Sound Mapping:
A workshop on field recording and deep listening
(4 Weeks)

Instructor: Mary Scott
Sundays March 1 - March 22. 2:30pm til 4:30pm

Ever get lost in the sounds of your surroundings? You may have been practicing deep listening! Improve your creative ear in this class that explores the worlds of deep listening and field recording. This class is designed to provide a space for deep sonic exploration, discussion, and meditation. Participants will document the surrounding soundscape using basic field recording techniques and have the opportunity to create their own experimental music piece. This introductory class is designed for people from all backgrounds who feel they could benefit from practicing a more critical form of listening. Discovering experimental music created with field recordings and non-traditional sound structure changed the game for me as a young jazz musician, maybe this is the extra inspiration you need to explode your creative practice.

Mary Scott is a musician and educator based in New Orleans, Louisiana. They have toured and played numerous shows as Dolce, an experimental electronic project that weaves layers of feedback and field recordings into lush soundscapes. Sets range from blistering and unlistenable to delicate and tender. Aside from shows, Mary is also a teacher. While studying, they fixated over anything related to sound studies, how we experience sound in our day-to-day lives and immersion in deep sonic experiences.  In 2019, they completed a Fulbright grant teaching English language and sound in Brazil. Along with teaching language, they taught classes on deep listening and sound in culture. They are seeking opportunities in the future to continue teaching sound as a tool for critical thinking and reflection, in and around ourselves.

Basic Improv (Or, How to Play Well With Others)
(4 Weeks)

Instructor: Carrie Moulder
Tuesdays, March 3rd - 24th. 7PM - 9PM

How can I be present in a creative or teamwork session to truly listen to and understand what's being offered? How can I value another person's idea or contribution to my team, even when my first inclination is to disagree or dismiss?

As an introvert, the idea of working on a team is daunting. Who are we kidding? Working in a team is difficult for everyone. But, when you apply the "yes, and" principle of improv, our ability to collaborate in a positive and productive way can increase. As creatives working together to build something beautiful, we need others to help, to solve problems, or to grow an idea, and all of that starts with listening, accepting, and adding to what others have to offer. Applying a few easy-to-implement principles of improv can improve collaboration even in the most diverse and headstrong teams. This workshop guides participants through improv exercises that focus on listening, accepting, and endowments. The experience gained can easily be transitioned into any endeavor where successful teamwork is critical to success.

Having fallen in love with improv in January of 2015, Carrie Moulder currently co-produces the all-female podcast Neon Clubhouse, performs with the New Orleans-based troupe Killjoy Associates, volunteers with Funny Bones Improv, teaches with Wit / Craft Improv Studio, and makes herself available for improv and sketch comedy shows that her friends produce. Originally from Texas but deeply grateful for her 20-plus years in New Orleans, she prefers sunsets over sunrises, loves ice cream, will play a board game at a moment’s notice, and doesn't care what she looks like when she dances (because she's doing it anyway). Ask her about traveling or her miniature Schnauzer Otto to experience the full breadth of her joy.

Book Club:
bell hooks’ “All About Love”
(5 Weeks)

Instructor: Lauren Stroh
Wednesdays March 4 - April 1. 7PM - 9PM

For five weeks, participants will work through bell hooks’ All About Love during multiple in-school reading sessions. Aside from participating in group readings and reflections, students will be given meditations and creative assignments to work on over the course of the week to be realized in any medium they see fit. Participants are asked to invite a different loved one to join us for each session.

Lauren Stroh is a writer and editor from Lake Charles, Louisiana. She has cofounded free and alternative education programs in New Orleans, Black Mountain, and New York; has written for Public Books, Broccoli, dispersed holdings, Hobart, and Sinister Wisdom; and has held teaching appointments in Maine, Mexico, and Paraguay. She lives in New Orleans.

Note: We are seeking a donor to sponsor books for participants! Until that is confirmed, we will have 7 copies available to buy on our bookshelf at Fourth Wall Coffee for $10 each. Please specify during registration if you have the book, plan on buying your own copy, or would like to reserve a copy with us.

Combined Movement Intensives
(1 Day)

Instructors: Jalisa Roberts and Ryuta Iwashita
Saturday March 14. 12:30-5:30pm
Location: The Church at Hotel Peter and Paul, 2317 Burgundy St.

What's In A Name? Moving Through Identity Workshop (Jalisa Roberts)
&
WHO I AM TO WHO WE ARE: Ensemble as Partner (Ryuta Iwashita)

What's the story behind your name? How do we identify the world around us? What do we call this space? How do we inhabit it collectively?

