2011-2012 Sessions

Friday 3 June 2011: Anacostia Time Capsule

noon
Sunday 5 June: Open Eyes/Open Voices: Performative work in the Hirshhorn Museum

noon; Readers and Riders: Metro Poetry Series

4 p.m.
Monday 6 June: Building with Found Materials

6 p.m.
Thursday 9 June: Home Studio Recording/Production

5 p.m.
Friday 10 June: Contempo by the Lake: House-as-Museum Tour

7:30 p.m.
Saturday 11 June: Bookmaking Workshop

4 p.m.
Sunday 12 June: Present Day Panopticons

6:30 p.m.
Tuesday 14 June: Why Bosnia?

6 p.m.
Wednesday 15 June: Structural Violence & Information Warfare

6:30 p.m.
Saturday 18 June: Introduction to the Laogai: China’s Forced labor Prisons

11 a.m.; Resourceful Mapping (Part I)

3 p.m.
Sunday 19 June: Growing Food; Treasure Hunting in Our Urban World

noon
Monday 20 June: The Mighty Tree has Fallen: The Funeral and Election of a Ghanan King Teacher

7 p.m.
Tuesday 21 June: Sticky Fingers: A Primer in Wheatpasting

7 p.m.
Wednesday 22 June: From Page to Stage

7 p.m.
Thursday 23 June: Tour Guiding Training with Abraham Lincoln: The Future to the Past

6 p.m.
Saturday 25 June: Introduction to Documentary Sound Recording

noon
Tuesday 28 June: Moving Meditation

noon; What is Bookness?

8 p.m.
Wednesday 29 June: Resourceful Mapping (Part II)

7 p.m.; Ghost Hunting and Storytelling

8 p.m.
Thursday 30 June: Experimental Drawing in the Zoo and other free spaces

4 p.m.
Sunday 2 October: Readers and Riders: Metro Poetry Series with Yael Flusberg

4 p.m.; KCDC Fall Fiesta

7 p.m.
Tuesday 4 October: Solving Daily Problems with the Scientific Method

6:30 p.m.
Thursday 6 October: Quilting at the Dance Exchange

6 p.m.
Saturday 8 October: Beat Making 101

6 p.m.
Sunday 9 October: Imaginative Exercise: The Park WOD

10 a.m.; ORCHIDS with TOM MIRENDA

2 p.m.; Readers and Riders: Metro Poetry Series with Joe Ross

4 p.m.
Wednesday 12 October: Iron Chef: Craft Edition

6:30 p.m.; The Secret World of Hackers

7 p.m.
Saturday 15 October: The Rise of Chimerica: Closing the China-USA Gap

1 p.m.; The Narrative Book

3 p.m.; Beat Making 101

6 p.m.
Sunday 16 October: Readers and Riders: Metro Poetry Series with Carmen Calatayud

3 p.m.; How to Catch “Mahleria”

3 p.m.
Monday 17 October: Investigative Reporting Techniques for Activists, Researchers, & Analysts

6:30 p.m.; What is Bookness?

7 p.m.
Wednesday 19 October: The Universe is a Salad: Advanced Redux

7 p.m.
Thursday 20 October: Fandom Face-off!

6:30 p.m.; Dance History to Go at the Dance Exchange

7 p.m.
Saturday 22 October: Childhood Hunger: The Problem, The Causes and The Solutions

11 a.m.
Sunday 23 October: Open Eyes Open Voices

1:30 p.m.; Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Explorations Into Honoring Your Food Values

3 p.m.
Monday 24 October: Breathe Deep: Increasing your Lung Capacity for Higher Clarity and Energy

7 p.m.
Tuesday 25 October: KCDC All Corners Internet Conversation series: Ideal Museums & Maverick as Method

1:30 p.m.; Democracy, Rights and Governance Assessment of the United States: Principled or Hypocritical?

7 p.m.
Wednesday 26 October: An Introduction to the Pickle

6:30 p.m.
Thursday 27 October: KCDC All Corners Internet Conversation series: Limbic Resonance with Fiona Hallinan

