Tag: workshops
Pizza Poetry Day
Today only: buy a pizza, get a poem! The Pizza Poetry Project celebrates National Poetry Month and the
power of New Orleans youth voices by publishing poems on pizza boxes on Pizza Poetry Day. We’ve partnered with local pizzerias across the city to spread these voices around town – along with cheesy goodness, of course. Check back for updates about participating locations!
King Cakes available at Gracious Bakery
This Mardi Gras, your king cakes come with more than just a baby! Order a king cake from Gracious Bakery and get a king cake origin story written by young New Orleans authors.
Code Your Story Workshop
In our Code Your Story workshop, students write a story and learn simple coding skills to animate them. They’ll get to see their stories come to life!
This FREE workshop is designed for 4th-8th graders. Sign up for a spot here.
Code Your Story Workshop
This Saturday, 10/20, join us at our Youth Writing Center for our Code Your Story workshop.
Students will write a story and learn simple coding skills to animate them. They’ll get to see their stories come to life!
This FREE workshop is designed for 4th-8th graders. Sign up for a spot here.
Workshops Coming in Fall: Good Troublemakers
Big Class is coming back into classrooms with a new workshop series, situated in the present moment in our city and our schools. As schools plan to unify under one central school district by the summer of 2018, it is an opportune time for those who will be most affected by this plan–students–to voice their concerns, hopes, and dreams for how schools should look.
A Good Troublemaker is a person who sees something that needs to be changed to make the world better, and does something to try to change it. There are lots of ways to be a Good Troublemaker; Big Class calls for change through writing.
This fall, Good Troublemakers workshops will be held in classrooms around the city to gather input from students ages 6-18 about their school and their thoughts about what schools in New Orleans can and should be. The writing produced in these workshops will contribute to a proposal for school redesign, written by young New Orleanians and published by Big Class.
Click here to apply and bring Good Troublemakers to your classroom.
Workshops Coming in Fall: Spooky Stories
As Big Class becomes 826 New Orleans in 2017, we will officially open the Haunting Supply Company–a one-stop-shop for the city’s ghostly denizens. Inside our creative storefront, you’ll find human disguises, pre-creaked floorboards, corporeal dust, and other staples for the supernatural.
This fall, Big Class’s Spooky Stories workshops will be coming to classrooms to write ghost stories inspired by images in and around New Orleans–the most haunted city in America. This collection of student writing will contribute to Big Class’s first ever anthology of ghost stories, to be released this October.
Bring local writers to your classroom to lead your students in writing their own eerie tales about the Crescent City. Workshops will begin after Labor Day and run for most of September. These workshops are open to grades 1-12, and will be tailored to age groups accordingly!
Click here to apply.
Photo and Phiction Exhibition
On Thursday, July 28th, we finished our Photo and Phiction summer workshop series with a exhibition of student work in the Teen Room of the Norman Mayer Library. Young writers brought family and friends to see their beautiful photos and writing proudly displayed on the library walls and celebrate their creativity.
See the full photo gallery here.
Making a Difference: Empowering New Orleans youth through pen and paper
“This program is teaching our kids how to use how to use words in a way that can affect change. Now they are becoming the powerful ones because reading gives you access, but writing gives you power.”
–Kyley Pulphus, Big Class board member and teacher
WDSU wrote a lovely short piece about our work and dropped by our final Photo and Phiction workshop of the summer, led by Big Class youth intern Keith Riley (pictured above).
Check out the article and short video: http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/making-a-difference-empowering-new-orleans-youth-through-pen-and-paper/40950558
Summer Workshops
Over the past month, Big Class has hosted weekly zine-writing workshops at Alvar Library, and has partnered with the incredible teen program at Norman Mayer Library for an array of workshops.
Collectively, workshop goers have created over fifty pieces of individual writing, and have taken nearly one hundred photos! A summer anthology of all edited work to date will published in late July.
Check out our last workshop of the Summer Saturday, July 23rd 2-4:30 pm at Norman Mayer Library. Join visiting teen writer Keith Riley from Atlanta as he facilitates a free-verse poetry workshop for teens!
And our gallery exhibition and book release July 28 from 4:30-6:30, also at Norman Mayer Library
The Encyclopedia of Eats: from Alligator to Zapps
The Encyclopedia of Eats was created during a 2014 Big Class Workshop at the New Orleans Southern Food and Beverage Museum. Students present an ode to their favorite and most nostalgic foods of New Orleans. From tantalizingly tasty sweet treats to humble everyday dishes, there’s something for everyone in this special encyclopedia.
