Urban Word NYC

MANHATTAN WORDSHOPS
@ 242 W. 27th Street, between 7th and 8th Aves.

1. CREATIVELY COLLEGE BOUND - Erica Fabri
Mondays, September 22-December 8, 4:30-6:30pm

This program is geared towards HS juniors & seniors who want their creative critical voice to soar over the tedium of the college application process. Using spoken word and hip-hop as inspiration, we will write high-quality college application essays and explore numerous scholarship opportunities. This workshop will put you on track to get into college, and to GET MONEY.

2. WOMEN REBORN - DJ Reborn
Tuesdays, September 23-December 9, 4:30-6:30pm

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. Acclaimed female DJ and poet, DJ Reborn facilitates this workshop for teen WOMEN.

3. WORD TO EVERYTHING I LOVE - Willie Perdomo
Wednesdays, September 24-December 10, 4:30-6:30pm

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.

4. WORKING TOWARD R{u}{a}PTURE – Aracelis Girmay
Thursdays, September 25-December 11, 4:30-6:30pm

Working toward rupture, working toward rapture will be a gathering ground for writers who are interested in honing their work by experimenting with notions of the ecstatic. We will read about Garcia Lorca’s notion of duende while playing with elements of improvisation that can be used to strengthen the craft of certain poems. Writers should be ready to take risks, & to explore various art mediums & techniques in the poetry. One of the goals here is to write poems that somehow possess the bodies of the poets & the poems–possess these bodies with the world.

BROOKLYN WORDSHOPS
@ St. John’s Recreational Center, 1251 Prospect Place
between Schenectady & Troy Ave

1. REELS & RHYMES - Frank Lopez
Mondays, September 22-December 8, 4-6pm
Reels and Rhymes workshop blends screenings of films and documentaries with creative writing and open mics to initiate awareness and dialogue about social issues affecting today’s youth.

2. NEW NATIVE STYLE - BROOKLYN STORES - Trish Hicks
Tuesdays, September 23-December 9, 4:00-6:00pm

This workshop explores different forms of creativity and how they inspire writing, mc-ing and spoken word poetry. Use film, photography, music, collage, and other forms of artistic expression to tell the unique story of your life. From Wild Style to freestyle, your own personal style is the raw material for making your voice heard! Bring it!

3. CREATIVELY COLLEGE BOUND - Erica Fabri
Wednesdays, September 24-December 10, 6:00-8:00pm

This program is geared towards HS juniors & seniors who want their creative critical voice to soar over the tedium of the college application process. Using spoken word and hip-hop as inspiration, we will write high-quality college application essays and explore numerous scholarship opportunities. This workshop will put you on track to get into college, and to GET MONEY.

**To signup for these FREE wordshops, email signup@urbanwordnyc.org or call 212.352.3495 and leave your full name, age, #, email, and the wordshop(s) you or the person you’re calling on behalf of to sign up for.

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

Thanks for making the 10th Annual Teen Poetry Slam on March 1st a HUGE success. The poets - amazing. The audience - gigantic. Afrika Bambataa and Russell Simmons on the same stage in the same night? Crazy.

Now, a particular cameraperson didn’t technically didn’t have um, “permission” to film, but if you weren’t there, or even if you were but can’t get enough of the performances, we’re sure a lil’ clever youtubery will help you come up with something…

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