Upcoming School Events:

• Saturday, April 19th from 1 pm - 4pm HEAL workshop
• Tuesday, April 22 - Green ART:Earth Day program 10am-4pm # all ages welcome  to help create a mural with recycled items & learn about gardening!!
  
• Saturday, April 26th at 4 PM - Open Dialog on Education*
• Saturday, April 26th at 6pm - film screening of "Up the Ridge"
  
• Sunday, May 4th at 3 PM - 4-Part Project for Change Organizational Meeting (please scroll down page for more information)
  

More About our Open Dialogs on Education:

*Our Open Dialogs on Education are opportunities for the community at large to come together to discuss issues relating to education and children as well as the specifics of the school and its philosophy. We hold them at 2 PM at our school building (5020 Dickson, Houston, TX 77007) every last Saturday of the month to foster conversations, make connections, and invite folks to join our community. Please feel free to spread the word. We welcome people of all ages to attend and hope to see you soon! It is always OK to come late!

Young people of all ages are welcome at all of our events; they are the reason for our events! But we do not provide childcare. Our underlying philosophy strives to include not segregate kids. We accept the need of many younger people to move around, to come and go from conversation and to act... like kids. Some older folks have similar needs. As a matter of information, jumping up and down often correlates with happiness.

More About the 4-Part Project for Change Organizational Meeting:

There will be an organizational meeting on Sunday, May 4th at 3 PM at 5020 Dickson (near Shepherd and Memorial). Please contact Krenie Stowe by email or phone (713-201-6704) if you plan to attend or if you want to attend but cannot. There will be monthly organizational meetings, but much can also be done remotely by email and phone once we are a working group with sub-committees. To read about the 4-Part Project for Change please click here to download the proposal.

More About Events:

Also, Krenie Stowe will be continuing the HEAL workshop series , Pediatrics 101 Continued, on Saturday, April 19th from 1-4pm. Email through the HEAL website if you want to request a topic.

We are currently located at 5020 Dickson, near Shepherd and Memorial. HEAL (Health Education, Advocacy & Literacy) has space there as well. HEAL is the alternative pediatric consulting arm of Dr. Krenie Stowe's medical practice, and Dr. Stowe is one of our founders. The Real School was always envisioned as a part of a community in which real work was being done. We are excited about moving forward with that vision. We intend to offer our meeting room for use by other activists and groups who share our dream of an open and humane society.

April 26th Film Screening - UP THE RIDGE

Up the Ridge is a one-hour television documentary produced by Nick Szuberla and Amelia Kirby. In 1999 Szuberla and Kirby were volunteer DJ’s for the Appalachian region’s only hip-hop radio program in Whitesburg, KY when they received hundreds of letters from inmates transferred into nearby Wallens Ridge, the region’s newest prison built to prop up the shrinking coal economy. The letters described human rights violations and racial tension between staff and inmates. Filming began that year and, though the lens of Wallens Ridge State Prison, the program offers viewers an in-depth look at the United States prison industry and the social impact of moving hundreds of thousands of inner-city minority offenders to distant rural outposts. The film explores competing political agendas that align government policy with human rights violations, and political expediencies that bring communities into racial and cultural conflict with tragic consequences. Connections exist, in both practice and ideology, between human rights violations in Abu Ghraib and physical and sexual abuse recorded in American prisons.
http://www.appalshop.org/h2h/film/