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LONGFORM SERIES
**Graffiti as Anarchic Ritual
Thurs January 30th :: 8:00pm-9:00pm
@ Location TBD
* Email writersbloc@riseup.net for location or questions
••• Hear some of the lessons learned while doing graffiti in the Bay Area over the past twenty years. The intention will be to focus on obtaining skills to evade capture and engaging with the connections between anarchy and graffiti. Phones and technology discouraged.
MEZCALA CLASS CANCELLED. We’re sorry to announce that due to a logistical error, this session will need to be rescheduled.
**Mezcala: resistencia, historia, autonomía y comunidad with Rocio
Sat February 1st :: 4:00pm-6:00pm
@ Hasta Muerte (2701 Fruitvale Ave, Oakland)
••• El taller consiste en acercarnos a la lucha del pueblo coca de Mezcala, Jalisco. Un pueblo que ha enfrentado luchas en el pasado y el presente. En la actualidad el pueblo de Mezcala acaba de recuperar tierras invadidas qué busca destinadas para la consolidación de un espacio educativo comunal llamado Universidad comunitaria Mexcala. Este espacio está permitiendo al pueblo de Mezcala reafirmar los lazos comunitarios y principios libertarios de su pueblo. Así, este taller mostrará los esfuerzos que una colectividad realiza para conservar su cultura y autonomia.
Accessibility: Fully wheelchair-accessible space on the ground floor.
**Digital Security: Protecting our Communities Under Surveillance Capitalism with Pinyon
Tues February 4th :: 7:00pm-9:00pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• Mass data collection poses significant challenges to privacy, and affords enormous power to the corporations and states who possess it. What basic practices can we adopt in our day-to-day to counter such surveillance and keep our communities safer? We will discuss general principles as well as specific tools and phone apps for these purposes. See also Setting Up My GrapheneOS Phone on Feb 25.
Accessibility: The event will take place on the second floor, up a flight of steps. Assistance is available for accessing the second floor. A wheelchair-accessible bathroom is on the ground floor.
COVID info: Windows will be open, Hepa filter and fans will running for increased ventilation. Masks encouraged
**Ham Radios, Part 2: Ham Cram with Jen-Mei from PaRTEE
Sat February 8th :: 9:00am-1:00pm
@ Remote, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85250940126?pwd=gqaHYMJkcTRRaHaWAtACYerbYmRj1Q.1
Email jenmei@partee4justice.org if you have any questions!
••• Get your FCC Amateur Radio License! We’ll be meeting up online to hold space and support prospective hams. Prior to the ham cram, we suggest you register for an FRN number at the FCC web site:
https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/support/knowledge-base/universal-licensing-system-uls-resources/getting-fcc-registration
Schedule an exam for shortly after the ham cram ends (1pm). You can sign up for exams through ARRL and HamStudy.org. One examiner people have had good luck with in the past is https://W7MX.net.
LONGFORM SERIES
**Doing Anticapitalist, Anticolonial Theory Together with Taylor Rose
Sat February 8th :: 3:30pm-5:00pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• A class about the content and also about our reading practices and ways of relating with theory, each other, ideas, and our material conditions. Importantly, the emphasis is to engage in cultivating our capacity to think and learn together. Topics generally connect to the liberal nation-state and its violences. Open to all levels of experience reading and discussing theory. Please read what you can before coming. Bring paper and something to write with. Readings are available on BAFS website. Series runs 1/25, 2/8, 2/22, 3/8, and 3/22.
Accessibility: The event will take place on the second floor, up a flight of steps. Assistance is available for accessing the second floor. A wheelchair-accessible bathroom is on the ground floor.
COVID info: Windows will be open and fans will running for increased ventilation.
**Long Covid: A Love Letter to My Beloved Community in Struggle with Inanna
Sun February 9th :: 3:00pm-6:00pm
@ Location TBA
••• Have you been wondering if you maybe have long covid? Feeling like you need to get reacquainted with what the heck covid is doing lately, because it seems like more people are masking in public spaces? In this three-hour session, we’ll cover the basics of covid and long covid; what covid teaches us about the state, ourselves, and our communities; and how we can keep each other safe in this ongoing pandemic. This is a triggering topic, and the class will include breathwork, grounding exercises, and journaling questions. High-quality masks (KF94, KN95 or higher) required.
