In this series, we'll use the writers of the Lost Generation (Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Stein) as a master class in close reading. You'll learn to slow down on the page, notice what the prose is doing beneath the surface, and build the kind of literary attention that transforms how you read any book.

This course will explore the art of deep engagement through the practice of close reading. Using The Odyssey as our guide, we will move deliberately through key episodes of the epic, returning to specific passages, tracing patterns, and asking what Homer reveals about topics such as wandering, homecoming, desire, restraint, and recognition. Each session includes guided close reading, structured discussion, and selected supplementary materials to deepen our understanding of the poem's historical context, oral tradition, and enduring philosophical force.

In this class, we'll be writing flash fiction. We will also be practicing how to see the world in a way that will carry over to your writing. In this class, you'll encounter: generative prompts, homework reading and writing assignments, discussions of writers' "strategies," and new uses for those scraps of conversation you hear on the subway.

Lab to help writers overcome writer's block and develop spontaneity and authenticity through timed writing exercises and coaching.

This interdisciplinary seminar explores how fictional worlds operate as structured models of society, drawing on speculative fiction, history, anthropology, and political theory. Students analyze how environments, institutions, culture, memory, and technology shape social order, while building a single evolving fictional world across the semester. The course culminates in a cohesive "world dossier" integrating these elements into a fully realized speculative society that can be used as a platform for creative projects.

Movement is a tool for us to feel more connected, aligned and alive. In this course you will be given the space and tools to start creating and/or deepening your relationship to your body. The goal of this course is that you leave feeling more in tune with yourself, find a sense of play, that you leave with tools to keep deepening in your relationship with yourself on your own.

This course invites students of all backgrounds to explore efficient and expressive ways of moving through urban space that feel playful and accessible in their own bodies. Through guided individual and group exercises, we'll interact with everyday features like walls, railings, stairs, benches, and trees, and see familiar parts of this city in a fresh light.

Learn to meditate through movement, tapping into subtle body systems and the unconscious. Butoh, the dance of darkness, is a transformative practice from Japan being taught in Brooklyn by renowned teacher Vangeline. Open to dancers and non-dancers alike.

Delving into the concepts and practices needed to build practical skill in the martial art of Taijiquan, this class focuses on learning in layers to examine the form's nuanced meaning, and training ways to bridge that meaning into detailed body awareness, dynamic problem-solving, and powerful movement literacy.

Attendees will deepen easeful concentration, sensory clarity, and equanimity and integrate them in social contexts. They will also build confidence to move authentically in and out of the club while exploring nightlife in NYC.

Imagine hearing your favorite song come on and feeling excited to jump in instead of wondering what to do. Drawing from street dance styles born on dance floors and at parties (Hip Hop, House, Waacking, and Vogue), this structured beginner class teaches the foundational skills that make dance feel more natural, expressive, and fun. No pressure to "get it right." Just a clear path to building confidence in your body and discovering your own style. Whether you're an absolute beginner, a dancer exploring a new style, or someone simply looking to feel more at home in your body, this class is for you.

Do you want a deeper understanding of rhythm that makes singing, dancing, drumming, and even walking more fun, groovy, and natural? In this 7 week rhythmic journey we will explore drumming and percussion in ways that can be applied anywhere – your body, voice, the kitchen table, drums, shakers, pots and pans… your imagination is the limit!

Much of what you're taught about music looks arbitrary - twelve notes to an octave, some intervals consonant and others not, every instrument tuned slightly wrong - but almost none of it is. Over five weeks we work out the mathematics behind it, from how the ear hears a pure tone to the symmetry of the chromatic scale, picking up Fourier analysis, a little number theory, and some group theory on the way.

Over 6 weeks, we're going to build a bot to play a variant of poker. By the end, you'll have learned the underlying theory and have a functioning bot. After the class I'll test the bots against each other and give a prize to the top bots.

The inventors of computers imagined machines that could extend thought, creativity, and agency — "instruments whose music is ideas." That hasn't quite happened yet, but it's starting to. In this 6-week Saturday course, you'll learn to make your computer truly yours: building custom tools, automating busywork, connecting AI agents to your apps and data, and shipping real software starting from nothing but a plain-language description of what you want. No programming experience required. You'll leave with a personal AI agent that knows who you are, runs in the background, and keeps working when you walk away.

This course is a basic introduction to computational biology / bioinformatics, meant for programmers who already know a bit of Python. No prior biology knowledge required!

In 6 weeks, learn how to build a 3D model and design by making a lamp. No experience necessary, this will be an introductory course. We will discuss 3D modeling best practices for 3D printing, as well as making methods such as sewing and soldering.

Make your own 3D printed planter and become an emerging 3D modeler from no previous experience!

Learn from a regenerative agriculture expert how to think about space, soil, sprouting, and planting in the unique environment Brooklyn affords us. Every student will have the opportunity to start their own seeds from a wide selection and take home a customized mini urban garden for continued practice.

Join us for a journey into the unconscious mind, where limiting beliefs, identity, habits, and blocks live. In this 7 week course we will update your inner landscape to be healthy, supportive, positive, and optimized for you to live the life you want to live!