Trust Art and Kidd Yellin present 5 Social Victories, an exhibition dedicated to charting the evidence, processes, communities, and achievements surrounding five visionary public art projects, including the School of the Future by Cassie Thornton and Chris Kennedy, Wildness by Seth Aylmer, Humanity by Anne McClain, Dreamers by Justin Tellian, and Vulture by Dave Olsen.

The Opening Reception will be held on Friday, September 17th at 7:00 pm with the exhibition on view from September 17th-26th, 2010. Kidd Yellin is located in Red Hook at 133 Imlay St. Brooklyn, NY 11231

We will be debuting the Mason Jar Cart August 16th in McCarren Park for a workshop on the Groups and Spaces project and ongoing research from School of the Future. We will meet by the Dog Run and Greendome on N. 12th and Driggs in Brooklyn. Please join us and help spread the word!

Here are some bits that came in from the Mutant Student Groups think tank sessions in July 2010. Note the seedball plants growth, and that other growth we’re not sure what it is, but that’s why they call it “mutant” after all!

The final hours of School of the Future (Sgt. Dougherty Park, Greenpoint, Brooklyn) included some pretty wonderfully fantastically awesome moments, including drawing dictators, ballet jumping, human-size chess, time capsules, making a model city out of trash sourced from the park itself, and of course the Ungraduation ceremony during which the Head Librarian Chris Kennedy announced,

YOU HAVE ALL FAILED!

Indeed we did. Keep watching this blog and website for future School of the Future news. We’ll be uploading some post-School curriculum and content in the coming days and years ahead. Never stop un-learning!

Emceed by the orally-gifted Daupo, artists Douglas Paulson and Santo Talone are battling it out – to the death! – in a match of human-size chess!

Santo flipped for white and went first; Doug countered with a first-move pawn stalemate.

Doug drew first blood with a knight on knight attack, on the white side of the board.

“Everyone agrees, chess is confusing when it’s people.”

&

“Let’s take this moment to reflect on the history of feudalism.” – Daupo

both Queens have been removed for some time now – they were sort of mutually removed in a double-attack move by both players.

some time has passed since I took the first photo. Each side have 6 pawns remaining; Black have two bishops and one rook, while White has both rooks. The moves are taking longer to decide.

A dance party just broke out on the chess board, courtesy of a R&B boombox!

There are cheers – clearly someone has just died!

“final gesture before their monarch falls”

Black has lost one of their bishops while White have sacrificed a rook for the glory of their King.

a fatal error by White – Santo failed to recognize a take-bishop and subsequently lost his last knight.

After a near-hour of slow-decisions and a dozen checks, Doug (black) wins.

Today is the final weekday school day of classes, and tomorrow, 31 July 2010, will be the final-final day of classes, and it will be a JAMboREE! So many simultaneous classes, so many activities, and a lot of dancing! Come, help us celebrate the overwhelming success of your un-education!

12pm – Irish Ceili Dancing
1pm – Interactive Hegelian Lordship and Bondage
2pm – How to Say Goodbye: Hair Extension
2pm – Ballet
2pm – THE DEBT LAYERCAKE: WHO OWES WHO WHAT AND WHY
2:30pm – Learning Language Guerilla Style
3pm – Human Size Chess
4pm – Easy-to-Draw Dictators
4:30pm – Ticking Time Capsules
5pm – Movement for Seniors
7pm – Graduation Ceremonies and Potluck

School of the Future will be hosting artist Mourrice Papi to present a discussion on art during our weekly Illustration from Inside class.

Mourrice primarily practices the art forms of film, photography, and music to define his inner artistic language. While based in NYC, his path has taken him across continents and this Thursday he will share his insight and findings with us. Come, be engaged, be entertained, be inspired!!!

Mourrice’s work can be seen at http://www.mpapiphotography.com

Saturday July 31st
3 pm

Renowned Italian conceptual artist & two-time Milano Chess Invitational Champion Santo Talone will face-off against locally lauded Douglas Paulson in Greenpoint’s 1st Annual Human Chess-to-the-Death Match.

Please join these competitors on the sidelines, or better yet: on the battlefield. It will take nerves of steel to be one of the 32 pieces. This is not an exercise in standing still. There will be dance moves, cussing, war-cries, face painting, and many many secret tricks up your sleeves. (Those sleeves, drinks, and tricks will be provided.)