**Mesh Network for Autonomous Communication
Sun February 9th :: 2:00pm-5:00pm
@ Bay Area Radio Museum (2152 Central Avenue, Alameda)
please RSVP to: salvadorlouis@protonmail.com
••• In this class we’ll give an overview of meshtastic, a cheap and easy way to have autonomous and encrypted radio communications via a burner device. We’ll provide the basic radio set up, talk about how our communities might utilize them effectively and in different scenarios,. We will go into the field to test use and range.
**Cooking: Large Groups, Preserved Foods, and More
Sun February 9th :: 3:00pm-8:00pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• Large group cooking, but make it tasty. Best practices in the kitchen. Fermentation and food preservation. Via BAARN and Tamarack Community Dinner crew. We’ll cook and share a meal together for each session.
Accessibility: The event will take place on the second floor, up a flight of steps. Assistance is available for accessing the second floor. A wheelchair-accessible bathroom is on the ground floor.
COVID info: Windows will be open and fans will running for increased ventilation.
**Anarchist Parkour
Tues February 11th :: 4:00pm-6:00pm
@ Meet outside Mulford Hall (130 Hilgard Way, UC Berkeley)
••• Dodge the System! A beginner-level class on Parkour – the art of dodging and dashing around urban environments in the safest, quickest and stealthiest manner. We will work on basic moves, but all skill levels are encouraged to join. Bring close-toed running shoes, long, but flexible clothing (to protect from concrete and grass) and a water bottle. All bodies + skill levels welcome, bros move along! See y’all there!
Accessibility: Activities can be adapted to any level, but can involve jumping, rolling, and climbing.
COVID info: This is an outdoor event.
LONGFORM SERIES
**Metamorphia: Philosophy of Privacy Discussion Group and Open Lab
Thurs February 13th :: 4:00pm-6:00pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• This a two headed experiment. The first hour is the Open Lab—an informal workshop, skill-share, co-working space. Here anyone can drop in and out to do, with others, the sometimes hard work of actually setting up privacy, security, and anonymity tools and techniques in our lives. We provide resources, encouragement, guidance, exposure, and uncharted road maps—you bring your interests! The second hour is the Discussion Group—a facilitated reflective conversation. A committed group will read philosophical texts that act as rich reference materials for exploring agonizing and joyful questions about privacy.
Accessibility: The event will take place on the second floor, up a flight of steps. Assistance is available for accessing the second floor. A wheelchair-accessible bathroom is on the ground floor.
COVID info: Windows will be open and fans will running for increased ventilation.
**Consensus-Based Event Organizing with the Anarchist Coffeehouse Collective
Sat February 15th :: 7:00pm-9:00pm
@ Bound Together Book Store (1369 Haight Street, San Francisco)
••• This session will help folks understand how to plan and host community events that are rooted in consensus. Based on our experience with the anarchist coffeehouse & other organizing projects, we’ll share some lessons on navigating conflict and getting things done, even when folks have lowered capacity. and, we’ll workshop attendees’ ideas for events into actionable plans!
**Library Open House Book Exchange with the Tamarack Free Library
Sun February 16th :: 1:00pm-4:00pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• Come to the Tamarack Free Library open hours for a Valentine’s Day book exchange! Bring some books, take some books, grab one for your sweetheart (please only bring books in good condition).
Accessibility: The event will take place on the second floor, up a flight of steps. Assistance is available for accessing the second floor. A wheelchair-accessible bathroom is on the ground floor.
COVID info: Windows will be open and fans will running for increased ventilation.
**Street Medic Basics with Tiger Balm Collective
Mon February 17th :: 11:30am-1:30pm
@ 10th and Adeline – RSVP for address – @Chuckles.13 on signal
••• Street medic response and treatment to chemical weapons like pepper spray; supplies needed, treatment protocol, and safety practices. We will also talk about what to pack in a street medic kit.
**Herbal Wound Care in a Curbside Setting with Curbside Care Clinic
Mon February 17th :: 6:00pm- 7:30pm
@ Long Haul (3124 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley)
••• Learn concise and effective herbal strategies for dealing with serious infections based on our 6 years of experience working on the streets of West Oakland. We will make herbal preparations together based on our time tested protocols. This will be a 2 part class.
