Spring Workshops
SPRING WORKSHOPS!
MANHATTAN!!
Spoken INC
Tahani Salah & Tara Betts
Mondays, March 17-May 26
You asked for it! You wanted help putting together a collection of work? Well Urban Word NYC has answered your calls. We’ll cover basic bookmaking concepts, layout, short writing exercises and editing so participants can create their own chapbooks with individualized artistry. We will have opportunities for you to be published in anthologies and online contests. This workshop will also include multiple special guests from slam champions to rock stars of the writing world that will talk about their experiences in publishing.
Next Level Lit
Erica Fabri
Tuesdays, March 18-May 27
We will examine the works of poets whose words are beyond the boundaries of the typical high school textbook and discuss the lives of writers who have used their craft to make inspirational movements and changes in society. Next Level Lit is the follow-up course for Creatively College Bound and open to all teens ages 13-19.
Word to Everything I Love
Willie Perdomo
Wednesdays, March 19-May 28
In this workshop, teens will explore personal voice, literary device and poetic forms in an uncensored, safe, student-centered environment. This workshop will be lead by award-winning poet Willie Perdomo, author of Where a Nickel Costs a Dime and Smoking Lovely, which won the 2004 PEN American Beyond Margins Award.
Women Reborn through Popular Music, Media and Culture
DJ Reborn
Thursdays, March 20-May 29
This workshop hopes to define and critically examine the ever-evolving idea of womanhood and its expression through various artistic mediums. By encouraging and educating young women through djing, lyric analysis, collage art and writing, we will unearth the history of women’s contributions to these mediums while implementing skills to empower young women not only in the arts but in the art of everyday life. Acclaimed female DJ and poet, DJ Reborn facilitates this workshop for teen WOMEN.
To sign up email shaun@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 Spring Workshops @ Crown Heights Live!
Who’s The Man?
Roger Bonair-Agard
Mondays, March 17-May 26
Facilitated by celebrated poet Roger Bonair-Agard, this workshop is exclusively for teenaged young men. This will be a safe space for each and every XY chromosomal being to tell it like it is. Through critical media analysis, creative writing and performance exercises, concepts of masculinity and femininity, as well, will be deconstructed, thoroughly examined and beautifully re-imagined.
Women Reborn
Trish Hicks
Tuesdays, March 18-May 27
In this workshop, critical artistic skills – close reading, lyric analysis, collage building, creative writing and turntabling – become the doorway to discovering women’s contribution to these mediums and our world. Acclaimed writer and educator-activist, Trish Hicks, facilitates this workshop for teen WOMEN.
Next Level Lit
Erica Fabri
Thursdays, March 20-May 29
We will examine the works of poets whose words are beyond
the boundaries of the typical high school textbook and discuss the lives of writers
who have used their craft to make inspirational movements and changes in society.
Next Level Lit is the follow-up course for Creatively College Bound and open to all
teens ages 13-19.
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