talk together about an alternative model of ‘wage commoning’, where wages are pooled and redistributed, without requiring the necessary production of ‘surplus’. Some starting thoughts: It is through (re)production in common that communities of producers decide for themselves the norms, values and measures of things. The “working class” is divided in a wage hierarchy and no ideological call for unity will ever bring the different segments to work together in the direction of a radical transformation of their production in common beyond capital, and therefore beyond their hierarchy. Help me start a reading list in the lead-up to this session. (link to be added to a Google Doc). Organised by Connie Anthes. == Reflection / Critique ==What worked? What didn't? How might this change in the next iteration?