Pizza Poetry Day
Today only: buy a pizza, get a poem! The Pizza Poetry Project celebrates National Poetry Month and the
power of New Orleans youth voices by publishing poems on pizza boxes on Pizza Poetry Day. We’ve partnered with local pizzerias across the city to spread these voices around town – along with cheesy goodness, of course. Check back for updates about participating locations!
King Cakes available at Gracious Bakery
This Mardi Gras, your king cakes come with more than just a baby! Order a king cake from Gracious Bakery and get a king cake origin story written by young New Orleans authors.
Code Your Story Workshop
In our Code Your Story workshop, students write a story and learn simple coding skills to animate them. They’ll get to see their stories come to life!
This FREE workshop is designed for 4th-8th graders. Sign up for a spot here.
Code Your Story Workshop
This Saturday, 10/20, join us at our Youth Writing Center for our Code Your Story workshop.
Students will write a story and learn simple coding skills to animate them. They’ll get to see their stories come to life!
This FREE workshop is designed for 4th-8th graders. Sign up for a spot here.
Workshops Coming in Fall: Good Troublemakers
Big Class is coming back into classrooms with a new workshop series, situated in the present moment in our city and our schools. As schools plan to unify under one central school district by the summer of 2018, it is an opportune time for those who will be most affected by this plan–students–to voice their concerns, hopes, and dreams for how schools should look.
A Good Troublemaker is a person who sees something that needs to be changed to make the world better, and does something to try to change it. There are lots of ways to be a Good Troublemaker; Big Class calls for change through writing.
This fall, Good Troublemakers workshops will be held in classrooms around the city to gather input from students ages 6-18 about their school and their thoughts about what schools in New Orleans can and should be. The writing produced in these workshops will contribute to a proposal for school redesign, written by young New Orleanians and published by Big Class.
Click here to apply and bring Good Troublemakers to your classroom.
Workshops Coming in Fall: Spooky Stories
As Big Class becomes 826 New Orleans in 2017, we will officially open the Haunting Supply Company–a one-stop-shop for the city’s ghostly denizens. Inside our creative storefront, you’ll find human disguises, pre-creaked floorboards, corporeal dust, and other staples for the supernatural.
This fall, Big Class’s Spooky Stories workshops will be coming to classrooms to write ghost stories inspired by images in and around New Orleans–the most haunted city in America. This collection of student writing will contribute to Big Class’s first ever anthology of ghost stories, to be released this October.
Bring local writers to your classroom to lead your students in writing their own eerie tales about the Crescent City. Workshops will begin after Labor Day and run for most of September. These workshops are open to grades 1-12, and will be tailored to age groups accordingly!
Click here to apply.
Photo and Phiction Exhibition
On Thursday, July 28th, we finished our Photo and Phiction summer workshop series with a exhibition of student work in the Teen Room of the Norman Mayer Library. Young writers brought family and friends to see their beautiful photos and writing proudly displayed on the library walls and celebrate their creativity.
See the full photo gallery here.
Making a Difference: Empowering New Orleans youth through pen and paper
“This program is teaching our kids how to use how to use words in a way that can affect change. Now they are becoming the powerful ones because reading gives you access, but writing gives you power.”
–Kyley Pulphus, Big Class board member and teacher
WDSU wrote a lovely short piece about our work and dropped by our final Photo and Phiction workshop of the summer, led by Big Class youth intern Keith Riley (pictured above).
Check out the article and short video: http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/making-a-difference-empowering-new-orleans-youth-through-pen-and-paper/40950558
Summer Workshops
Over the past month, Big Class has hosted weekly zine-writing workshops at Alvar Library, and has partnered with the incredible teen program at Norman Mayer Library for an array of workshops.
Collectively, workshop goers have created over fifty pieces of individual writing, and have taken nearly one hundred photos! A summer anthology of all edited work to date will published in late July.
Check out our last workshop of the Summer Saturday, July 23rd 2-4:30 pm at Norman Mayer Library. Join visiting teen writer Keith Riley from Atlanta as he facilitates a free-verse poetry workshop for teens!
And our gallery exhibition and book release July 28 from 4:30-6:30, also at Norman Mayer Library
The Encyclopedia of Eats: from Alligator to Zapps
The Encyclopedia of Eats was created during a 2014 Big Class Workshop at the New Orleans Southern Food and Beverage Museum. Students present an ode to their favorite and most nostalgic foods of New Orleans. From tantalizingly tasty sweet treats to humble everyday dishes, there’s something for everyone in this special encyclopedia.
