Anarchist Free University

Minutes for meeting 01/17/10 (4pm - 5pm)

Present at meeting:

Will, Mike, Corey, Possum

-held at 888 Dupont (Petra's loft)

Agenda:

1. Classes

2. Advertising

3. Space

Minutes:

1. Classes

• Angel's calculus class: good turn out, became a tutorial for college calc students - Angel may continue in 2nd semester (reported by Will and Possum)
• Andrew's philosophy class: he will probably be too busy to run the second part
• Corey might be able to run it in 2nd term, will get in touch with Andrew
• Hegel/Marx class went well and is done
• Possum has a new idea for a class that he is working on
• agreed we should get in touch with people who wanted to run classes in Winter (Ben Hackman, Sarit, Norm, etc.)

2. Advertising

• postering will wait until we have courses to list
• but Petra has suggested a poster to get new facilitators
• Possum suggests promoting AFU as teaching experience for people wanting stepping-stone toward teaching
• Possum suggests making a poster in a more transferable format or re-making the old one
• Will can try to make old poster look good in B&W if we sent it to him
• Will said he can provide info about us to Sketch program for street-involved youth where he volunteers
• Possum suggests targetting postering for facilitators to OCAD, community centres, Sketch, OISE
• Possume will make a mock-up of facilitator poster for comments

3. Space

• 519 community centre open again but not sure if we can now hold weekly classes there
• find out from Petra status of using LIFT space

Adjourned at 5pm

-- CoreyKatz - 21 Jan 2010