City Librarian Luis Herrera
Congratulations to Luis Herrera, San Francisco’s City Librarian, who was recently honored by Library Journal as the 2012 Librarian of the Year! Read about his inspiring leadership, his innovative collection management, as well as his model of mentorship and building effective partnerships, here.
Love to read? Love to read a lot? Lucky for you, it’s BOGO time at WritersCorps! Now through January 5, buy one get one free at our online bookstore. This sale only happens once a year, so fill up your shopping cart.
Pick up a copy of our acclaimed San Francisco travel guide “City of Stairways” or snag a copy of “Tell the World” autographed by Sherman Alexie. For teachers in your life, may we suggest our book of lesson plans, “Jump Write In”? Start browsing our online store here. And remember, all proceeds support our free student programming.
WritersCorps is proud to present a series of posters on San Francisco’s Market Street featuring writing by three of our students. “Love Poems to the City by San Francisco Youth” will be on display at Muni bus shelters from November 2011 to spring 2012. Featuring poems by youth ages 16 to 20, the posters were designed by San Francisco-based graphic designer Adrienne Aquino.
We are also producing a limited-edition card set based on the poster series. All proceeds from the sale of the cards and our other products go towards our free student programming. See them in our store here.
Our friends at Intersection for the Arts just launched their Youth Art Workshop, which was designed to create a space for young people who live, work, learn, and play in this community to be empowered as leaders, innovators, and artists. The Youth Art Workshop includes a collaboration with a few organizations, including WritersCorps, Oasis for Girls, YMCA, and Larkin Street Youth Services.
WritersCorps teaching artist Carrie Leilam Love will be leading a writing workshop for young women from September through December that explores identity, architecture, and urban landscapes via visual art and writing. The workshop culminates in a performance reading on December 9.
The Youth Art Workshop will also include a slew of other opportunities and special workshops for young people. For more information, go here.
We’ve moved! OK, so this drawing is a little misleading. We just moved offices within the same building, so no car was involved. But please update your address book. We are still at 25 Van Ness Ave, but we’re now in suite 345. San Francisco, California 94102!
