Green
Windows
Writing Groups
Green Windows Workshops
All Green Windows Workshops use the
Amherst Writers and Artists method
and are facilitated by Peggy Simmons
Young Adult Workshops
In partnership with local youth organizations and schools, Green Windows offers writing workshops to young adults ages 16-25. Green Windows provides a safe, creative environment where each young person can write freely and deeply. We aim to offer an opportunity for development of creativity and self-expression to the young people who are least likely to join a writing workshop or to have support for personal artistic expression. We also aim to use creative writing workshops to bring together young people who might never otherwise cross paths.Upcoming workshops:
We are returning to Youth UpRising. Check back for details.
Three weekend workshops are being planned with the Fourth World Movement.
These
workshops will bring together young adults who were children in the
Fourth World Movement's children's activities and adults who
facilitated those activities. Together, through creative writing,
we will share our memories and explore the impact these activities have
had on each of us.
Recently held workshops:
at Youth UpRising, six weeks, summer 2008
at 826 Valencia. "Uniquely Yours," five Saturdays in May, 2008
with Youth ALIVE's Teens on Target, visits during Spring 2008
Do you know a youth organization or high school that might be interested?
We do free introductory workshops, designed to fit the organization. These could be 20 minutes to 2 hours, with staff, youth, board members, and/or anyone else in the organization.
We'll also be happy to answer questions and give more information.
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Community College Workshops
California Community Colleges serve a rare and wonderful diversity of people. Open enrollment means that community colleges must be able to provide instruction in basic reading and writing skills while also preparing students to transfer to four-year colleges, providing adults with extended learning and career-change opportunities, and offering the community vocational training. In urban areas such as Oakland, students, faculty, and staff also come from a multitude of ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.Green Windows aims to help community colleges meet their challenges as well as celebrate their diversity by running two different creative writing workshops:
- Professional development for faculty. Workshops are regularly offered during Peralta and San Francisco Community College Districts' flex days. If you know another district that would be interested, please contact us.
- Diversity Workshops. We create a nonhierarchical, creative environment which encourages the self-expression of all members of the college community. Students, teachers, staff, and administrators all take equal part in the workshops and learn from each other. These workshops illustrate how diversity can create unity, self-actualization, and beauty when difference is celebrated and authentically expressed.
- Laney College Fall 2008. Thursdays from 4pm to 6pm, for nine weeks. September 11th - November 6th.
Upcoming Community College Diversity Writing Workshop:
- Laney College Winter 2009. Thursdays from 4pm to 6pm, for nine weeks beginning February 5th.
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Workshops for Everyone
Green Windows offers workshops for anyone who wants to develop their writing and join a writing community. The workshops are wonderful for writers of every level: those just beginning as well as seasoned writers who need a new spark. Writing in any genre will flourish. All workshops use the Amherst Writers and Artists method, are facilitated by Peggy Simmons and never have more than twelve participants.The best way to support the youth and community college workshops is to take a workshop yourself!
Upcoming workshops:
One-day intensives
Write all day. Go home
with lots of new writing, ideas for more, and a better
understanding of what you do well naturally.
10 a.m. to 4
p.m.
Near BART and buses in downtown San Francisco.
A light vegetarian lunch will be provided.
$100.
Near BART and buses in downtown San Francisco.
A light vegetarian lunch will be provided.
$100.
- January 31, 2009
Weekly Group
Be
a part of a supportive community where writers help each other
develop their unique, authentic voices, progress on their projects, and
take new risks.
This workshop is held right near the Powell Street BART in San Francisco.
Email us to sign up or ask questions.
A $50 deposit will hold your place.
6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Wednesdays.
Nine weeks for $350.
Nine weeks for $350.
- The winter session will be February 4 through April 1, 2009.
This workshop is held right near the Powell Street BART in San Francisco.
Email us to sign up or ask questions.
A $50 deposit will hold your place.
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We are a Member of the Intersection Incubator, a program of Intersection for the Arts providing fiscal sponsorship, incubation and consulting services to artists. Visit www.theintersection.org.