Students from all over San Francisco have been working with authors from WritersCorps to put their stories and thoughts down on paper. Now those writings have been published in a series of books and projects! Come join WritersCorps for our year-end celebration of new writing.

Featuring performances by students from Aptos Middle School, Downtown High School, Hilltop School, International Studies Academy, Mission High School, San Francisco Main Library, and the WritersCorps Apprentice Program.

WHAT: WritersCorps WordStorm: A Celebration of New Writing

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

WHEN: May 11, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Literary Carnival (with free writing workshops and activites): 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Student Reading: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

COST: FREE

PUBLIC TRANSIT: Muni Lines 5, 19, 21, 43, 49; Civic Center BART and Muni Metro

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April 16 and April 19
Free Admission

Lights, camera, poetry! In celebration of National Poetry Month, WritersCorps presents the Poetry Projection Project, a festival of short films based on youth writing. We challenged filmmakers of all ages to create short films based on WritersCorps poems. Entries were juried by filmmaker Peter Bratt, who will be in attendance at the April 16 screening.

There are three screenings of the Poetry Projection Project. All screenings are free and open to the public.

April 16, 2 p.m.
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA)
2868 Mission Street (between 24th and 25th streets)
Peter Bratt, our special guest juror, will announce the winners of the Poetry Projection Project at this screening. A reception featuring food from Mission Pie to follow.

April 19, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin Street (at Grove Street)
This screening is open to school field trips and the public. If you are bringing a class on a field trip, please RSVP to nirmala.nataraj [at] sfgov [dot] org

Storylines by Paul Notzold, Photo by Ian Wang.

The San Francisco Arts Commission kicks off The ARTery Project with the debut of three site-specific light installations by artists Jim Campbell, Theodore Watson and Paul Notzold and art openings at The Luggage Store, Hospitality House, and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts.

WritersCorps collaborated with Paul Notzold to create one of the installations, Storylines, which will project from the 6th floor of the Art Institute of California building at 10 United Nations Plaza onto the 7th-Street-side of the Renoir Hotel. The projection features animation and speech bubbles that will be populated with stories created by students in the San Francisco Arts Commission’s award-winning WritersCorps program.

WritersCorps students will read at the launch event on November 9, when city officials will gather to turn the light installations on. The evening’s festivities will also include live music provided by People in Plazas and a community procession to each light installation led by members of the Bayanihan Community Center and Kularts carrying traditional Filipino parol lanterns. Members of the public are encouraged to join the fun and come adorned in their own lights or to bring traditional light objects representing the many festivals of light that take place throughout the holiday season.

Lights on Market Street: December 9, 2010 through June 2, 2011.

Launch Event: Thursday, December 9, 2010, 5:00-7:00 PM

Where: Procession starts at A.C.T. building at 1119 Market Street (across from U.N. Plaza)
Reception follows at The Luggage Store/Hospitality House  at 1007 Market Street

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About The ARTery Project
The ARTery Project is an initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Arts aimed at revitalizing the Central Market commercial corridor into a nationally-celebrated cultural destination.

Join WritersCorps at San Francisco’s annual literary extravaganza, Litquake. Now in its 11th year, the festival runs October 1 to 9 this year with more than 550 authors at events. WritersCorps will be participating in the legendary Lit Crawl through the Mission district on Saturday, October 9. Our teaching artists and students will be reading about city and place as they celebrate our latest student-produced travel guide and poetry anthology: “City of Stairways: A Poet’s Field Guide to San Francisco”

WHAT: City of Stairways: Exploring Place in San Francisco

WHO: WritersCorps teaching artists Anhvu Buchanan, Rick D’Elia, Minna Dubin, Aracely Gonzalez, and Carrie Leilam Love.

With WritersCorps students Indiana Pehlivanova, Annie Yu, Marcella Ortiz, Nicole Zatarain Rivera, Sandra Pulido and Robin Black

WHEN & WHERE: Phase 2 of Lit Crawl: Saturday, October 9, 2010, 7:15 to 8:00 pm
Serendipity, 803 Valencia St, (near 19th St)

Cost: Free!

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Litquake, in conjunction with the San Francisco Public Library, presents a literary crawl for teens on October 8, featuring three phases of workshops and events. Phase 1 features young authors, Phase 2 features writing workshops for teens, and Phase 3 includes a teen book club. ell your own story.

Workshops will be led by Bay Area youth literary organizations, including Streetside Stories, 826 Valencia and WritersCorps. Our students Annie Yu and Marcella Ortiz will be leading workshops (in zine making and in taking writing inspiration from a walk, respectively). Check out the full list of events here.

WHAT: Teenquake Teen Crawl

WHEN & WHERE: Friday, Oct. 8, 1 - 7 p.m.
San Francisco Main Public Library, 100 Larkin St

COST: Free to youth