UPCOMING EVENTS
ALL CITY SUMMER SALON
You ain't got to be a lady to get yo' poems did!
Writers! Come join us in our new summer poetry series. Vibe in a chill outdoor atmosphere, share pieces you've been working on (and get feedback from other writers!), and escape from work, stress, pressure, your girl, your man, the police, your parents, the police, etc etc.
In other words, salon = a cross btw an open mic and a workshop...
Friday June 20th, 4-6PM at Prospect Park - Long Meadow in BK [2/3 to Grand Army Plaza]
Friday July 18th, 4-6PM at Van Cortlandt Park in the BX [1 train to the last stop]
Friday August 15th 4-6PM at Tompkins Sq. Park in the LES of Manhattan [F to 2nd Ave or L to 1st Ave]
Rain location: No Rihanna umbrella to stand under, but come through to U-Dub if it's hella torrential - yadig?!
Urban Word NYC
242 West 27th Street, #3B
btw. 7th & 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10001
SUMMER SLAM
Saturday June 28, July 26 & August 30
3PM
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe
236 East 3rd Street btw Avenue B & C
$5 at the door
SUMMER SLAM: You deserve to be heard!
NY Knicks & Liberty partner with the award-winning youth poetry organization, Urban Word NYC, to provide teens with a platform for their voices to be heard this summer! On the last Saturday of June, July & August teen poets, emcees and scholars are invited to slam their way to a number of prizes including laptops, cash scholarships, Knicks & Liberty tickets, concert tickets, gift cards, iTunes, and many more.
For more info & to register visit www.knickspoetryslam.com
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URBAN WORD NYC SUMMER WORKSHOPS!
Summer Institute on Social Justice and Applied Poetics
July 8th – August 14th
Presented by Urban Word NYC and Bowery Arts & Science
1: ¡Revoliterature! The Poetry of Resistance & Change: This literature seminar will explore the writings of poets and activists who have used their art as a tool to create change. Each week, Urban Word NYC mentors will select a poet that has synthesized the gap between art and activism, as well as lead students through writing exercises that will transform their own narratives into vehicles of liberation. Poets studied include José Martí, Martín Espada, Aimé Cesairé, Gabeba Baderoon, Nathalie Handal, Suheir Hammad, Ethridge Knight, and Sonia Sanchez.
Urban Word NYC: Tuesdays July 8 – Aug. 12th 4:30 – 6:30PM
242 W. 27th St [btw. 7 & 8 Ave]
2: Write the Power: Poetry & Social Justice Master Class & Performance Series: This workshop will include lectures from well-known poets and writers who have used their art as an agent of change. Students will have the rare opportunity to work with Amiri Baraka, Sapphire, Beau Sia, Sapphire and others to explore the ways that these poets have infused their writings and world view to address and resist oppression and conservativism. Each night, these poets will give a performance and lecture that illuminates the role of poetry in creating change.
Master Classes @ Urban Word NYC: Wednesdays July 9th – August 13th 4:30 – 6:30PM
Performances @ Bowery Poetry Club: Wednesdays July 9th w/ Beau Sia, July 16th w/ Aracelis Girmay, July 23rd w/ Amiri Baraka, July 30th w/ Cornelius Eddy, August 6th w/ Sapphire, August 13th w/ Jared Paul . All shows 7:30 – 9PM
3: Applied Poetics: Making Poetry Work: Applied poetics is a poetics of urgency, relation and application. This means that the study of poetry isn't just about writing a well-crafted poem—it's about how poets live through the poems they write. Finding ample language in the diversity of shared vocabularies, our job is to bring charged words forward in all of their various usages, be they personal or political, abstract or confessional, performed or barely spoken.
Bowery Poetry Club: Thursdays July 10th – August 14th July 25th & Aug. 1st 4:30-6:30PM
308 Bowery (btw Houston & Bleeker)
Email shaun@urbanwordnyc.org to signup or call 212.352.3495 and please leave your full name, email, phone # and the workshop(s) you're interested in signing up for. Word!
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WHAT IS URBAN WORD NYC?
Urban Word NYC provides free creative writing, performance, spoken word, and hip-hop resources to teenagers in NYC.
As a youth-driven program, we encourage teens to discover and use their voices to bring to light the issues that are important to them. We are a community for young writers in all five boroughs of New York City, aiming to reach under-served populations of teens in particular. Urban Word NYC knows that youth need a creative and critical outlet and a community that supports them. All projects aim to build this community inside our regular after-school workshops and performance programs, and also beyond.
Urban Word NYC promotes critical literacy and positive social dialogue across boundaries of age, race, class, gender, culture, and sexuality.
