Saturdays, February 8 — March 22, 2025, from 3:00 p.m.—4:00 p.m. EST

Únete a nosotros en línea para Speak Up, un programa de escritura creativa para adolescentes que apoya el crecimiento artístico y profesional de los jóvenes.

En esto GRATIS miniserie virtual de taller de escritura creativa, los adolescentes se asociarán con artistas docentes experimentados para potenciar el proceso de escritura creativa, desde el borrador hasta la interpretación y la publicación, para mejorar la alfabetización y empoderar a la juventud en Miami a través de actividades de escritura basadas en la comunidad.

¡El programa está abierto a todos los adolescentes (de 13 a 19 años) y es tan gratuito como libre de tareas! ¡No se necesita experiencia previa!

March 15:

Instructor: Vanessa Garcia
Theme: The Universe of the Stage

How do you connect stories on stage — your story with another’s?
How do you interview people in order to enrich BIG topics and bring those stories to life?
This is a workshop about making the past come to life! And connecting your story to another person’s so that story moves both on stage and inside people’s hearts. Catharsis, baby!

Vanessa García is a Cuban-American multidisciplinary writer, known for her work as a screenwriter, playwright, novelist, and journalist. She has written for Sesame Street (earning an Emmy nomination), Caillou, y Behind the Beats. Her novel White Light won an International Latino Book Award and was named one of NPR’s best books of 2015. Vanessa is also the author of the children’s picture book What the Bread Says.

Her plays include The Amparo Experience, Sweet Goats & Blueberry Señoritas (co-written with Richard Blanco), and #Graced, which premiered at the Adrienne Arsht Center. Her journalism has appeared in The LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and many more. She also hosts the podcast Never The Empty Nest.

Vanessa holds a PhD in Creative Nonfiction from the University of California, Irvine, and she currently lives in Miami.