Esperanto Workshops

Wednesday 20 september 2023, Esperanto Workshop for beginners and intermediates. Doors open at 18:00, beginner’s course starts at 19:00, intermediate’s starts at 20:00.

Wednesday 20 september, program presentation https://squ.at/r/9l2a
This evening beginner’s course explains the program of the new academic year!
The Esperanto Workshops start again at Joe’s! Each evening, we have courses at two levels: absolute beginners and intermediate. We learn the Esperanto language along with its culture. Sometimes fluent speakers join in, do not miss the occasion; you will listen to advanced speakers with their wonderful Esperanto life stories.
Absolute beginners and curious persons are always welcome! Next workshops on 4 and 18 october 2023.

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Language Cafe – Taal Cafe

Every sunday from 4 till 6pm, Language Cafe

This language cafe is all about language exchanging and learning through socializing! Come hang out with us where we help each other improve our skills and meet new people. We currently offer three tables for practicing Dutch, Spanish, and Arabic. You are welcome to join any table you prefer. Moreover, if you are a native speaker of any of these languages, we would appreciate if you can join and help others learning your language.
We are open to adding more languages and tables as well so please contact us if you are interested in starting your own language table!

Radical Sunday School: Against Intellectualism

Sunday 21 May 2023, Radical Sunday School: Against Intellectualism, from 14:00 till 16:00

As students are protesting the university, calling for the democratisation, decarbonisation, and decolonisation of their education, the Radical Sunday School is opening weekly to discuss the failings of our current educational system and imagine new ways to learn. As Paulo Freire believed, education can be an emancipatory tool, liberating consciousness, and widen the options for action – and of course, it can take place anywhere, and at any time. In this ‘school’, everyone, students and not-students, is invited to participate. We will decide on the content and form freely. The options for things to discuss are endless: What is the point of today’s educational system? What is it promising, what does it deliver? How is it funded? What counts as education? What would an abolition of the university entail? How do you actually decolonise education? Or democratise it? What is the history of the university? How do fossil fuels inform our beliefs on learning? Let’s follow whatever sounds interesting and worthwhile – whatever seems important enough to be learned.

This is not intended to be a course that you would have to follow all the way through. Jump in and out whenever you like. Sessions will be held every Sunday, except for every second Sunday of the month (when Joe’s Garage is having an open assembly). Come through, and let’s educate ourselves in ways not possible inside the silly institution that is called university.

This session we will focus on intellectualism. (more info coming soon)

Radical Sunday School – 2 KOOL 4 SKOOL

Sunday 14 May 2023, Radical Sunday School – 2 KOOL 4 SKOOL, from 14:00 till 16:00

As students are protesting the university, calling for the democratisation, decarbonisation, and decolonisation of their education, the Radical Sunday School is opening weekly to discuss the failings of our current educational system and imagine new ways to learn. As Paulo Freire believed, education can be an emancipatory tool, liberating consciousness, and widen the options for action – and of course, it can take place anywhere, and at any time. In this ‘school’, everyone, students and not-students, is invited to participate. We will decide on the content and form freely. The options for things to discuss are endless: What is the point of today’s educational system? What is it promising, what does it deliver? How is it funded? What counts as education? What would an abolition of the university entail? How do you actually decolonise education? Or democratise it? What is the history of the university? How do fossil fuels inform our beliefs on learning? Let’s follow whatever sounds interesting and worthwhile – whatever seems important enough to be learned.

This is not intended to be a course that you would have to follow all the way through. Jump in and out whenever you like. Sessions will be held every Sunday, except for every second Sunday of the month (when Joe’s Garage is having an open assembly). Come through, and let’s educate ourselves in ways not possible inside the silly institution that is called university.

Proxy Cafe, film subtitling and captioning

SUBTITLING AND CAPTIONING WORKSHOP [for tecchies, activists & film-loving wordwranglers]

Wednesday 19/4 (19:00) at Joe’s Garage: overview of all the different free tools that have emerged (and agonized) through the ages, with clues as to which one to use for what purpose. Bring your laptop (+mouse, +headphones, +pendrive) if you want to dive right into it and play around with them after the presentation.

