A (Crushing) Avalanche of Teen Arts Workshops

AGE: High School
TEACHER: Eli Hastings
DATE: Saturday, October 9, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
LOCATION: Richard Hugo House, Capitol Hill
DESCRIPTION: What's cool? There are a lot of answers. But way too often, being 'cool' gets mixed up with not speaking your own truth. That's what we'll do in this special workshop: find a way to start telling our stories and redefining cool through spoken word, hip hop, poetry, letters to important people, or just good old rants.
This workshop is FREE, but a reservation is required. Click here to learn more and to RSVP.


POETIC MASHUPS
AGE: Middle School
TEACHER: Emily Berard
DATE: Sunday, October 10, 1:00 - 2:00 PM
LOCATION: Elliot Bay Book Company, Capitol Hill
DESCRIPTION: Dig into a selection of beautiful, weird, and thought-provoking poems for words or phrases that ignite your brain. Then mash these mined gems together into a fantastic new mutant hybrid of your own.
This workshop is FREE, but a reservation is required. Click here to learn more and to RSVP.


HIP HOP POETRY REMIX
AGE: High School
TEACHER: Aaron Counts
DATE: Sunday, October 10, 2:00 - 3:00 PM
LOCATION: Elliot Bay Book Company, Capitol Hill
DESCRIPTION: Are you ready to flip the script on some of hip hop’s classic tracks? Rap music is known to be home for some of this generation’s great storytellers, and in this class we’ll insert ourselves into those stories, breaking free of the music’s rhyme and meter to see where the lyrics take us. We’ll use some of hip hop’s anthems as well as lesser known songs as source material to scratch, cut and riff our way to new and original poetry.
This workshop is FREE, but a reservation is required. Click here to learn more and to RSVP.


THE IDEA JAR
AGE: High School
TEACHER: Karen Finneyrock
DATE: Sunday, October 10, 3:00 - 4:00 PM
LOCATION: Elliot Bay Book Company, Capitol Hill
DESCRIPTION: Jack London said, "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." In this hands-on workshop, we will create jars full of inspiration in the form of writing prompts. After brainstorming on the qualities of a good prompt, students will create a piece of text from one of the suggestions provided. Then, we will decorate jars and make enough writing prompts to fill them up. We provide the jars, you provide the ideas!
This workshop is FREE, but a reservation is required. Click here to learn more and to RSVP.


GET BLOODY! HOW TO MAKE STAGE BLOOD
AGE: 12 - adult
TEACHER: Seattle Opera Props Guru Pete Olds
DATE: Saturday, October 23, 10:00 AM
LOCATION: McCaw Hall, Seattle Center
DESCRIPTION: Seattle Opera Props Guru Pete Olds teaches you all the tricks in this bloody workshop! Pete has been in the Seattle Opera blood-making business for more than 20 years and has made blood for operas such as Lucia di Lammermoor, Macbeth, and Bluebeard’s Castle to name a few. This workshop is geared for adults or teens over age 12 and is limited to 25 people. Everyone will get a chance to make blood of different varieties and for different uses (thick, thin, spray-able, ooze-able). Everything is provided but beware: you’ll get bloody yourself so be sure to come prepared to get messy (this blood stains clothes).
This workshop is FREE, but a reservation is required. Click here to learn more and to RSVP.

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