**Fermentation: Kombucha, Sourdough and Lactoferments with Dio
Tues February 18th :: 1:00pm- 4:00pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• Three part workshop on traditional methods of home fermentation for preservation, cookery and gut health. We will cover how to capture a kombucha SCOBY from the wild or commercial products, caring for and feeding the SCOBY to produce a continuous batch of fermented tea; creating/ capturing a sourdough starter and the basics of baking bread and maintaining a starter; and introduce the principles of lactofermentation which can be used for making kimchi, hot sauces and other preserved vegetable products. Series runs 2/18, 3/4, 3/11.
**Yaslighting: A Trauma-Informed Practice for Eliciting Social Resonance as an Interpersonal Resource for Community Conflict with Felony Bravetart
February 19th :: 6:00pm-8:00pm
@ Location TBD
••• This is practice for friends and comrades that already share affinity, and it is NOT a tool to try with people you are already in conflict with. Rather, its very usefulness relies on solid container setting, gatekeeping and a facilitator with resting bitchface. Think of it as something to do with your besties as a coregulation practice and shared reality check before you log on and strap up for a challenging interpersonal conflict. Try to come with a crew, so you can try it with each other after it’s explained and demo-ed in front of the class.
LONGFORM SERIES
**Metamorphia: Philosophy of Privacy Discussion Group and Open Lab
Thurs February 20th :: 4:00pm-6:00pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• This a two headed experiment. The first hour is the Open Lab—an informal workshop, skill-share, co-working space. Here anyone can drop in and out to do, with others, the sometimes hard work of actually setting up privacy, security, and anonymity tools and techniques in our lives. We provide resources, encouragement, guidance, exposure, and uncharted road maps—you bring your interests! The second hour is the Discussion Group—a facilitated reflective conversation. A committed group will read philosophical texts that act as rich reference materials for exploring agonizing and joyful questions about privacy.
Accessibility: The event will take place on the second floor, up a flight of steps. Assistance is available for accessing the second floor. A wheelchair-accessible bathroom is on the ground floor.
COVID info: Windows will be open and fans will running for increased ventilation.
**Herbal Wound Care in a Curbside Setting with Curbside Care Clinic
Fri February 21st :: 6:00pm-7:30pm
@ Long Haul (3124 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley)
••• Learn concise and effective herbal strategies for dealing with serious infections based on our 6 years of experience working on the streets of West Oakland. We will make herbal preparations together based on our time tested protocols. This will be a 2 part class.
**Nourishing the Trans Body with Nadia
Sat February 22nd :: 1:00pm-3:00pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• Herbal Support 101 for Trans People on HRT & Herbs for Gender Euphoria. This introductory workshop will cover potential side effects experienced both on E & T, with a small section on herbs for gender euphoria.
Accessibility: The event will take place on the second floor, up a flight of steps. Assistance is available for accessing the second floor. A wheelchair-accessible bathroom is on the ground floor.
COVID info: Windows will be open and fans will running for increased ventilation.
**Ham Radios, Part 3: Field Training
Sat February 22nd :: 1:00pm-4:00pm
@ Arrowhead Marsh Pier at MLK Shoreline Park (7799 Pardee Ln, Oakland)
Email jenmei@partee4justice.org for more info.
••• Now that you have your license and a radio, learn how to use it! Experienced hams are also welcome to come and share knowledge. Unlicensed folks can come, too, but our focus will be on newly licensed folks.
You’ll get the most out of this if you bring your own radio, but we will also have a small number of radios on-hand if you don’t have one yet. Here are a couple of relative inexpensive options:
* Gigaparts QRZ Jumpstart
* Baofeng radio (e.g. UV-9R Pro).
These low-end radios might not last for years, but they are a reasonable way to get started on a budget. You can also shop at a ham radio store to get something higher-end; we suggest you talk to a salesperson to get more info and do some comparison shopping.
LONGFORM SERIES
**Doing Anticapitalist, Anticolonial Theory Together with Taylor Rose
Sat February 22nd :: 3:30pm-5:00pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• A class about the content and also about our reading practices and ways of relating with theory, each other, ideas, and our material conditions. Importantly, the emphasis is to engage in cultivating our capacity to think and learn together. Topics generally connect to the liberal nation-state and its violences. Open to all levels of experience reading and discussing theory. Please read what you can before coming . Bring paper and something to write with. Readings are available on BAFS website. Series runs 1/25, 2/8, 2/22, 3/8, and 3/22.