To participate in this cruel game of wits, please contact: doug@douglaspaulson.com

This time last week radical bike enthusiasts Charlotte Glynn and Cassie Thornton began a class that involved biking 35 miles to Nyack, New York, otherwise known as the one-oh-nine-six-oh! Here are some really excellent shots from their adventure:

Premise: When precisely does the day begin? When does all the night drain away? Greeting these longest days of the year, Dawn School is a special research project of School of the Future that endeavors to awaken the days themselves with illustrated investigations into their light and shadow-filled ways. The Homeric legends speak of dawn’s rosy fingers — and how rosy it is indeed as the dark grey sludge bodies of the neighboring Newtown Creek, the Maspeth Industrial Food Warehouse District, the Greenpoint Truck Empire spread their morning legs to let their lover the sun in again, and again, and again. Dawn school proposes, for this installment, a field trip poised between late night and early morning, to encourage such activities as: scuro-chiaro drawings (drawings begun in the dark and finished in the light), discussions of the etymological and ontological sources of dawn, dawns, dawning. We might build a morning bird call catalog, meet the nightworkers of the area, the bakers, truck drivers, transit workers, cleaning crews, and attempt the delicate art of sunblocking which will raise an enormous shade to push the sunrise back one hour. Dawn school is poised like the sun itself to be accessible and open to all: from the office worker to the night worker to the roustabout, all are invited to join us in surprising the day.

On this first installment of the Dawn School, hosted at the School of the Future’s Sgt. Doherty Park Location on July 23rd, and in the surrounding area, we will set out to catalog the sound of the night clearing the path for the day, day shoving the idle pedestrians of night out of its way, the morning breaking like an empty bottle over the head of our fast asleep home. We will set out on a hike early in the morning, to trace the path through the early dawn and into sunrise, collecting bits of an after-sunrise breakfast to be shared at SOTF at around 8. Email your phone number to gauthier [dot] dylan [at ] gmail [dot] com to RSVP, find details on where to meet, what to bring, and to get a wake up call.

Date Jul 23, 2010
SunRISE 5:44 AM
Sunset 8:20 PM
Length of Day 14h 35m 55s
Difference from Yesterday− 1m 42s
Solar Noon Time 1:02 PM
Altitude 69.3°
Distance 151.964

No joke! Last week’s class “Inner beauty/ Individuality- What should YOUR sash say?” asked the following, “What should you be recognized for? What makes you beautiful? We want to know! Join some local pageant queens for an afternoon of recognition as we celebrate our individuality and create pageant-style sashes to commemorate what makes you awesome.”

And it just so happens that Miss New York 2010 herself, Claire Buffie, stopped by and thinks the school rocks! And everyone in attendance was awarded their own sashes of personal beauty and crowned in their own right:

Thursday July 22

9:30am Monitor School
10am Garden Ecology Game
12pm Prismatic Textbooks of the Future
12:30pm Rebuilding the City
3pm What is the history of this neighborhood?
6pm How to Question- Creative Surveys
7pm Chess
7pm Illustration from Inside
7pm Object, Processing, and Material; wholistic thinking and design
9pm Poetry in the Dark on the Walls

Friday July 23

Pre-sunrise o’Clock Dawn School
9:30am Monitor School
3pm Buckminster Fuller, Playground Design and You!
3:30pm Street Law 101
4pm Ginger: Why is it the best thing?
6pm Teaching reflectzone
7pm How to Make a Walking Library

Saturday July 24

1pm Flying Saucer Technology: Past and Present
1pm Question Maps
2pm How to curate a show anywhere
3pm Prove (or Disprove) the Existence of God
3:30pm Urban Wind-chiming
4pm Easy-to-Draw Dictators
5pm Movement for Seniors
6pm Exploring Music
6pm Hide Your Ordinary Face and Open Your Flower
6pm Mutant Student Groups ThinkTank
7pm Philosophy of Healing

Sunday July 25

12pm Mutant Student Groups Thinktank
5:30pm Is teaching YOUR art practice? Show and tell.
7pm Stand in the Place

Announcing your starting lineup:
Allison Faye: Allison is heading up research endeavors for the School of the Future. She is also developing a professional development tool called Visual Concepting Strategies.

