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Poetry Slam and Writing Workshops
Cynthia French, the Slam Master for SlamMN! has been teaching workships in writing poetry, fiction and nonfiction; along with workshops on poetry slams and performance for over 5 years throughout the Twin Cities.
Cynthia has a college slam workshop program that has been well received at St. Johns University, Century College, and Bemidji State University. She has lectured and performed at the UofM, St. Thomas, and Carleton College.
Armed with her MFA in Writing and over 8 years of performance experience, Cynthia has visited middle schools, high schools and community centers as a guest teacher independently as well as for organizations such as SASE: The Write Place.
She has helped develop poetry slam programs in 5 different libraries throughout the Twin Cities area - some going into their 5th year!
Working with other poets from SlamMN! poetry slams, Cynthia can help facilitate a program (workshop, performance, lecture, combination, etc.) to help fulfill your needs.
If you're interested in planning an event with SlamMN!, please contact Cynthia at slamminnesota@yahoo.com or visit her web site.
Please stay connected for future open workshop listings here...
ART SLAM - a FREE teen workshop in spoken word poetry and art - only 4 classes left for the summer at the Jewish Community Center. Classes are Monday and Wednesday through July 26th from 6:30-8:00pm. Cynthia French is teaching the poetry part of the workshops which will take place Wednesday, July 19 and Monday, July 24th. The workshops are FREE and you can come to as many as you want. Students from this and 5 other workshops around the cities will perform their poetry and show off their art at the Art Slam Show on Thurday, July 27th at the Jewish Community Center. The St. Paul JCC is located at 1375 St. Paul Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55116. www.stpauljcc.org.