5:30 p.m.
Saturday 29 October: Imaginative Exercise: City As A Playground

11:30 a.m.; Horn it Up: New York Horn Ensemble Lectures and Concert

4 p.m.
Sunday 30 October: Horn it Up: New York Horn Ensemble Masterclass

3 p.m.
Tuesday 8 November: Freelance Writing and Publishing in the Digital Age

6:30 p.m.
Tuesday 6 December: Snack Shack: Food For Thought

6:30 p.m.
Wednesday 15 February 2012: Sneak Peak Tour of the Dupont Underground

5:30 p.m.
Sunday 26 February: KCDC Teacher Training

4 p.m.
Thursday 1 March: KCDC March Kickoff Extravaganza

6:30 p.m.
Saturday 3 March: The Universe is a Salad: Texturescapes

5 p.m.
Sunday 4 March: Slam the Rails: Metro Poetry Series with 2Deep Carter

4 p.m.
Tuesday 6 March: Public Speaking 101

7 p.m.
Wednesday 7 March: How to Be a Walking Calendar

6 p.m.; Yoga Demystified

6:30 p.m.
Thursday 8 March: Edit Anything

7 p.m.
Saturday 10 March: Knit Happens: A Beginner’s Guide

11 a.m.; Abandoned Buildings and Street Art Walking Tour II

2 p.m.
Sunday 11 March: Balloon Mapping: DIY Aerial Photography

1 p.m.; Slam the Rails: Metro Poetry Series with Jonathan B. Tucker

4 p.m.
Monday 12 March: Crusade 2.0: The Rise of Islamophobia

6:30 p.m.; Telling Better Stories

7 p.m.
Tuesday 13 March: Moroccan Cooking: an Introduction to the Tagine

7 p.m.
Wednesday 14 March: Yoga 101

6:30 p.m.
Thursday 15 March: Freelancing in the Digital Age (Back by Popular Demand)

7 p.m.
Saturday 17 March: Artist Studio Tour with BK Adams

11 a.m.; Make Your Own Italian Pasta!

5 p.m.
Sunday 18 March: Readers and Riders: Metro Poetry Series with Joe Ross

4 p.m.
Monday 19 March: Organic Chemistry for Fun and Profit

6:30 p.m.; Light Paint the Night

8 p.m.
Tuesday 20 March: Investigative Journalism (Back by Popular Demand)

6:30 p.m.; Reading a Book by its Cover

6:30 p.m.
Wednesday 21 March: Is that a printing press in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

7 p.m.
Thursday 22 March: An Introduction to DC Government

7 p.m.
Saturday 24 March: Abandoned Buildings and Street Art Walking Tour II

11 a.m.; King on the Mall: Interactive Approaches to Monuments and Cultural Memory

1:30 p.m.; The Breathing Body

3 p.m.
Sunday 25 March: WMATA Artists in Residence Nanoresidency Program

10:59 a.m.; Making a Rag Rug

3 p.m.
Monday 26 March: The State of Contemporary Arab Design

6:30 p.m.
Tuesday 27 March: Beginner’s Guide to Wordpress Website Development

7 p.m.
Wednesday 28 March: Basic Object-Oriented Programming with Java

7 p.m.
Thursday 29 March: Iron Chef: Craft Edition

6:44 p.m.
Friday 30 March: Homebrew How-To

6:30 p.m.; Aloha, not goodbye…

8:30 p.m.
Saturday 31 March: Guerilla Gardening

1 p.m.
Monday 16 April: KCDC Happy Hour

5 p.m.
Friday 18 May: KCDC Spring Fling Fundraiser

6:30 p.m.
Saturday 19 May: Balloon Mapping: Spring Fling Hangover

2 p.m.
Thursday 24 May: KCDC Teacher Training

7 p.m.
Friday 1 June: Happy Birthday KCDC: Volunteer Bash

7 p.m.
Saturday 2 June: Production, Distribution, and Repair: a Bike Tour of DC’s Industrial Past

10:30 a.m.
Sunday 3 June: Shakespeare’s Language

1:30 p.m.; From Page to Stage Session 1: The Page

7 p.m.
Monday 4 June: Mesh Networks: Building and Maintaining Community Wireless Networks

6:30 p.m.; Choir Class

7 p.m.
Tuesday 5 June: Crusade 2.0: The Rise of Islamophobia

6:30 p.m.; Photoshop 101

7 p.m.
Wednesday 6 June: Seeing without Looking

7:30 p.m.
Thursday 7 June: Edit Anything (Back by Popular Demand)

7 p.m.; Intro to Programming with Python

7:30 p.m.
Saturday 9 June: Manet, Monet, and More: French Art of the Nineteenth Century

2 p.m.
Sunday 10 June: 3D Print a Bike Light

1 p.m.; From Page to Stage Session 2: Writing

7 p.m.
Monday 11 June: Mesh Networks: Exploring Wireless Networking

6:29 p.m.
Tuesday 12 June: HERBS | SALVES | TINCTURES

6:30 p.m.; Health Insurance: An Overview for Musicians, Artists, Slackers, and Hackers

6:30 p.m.
Wednesday 13 June: Learning and Using the FC2 (Female Condom)

6:29 p.m.; Hem Your Jeans

8 p.m.
Thursday 14 June: Intro to Programming with Python

7:30 p.m.; Personal Finance

7:30 p.m.
Saturday 16 June: Community Calendar: SHARE Fair

3 p.m.
Sunday 17 June: The Ins and Outs of How Security Works on the Web

4:30 p.m.; From Page to Stage Session 3: Revising

6:59 p.m.
Monday 18 June: Office Gardening

6:30 p.m.; Learning to Look: A Primer in the Visual Language of Painting

6:30 p.m.; Auschwitz in an Age of Infotainment

6:30 p.m.
Tuesday 19 June: Literary Mixtape: Remix the Classics

5:30 p.m.; InDesign 101

7 p.m.
Wednesday 20 June: Silkscreen Rock Posters (or anything else) in a Phone Booth

6:30 p.m.; Swimming 2.0

6:30 p.m.; Know Thyself

6:58 p.m.
Thursday 21 June: Edit Anything (Back by Popular Demand)

7 p.m.; Beginning Salsa!