Accessibility: The event will take place on the second floor, up a flight of steps. Assistance is available for accessing the second floor. A wheelchair-accessible bathroom is on the ground floor.
COVID info: Windows will be open and fans will running for increased ventilation.
**Emergency Electricity Sources
Sun February 23rd:: 10:00am-4:00pm
@ Bikini Bottom (545 32nd St, Oakland)
••• A basic guide to emergency electricity sources in the event of power outages and emergencies. The education series will cover common types of emergency electricity sources and its practical application. Workshops will include safety procedures, scenarios for use and skills training to safely operate electrical equipment.
**Anarchist Family with Alana and Shannon
Sun February 23rd :: 11:00am-1:00pm
@ Dimond Park (3860 Hanly Road, Oakland)
••• This will be a discussion-style workshop to explore what it means to build anarchist family, both bio and chosen. We hope to work against capitalism’s drive to disconnect and isolate families and inter-generational relationships. We aim to build community/network among anarchist families in the bay, as well as incorporate non-parents who are interested in sharing experiences with future anarchists. There will be childcare! And snacks!
**Digital Security: Protecting our Communities Under Surveillance Capitalism with Pinyon
Tues February 25th :: 7:00pm-9:00pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• GrapheneOS is a secure operating system with significant security and privacy benefits, and is recommended for any activist’s primary phone. It also “just works” and is easy to use.
Bring a compatible unlocked Pixel phone (https://grapheneos.org/faq#recommended-devices, e.g. purchased on Swappa at https://swappa.com/buy/unlocked/google) with GrapheneOS installed (YT guide: https://tinyurl.com/installgraphene) and we’ll work on setting up profiles and apps.
Accessibility: The event will take place on the second floor, up a flight of steps. Assistance is available for accessing the second floor. A wheelchair-accessible bathroom is on the ground floor.
COVID info: Windows will be open and fans will running for increased ventilation. Hepa filter running. Masks encouraged.
LONGFORM SERIES
**Metamorphia: Philosophy of Privacy Discussion Group and Open Lab
Thurs February 27th :: 4:00pm-6:00pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• This a two headed experiment. The first hour is the Open Lab—an informal workshop, skill-share, co-working space. Here anyone can drop in and out to do, with others, the sometimes hard work of actually setting up privacy, security, and anonymity tools and techniques in our lives. We provide resources, encouragement, guidance, exposure, and uncharted road maps—you bring your interests! The second hour is the Discussion Group—a facilitated reflective conversation. A committed group will read philosophical texts that act as rich reference materials for exploring agonizing and joyful questions about privacy.
Accessibility: The event will take place on the second floor, up a flight of steps. Assistance is available for accessing the second floor. A wheelchair-accessible bathroom is on the ground floor.
COVID info: Windows will be open and fans will running for increased ventilation.
**How to Plant Milpa?: Regeneration of Comunalidad through Transterritorial Milpa and Assembly. ¿Como Sembrar Milpa? Regeneración de la Comunalidad mediante la Milpa y la Asamblea Transterritorial with Tierras Milperas members
Thurs February 27th :: 6:00pm-8:00pm
@ Hasta Muerte (2701 Fruitvale ave, Oakland)
•••In this workshop, we will share how Tierras Milperas members plant milpa and its cyclic succession of growth (diversity of seeds and their timing of planting), soil care, and water use. We will also share how milpa forms part of our broader social organization interconnected to assembly (our community institution of shared decision making and collective analysis). We share how recuperating both milpa and assembly can be a transterritorial strategy to regenerate communalidad, collective form of understanding ourselves collectively that organizes collective life and its respective insitutions: collective work, festivities, and assembly. Activity: How to plant a milpa & conversatorio on regenerating communalidad through assembly to reject capital’s individuation and the over consumptive society.
Accessibility: Fully wheelchair-accessible space on the ground floor.
