You're invited to celebrate the publication of
You Will Not Come Back Unchanged
You Will Not Come Back Unchanged
featuring poetry and prose written
by K-12 students in the 2009-10 WITS program.
by K-12 students in the 2009-10 WITS program.
Wednesday, September 22
Seattle Art Museum,
Plestcheeff Auditorium
7:00pm reading by the authors
Reception to follow with sweets from Cupcake Royale.
Plestcheeff Auditorium
7:00pm reading by the authors
Reception to follow with sweets from Cupcake Royale.
Free and open to the public.
For more information about the event, please email wits@lectures.org.
Writers in the Schools (WITS) matches a local creative writer with a public elementary, middle or high school or hospital to design innovative and culturally relevant lesson plans that meet the goals of the participating classes while engaging students. The program invigorates both students and teachers with fresh ideas and encouragement. Teachers report students' quality of writing improves, and they become more confident in expressing themselves. Gizan Gando from Kimball Elementary School is just one of many students inspired by the program. His writer-in-residence had this to say about him: "Gizan Gando is hungry for words that express beauty and truth. He is the writer who skips me to the front of the room when I arrive, 105% twinkle." Gizan's poem and more stories about other published students are available at our blog: http://salwits.wordpress.com/ .
Founded in 1987, Seattle Arts & Lectures is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to spark the imagination through programs that connect people and ideas. In addition to presenting today's foremost fiction and nonfiction writers, Seattle Arts & Lectures' events and courses illuminate arts, culture, and a world of ideas. Our programs include the Literary\Arts Series, American Voices,
the Poetry Series, and Writers in the Schools.
the Poetry Series, and Writers in the Schools.
Major support for WITS provided by:
Amazon .com, Peter Byers & Virginia Sybert, The Clowes Fund,
Mannix Canby Foundation, McEachern Charitable Trust,
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA),
NEA American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,
Petunia Foundation, Candace Tkachuck & Don Guthrie,
US Bancorp Foundation, WA State Arts Commission,
and WA Women's Foundation.
Amazon .com, Peter Byers & Virginia Sybert, The Clowes Fund,
Mannix Canby Foundation, McEachern Charitable Trust,
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA),
NEA American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,
Petunia Foundation, Candace Tkachuck & Don Guthrie,
US Bancorp Foundation, WA State Arts Commission,
and WA Women's Foundation.
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