Writing & Performance Workshops are the heart of Youth Speaks. We come together weekly with an amazing poet mentor to imagine, write, share, and rehearse. Sign up today!

September-December 2025

Wednesdays 5pm-7pm

Youth Speaks is shaking things up this year with our traditional Writing Workshops. Young folks across the bay pull up at Chapter 510 on 3rd Wednesdays for After School Writing Workshops.

*$200 Stipends are available for participants who attend all 3rd Wednesday Workshops. Stipends are limited.

3rd Wednesdays @ Chapter 510: The World Is a Stage

  • Poetry workshop series that focuses on the transformative power of the oral tradition. Come polish your performance skills in the mediums of slam, hip hop, and storytelling for stages of all kinds.

Chapter 510 | 546 9th St., Oakland

 

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