It has been a great few months organizing Learnapalooza 2011 with a team of volunteers in partnership with CommuniTeach, a website that lets you learn skillsfor free throughout the year. We currently have 17 fantastic venues and 45 teachers that have signed up to teach a mix of fantastic classes and will open up RSVPs in the next few weeks. [...]

Are you passionate about free learning?  Do you want to share your book binding or composting skills with your community?  Do you want to show off your expertise in SEO and boost your resume by teaching a community workshop?  Then sign up to be a teacher at Learnapalooza — Chicago’s free learning festival happening in [...]

Hello everyone! We are happy to announce the date of Learnapalooza 2011. Drum roll please….. The second Learnapalooza will be held on June 25th in Wicker Park. Interested in volunteering, sponsoring, teaching or hosting your own version of Learnapalooza? Let us know, we’ll be happy to help (maggie_at_Learnapaloozachi.com or sarah_at_Learnapaloozachi.com).

Thanks so much to everyone who came out for Learnapalooza last weekend. We had over 17 host venues, 60 teachers, and over 300 attendees. All and all, it was a fantastic day. Had a good time? Got suggestions for ways we can improve the festival? Let us know in the comments section of this blog [...]

Wooo hoo! Come one, come all to Wicker Park damen/milwaukee/north intersection. There will be people in blue Learnapalooza shirts to direct you to classes and answer questions. If you’ve already signed up for classes, that’s great. If you didn’t sign up for classes, that’s ok too. Come to the class of your choice a few [...]

Wow. This is really exciting. Thanks you so much to all the the hardworking volunteers, accommodating hosts, generous donors, and awesome teachers that have contributed to help organize this amazing event. We have closed down RSVPs for classes that have reached capacity by removing them from the bottom of the form. But many great classes [...]

Just wanted to quickly mention a few other great writeups we received! Our Urban Times is a community newsletter that shares local news and happenings in the Bucktown, East Village, Noble Square, Ukrainian Village, West Town, and Wicker Park areas. They have written about Learnapalooza not once, but twice (!),  first as an event writeup, [...]

Hi everyone! Just wanted to take a moment to recognize some of the great press Learnapalooza has been receiving! We’ll be capturing these mentions and more on our about us page, as well as our Facebook fan page (198 fans! Help us hit 200!) and twitter account As of 4:46 today Learnapalooza is… A popular [...]

We noticed a discrepancy between the PDF and the online RSVP form for only a few classes (“Getting money for college,” “Tai Chi”, and “Musical Zoo.”)  If you previously RSVPed for any of these classes, please look at the current schedule and double check our day.  Sorry for the confusion. Also, we now have the [...]

We need volunteers to help us day of. Sign up today and you’ll be able to pick your top two venues (aka the classes you like the most) you want to help out at. Extra bonus you will get a cool Learnapalooza t-shirt and button.