 
Chicago Symphony Orchestra in collaboration with Young Chicago Authors
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Young Chicago Authors Newsletter
Word of Mouth, July 2010
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Calender For July 2010
Check The Method
First Session
The Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago
Modern Wing
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illnois, 60603
July 12th -16th
Check The Method
Second Session
Southside Community Arts Center
3831 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60653-1513
July 26th - 30th
Saturday Writing Program
Deadline for Student Applications:
August 15th
Youth Media Conference
Deadline for Teaching Artist Application
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Greetings!
We would profusely like to thank City Year for coming in to renovate our
offices and to build new furniture for us throughout the month of June.
There is nothing like a fresh coat of paint to create new paths for the future.
We have recently published Booker's Magic, a collection of student work
written through the Global Writes program in conjunction with Chicago
Public Schools of Arts Education and edited by Avery R. Young. Robbie Q
has been invited to perform in Slovenia, so as this reaches you he is
on the road across Europe. Toni Asante Lightfoot was
the emcee of the
Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards on June 23rd.
We had an inspirational Graduation Ceremony for the Saturday Writing
Program at the Chopin Theatre where students commented that is was more
meaningful than their high school graduations. Robbie gave the key note
address discussing five tools needed to become a great writer, during which
we broke into Whitney Houston's The Greatest Love of All.
Continuing to carve love in the world through wise words and education.
Yours Sincerely
Carron Little
Young Chicago Authors
(773) 486-4331 ext.15
carron@youngchicagoauthors.org
"Young Chicago Authors transforms the lives of young people by
cultivating their voices through writing, publication and
performance education."
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Check The Method Summer Camp
We are excited to announce this year's dates
and locations for Check the
Method: A Summer Spoken Word Camp, led by
Kevin Coval. This camp brings
together some of the premier young
writers from across Chicago and the
Chicago-land area. This year we
will have two weeks of camp. One week
(July 12-16) will be downtown in
the Art Institute's new Modern Wing and
the second week (July 26-30)
will be at the historic Southside Community
Arts Center.
We
are grateful to the Leadership Advisory Commitee at the Art Institute
for
making this year's summer camp possible. For more information about
the
camp please read below. If you are interested in participating in
the camp
please follow the link below to register, or if you have any questions
please
contact me directly.
Yours sincerely,
Kevin Coval
kc@kevincoval.com
To register for the camp please find the form at the link below:
http://robbieqtelfer.com/downloads/ctmforms.pdf
What is Check the Method?
Check
the Method: A Summer Spoken Word Camp, brings together
20-30 young
writers from all across the city of Chicago and the
suburbs to explore
writing technique and practice. It utilizes Chicago
and its rich
tradition of working class literature as a source for
inspiration. In
addition, Check the Method encourages and pushes
writers toward new
work, through revision and broadening of the
reading palette. Kevin
Coval leads the camp, which is sponsored by
Young Chicago Authors and
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Guest faculty this year
includes: Roger Bonair-Agard, Quraysh Ali
Lansana, Krista Franklin, and Robbie Q. Telfer.
Who can participate? Check the Method is open to writers age 15-21. Writers should have previous experience writing and performing
poetry.
When and where is Check the Method? This year there will be two sessions of Check the Method.
Session one: July 12-16 in The Art Institute of Chicago's Modern Wing. Session two: July 26-30 at The Southside Community Art Center. To participate in Check the Method, you will need to: 1) Fill out this form 2) Submit three poems 3) Pay a $200 registration fee ($300 for both weeks. Scholarships are
available. NO ONE WILL BE TURNED AWAY. The camp runs from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm each day and culminates in a
performance on Friday July 30th. Lunch is provided.
How do I sign up? To
participate in Check the Method, writers must fill out the
registration
form, submit three of their poems, and pay the fee
(scholarships are
available according to individual need).
We hope to see you there! |
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Saturday Writing Program
We are now accepting applications for
Saturday Writing Program 2010-2011.
Deadline will be August 15th 2010.
| The Saturday Writing Program is a year-long intensive writing program.
Do you want to have your work published? Become involved in one of
Chicago's innovative writing community of young authors. We have an
exciting new program incorporating introduction to fiction writing,
poetry, play-writing, and for the first time we will be launching a new
program in Story Slam. Through all our programs we strive to empower
young people to use their voice.
