Join WritersCorps and other Bay Area youth orgs at the San Francisco Public Library’s SAVE THE EARTH pop-up event, two days of digital media literacy and fun for middle and high school age youth (ages 11-18), where media and arts organizations will come together to play with the web! Remix, remake, and recreate to Save the Earth! WritersCorps is excited to be presenting a poetry/filmmaking workshop in collaboration with TILT on Friday, October 26, 1-4 pm.

WHAT: Save the Earth - Hive Pop-Up Digital Learning Lab

WHO:

BAVC (The Bay Area Video Coalition)
California Academy of Sciences
Children’s Creativity Museum
KQED
TILT
Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center
WritersCorps
Project Level

WHEN & WHERE:
Friday, October 26, 2012, 1-4 p.m.
Saturday, October 27, 1-5 p.m.
Ortega Branch Library, 3223 Ortega Street

For more information, email jennifercollins@sfpl.org or call 415-557-4268.
COST: Free!

We are proud to announce that the four winners of our Poetry Projection Project short film festival have been accepted into the Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema 2012 summer festival! The films are:

• “My Father, A Beautiful Animal,” directed by Angela Reza Tures
• “World Through Mirror,” directed by Tatyana Kulchinskaya
• “New Mission,” directed by Armand Emamdjomeh
• “Free,” directed by Alexis Brown, Michael Johnson, Qayshawn Oliver, and Amy Tran

The videos are all based on poems by WritersCorps students.

The films will be shown on Friday, August 31 (screenings at 7 p.m., 8 p.m., and 9 p.m.) at Inclusions Gallery (627 Cortland Avenue), as part of the festival’s Film Crawl. Admission is free!

The Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema 2012 summer festival runs a full schedule of film, video, and live music, featuring local filmmakers, from August 29-September 2. All events are free.

Read interviews with filmmakers Angela and Tatyana from our blog!

Want to experience the common and everyday in uncommon ways? On June 2, come support local and emerging artists who are part of WritersCorps’ Apprentice Program. Four young women will be reading their writing and celebrating the launch of their poetry project website. More information here.

Last week, on May 9, more than 100 youth packed the lower level of the Main Library for WritersCorps WordStorm, our annual year-end celebration. We unveiled new anthologies, comic books, cookbooks, newspapers, hand-made books and more, featuring writing by our students. Teens also got the chance to take part in different hands-on booths, where they could make a button, film a clay animation (courtesy of Children’s Creativity Museum), make a journal by hand, record their work with a radio professional, or contribute to a mega group poem. The evening ended with a reading by students from their new books. Thanks to J. Astra Brinkmann for taking these photos.

Check out these photos above from the Poetry Projection Project, taken by Bonnie Chan.

We also want to share these red carpet interviews with filmmakers and writers, recorded by Memoir Tree.