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.
The year is starting off nicely with some fun community activities: writing buddies brought each other special treats (and clothes) today, we played a few games, and the freshmen had a chance to be publicly initiated- i.e., Heather had them all sit in a row in front of everybody and had them chew on ridiculously sour candies. Most of them managed to poker-face it.
-Reba
For all the new students coming in, Art&Film is a great, free program for teens that we’re required to attend twice per marking period. Hosted by Ronald Chase, it offers screenings of classic, foreign, and art films, along with either a short film or a cartoon before the movie and a group discussion after. Cookies and sparkling water are offered in the lobbies before we enter the theater.
Art&Film is hosted at either the Randall Museum (199 Museum Way) or the Dolby Screening Room (100 Potrero Ave). Arrival at 6:30, film at 7:00, unless otherwise specified.
Subscribe to the Art&Film email for updates on the next CineClub screening and opportunities of free tickets for the SF Symphony, Opera, and many other shows. To subscribe, visit the Art&Film website or simply fill out a card on your next CineClub visit.
-Midori
Anybody interested in participating in a pretty impressive-sounding reading, check the following out–this memo was sent to me via cwropps@aol.com. Join their email group to receive a consistent stream of writing opportunities of all kinds.
We are seeking submissions for TEN THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE,
http://www.bigbridge.org/100thousandpoetsforchange/
This amazing world-wide event is happening on Saturday September 24th and has been recognized as the largest poetry reading in history. Poets will be reading in cities across the globe in a demonstration/celebration of poetry to promote social, environmental, and political change. We are organizing an event in Berkeley and looking for poets to read in a performance that begins at 8pm that evening at the Subterranean Art House, http://subterraneanarthouse.org/.
If chosen, you will be reading along side Poets
Mama Coatl, http://www.reverbnation.com/mamacoatl
Chris Cole, http://disembodiedpoetics.com/
Jenny Overman, http://jennyoverman.com/
and Sam Pierstorff, http://www.slamonrye.comAll poetry read this night will be archived at Stanford University.
Please submit 1-2 poems, 2 pages MAX, (we will not read more than 2 pages) please include a short bio, and send you submissions to:
<nightgirlpoetry(at)gmail.com> by August 29, 2011. Replace (at) with @ in sending e-mail.
This fall, the creative writing students are taking over the running of the creative writing website and adding a blog to the mix. Rebecca S. and Midori C. will be providing us with photos and news and other goodies related to the Creative Writing Department, the School of the Arts, and the greater literary community. If you have news to share for the blog, please contact sotacdub@gmail.com
And if people do not come forward with news, these fearless interns will leave no stone unturned to provide regular fresh content.
Welcome to the new website for the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts Creative Writing Department. It’s a work-in-progress, so, like good writing, it’s all about the revisions. For all information about the Creative Writing Department, please visit the original website at: sfsota-creativewriting.org.
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