Workshops include: Intro to Poetry, Spoken Word & Slam; Feeling Metaphor; Ancestors' Words; Interrupting Violence & Silence; Hip-Hop Haibun; and many more.

Employ character, plot, idea, dialogue, spectacle and sound in new plays that involve and challenge yourself and your audience.

Learn Augusto Boal’s games and methods to dramatize ongoing oppressions in our lives, turn the audience into spect-actors, and rehearse our own liberation.

Turn personal stories into lyrically complex hip-hop monologues, scenes or full-length plays. Study the masters of hip-hop and theatre, then create your own style.

Collectively devise a play to engage and move an issue. Projects include: Education, Immigration, Liberation (Amistad Rebellion), Refugees, Health Care.

Hospitalized young people use poetry, spoken word and rap to voice and challenge their relationship to their illness, their caregivers, and themselves.

How are you trapped or liberated in moments of racial awareness? Rewrite your intersecting identities to challenge racism’s story of who you are.

Create songs, raps and chants to nurture, challenge, instruct or energize individuals and movements. Workshops include: Anti-Burnout, Manifestos, Hooks.

Use your self as text to dive into literature in your classes – from Claudia Rankine’s Citizen to Shakespeare’s Macbeth – then remix it to create your own.