Andrea Jaeger: Andrea Jaeger is an artistic researcher constantly testing the boundries of the medium of photography. In addition to a Masters in Communication Studies from the University of Applied Sciences Berlin, she graduated at the University of Westminster, London with a Master in Photographic Studies. Born 1978 in Germany, she currently works and lives in Zurich/London. www.jaegerimages.com

Richard Diaz: Richard makes art across a range of media including drawing, painting, carved stone and wood. This reflects his curiosity and enjoyment responding to the qualities of different materials. He is currently a graduate student at Queens College.

Christopher Kennedy: Christopher is the head librarian at School of the Future and directs the Institute for Applied Aesthetics.

Katherine Jernejec:(Study Hall Monitor) Katherine Jernejec received her BFA in Fashion Design from Kent State University in 2004 and is attending the School of Visual Arts Art Education MFA program in Fall 2010. After spending five years designing menswear for clothing companies like Triple Five Soul and Target she decided to focus her attention on the education of children. Insects, x-rays, textures, and textiles are common subject matters in her own artwork as a painter and printmaker.
Monica Cohen: Monica is an artist/educator and life-long learner who graduated from Queens College in Art Education. Working primarily in ceramics, she enjoys using nature, world culture and good people as inspiration.

Mary Deas: Mary is currently enrolled in the Art Education program at Queens College. She lives and works on Long Island, giving nature talks and tours for camps and school groups.

Park Studio
July 16th, 1pm-6pm
Consider Sgt. Dougherty Park your studio for the day, come make things with us and learn how to use new tools.

Solar Powered Lights
July 16th, 5:30pm (NOTE: Subject to change depending on weather)
(Teacher: Philip Stearns) Join Phil as he shows us how to make solar powered lights for School of the Future. (Note: This is a re-scheduled session from last week)

Minds in the Gutter
July 16th, 7pm
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.

Radical Library Sciences
July 16th, 7:30pm
(Chris Kennedy) A multi-part experiment in cataloging, consultation and re-imagining of library infrastructure in public space anchored by the Groups and Spaces Unreference Desk.

This week at school we are continuing the steady building of the school. The theme of the week? Revolution through teaching. Teachers are encouraged to play with their method: HOW can you teach what you teach? Would it be better if you were dressed in period costume? Let’s do it.

Revolutionary moments are building– let the spirit of experimentation move you!
Some observations of revolutionary teaching practices include: total installations (immerse students in a sensory experience), undoing gender, escaping monologues, forgetting to sit, remembering to wear costumes, learning while making, etc. Teaching is an art practice. Download our Teaching/Learning Guide Here (PDF)

this workshop will culminate in a group performance where participants will develop a celebration based upon their personal traditions or newly developed celebration or memorial.

We will all stand in a line, leaning against each other, the person behind us supporting our weight. The last person will be leaning against a tree. Then.

…we do some moon salutes before disbanding in a parade of bicycles, dropping people off one by one at their homes, and then…

I am here to learn as much as I can from everyone else and to show them what they’ve taught me in inverted form.

Kate invited me.
And FATE.

Everyone will place their feet in soil and stretch their arms to the sky. Take a deep breath. Stretch down and extend each finger into the soil, slowly and continuously until you are well.

Massages while music is played.

We need to give ourselves free and Authentic time to be fully present.

We will enjoy a siesta in the shade.

In the interest of transparency as well as unlearning education, we present you with these “notes”, a sort of questionnaire, that sums up the emotions, thoughts and concerns of the students who participated in the first NAG seed-bombing class:

thanks Katherine and Andrea for the notes and image!

On Sunday the 11th, NAG then teamed up with School of the Future to present three workshops! School of the Future is an inter-generational free school for the community around Sgt. Dougherty Park, at Meeker and Vandervoort. From solar-powered lighting to experimental food sculptures, the School of the Future is an invitation to experiment and analyze learning through the arts.

The first NAG workshop was Guerilla Gardening, where participants created seed balls to distribute in vacant lots around the neighborhood. Seed balls consist of red clay, compost, and seeds — when they dry, they can be easily distributed (i.e. thrown over fences). Did you know that North Brooklyn has themost stalled construction sites in the city? For more information about how to make seed balls, check out this step-by-step guide. Special thanks to Kate Zidar and the North Brooklyn Compost Project for compost and to Kimberly Sevilla at Red Rose and Lavender for the discount and tips on local seed varieties!