Through writing and experimental movement exercises, participants will explore their linear and memory-based relationships to names. Participants will explore the nuances of how we name ourselves, our children, and the places around us; and will also discuss the meanings intertwined therein. Participants will leave with self-generated choreography about their personal relationship to their name.

What if we were one organism that could breath in and out from different corners of the room? Can we as one organism have a feeling of nostalgia on the ceiling and restlessness on the floor? Can we include all living creatures of this reality in our body?

Just as the movement of a swimmer in a pool affects the water and other swimmers around them, there is always an ever-changing fluidity that influences the physical/emotional dynamics in dance improvisation. This class will support movers to experience improvised movement with our collective awareness and intelligence as we play with our peripheral vision, zoom in/out and territorial play.

Jalisa Roberts is a writer, educator, Black Studies scholar, singer, and choreographer; and explores how all of these different artistic interests live in one body and influence each other.
Her choreography sparks conversations on identity and memory. Much of Jalisa's work explores how individuals relate to and influence groups, and how our narratives on similar events can differ greatly based on our individual experiences.

Ryuta Iwashita (they/them) lives and improvises as a movement/performance artist and facilitator/educator in New Orleans after living in Japan for 25 years. Their lexicon of improvisation derives from Martial Arts, Contact Improvisation, Butoh and their life being fluid between two countries. While hosting Contact Improvisation jams and workshops in New Orleans, and they have been invited to facilitate workshops for Contact Improvisation and dance Improvisation in Japan, China and the U.S. including Tulane University, Seattle Festival of Dance Improv, West Coast CI Jam, and Queer Lab & Jam at Earthdance.

This event is for People of Color (POC) only. Feel free to invite friends who identify as people of color and be sure to register! Why is this event for POC only? We know that many spaces in our society are overwhelmingly white & sometimes a POC-only space can be an affirming and strengthening experience. White allies, thanks for understanding the value and need for this POC space. Have more questions? Feel free to contact us below.

This class is made possible in partnership with the Hotel Peter & Paul.

Scene Study Workshop
(7 Weeks)

Instructor: Bennett Kirschner
Wednesdays March 25 - May 6
11am - 1pm

This class has reached capacity, if you would like to be added to the waitlist please register.

Participants will work on a short, realist scene (approx. 10-15 minutes) with one or two partners. Using essential Stanislavskian concepts such as action, objective, and given circumstance to interpret and embody their text, participants will move through the process of scene study, beginning with text analysis and leading up to defined, repeatable blocking. The class will culminate with a performance that is open to the public.

Bennett Kirschner is the founding Artistic Director of Intramural Theater, a New Orleans based theatre company that has been producing original, site-specific works since 2014. He received his MFA in Playwriting from the University of New Orleans in 2019.

Reconstruction: Past, Present, and Future
(6 Weeks)

Instructor: Chris Daemmrich
Thursdays March 12 - April 16. 5:30 -7:30pm

What was it like to be a resident of New Orleans during the Civil War and the First Reconstruction? In what buildings, places, spaces and institutions did the First Reconstruction play out in New Orleans? How did White supremacist politics and political violence crush the First Reconstruction? How is the First Reconstruction remembered, and not remembered? What effects has this had on the Second and Third Reconstructions?

During the period sometimes called the First Reconstruction, from 1862 to 1877, New Orleanians of many backgrounds fought to establish conditions of political and social equality for people of African descent. These efforts were fought and ultimately violently suppressed by ex-Confederate White supremacists, and its true history was obscured by racist mythology. Students in this course will learn about political and social histories of Reconstruction in the city of New Orleans through visits to historically significant sites, engagement with primary and secondary sources, dialogue and the production of artistic responses to these stories and their erasure from the historical record.

Chris Daemmrich grew up in Austin, Texas on land taken from the Tonkawa people. He studied architecture and political science at Tulane, graduating in 2017. As a writer, consultant and design facilitator through his practice, collab. (the Collaborative Design Workshop), Chris participates in the creation of antiracist, queer, feminist space. Chris has experience in a wide variety of political design and development work. Find his writing, drawing and photography at the JAWS*2 blog, on Twitter and Instagram @sodaemmgood

Somatics Surplus: Play, Make, Perform
(5 Weeks)

Instructor: Rhia Jade
Wednesdays March 25 - April 22. 7PM - 9PM
April 22nd showing of work will be at the Church at Hotel Peter & Paul, 2317 Burgundy St.

