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Brooklyn Brainery hosts collaborative learning classes. What's that mean? Think book clubs on steroids. It's a place to experiment with all the things you've wanted to learn but just haven't.
Classes are abhorrently inexpensive and meet for either one, two, or three weeks (something like $25 for a bunch of class sessions!). We meet at The Gowanus Studio Space which is located right here in the wonderful borough of Brooklyn, nearby the 9th Street/4th Ave stop on the F,G, or R.
If you can make it, read it or think it, we're probably open to it.
Brainery classes don't have real teachers. That part is important! Class leaders aren't necessarily experts; they're mostly there to keep things on track and guide the learning process.
A lot of times, the extent of a class leader's expertise is mostly having rolled around on the internet and bookmarked some Wikipedia pages - they'll have a general idea of where you are going (West!), but not that you need to take I-80 for a few thousand miles to get to Sutter's Mill.
That's where you come in! Before most classes, you'll get an email with a bit of homework - say a few randomly assigned vocab words to look into. You become the expert on that information and get to share it with everyone else during class. If that sounds weird, we promise it makes class way more interesting!
Other times, we enlist real live experts to come talk to the class, give us a tour, do some demos, whatever. Sometimes they even teach the whole thing!
Of course, every class is different in a million ways, so if you have any specific questions, shoot us an email over at info@brooklynbrainery.com
It works because you're there to learn, because we've all got different strengths and backgrounds and bring a little something different to the table, and because you're paying us money to deliver some education and we aren't jerks.
Address all love letters to info@brooklynbrainery.com
If you're looking for a refund, you need to back out of the class a week before it starts. We know it's draconian, but since we're only charging $25 a pop it's kinda hard to deal with last-minute bailings. Instead of dropping out if you have a schedule conflict, a better idea is to ask around your friends and see if anyone would take your spot, then just get money from them!
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Brooklyn Brainery hosts cheap collaborative classes on anything and everything. Think book clubs on steroids.
Brainery classes don't have real teachers! Class leaders guide the learning process - you could say they know where you're heading (West!), but not that you need to take I-80 for a few thousand miles to get to Sutter's Mill.
That's where you come in! By sharing what you already know or what you've learned from the week's homework, class becomes way more interesting and way more collaborative.
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Address all love letters to info@brooklynbrainery.com or @bkbrains
