Davis People's Free School/Workshop Requests

Requested Topics (Teachers Needed!)

Note: Everyone is welcome to teach! We're looking for more involvement from townies, elders, and professors!

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In High Demand

Requested Topics (Teachers Needed!) In High Demand Other Requested Topics Music Gettin' Crafty DIY Building, Maintenance, & Design Computers Culinary Arts Visual & Performing Arts Sustainability & Plants Cross-Cultural Circus, Magic, & the Occult Giving back/Awareness: Health & Well-Being Community Skills Outdoors Activities Discussions/Forums Politics:

• "Yoga" (many requests)
  

• "Craft stuff in general" (many requests)
  

• "cooking classes (vegan, international cuisine, delicious treats, etc.) (many requests)
  

• "Guitar" (many requests)
  

• "Singing" (ooh or a community choir!) (multiple requests)
  

• "Rolling a whitewater kayak" (multiple requests)
  

• "good hiking spots (and outdoor skills in general)" (multiple requests)
  

• "human sexuality" (multiple requests)

Other Requested Topics

(Listed by category)

Music

• "Guitar" (many requests)

• "African Drumming"
  

• "Harmonica classes"

Gettin' Crafty

• "crafty things"
  

• "Tour of Davis Cooperative Communities"
  

• "Sewing"
  

• "Beading"
  

• "Wool processing"
  

• "Soap milling"
  

• "LED lights crafting"
  

• "making LEGO men out of felted wool"

DIY Building, Maintenance, & Design

• "Build your own bike trailer"
  

• "Basic bicycle tune-up"
  

• "Interior design"
  

• "Landscaping"
  

• "Home improvement techniques"
  

• "small appliance troubleshooting"
  

• "kite-making"
  

• "basic car maintenance"

Computers

• "computer diagnostic course"
  

• "computer skills for first time users"

Culinary Arts

• "cooking classes (vegan, international cuisine, delicious treats, etc.) (many requests)
  

• "hard cheese making"
  

• "Baking edibles"
  

• "cake sculpturing"
  

• "knife skills (in kitchen)"

Visual & Performing Arts

• "spoken word workshops"
  

• "creative writing workshop"
  

• "drawing/painting"
  

• "Singing" (ooh or a community choir!) (multiple requests)
  

• "photography"
  

• "mosaic"
  

• "film-making"
  

• "painting"

Sustainability & Plants

• "anything to do with sustainability"
  

• "art forms or crafts that help make one's life more self sufficient"
  

• "Organic Gardening"
  

• "Tree pruning/propagation"
  

• "Wild foods in Davis" - let's go collect some and eat a salad!
  

• "Small Farming skills"
  

• "community supported agriculture"
  

• "backyard chickens"
  

• "plant propagation"
  

• "canning"
  

• "simple home techniques to promote sustainability (i.e. rainwater harvesting)"

Cross-Cultural

• "things from other cultures"
  

• "Introduction to Islam"
  

• "Conversational Spanish and/or French"
  

• "any kind of multicultural-literacy"
  

• "english classes (either conversational or writing skills)"

Circus, Magic, & the Occult

• "juggling"
  

• "Witchcraft"
  

• "Tarot"
  

• "Magic secrets"

Giving back/Awareness:

• "Food Not Bombs Training"

Health & Well-Being

• "Massage therapy"
  

• "Karma Sutra"
  

• "Yoga" (many requests)
  

• "Human Sexuality"
  

• "assertiveness training"
  

• "Tai chi"
  

• "meditation techniques"
  

• "old school games (things grandma&pa played when kids)"

Community Skills

• "group facilitation"
  

• "bike safety"
  

• "nonviolent communication"
  

• "peer counseling"

Outdoors Activities

• "Rolling a whitewater kayak" (multiple requests)
  

• "good hiking spots (and outdoor skills in general)" (multiple requests)
  

• "Bear Grylls like classes / outdoor survival"

Discussions/Forums

• "What's the difference between a degree and an education?"
  

• "How we raise our kids (as compared to other cultures)"
  

• "a speaker series for international mothers or recent immigrants who applying their parenting traditions to their new or host country"
  

• "Davis history"
  

• "Education and pedagogy"
  

• "film viewing with an expert/film history person who can give a talk or explain something significant re: the film, any kind of geekery class"
  

• "Buddhism"

Politics:

• "debates"
  

• "2010 election breakdown (separate from politics & pancakes)"
  

• "Prop 19 Debate"
  

• "lectures from professors on pertinent issues"
  

• "Current events/politics"