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.

In celebration of National Poetry Month, join us for Poetry Projection Project, a festival of short films based on youth writing. Guest juror. H.P. Mendoza (filmmaker, “Colma: The Musical”) will announce the winning entries of the festival on April 13 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. For more info on the event, click here.

Lights! Camera! Poetry! In celebration of National Poetry Month, WritersCorps presents Poetry Projection Project, a festival of short films based on youth writing. Join us on April 13 for a screening of entries, presentation of awards, and reception. Guest juror. H.P. Mendoza (filmmaker, “Colma: The Musical”) will announce the winning entries of the festival. For the festival trailer and more details, click here.

What: Poetry Projection Project

Who: Filmmaker H.P. Mendoza and Poetry Projection Project Winners

When: Saturday, April 13; screening & awards ceremony: 2-3 pm, reception: 3-4 pm

Where: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission Street, at 3rd Street)

Cost: Free!

Transit: BART and Muni Metro: Powell St or Montgomery St station; Muni Bus Lines: 5, 6, 14, 14L, 21, 31, 38, 38L, 71, 71L

We are thrilled to once again partner with the Contemporary Jewish Museum to present an evening of intergenerational readings featuring our students, teaching artists, and Tamim Ansary (West of Kabul, East of New York and Games Without Rules).

What: WritersCorps Live at the CJM

Who: Tamim Ansary, Minna Dubin, and WritersCorps students:

DeAsia Landrum from the WritersCorps Apprentices Program
Mirabella Zangrilli from Aptos Middle School
Savannah Williams from Downtown High School
Karla Rayo from Hilltop High School
Monica Moore from Oasis for Girls
Redemption Dela Rosa and Aung Khine Nyun from Mission High School
Laura Barragan from Sanchez Elementary
Video from students at Woodside Learning Center

When: Thursday, March 7, 6:30-7:30 pm

Where: Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission Street (between 3rd and 4th streets)

Cost: Free!

About Tamim Ansary
Tamim Ansary was born and raised in Afghanistan and has lived in the United States since 1964. His bestselling memoir West of Kabul, East of New York, was a One City One Book pick for San Francisco and for Waco, Texas. He also the author of Destiny Disrupted, a History of the World Through Islamic Eyes, which won the Northern California Book Award for best nonfiction book of 2009; and The Widow’s Husband, a historical novel set in Afghanistan in 1840. His new book Games Without Rules, The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan, tells the story of this oft-invaded country from the inside looking out. Ansary directs the San Francisco Writers Workshop and teaches sporadically through the Osher Institute of Lifelong Learning at San Francisco State and U.C. Berkeley.

We’re pleased to be a part of the second annual Youth Arts Summit, presented by Out of Site youth arts center. The Youth Arts Summit is an afternoon of visual art, performances, and workshops by and for youth from various organizations in the Bay Area.

WHAT: WritersCorps at the Youth Arts Summit

WHO:

YBCA Young Artists at Work
Children’s Creativity Museum
Out of Site
WritersCorps
Marsh Youth Center
BAYCAT
Oasis for Girls
June Jordan High School
Root Division
Chrysalis Studio
TILT

WHEN & WHERE: Saturday, December 8, 2012, 2:00 to 6:30 p.m.
SOMArts, 934 Brannan Street, (near 9th Street)

COST: Free!

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!

Experience the common and everyday in uncommon ways as WritersCorps teachers – and youth – share work about their own visions and versions of the San Francisco Bay Area. Kids welcome!

This reading is part of the annual Lit Crawl on Saturday, October 13, when hundreds of writers will read at venues all over the Mission district. Lit Crawl is the final event of Litquake, a literary festival now in its 13th year.

WHAT: WritersCorps at Lit Crawl

WHO: Featuring WritersCorps teaching artists Anhvu Buchanan, Minna Dubin, Roseli Ilano, Carrie Leilam Love, harold terezón, Rose Tully, and young writers from WritersCorps. Emceed by Melissa Hung.

