<Hamilton FreeSkool!> Sharing Our Perspectives! An excited invitation.

[Rachel Nolan]

Dear esteemed amazing purveyors of passionate perspective:

This spring/summer Hamilton Freeskool is presenting "*Sharing Our
Perspectives: Cross-Generational Dialogues.*"
I hope you will participate! It is certain to be inspiring, engaging,
broadening, and, of course, free.

 Intrigued? It's a workshop/discussion series, led by individuals or groups
who are offering us their perspective based on the lives that they have
lived. Let's start valuing the fact that all of us is only one age at a
time, carrying one precious perspective: can we not share that, value it,
and demand that we add to it? The fact is, each of us was born in a certain
year, grew up through a given period, and has composed an individual
history. This project is intended to enact radical inclusivity, with a focus
on age. This is a call-out for participants.

Right now, we are lucky to have Ann from Simpler Thyme who is excited to
contribute to this project by presenting the opening workshop. Those who
have not had the chance to talk to her are especially in for a treat. Her
perspective on age, learning, adapting and seeking exemplify the attitudes
of inclusivity and sharing that this Freeskool series is all about.

Age doesn't need to be something glossed over and homogenised. It is *
valuable* that we all are different ages. That is an asset to community.
Ann is in her 50s and, based on a guess that she'll probably live to be
about a hundred, keeps a running count of the number of days she has left to
fill, each, with learning,  discovery and growth.

After being thus kicked off, we have the following proposed
presentation/workshops, all to be conducted within the space of a few weeks
in a celebration of life and each other and challenging ourselves:

- *Technological perspectives:* A discussion of the history of some of
today's ubiquitous technology such as the Internet, from the facilitator's
point of view of being involved in computer use, programming, gaming and
experiment since the 1980s.

- *The Air Apparent:* An opportunity to discuss the mental space inhabited
by parents, an obviously critical role in society I look forward to hearing
explored.

- *Building perspective... with LEGO!* A play-date, with the insight of some
local young children front and centre.

-* A city's generations*: A conversation with at least one member of our
city's elderly population, an opportunity to get to know this city a little
more broadly than the limited years of the younger population can grant.

- *Gimme Some Truth: *Featuring the perspective of inhabiting the Global
Village from the highschool bubble of a small Canadian town.

Each presentation in the series can and will vary in styles from workshops
to discussions to lecture to interview according to what best suits the
facilitators' sharing of their perspective. All are conducted in the spirit
of non-hierarchical, open and empowering learning.

*If you or anyone you know might be interested in giving us a chance to
learn from your own precious, unique perspective*, *please contact
Freeskool!* Or email me at rache.nolan at gmail.com for questions.
You have lived a unique life. We are interested in YOUR perspective. If you
would like to join any of the existing series projects in the works or would
like to propose your own, we will do everything we can to make you feel it
is an environment where you would like to share yourself. And please,
consider inviting your grandparents, friends, parents, nieces or nephews or
children to participate. We want to hear from them, too.


I am excited for these dialogues and I hope you are too!

Keep attentive for further updates, and I look forward to hearing from you!

with furious love,

Rachel,
co-ordinating *Sharing Our Perspectives: Cross-Generational Dialogues*,
a project of* Hamilton Freeskool!!!!*
http://hamiltonfreeskool.org/sharedperspectives
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