Intro to Worker Cooperatives for Nightlife Workers
'vienna', a new release on Small Forms Records w FIM Basel Concert March 2023 Hypersurface is a NYC-based trio consisting of Drew Wesely (guitar/objects), Lester St. Louis (cello), and Carlo Costa (percussion). Hypersurface explores timbral, durational, and formal aspects of improvisation with lenses focused on their instruments' acoustic particularities alongside employing tiles, railroad spikes, ceramic plates and other objects to expand them further. In coming together Carlo, Drew and Lester wanted to create a music that puts emphasis on the erasure of sonic boundaries, embracing the liminal spaces between their instruments, their sounds and the greater sonic environment. Timbre, gesture, duration, particles, layers… a real time tapestry of its own. The trio has given performances throughout the United States and Europe in a diversity of concert settings from clubs to large halls and galleries; with each utilizing the acoustics to follow potent musical pathways. Kamau Amu Patton is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work examines history and culture through engagement with archives, documents, stories, and sites. Patton’s projects are dialogic and take form as expanded field conversations. http://kamaupatton.com
This class will include elements of both theory of cooperatives and solidarity economies, as well as practical tools for how to build a cooperative project. This class is open to those who have an idea for a business, are part of a business or collective that might want to be a worker co-op, and to those who are just curious about the concept. Throughout the course we will study real cooperatives and small businesses, to look at examples that we can admire and also to learn about what we don’t want to replicate with our projects.
In the class we will explore worker justice in the context of the nightlife industry specifically, looking at our real experiences in the workplace, and we will imagine what nightlife spaces we want to create. We hope to have workers that represent the range and diversity of the industry, with people from all parts of the workforce.
This class is offered by the Astoria Worker Project - a project of the Consortium for Worker Education. The Astoria Worker Project is committed to employment training and development that puts workers first with a vision of the future. In that spirit, we see worker cooperatives as a critical component of supporting the future of good work and an equitable economy.
In the class we will explore worker justice in the context of the nightlife industry specifically, looking at our real experiences in the workplace, and we will imagine what nightlife spaces we want to create. We hope to have workers that represent the range and diversity of the industry, with people from all parts of the workforce.
This class is offered by the Astoria Worker Project - a project of the Consortium for Worker Education. The Astoria Worker Project is committed to employment training and development that puts workers first with a vision of the future. In that spirit, we see worker cooperatives as a critical component of supporting the future of good work and an equitable economy.
Most classes will be at Light and Sound Design Greenpoint, with a couple of classes online and "field trips" to some worker co-ops around NYC. Astoria Worker Project classes are always free, but we will collect a sliding-scale suggested donation for the venue to cover operating costs. No one will be shamed or turned away for lack of funds.