I'm proud to present a new project I am directing called the NASHVILLE FOLK + FREE SKOOL. We have just announced, for July, the first ever set of (free!) workshops--each led by talented and community-engaged instructors. Please check out the new Folk + Free website (thanks to Nicole Irene Design) for the full schedule of events, and read an excerpt from the ABOUT page below:
WHO WE ARE
We are a volunteer-run collective of Nashvillians dedicated to creative living and the sustainability of culture. We host and participate in several free, monthly, workshops on topics ranging from organic gardening, to photography, to bookbinding, to square dance-calling, to oral history techniques, and so on. We value the passing on of old and new crafts and skills through the folk tradition of community engagement and through person-to-person mentorship and apprenticeship. We also offer roundtable discussions and symposia on local and global issues and topics of interest. We encourage all to feel welcome to take a workshop, and also to teach a workshop, as we believe everyone has some valuable art, craft, or skill to pass on.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
Rooted in the American folk school tradition of informal, non-competitive education in folk and traditional arts, and the in the collectivist and collaborative values of the free skool movement, the Nashville Folk + Free Skool seeks to engage an accessible local discourse on, and participation in interest-, tradition-, and skill-sharing guided by a 21st century D-I-Y ethos.