What does it mean to “be in your body” and how can you do it? How does mindfulness combine with play to bring forth positive psychological growth? How can we normalize being truly seen, whether seeing our own self or seeing each one another?

Through guided improvisation, play, somatic exercises, and composition prompts, we will grow our embodiment practice while building a collective dance score. We will learn about the connection between our bodies and minds with two goals: to demystify the practice of getting in our bodies and to build courage for being seen. Come ready to move, laugh, and connect to yourself and others. This series will culminate in a public informal performance to share what we have built together.

Rhia Jade (they/them) is a Korean-American choreographer, dancer, and performer based between New Orleans and Los Angeles who cultivates a practice at the crossroads of queerness, intersectional feminism, choreography, video, and performance. Rhia’s dance-works have been presented in New Orleans at the Contemporary Arts Center, Marigny Opera House, Catapult, and Port, and in Los Angeles at REDCAT, Human Resources, Pieter, and Highways. They are a member of the Asian heritage collective ThisOrientation facilitated by Ryuta Iwashita, have performed Trisha Brown's Floor of the Forest, and can be seen dancing on the Hulu series CLAWS. Rhia holds a BA in World Arts and Cultures/Dance from UCLA. www.rhiajade.com

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Theatre Management & Production
(6 Weeks)

this class is absolutely full because y’all are amazing over 300 people signed up wtf

Instructor: Tiffany Vega-Gibson
Saturdays from Noon to 1:30PM
March 14 - April 18

Are you a theatre/performance artist who wants to learn more about how to run your own nonprofit theatre company or produce your own production(s)?  Are you interested in learning how to read or write employment contracts? Have you created intellectual property and have no knowledge of copyright law or how to protect this work? Are you interested in learning more about how to create a production budget?

So many artists are taken advantage of by professionals in this industry and I am very passionate about artists knowing how the business works so that they can protect themselves and their art. Through this course, students learn the following:

• Copyright Law and Intellectual Property: The basics of copyright law and how to protect your intellectual property (aka your art). 

• Performing Arts Contracts: The different types of contracts that exist in the performing arts, how to read them, and how to negotiate terms (aka how to get what you want). Contract templates are provided. 

• Production Budgets: How to read and create production budgets, income sheets, and recoupment charts (aka figure out how much your production will cost and how much you should charge for tickets in order to make a profit).  Budget templates are provided. 

• How Nonprofit Arts Organizations Work: The ins and outs of nonprofit arts organizations. This course is for those who are interested in starting their own nonprofit arts company or working in arts administration. 

• Personal Budgeting and Finance for the Artist: AKA how to live while being a working artist.  Budget templates are provided.
  

  Tiffany Vega-Gibson currently works as an Enterprise Account Manager with AudienceView. She also works as an independent consultant through her performing arts management company, La Vega Management, which has worked with dozens of performing arts organizations in New York, Washington, DC, and New Orleans.  She currently serves on the Steering Committee for the New Orleans based theatre company, No Dream Deferred, and is a trained Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion facilitator through artEquity. Previously, she was the General Manager at Hi-ARTS (Formerly Hip-Hop Theater Festival). Tiffany is experienced in organizational management, fundraising, fiscal development, and community relations. She has worked both on the presenting and producing side of performing arts as well as tour management and holds an MFA in Theatre Management & Producing from Columbia University and a BA in Theatre Performance from the University of Maryland-College Park.

Exploring the Elements of Dance
(2 Weeks)

Instructor: Jalisa Roberts
Sunday March 15 & March 22. Noon to 2PM

What does a dancer do? At its core, dance is moving through space and time with energy. Each week, the class will explore one of the five elements of dance (body, action, space, time, and energy), creating short movement phrases through structured improvisation. This class is designed for dancers as well as ‘non-dancers’. Students will have the opportunity to record their movement phrases, as well as develop a more concise phrase piece from material created each week. The last class will include an optional community sharing.

Jalisa Roberts is a writer, educator, Black Studies scholar, singer, and choreographer. With more than 20 years of dance experience locally and internationally, she has most recently trained in modern and African forms of dance at Swarthmore College, and explores how all of these different artistic interests live in one body and influence each other. Her choreography sparks conversations on identity and memory. Much of Jalisa's work explores how individuals relate to and influence groups, and how our narratives on similar events can differ greatly based on our individual experiences.

