This workshop is geared toward Ages 15- 19. As young adults, we are in the most vital part of our self-discovery process. This workshop series will help you gain understanding of yourself, the world and express your inner thoughts through entertainment and performance.
Learn how to best use your writing skills and creativity off-stage to enhance performance on-stage. Participants will build skill in editing poems for the stage, determining the perfect gestures, dramatic appropriateness, when to do what poem and how to overcome nervousness. Each week we will get more comfortable with ourselves through expression and get closer to becoming performers in addition to discovering our identity as writers. Participants will serve as sharpening tools for each other in the form of positive critique. Please bring an original poem or body of work to the first class.
Please note: Class participants may be asked to recite aloud. Feedback is the best way to become a great performance poet. If you do not wish to share, please inform your instructor prior to class via email at [email protected]. Workshop includes all four classes for reduced rate of $60 or you may register for each session individually. If you wish to only attend a couple of sessions, please register for them separately.
Instructor Bio:
Canden was born in Los Angeles, Ca. The Howard University graduate has been performing poetry for the last 8 years. She is a two-time 3rd place winner of Busboys and Poets 11th Hour Slam, is the long-time featured poet of the widespread sexual purity organization, I Am Worth the Wait Revolution, and has performed with notable Christian organizations such as P4CM and True Voices, a poetry ministry headquartered in NYC where she is presently, Director of the DC Chapter. Her message is one of an uncompromising life in Christ that is not dull as some might think but fulfilling, creative, and fun.
