A few of our touchstone texts this season...

• A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Test Scores for Pauline Oliveras (2024)
• Black Mountain: An Exploration of Community (1972) by Martin Duberman.
• Braiding Sweetgrass (2020) by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
• Cider: Sweet & hard cider: Making it, using it, & enjoying it (1980) Annie Proulx and Lew Nichols.
• Country Woman journal (Albion, 1972-79) with contributions by many original SCF communards.
• Cruising Utopia, The Then and There of Queer Futurity (2009) by José Esteban Muñoz.
• Dechooling Society (1970) by Ivan Illich.
• Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice (2005) by Pauline Oliveros.
• Dwelling: On Making Your Own (1977) by River (co-founder of SCF).
• How to Imagine: A Narrative on Art, Agriculture and Creativity (1984) by Gianfranco Baruchello and Henry Martin.
• How to Live Together (1977) lectures by Roland Barthes.
• Joseph Beuys in America: Energy Plan for the Western Man (1993) by Joseph Beuys.
• Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit (1992) By Corita Kent, Jan Steward.
• Modern Nature (1991) by Derek Jarman.
• Mushrooms Demystified (1986) by David Arora.
• The One-Straw Revolution (1978) by Masanobu Fukuoka.
• Parable of the Sower (1993) by Octavia Butler.
• A Pattern Language: : Towns, Buildings, Construction (1977) by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein with Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel.
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Pedagogia do Oprimido, 1968) by Paulo Freire.
• Pomo Indian Basketry (1976) by Samuel A Barrett.
• Raspberry Exercises: How to Start Your Own School, and make a book (1970) by Robert Greenway (co-founder of SCF).
• RSVP Cycles: Creative Processes in the Human Environment (1973) by Lawrence Halprin.
• Taking Part: A Workshop Approach to Collective Creativity (1974) by Lawrence Halprin and Jim Burns with Anna Halprin and Paul Baum.
• Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (2003) by bell hooks.
• Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom (1994) by bell hooks.
• Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources (2005) by M. Kat Anderson.
• Theater of the Opressed (1993) by Augusto Boal.
• The Toilet Papers: recycling waste and conserving water (1995) by Sim Van Der Ryn.
• Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods (2003) by Sandor Katz.