Basics to Commercials
(3 Weeks)

Instructor: Lauren L Murray
Mondays March 23 - April 6. 6:00PM-7:30PM

Why is the moment before and after the slate so important? Are you Casting Directors and Directors first choice? How can you bring more of yourself into your audition? Are you a "person" in a "place" rather than an actor auditioning?

Open to all levels, Basics is a 1-2-3 step process demystifying your commercial auditions.  You’ll be learning the skills to tackle your fears, be present, leave the room feeling confident, and turn these audition opportunities into bookings. This class is raw, vulnerable, and leads students to becoming more courageous and daring in the moment in order to bring the most of themselves during a brief audition. This commercial audition course might also aid individuals who would like to have more ownership of themselves during job interviews.

Lauren Louise Murray is a native New Yorker born and raised on Eastern Long Island.  She began taking acting lessons from a local theater in Bellport Village, Long Island, where she found her true passion. After college, she spent her days working as a casting assistant by day and performing in numerous “off broadway” stage productions by night. While at the studio, Lauren began booking many of the print ads on which she was assisting. Lauren can be seen in over 40 print and commercial ads including Apple, AT&T, Subaru, Coca-Cola, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Sony just to name a few. She recently moved from Los Angeles to New Orleans, as she joined the cast of “Paradise Lost.”

Open Access Music: Computer Audio Fundamentals
(6 Weeks)

Instructor: Peter J Bowling (peterjbowling@gmail.com)
Mondays March 23 - April 27.
7:30PM - 9:30PM

Have you ever wanted to make music with your computer but couldn't figure out how to get started? Have you spent countless hours searching youtube for the right tutorial to give you very basic information?

Computer Audio Fundamentals is designed for all levels and experiences to learn & deepen fundamental knowledge about computer audio and then apply it directly to creative projects by using only free(ish) & open source resources. Through a combination of lectures and lab periods, students will learn how to use their computer for live music/DJ-ing, music production, film scoring, theatrical sound design, and much more. A computer is required.

Computer & audio engineering is a white-male dominated field and therefore priority enrollment will be given to queer-identified, POC, & women. Those who identify in any of these ways can reserve a spot today by emailing Peter at peterjbowling@gmail.com. Open enrollment will begin March 10.

Peter J Bowling (He/Him) is a self-taught computer musician & multi-instrumentalist improviser, producer, composer, designer & collaborator based in New Orleans. He holds advanced degrees and 3+ years of college-level teaching experience in an entirely unrelated field.

Art In Conversation
(6 Weeks)

Instructor: Lilith Winkler-Schor
Saturdays March 28 - May 2.
Noon to 2PM

Art in Conversation is a course to help students cultivate their critical analysis language skills around visual art through visiting art spaces and critiquing works through critical dialogue.  Each week, the course will meet at a new gallery, museum, or public art work. After viewing the work, participants will be guided through a critique of the work, learning about artistic principles, terminology, and how to engage in critical discourse. This course is open to all levels, and is ideal for those wishing they knew how to talk about art and for those who love talking about art and are looking to cultivate a stronger critical community. 

When registering, please share your primary form of transportation so that we can coordinate carpooling when needed. The initial session on March 28 will be held at Beaubourg.

Lilith Winkler-Schor works at the intersection of art and civic issues using research, design, and facilitation. Currently the Program Director at Algiers Economic Development Foundation, she is also a manager of the Blue House, a collectively run shared work space in Central City which has hosts civic programming. She received a BFA in visual arts and a BA in Political Science and Social Policy at Tulane University.

Artist as Anthropologist
(4 Weeks)

Instructor: Dara Bram
Mondays in April (4/6, 4/13, 4/20, 4/27)
7pm to 9pm
Location: 912 Julia Street

How does process inform product? How does the body serve as a research tool? What practices enhance observational skills? What is the role of artist as culture producer?

This workshop series will explore how creative practice can be enhanced using anthropological methods. Cultivating observational skills through the senses is the primary focus with exercises and reflections. Sessions focus on Mind, Body, Space, Time. Open to all levels and backgrounds; drop-ins welcome.

"A sensory ethnography thus requires a form of reflexivity through which the ethnographer engages with how her or his own sensory experiences are produced through research encounters and how these might assist her or him in understanding those of others." -Sarah Pink

Dara Bram is a multi-medium researcher employing anthropological methods in her art practice and academic fieldwork. She is excited by uniting disparate nouns and explores that as a human and interdisciplinary PhD student at Tulane University.

This class is made possible in partnership with 912 Julia.

