programs
T&W at the Guggenheim
May 2025 — Teachers & Writers Collaborative (T&W) is proud to present a series of activities in dialogue with the Guggenheim New York’s major solo exhibition Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers. T&W is the first among other community partners to activate the Rotunda Stage installation: a stage designed by the artist on the rotunda…
Read MoreThe Story Circle Love Café – a celebration of story telling
“Ready Or Not, Here Comes Life!” This jubilant call is the title of an anthology of stories and collaborative poems created by participants in the “Story Circle Love Café,” a creative aging program offered by T&W in 2023-2024 in partnership with Selfhelp Community Services Benjamin Rosenthal-Prince Street Older Adult Center in Flushing Queens. Led…
Read MoreFamiliarizing the Abstract: Making Sculptures with Blind and Visually-Impaired People
Little else feels as good as familiarity. So when poetry defamiliarizes the familiar before refamiliarizing it, the resultant effect is close to transcendence for me. I am thinking of Robert Hass’s “Longing, we say, because desire is full / of endless distances.” We already know what longing is, as a concept, so when Hass…
Read MoreNew York State of Poetry – Photos
Thank you to everyone who celebrated a New York State of Poetry (NYSP) with us and other organizations across the state! Inspired by NYS Poet Laureate (2021-23) Willie Perdomo and funded by the Academy of American Poets’ Poet Laureate Fellowship program, the goal of the NYSP project was to celebrate the diverse and powerful voices…
Read MorePainting with Griot Circle
This spring, older adults in Brooklyn immersed themselves in art through a Still Life Painting workshop we offered in partnership with with Griot Circle, an organization that provides programs and services to LGBTQ+ elders of color. The eight-week program included two visits to Brooklyn art galleries, and six weeks of creative exploration using acrylic paints…
Read MoreT&W Students Win Citywide Writing & Art Contest
Three students in an innovative T&W program that combines poetry writing with environmental science won awards in the NYC Dept. of Environmental Protection’s Water Resources Art & Poetry Contest. The students were participants in the “City of Water” poetry program, offered by T&W for the second year to 4th grade students at the…
Read MoreWatercolor Workshop Exhibition
Spring 2022 — This winter, amidst Covid, the cold, and the challenges of zoom, SAGE Griot Circle members enjoyed an eight week watercolor introduction class with T&W teaching artist Susan Newmark Fleminger. The program is one of a handful of creative aging programs offered by T&W. Susan is a mixed media artist exploring themes of memory,…
Read MoreWe Remember: Memorial & Workshop
Visit “We Remember” Memorial Installation in Green-Wood Cemetery, BK until June 28 Thank you to all who shared their memories and the names of their departed loved ones as part of the “Naming the Lost” project. T&W wrote and colorfully decorated each submission by hand as pictured…
Read MoreSpring Programs
This May, Teachers & Writers Collaborative is offering three exciting FREE workshops for older adults (55+ years), in partnership with the Brooklyn Arts Council. To register online, click the titles below. Or you may email [email protected] or call (917) 398-2880. Bringing Life to Our Life Stories: Writing Memoir With Playwright Frank Ingrasciotta Online…
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