Up next, Ryan Kuonen led a School of the Future class on her “Newtown Creek: the Gunk Under Greenpoint” bike tour. Participants visit a number of sites along the creek, and learn about its history, the current industries there, and efforts to add the creek to the Federally-designated list of national Superfund sites designated for remediation. Among the sites visited was the Newtown Creek Nature Walk (pictured). Designed by George Trakas and opened last year, this interesting site is a must-visit for North Brooklynites. The City even has a fun scavenger hunt you can do.

Finally, Ryan led a discussion about affordable housing, using the Toolkit developed by the Center for Urban Pedagogy. This interactive, felt board allows participants to visualize how many people in their community can afford available housing types, at what salaries. Participants asked great questions, and a discussion ensued about how to protect artist housing in NYC.

Thanks to everyone who came out this week and brainstormed and learned with us!

I am writing while on a small vacation,
from the future of education.
I am your student, and I have been taking notes.
Not only have I learned what you taught me,
but I have learned about what it is to be a student,
and how I learn.

My best moments as a student so far have been when I have been enveloped in an experience.

Case #1:
‘Senior Movement’

The class was supposed to happen at 11 on a Saturday morning, July 3, but the crowd for the day had not yet arrived so it was delayed until about 3pm. The class was taught by Grace.

Grace had us gather around a coffee table she had brought, which she had painted, and she might have painted just for the class. She had come early to prepare tuna sandwiches, and she had asked me to help her make them because she had never done it before. She wanted to feed her students something healthy, clean, and that fit with her idea of health. We sat around a coffee table in the shade, drinking juice from tiny cups. I was transported to childhood and old age, but what’s the difference, at least my inhibitions were quieted.

Grace began class by talking about her experience taking care of her elderly father. He is 90 years old and no longer talks. He has Alzheimer’s and has had repeated strokes, limiting his ability to speak. He also stopped moving his body. Grace told us about how various hospitalizations and instances when he would lose control of his entire body and the health care workers around her and her father had excused him from the possibility of ever moving again. Grace decided that he should move and she began to help him by developing a daily movement regiment. For hours every day she insisted that he moved his arms and legs in simple repeated motions. Slowly he built strength back and at some point he was able to stand. She started by asking him to do a simple movement for less than a minute. She didn’t expect much but she insisted that he connected with his body. She also gave her father rules. Grace insisted that he did not wet the bed. She set expectations for him. She wanted him to have pride and she wanted him to help her take care of him. Her insistence proved useful for both of them. His dignity remained and Grace didn’t have to carry him to the bathroom anymore. Grace asked for what she needed in order to continue caring for her father, and her father responded.

As Grace shared this story, she acted out the movements that she had developed for her father to practice. Every time he gave up, had a new ailment, or was too weak, she insisted that he maintained this practice. If he wouldn’t lift his own arms, she would do it for him. She wouldn’t let his body die. Grace became the connection between her father’s mind and body.

Just as Grace insisted that her father connect with the earth through using his body, she insisted that we, her students, don’t give up on our parents and elders. She also wanted us to understand how much she has given up to take care of her father. Not because she wants praise, but because she wants us to understand her value as a person, because she fears that her work is going unseen and that her own daily practice has been exchanged for a life as a caregiver. I sensed that this class gave Grace some gratification for what she is doing. This desire for communication with a community of people who understand us can be satiated. It can be a class. It can be a project. It is life, which is a constant struggle to learn, understand, and to be heard.

One of the other students in the group asked everyone in the class of 8 people would explain their relationship to caring for their older family members. Some of us had connections to our familial roots, and others did not, but the need for connectivity to our own histories and the desire to offer reciprocity to the caretakers who raised us or who we are tied to biologically was very strong.

Being in this class made me wonder how my family history will develop as my organic family ages. I don’t have any traditional structure in my family. I am an only child of many parents, but I too want to honor my roots, as rhizomatic as they may be. I don’t want it to be a scary and mysterious part of my life, but a sturdy abstract one that I want to face with creativity and strength as Grace has.

The class was a success because I learned something functional– a technique. I learned about myself by listening to others, everything was tied to a real person with a story, and my attention was focused because Grace created an atmosphere for learning. This class employed my need to experience things physically, to see the practical implications of information, to relate emotionally, to sense and feel someone else’s experience, and to feel like a part of a community that I didn’t realize I had joined by being born.

