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SUMMARY:ARABIC LANGUAGE CLASSES | FALL 2026
DESCRIPTION:Arabic for Social Justice\nAPPLY HERE: Registration Form \nAlgarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses at The People’s Forum to those who are interested in learning Arabic with a focus on topics of social justice\, cinema\, media\, and culture. Through weekly social justice themes\, and using a communicative and popular education approach\, participants will improve their Arabic skills and critically engage with various cultural productions in Arabic\, including films\, TV series\, newsreels\, short stories\, and songs. \nThese courses are designed for folks at different levels of fluency in their productive (speaking\, writing) and receptive (listening and reading) skills. Special focus will be given to learning vocabulary and community organizing terminology relevant to contemporary social movements in the U.S. and the Arab world. \nCourse Offerings\nAll courses run for 10 weeks. Total tuition for each complete 10-week course is $300–$400 on a sliding scale\, or $500 when paid through a work or professional-development stipend. \nBeginner I (in-person and virtual options)\nThis course introduces students with no prior experience to the Arabic alphabet and the basics of reading\, writing\, pronunciation\, and sentence structure. Participants learn foundational vocabulary and simple grammatical forms while being introduced to spoken Arabic alongside Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). \n\nVirtual: Sundays\, starting Oct 4 | 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT/EST\nVirtual: Sundays\, starting Oct 4 | 12:30 PM – 3:00 PM EDT/EST\nIn-Person: Saturdays\, starting Oct 10 | 12:30 PM – 3:00 PM EDT/EST\n\n\nBeginner II (in-person and virtual options)\nDesigned for students with one semester of Arabic\, this course reviews core structures and expands vocabulary\, verb conjugation\, and sentence formation. Participants continue developing reading\, listening\, and speaking skills while gaining more exposure to spoken Arabic and its relationship to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). \n\nVirtual: Sundays\, starting Oct 4 | 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT/EST\n\nIn case of high enrollment\, we might open another virtual session at 12:30 PM EDT/EST. You can specify your preference in the application form\, and we will do our best to accommodate. \n\nIn-Person: Thursdays\, starting Oct 15 | 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM EDT/EST\n\n\nBeginner III (in-person and virtual options)\nThis course is designed for students who have completed two semesters of Arabic and are ready to work more consistently with cultural materials. Participants strengthen conversational skills\, expand vocabulary\, and develop greater comfort moving between spoken Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) through short texts\, songs\, film clips\, and guided viewing activities. Watch a short course preview here. \n\nVirtual: Sundays\, starting Oct 4 | 12:30 PM – 3:00 PM EDT/EST\n\n  \nIntermediate I (virtual only)\nThis Intermediate course builds on foundational Arabic skills to develop participants’ ability to communicate across everyday\, cultural\, and social topics using both colloquial Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Students work with short video clips\, songs\, dialogues\, and written texts to expand vocabulary\, practice key grammatical structures\, and build confidence in comprehension\, conversation\, and short writing. Watch a short course preview here. \n\nVirtual: Sundays\, starting Oct 4 | 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM EDT/EST\n\n\nIntermediate Music Club (virtual only)\nThis discussion- and music-based Arabic course uses songs from across the Arab world to develop listening comprehension\, vocabulary\, pronunciation\, and conversational skills in both colloquial Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Participants work with song lyrics\, audio and video recordings\, short contextual readings\, translation activities\, and guided discussions to explore the relationships between music\, culture\, history\, politics\, and everyday life. Watch a short course preview here. \n\nVirtual: Mondays\, starting Oct 19 | 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM EDT/EST\n\n\nAdvanced and Heritage Speakers Film Club (virtual only)\nThis discussion- and media-based Arabic course uses a film club format to develop advanced comprehension\, vocabulary\, and expressive skills across colloquial Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Designed for high-intermediate learners\, advanced students\, and heritage speakers\, participants work with subtitled and unsubtitled films/clips\, dialogue transcripts\, and short texts through translation\, brief writing\, and guided discussion. Watch a selection of trailers from this semester’s films here. \n\nVirtual: Sundays\, starting Oct 4 | 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM EDT/EST\n\nAPPLY HERE: Registration Form \nContact & Follow Us: \n\nEmail: algarabia.arabic@gmail.com\nWebsite: www.algarabialanguage.com\nInstagram: @algarabia.language
