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Salsa Caribena
Es una clase muy dinamica la cual nos mantendra ejercitados. Se puede practicar en pareja o solos, esta acompanada de musica con ritmo de Salsa, pasaremos un tiempo divertido, al final de estas 8 clases, estaran felices de poder bailar Salsa Caribena!.
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Tejido de 2 agujas
El tejido es un arte hecho por las manos con dos agujas, se pueden hacer bufandas, gorros, sweaters.
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Clases de Danza y Baile
En esta clase se practica baile social tal como salsa, cumbia, merengue y tambien danza folklorica mexicana. Esta clase funciona tanto para ninos y adolescentes como para adultos.
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Create a Free WordPress Website for your Business or Organization
Learn how to develop a free website for your small business or community organization using WordPress. Secrets of the City's Matt Bartel explains how to set up a site, how to navigate the settings so that the site represents your business, and tips on how to generate traffic. Please bring a picture of your business or an image or logo representing your business on a flash drive. Free, but donations to Twin Cities Media Alliance cheerfully accepted.
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Theatre of the Oppressed
No theatre experience necessary! We will be using the tools and techniques of Theatre of the Oppressed to play, dialogue and connect with each other. Theatre of the Oppressed was developed in Brazil and is now used all over the world as a means for personal and community exploration and transformation. Based in the experiences, stories, struggles and desires of the group, we will use in-your-body activities to explore and dialogue together. These are tools you can also take and use in many different group settings.
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Anticipating Collapse
Preparing for Collapse
Collapse is coming. Collapse of exactly what? The U.S. dollar? Agro-industrialism? Civilization itself? Ecological environment? Is it already here?
This discussion group will explore these possibilities and more in an attempt to understand the impending feeling of a fore-coming collapse. Many communities anticipate some sort of rupture to this current state of culture/society. What will this look like? What perspectives are worth considering when attempting to understand the nature of collapse?
A great attempt will be made to keep meetings from becoming alarmist or conspiratorial. This is an opportunity to mingle in many perspectives of collapse. People who are primarily interested in propagating their own vision without space for others are not welcome. This is a sincere effort to understand the nature of collapse to give solid ground to any efforts of preparation. Once a semi-solid understanding of collapse is reached, discussion on preparation will be held. The intention of this group is to be productive in moving forward towards preparation.
Expect meetings weekly during the month of October.
Batucada do Norte – Brazilian Drumming Ensemble
Batucada do Norte is a community group dedicated to studying and performing the many street drumming styles found in Brazil during Carnival. Founded by brothers Tim and Pat O’Keefe in 2006, the group has performed at many events throughout the Twin Cities, including the annual May Day Parade, the Minneapolis Mosaic Festival, and the Minnesota History Museum’s Nine Nights of Music. Our weekly gatherings will include both instruction in the basics of Brazilian rhythms for beginners, and rehearsals of the group’s repertoire. No prior musical experience is necessary to join, just open minds and open ears. Some musical instruments will be provided.
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School Choice, Charter Schools, and Minneapolis: Exploring the Privatization and Marketization of Schooling in Our City
The class will be a majority reading and discussion group with the potential to get involved in some education activism, through our class or through other projects that are already in the works in the area. I will have interesting and relevant readings prepared. However, the class will be a project of all involved and all will have a say in what we read, discuss, and do together.
We will work together to understand how the impact of school privatization via charter or contract schools, and other trends and policies that seek to transform public education to align with neoliberal and free market ideologies. We will discuss how this transformation benefits/negatively impacts different groups of people in the cities, the possibilities for radical change in the way we think about educating young people, and the relevance of the public school system in its current form to our daily lives and desires. There are many ways we can explore these issues including but not limited to:
- privatization and the increasing role of philanthropy in public education
- the commercialization of schooling and students and parents as consumers
- the increasing hierarchization of public schooling (i.e. magnet schools) and unequal distribution of resources
This is an ambitious class with many fruitful directions to take - directions that we can decide on as a group based on our collective interests.
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Mahadrin Klezmer Ensemble
This band offers a creative outlet for the study, performance, and ultimately, preservation, of klezmer music in a relaxed and non-judgmental, but serious, environment. While some degree of basic musicianship is requested (ability to play by ear and/or sight-read, basic competence on at least one instrument), the group is open to musicians with different levels of musicianship and backgrounds. Don't know what klezmer is? Come find out firsthand and learn to play one of the world’s greatest and most quickly evolving musical folk genres. This is an ongoing course and all of the information provided before is still applicable.
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Early British Representations of Afghanistan
This course will be a guided discussion of readings related to the British presence in Afghanistan in the first half of the 19th century. Our entry point will be the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42), which ended in disaster for the British - nearly the entire British force, which consisted of 4,500 troops (both British and Indian) and 12,000 camp followers (including wives, children, and servants), was destroyed, either killed or taken prisoner by Afghan forces throughout January 1842. We will look at how the British represented this "fringe of empire" and its inhabitants before and after the war. Additionally, we will consider the importance of race and gender in the construction of these narratives. Finally, we will shift between the past and the present to demonstrate how the language of "treachery," "barbarism," and the "failed state" used in descriptions of Afghanistan have both a history and contemporary political significance. The goal of this course is not to provide simple answers for our present situation, but rather to allow us to think more critically about imperial power (and its failure), historical memory, and the politics of representation.
Readings: selections from various British narratives of Afghanistan in the 19th century (including Lady Florentia Sale, Alexander Burnes, and Mohan Lal), histories of the First Anglo-Afghan War and British Empire, and contemporary journalism related to Afghanistan. These readings do not need to be purchased. I will provide scanned copies of the selections from historical texts and point you to places online to find the others.
Assignments: None, but if we would like to share writing (whether historical, creative, journalistic, or otherwise), I am definitely open to incorporating a workshop component into our course. I am also open to commenting on any writing you might want feedback on.
