Youth Speaks presents a number of free, after-school workshops in locations across the Bay Area.
Workshops typically run in 5 to 10-week blocks. A place for artistic and critical growth, the after-school workshops focus on different aspects of writing, from fiction, playwriting, and poetry, to performance, desktop publishing, and poetry slam. Taught by leading poets, writers, spoken word artists, and cultural activists, they are conducted throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Youth Speaks presents over 500 hours of after-school workshops to hundreds of teenagers every year. Each workshop is open to any teen 13 – 19 years old (unless otherwise noted). All workshops are free and no registration is necessary.
Check out our Spring 2011 workshops:
We make life new by re-telling it.
Life. Stories. Life Stories. Life is Story.
Berkeley
TUESDAYS – Berkeley YMCA Teen Center w/ ISA NAKAZAWA
New York City native, Wesleyan grad, and cultural subversive, Isa Nakazawa is a Youth Speaks poet mentor extraordinaire. From San Francisco to Richmond to Queens, Isa Nakazawa tells it like it is and then tells it how it could be. Now she comes to Berkeley to show you how to take your mic skills to the next level.
2001 Allston Way Berkeley, CA – two blocks from Downtown Berkeley BART, across the street from Berkeley High – Starts April 26 – 4:00pm
San Francisco
WEDNESDAYS – Youth Speaks Office w/ KIRYA TRABER & SPOKES
** special QUEERIOSITY workshop **
We never asked to be tolerated—we call to be seen and experienced as we are: In agitation, transformation, living in motion. Queeriosity.
1663 Mission St. Ste. 604 San Francisco, CA – a few blocks from either 16th & Mission or Civic Center BART – Starts April 20 – 4:00 pm
Oakland
THURSDAYS – ARISE High School w/ DENNIS KIM & SPOKES
Natives and migrants, rebels and refugees, sleepers and Slam Champs: We are a lost-found nation in a brave new Bay. We’ll chop and write about what this thing called life is. Come through.
3301 E 12th Oakland, CA Ste 205 – directly off Fruitvale BART – Starts April 28 – 4:00 pm
