Came across someone who works with the organizations putting on these free poetry and writing workshops at a reading event this week in the city. Would love to pass on the word to the SC family and friends.
Youth Speaks Writing Workshops –
Teen Slam Poetry Preparation in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley. All held from 4 pm to 6 pm.
Wednesdays – Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak Street, one block from Lake Merritt BART. Starts Wed. January 28th. With performance artist Meg Day.
Thursdays – Berkeley High School, Room C335. With slam champions Isaac Miller and Terry Taplin. 2223 Martin Luther King Way, starts January 29th.
Fridays – Glen Park Library, with San Jose slam champion Kim Johnson. 2825 Diamond St., San Francisco, one block from the Glen Park BART station. Starts the 30th.
Free writers’ workshops:
Thursdays at the SF MOMA – with Katri Foster. 151 Third Street, San Francisco. Breaking the Rules. This workshop will draw from many different inspirations and ideas to help tell the story of our dreams and realities.
Fridays at the Downtown Oakland YMCA with Lauren Whitehead. 2350 Broadway, Oakland. Any Other City…let’s explore the places we call home and come to appreciate what they are and what they stand for in a broader social and political context. Explore the stories of other cities to look at your home base in a more critical/artistic way.
Would be glad to pass on the information about any other similar events anywhere else, please comment and let us know! Also, writers who are stuck on any aspect of a story – who need research help, fact checking, are stuck on a plot point, need a new idea, new word, etc please also comment and we’ll make a post for you and all the other writers and artists of our community can help you get un-stuck!
Also please save the date for a nonpolitical/nonsectarian benefit concert for civilians in the Gaza Strip, somewhere in San Francisco probably on Feb. 21st. Will keep you updated as I hear more from the organizers and the bands – gave them a Synchronized Chaos business card (as we do with all upcoming artists we meet) with contact information.
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