Contact & Connection
somatic improvisation of presence
(5 Weeks)

Instructor: Tim Kooken
Fridays April 3 - May 1
9am - 10:30am
Location: Church of Peter & Paul, 2317 Burgundy St.

Finding a way into our body freely and without reservation can be difficult. Working with our breath and our inner energy, and then moving on to free play and improvisation, this workshop will explore the process of embodiment as a series of building blocks from restraint to freedom. Hone your ability to connect to others, to communicate with your body, language, voice, and rhythm. Develop stronger awareness of your senses, bodily sensations, and improvisational language. We each have this extensive vocabulary of movement and expression within us, and in our togetherness this vocabulary naturally grows!

This class is ideal for both professional movement practitioners, performers, and beginners, as it eschews form in favor of structural and somatic exploration. Bring your own unique you-ness, your form or formlessness, to enter into a beginner’s-mind.

This class is made possible in partnership with the Hotel Peter & Paul.

Embodied Writing
(4 Weeks)

Instructor: Tim Kooken
Sundays April 19 - May 10.
3pm-6pm

Embodied Writing is a somatic and creative writing course exploring our interactions with our environment, our capabilities of language, and the various methods from which to draw inspiration. Observing the methods of language and own embodied-living, we will create new works of art together in a safe and open environment. The workshop involves writing, drawing, movement, contact, wild-animal-play, and more.

Tim is a certified medical-based qigong and aikido teacher, performer, poet, playwright, and mindbody practitioner. Their work involves a focus on somatic investigation, philosophical investigation, abstraction, and nature. As a poet and writer their work has been published by various outlets including Crack the Spine, Tupelo press, Concis, and the Bombay Gin. As a playwright and performer they have had multiple works staged locally in New Orleans, during Infringe festivals and beyond. They regularly can be found meditating and moving in the park, walking or biking with their 2 year-old son, playing and creating music, or reading and writing in the shade of one of the many large, ancient oak trees abound in the wonderful city of New Orleans.

Communal Singing
(4 Weeks)

Led by Howe Pearson
Tuesdays 4/7 4/21 5/5 5/19
7:30pm - 9:30pm

This workshop will facilitate beautiful harmony-singing for singers of all backgrounds and skill levels.  For each song we work on, we’ll learn the voice parts by-ear, practice them in unison, and then sing them in harmony.  We’ll have a diverse repertoire of songs to choose from - ranging from folk polyphonic styles to modern compositions - which will be accessible to beginners and rewarding for experienced singers.

We will have a few guest song-leaders, and more are always welcome.  Please email howepearson@gmail.com if you’d like to lead a song, or just show up (no Registration necessary).

Howe Pearson sings and has been facilitating singing groups in New Orleans for the last several years. He has studied with voice teachers in Corsica and Cuba, and he sings locally with Terza choir, Christ Church Cathedral choir, and the Ramshackle Revival.

Rhythmic Basics,
A Proportional Approach
(5 Weeks)

Instructor: Stephen Montalvo
Tuesdays April 14 - May 12
6:30 - 8:30PM

Have rhythms in music never quite “clicked” for you? Do you struggle reading complex/compound time signatures? Does reading music feel like trying to solve a math problem? Are you interested in approaching rhythm from a new perspective?

Rhythm is often taught wrong to provide a basic understanding for students. Students learn algebra two years earlier than they should. Adults learning music later in life are having to learn algebra to compose. A class focused on teaching students, from a wide variety of backgrounds, the basics of Rhythm in western music notation. The approach used for this class is a non-standard approach to the topic and so the course is suitable for both beginners and as a new perspective for students already familiar with the basics of notation. This approach also allows for the introduction of advanced rhythmic concepts and pattern very early into the process as it encourages students to approach the idea of rhythm from a proportional, rather than time-based, perspective.

Stephen Montalvo is an active composer and performer of acoustic and electronic music, as well as an audiovisual installation artist, based in New Orleans, LA. Through his music, he explores concepts related to resonance and rhythmic interplay, and draws inspiration from social, ecological, and political concerns. Stephen holds a Master of Arts in Music Composition from Tulane University where he studied with Maxwell Dulaney and Rick Snow and a Bachelor of Music from West Texas A&M University. stephenmontalvo@yahoo.com

Recreational Piano
(5 Weeks)

Instructor: Matty O
Wednesdays April 29 - May 27
6:30pm to 7:45pm

Learn some Piano! Instruction catered to students of all levels and musical interests. Registration is very limited, participants must be able to commit to all 5 classes.

