Barter School Indy

Dear Indianapolis Community,

During the pandemic, Barter School Indy shifted to live Zoom meetings and pre-recorded classes to keep up with class offerings. Following 3 semesters of declining class submissions and attendance, we decided to take a semester off to focus on identifying the right way and time to bring BSI back to the community.

During that time, many of our volunteer organizers chose to move on to other opportunities. We appreciate all the time our rotating volunteers donate to making Barter School Indy a success and are so glad to see our BSI friends helping other community programming, growing their families, pursuing education, and making other life changes. Also during this time, we parted ways from our in-person location and our website. For now, BSI will be shuttering with the hope to restart at a better time.

Should there be a surge of volunteers, we would be delighted to keep BSI running as it has for the last ~9 years.

We wish you the happiest of holidays, and a very merry new year.

There's still time to sign up for our "Free" Class tonight!⁠
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About the Class:⁠
Are you giving effective feedback? Are you sure? ⁠
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If you are in a position that involves managing people, giving effective feedback is a crucial skill worth learning. Ineffective feedback can cause tension, discontent, and harm working relationships. ⁠
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This class will explain the importance and provide tips on how you can learn to deliver effective feedback that results in an increase in motivation, confidence, and builds up effective communicators.⁠
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About the Teacher:⁠
Joanna is a director of data enablement for media & marketing services. She directly manages a team of 5 and coaches many others. This discussion about effective feedback was prepared and presented previously as part of her organization's global learning & development tracks.⁠
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How to Register:⁠
Visit our event page (https://www.facebook.com/events/655335082538348/) and then simply select a teacher-requested barter item to attend!

We're back with some exciting new classes this week!⁠
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📆 Tuesday 11/2 - Watercolor Leaves⁠
Fall is full of beautiful colors and fall leaves lend themselves to a fun watercolor exercise! Alicia will talk through her process of painting a leaf using watercolors and answer any questions along the way.⁠
https://www.facebook.com/events/1137948506733955/
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📆 Wednesday 11/3 - How to Plan & Execute a Gallery Wall⁠
A gallery wall is a collection of art organized in an aesthetically pleasing way. In this class, Tara will teach you how to create the gallery wall of your dreams! She'll talk about aesthetics, materials, and lines of symmetry.⁠
https://www.facebook.com/events/1265602413958302/

We're bringing you some exciting new classes next week!⁠
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📆 Tuesday 10/26 - Prepping Your Landscape for Winter⁠
We're really excited to have Ethan, the Horticulture Manager for the Indianapolis Cultural Trail: A Legacy of Gene & Marilyn Glick to give us a lesson on how to prepare your plants for winter.⁠
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📆 Wednesday 10/27 - SEO & Blogging Best Practices⁠
Becky is a content strategist and writer and she's sharing the basics of SEO and keyword research. You'll also get concrete strategies for writing content and more!⁠

Sign up for these classes and more here: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/barter-school-indy-16118641165

💡 Upcoming Class Alert! 💡⁠
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Join us Thursday for a virtual class where Erin will be talking about ways we can reduce our single-use plastic use in three areas of our lives:⁠
🛒- Grocery Store⁠
🏡 - Home Products⁠
🛀 - Personal Care⁠

Sign up for this class and more here: http://bit.ly/bsiclasses

🍂 UPCOMING CLASS ALERT! 🍂⁠
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Join us virtually on Wednesday, October 20 for a Watercolor Leaf class! ⁠
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Teacher Alicia will talk through her process of painting a leaf using watercolors and answer any questions along the way. ⁠
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Register for this class and more here: http://bit.ly/bsiclasses