DO you want to learn to write, report and create art in ways that create social change about issues of poverty and racism? Do you want to challenge the corporate media machine ?
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by Staff Writer The New Journalism/Poverty Studies Institute of POOR Magazine, one of the few training programs in the country specifically focused on studying, researching, investigating and doing media and art on the root causes of poverty and racism is offering its Summer session Summer Classes offered; 1) WRITING FOR ACTIVISM WORKSHOP 2) RESISTANCE LITERATURE AND FILM 3)BASIC COMPUTER SKILLS 4) Mentoring/Coaching for Activists SPECIAL ISSUES AROUND WORK AND LIFE
5) Poetry and Spoken Word for Social Change ACTIVISM IN SPOKEN WORD AND POETRY!!! Are you interested in writing poetry that examines social issues and calls for social change? We offer support and experienced critique in small group settings with poets from diverse backgrounds. We will help you develop your skills and your vision. If you’ve never written before, we’ll help get the words flowing. If you’re experienced, we can help you further develop your unique voice. Instructors include activists, published writers/poets and a psychotherapist. All ages, and levels are welcome! Held at the Poverty Studies Institute at POOR Magazine Classes are facilitated by published media activists with 9 years experience in Bay Area independent media Guest Teachers and scholars at the institute are what POOR calls "poverty scholars" ie people who have experienced poverty and racism first-hand through experiences with homelessness, welfare, incarceration, systems abuse, disability, police harassment, etc. Groups are small with supportive critique and analysis on students' work and learning process. Students will have opportunities to publish work in small press publications and independent on-line, print and broadcast media The New Journalism/Poverty Studies Institute is an educational project of POOR Magazine, a grassroots, non-profit arts organization founded in 1996 by a previously homeless, currently at-risk, mother daughter team. POOR provides vocational training, creative arts and literacy education, and advocacy to very low and no income adults and children in the Bay Area, with the goal of deconstructing the margins of class and race oppression. POOR publishes several media projects including an on-line news-service PoorNewsNetwork/PNN dedicated to providing media on issues of poverty and racism, A KPFA radio broadcast of PNN, POOR Press/digital Resistance - a publishing and training project for poor youth and adults and The Po' Poets Project, a poetry and spoken word project. |