Fractal University offers in-person classes at low cost, to anyone in New York City. We're a community aspiring to learn, conduct research, and do great work together.
Spring ‘24 Offerings
👩🏫 Class | Instructor | 🗓 Dates | 🕰️Time | 🗺 Location | ✍️ Apply |
LATE ADDITION (registration open)
Pioneers: A Radio Production Workshop
Radio is not just about music — which is a big part of it, of course. It’s about being completely in the present moment as you talk to a live audience like you’re speaking to a singular person — a singular person you care deeply about. It is the greatest kind of meditation and Nowness that exists. | Weekend workshop 3/30-3/31 | Saturday 10 am-5 pm, Sunday 10 am-8 pm | 248 McKibbin St, Brooklyn | ||
LATE ADDITION
Singing from Shy to Fly: Owning Your True Voice
Ever walked down the sidewalk humming or singing, and then saw a stranger and felt embarrassed? If you stop to think about it, that’s a really weird social norm. Singing is a universal human activity, yet we’re all hiding our singing voices in fear and shame. I’ll teach you how to fix that. | 8 classes 3/2 - 4/27 | Saturdays
3pm-5pm | Merlin’s Place 248 McKibbin St, Brooklyn | ||
AI Research Lab
A practical guide to publishing novel contributions to AI research. You will learn how to replicate papers and extend them with your own findings. You will have a 1-on-1 mentor. A basic knowledge of python is a prerequisite | Daniel Wu (LinkedIn, Google Scholar, email) | 3 classes, then labs
2/4 - 2/18 | Sundays
2:00-4:00 pm | 45 Wall Street, Lounge (Top Floor) | |
Alexander Technique
The Alexander Technique allows you to make changes to your patterns of thought and behavior in a gentle, non-imposing way. | 7 classes
3/13-4/24 | Wednesdays
7:00-9:00 pm | Merlin’s Place
248 McKibbin St, Brooklyn | ||
At Play with Poetry
This class/workshop/space for creation will be a gentle incubator for those curious to unlock the poetry inside of them. | Allie Leilani Boenig | 8 classes
3/28-5/9 | Thusdays
6:30-9:00 pm | TBA (most likely a space in Brooklyn) | |
BABIES
This class is for people who want to be parents, especially if you're undecided. Guests will speak on their decision to become parents, their experience with pregnancy and birth, and their new lives with children. We'll have guest babies -- if you haven't held a baby this year (very normal in such an atomized society!) come hold and play with a baby | 4 classes, 3/2 - 3/23 | Saturdays
11 am-1 pm | Alchemy
61 St Felix St., Brooklyn | ||
Body, Mind, Work: A Joint Investigation
Practicing, analyzing, and applying three body-mind systems – tai chi, tango, & clowning – to a self-selected project, in order to investigate our relationships to a contentious domain of life: work. | Alicia Botero and Tyler Alterman | 10 classes
1/21-3/24 | Sundays
3:00-6:00 pm | Merlin’s Place
248 McKibbin St, Brooklyn | |
Building a Village: How to Live Near Your Friends
A practical guide to building an in-person community with your friends and loved ones. | 5 classes, 1/31 - 2/28 | Wednesdays 6:30-8:30 pm | Merlin’s Place? [TBA] | ||
Butoh: Into the depths
Come into greater intimacy with your mind and body through the Japanese dance of darkness. | Vangeline, founder of Vangeline Butoh Institute | 6 classes 1 show 1/25th-3/1 | Thursdays 6:00-9:00 pm | Vangeline Theater 126, 10th st, Brooklyn | |
Civic Hacking 101 — Let’s Write Software for New York City
You will learn how to create and contribute to public tools used by government and political organizations by actually contributing to live tools. You will learn / use: data science, web scraping, full-stack web frameworks, Git & Github, open source contributions.
No prior experience is necessary, mentorship will be provided and we will match the difficulty of work to your skill level. | 5 classes from 2/7 | Wednesdays
6:00-9:00 pm | Alchemy
61 St Felix St.,
Brooklyn | ||
Coding Bootcamp
Learn full-stack web development the way they do it in industry — a skillset worth 6 figures at the entry-level.
No pre-reqs required, beginners welcome. | 6 classes starting 3/20 | Wednesdays
6:00-9:00 pm | 307 West 38th Street Studio 1418, 14th floor, New York, NY 10018 | ||
EDM Production
Produce 3 complete, publishable EDM tracks online via Soundcloud, TikTok, and Spotify. For students of any skill level. | David Shimel
(Soundcloud,
Spotify,
Twitter) | 12 classes starting 2/3 | Saturdays 12:00-2:00pm | Merlin’s Place
248 Mckibbin St, Brooklyn | |
Freestyle Cooking 101
Learn the basic principles of cooking to make tasty, economical meals at home WITHOUT a recipe. Designed for total noobs. | Eric Lee | 6 classes starting from 3/7 | Thursdays 6:00-9:00 pm | Merlin’s Place
248 McKibbin St, Brooklyn | |
Freestyle Rap: A Straightforward Introduction
Students will become confident in their foundational understanding of freestyle rapping, rhythm comprehension, flow emulation, and collaborative rap performance. | Sam Rosen | 4 classes from 2/5 | Mondays
6:00-7:00 pm | Merlin’s Place
248 McKibbin St, Brooklyn | |
History of Patronage
This course explores the history of Western patronage from pre-Renaissance to the modern day. | Bridget (Twitter) | 12 classes 2/13-4/30 | Tuesdays
7:00-9:00 pm | Alchemy
61 St Felix St., Brooklyn | |
Indian Improvisational Cooking
Learn to cook Indian food without recipes, using spices and ingredients you can find in your local store | Kshitij Lauria | 4 classes, 3/7-3/28 | Thursdays 6:30 - 8 pm | Alchemy
61 St Felix St., Brooklyn | |
Introduction to Painting
This course aims to develop both the technical hand skills needed to manipulate paint and a working knowledge of the rich tradition of painting to give painters and lovers of painting the foundation to make, criticize, and appreciate historical and contemporary artworks. | 10 classes 2/6-4/9 | Tuesdays 6:00-9:00 pm | 69 Lewis Ave, Brooklyn | ||
Introduction to Philosophy
This course will be an introduction to philosophy as one might hope to get as an undergraduate, but without the institutional sludge and collegiate ego. | Eric Bayless-Hall | 10 classes 1/14-3/17 | Sundays
6:00-9:00 pm | Bay Ridge. | |
LLMs in Practice
In this course we create our own AI Assistant. We wil build it by fine-tuning and augmenting an open-source Large Language Model (LLM). | 7 classes [TBA] | [TBA] | Merlin’s Place
248 McKibbin St, Brooklyn | ||
Progress Studies Research Lab
A practical course that will have you contributing novel research to the progress studies field, researching concrete questions. | Madhu (Substack) | 11 classes 2/6-4/16 | Tuesdays
6:30 -8:00 pm | Pier 57 | |
Writing Fiction
This is a course about how to write enjoyably and tell great stories. It starts from the suspicion that those two things could be connected. | 10 classes
1/29-3/25 | Mondays
6:00-8:00 pm | Alchemy
61 St Felix St., Brooklyn |
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