At Hypertext Magazine & Studio, we believe that creating art helps us understand our personal journeys and our world. As writers, teachers, and publishers, we also believe in sharing our time, energy, and skills with community members whose stories have been silenced for too long. So we decided to make it official: as of October 2017, we are now a 501c3 organization dedicated to teaching writing and storytelling techniques to communities directly impacted by violence, people who are rebuilding their lives after being incarcerated, recovering from substance use disorders, or any underserved community whose collective voice has been marginalized. The storytelling and writing skills we teach transfer to all kinds of writing – including business correspondence, letters, emails, resumes, etc.
Hypertext Magazine & Studio
To volunteer/donate, visit: www.hypertextmagazinestudio.org/
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Community Re-Entry
Hypertext Magazine &Studio (HMS) has been kicking around Chicago for a couple of years but the pedagogy we use – Story Workshop® Approach of the Teaching of Writing – has been tried and tested for over 50 years.
Story Workshop’s alternative teaching approach celebrates the diverse voices of every community. This approach, developed by the late writer and professor John Schultz and housed for decades at Columbia College Chicago, closely resembles the writing process and emphasizes the principles of attention, seeing-in-the-mind, and oral telling to help writers discover what they want to tell and how to tell it. It’s a highly flexible approach that can be used to teach seasoned as well as novice writers, old and young.
And since everyone has a story to tell and their own unique language to tell it, Story Workshop® celebrates the writer’s experience as a human being – collecting and mining life experiences and encouraging writers to use vivid language – including dialect. The ideal workshop brings a diverse range of voices and content into the semi-circle, giving permission and challenging students to bring their wealth of experience into the writing.
Our home base is Chicago and we are focused on working with social service nonprofits to help improve their clients’ lives. And since all we need to teach a class is a room and willing would-be writers, we’re ready and willing to teach anywhere in Chicago.
Visit: www.hypertextmagazinestudio.org/
Other ways you can help this organization:
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Areas served:
- Central
- Far North Side
- Far Southeast Side
- Far Southwest Side
- North Side
- Northwest Side
- South Side
- Southwest Side
- West Side
