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Mar Vista Workshop: The Music of the Neighborhood

826LA Mar Vista 12515 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Students in this workshop will be ages 10 and up. Take a deep breath as we walk through nature and explore the extraordinary neighborhood that is Mar Vista! Students will focus on the sounds that you hear to create poems. … Read more

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Mar Vista Journalism Workshop – The Winter Issue

826LA Mar Vista 12515 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Viva Mar Vista is 826LA’s quarterly newspaper entirely written by our students and distributed throughout the community. Students will become journalists during this six session workshop as they brainstorm, research, write, and edit their own articles. We’ll celebrate the publication … Read more

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Echo Park’s Barnacle’s Bookworms

826LA Echo Park 1714 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Barnacle’s Bookworms is a reading-focused workshop where elementary school students receive one-on-one reading support. Volunteers help them build their literacy skills and their love of reading. Strong tutor-student relationships will help build the foundation for their reading success, so consistency … Read more

826LA@theBroad: Art+Rhyme+Story

The Broad 221 S Grand AveCA 90012, Los Angeles, CA, United States

826LA is heading to The Broad in Downtown Los Angeles! Students from our Mar Vista's After School Tutoring programs will take a trip to the contemporary art museum. We'll be viewing the art and writing about what it means to … Read more

Echo Park Workshop: The Poetry Machine

826LA Echo Park 1714 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Step inside the Poetry Machine, and generate random, wacky, poems while making new friends. During the workshop, students will use dice to randomly generate a series of poems and drawings. The first activity will be a collaborative poem where students … Read more

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Echo Park Journalism

826LA Echo Park 1714 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Pull out your press pass and fire up your steno pad, journalism students work with 826LA tutors to select a compelling subject, and write, edit, and publish a quarterly newspaper, The Good Times, that’s distributed around our community. Signup at … Read more

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Mar Vista’s Barnacle’s Bookworms

826LA Mar Vista 12515 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Barnacle’s Bookworms is a reading-focused workshop where elementary school students receive one-on-one reading support. Volunteers help them build their literacy skills and their love of reading. Strong tutor-student relationships will help build the foundation for their reading success, so consistency … Read more

Mar Vista Workshop: Can You Smell the Future?

826LA Mar Vista 12515 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States

What does the future smell like? Follow your nose to this science fiction writing workshop! We'll use our sense of smell as a starting point for crafting strong descriptive prose. Then we will examines the work of two contemporary artists … Read more

Echo Park Workshop: Writing for Pets

826LA Echo Park 1714 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States

A workshop classic from 826 Valencia, Writing for Pets works wonders with the shyest and most reluctant writers. Students will learn the basics of genre-writing for different animals—dogs love action stories, for example, and cats love odes to cats. Every … Read more

Mar Vista Workshop: The Most Curious Case of the Made-Up Medical Mystery

826LA Mar Vista 12515 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States

A-choo! You’re sick, but it’s not the common cold. Your symptoms include sprouting a pair of wings, sleeping only during the day, and breaking out in a rash of sparkles. How do scientists handle medical mysteries? In this workshop, students … Read more