For more information please contact:
Toni Asante Lightfoot
lightfoot@youngchicagoauthors.org
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Youth Media Conference
We are now accepting applications for Teaching
Artists for the fall conference on 19th November.
Deadline will be August 31st 2010
The theme is 'Whose Body is this?'
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Please submit a proposal
for a media workshop incorporating any of the
following concepts: how does the
media represent issues related to the
racialized body; the sexualized body; the
privileged body; the impoverished
body; the Latino body; the African/American
body; the differently abled body;
the co-modified body.
We are looking for a range
of practical media workshops and
journalistic
workshops and workshops that offer a critical analysis of media
production.
Workshops could
include blogging, social media, video editing, radio production
in addition, to
offering a broad range of writing workshops.
The conference will be
held on Friday, November 19th 2010 at a location to be
determined.
For further information please contact:
Carron Little
carron@youngchicagoauthors.org
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| Area 21 Schools
| Several Area 21 Schools (CPS) are including the Louder
Than A Bomb
Curriculum as redeveloped by Toni Asante Lightfoot. Look
for the blog
entries from those classes starting July 19th on our
website.
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| Chicago Park District Programs
| We are doing a collaborative program
with the Chicago Park District. Tony
Denis is the lead teaching artist
at Berger Park and Palmer Park. There will
be an anthology of the work
produced.
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GirlSpeak and BoyThink
| Our summer programs of GirlSpeak and BoyThink are off and
running. Krista Franklin and
Sharrieff Muhammad are the lead
teaching artists. Sharrieff Muhammad current teaching artist and
Adam Levin (YCA class of
2007 and current BoyThink assistant)
competed in the first round and
Nathaniel Marshall YCA class of
2009 was a finalist! Look out for the
grand unveiling of the online
editions of BoyThink and GirlSpeak on
August 6th.
Calling All
Young Artists/Writers!!! Submit Your Creative Work to
GirlSpeak/BoyThink Webzine "Our voice is power. Our art is activism" GirlSpeak aspires to advocate empowerment for and understanding towards
young women. We celebrate all forms of diversity and gender equality.
We encourage all artists/writers ages 13-23 to
email work along with a short
paragraph that explains the submission(s) to
girlspeak2010@gmail.com. Please limit your submissions to five or less pieces
Types of work we are looking for: o Essays o Poems o Short stories o Paintings* o Sculptures* o Audio recordings o Short films o Journal entries o Photography ...And any other forms of creative expressions. The GirlSpeak/Boythink
Editorial Board will
respectfully
review all works. Feedback will be given as
soon as possible. For more information about GirlSpeak/ BoyThink
check out
our website: www.girlspeak.org *Please only send photographs of your paintings
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| Looking For Democracy Film Test
| | Hi all, the Chicago Amplified recording from the Looking for Democracy Film
Contest is up.
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Robbie Q is Poetry Correspondent for Time Out
| Check out Robbie Q's verses of reason at:
http://chicago.timeout.com/articles/books/86061/why-everyone-hates-
poetry
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Recent Publications:
| Toni Asante Lightfoot had work published in 'Spaces Between Us' -
an HIV+ and AIDS anthology published by the Gwendolyn Brooks
Center at Chicago State University.
Up and coming Performances:
Carron Little is performing at the Museum of Contemporary Art on
Sunday, July 17th at 11am and at The Swimming Pool on Saturday,
July 17th at 8pm.
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We want to thank the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for creating such an
inspirational event with TEAM Englewood. We are looking forward to
developing more creative partnerships with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
in the future. We also want to thank everybody for making our Open House
on June 24th a positive evening.
Sincerely,
Carron Little
Young Chicago Authors
"Young Chicago Authors transforms the lives of young people by
cultivating their voices through writing, publication and
performance education."
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Young
Chicago Authors is grateful for support from Alphawood Foundation, Arts
Work Fund for
Organizational Development, The Chicago Community Trust, C.N.A. Foundation, Chicago
Tribune
Foundation, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs-City
Arts Program,Chicago Public Media
(WBEZ 91.5FM), Columbia College Chicago, Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, The Leo S. Guthman Fund,
Illinois
Arts Council, MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at The
Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, McCormick
Foundation, National
Endowment for the Arts, Northern Trust Charitable Trust, The Poetry
Foundation,
President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities,
Sahara Enterprises, Inc., Schopf & Weiss
Charitable Giving Fund,
Speh Family Foundation, Spring Board Foundation, and contributions from
many individual donors
and community partners.
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