Symphony Space Performance for Literacy NYGCR - 06/14/2013

Professional reading of our Literacy students’ writing by actors from NPR’s Symphony Space Selected Shorts Program. The public is welcome to attend.

All Write!—emphasizes that literacy is not only about learning to read but about discovering and writing about the world around us. This program is modeled on   Selected Shorts and takes advantage of our experience with literature-in-performance to foster a unique learning environment for adults, empowering them with the experience of having their own creative work read aloud on stage, increasing their access to literature and culture and promoting understanding and tolerance among people from diverse life experiences.

At the first program, students listen to a specially tailored program of poetry and stories read by professional actors from NYC. The students are then invited to submit creative writing of their own, developed with the help of their tutors or in their classes using curriculum materials provided by the All Write! program.

At the second performance, the same actors return to read selected students’ work, a deeply moving, joyous and empowering event. Each student receives a book in which his or her work has been published and all tutors are given the opportunity to  participate in professional development workshops on writing led by All Write! staff. 

http://www.symphonyspace.org/education/all_write