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/arabic-fall-2026/
LOCATION:Virtual Event with The People’s Forum
CATEGORIES:Arabic,Language courses
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SUMMARY:SPANISH FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE | Fall 2026
DESCRIPTION:¡Bienvenides! Welcome to Spanish for Social Justice! \n  \nAlgarabía Language Co-op is excited to announce that we are offering virtual Spanish classes this fall! \n  \nAlgarabía Language Co-op offers Spanish for Social Justice courses in partnership with The People’s Forum. We offer classes at the beginner\, intermediate\, and advanced levels of fluency for those interested in topics related to social justice\, politics\, and culture. Through weekly social justice themes and using a communicative and popular education approach\, participants will improve their Spanish skills and critically engage with various cultural productions centered around the lived experiences of working-class people of Indigenous and African descent on the continent. These courses are designed for folks at different levels of fluency in their productive (speaking\, writing) and receptive (listening and reading) skills. Special focus will be given to learning vocabulary and community organizing terminology relevant to contemporary social movements in New York City (Lenapehoking)\, one of the largest and most diverse Spanish-speaking cities in the world\, as well as the rest of Turtle Island and Abya Yala.  \n  \nTo apply\, click HERE \n  \nFALL 2026 COURSE SCHEDULE: \n  \nClick HERE to view the full list of classes\, schedules and descriptions. \n*Times are in Eastern Time (ET) / New York\, New York \nVirtual Courses (10 Weeks)  \nStart: Week of October 5–11\, 2026  \nEnd: Week of December 7–13\, 2026 \nClasses meet Monday–Thursday and Saturday–Sunday \n  \nIMPORTANT: \n▪ This virtual program is Open-to-All. However\, we prioritize access to folks identified as BIPOC. \n▪ Please only apply if you can attend most of the classes.  \n▪ Each session can hold up to 15 participants. \n▪ Cost of class is $200–$400 on a sliding scale\, or $500 if your tuition is paid by an employer or institutional funding source. This includes 25 hours of instruction over 10 weeks and all course materials. \n  \nCOURSE DESCRIPTION \nAll courses focus on the use of inclusive\, gender-neutral\, and anti-racist language. There is an emphasis on validating U.S. Spanish and other varieties of Spanish that are often considered “non-standard.” We actively include the use of “vos” as used in Central America.  \n  \nAs part of Algarabía’s mission to make our courses accessible\, we offer sliding-scale rates and flexible payment plans. You’ll be able to select your payment tier and plan directly within the application form\, based on your financial circumstances. \nABOUT OUR LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION: At Algarabía Language Co-op\, we see language learning as a meaningful\, collaborative\, and transformative process reflected in our training in hands-on communicative and task-based language teaching approaches and our use of popular education in the language classroom. We seek to support the holistic development of all language learners as they become competent multilingual speakers. We design classroom activities and utilize textbooks and other original didactic materials that cater to our participants’ needs and reflect the linguistic and racial/ethnic diversity of the Spanish-speaking worlds. \nAlgarabía will contact selected participants on a rolling basis and provide them with a link to complete their payment and secure their spot in the class. \n  \nTake a look at our FAQ!  \n  \nFor more information about our language services\, go to www.algarabialanguage.com or email us at algarabialanguage@gmail.com
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/spanish-for-social-justice-fall-2026/
LOCATION:Virtual Event with The People’s Forum
CATEGORIES:Education,Language courses,Spanish
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SUMMARY:BASIC PORTUGUESE 1 | FALL 2026
DESCRIPTION:Basic Portuguese 1 / Português Básico 1 \nFor true beginners\, students who know very basic Portuguese\, or speak Spanish.  \nIf you studied an introduction via apps before\, but did not have formal training\, this course is also highly recommended for you. \nFill out an application form\, and the instructor will send you a link to register: https://forms.gle/Niy8GHAsJJKcwyJ96  \nAn assessment is not needed for this class \n  \nDETAILS \n\nCourse runs on Zoom for 8 weeks \nNovember 2 – December 21 \nMondays\, 6-8pm (U.S. Eastern Time)\n$180 – $360 sliding scale cost for students*\nPlan for a weekly hour of required individual practice exercises\n\nFill out an application** form at: https://forms.gle/Niy8GHAsJJKcwyJ96     \nAfter you complete the application\, you will be invited via email to register for Basic 1. Check your email often. This class fills up quickly! \n  \nPortuguês Básico 1 is a beginner’s class\, designed by Natalia de Campos for The People’s Forum\, with a focus on listening\, speaking and developing communication skills in Portuguese from the first day\, without resorting to translating into one’s native language.  \nThis course will give you a solid base and allow you to start communicating with Portuguese native speakers.  \nThe instructor will use visual materials\, music\, and conversation between participants during the learning process\, focusing on her native Brazilian Portuguese. It is the first part of a program of Basic and Intermediate modules that also examine some differences between Brazilian\, African\, South Asian and Continental (European) Portuguese in future modules.  \nThe program will introduce grammar structures in practical ways\, and some writing exercises. The course runs weekly on Zoom\, and an extra hour of required individual practice exercises. \nAs you develop your language skills\, we will also engage with the history of Brazilian people\, its revolutionary struggles\, and other means of resistance in modules 2 and beyond.  \nJoin us for an introductory course on the basics of Portuguese with a glimpse on historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil\, and other Portuguese-speaking countries. \n  Returning students\, contact your instructor: portugueseny@gmail.com  to get the registration link to skip the application form. \n*Please pay what you are comfortable with\, allowing for students who need the first tiers to register\, if possible. \n  \n**For Basic 2\, 3 or Intermediate and Advanced levels\, also fill out an assessment form. \n\nAs part of Portuguese for Social Transformation\nLearn Portuguese from people’s movements\nvirtual\nClasses designed and taught by Natalia de Campos / Syncretic Pleasures\n\nMore information:  \nPortuguese is a language with roots in Portugal and also the official language spoken today in 10 countries: Brazil\, Mozambique\, Angola\, Portugal\, Guinea-Bissau\, East Timor\, Equatorial Guinea\, Macau\, Cape Verde\, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Portuguese is arguably among the 9 or 10 most spoken languages in the world\, but only 5 percent of its speakers live in its original home Portugal. It is estimated that 270 million people speak Portuguese today\, amongst which nearly 254 million are native speakers. It is the second most spoken Romance language\, after Spanish. Brazil’s 211 million people is the largest Portuguese-speaking population in the world. \nAs a colonial language\, it suffered many transformations\, particular to each locale. It is nowadays also a result of cultural resistance of the indigenous and enslaved people during colonialism. It is spoken in the U.S particularly in the Northeast\, in California and in Florida\, where native Portuguese speakers\, who are immigrants from Africa\, South Asia\, Europe and Brazil have concentrated historically. In nearby regions\, it is more widely spoken in areas of Newark\, New Jersey; Astoria\, Queens; in the coastal regions of Connecticut\, and Massachusetts.  \nIf you have any questions\, you can contact the instructor at: portugueseny@gmail.com
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/basic-portuguese-1-fall-2026/2026-11-02/
LOCATION:Virtual Event with The People’s Forum
CATEGORIES:Classes,Education,Language courses,Portuguese
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SUMMARY:INTERMEDIATE PORTUGUESE 2 | FALL 2026
DESCRIPTION:Intermediate Portuguese 2 / Português Intermediário 2 \nFor continuing students who completed Intermediate Portuguese 1 \nFor NEW students who know the basic structure of Portuguese including all present/past tenses\, Presente e Futuro do Subjuntivo (upon filling out an application and taking an assessment): https://forms.gle/Niy8GHAsJJKcwyJ96 \nDETAILS \n\nCourse runs on Zoom for 8 weeks\nNovember 3 – December 22\nTuesdays\, 6pm – 8pm (U.S. Eastern Time)\n$180 – $360 sliding scale cost for students*\n\nClick here to apply** and fill out an assessment form: https://forms.gle/Niy8GHAsJJKcwyJ96 \n\nAs part of Portuguese for Social Transformation\nLearn Portuguese from people’s movements\nClasses designed and taught by Natalia de Campos / Syncretic Pleasures\n\nContinuing students: contact your instructor to get the registration link and skip\nthe application form \nNew Students: New students are welcome to apply. The link to the Assessment is at the end of the application form. It should take about 15-20 minutes to be completed. \nBe sure to submit both the application and the assessment to get feedback and a\nregistration link via email \n*Please pay what you are comfortable with\, allowing for students who need the first tiers to\nregister\, if possible. \n**For Basic 2\, 3 or Intermediate and Advanced levels also fill out an assessment form. \nPortuguês Intermediário 2 is an upper intermediate class\, designed by Natalia de Campos for The People’s Forum\, with a focus on deepening listening\, speaking and developing communication skills in Portuguese in a conversational style\, without translating into one’s native language\, to allow you to have more vocabulary\, composed verbal structures\, and more elaborate conversations with Portuguese native speakers.