Thanks Grace, thanks School of the Future.
Cassie

Now get ready for the final two weeks! It’s gon’ be a doozy!

Saturdays, July 24 & July 31, 4 P.M. – 5 P.M.

The teachers present pertinent facts and dubious factoids about current and recent dictators and instruct participants in how to draw simplified portraits of each tyrant. Students practice drawing the dictators following the teacher’s instructions. Class also features gesture drawing, questions-and-answers, critiques of the students’ drawings, and a big sing-along. Dictators may include: Kim Jong-il (South Korea), Omar al-Bashir (Sudan), Augusto Pinochet (Chile), King Abdullah (Saudi Arabia), George W. Bush (USA), Saparmurat Niyazov (Turkmenistan), + much, much more!

Twitter user Brooklyn Brainery uploaded this shot live from a Newtown Creek bike tour, a class from last week’s syllabus, and wrote,

“Just went on a great bike tour of the Newtown Creek w/ @sotf2010 – the nature path up there is awesome!”

Cheers,
Allison
Head of Research Development

Cottage Industry
July 11th, 3pm
(Teacher: Huong Ngo) Together, we will explore the theoretical and practical aspects of cottage industries. We will consider all crafts from writing, weaving, renegade physics, and citizen science in examining alternative processes for production and distribution. (Part 2 of 2)

Newtown Creek: The Gunk Under Greenpoint Bike Tour
July 11th, 3pm
(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.

Rethinking Development
July 11th, 3pm
(Teacher: Stephen Zacks) We’ll engage in a community-based process of creating a program, then figure out what tools are available to finance, design, and build it.

Special Performance: A Bye-bye gunk meditation
Kiana Love
July 11th, 3pm

Internalizing Kate Bush
July 11th, 4pm
(Teacher: Cassie Thornton) We will spend two classes experiencing, researching, and reacting to two Kate Bush songs.

Affordable Housing Workshop
July 11th, 5:30pm
(Teachers: Lacey Tauber and Ryan Kuonen) Join NAG (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth)’s Ryan and Lacey as they explore the meaning of “affordable housing” using the Center for Urban Pedagogy’s Envisioning Development: Affordable Housing Toolkit. http://envisioningdevelopment.net/affordable-housing

Performance by Noelle Tannen
July 11th, 7pm

Stand in the Place Where you Live, Now Face North
July 11th, 7:45pm
(Teachers: Alison Levy and Noelle V. Dor) This series will guide you through a dynamic experience/intuitive based exploration of Air, Fire, Water, and Earth.

Solar Powered Lights
July 10th, 1:30pm
(Teacher: Philip Stearns) Use the power of the sun to charge batteries and power a cool lamp! You will build a solar powered battery charger and a light controlled LED circuit. (NOTE: RSVP Required)

How to Re-imagine Your City
July 10th, 3pm
(Teacher: Lacey Tauber) What does your ideal neighborhood look like? Join Lacey Tauber of NAG (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth) www.nag-brooklyn.org for a workshop that asks you to imagine, visualize, and create your own ideal neighborhood.

Cottage Industry
July 10th, 3pm
(Teacher: Huong Ngo) Together, we will explore the theoretical and practical aspects of cottage industries. We will consider all crafts from writing, weaving, renegade physics, and citizen science in examining alternative processes for production and distribution. (Part 1 of 2)

Movement for Seniors
July 10th, 5pm
(Teacher: Grace D.) We will engage in a series of gentle exercises that are designed specifically to strengthen the bodies of seniors.

Costume Sports: Basketball, Soccer and Handball
July 10th, 7:30pm
(Teacher: Caroline Woolard) Come make costumes and play basketball

Greetings Faculty Members and Study Bodies of School of the Future!

