March
Complet Overhaul Bicycle Repair at the Sibley Bike Depot (March)
This class will build upon the skills taught in the Basic Bike Maintenance class and expand through overhauling an entire bicycle. Participants will take apart, clean, and repack all bearing systems, including hubs, headsets, and bottom brackets. In addition, the will install new cables and housing on brakes and derailleurs as needed, and lubricate/adjust all shifting systems. In full, folks attending this class will learn how to perform a complete tune-up/overhaul of a bicycle. Participants will work with the same bike through the class, in order to see the complexities and intricacies of one specific bicycle. Note: All class participants will fix up SHOP BIKES during this class! Bikes fixed up will go into one of Sibley's many community programs designed to promote biking!
Oneness Experiential
Let's explore the experience mind-body oneness! Our cultural conditioning
has created well-traveled pathways (i.e. habits) in our consciousness that
reflect a separation of "mind" from "body". Thus many of us have cultivated a
practice of treating our thinking mind and its habitual synaptic firings as
"self", while objectifying the body/physical experience. In other words,
thoughts/beliefs/opinions/memories are "me" and this thing that they live in
is "my body". (ever tried to "fix" yer body so it feels/appears a certain
way? or tried to "overcome" emotions? or heard yourself say something you
didn't mean?) There are countless ways we reinforce the habits of separation
in our day to day lives; however, there is plenty of space for building new
pathways.
The air we inhale is the exhale of plantlife; the air we exhale is its
inhale. The water we take in and release in this community is the Mississippi
River before and again after it quenches our thirst. The food we ingest grew
from the interactive regeneration of the earthbody: the sunlight and rain,
the decayed bones of our ancestors and the compost of our waste. Our presence
in life is part of a constant interdependent flow of natural living
wholeness. There is deep wisdom in the living body and there is vast
possibility available in allowing the mind to be present in this oneness.
Clases de Yoga
Clases gratis! Guarderia disponible con previa registracion
Lugar: Corcoran Park, 3334 20th Ave S, Minneapolis
Fechas: Todos los Miercoles de 6:00 A 7:00pm desde el 3 de Marzo.
Para Insripcion, mayor informcion oguarderia contactar a Jessica al 612-812-6282
EXCO Academia Comunitaria es una organizacion inspirada por el derecho de libre acceso a la Educacion, el saber a todos nos ayuda por igual, no te lo guardes, compartelo! Tienes ideas o quisieras participar contacta a maria al 612-669-1422.
Getting the Goods Workshop: Digging in with Twin Cities Indymedia, FOIA & MN Data Practices Act
Want to learn how to get information out of the federal, state and local governments? Join a workshop facilitated by Twin Cities Indymedia, with special experts in the field explaining how government record works, and how to get the info out.
Tuesday March 23rd
With presentations from citizen information activist Rich Neumeister & data practices expert Don Gemberling.
Tuesday March 23
5:30-7:30pm
U of M West Bank, Blegen Hall 140
map: http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/maps/BlegH/
Video Activism 101 Workshop with Twin Cities Indymedia
How do you videotape a protest rally? What are the best ways to document police actions? How do you digitize and share video online? Join Twin Cities Indymedia in a skill sharing workshop. With info from iWitness Video and Glassbead Collective, we build on experiences at the 2008 Republican National Convention, the G20 Conference in Pittsburgh, and more. Plus: bring your own videos to share.
Covers: Basic equipment info, editing skills, reporting from demos/events, interviewing, conceiving video story ideas from start-to-finish.
Example videos:
RNC:Terrorizing Dissent, Police Raid and Detainment of I-Witness Journalists 083008,
What's Your Story? Citizen Journalism 101
Everyone has a story, if not multiple stories. Chances are they are also newsworthy or related to a larger issue in your neighborhood, your region and even around the world. In these 4 modules, which can be taken as a series or individually, the Twin Cities Media Alliance provides the skills to expand your ability to tell your story using journalism skills.
Part I: Information Gathering
We all know we need information to tell our stories, but where do we find it? The nuts and bolts of information gathering, from determining the who, what, where, how and why to unlikely places to look for information to support your story.
Part II: Interviewing and Cultivating Sources
The best stories are the ones with a mix of voices. In journalism, these are usually your sources who provide you with context and color to make your story sing. In this module we'll go over basics of interviewing and how to solicit authentic responses. We will also discuss how to cultivate sources and conduct interviews on difficult topics.
Part III: Sourcing, Attribution and Triangulation
A major source of frustration for information consumers is how news outlets seem to throw out information without much or any foundation. How do you avoid this when reporting on your own stories and issues? We will talk about how to source, attribute and triangulate stories, which makes up the verification process. We will also cover the appropiateness and ethics of anonymous sources.
Part IV: Story Development
This module will focus on how to find a unique angle in your angle, because chances are, it's already been reported on. How to forward a story, find a unique angle or provide a different context that develops a topic will allow students to work on creatively thinking about how their story can fill a gap in the media landscape.
Improve your health and well being with Breathwork.
This class will include discovery and implementation of ways that will help you to uncover and get rid of old patterns of emotional and physical trauma.
Emotional and physical trauma do not completely disappear when an event is finished. How we remember (or think about) these traumas determines the reality that we create. The body "remembers" these traumas at a cellular level and if similar traumas arise our nervous system already has a "built in" reaction called a neural pathway. This is why we have what some call an "automatic reaction".
We will explore the use of techniques that can help us to change these automatic reactions and gain..................
DIY Marketing
DIY Marketing
Do you have a business or service you'd like to publicize? Need some guidance on how to format a mailing, create your own business cards, or target your market?
First week: We'll provide a general overview of the process, from developing a strategic message to creating a logo or website.
Second week: You bring in your existing materials or start from scratch. We'll offer feedback, discuss the message, share tips, propose possible directions.
Week three: Final critique. We'll provide further counsel on any newly developed materials and can connect you with someone to help you take next steps, if needed.
For examples of work I've created for other individuals and organizations, visit www.chrisvice.com
Twin Cities Indymedia Presents: Movement Mediamaking For the Masses
Do you want to grow radical social movements? Do you want skills for chronicling and fighting injustice in the Twin Cities? Do you want to add mediamaking tools to your toolbox? Then you can be more than a citizen journalist - you can be a radical movement mediamaker. If this could be you, then, this March: [dramatic movie voiceover voice; cut to montage] Join activists across the Twin Cities metro area in connecting movements and leveraging our power. Three participatory class sessions will culminate in an optional fun community event at which participants can present their collective work, which will also be featured on www.tc.indymedia.org.
Because this is NOT simply a "citizen journalism" course, participants should have an interest/investment in social justice activism and a general agreement with the Indymedia mission statement and principles of unity (found below and at http://twincities.indymedia.org/page/info).
Also note that this course will go beyond completion of the final session. We want people like you to be better equipped to continue having fun making radical media for the benefit of Twin Cities Social movements. We want you to stay involved with telling the stories that reflect our communities. Radical media does not bring justice by itself, but is a role all freedom fighters can and should take a turn at filling. Join us and help make it happen!
We intend for this class to be an intergenerational space committed to anti-oppression practice, including but not limited to the challenging of white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, classism, and transphobia.
About Twin Cities Indymedia:
