Thursday, August 30th: How to Do an I-Ching Reading
How to Do an I-Ching Reading Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan 7-8pm Free The I-Ching, a Chinese text known as the Book of Change, is one of the oldest existing texts in the world. It has been used for divination, guidance in political and military strategy, meditation, and as inspiration for creative work. Whether you are [...]
Thursday, August 30th: How to Build Homemade Tropical Weapons for Self-Defense: Banana-Chucks
How to Build Homemade Tropical Weapons for Self-Defense: Banana-Chucks Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan 7-8pm Free The class begins with a brief intro to the history of nun-chucks and then proceeds to a demonstration on how to build your own chucks with 2 bananas and banana leaves. This is an interactive lesson and participants will create [...]
Thursday, August 30th: Elastic City
Elastic City Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan 7:30-9pm Free Todd Shalom, Director/Founder of conceptual walks organization Elastic City will join folks on the lawn to talk about the organization, how he creates a walk and how he works with artists to adapt their talents to the walk format. He’ll bring a few poetic exercises with him [...]
Thursday, August 23rd: Hoovervilles: An Architectural and Cultural Analysis of Squatter Housing in the 1930s
Hoovervilles: An Architectural and Cultural Analysis of Squatter Housing in the 1930s Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan 7-9pm Free The economic depression of the 1930s brought severe challenges to the American populace. Squatter housing in New York’s public sites became one of the most visible manifestations of these hardships, and accordingly were given the term “Hooverville” [...]
Thursday, August 23rd: Animals + Ethics
Animals + Ethics Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan 7-9pm Free I would like us to gather to discuss our relationship with animals. Under the heading of “ethics,” I hope we can reconsider how we, as individuals and as a society, treat animals, and raise as a question what justifies the vast difference between the quality and [...]
Thursday, August 16th: So Valuable It’s Free
So Valuable It’s Free Tompkins Sq. Park, Manhattan 7-8pm Free, RSVP: lawnschool@gmail.com It’s a cliche of Animal House theme songs and Visa ads: the best things in life are free. Or priceless. But what does this really mean, and how does that kind of free exist in a market economy? In case studies from drinking [...]
Thursday, August 9th: Free Recycled Kite-Making Workshop
Free Recycled Kite-Making Workshop Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn 7-8pm Free, RSVP appreciated: lawnschool@gmail.com /// Recycle household materials to make a beautiful easy-to-fly paper sled kite at this kite-making workshop taught by Lee Dares of the Kite Collective (www.kitecollective.org). We’ll have tools and materials but feel free to bring your own scissors. /// The Kite Collective [...]