WHEN & WHERE: Phase 2 of Lit Crawl: Saturday, October 13, 2012, 7:15 to 8:15 p.m.
Serendipity, 803 Valencia St, (near 19th St)

COST: Free!

Writers

Anhvu Buchanan is the recipient of the 2010 James Duval Phelan Award for his poetry manuscript “The Disorder Index” and author of “Backhanded Compliments & Other Ways to Say I Love You.”

Minna Dubin is a writer, performer, teacher, and recipient of an artist enrichment grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, working on a book-length manuscript on the theme of coming of age.

Roseli Ilano is co-editor of “Walang Hiya,” an anthology of Filipino and Filipino American writers and poets. She’s working on a collection of short stories about the global Philippine diaspora.

Carrie Leilam Love is an Oakland-based writer and teacher. She has an MFA from SFSU and has been published by Drunk N Sailor Press and Intersection for the Arts.

harold terezón is the recipient of a PEN Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship. He is a native of Los Angeles and is working on his first collection of poetry, “13816 Judd St.”

Rose Tully has an MFA in creative writing from SFSU where she received the Leo Litwak Award in Fiction. Her interior design column, “Makeshift”, appears in SF Weekly’s arts blog, The Exhibitionist.

Want to experience the common and everyday in uncommon ways?

Start your Saturday night off right. Come support local and emerging artists who are part of WritersCorps’ Apprentice Program as they perform their writing. We will also be celebrating the launch of their poetry project website.

WHERE: Big Umbrella Studios
906.5 Divisadero St. (at McAllister)

WHEN: Saturday, June 2, 2012 6:00 p.m.

COST: FREE

PUBLIC TRANSIT: Muni Lines 5 & 24

Featuring four talented young women:

Indiana Pehlivanova became involved in WritersCorps during high school, when she moved from Bulgaria to San Francisco. She is now 21 and attends San Francisco State University. She likes daydreaming, collecting postcards, photography, making imaginary maps, and taking care of her friends.

Marcella Ortiz is a poet born and raised in San Francisco. She has been participating in WritersCorps for three years. She has published two chapbooks, “My World’s Kickstand” and “This Place I Reside In” and has been part of two poetry collections, “City of Stairways” and “Everything Indicates.” She is currently a student at CCSF and continues to write poetry for the City of San Francisco.

Anna Lei is a 17-year-old high school junior currently attending Galileo Academy of Science and Technology in San Francisco. She is very studious during school, so she uses her time at WritersCorps to get away from academics and to be creative. Her hobbies include: eating, hiding from pigeons, watching Neil deGrasse Tyson on YouTube, sleeping, volunteering at the food bank, and advocating for social justice.

Evelyn León is an 18-year-old Mexican American and is set to graduate from Ida B. Wells this spring. She lives in Nob Hill, San Francisco and enjoys bonding with her family, going on long walks with her energetic puppy and loves to write her daily life away with her poetry and journal entries.

Join WritersCorps for our year-end celebration of new student writing. Students have been working with local writers on poetry, ghost stories, comic books and more. We’ll have hands-on workshops for teens and readings from our new publications.

Button-Making
Claymation Animation provided by Children’s Creativity Museum
Journal Making
Group Poem-a-Thon
Open Mic
Food
Prizes

Featuring performances by students from Aptos Middle School, Downtown High School, Hilltop School, International Studies Academy, Mission High School, San Francisco Main Library, Oasis for Girls, 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 9, 3:30 to 6:00 p.m.

Literary Carnival (with workshops and activities): 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Student Reading: 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.

COST: FREE

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

Lights! Camera! Poetry! In celebration of National Poetry Month, WritersCorps presents the Poetry Projection Project, a festival of short films based on youth writing. Join us for live performances and a screening of the films. Guest jurors Barry Jenkins (filmmaker, “Medicine for Melancholy”) and San Francisco Supervisor David Campos will announce the winning entries of the festival. A reception follows the screening.

When & Where: April 21, 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA)
2868 Mission Street (at 25th street)

Cost: Free

In-Kind Sponsors

Hear interviews with filmmaker and poets from the event here, courtesy of Memoir Tree.