OSA Spoken Word - OWW Lunchtime Performance Series (2.28.24) #5

Next up in our AMP Lunchtime Student Performances Series in partnership with the Oakland School of the Arts is the Spoken Word Class.
OSA's Spoken Word Class meets four times a week, in the pursuit of unpacking and telling the stories we carry with us; stories that have not yet found homes on paper, but live aloud in moments. It is a community and student-driven experience, in which we write, refine, experiment, and rehearse work together.
We are super excited to showcase the amazing talent of our youth to our downtown employees, residents, and visitors to sit back and enjoy the sounds of student musicians. The series will continue until May 2024 on two Wednesdays of every month (weather permitting).
Oakland School for the Arts (OSA) is a nonprofit public charter school founded in 2002. Now in its 21st year, OSA serves over 780 students in grades 6-12 tuition-free. OSA is housed in Uptown Oakland’s historic Fox Theater, Newberry Building and Sweet's Ballroom.
OSA is a Linked Learning Pathway School offering an immersive arts program and a strong academic curriculum. We serve youth from across the Bay Area with a preference for Oakland-based students. Many of our students are from under-resourced elementary schools and communities.
OSA students complete a challenging academic curriculum with an emphasis in one of ten artistic fields: Audio Production and Engineering, Dance, Digital Media, Fashion Design, Instrumental Music, Literary Arts Production Design, Theatre, Visual Media and Vocal Music.
Students are taught by working artists and receive 10 to 15 hours of intensive arts instruction a week.
For more information go to www.oakarts.org
The Literary Arts Department at OSA offers an inventive and intensive exploration of the art and practice of creative writing. Our program is a comprehensive, dynamic, and innovative introduction to literary genres, styles, and techniques driven by a faculty who are both dedicated teachers and practicing, published writers. Rigorous, craft-oriented writing workshops-with literature and literary analysis folded into the curriculum-comprise the core of our program.
Literary Arts courses are differentiated to allow students at all experience and accomplishment levels to feel comfortable yet challenged. Courses include readings intended to inspire students via a diverse array of writers, both traditional and experimental, contemporary and canonical, from many intersecting cultures and identities. Literary Arts also focuses on project-based and collaborative learning, and students get hands-on experience in editing, designing, and producing publications.