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THE WORKSHOP'S NEW LARRY NEAL MEMORIAL WRITERS' SERIES AT THE INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING TECHNOLOGY AT TEACHERS COLLEGE/COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
The Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop is proud to announce the Saturday, 3 -5 p.m., opening of its Larry Neal Memorial Writers' Seminar Series at the Institute for Learning Technology at Teachers College/Columbia University. After a number of discussions by the Workshop's staff with student advisor Richard Calton, the Workshop received permission from the Institute to bring its long-running playwrights' craft class and technology seminar to 157 Thorndike Hall at the Teachers' College/Columbia University, in Rm. 157, Thorndike Hall, 525 West 120th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.)
This development came about via the young student writers on one of the Institute's favorite projects, Harlemlive, an on line youth internet magazine (http://www. Harlemlive.org). Its founder & director, Richard Calton, brought two of his young black students, one Monday evening, to visit the Workshop at the old Harlem Victoria Five Theatre on West 125th Street. The youthful writers, Matthew Martin and Angel Colon, interviewed the Workshop's Founder/Executive Director, Garland Lee Thompson, and observed the Monday night Reading/Critique Series of New Plays, in action for the first time. Their story was posted on their Haremlive web page, dealing with the theatre arts and new playwrighting. In a follow up meeting at the wonderful Institute of Learning Technologies at Columbia U., staffer Richard Calton demonstrated the powerful new computer equipment and advanced technology for Thompson during that fateful unscheduled visit. He even went on one important step further, to assist in the Workshop's long awaited web page design and graciously started a trial run at posting this equally important information onto the World Wide Web on the Internet. Thompson was so impress that he discussed the possibility of sharing this experience with the Workshop's member in a special Saturday, 3-5 p.m. afternoon series in the Workshop's Larry Neal Memorial Writers' Seminar Series, now scheduled to begin again in January, 2007. Call the Workshop for more information at (212) 281-8832.
The Workshop's staff will continue the Seminar Series, and to now properly celebrate the Workshop's 34th Anniversary Seasons of existence. The current project location began when the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority's (Upper Manhattan Chapter) granted a special playwright's scholarship to a special young winner of its Writer's Contest and Search Project, Nicole Hopkins. The two projects appear to be a perfect match on the "Google Search Engine," as they say on the Internet.
View the Workshop's new web page: http://www.fsww.org
Writers can register now for the wonderful new playwrights class at the Teachers
College/Columbia University's Institute for Learning Technology on the any
of the scheduled Saturday afternoons. See you at the Institute or on line
at the Harlemlive web page site or the Workshop, when these new playwrights
post information about their new "power plays" on "the Net."