Come celebrate National Poetry Month, 2012 with us! Writopia is hosting an open mic for New York City's young poets (ages 10 to 18), and a free poetry workshop at Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282.
The event takes place from 2 PM to 5 PM on Sunday, April 29th.
Please arrive at 2 PM to write poetry or to receive feedback from published poets. Whether or not you have attended this workshop (or any Writopia Lab workshop), poets ages 10 to 18 are invited to read their poetry at 4 PM.
RSVP via email by April 20th by calling (212) 222-4088 or emailing
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. Walk-Ins will be also included on a first come, first served basis.
Come celebrate National Poetry Month, 2011 with us! Writopia is hosting an open mic for New York City's young poets (ages 8-18), and a free poetry workshop at Charles P Rogers, located at 55 West 17th Street (between 5th and 6th avenues), on April 10th, from noon-4m.
Please arrive at noon to write poetry or to receive feedback from published poets. Whether or not you have attended this workshop (or any Writopia Lab workshop), poets, ages 8 -18, are invited to read their poetry at 2 PM.
RSVP via email by April 5th. You can reply to this email or call Kathleen at (212) 222-4088. Walk-Ins will be also included on a first come, first served basis. Read more..
What happens when a professional theater company produces 45 plays written by young playwrights?
See how the New York Times, NY1, The Huffington Post, and other major outlets answer that question!
All plays written at Writopia Lab--whether written by preschoolers or high school seniors--this school year will be professionally produced in the theater district in May as part of our 2012 Worldwide Plays Festival. We welcome your young writer to become one of Writopia's resident playwrights as part of his or her winter workshop experience. Make sure he or she has told his or her workshop leader that he'd like to take part.
Say What? That's right:
A panel of outside judges will select 25 Writopia plays to produce at an Off-Broadway theater in May.
In addition, every single play that is seriously workshopped at Writopia Lab will be produced within a series of staged readings in the theater district in the spring.
This means that all plays seriously workshopped this school year will be performed by professional actors, directed by celebrated directors, and produced in exciting venues!
How Did this Amazing Thing Happen?
David Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants Inc., began funding our annual festival last year. David Letterman has again granted us $50,000 to produce our writers' poignant, entertaining, and sometimes hilarious works!
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May 8 to May 13
45th Street Theatre 354 West 45th Street
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May 15 to May 20
59E59 Theaters, Studio A 59 East 59th Street
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For the first time, Writopia has opened the festival to writers beyond Writopia throughout the tri-state area. Writopia received 115 submissions and has chosen seven pieces to produce on Sunday, 5/22, the last day of the festival. At the culmination of this event, we will hold an award ceremony at which we will recognize those seven winners and the 12 runners up, and host a panel discussion where you will be able to ask established playwrights (including Chris Shinn and Bekah Brunstetter) your own questions.
Winners and runners up were notified via email on April 29th, and will be listed on our website soon. All playwrights will receive notification and critiques of their plays within the next week.
Highlights
Hiphop artist Stalley, recently signed to Warner Music, will be performing a "Writopia Poetry Mash Up" on closing night!
Our directors include: Terry Berliner (resident director of The Lion King); Kevin R. Free (One ofthe NYTheatre.com 15 people of 2010, because of his “outstanding and noteworthy contributions to the New York theatre scene.”)
2011 Playwrights' Festival Theater Company
Led by Artistic Director Dan Kitrosser, the 2011 Playwrights' Festival Theater Company includes well-known directors, including the Lion King's Terry Berlin, as well as professional actors and designers.
What is Writopia Lab?
Writopia Lab is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in New York City in April of 2007. We run creative writing workshops for kids ages 8 to 18. All of our workshops have a maximum of six students and are led by a published writer who has been fully trained in our time-tested methodology. In each of the past three years, more kids from Writopia Lab have been recognized on both the regional and national levels by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards than from any other school in the nation. Also, in 2008, 2009, and 2010 our students have won multiple "Best Play" awards from Stephen Sondheim's Write A Play! festival.
If you have any questions, please email or call us at (212) 222-4088.
What is Writopia Lab?
Writopia Lab is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in New York City in April of 2007. We run creative writing workshops for kids ages 8 to 18. All of our workshops have a maximum of six students and are led by a published writer who has been fully trained in our time-tested methodology. In each of the past three years, more kids from Writopia Lab have been recognized on both the regional and national levels by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards than from any other school in the nation. Also, in 2008, 2009, and 2010 our students won multiple "Best Play" awards in Stephen Sondheim's Write A Play! festival.
The Writopia Library is our way of congratulating Writopians of all ages on finishing their pieces. The Library is a series of wall-sized murals that look like bookshelves. When a writer finishes writing and revising a short story, memoir, script, or collection of poetry, he is invited to chose a blank book on the wall and write the title of her piece, her name, and the date she finished her story on it. Our goal for each semester of a workshop is to polish a piece of writing. The Library helps our writers celebrate achieving their goals. Our walls are covered in the accomplishments of our writers, and there's plenty of space for more!
Charles P. Rogers hosted a Scholastic Submission party. Over thirty students were on hand to work with Writopia Lab teachers, and hear from Lila, who runs the New York regional scholastic awards and Stalley, a hip-hop artist with a positive, pro-writing approach to his music.
At the family memoir workshop, kids and teens and their parents, aunts, and uncles discussed shared experiences that had significance to all of them. Each family member then wrote about the same event from his or her point of view. At the end, as each participant read his or her memoir aloud, the group was brought to laughter over and over again, and sometimes to tears.
Writopians of all ages gathered together to create the lore of Writopia. After learning about what makes a great ghost story from author Chris Grabenstein, Writopians wrote their own ghost stories about ghosts who live in and around Writopia, or ghosts who like to write. On this day, Writopia's book mural was revealed.
Wednesday, November 19th, 4:00pm-6:30pm Writopia Lab held an open mic and and open house with the topic of How and What to Submit to the 2009 Scholastic Awards! Writers were encouraged to bring their writing to this event, which was co-sponsored by The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.
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