wanna learn something?
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know someone with a skill?
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Brooklyn Brainery is accessible, community-driven, crowdsourced education.
All of our course topics are dreamed up and suggested by you, and our teachers are a group of awesome people from around Brooklyn and the whole city. Anyone can teach--you just need a passion for the topic and a desire to share it with others. We do all the planning, taking care of sign ups, marketing, and materials, so you can focus on the important stuff (teaching, duh).
Classes meet for either one, two, or three weeks, and we keep them as inexpensive as possible (something like $30 for a bunch of class sessions), because you shouldn't have to spend a paycheck to learn something new.
If you can make it, read it or think it, we're probably open to it. It can be crafty, foody, academic-y, whatever you'd like. And though we think kids are cool, all our classes are aimed at adults.
You can find us at 515 Court Street in Carroll Gardens, on the corner of Court and West 9th Street. Closest trains are the F/G to Carroll Street (about 6 minutes).
The easy answer is that every class is totally different (it's also true)! Some of our teachers are pros at what they do, some are hobbyists, and some are curious people like yourselves who teach in order to explore a topic further in depth.
No matter what the class and who is teaching, our classes are laid back, fun, and participatory. No one will ever scowl at you for showing up late, and your involvement in class--whether through discussion or something hands on--is what makes them all the more awesome.
Check out our course catalog for the current semester, and give us and we'll put you on our mailing list!
Yep, in a perfect world, it would be.
But in New York, there are a whole lot of essential things that can only be paid for with good old-fashioned cash: rent, insurance, class materials, internet and a whole lot of Ikea furniture, to name a few. We also like to pay our teachers, because we value the time and effort they take to lead a class, so there’s that to factor in.
With all that in mind, we price classes the amount we would feel comfortable paying if we were signing up ourselves, and we’re pretty cheap, so rest assured we keep things as inexpensive as we can.
Yep, sure can!
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!
