2:30 - 4:30
WordStorm is the annual culminating celebration featuring Youth Poetry, and Visual Arts by the San Francisco WritersCorps youth participant-artists and their teaching artists. Join us to lift up the youth participants, support their year-long efforts and hear their original works. Meet the teaching artists whose literary talents helped make these youth’s creativity shine. Students, supporters, teachers and community members of all ages, backgrounds and abilities are invited to attend.
The WritersCorps (WCTAIR) Teaching Artist-in-Residence grant program focuses on youth literacy development through creative writing and nurtures the artistic and professional talents of teaching artists through regular cohort meetings over a course of three years. WCTAIR artists teach creative writing and foster the talents and literacy of youth through partnerships with schools and community-based organizations (CBOs). WCTAIR has a history of prioritizing and providing access to LGBTQ+ youth, teenage parents, low-income youth and youth affected by the juvenile justice system.
WordStorm is organized by the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) through the WritersCorps Teaching Artists-In-Residence (WCTAIR) grant program, and in collaboration with San Francisco Public Library. For more information, contact Jonell Molina, SFAC Arts Education Program Officer at jonell.molina@sfgov.org or (415) 252-2218.
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