🗓 Weekly on Sundays starting September 22nd -November 24 (No class Oct. 20)
🕰️ 2-5pm
🗺 Location TBD (but likely at one of Bk’s great local small businesses)
💰 $50-$400 (tuition fees go towards a great space to host the class and field trips to see alternative economies in action)
📋 Application Link. Deadline to apply is Sept. 15
Community: a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
Insular communities, through marginalization or willing removal from mainstream society, seem to create the most cohesive internal community economies. Think Amish societies, immigrant community lending networks, communes and cults. For hundreds of thousands of years, however, we all evolved in the container of the village, and survived based on the success of our community to develop an economy that met our needs.
These days, those of us in mainstream society turn to the formal market of globalized goods and service providers to meet our needs. And for the most part, it meets our immediate needs. We have access to a dizzying array of goods at affordable prices. But this convenience comes at a cost. Communities can be incredible for meeting each others economic needs, particularly in times of difficulty. But we’ve lost the muscles of how to provide for ourselves.
This course comes from the perspective of a more ‘normie’ lifestyle: we likely will not come from deeply insular communities. But many of us may be trying to build a deep relationship with our communities, and may be interested in if more of our economic needs can be met in our communities, and in the process deepen our bonds. This course is about