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  • Workshops, Change, and Community By Nadja Goldberg

    On Monday, November 18, I taught a portfolio workshop at 826 Valencia with three fellow juniors in Creative Writing. As I looked at the applicants hovering over sheets of loose-leaf paper, I remembered sitting in the same room when I was an eighth grader. At a journalism workshop I took at 826 when I was…

  • Making Metaphors in the Mission by Rae Kim

    Recently, Eva Whitney and I were invited to teach a lesson at 826 Valencia in the San Francisco Mission district. The building is well-known as a pirate-themed gift shop, but that is only a front: tucked away in the back room is a student outreach and tutoring program. The goal was to pack the young…

  • Umläut Release Party 2013

    by Abigail (’14) On Friday the third, Umläut had a successful (and profitable) release party for the 2014 issue, dubbed Plastic Knives! We pity everyone who wasn’t there, and we’re sure those who came didn’t regret spending the night before Prom with us. While the prime attraction was, obviously, this year’s Umläut— as professional and…

  • 826 Valencia Annual Write-A-Thon