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Daily 001: Welcome to Arts and Ideas

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Summary

Introduction to the podcast and Arts and Ideas Sudbury School's outdoor schooling option during the pandemic. Describes the 30x50 tent setup, Discord for online students, and the plan for short daily broadcasts about school life.

Transcript

0:00 Welcome to the first recording of Arts and Ideas, In the Air, Under the Tent, and Around Baltimore.
0:09 After a long summer of figuring out what to do about having school during this pandemic,
0:16 Arts and Ideas came up with a beautiful outdoor schooling option.
0:22 A 30 by 50 tent, online for those who really can't risk coming into contact with COVID-19,
0:32 and a nice sort of hybrid mixing of our democratic structures, both here under the tent and out there in the air.
0:43 Our community came together and raised up the tent and put back a massive wooden sign that a hurricane remnant had torn down.
0:55 It was a beautiful Saturday when all that happened, just a few days before we opened.
1:00 And now, the first day of our opening, we had a wonderful informal meeting where we figured out basically how to connect.
1:10 We're going with Discord in case you're wondering for those online, and in person we have a dedicated sort of computer and speaker microphone setup.
1:24 So, that's looking all very promising, and life under the tent is good.
1:31 The plan for this podcast is very short, snippet daily, hopefully, broadcasts that illuminate something about the day, about what we do here, who we are, and having a little bit of fun.
1:48 So, that's the plan.
1:52 There will be some days, perhaps where it will be a little longer, maybe going into some depth about some topic of the model or some other interesting tidbit,
2:05 answering questions anybody might have, and hopefully hearing from a variety of both online and in person students here at ANI.
2:16 So, that's the plan.
2:18 Again, this is being recorded outside, live, in the middle of a field, underneath a big old tent.
2:26 So, hope to see you around.