Sunday 23/4 (14:00) at Joe’s Garage: more of the same on Sunday, but with ideas about ‘correct’ language, ‘faithful’ translation, ‘readable’ lines, etc. Why are all these things in scare quotes? Because there are rules about them, of course. Mountains of rules. Impossibly contradictory rules. It’s a tyranny out there, sister.

Wednesday 26/4 (18:00) at Filmhuis Cavia has just added an extra session for projectionists on Wednesday 26, at 18:00, plus a little ‘graduation ceremony’ on the big screen.

Proxy Cafe: free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.

The first 30 minutes are for landing in the space, despairing about forgotten chargers or headphones, minimal introductions, and running to the shop for frozen pizza (or byo veggie leftovers).

Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://squ.at/r/8i60
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

Language Cafe – Taal Cafe

New weekly event starting in april 2023, every sunday from 4 till 6pm, Language Cafe. First edition on sunday 2nd april 2023.

This language cafe is all about language exchanging and learning through socializing!

Come hang out with us where we help each other improve our skills and meet new people. We’re open to all languages and levels, whether you aim to practice Dutch, English, Arabic, German, or any other language!
Click on the link below to indicate the language you desire to learn or practice and which one you would like to teach!
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/qzUnTVyAynCQthtcXpqylWt27l6CN+An52I3LQDwl+w/

This week’s session will serve as an introduction to see everyone’s preferences, we will set together to chat over a cup of tea or coffee, and feel free to bring any game or material you would like to use.

From next week we can start matching individuals and groups with similar interests!
Join us every Sunday from 16:00 to 18:00 for some language learning fun.

Every week will include different sorts of activities and games to make language learning an exciting experience!
Attention: This is not a class and there are no teachers so don’t hesitate to jump in whenever you want.

Radical Sunday School

New weekly event starting in april 2023, every sunday from 6 till 8pm, Radical Sunday School. First edition on sunday 2nd april 2023, Introduction // On Teaching.

As students are protesting the university, calling for the democratisation, decarbonisation, and decolonisation of their education, the Radical Sunday School is opening weekly to discuss the failings of our current educational system and imagine new ways to learn. As Paolo Freire believed, education can be an emancipatory tool, liberating consciousness, and widen the options for action – and of course, it can take place anywhere, and at any time. In this ‘school’, everyone, students and not-students, is invited to participate. We will decide on the content and form freely. The options for things to discuss are endless: What is the point of today’s educational system? What is it promising, what does it deliver? How is it funded? What counts as education? What would an abolition of the university entail? How do you actually decolonise education? Or democratise it? What is the history of the university? How do fossil fuels inform our beliefs on learning? Let’s follow whatever sounds interesting and worthwhile – whatever seems important enough to be learned.

The first session will be introductory, and we will gather ideas collectively on how we would like to run future sessions. This is not intended to be a course that you would have to follow all the way through. Jump in and out whenever you like. Sessions will be held every Sunday, except for every second Sunday of the month (when Joe’s Garage is having an open assembly). Come through, and let’s educate ourselves in ways not possible inside the silly institution that is called university.

If it so goes, there is one thing already planned that we can discuss for the first session, if we choose to do so, and it is a bit of an unorthodox mesh of things. Centering on the question of whether teaching is even possible, we can discuss the role education plays in our lives, the moments we teach and are being taught, and how different educational theories view teaching differently. It might be interesting to look at Danish Folk High Schools, their history and emergence as voluntary “schools for life”, their use of myth, story, and practical labour. It might even be interesting to think of Christian mystic and anarchist Simone Weil’s ideas on education and the practice of attention. Or Paolo Freire’s emancipatory and dialogical education aiming to stimulate a critical consciousness. Attention might drift elsewhere and we needn’t discuss this necessarily. It is merely a suggestion. Let’s see where we land together!

Proxy Cafe, making maps, importing calendars

Wednesday 15 march 2023, Proxy Cafe, making maps, importing calendars, from 18:00 to 22:00.

How to make a map with several layers? uMap [https://umap.openstreetmap.de/en/] lets you create maps with OpenStreetMap layers in a minute and embed them in your site. Also on the program of this Proxy Cafe, managing your own Thunderbird calendar, importing calendar feeds [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/creating-new-calendars]. And if you’re still using Proton mail, Google and Hotmail, it’s not too late to move to something else. We’ll be playing with all these tools. Proxy Cafe: free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.

Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://squ.at/r/8i60
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/