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We offer free evening and weekend workshops designed to foster creativity, strengthen writing skills, and provide students with a forum for executing projects they might not otherwise have the support to undertake. Workshops range from the playful to the practical, and all are taught by volunteer writers, artists, educators, and publishing professionals.

Please wait for a confirmation email to verify registration for a workshop. If you have not heard from us after 48 hours, feel free to call or email workshops@826nyc.org.

Our workshops are limited enrollment and often generate a waitlist. With that in mind, please only sign up if you can make every session of a workshop.

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Science Club: Bird's Eye View of an Owl's Diet

1 Sunday session: June 8 (2008)

12-1:30pm

Taught by Elaine Palucki & Jon Risk

For ages 6-11

Is it true that "you are what you eat?" Ever wonder what it would look like to see what you can and can't digest? Join Elaine and Jon as we dissect owl pellets to find out what animals owls eat! We'll learn how energy moves through food webs and see how animals are connected in ecosystems.

The Shortest Story

3 Wednesday sessions: May 21, 28, June 4 (2008)

6-7:30pm

Taught by Sarah Pollock

For ages 9-12

Brevity is the soul of wit - but what the heck does that mean? Learn how to squeeze all the action, drama, and suspense we've come to expect from any tale into a story with the fewest words possible. Forget flowery descriptions, dialogue that seems to go on forever. In this workshop we'll figure out how to pare down, and create entire adventures that might even fit in our pockets!

Comics Comics Comics!

1 Friday session: May 16 (2008)

3-5pm

Taught by 826NYC

For ages 6-8

Love writing? Or drawing? Or both? Here's your chance to create a comic book from start to finish, in just two hours! In this workshop, you'll work with writers and editors of the highest quality - and together you'll create a bound comic book to take home with you!

Creating Comics

3 Tuesday sessions: May 13, 20, 27 (2008)

6-7:30pm

Taught by Tom Hart

For ages 9-11

Ever wonder exactly how Captain Underpants or Diary of a Wimpy Kid came to be? How did their creators decide how these characters would act, talk, look? In this workshop, join Tom Hart (creator of Hutch Owen) and create a comic book character of your own. In just three weeks you'll bring his or her adventures to life in drawings and words.

Science Club: DNA

1 Sunday session: April 20

12-1:30pm

Taught by Elaine Palucki

For ages 9-13

Ever wonder what you're really made of? Why you look like your parents? What might have to change for regular human to become an X-man? What you and a strawberry have in common? If so, join Elaine in learning how to isolate DNA and creating your own questions and experiments about what makes and keeps us alive.

Mastermind: Writing the Perfect Crime

4 Tuesday sessions: April 8, 15, 29, May 6 (2008)

6-7:30pm

Taught by 826NYC

For ages 9-12

So you've read a million and five mysteries, and you can always tell who the bad guy is way before the mystery's solved. Now, you can stump your readers and write an unsolvable, plot-twisting mystery with 7 other experts. By the end of this class we'll create a mystery novel chock full of red herrings and plot twists.

Please note: This class will NOT meet on Tuesday, April 22nd!

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Summer Workshops

Superstar: Songs in the Key of You

4 Sunday sessions: July 6, 13, 20, 27 (2008)

12-2pm

Taught by Chris Deaner

For ages 6-8

Forget idols and INXS. You can be your own superstar. "How can I be a superstar?" you ask. Clearly, you must (super)star in your own video, featuring your own group, and your own music. In four short sessions, we'll write an original song, then direct and star in an original music video.

PLEASE NOTE: Enrollment for this workshop will be determined by LOTTERY. Please submit the information below by or on May 31st to be considered for this class. The lottery will be conducted on June 1st, and parents will be notified by email on June 2nd.

Me, The People

4 Monday sessions: July 14, 21, 28, August 4 (2008)

6-7:30pm

Taught by Nick Clark

For ages 9-12

This November, America will be choosing its next president, and it's hard to go anywhere without hearing about someone who wants the job. So let's take a moment to look at the one candidate everyone should be talking about: YOU!

Think you could balance the budget? Are taxes too high? Want to make homework illegal and give everyone free ice-cream sandwiches for life? Here's your chance to let your voice be heard! We'll be learning more about the job, and who we think did it the best (how did George Washington get on that dollar bill anyway?).

Then, each student will have the chance to craft their own Presidential Address about the issues that matter to them. These world class oratorios will be read aloud and filmed for our official campaign video, 826 in '08.

PLEASE NOTE: Enrollment for this workshop will be determined by LOTTERY. Please submit the information below by or on May 31st to be considered for this class. The lottery will be conducted on June 1st, and parents will be notified by email on June 2nd.

 Go to the Summer Workshops
Some Past Workshops

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All the World's a Stage, February 2005

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The Big Dig, October 2004

Some Past Workshops

Independent Film 101

March 11, 2006

The Animated Life

May 01, 2006

Creating Comics

May 13, 2008

Secret Agent Training

October 21, 2007

Writing Blind

September 27, 2004