7 p.m.; HOLY PINATA!

7 p.m.; Intro to Programming with Python

7:30 p.m.
Sunday 24 June: Poetry of Public Art

3 p.m.; From Page to Stage Session 4: Performance

7 p.m.
Monday 25 June: iPhone & iPad guerilla photo/video techniques

7 p.m.
Tuesday 26 June: Learn to Knit

7 p.m.
Wednesday 27 June: [ ] Box Collective

6:30 p.m.; Time Banking: An Exchange System for Weaving Community

7 p.m.; All Samples Cleared!

7 p.m.
Thursday 28 June: Fact-checking in a Wikipedia World

7:30 p.m.; Intro to Programming with Python

7:30 p.m.
Saturday 30 June: Tiny Houses

10:30 a.m.; Balloon Drones for Map Making

1:05 p.m.; Midsummer Potluck in the Park

2 p.m.
Monday 2 July: From Page to Stage Open Mike Night

8:30 p.m.
Thursday 5 July: Intro to Programming with Python

7:30 p.m.
Thursday 9 August: KCDC Teacher Training

7 p.m.
Thursday 23 August: KCDC Volunteer Party

7 p.m.

Knowledge Commons DC

2011-2012 Sessions

Anacostia Time Capsule

Open Eyes/Open Voices: Performative work in the Hirshhorn Museum

Readers and Riders: Metro Poetry Series

Building with Found Materials

Home Studio Recording/Production

Contempo by the Lake: House-as-Museum Tour

Bookmaking Workshop

Present Day Panopticons

Why Bosnia?

Structural Violence & Information Warfare

Introduction to the Laogai: China’s Forced labor Prisons

Resourceful Mapping (Part I)

Growing Food; Treasure Hunting in Our Urban World

The Mighty Tree has Fallen: The Funeral and Election of a Ghanan King Teacher

Sticky Fingers: A Primer in Wheatpasting

From Page to Stage

Tour Guiding Training with Abraham Lincoln: The Future to the Past

Introduction to Documentary Sound Recording

Moving Meditation

What is Bookness?

Resourceful Mapping (Part II)

Ghost Hunting and Storytelling

Experimental Drawing in the Zoo and other free spaces

Readers and Riders: Metro Poetry Series with Yael Flusberg

KCDC Fall Fiesta

Solving Daily Problems with the Scientific Method

Quilting at the Dance Exchange

Beat Making 101

Imaginative Exercise: The Park WOD

ORCHIDS with TOM MIRENDA

Readers and Riders: Metro Poetry Series with Joe Ross

Iron Chef: Craft Edition

The Secret World of Hackers

The Rise of Chimerica: Closing the China-USA Gap

The Narrative Book

Beat Making 101

Readers and Riders: Metro Poetry Series with Carmen Calatayud

How to Catch “Mahleria”

Investigative Reporting Techniques for Activists, Researchers, & Analysts

What is Bookness?

The Universe is a Salad: Advanced Redux

Fandom Face-off!

Dance History to Go at the Dance Exchange

Childhood Hunger: The Problem, The Causes and The Solutions

Open Eyes Open Voices

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Explorations Into Honoring Your Food Values

Breathe Deep: Increasing your Lung Capacity for Higher Clarity and Energy

KCDC All Corners Internet Conversation series: Ideal Museums & Maverick as Method

Democracy, Rights and Governance Assessment of the United States: Principled or Hypocritical?

An Introduction to the Pickle

KCDC All Corners Internet Conversation series: Limbic Resonance with Fiona Hallinan

Imaginative Exercise: City As A Playground

Horn it Up: New York Horn Ensemble Lectures and Concert

Horn it Up: New York Horn Ensemble Masterclass

Freelance Writing and Publishing in the Digital Age

Snack Shack: Food For Thought

Sneak Peak Tour of the Dupont Underground

KCDC Teacher Training

KCDC March Kickoff Extravaganza

The Universe is a Salad: Texturescapes

Slam the Rails: Metro Poetry Series with 2Deep Carter

Public Speaking 101

How to Be a Walking Calendar

Yoga Demystified

Edit Anything

Knit Happens: A Beginner’s Guide

Abandoned Buildings and Street Art Walking Tour II

Balloon Mapping: DIY Aerial Photography

Slam the Rails: Metro Poetry Series with Jonathan B. Tucker

Crusade 2.0: The Rise of Islamophobia

Telling Better Stories

Moroccan Cooking: an Introduction to the Tagine

Yoga 101

Freelancing in the Digital Age (Back by Popular Demand)

Artist Studio Tour with BK Adams

Make Your Own Italian Pasta!

Readers and Riders: Metro Poetry Series with Joe Ross

Organic Chemistry for Fun and Profit