ED: Ancient Greek in the Park – starting 12th June in East Oxford

Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!)

Dear Classicists,
As previously stated, The Iris Project will be starting up a new series of free lessons for adults and families this spring and summer.

These sessions will be starting on 12th June in East Oxford and will run every Saturday for ten weeks. As with the ‘Latin in the Park’ series, Ancient Greek in the Parkwill involve a series of free hour-long weekly sessions introducing the ancient Greek language to adults and families.

Latin in the park was set up to help promote access to Classics amongst adults in local communities, and has been running since April 2008. Classics is often viewed as an elite area of study only accessible to the very educated, and this can be daunting or off-putting, so the intention is to encourage people from all walks of life and backgrounds in these communities to have a go at picking up a bit of Latin and now ancient Greek over lunch in a relaxed setting!

While we are not currently looking for extra volunteers to help with the teaching, we are, however, looking for volunteers to help with other aspects of its organisation, so if you are interested in helping, please get in touch by replying to this email or through our website www.irismagazine.org.

If you would like to offer financial support for the outreach work of The Iris Project in schools and local communities, you can do so here http://www.irismagazine.org/support.htm.