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Mar Vista Workshop: For Kids By Kids—Emporium Juvenalium, the World’s Greatest Megastore for Minors
Mar Vista Workshop: For Kids By Kids—Emporium Juvenalium, the World’s Greatest Megastore for Minors
What would be sold at the greatest store in the world stocked with items just for kids? We need your help naming the store, determining its brand identity, picking items to sell from all over the world, and creating the … Read more
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826LA@Hammer— Concrete Verse Creatures
826LA@Hammer— Concrete Verse Creatures
Workshop attendees will combine concrete poetry with 3-D paper models to create animals and robots unlike any others, and then send them all on a grand adventure to parts unknown. For more information and to sign up, click here.
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Personal Statements – Echo Park
Personal Statements – Echo Park
Students from a local Los Angeles Unified School District school will be joining us to get a head start on writing their college personal statements. Students will work with volunteers to learn about personal statements and college applications, and will … Read more
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Choose Your Own Adventure – Echo Park
Choose Your Own Adventure – Echo Park
This field trip is an action-packed thriller. Led by our volunteer Storyteller, students from a local Los Angeles Unified School District school are introduced to the Choose Your Own Adventure genre and its unique storytelling style. With the help of … Read more
Well-Wishing and Poetry Writing – Mar Vista
Well-Wishing and Poetry Writing – Mar Vista
In this field trip, the students - led by our volunteer Storyteller - review the different characteristics of a poem and several poetic techniques. With the help of volunteer Scribes, who work with small groups of students to help with … Read more
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Well-Wishing and Poetry Writing – Echo Park
Well-Wishing and Poetry Writing – Echo Park
In this field trip, the students - led by our volunteer Storyteller - review the different characteristics of a poem and several poetic techniques. With the help of volunteer Scribes, who work with small groups of students to help with … Read more
Well-Wishing and Poetry Writing – Mar Vista
Well-Wishing and Poetry Writing – Mar Vista
In this field trip, the students - led by our volunteer Storyteller - review the different characteristics of a poem and several poetic techniques. With the help of volunteer Scribes, who work with small groups of students to help with … Read more
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Volunteering 101 – Mar Vista – CLOSED
Volunteering 101 – Mar Vista – CLOSED
During Volunteering 101 you’ll get information about the history and mission of 826, hear about our different aspects of programming, watch a fun and informative tutor training video, receive our tutor handbook, get registered as a volunteer, and of course … Read more
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Roar Shack Presents: Everything that Rises
Roar Shack Presents: Everything that Rises
Roar Shack is a collective of writers and artists, and we’re going to bring you voices. Some of us come from fiction, some from memoir, some from poetry, and from music and performance and just about anything that leaves its … Read more
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Choose Your Own Adventure – Echo Park
Choose Your Own Adventure – Echo Park
This field trip is an action-packed thriller. Led by our volunteer Storyteller, students from a local Los Angeles Unified School District school are introduced to the Choose Your Own Adventure genre and its unique storytelling style. With the help of … Read more
Well-Wishing and Poetry Writing – Mar Vista
Well-Wishing and Poetry Writing – Mar Vista
In this field trip, the students - led by our volunteer Storyteller - review the different characteristics of a poem and several poetic techniques. With the help of volunteer Scribes, who work with small groups of students to help with … Read more
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Small Group Story-telling – Echo Park
Small Group Story-telling – Echo Park
During this field trip, students from a local Los Angeles Unified School District school work in small groups with their volunteer writers to create a story suitable for children of all ages, producing and publishing books to take home with … Read more
Storytelling and Book Making – Mar Vista
Storytelling and Book Making – Mar Vista
In this field trip, students from a local Los Angeles Unified School District school must bring forth their best writing to appease our (volunteer-played) Mr. (or Mrs.) Barnacle, our never-seen, always-heard, and always-cranky publisher. Led by our volunteer storyteller and … Read more
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Let’s Do the Time Warp (Again!)
Let’s Do the Time Warp (Again!)
What: Let's Do the Time Warp (Again!): A Dance-a-thon Benefiting 826LA When: Saturday, October 15, 6 pm Doors; 7 pm Dance Where: iam8bit, 2147 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026 Featuring: DJ Soft Touch aka Clifton Weaver, 4D-J Daniel Tures, and Zach & Jack Judges: … Read more
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Choose Your Own Adventure – Echo Park
Choose Your Own Adventure – Echo Park
This field trip is an action-packed thriller. Led by our volunteer Storyteller, students from a local Los Angeles Unified School District school are introduced to the Choose Your Own Adventure genre and its unique storytelling style. With the help of … Read more
Storytelling and Bookmaking – Mar Vista
Storytelling and Bookmaking – Mar Vista
In this field trip, students must bring forth their best writing to appease our (volunteer-played) Mr. (or Mrs.) Barnacle, our never-seen, always-heard, and always-cranky publisher. Led by our volunteer storyteller and assisted by volunteer illustrators, typists, notetakers, and brainstormers, students … Read more
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Memoir Fieldtrip – Mar Vista
Memoir Fieldtrip – Mar Vista
It’s never too early to start your memoir! During this field trip, students explore storytelling through a nonfiction lens. They reflect on their lives and unpack important moments, events, and memories that have shaped their identities. With the help of volunteers … Read more
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Choose Your Own Adventure – Echo Park
Choose Your Own Adventure – Echo Park
This field trip is an action-packed thriller. Led by our volunteer Storyteller, students from a local Los Angeles Unified School District school are introduced to the Choose Your Own Adventure genre and its unique storytelling style. With the help of … Read more
Memoir Fieldtrip – Mar Vista
Memoir Fieldtrip – Mar Vista
It’s never too early to start your memoir! During this field trip, students explore storytelling through a nonfiction lens. They reflect on their lives and unpack important moments, events, and memories that have shaped their identities. With the help of volunteers … Read more
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Memoir Fieldtrip – Echo Park
Memoir Fieldtrip – Echo Park
In this field trip, students from a local Los Angeles Unified School District school join us to explore storytelling through a nonfiction lens. Led by 826LA staff and volunteers, students in this field trip reflect on their lives and unpack … Read more
Memoir Fieldtrip – Mar Vista
Memoir Fieldtrip – Mar Vista
It’s never too early to start your memoir! During this field trip, students explore storytelling through a nonfiction lens. They reflect on their lives and unpack important moments, events, and memories that have shaped their identities. With the help of volunteers … Read more
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Mar Vista Workshop: Creature Camp–Howl to Be the Best Monster
Mar Vista Workshop: Creature Camp–Howl to Be the Best Monster
Students at this workshop will be ages 7-11. Halloween is near, so it's monster season! Here at Creature Camp, we show young monsterlings howl to be mighty once they come of age. We are currently enlisting experienced monsters as mentors, … Read more
Mar Vista Workshop: Creature Camp–Howl to Be the Best Monster
Mar Vista Workshop: Creature Camp–Howl to Be the Best Monster
Students at this workshop will be ages 7-11. Halloween is near, so it's monster season! Here at Creature Camp, we show young monsterlings howl to be mighty once they come of age. We are currently enlisting experienced monsters as mentors, … Read more
Volunteering 101 – Echo Park – CLOSED
Volunteering 101 – Echo Park – CLOSED
During Volunteering 101 you’ll get information about the history and mission of 826, hear about our different aspects of programming, watch a fun and informative tutor training video, receive our tutor handbook, get registered as a volunteer, and of course … Read more