CREATIVE WRITING
at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco
Welcome! CW develops the art and craft of creative writing through instruction, collaboration, and respect. This blog showcases STUDENT WRITING and how to APPLY to Creative Writing.
Category: City-wide
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Have any of you experienced Streetopia SF? I’ve been out-of-the-loop as I just heard about this collection of art events on the radio yesterday. Streetopia SF involves street art, multi-media performances, poetry and the like. Tonight’s show includes local band Ruby Howl. Christine Shields and The Sea S w/ Ruby Howl 7: 30 PM @ Luggage…
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Only a week in, and I’ve already had the unparalleled experience of lounging by a swimming pool underneath the sun, sipping lemonade and eating grapes, while mindless pop music played. Cliché doesn’t even begin to cover it. But. School. What? What school? I don’t understand that incredibly obscure reference you just made. But. School. The…
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“Young at Art” (the annual San Franciscan competition, where local youth can champion their art) has rolled around once more, and the results are in! No surprise, our department is heavy on the victories across the category board: Playwriting, Poetry, Short Story, and Non-fiction. DRAMATIC SCRIPT 1st Place Michelle Ang, Ruth Asawa School of the…
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Reading alert! The lovely Sayre Quevedo, who graduated from the Creative Writing department last year, is going to be featured at the Bitchez Brew reading series once again. He, along with several other talented writers, will be reading at the Awaken Cafe in Downtown Oakland on May 12th at 7:30 pm. Come and have an…
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“… the Oakland Public Library and San Francisco Public Library, in partnership with Youth Speaks (the country’s leading nonprofit presenter of spoken word performance, education and youth development programs), are staging competitions that will result in two Youth Poet Laureates, one from each city. The winners will each be honored with $5,000 in scholarships and…
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Last night, creative writers attended a concert/reading at Old First Church: The music of Dmitri Shostakovitch interspersed with readings of poetry by his compatriots Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky. The performance was unusual and spectacular; hearing both the musical language and the literature of one culture in one evening was awe-inspiring. As Brodsky said, “Music is…
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Do you remember that Sarah worked at a VERY high-end leather goods boutique selling absolutely gorgeous pieces? The shop, April in Paris, is on Clement. I have a very cool bookmark that Sarah made for me when I visited her there! Check out this article on the shop, the owner, and Sarah! sfgate.com Heather Woodward…
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Sat. Feb. 18, 2012 ~ 12:30 pm Sun. Feb. 19, 2012 – 5:00 pm Roxie Theater 3117 16th Street San Francisco (415)863-1087 San Francisco Premiere – San Francisco Independent Film Festival Deaf Jam This highly acclaimed doc follows deaf teen, Aneta Brodski, an Israeli immigrant, who attends a school for the Deaf in Queens and inhabits…
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The Book of A Thousand Eyes by Lyn Hejinian Written over the course of two decades, The Book of a Thousand Eyes was begun as an homage to Scheherazade, the heroine of The Arabian Nightswho, through her nightly tale-telling, saved her culture and her own life by teaching a powerful and murderous ruler to abandon cruelty in favor…
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