**Welding, Metalwork and Associated Crafts: Making Use of the Material World for Joy, Liberation and Daily Life with Andrew and Patrick
Sat March 1st :: 11:00am-2:00pm
@ RSVP for location via email: metalworks@riseup.net
••• This 3 part workshop is intended for people with little to no experience welding or in trades/crafts generally. We will go over basic welding and metalworking methods and participants will get hands on exposure to a variety of metalworking techniques. We will also broaden the scope a little bit to general fabrication and construction and will familiarize people with common tools and materials and access to those tools and materials. There will be an emphasis on safety both in the workshop but also in the general hazards of construction, demolition and navigating the world. Series runs 3/1, 3/8, and 3/15.
**Mezcala: resistencia, historia, autonomía y comunidad with Rocio Moreno
Sat March 1st :: 4:00pm-6:00pm
@ Hasta Muerte (2701 Fruitvale Ave, Oakland)
••• En la segunda parte, podría compartir la lucha qué hemos dado desde el taller de historia comunitaria de Mexcala. En ese taller hemos creado los materiales como el memorama, lotería y libro cuentos de la tierra, para con ellos fortalecer la identidad de nuestro pueblo. Ustedes digan como lo ven, yo puedo preparar material para presentar los tres proyectos [libro, lotería y memorama] o concentrarnos en solo uno de ellos.
Accessibility: Fully wheelchair-accessible space on the ground floor.
**Emergent Connections: Movement as a Practice of Possibility with Chi Chi
Sun March 2nd :: 10:30am-12:00pm
@ 2727 California Street, Berkeley
••• How can dance/movement be a place where we rehearse the skills/relationships needed for collective survival? How do we move together through unknown? How do we practice deep listening and response-ability both for ourselves and those around us? How do we meet this moment with creativity, tenderness, and power? We will explore these questions through somatic grounding, play, and guided improvisation. This workshop is designed for people of any and all movement experience. Masks required. Series runs 3/2, 3/9, and 3/16.
COVID info: Masks required.
Self-Defense: From the Streets to the Barricades with B
Mon March 3th :: 1:00pm-3:00pm
@ Suigetsukan (103 International Blvd, Oakland)
••• From white supremacists to zionists to transphobes, the rhetoric of domination is birthed into reality via violence. Thus, self-defense isn’t only a matter of protecting the well-being of you and your loved ones, in this world, it’s inherently political. Enjoy learning the fundamentals of self-defense in a two-part course that will cover situational awareness, de-escalation, balance, movement & group movement, basic escapes, blocks & strikes all taught through a variety of games.
B has taught and trained martial arts and Self-defense for over a decade in the Bay Area and beyond.
Accessibility: Ground-floor space with no steps. Bathroom is on the ground floor but is not wheelchair accessible.
COVID info: N95 masks are required by the dojo. Windows will be open for increased ventilation.
**Fermentation: Kombucha, Sourdough and Lactoferments with Dio
Tues March 4th :: 1:00pm- 4:00pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• Three part workshop on traditional methods of home fermentation for preservation, cookery and gut health. We will cover how to capture a kombucha SCOBY from the wild or commercial products, caring for and feeding the SCOBY to produce a continuous batch of fermented tea; creating/ capturing a sourdough starter and the basics of baking bread and maintaining a starter; and introduce the principles of lactofermentation which can be used for making kimchi, hot sauces and other preserved vegetable products. Series runs 2/18, 3/4, 3/11.
LONGFORM SERIES
** Metamorphia: Philosophy of Privacy Discussion Group and Open Lab
Thurs March 6th :: 4:00pm-6:00pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• This a two headed experiment. The first hour is the Open Lab—an informal workshop, skill-share, co-working space. Here anyone can drop in and out to do, with others, the sometimes hard work of actually setting up privacy, security, and anonymity tools and techniques in our lives. We provide resources, encouragement, guidance, exposure, and uncharted road maps—you bring your interests! The second hour is the Discussion Group—a facilitated reflective conversation. A committed group will read philosophical texts that act as rich reference materials for exploring agonizing and joyful questions about privacy.
Accessibility: The event will take place on the second floor, up a flight of steps. Assistance is available for accessing the second floor. A wheelchair-accessible bathroom is on the ground floor.
COVID info: Windows will be open and fans will running for increased ventilation.
**The Power Grid and Energy Supply Chains with Ossa
Thurs March 6th :: 6:30pm-8:30pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• Demand for energy turns the gears of the capitalist global economy. What are the critical junctures of these supply chains and how do we build autonomous infrastructure at scale?
