POOL

POOL (Peer Organisation for Open Learning) is an alternative arts and cultural education programme based in Glasgow.

The Peer Organisation for Open Learning – P.O.O.L. – was founded by a group of Glasgow based artists and cultural practitioners who graduated from GSA. It is a pilot alternative creative education programme, initiated in response to the limitations they encountered in institutional creative further education. It will be structured as a peer-led, studio based course, run part time over the duration

of 6 months to a year. The project takes inspiration from contemporary and historic models for alternative education and combines elements of these working structures to suit Glasgow and its history of DIY activity. We aim to form a group of driven artists spanning a range of practices, from different education and cultural backgrounds, who will critically engage with learning outside the institutional framework of a traditional post graduate course. This will be rethinking education radically from the roots up. At the heart of our activities is a politics which values sharing and which celebrates both ‘amateur’ and practiced skill, which has time for joy, and redistributes power through non-hierarchical group work, and involved critical conversation. The programme will utilise the existing networks and resources within Glasgow’s creative and educational communities to support learning as a peer group. It will share the tools and knowledge it gathers with the wider public. It will be unaccredited and autonomous, but will seek to work collaboratively across arts and community groups.

13/04/2018

https://freeschoolcriticalfeminisms.tumblr.com/

This July in London, The Free School of Critical Feminisms! Deadline for applications is April 28th.

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23/01/2018

Evening Class in London have ✍🏼 written an open letter AGAINST UNDISCLOSED SALARIES listed on jobs boards and the likes read + share here! goo.gl/xjP2pJ

Read more at the EC site here: http://evening-class.org/2018/01/22/against-undisclosed-salaries-an-open-letter

Towards Transparency Against Precarity!!!

Dear If You Could Jobsboard Arts Council England Creative Scotland Arts Council of Wales The Guardian Arts Jobs Dezeen Jobs for artists (fb group) Linkedin & Linkedin jobs board Bloomberg Business insider Design Observer Creative Applications University of the Arts London Alumni Jobsboards YCN...

21/12/2017

Problems.

Artists’ Union England members are concerned over the appointment of Elisabeth Murdoch to Arts Council England’s National Council by ACE Chair, Nicholas Serota. AUE is asking that Murdoch’s appoint…

01/12/2017

Open School East are hiring down in Margate for anyone interested in supporting an alt-ma learning programme.

We are hiring!

Criteria: Have graduated from a first degree (BA or equivalent) within the past two years (i.e. in 2015, 2016 or 2017). No minimum grade required.

Have received a full maintenance grant during the full period of their course and be able to verify it with the necessary paperwork for each year.

Be a full-time UK resident.

For more information, please visit: http://www.openschooleast.org/job-opportunity/

27/11/2017

GAS is a great space that we have used on occasion for our reading groups. They have a growing program of learning and community events, hosting the Rattle Library and Splinter Collective to name a few exciting things.

Help support the space by using it and donating what you can!

We need your support! GAS would not be able to host groups without your help. The space is free to use and we want to keep it that way, so if you have money to give, however little, please give below...

10/11/2017

An important read:

[image] November 9, 2017 As the four shortlisted nominees for the Preis der Nationalgalerie, we have decided to release a joint statement concerning our experience. Our statement is a means to highlight and recommend changes to three problematic aspects of the prize, which we find indicative of broa...

31/10/2017

The Feminist Sci-Fi Reading Group are going to the Africa in Motion (AiM) film festival screening of Dilman Dila's, Her Broken Shadow at NICE N SLEAZY tomorrow.

Free entry, the screening starts @ 7.30pm.

Uganda's first sci-fi film, Her Broken Shadow follows the twisted story of two lonely female writers, each living in different time zones, but who look so alike that they must be the other's doppelgänger.

Director Dilman Dila is an exciting creative voice from Uganda, having won awards for his sci-fi literature and now also for his filmmaking.

Festival 2017 Glasgow Her Broken Shadow Film Dilman Dila | Uganda 2016 | 1h15m | 15 Watch Trailer Synopsis Uganda's first sci-fi film, Her Broken Shadow follows the twisted story of two lonely female writers, each living in different time zones, but who look so alike that they must be the other's do...

10/07/2017

TONIGHT: 2nd Feminist Sci Fi Reading Group session. Film screening of Born In Flames (1984). from 6.30 at Flat 1/2, 8 melville st. DM us for number of host if you need instructions or can't get in for any reason.

Bring snacks and such like.

We will set the next subject and space etc together tonight too. If you can't make it suggestions are welcom if you can send in to us.

03/07/2017

Around the same time as Bobby Paul Sayers artist self employment and benefits workshop at our residency, Evening Class in London were holding an Antiuniversity Now event // Dependent on experience. Here is the PDF reader they produced for the event around the idea of WORK and what it often means in creative capacities. Nice work guys.

Some members of POOL just went self employed, and couldn't attend their own workshop due to WORK and so we will be organising another peer-to-peer tax session in the coming months so we can work out how to be grown up, and maximise our minimum incomes into some kind of team affluence-ey. It will be in August or September.

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https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4zsH75bxisPMHlTM25VckRXc1k

15/06/2017

http://www.p-o-o-l.org/

WEBSITE IS LIVE.

work in progress but see here for event archive and such as things develop.
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11/06/2017

Playing games an making spaghetti letters 🤑

05/06/2017

First day in residence! POOL are here till the end of June. All events are listed on FB but you can read the full (and changeable) schedule here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bFzu6kXAU5HsJHIDJvsNrnJfuOvTfQQxFFgkcGHBNLg

Address

350 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow
G2 3JD

Website

http://www.p-o-o-l.org/

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