Literati: is a six-week in person / online literacy empowerment workshop for youth age 10+ that uses creative writing and performance to help kids find their voices and tell their stories. Sessions meet once per week for two and a half hours. To help improve youth literacy, encourage positive, non-violent, active participation and self-expression. Literati focuses on:
Literati group discussions and other activities engage youth in dialogue. The workshop also complements academic learning, language, and comprehension. Participants learn to use the power of their words and voices to address issues such as school safety, peer pressure, bullying, gun violence, and other youth-influencing factors to advocate for and affect change within themselves, schools and communities.
Major takeaways include a published anthology of work as well as performance, networking & mentoring opportunities.
Literati offers two and four-week summer intensives. Each workshop session is five days per week for four hours each day. The focus of the intensives is the cross-pollination of:
Summer sessions include field trips, Artist in Residence (AIR) facilitators and mentors from literary and performance arts communities.