SPACE comes in five flavors called sectors— Click a sector icon below to learn more!
Living Arts
Celebrate the skills and practices that bring beauty, presence, and craft into daily life. Whether you're learning watercolors or bookbinding, cultivating mindfulness and organization, or finding confidence in your spoken voice, each class offers a space to grow through doing. Our Living Arts preceptors guide you in skills that nurture arts for living well, for learning by heart and hand.
Creative Writing
Our Creative Writing preceptors lead one-month modules in skill building, world building, story crafting, and peer feedback workshops. Whether you're writing flash fiction or a novel, memoir or speculative stories, beginning pieces or confident authorial work, you can find a class that will support your journey. We encourage and support Stories and their Authors at any level of development!
General Humanities
What if you told a scholar, "You can teach any material you want for a month?" In our General Humanities sector, preceptors bring little-known texts, nuanced history, fresh perspectives on literature, and more for an in-depth learning adventure. Egyptian mythology, the food culture of anime fans, a story within a Shakespeare play — check out the huge variety of scholarly interests our teaching team is eager to share!
Fantasy Studies
From Frankenstein to this year's Nebula Award nominees, read, watch, discuss, question, and draw new insights about written and multimedia fantasy literature. Whether movies, books, graphic novels, or podcasts, the stories of magic, courage, and possibility that we love are all on the menu. Creators from Darcie Littlebadger to J.R.R. Tolkien provide diverse possibilities in the Fantasy sector of SPACE.
Language
Interested in Old Norse? How about Modern Japanese? Our team of linguists, language teachers, and philologists lead fun one-month courses in contemporary and historical languages of all kinds. Beginning language studies focus on vocabulary and grammar while Intermediate and Advanced classes often translate written work or videos. A group of first-month learners can continue together as a cohort as long as they like.