Accessibility: The event will take place on the second floor, up a flight of steps. Assistance is available for accessing the second floor. A wheelchair-accessible bathroom is on the ground floor.
COVID info: Windows will be open and fans will running for increased ventilation.
** Welding, Metalwork and Associated Crafts: Making Use of the Material World for Joy, Liberation and Daily Life with Andrew and Patrick
Sat March 8th :: 11:00am-2:00pm
@ RSVP for location via email: metalworks@riseup.net
••• This 3 part workshop is intended for people with little to no experience welding or in trades/crafts generally. We will go over basic welding and metalworking methods and participants will get hands on exposure to a variety of metalworking techniques. We will also broaden the scope a little bit to general fabrication and construction and will familiarize people with common tools and materials and access to those tools and materials. There will be an emphasis on safety both in the workshop but also in the general hazards of construction, demolition and navigating the world. Series runs 3/1, 3/8, and 3/15.
LONGFORM SERIES: 5 SESSIONS
**Doing Anticapitalist, Anticolonial Theory Together with Taylor Rose
Sat March 8th :: 3:30pm-5:00pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• A class about the content and also about our reading practices and ways of relating with theory, each other, ideas, and our material conditions. Importantly, the emphasis is to engage in cultivating our capacity to think and learn together. Topics generally connect to the liberal nation-state and its violences. Open to all levels of experience reading and discussing theory. Please read what you can before coming . Bring paper and something to write with. Readings are available on BAFS website. Series runs 1/25, 2/8, 2/22, 3/8, and 3/22.
Accessibility: The event will take place on the second floor, up a flight of steps. Assistance is available for accessing the second floor. A wheelchair-accessible bathroom is on the ground floor.
COVID info: Windows will be open and fans will running for increased ventilation.
**Emergent Connections: Movement as a Practice of Possibility with Chi Chi
Sun March 9th :: 10:30am-12:00pm
@ 2727 California Street, Berkeley
••• How can dance/movement be a place where we rehearse the skills/relationships needed for collective survival? How do we move together through unknown? How do we practice deep listening and response-ability both for ourselves and those around us? How do we meet this moment with creativity, tenderness, and power? We will explore these questions through somatic grounding, play, and guided improvisation. This workshop is designed for people of any and all movement experience. Masks required. Series runs 3/2, 3/9, and 3/16.
COVID info: Masks required.
**Cooking: Large Groups, Preserved Foods, and More
Sun March 9th :: 3:00pm-8:00pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• Large group cooking, but make it tasty. Best practices in the kitchen. Fermentation and food preservation. Via BAARN and Tamarack Community Dinner crew. We’ll cook and share a meal together for each session.
**Fermentation: Kombucha, Sourdough and Lactoferments with Dio
Tues March 11th :: 1:00pm- 4:00pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• Three part workshop on traditional methods of home fermentation for preservation, cookery and gut health. We will cover how to capture a kombucha SCOBY from the wild or commercial products, caring for and feeding the SCOBY to produce a continuous batch of fermented tea; creating/ capturing a sourdough starter and the basics of baking bread and maintaining a starter; and introduce the principles of lactofermentation which can be used for making kimchi, hot sauces and other preserved vegetable products. Series runs 2/18, 3/4, 3/11.
**Anarchist Parkour
Thurs March 13th :: 6:00pm-8:00pm
@ Meet outside Mulford Hall (130 Hilgard Way, UC Berkeley)
••• Dodge the System! A beginner-level class on Parkour – the art of dodging and dashing around urban environments in the safest, quickest and stealthiest manner. We will work on basic moves, but all skill levels are encouraged to join. Bring close-toed running shoes, long, but flexible clothing (to protect from concrete and grass) and a water bottle. All bodies + skill levels welcome, bros move along! See y’all there!
Accessibility: Activities can be adapted to any level, but can involve jumping, rolling, and climbing.
COVID info: This is an outdoor event.
**Welding, Metalwork and Associated Crafts: Making Use of the Material World for Joy, Liberation and Daily Life with Andrew and Patrick
Sat March 15th :: 11:00am-2:00pm
@ RSVP for location via email: metalworks@riseup.net
••• This 3 part workshop is intended for people with little to no experience welding or in trades/crafts generally. We will go over basic welding and metalworking methods and participants will get hands on exposure to a variety of metalworking techniques. We will also broaden the scope a little bit to general fabrication and construction and will familiarize people with common tools and materials and access to those tools and materials. There will be an emphasis on safety both in the workshop but also in the general hazards of construction, demolition and navigating the world. Series runs 3/1, 3/8, and 3/15.
