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Hip Hop Culture Empowers Student Writing and Communication

In this professional learning program Baba Bomani will support teachers to be able to use aspects of hip-hop art and culture to create an engaging learning environment. This active workshop will guide teachers to lead rhyme-based strategies to build student writing and communication skills using the five steps of the Writing Process (pre-writing, drafting, revising, […]

Write Now!

This high energy, participatory program explores the often forgotten element of creative writing: spontaneity! Freestyle Repertory Theatre encourages audience volunteers get involved in the whimsy and fun of creating characters and settings off the tops of their heads. They see how plot unfolds through changes and what happens next. Three dynamic artists teach about physical […]

From Page to Stage

In From Page to Stage, students learn to adapt their favorite stories (or original written work) for a theatrical performance. Participants are guided through the process of script development, beginning acting,(both improvisational and scripted), and staging, in bringing the work to life. Theater vocabulary, discipline, and traditions are taught. The From Page to Stage workshop […]

Gargoyles: From Gothic to Grotesque

In Gargoyles: From Gothic to Grotesque, students construct gargoyles using pinch-pot construction and basic hand-building pottery techniques. In a longer workshop, students listen to medieval legends and contemporary children’s fiction that inspire them to write their own myths based on their gargoyle creations. Please fill out this inquiry form or call 866-500-9265 for more information.

I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Poetry, Art, and Stories of the Holocaust

In this provocative workshop with Rebecca Kelly, students reflect on symbols of the Holocaust, creating their own poetry and art in response. Art forms can include collages, graphite pencil drawings, watercolors, wax pastel images, and more. The poems in the collection I Never Saw Another Butterfly, by Pavel Friedman and others, are presented as catalysts […]

Soul Sessions Workshop

Gayle Danley shines a light on the vivid, moving, and real poetry that each student holds inside. The virtual workshop incorporates performance and writing exercises that open youthful eyes and ears to the power of the spoken word. Students leave  with a fuller appreciation, understanding and access to creating and sharing their own performance poetry. […]