\nWe read texts from Brazilian and other Portuguese-speaking revolutionary thinkers and writers\, such as Paulo Freire\, Carolina Maria de Jesus\, Conceição Evaristo\, and others. We look at both historic and contemporary political practices to deepen your understanding of Portuguese while learning about Portuguese-speaking people’s movements\, the history of Brazilian people\, its revolutionary struggles\, and other means of resistance. This course has an advanced approach for people who already speak basic Portuguese\nWe will use visual materials\, music\, literature\, and conversation\, focusing on Brazilian Portuguese\, and also examine a few differences between Brazilian\, African\, South Asian and European Portuguese. The program will deepen grammar structures in practical ways\, and include writing and speaking exercises about historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil\, and other Portuguese-speaking countries. \nMore information:\nPortuguese is a language with roots in Portugal and also the official language spoken today in 10 countries or regions: Brazil\, Mozambique\, Angola\, Portugal\, Guine-Bissau\, East Timor\, Equatorial Guinea\, Macau\, Cape Verde\, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Portuguese is arguably among the 9 or 10 most spoken languages in the world\, but only 5 percent of its speakers live in its original home Portugal. It is estimated that 270 million people speak Portuguese today\, amongst which nearly 254 million are native speakers. It is the second most spoken Romance language\, after Spanish. Brazil’s 213 million people is the\nlargest Portuguese-speaking population in the world. As a colonial language\, it suffered many transformations\, particular to each locale. It is nowadays also a result of cultural resistance of the indigenous and enslaved people during colonialism. It is spoken in the U.S particularly in the Northeast\, in California and in Florida\, where native Portuguese speakers\, who are immigrants from Africa\, South Asia\, Europe and Brazil have concentrated historically. In nearby regions\, it is more widely spoken in areas of Newark\, New Jersey; Astoria\, Queens; in the coastal regions of Connecticut\, and Massachusetts. \nBackground:\nSince the 16th century Brazilians started to incorporate dialects\, words and sounds into Portuguese\, particularly from the Tupi and Guarani indigenous linguistic branches that make up the majority of the pre-Columbian indigenous languages of Brazil’s current territory. With enslaved workers brought from Africa\, more heavily during the 17th\, 18th and 19th centuries\, many different languages and backgrounds were also influential. Brazilian Portuguese continued to evolve as the common language amongst all living in Brazil\, and the one permitted to be spoken by the colonizers. However\, new words referring to foods\, materials and relationships with no correlations in Europe\, started to influence Continental Portuguese\, even though the grammar and syntax structures remained the same. Revolutionary literacy methods created for adults\, by the influential educator Paulo Freire in the 1960s\, author of the Pedagogy of the Oppressed\, finally started to prioritize local people’s needs and generate wider political consciousness about the role of language in political emancipation to the elite oppressors. It is still used to combat illiteracy and poverty\, and to help achieve freedom\, much beyond Brazil’s borders.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/intermediate-portuguese-2-fall-2026/2026-11-03/
CATEGORIES:Classes,Education,Portuguese
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SUMMARY:THE ANATOMY OF A STITCH: INTRO TO CROCHET w/ CAMRYN EASLEY
DESCRIPTION:THE ANATOMY OF A STITCH: INTRO TO CROCHET w/ CAMRYN EASLEY \nOne-day  |  Thursday November 12\, 6:00-8:30PM  |  Sliding Scale \nReady to start your crochet journey? In this one-day workshop\, Camryn will teach you how to begin any crochet project and lead you through the steps to create your own handmade crochet coaster: a decorative kitchen essential and resting place for your glasses and mugs! Taught from the perspective that fiber arts has and can continue to serve as a center for community care\, this workshop will include an introduction to the history of crochet\, as well as the anatomy of basic stitches.  \nWhat to expect: \n\nAll materials provided (crochet hooks and yarn)\nHands-on instruction and support\nA take-home guide to continue your crochet practice at home\n\n__ \nCamryn Easley is the Founder of Knot Okay Club\, a 501(C)3 nonprofit promoting community care and mental health through fiber arts\, especially for Black women and nonbinary people. Her work is informed by her academic research on the contributing factors to Black women’s mental health\, combining her creative passions and sociological analysis to promote social welfare initiatives and address cultural inequities. In addition to monthly programming for KOC members\, she leads Intro to Fiber Arts workshops in partnership with local community hubs\, nonprofits\, youth groups and small businesses. Camryn hopes to inspire others to work with their hands\, learn more about the history of fiber arts in America and express themselves creatively.\nFor more information about Knot Okay Club’s free programming and fiber artist community\, connect with us on Instagram @knotokayclub or visit our website.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/intro-to-crochet/
LOCATION:Elizabeth Catlett Art Space & Printmaking Studio\, 320 W. 37th\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:art,Art Courses,Culture,Education
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH | FLIES IN THE TROPICS with author Niki Franco
DESCRIPTION:Order your copy here!\nJoin us for the release celebration of Flies in the Tropics with debut author Niki Franco. A memoir about growing up in the backwards heart of US imperialism\, this book is a letter to all those searching for their role in the fight for a better world. \nNiki and her family packed up their lives and moved to Miami\, hoping for a change. The daughter of two working-class Caribbean immigrants\, she begins searching for belonging in her new home\, the USA’s very own tropical paradise. But what unfolds is the entangled story of the Caribbean\, the CIA\, US intervention\, and her own duty from the history she learns. \nGrocery store gossip\, an abuelo who worked his whole life for Caribe Hilton\, trips to Puerto Rico and Cuba\, hurricanes\, activism\, and doxxing. These are the memories that come into focus and reveal how the ghosts of exploitation haunt the lives of those who come from countries ravaged by US intervention. And so Miami’s beautiful façade reveals its cruel face through the machinations of US foreign policy\, political pundits\, and a long history as a base for CIA interventions in the Caribbean. The shadow of the US is inescapable\, and it becomes clear that Cuba and Puerto Rico are las dos alas de un pájaro. Two wings of a bird. \nNiki will be joined in conversation by fellow political educators and cultural workers maya finoh and Tahia Islam. After the book talk\, we will have an author signing\, music by DJ RAQX\, and wines provided by Terra Sancta Wines and Spirits and El-Sabban Wine. \n___ \nNIKI FRANCO is a queer\, Marxist\, Black Caribbean organizer from Miami\, Florida. Her work is an attempt to disjoint\, at every node\, the normalcy of assumed Caribbean subservience to empire. \nShe has spoken at universities and museums across North America\, including Brown\, RISD\, Dartmouth\, UCLA\, USC\, MoMa PS1\, University of Miami\, University of British Columbia (Vancouver)\, and Boston University. Her writing has appeared in Essence\, Scalawag\, and the Miami New Times\, and she’s been interviewed by Dazed\, i-D\, Upstream\, and Belly of the Beast. \nThrough her writing\, scholarship\, and organizing work\, she illuminates + builds off the legacies of the Global South\, insisting on life and socialist reconstruction. \nNiki is the host of the podcast show Getting to the Root of It with Venus Roots and her debut book\, Flies in the Tropics (1804 Books\, fall 2026). \nMAYA FINOH is a political educator and cultural worker based on Canarsee Lenape land in Brooklyn\, New York. maya has spent the last decade engaged in writing\, critical consciousness raising\, and organizing rooted in Black decolonial feminisms\, abolition\, and self-determination. A child of the (Global) South\, maya was born and raised in Durham\, North Carolina\, and has lineage with the Kono\, Mende\, and Sherbro peoples of Sierra Leone. \nTAHIA ISLAM is an anti-war and cultural organizer\, lead of Artists Against Apartheid\, attorney-in-training at CUNY School of Law\, and was previously on the education team at The People’s Forum and helped dream up 1804 Books. She’s proudly born and raised in the international Queens\, New York City. \nDJ RAQX is a DJ\, event producer\, and educator from New York with Puerto Rican and German roots. Her music selection is heavily influenced by her hybrid cultures\, playing vinyl and digital sets exploring ’90s NY house\, latin deep cuts\, all varieties of old dance music with new club and reggaeton sounds. She’s been DJing and producing events in Brooklyn with Misschief Collective for 9+ years as well as playing frequently in Puerto Rico. She has been collaborating with Radio Red to bring Puerto Rican artists to New York for Puerto Rican day parade afterparties and radio red takeovers in Brooklyn.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/flies-in-the-tropics/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Culture,Education,Panel Discussions
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