4th Quarter Workshops are on-going.
Download the 4th Quarter Workshop Schedule HERE
4TH QUARTER WORKSHOPS run March 20 - May 15
For more info, contact Toni Asanti Lightfoot at 773.485.4331 ext. 12
Saturday Writing Program
Saturday Writing Program is a free writing program offered throughout the school year for Chicago area teens. Each class is taught by a professional writer, artist, and/or a technology specialist. It is a rare mentorship opportunity for young artists who want to advance their craft. Each quarter 2 classes are taught from 9:00am-11:00am and 2 more classes are taught from 11:30am-1:30pm. The Saturday Writing Program accepts highly committed 9th-12th graders. Students are offered a wide range of challenging classes in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, play writing, and performance.
Download the 2009-2010 Workshop Schedule Here.
YCA-in-the-Schools
Young Chicago Authors provides professional writers and creative writing program development to Chicago-area schools and community programs.
The possibilities for collaboration are endless: poetry and science, playwritimg and American history, fiction in a foreign language; get in touch with us and share your ideas of how YCA can collaborate with you.
Programming is specifically tailored to each school’s needs and may include the following:
- Writer’s Residencies
- After-School programs
- Educator In-Services
- Assembly Readings
- Curriculum Development and Saless
Each of the following class descriptions can be offered as a one-time, series, and/or professional development.
GIRLSpeak :: Young women turning it all around: This class/series teaches young women how to think critically about images in the media. They them earn how to effect change in the way they see themselves and other women. This class also offers the opportunity for the young women to be published on www.girlspeak.org.
MEN AS ALLIES:: Young men standing up for what’s right: This class/series uses visual art, pop culture (television, songs, videos), and literature to create safe places for young men to use their power for good. They use theater, poetry, essays, and other creative writing to entice other young men to respect themselves and the women of the world.
GETTING CREATIVE WITH SCIENCE:: Turn the language of science into social metaphors: Let our teachers show how the ideas of science can be turned into creative writing opportunities. There are poems, short stories, letters, and essays waiting for someone to develop them using scientific imagery and language. As a PD this class would also teach how to use creative writing as an assessment tool.
VOICING URBAN NATURE:: The nature of the city: Want to spend more time writing about how people live where they live? Want to turn what is into what could be? Let this workshop show you how to look into where you live and into ways of using creative writing to create change within ourselves and then wherever we want.
HIP-HOP THEATRICS:: Safe space for rhyme: Kamilah Forbes once asked “What happens to a rhyme deferred?” and then she started the Hip-Hop Theater Festival. Influence the way students look at hip-hop and help them see how hip-hop looks at them. Let our educators show your students how to turn their insights into hip-hop helpful theater.
WHAT DO YOU KNOW? GOOD:: Creative writing as assessment: This class/series teaches students and/or teachers how to use creative writing devices to assess how well concepts are understood. This class is good for teachers and students across content areas.
For more information contact Toni Asante Lightfoot for more information at 773-486-4331 ext 12 or lightfoot@youngchicagoauthors.org.
Field Trip to YCA
For a small donation bring your class to YCA to have writing workshops and meet professional writers and artists who reinforce all the fabulous information taught in school. For a two-workshop day, come from 10am-1pm with a break for lunch. For a one-workshop day, bring your students from 10am-Noon also with a break for lunch. A PDF flyer on field trips to YCA can be downloaded HERE.
YCA also offers this opportunity for professional development. Teachers get CPDUs.
The following is a sample of the workshops offered:
GIRLSpeak :: Young women turning it all around: This class/series teaches young women how to think critically about images in the media. They them earn how to effect change in the way they see themselves and other women. This class also offers the opportunity for the young women to be published on www.girlspeak.org.
MEN AS ALLIES:: Young men standing up for what’s right: This class/series uses visual art, pop culture (television, songs, videos), and literature to create safe places for young men to use their power for good. They use theater, poetry, essays, and other creative writing to entice other young men to respect themselves and the women of the world.
GETTING CREATIVE WITH SCIENCE:: Turn the language of science into social metaphors: Let our teachers show how the ideas of science can be turned into creative writing opportunities. There are poems, short stories, letters, and essays waiting for someone to develop them using scientific imagery and language. As a PD this class would also teach how to use creative writing as an assessment tool.
VOICING URBAN NATURE:: The nature of the city: Want to spend more time writing about how people live where they live? Want to turn what is into what could be? Let this workshop show you how to look into where you live and into ways of using creative writing to create change within ourselves and then wherever we want.
HIP-HOP THEATRICS:: Safe space for rhyme: Kamilah Forbes once asked “What happens to a rhyme deferred?” and then she started the Hip-Hop Theater Festival. Influence the way students look at hip-hop and help them see how hip-hop looks at them. Let our educators show your students how to turn their insights into hip-hop helpful theater.
WHAT DO YOU KNOW? GOOD:: Creative writing as assessment: This class/series teaches students and/or teachers how to use creative writing devices to assess how well concepts are understood. This class is good for teachers and students across content areas.
To download a PDF flyer on field trips to YCA, please click HERE.
For more information contact Toni Asante Lightfoot for more information at 773-486-4331 ext 12 or lightfoot@youngchicagoauthors.org.
Service Learning Hours
CPS students earn 16 Service Learning Hours for applying to the Saturday Writing Program, signing up for a series and attending each of the 8 classes in that quarter and submitting a final writing project for publication in Say What Magazine, GirlSpeak.org, or Swaggerzine.org.
Intersections Teen Literary Conference
In conjunction with the annual Louder Than A Bomb, YCA hosts Intersections Teen Literary Conference: a thematic literary event for Chicago area teens held at Columbia College Chicago.
This year’s theme, What’s So Funny?, is an exploration of humor in keeping with the Chicago Humanities Festival programs. The participants attended workshops featuring the works of Linda Barry, Aaron McGruder, James Thurber, Gnarls Barkley’s CeeLo Green, George Carlin, Whoopie Goldberg, and more.
The What’s So Funny? writing competition included students submitting writing in the following genres:
- Poetry
- Short Fiction
- One Act Play
- Essay
Teachers attending receive CPDUs for the hours they workshop with educators.
To register for next year’s conference, or for more information on What’s So Funny?, contact Toni Asante Lightfoot for more information at lightfoot@youngchicagoauthors.org.
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