About The Baltimore Free School

The Baltimore Free School is a new project, started by some of the people involved with Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse in Mt. Vernon along with a growing group of radical educators and volunteers to develop a 100% free educational institution here in Baltimore.  We're (at the moment) entirely funded by donations from our very generous sustainers.  Inspired by a growing network of similar projects in other cities, as well as the long tradition of anti-authoritarian education, we believe in creating a noncapitalist, noncoercive, and maximally horizontal infrastructure for teaching and learning from each other. We've just moved in to a new space at 1323 N. Calvert that we hope will be an open space for all kinds of educational opportunities!
 
You can read an interview with some of the Free School organizers on the City Paper website.
 
The Baltimore Free School's Mission:
 
 The Baltimore Free School is a grassroots, volunteer-run and community-funded project.  Building upon a long tradition of horizontal organizing, collaborative learning and participatory education, we believe that the empowerment of people of all ages and backgrounds to share and learn is vital to the health of any community.  To that end, we work toward creating a space where the exchange of ideas can occur without the exchange of money; a space where we can learn to relate to each other in new and meaningful ways.  By building this infrastructure, we hope to form a microcosm of the world in which we want to live.
 Courses
Interested in taking a class?  To let the instructor know you're coming, make an account for this site if you don't have one already, then sign up for a course on the calendar.  If you'd like to browse the catalog of current offerings, click here.
 
A list of courses previously taught at the Free School can be found here.