**Emergent Connections: Movement as a Practice of Possibility with Chi Chi
Sun March 16th :: 10:30am-12:00pm
@ 2727 California Street, Berkeley
••• How can dance/movement be a place where we rehearse the skills/relationships needed for collective survival? How do we move together through unknown? How do we practice deep listening and response-ability both for ourselves and those around us? How do we meet this moment with creativity, tenderness, and power? We will explore these questions through somatic grounding, play, and guided improvisation. This workshop is designed for people of any and all movement experience. Masks required. Series runs 3/2, 3/9, and 3/16.
COVID info: Masks required.
LONGFORM SERIES
**Doing Anticapitalist, Anticolonial Theory Together with Taylor Rose
Sat March 22nd :: 3:30pm-5:00pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• A class about the content and also about our reading practices and ways of relating with theory, each other, ideas, and our material conditions. Importantly, the emphasis is to engage in cultivating our capacity to think and learn together. Topics generally connect to the liberal nation-state and its violences. Open to all levels of experience reading and discussing theory. Please read what you can before coming . Bring paper and something to write with. Readings are available on BAFS website. Series runs 1/25, 2/8, 2/22, 3/8, and 3/22.
Accessibility: The event will take place on the second floor, up a flight of steps. Assistance is available for accessing the second floor. A wheelchair-accessible bathroom is on the ground floor.
COVID info: Windows will be open and fans will running for increased ventilation.
**Anarchist Family with Alana and Shannon
Sun March 23rd :: 11:00am-1:00pm
@ Dimond Park (3860 Hanly Road, Oakland)
••• This will be a discussion-style workshop to explore what it means to build anarchist family, both bio and chosen. We hope to work against capitalism’s drive to disconnect and isolate families and inter-generational relationships. We aim to build community/network among anarchist families in the bay, as well as incorporate non-parents who are interested in sharing experiences with future anarchists. There will be childcare! And snacks!
**Stealth Games 2: The Stealthening with M
Sun March 23rd :: 2:00pm-5:00pm
@ Albany Bulb (meet at coordinates 37.889495, -122.316703)
••• We’re back with more stealth game time! We’ll be doing the same kinds of games as before (hiding in plain sight, sneaking up without being heard) and adapting them to make them more fun and challenging as the will of the group dictates. Come even if you didn’t make the first one, no athletics required, involves traversing uneven ground, kid friendly but not kid-centered. Bring your best camouflaging outfits.
Accessibility: Requires moving over uneven, non-paved ground in a park.
COVID info: This is an outdoor event.
**The Zen Art of Home Bicycle Maintenance with Dee
Sun March 23rd OR Sun March 30th, exact time TBD
@ Location TBD
••• Explore the balance and simplicity of maintaining your bike in The Zen Art of Home Bicycle Repair. This beginner-friendly class focuses on essential repairs and adjustments, empowering you to care for your bike with confidence and ease.
**Plant Walk/ Organoleptics with Stascha
Sun March 30th :: 12:00pm-2:00pm
@ Sibley Regional Park (Sibley Staging Area -6800 Skyline Blvd, Oakland)
••• We will walk and identify plants we see along the way. Focusing on medicinal uses, we’ll learn the beginning of organoleptics (a fancy way of saying using our senses to learn what medicinal properties are present). The hope of the class is to transform the way we move through the world and learn to feel support from the ecosystem!
Accessibility: Fairly flat walk, roughly one mile long. Half of the walk is on a paved surface; the other half is on a dirt path that is not wheelchair accessible.
COVID info: This is an outdoor event.
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**Stop the Bleed
Sat January 11th :: 11:00am-2:00pm
••• Info about circulatory system in the body and signs of hemorrhage. Hands-on techniques like pressure, tourniquets, and junctional packing.
**Cooking: Large Groups, Preserved Foods, and More
Sun January 12th :: 3:00pm-8:00pm
••• Large group cooking, but make it tasty. Best practices in the kitchen. Fermentation and food preservation. Via BAARN and Tamarack Community Dinner crew. We’ll cook and share a meal together for each session.
