get your minds in the gutter
The School of the Future is a free ‘unschool’ where anyone can teach and anyone can learn. Adults and children welcome. And did I mention it was FREE?! Here are some of the classes we’d like to attend:
Compost Brigade
Pick up compost from McCarren park and bring it to Sgt. Dougherty for some experimental gardening. Led by Kate Zidar, Founder, North Brooklyn Compost Project www.northbrooklyncompostproject.org
NOTE: Please meet at McCarren Park’s GreenDome Garden (by the dog run) for compost!
NOTE: Please meet at McCarren Park’s GreenDome Garden (by the dog run) for compost!
Sunday, July 4
9:30am to 12pm
631 Union Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Guerilla Gardening
(Teacher: Lacey Tauber)
North Brooklyn currently has the most stalled construction sites of any neighborhood in New York City. Join NAG (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth) www.nag-brooklyn.org to learn how to make seed balls, a guerilla gardening strategy used to plant wildflowers in abandoned lots. You’ll leave with a bag of seed balls to distribute around the neighborhood!
Sunday, July 11
1pm to 3pm
Newtown Creek: The Gunk Under Greenpoint Bike Tour
(Teacher: Ryan Kuonen)
Jump on your bike and delve into the history, pollution and health of Newtown Creek, visiting the best sites around the creek to discuss the past, present and future of the area, including the industrial heritage, oil spills and pollution plumes, combined sewage overflows, potential designation as a Superfund site, and the ecosystem
of estuaries. Your tour guide is Ryan Kuonen of NAG (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth), a community-based organization in North Brooklyn: www.nag-brooklyn.org
Jump on your bike and delve into the history, pollution and health of Newtown Creek, visiting the best sites around the creek to discuss the past, present and future of the area, including the industrial heritage, oil spills and pollution plumes, combined sewage overflows, potential designation as a Superfund site, and the ecosystem
of estuaries. Your tour guide is Ryan Kuonen of NAG (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth), a community-based organization in North Brooklyn: www.nag-brooklyn.org
Sunday, July 11
3pm to 5pm
Caring for Street Trees 101
(Teacher: Melissa Williams)
Join members of the Lower East Side Ecology Center for a class on the importance of street trees, brief identification, hands on work in street tree pits, planting in pits, and adoption of trees in one’s neighborhood.
Join members of the Lower East Side Ecology Center for a class on the importance of street trees, brief identification, hands on work in street tree pits, planting in pits, and adoption of trees in one’s neighborhood.
Thursday, July 15
3pm to 5pm
Minds in the Gutter
Minds in the Gutter is a workshop where we’ll brainstorm stormwater management ideas along the border of Sgt. Dougherty park. The first part will be walking meditation, then a drawing and pin-up session, then we’ll we make a chalk or rubble-scraping.
Taught by Kate Zidar, Coordinator of the Stormwater Infrastructure Matters Coalition
www.swimmablenyc.org/ and www.mindsinthegutter.org
Friday, July 16
7pm to 8:30pm
For full details on all classes, go to http://schoolofthefuture.org/classes/