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KSW programs and events.

July 2005

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Literary Curatorial Workshop with Maw Shein Win
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Poetry Writing with Truong Tran
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Arts Marketing Workshop with Judi Nihei
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KSW Garage Sale
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July 6

Curating Literary Events: A Workshop led by Maw Shein Win

As part of its on-going educational programming, Kearny Street Workshop is offering a Curatorial Workshop for Literary Events on July 6, 2005 led by Maw Shein Win. The workshop will cover several aspects of curating literary programs, including what factors to consider when selecting writers; pitfalls to avoid in curating work; and how to put together a strong literary program.

Date: Wednesday, July 6, 2005

Time: 7pm

Location: SomArts Cultural Center

Cost: $5 - 25, sliding scale; Free for APAture 2005 GPC members; RSVP required. Please rsvp at info@kearnystreet.org or 415.503.0520

MAW SHEIN WIN is a Burmese American writer who lives in Berkeley, California. Her work has been published in various journals including Watchword, Kitchen Sink, and Printed Matter, and more recently in Instant City, Hogtown Creek Review, and Hyphen.

She is the editor and publisher of Comet, a print and online literary, arts, and culture magazine based in the Bay Area. Win has organized many literary and art events over the years in conjunction with Comet and other projects. She is the recipient of the Public Corporation for the Arts Artist's Grant.

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July 13 - August 31

Poetry Writing with Truong Tran

Wednesdays, 7 - 9PM
SomArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan Street (between 8th and 9th streets), San Francisco

Class Description:
The sole purpose of this poetry writing workshop is to help you develop and grow as a working poet. While engaged in this classroom and this class, we will consider the environment as a place for experimentation, a laboratory of sorts. We will explore new ways of entering and re entering into our poetic body of work-through the process of discussion and feedback by both your peers and the facilitators of your workshop groups. Through a combination of readings, workshops and focused writing exercises, you will develop and sharpen your skills as both a writer and reader of poetry. By course's end, you will have with you a substantial body of work, a honed poetic voice and a variety of poetic tools as you continue your development as a working poet.

We will read and discuss selected poems and the occasional process essays each week. In as far as writing, you are required to write nine poems during the course of the semester. (Note: In class and take home exercises are also required weekly writings and will serve as a starting point to help you locate your voice/subject/material. You are responsible for providing me with copies these exercises. Though they will not be graded, I will use them as a platform for large group discussions about possible poetic explorations.)

About the Instructor:
Truong Tran received his undergraduate education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his MFA at San Francisco State University. He is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the Arts Council of Santa Clara, the California Arts Council, the Creative Work Fund and The San Franciso Arts Commission. His poems have been published in numerous literary journals including ZYZZYVA, The American Voice, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, Poetry East, ACM (Another Chicago Magazine) and The North Dakota Quarterly. He is the author of three collections of poetry including Placing The Accents, The Book of Perceptions and dust and concscience which recently received the Poetry Center Book Award. Truong is currently living in San Francisco and teaching poetry at San Francisco State University, Mills College, and elsewhere.

Class size: minimum of 8, maximum of 12.
Cost: $140 non-members, $120 for KSW members.

To register, please send a check for the full amount to: Kearny Street Workshop, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. Please include your name, contact information (phone number and email address if possible), and which class you are registering for. For questions, please contact program manager Samantha Chanse at 415.503.0520 or info@kearnystreet.org.

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July 19

Arts Marketing Workshop with Judi Nihei

A one-evening workshop designed to communicate the skills necessary to successfully present an arts organization/event/artwork in the public sphere. Learn how to speak with confidence about your work/organization, market the value of what you do, and accurately but powerfully convey the value of your work/organization to others.

Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Time:7pm

Location: SomArts Cultural Center

Cost: $5 - 25, sliding scale; Free for APAture 2005 GPC members; RSVP required. Please rsvp at info@kearnystreet.org or 415.503.0520

JUDI NIHEI is an arts management consultant with over 20 years experience as an artist and admnistrator in non-profit theatre, arts funding and community development.

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July 29

KSW Garage Sale

KSW is having a garage sale at our SomArts Cultural Center office space. Purchase your own vintage prints, posters, t-shirts, books, and other valuable KSW items and pieces of our rich history, or just drop by and say hello, and goodbye to the old space.

Date: Friday, July 29th, 2005

Time: 12 - 7pm

Location: SomArts Cultural Center

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