Portland Freeskool
PERFORMING AT SOMEDAY
Tuesday, Dec 5 › 9pm › $5-$15
PORTLAND FREESKOOL BENEFIT: Featuring PONDEROSA, NECK TIES MAKE ME NERVOUS, juggler DAVID CLAY, KAZUM, HERE COMES A BIG BLACK CLOUD, and DJ HERBAL TEA
Founded in 1998 by a group of activist youths working to "change the way that youth are treated and to reclaim kid pride," Portland Freeskool is a grassroots community education project that challenges the entire conceptual underpinning of the school system. Without standardized tests, age segregation, an authoritarian staff, or any form of tuition; knowledge is shared by people who want to share it, with people who want to learn, period. Unsurprisingly, they have their work cut out for them just to stay open.
The acrobalance quartet Kazum, late of Societas Insomnia and Circo Mutante; costumed anarchist shout-along posse Here Comes A Big Black Cloud; and heart-smart party-starter DJ Herbal Tea come bearing their own skills to spread around the class. I'm sure they brought enough for everybody.
About the artist
The Freeskool is a grassroots effort, a group of people acting collectively and autonomously to create a skill-sharing network, a school without institutional control. The all volunteer Freeskool is dedicated to social change through free education and community building. We believe that education is an ever evolving process that should be available to all, free of monetary value. We wish to break down the boundaries of class, race, and age to learn together in a nurturing and creative environment. The Freeskool is a non-hierarchical, non-institutional form of learning in which anyone can be a teacher and anyone can be a student!
Performer links
, , | ©2006–2008 Someday Inc. All rights reserved.