[Community] Idea for final Skillshare

[Nicole Pion]

Unfortunately, I have a training for AmeriCorps at 11 tomorrow and I won't
be able to make it, but please feel free to have the meeting without me.

Nicole

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Chris Ritzo <critz1 at illinois.edu> wrote:

> Vanessa,
>
> You would be welcome to facilitate a skillshare on the 29th, and we
> definitely have afternoon times available. I think the group would also be
> interested in talking more with you about the education programming you
> talked about.
>
> It would be great to get you connected to some local folks and the IMC is a
> great place to get started. Attending a meeting of the Community Connections
> group might be good- we can talk more about the skillshares and your other
> ideas.
>
> Does anyone know when our next meeting is? :) I think tomorrow but I'm not
> sure...
>
> -Cheers,
> Chris R.
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Vanessa Moll <fairtrademaid at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I saw a flier about the skillshares on Saturdays. I would be interested in
>> going to them, but I work at the farmers market until about 1 every
>> Saturday. I did see, however, that you are hosting a full-day skillshare at
>> the end of August. Not only would I like to attend (probably arriving a
>> little late, right after work); I have an idea for facilitating a
>> skillshare. I've been in Thailand for 2 years, interning for a study abroad
>> program, and in the last year we produced 8 different community-based human
>> rights reports. So I would like to run a human rights skill share, perhaps
>> modified from a workshop I facilitated upon arriving in the US, called
>> "Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: An Organizing Tool."
>>
>> In addition to that, I am interested in and have been brainstorming ideas
>> about developing some kind of education center, or for in the nearer future,
>> a summer program for high schoolers in Champaign/Urbana. This would
>> integrate peer to peer learning/group process, student/teacher
>> teacher/student relationships, community learning and exchanging, human
>> rights, and a focus on bringing participants from an "awareness" phase to a
>> "being in the world" and "connectedness" phase. Unfortunately, all of this
>> has been in my head, and I have no group with me on this other than a
>> national network, which gives me some national connections but no local
>> connections.
>>
>> I figure this skill share could be a place for me to connect with folks
>> who could potentially work on this or some other related idea that people
>> are into and see as useful.
>>
>> Please let me know what I need to do to hold a spot on the agenda for the
>> last Saturday in August. And if you would like me to come to the IMC and
>> personally talk to someone, then I would love to (I am trying to keep this
>> e-mail to the basics of my idea, but I'm afraid it might not make sense)!
>>
>> --
>> With respect,
>>
>> Vanessa
>>
>> "Tomorrow...if there is to be one, it will be made with the women, and
>> above all, by them..."
>> From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast
>> Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
>>
>>
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Nicole Pion
Outreach and Development Adviser
AmeriCorps CTC VISTA
Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center
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