**Joy Unto Death
Tue January 14th :: 7:30pm-9:30pm
••• Death theory, Disposing of yourself, Advanced directives and making your will. It can be intimidating to think about ones death, let’s dive in [to the ground?] together.
**Ham Radios, Part 1: How and Why to Use Them
Sat January 18th :: 2:00pm-3:00pm
••• An introduction to ham radio. We will cover what ham radios are, their uses, and limitations.
NOTE:Thanks to everyone who came to the first workshop! If you want the presentation, we posted the presentation (with some updates based on Q & A) to the Partee website. This article about the ham radio classes has a link to the presentation and also some info about radios for those buying their first.
Email jenmei@partee4justice.org if you have any questions!
LONGFORM SERIES
**Graffiti as Anarchic Ritual
Mon January 20th :: 8:00pm-9:00pm
••• Hear some of the lessons learned while doing graffiti in the Bay Area over the past twenty years. The intention will be to focus on obtaining skills to evade capture and engaging with the connections between anarchy and graffiti. Phones and technology discouraged.
Accessibility: Fully wheelchair-accessible space on the ground floor.
LONGFORM SERIES
**Graffiti as Anarchic Ritual
Tues January 21st :: 8:00pm-9:00pm
••• Hear some of the lessons learned while doing graffiti in the Bay Area over the past twenty years. The intention will be to focus on obtaining skills to evade capture and engaging with the connections between anarchy and graffiti. Phones and technology discouraged.
**Anarchist Parkour
Thurs January 23rd :: 1:00pm-3:00pm
••• Dodge the System! A beginner-level class on Parkour – the art of dodging and dashing around urban environments in the safest, quickest and stealthiest manner. We will work on basic moves, but all skill levels are encouraged to join. Bring close-toed running shoes, long, but flexible clothing (to protect from concrete and grass) and a water bottle. All bodies + skill levels welcome, bros move along! See y’all there!
Accessibility: Activities can be adapted to any level, but can involve jumping, rolling, and climbing.
COVID info: This is an outdoor event.
**Fit the Structure to the Action
Thurs January 23rd :: 6:30pm-8:30pm
••• A presentation and discussion looking at different anti-authoritarian organizing structures and how they fit different kinds of actions. There will also be a focus on how to balance the need for security with the need for consent and accountability in creative ways. The presentation will draw from recent historical examples.
LONGFORM SERIES
**Graffiti as Anarchic Ritual
Thurs January 23rd :: 8:00pm-9:00pm
••• Hear some of the lessons learned while doing graffiti in the Bay Area over the past twenty years. The intention will be to focus on obtaining skills to evade capture and engaging with the connections between anarchy and graffiti. Phones and technology discouraged.
LONGFORM SERIES
**Doing Anticapitalist, Anticolonial Theory Together
Sat January 25th :: 3:30pm-5:00pm
••• A class about the content and also about our reading practices and ways of relating with theory, each other, ideas, and our material conditions. Importantly, the emphasis is to engage in cultivating our capacity to think and learn together. Topics generally connect to the liberal nation-state and its violences. Open to all levels of experience reading and discussing theory. Please read what you can before coming . Bring paper and something to write with. Readings are available on BAFS website. Series runs 1/25, 2/8, 2/22, 3/8, and 3/22.
Accessibility: The event will take place on the second floor, up a flight of steps. Assistance is available for accessing the second floor. A wheelchair-accessible bathroom is on the ground floor.
COVID info: Windows will be open and fans will running for increased ventilation.
LONGFORM SERIES
**Graffiti as Anarchic Ritual
Mon January 27th :: 8:00pm-9:00pm
••• Hear some of the lessons learned while doing graffiti in the Bay Area over the past twenty years. The intention will be to focus on obtaining skills to evade capture and engaging with the connections between anarchy and graffiti. Phones and technology discouraged.
LONGFORM SERIES
**Graffiti as Anarchic Ritual
Tues January 28th :: 8:00pm-9:00pm
••• Hear some of the lessons learned while doing graffiti in the Bay Area over the past twenty years. The intention will be to focus on obtaining skills to evade capture and engaging with the connections between anarchy and graffiti. Phones and technology discouraged.