Today begins the second week in an experiment in unschooling at Sgt. Dougherty Park.
Last week we learned a lot about how things flow and work at the School.
So to prepare you for your sessions this week, consider some observations:

- Students may not be on time
- You may only have 1-2 students, you may have up to 10-12
- People don’t tend to come until the later afternoon/evening
- We don’t believe in rigid schedules, so you may need to decide yourself when to begin your class
- It may be hot, it may rain – so well have to work with the weather as best we can together
- Sometimes classes bleed into eachother – the students may shift around. We encourage you to talk to teachers hosting classes before or after you – collaboration is encouraged….we think the best teaching/learning moments happen when people, ideas and experiences intermingle.
- We are not trying to facilitate a conventional student-teacher setup. You get to decide how to structure your learning and teaching – as a workshop, as a discussion, as a studio, as an investigation or field trip, or a one-on one intimate talk.
- We are here to support you – please ask for what you need before you come to the park and we’ll try our best to have it ready
- We still don’t have electricity, but we are working on it (have any interest in helping? email “Cory Brown” info [at] coryrussellbrown [dot] com)

AND MOST IMPORTANT -> we appreciate your time and contribution to this experiment! And we thank you with all of our might!

Fellowship with like-minded individuals can be seen as a communication grid that connects you, by travel or by technology, to exactly what you need to learn and experience at this moment in time.

Day 1 was not only a complete success, but it was also incredibly FUN! If you missed it, we had an Illustration from Inside class, we re-wrote the Star-Spangled Banner, everybody got a dose of vuvuzela-surprise, there were some epic games of costumed sports, and we closed out with a twilight rock-trio featuring the world’s smallest portable amplifier!

Help us make INFINITY possible! Sign up for one (or more!) of our classes.

Get out your tools! And bring some tape because we know you’re ripped and ready to help us build THE School of the Future! An entire school is being fabricated faster than this blog post can be written – it’s incredible! The School is more yellow than our sun – we’re so bright, you won’t be able to miss us against the backdrop of the surrounding concrete environment.

Kyle Hovenkotter slops down some glue and assembles the walls of the future.

our resident Food Sculptor Abby Weg prepares some delicious treats for later

and lastly, today’s syllabus!:

Join US later this evening for the picnic throwdown, from 7-10pm.

TODAY!

and you’re going to be seeing a LOT of this image! Because hopefully every single person who attends or is simply passing by the School will want to learn, and become accredited in ways beyond their wildest imagination! We’re offering classes in costume-making, illustration from inside, street law, affordable housing… KATE BUSH!

Seriously we have so many classes lined up! And we’re still adding classes, so if you want to propose a class and become a Teacher of the Future, just tell us what do you want to teach?

School picnic, class registration, folk music, inauguration ceremony, food sculpture, bball, and WE HAVE NO POWER!

Join us for a celebratory opening ceremony and picnic at Sgt. Dougherty Park this Thursday. Help us salute pedagogues past and present as we raise the School of the Future flag and christen Brooklyn’s first intergenerational free school to open in a public park for one month of unschool programming. Music, food sculpture, dome building and an irrational sense of togetherness and joy in a public space. Every week around this time, for all of July, you’ll receive the week’s schedule.

Thursday, 1 July, 7-10pm

the differences of cooking oils, distinctions between “pure” vege-oil and biodiesel, how engines typically combust and produce energy, and a not-so-working but spritely biodiesel generator – and more! – were presented at last night’s first pre-School workshop: DIY Biodiesel, hosted by Alpha One Labs.

some progress was made on said biodiesel generator, and with the assistance of several great minds and greasy fingers we hope to have that thing working by early July so the School will actually have 120V electricity – and if anybody is so ambitious the generator can also supply 240V!

Join us in the first of a series of workshops designed to recycle, while creating energy!  We will open up the discussion with an introduction about climate change, air pollution and water pollution in NYC and then  learn together how to use & retrofit an existing generator to run on used cooking oil. Join us if you’re an expert, amateur or just want to watch!

For more information on how you can recycle your used cooking oil, see the Lower East Side Ecology Center’s Go Green Cooking Oil Recycling Program.

June 24th, 2010 | 7:30pm-9:30pm

this event will take place at:
AlphaOne Labs, 148 Frost Street in Brooklyn | MAP

about a dozen parents & teachers showed up to the first interference conference and enjoyed strawberries, apple juice, and aceto balsamico-laced salad. We heard introductions around the table, discussed rain dates & other daily setup logistics, and took one-on-one Q&As with parents and teachers alike. In short, the Future looks like it’s going to be a ton of fun!

June 23rd, 7-9pm

at the future School of the Future grounds:
Sgt. Dougherty Park, Meeker and Vandervoort Ave, Brooklyn, NY | MAP

and thanks to kickstarter and our 50+ backers, we were able to raise $1,195 for the materials and construction of THE School of the Future!