I came from a very unmusical family save for my uncle Charlie.  Charlie passed in 2001 and was my inspiration to pursue music seriously.  I hopped around on instruments in middle school, trumpet to tuba to bass guitar when I finally settled on percussion and drum set.  I received an Associate Degree in Music in that concentration. During that time I discovered an above average knack for piano. My undergraduate and graduate degrees are both in music with a piano performance concentration.  I was born in New Orleans but raised in North Texas. I moved back to New Orleans in 2010.

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Tools of the Trade
(2 Weeks)

Instructor: Christopher Givens
Sunday March 1. 10am to Noon
Monday March 30. 11am to 1pm


This workshop will introduce participants to a range of commonly used power tools and give them the knowledge they need to handle them with understanding and confidence. Safety equipment, tools, and wood will be available to use. Feel free to bring your own equipment or tools if you have any questions about them or would like to practice using them in a safe environment. We will work on completing small projects which students will be able to take home. If you would like to work on your own specific project that’s cool too.

Chris grew up playing on the sawdusted floors of his grandfather’s woodshop. A self-taught carpenter and typewriter repairman, his grandpa taught him the importance of wearing earmuffs and keeping a well stocked snack fridge. He watched many a bird house, cabinet, and bench be constructed and has made enough mistakes himself to know what not to do with many tools. He’s worked on home renovations and constructions as well as designed and built furniture, art installations, sculptures, theatre and film sets. His favorite tool is the Variable Speed Random Orbital Sander.
Contact him at chrisgivens@gmail.com

“Making Money To Do Cool Things” Workshop

Instructor: Blake Bertuccelli
Monday March 9th at 6:30PM

"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it." -Benjamin Franklin

Whether you want to buy gold toilets or fund art projects, this two-hour class gives you some tools to make money and do cool things. We'll cover Bogle Funds, Value Investing, Cash Flow formulas, spreadsheet tips, credit card tips, and saving tips. We'll also get tips from some financially successful special guests. Particular emphasis is on putting money to use rather than hoarding your riches.

Blake Bertuccelli leads digital projects for corporations, motion pictures, non-profits, universities, and governments. A graduate of Tulane University, Blake is also Founder of Open Screen New Orleans, Board Member of Shotgun Cinema, Founder of Lowling Company, LLC and Founder of Decubing Web Services. Most recently, Blake became "Co-owner" of The Blue House, a civic-minded coworking space.

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Stage Combat
(1 Weekend)

Instructor: Cuba Hatheway
May 2 & 3. 430 - 7PM

This class will be focused on creating illusions of conflict, danger and/or violence performed for entertainment. We will be focused in partner work engaging in hand to hand combat techniques that will be rooted in safety. Only through the use of these techniques can we find freedom in the choreography to execute a well rehearsed scene."

Cristina Hatheway Rivas, also known as “Cuba,” is a local Director, Stage Combat Choreographer, Actor and Theatre Teacher. Originally from New Orleans, she attended NOCCA for Drama and went on to earn her B.F.A. in Acting/Musical Theatre at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She has been training with the Society of American Fight Directors since 2008 and has certifications in 8 weapons with them. Cuba continues to train yearly attending workshops throughout the nation to keep her certifications up to date. 

Get It Written: Creative Writing
(4 Weeks)

Instructor: Té V. Smith
Wednesdays April 29 - May 20. 6:30 - 8:30pm
Location: 912 Julia Street

There's a quote "Don't get it right, get it written." You want to write . . . and you’re facing a blank page, daring you to cover it. Sometimes we need a nudge out of fears of perfection to get us to start writing at all, and this weekly class will offer many activities that you can use on your own (or with friends!). We’ll use a series of directed exercises designed to get you writing quality material now. We’ll also discuss key points of craft, learn from one another’s work and draw lessons from published examples. Whether you’re starting out and learning the basics, or an experienced writer looking to invigorate your practice, this class is designed to offer you fresh ideas and starting points. You can expect to generate new pieces–work that can form the basis for stories, essays, poems, and novels to come. Our goal: to start writing and keep writing.

Té V. Smith is a Nigerian American writer who focuses on the themes of healthy masculinity, mental health, and education reform.  He has written two books, a collection of poetry & prose, 'Here We Are, Reflections of A God Gone Mad' (2017 R.H. Austin Publishing) and a Young Adult novel, 'Exit Ticket' (2019 Field Order Press). His work has been published in or are forthcoming in Tin House, Kingdoms In The Wild, Black Girl In Ohm, Blackbird and more.

This class is made possible in partnership with 912 Julia.

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