Winter Workshops
WINTER WORKSHOPS
MANHATTAN!!
URBAN WORD NYC Performance Intensives!!
These performance intensives are aimed at making your performance intense! Whether getting your skills tight for the 10th Annual NYC Teen Poetry Slam, or practicing for your own development, these workshops will take your poems, raps, rants and manifestos to the next level. These workshops are FREE for teens!!
**Performance Poetry Boot Camp with Mahogany Browne
TUESDAYS 4:30 – 6:30 January 8, 15, 22 & 29
This is a performance poetry intensive. Learn how to ignite the crowd or make them cry with your voice, your words and your movements.
Mahogany L. Browne, slammistress & Coach of the Nuyorican Grand Slam Team. She is the owner of PoetCD.com, Co-founder of SOUNDBiTES Poetry Festival & Jam On It Poetry & publisher of Penmanship Books (home of women’s anthology HIS RIB).
**”How to Rock a Poem” with Rives
THURSDAYS 4:30 – 6:30 January 10, 17, 24 & 31
Stage-fright sucks–come learn how to get over it. Good poems are hot–come learn how to write them, customize them for your voice, and deliver them with presence. All levels welcome.
Rives has appeared on the last 4 seasons of HBO’s “Def Poetry Jam,” and he was a 2004 National Poetry Slam champion.
To sign up email signup@urbanwordnyc.org or call 212-352-3495
Urban Word NYC
242 W. 27th Street, btw 7th & 8th Ave
1 Train to 28th St. or C/E to 23rd St.
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BROOKLYN!!
Urban Word Brooklyn Free Winter Workshops @ Crown Heights Live!
**T.R.U.C.E. (Teens Reaching Understanding by Communicating Effectively) with K~Swift
MONDAYS 4:30 – 6:30 January 7th to February 25th
This program for TEEN MEN seeks to resolve conflicts between members of rival gangs through engaging members in in-depth discussions, personal creative writing, and performance-based spoken word and hip-hop. This goal is achieved by equipping young people with knowledge of the history of U.S. gangs, the relationships between hip-hop and gang culture, and critical investigation into local gang violence and media related to it.
**Women Reborn Through Music, Media, and Culture with Trish Hicks
TUESDAYS 4:30 – 6:30 January 8th to February 26th
In this workshop, critical artistic skills – turntabling, close reading, lyric analysis, collage building and creative writing– become the doorway to discovering women’s contribution to these mediums and our world. Radical poet and educator, Trish Hicks facilitates this workshop for teen WOMEN.
**From the Page to the Stage with Jive Poetic
THURSDAYS 4:30 – 6:30 January 10th to February 28th
Slam champion and DJ, Jive Poetic will teach students how to take their writing to the next level in performance. This workshop is a must for teens entering the 10th Annual Urban Word NYC Teen Poetry Slam!
To sign up email marc@urbanwordnyc.org or call 212-352-3495
1251 Prospect Place
between Schenectady & Troy
BROOKLYN!
A/C or 4 train to Utica Ave