Facilitate a biweekly cocktail club pairing drinks with short presentations on resistance movements and revolutionary figures.

Run a biweekly online cocktail club where each session pairs a drink with a short presentation on a resistance movement or revolutionary figure. The drink is the hook. The history is the point. Participants must be 21+.

This is a lecture format with Q&A throughout. One facilitator presents while the other manages questions and keeps the conversation moving. Facilitators can swap roles each session or split a single session between them.

Share the drink recipe during the off-week or at the end of the previous session so participants can gather ingredients. Non-alcoholic versions of every drink should be provided. No one is required to make a drink at all.

Sessions happen every other week. Off-weeks are for research, session prep, and sharing supplementary material in the club's Discord channel.

This station is designed for a pair of facilitators. Solo applicants are welcome and will be paired with a co-facilitator when possible.

The group caps at 15 participants.

Essential skills:

• Comfort giving short, engaging presentations on historical topics
• Ability to research and distill a historical event, figure, or movement into a 15-to-20-minute talk
• Interest in both cocktail culture and history (you do not need to be an expert in either)
• Comfort moderating Q&A and keeping discussion on track

NOT required:

• Bartending experience or mixology training
• A history degree or academic background

Operative must provide:

• An account with the digital platform that will host the club meetings
• Research and preparation of presentations and drink recipes (including non-alcoholic versions)
• Between-session engagement in the Discord channel on off-weeks
• Promotion and participant recruitment for the club

MFU will provide:

• An interest form on the MFU website to help identify the best times for the meetings
• A scheduling app on the MFU website that allows people to sign up for the club
• A channel on the MFU Discord server for meetings and between-session discussion
• Help locating historical sources and drink recipes, if needed
• Promotion and participant recruitment for the club

You are welcome to use these sources to help you get started:

• Food Republic's guide to historical cocktails pairs twelve vintage cocktail recipes with the stories behind them. Useful for finding drink-and-story combinations.
• Biography Online's Famous Revolutionaries provides short profiles spanning Spartacus to Mandela, including Robespierre, Zapata, Luxemburg, and Guevara. A good starting point for choosing figures to build sessions around.
• Racial Equity Tools: Resistance and Movements is a curated collection of resources on resistance movements across centuries, covering civil disobedience, cultural resistance, boycotts, and armed struggle.
• The ICNC Resource Library offers free films, case studies, and educational materials on civil resistance movements, filtered here for English-language resources aimed at organizers and activists.

For general questions, you can message your handler through your dashboard, contact @Owlett on Discord, or email info@myflyinguniversity.org.

If you have an idea for a different approach to all or part of this mission, please feel free to reach out before you get started!