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THE YOUTH POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP!
Presented by the Texas Youth Word Collective
EVENT: They Speak Youth Poetry Writing Workshop F/Ebony Stewart
DATE & TIME: Saturday, November 14th , 2009, 3pm
ADMISSION: FREE!
PLACE: The Carver Library
1161 Angelina StAustin, TX 78722
CONTACTS: Tova Charles (512) 963-8292, Project Coordinator
Dr. Sheila Siobhan (512) 422-6653, Co-Director
E-Mail: u21slam@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.txywc.org/
In our continuing effort to share the love of reading, writing and public speaking/performing with and from youth, The Texas Youth Word Collective, in cooperation with the Texas Commission on the Arts, the City of Austin and the East Side’s historic Carver Library, offers up a free monthly writing workshop for young people to hone those skills with the help of some of nation’s most renowned spoken word artists. The writing workshops will provide an opportunity to spur and develop ideas, learn different writing and public speaking techniques, and collaborate with others to raise the level of writing quality in a warm, nurturing, non-competitive, yet challenging, environment.
TYWC is conducting these monthly writing workshops so that youth can hone their writing skills and prepare their work for the slam. Through the workshops, we hope to not only encourage youth to write more new work but to produce more challenging, quality writing for performance. This, we hope, will raise the participation and competition in the youth slam. Even is slam is not for you, the writing workshop is still a fun and interesting activity that will help improve your skills for other writing purposes such as journaling, reports and papers for school, and letters to grandma.
So, who are the people leading these workshops? Instructors for these writing workshops include Christopher Michael (Austin Slam Champion, 2nd at 2007 National Poetry Slam), Michelle Warren (2nd at 2006 National Poetry Slam) and Ebony Stewart (2 time Austin Neo Soul Poetry Slam Champ and Leading Actress of Windows ( An Uprise Production) to name just a few. Those just listed have a combined twenty years of performance and slam experience at the local, national, and international level. Oh, and did we mention that these writing workshops for youth are FREE?!
All are welcome to join. Bring you notebooks, journals, scraps of paper, grocery receipts, napkins and anything else you’ve been scratching ideas into and either bring them to full bloom or make them that much better. We hope to see, help and hear the youth of Austin as they sharpen their writing and performance skills at the free monthly They Speak Youth Writing Workshop
THE YOUTH POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP!
Presented by the Texas Youth Word Collective
EVENT: They Speak Youth Poetry Writing Workshop F/Ebony Stewart
DATE & TIME: Saturday, November 14th , 2009, 3pm
ADMISSION: FREE!
PLACE: The Carver Library
1161 Angelina StAustin, TX 78722
CONTACTS: Tova Charles (512) 963-8292, Project Coordinator
Dr. Sheila Siobhan (512) 422-6653, Co-Director
E-Mail: u21slam@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.txywc.org/
In our continuing effort to share the love of reading, writing and public speaking/performing with and from youth, The Texas Youth Word Collective, in cooperation with the Texas Commission on the Arts, the City of Austin and the East Side’s historic Carver Library, offers up a free monthly writing workshop for young people to hone those skills with the help of some of nation’s most renowned spoken word artists. The writing workshops will provide an opportunity to spur and develop ideas, learn different writing and public speaking techniques, and collaborate with others to raise the level of writing quality in a warm, nurturing, non-competitive, yet challenging, environment.
TYWC is conducting these monthly writing workshops so that youth can hone their writing skills and prepare their work for the slam. Through the workshops, we hope to not only encourage youth to write more new work but to produce more challenging, quality writing for performance. This, we hope, will raise the participation and competition in the youth slam. Even is slam is not for you, the writing workshop is still a fun and interesting activity that will help improve your skills for other writing purposes such as journaling, reports and papers for school, and letters to grandma.
So, who are the people leading these workshops? Instructors for these writing workshops include Christopher Michael (Austin Slam Champion, 2nd at 2007 National Poetry Slam), Michelle Warren (2nd at 2006 National Poetry Slam) and Ebony Stewart (2 time Austin Neo Soul Poetry Slam Champ and Leading Actress of Windows ( An Uprise Production) to name just a few. Those just listed have a combined twenty years of performance and slam experience at the local, national, and international level. Oh, and did we mention that these writing workshops for youth are FREE?!
All are welcome to join. Bring you notebooks, journals, scraps of paper, grocery receipts, napkins and anything else you’ve been scratching ideas into and either bring them to full bloom or make them that much better. We hope to see, help and hear the youth of Austin as they sharpen their writing and performance skills at the free monthly They Speak Youth Writing Workshop
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