Tag: story booth workshops

Engineering the Ridiculous: Rube Goldberg Project

During the summer of 2015, story booth and artist Yvonne Bobo hosted and facilitated a workshop to create a Rube Goldberg Machine: a contraption, invention, device or apparatus that is a machine deliberately over-engineered to perform a very simple task in a very complicated fashion, including a chain reaction. This workshop was a hands-on opportunity for young people to use science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics to create an interactive sculpture on display at an opening exhibition for the entire community to celebrate. At the opening exhibition, all participants were officially recognized and certified for their accomplishments in “Engineering the Ridiculous.

Fishers of the Moon book release

main stage at Playhouse on the Square

join us as we take center stage for the unveiling, reading, and signing of story booth’s 2014-2015 literary anthology of original work from the past year-and-a-half of our afternoon creative writing workshops, featuring the stories of more than thirty-five middle- and high-school youth from seven Memphis schools. these young writers will read from and sign their stories, and we’ll have copies of the book for sale. this event will be the first time the writers will have the book revealed to them, so please join us for the big surprise and celebration.

part of the 2015 Mid-South Book Festival programs

Mid South Book Fest

chapbook workshop

for middle school students
thursdays, 4 – 5 pm / 4-week program

max 15 participants—email Nat at nat@crosstownarts.org to reserve a spot, or to help out.

a chapbook was an early type of popular literature because it was cheap to produce. still very popular today, the name commonly refers to small, paper-covered booklets, usually printed on a single sheet folded into books of 8, 12, 16, or 24 pages. participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to write poetry, short fiction, essays, and create visual art for their own original chapbooks. we’ll learn elements of layout and page design, cover design (using artist-designed woodcut blocks), and create contents pages and author bio pages to make the chapbooks as professional as possible. at the end of the workshop, each participant will leave with 5 copies of their original chapbook and one from each of the other participants.

we’ll celebrate with a chapbook release party in the Cleveland Street Flea Market on Friday, October 9.

page to stage theatre workshop

for middle school students
wednesdays, 1:30 – 3:30 pm / 9-week program

workshop capacity has been reached.

Jazmin Miller, teaching artist from Rhodes College,  leads students in an exploration of the various parts of theatre, helping them collaborate with one another to write, design and perform their own original play.

on Sunday, November 8, students will perform their creation before a live audience of family, friends and supporters in the McCoy Theatre at Rhodes College.

3/2/1 film workshop

for high school students / mondays, 3 – 4:30 pm / 6-week program

max 14 participants—email Nat at nat@crosstownarts.org to reserve a spot, or to help out.

join Crosstown Arts’ videographer Justin Thompson to learn how to script, shoot, and edit your own original short film. we’ll follow a 3, 2, 1 format (3 pages of script, 2 actors, 1 location) and work in teams of two. at the end of the six weeks, the films will be screened at a premiere, and each participant will receive a DVD of all films from the workshop.

story booth film premiere party

join us for the premiere of original short films by the young participants involved in story booth’s spring workshops. free and open to the public; food and drinks will be served.