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.

Our friends at Youth Speaks are offering a variety of exciting winter writing workshops to East Bay youth under age 21 at multiple sites. You can take workshops on everything from developing your technique as an open mic performer to the art of storytelling. For more information on specific classes and dates, go here.

WritersCorps and the San Francisco Public Library are teaming up to offer a new workshop at Mission Branch Library. Do you like to read stories about young people dealing with life in the ghettos and barrios of urban America? Have you ever thought about writing your own urban fiction story? In this workshop we will learn from our favorite urban fiction stories and write our own.

When: 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, January through May, 6 -7 pm

Workshop Dates: January 12, January 26, February 9, February 23, March 9, March 23, April 13, April 27, May 5

Who: Open to tweens and teens, ages 14 to 22

Where: Mission Branch Library
300 Bartlett Street at 24th Street, San Francisco

Cost: All programs at the Library are free!

How to Sign Up: For more information or to register, contact 415.355.5738 or ntermini [at] sfpl [dot] org

WritersCorps is now at Ingleside Library! We’re co-sponsoroing at media writing workshops for teens starting this month! The monthly writing workshops will run from January to April 2010.

Explore how to write in new, fun ways with different media: YouTube videos, still photos, pop music, and more.

Who: Open to ages 12 to 22. Bring your friends!

Where: Ingleside Branch Library
1298 Ocean Ave (at Plymouth), San Francisco

Cost: All programs at the Library are free!

How to Sign Up: For more information, visit the Ingleside Library or call 415-355-2898.

Twilight, Moonlight, Vampirelight! Are you camp Jacob or Edward? How about Dracula or Angel? Come enjoy the Vampire myth in this 7-week Vampire Club with WritersCorps. We will be trading vampire stories and secrets, making vampire greeting cards, letters, bracelets, buttons and much more. Come bite into some fun! Open to tweens and teens.

When: Wednesdays, 4:30 - 6:30
December 9 to January 20, 2010

Who: Tweens and teens

Where: Excelsior Branch Library
4400 Mission Street at Cotter, San Francisco

Cost: All programs at the Library are free!

How to Sign Up: For more information or to register, contact Marla Bergman at mbergman [at] sfpl [dot] org or 415-355-2868.