LITERARY SERIES
ANANSI WRITERS WORKSHOP
Jawanza Dumisani, Coordinator
Merilene M. Murphy, Volunteer
Regina Higgins, Volunteer
Wednesdays (7:30-10:30pm)
Critique at 7:30pm
Features at 8:30pm
Open Mic at 9:05pm
$5 donation
No one turned away for lack of funds
ANANSI WRITERS WORKSHOP is the Wednesday night place to be. This three-part night begins with a critique segment for writers seeking feedback followed by a featured reading and a "no b.s." open mic where up to ten readers present polished work (five minutes or two poems,
whichever comes first). Free parking.
STAY IN TOUCH
Contact
Jawanza Dumisani, Coordinator of the Anansi Writers Workshop, for general information and for booking after December 31, 2005.
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THANKS TO ALL
The World Stage ANANSI WRITERS WORKSHOP, sponsored in part by the
Poets & Writers' California Readings/Workshops Program through a grant it receives from the James Irvine Foundation, runs chiefly on the support we receive from Wednesday night donations and the ongoing, tireless efforts of our volunteers and staff. Naturally, being a non-profit arts education and performance gallery founded in south Los Angeles in 1989, we have a long Thank You list of FRIENDS. We thank our featured artists who go beyond the call of duty to phonebank, email and lick postage to bring more friends into The World Stage fold. We thank folks who inspire folks to mail $50 to $10,000 checks in to our
P.O. Box to support our ongoing drive to keep this venue which has been open since 1989 running. We thank wanderers who meander in attracted by sound riveting pure energy for finding what's here real enough to peel off admission donations and rich enough to remember as life-changing pivot points. We thank word-of-mouthers who help us spread soul touching World Stage experiences. We thank our fortune sharing funding partners. We thank Billy Higgins (October 11, 1936 - May 4, 2001), the world's most recorded jazz drummer, and Kamau Daáood, lifelong poet and educator, for The World Stage vision that took root in 1989 in Leimert Park and all who come this way to see through sound.
CALENDAR
Check Wednesdays on the
Calendar for our Features until the end of the year!
NEW!!!!
Each of our FALL FEATURES (09.07.05-12.28.05) will host a Master Class on a topic of their choice from 7:30-8:30pm and segue into personlly-styled literary expositon from 8:30-9:00pm as the night's featured reader. The reasoning behind us asking featured readers to facilitate master classes is to continue to answer both the education _and_ performance principles we started with
in 1989. We ask at the door for a cheaper-than-a-cup-of-designer-coffee donation of $5 and give what we get straight back--no chaser, unwatered, pure. Thanks to our hard-to-book features' mutually high respect for building and sustaining the voices of diversity throughout the contemporary literary canon and supporting community institutions such as The World Stage no matter where in the world camp sets up, irregardless of the honoraria we manage to eke out from door donations that equal a little more than the price of two gallons of gas or a cup of designer coffee; thank them, these artists who have gone far and still choose to honor home as a place just like ours to gladly come back to. This Fall (every Wednesday from 09.07.05-12.28.05) at The World Stage ANANSI WRITERS WORKSHOP we are rolling out a brand new program. For the first time in World Stage history, our ANANSI WRITERS WORKSHOP featues will also host Master Classes. This is a way to learn from writers we love and enjoy their writing, too, all in the same night. Don't miss out. Take a look at our radically enlightening and enjoyable Fall
line up and
sample writings of master class participants. Come early! Stay late if you can! Don't forget your Ten Spot "fill it up get in free" Card!!!!
TEN SPOT CARD
We've been in Ten Spot (fill-it-up-get-in-free) Card mode a while now. Every time you pay the suggested donation on Wednesday, you get a new click on your card and when you present your card with ten clicks, you get in free! It's hard to top our first Ten Spot Card awardee JUDITH KUPAJI CARTER's every Wednesday night support of ANANSI WRITERS WORKSHOP, but someone's got to get the torch from this Los Angeles Unified School District educator who teaches English. KUPAJI now works to develope middle school scholars after many long years educating at the high school level. She is a great supporter of literary arts and also the former teacher of The World Stage drumming phenomenon we know as KORAN. You may not ever catch up with KUPAJI's track record as marathon supporter of the ANANSI WRITERS WORKSHOP, but hey, why not create a record of your own?
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