Crosstown Arts
Students will engage with work from Color Schemes: The Value of Intensity in the West Gallery. They will then create their own inspired works based on randomized criteria, which will be determined by spinning a giant color wheel.
Over the course of four weeks, students will complete 3-5 works each, to be displayed in a pop-up gallery the following week (February 1-6).
This four-part workshop will be held on January 9, 16, 23, and 30.
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
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.
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.
if you’re interested in becoming involved with story booth as a teaching artist, writing mentor, or volunteer of any kind, this session will help introduce you to the opportunities story booth has for the upcoming school year, and will also serve as the “refresher” for current volunteers to get up to speed on exciting new additions to story booth’s programming. we’d love to have you help out over here, and by the end of this session, you’ll know everything you need to do just that.
email Nat at nat@crosstownarts.org to RSVP or call at 901.573.8444.
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.