Join the San Francisco Public Library and WritersCorps for an exclusive after-hours launch event for Step to Poetry, a colorful literary art installation on the library’s main staircase written by WritersCorps youth. This event will feature a stair crawl from the first to fifth floors with youth performing their poems about popular culture along the way. Space for this event is limited and an RSVP is required. Contact hello [at] writerscorps [dot] org or 415-252-2546.

The installation will be up from May 10 to the end of the month.

What: Poetry Stair Crawl

When: Friday, May 17, 6 pm

Where: San Francisco Main Public Library
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)

PLEASE USE THE GROVE STREET ENTRANCE.

Cost: Free, RSVP Required. Contact hello [at] writerscorps [dot] org or 415-252-2546. Please RSVP by noon on Friday, May 17.

Transit: BART and Muni Metro: Civic Center station; Muni Bus Lines: 5, 19, 21, 43, 49

An evening of art, poetry, and performance about the reality of motherhood.

Featuring:

Leticia Hernández, poet and lead artist
Minna Dubin, writer and WritersCorps teaching artist
Young mothers from Hilltop School
Music by Peta Robles, Gabriela Shimora
Artwork by Ana Teresa Fernández

Hilltop Students
Yesenia Alarcon
Patricia Duarte
Veronica Hernandez
Devi Hinojosa
Malisha Ebony Lane
Andrea Lopez
Johanna Moncada
Raquel O’Brien
Karla Rayo
Tania Reyes

Presented by WritersCorps and Amate: Women Painting Stories

When: Tuesday, May 14, 6 pm

Where: Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th Street (at York Street)

Cost: FREE (donations appreciated)

Transit: Muni Bus Lines: 9, 9L, 10, 27, 33, 48. Closest BART is 24th St Station.

Leticia Hernández, Minna Dubin, and Ana Teresa Fernández

This project was made possible by a grant from the Creative Work Fund, a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund supported by generous grants from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and The James Irvine Foundation.

Join us for a celebration of new student writing! Our teaching artists and students have been creating year-end publication projects. Celebrate with us at WordStorm, where we will unveil these new publications with fun hands-on workshops and a youth open mic. There will be button-making, a claymation booth from Children’s Creativity Museum, journal-making, writing activities, prizes, snacks and more!

What: WordStorm

Who: WritersCorps Students and Teaching Artists — and you!

When: Tuesday, May 21, 3:30-4:30 pm, hands-on workshops; 4:30-6 pm, open mic

Where: San Francisco Main Public Library, Latino Hispanic Room (lower level), 100 Larkin Street

Cost: Free!

Transit: BART and Muni Metro: Civic Center station; Muni Bus Lines: 5, 19, 21, 43, 49

Where did you first lose someone? This is where. Where did you learn to be strong? This is where. Where did you meet the person who changed your life? This is where. These are the stories, the history of NOW.

For the past 8 weeks, youth participants in WritersCorps’ THIS IS WHERE workshop in Bayview Hunters Point have been exploring their own histories and memories attached to specific places and neighborhoods.

Join us — and special guest Donte Clark — as we celebrate new writing about place.

Featuring Writers From:
College Track
Bayview Hunters Point YMCA
3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic

& special guest Donte Clark

When: Thursday, May 23, 6:30-8 pm

Where: College Track, 4201 3rd Street (@ Jerrold Ave)

Cost: FREE

Transit: Muni Metro Line: K/T; Muni Bus Lines: 23, 24, 44, 54

In the Cards
A Night of Literary Tarot

Apprentices is an after-school writing program in which youth aged 14-22 who are serious about writing work on special writing projects and take fun and inspiring field trips with their WritersCorps teaching artist.

The Apprentices are really excited to share the writing they’ve been working on with you! “In the Cards” will also be a launch for their “literary tarot cards”– a postcard set featuring their work.

Join us for this celebration of youth writing and creativity!

Featuring: The WritersCorps Apprentices

When: Friday, June 7, 6-8 pm

Where: BAYCAT
2415 3rd Street, Suite 230 (between 20th and 22nd)

Cost: FREE

Transit: Muni Metro: K/T;  Muni Bus Lines: 22, 47, 48.