Green Windows Workshops

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:
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:
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.
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.
Recent Community
College Diversity Writing Workshop:
- 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.
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:
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.
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.
6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Wednesdays.
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. 
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.