I just got the spring 2007 course catalog from the New School in the mail today. I'm a growing fan of adult education, and if I had $500 to drop, I'd drop it at the New School, which, since 1919, has been offering courses of all sorts. With a slightly lefty bent, the school sports the first facility in the United States designed for adult ed. That's some history!
It's little surprise that my interest in the New School sticks largely to its city- and history-based curricula. Here are some of the courses I'm champing at the bit over:
- Burn, Baby, Burn: Riots and Urban Disorder Since 1863
- History of Twentieth-Century Manhattan: The Power of the Past, the Promise of the Future
- Urban Spaces: Sociological Perspectives
- The City Inside-Out: Layers, Shapes, and Spaces
- Black Manhattan: A Cultural History of New York
- Night Fever: Music and Culture in the 1970s
- Henry James: Short Fiction
- Introduction to Media Studies
- Writing the City: Urban Memoirs
And so I announce the Heath Row Continuing Education Fund. If you donate money to my PayPal account (at this email address) -- indicating that it's for this use -- I will count it toward taking a course at the New School. I'll detail my experiences and studies in full right here, in this blog. If I raise at least 50% of a course's fee, I'll pony up the second half myself (I'm no freeloader!).
Planet magazine continues to celebrate it's landing in New York City with a party next Wednesday. From their email invitation:
I've been receiving their missives for awhile now, have never read the magazine, but have been impressed by the meaning of what they're trying to do.We hope you’ll make it out for part 2 of the ongoing celebration of our arrival in New York City, which will culminate with a specially themed “Welcome to New York” issue of PLANET Magazine at the end of 2007.
Welcome to New York is dedicated to everyone who has ever come to New York City in search creative and personal freedom, to pursue their art or just the art of living, and this includes just about everyone we know -- from every corner of the earth -- as well as a pantheon of inspirations from the recent and distant Manhattan half-life.
Welcome to New York! Can't wait to see the special issue
