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Mar Vista Workshop: Unicorn & Dragon Experts Needed

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

Do you know enough about unicorns and/or dragons to help us create and play an exciting new game show? Be prepared to draw colorful pictures, write tricky questions, and give expert answers about these mythical creatures. Every player walks away … Read more

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Mar Vista Workshop: Personal Statement

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

826LA will be providing personal statement and college application essay support to high school junior and senior students. Over the course of three sessions, students will be guided through selecting and drafting University of California Personal Insight Questions, the Cal … Read more

Volunteering 101 – Mar Vista

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

During Volunteering 101 you’ll get information about the history and mission of 826, receive our volunteer handbook, informative volunteer training video, and every question you might have about 826LA, programs, working with students, and the space-time continuum. It’s our one-stop … Read more

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Volunteering 101 – Echo Park – CLOSED

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

During Volunteering 101 you’ll get information about the history and mission of 826, receive our volunteer handbook, informative volunteer training video, and every question you might have about 826LA, programs, working with students, and the space-time continuum. It’s our one-stop … Read more

Mar Vista: Workshop on Leading Workshops

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

Are you interested in teaching your own workshop at 826LA? Great, we'd love to have you! At this Workshop on Workshops, you'll have the chance to work with 826LA staff to transform your idea for a workshop into a complete … Read more

Lambda LitFest 2018: Queer Youth Voices workshop (Echo Park)

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

LGBTQIA-young adult author M.G. Hennessey will lead students and 826LA participants, ages 12-18, on a writing workshop exploring queerness and building community. The workshop will begin with introductions and a generative prompt for the group, allowing participants 30 minutes to … Read more

Echo Park: How to Design a Dangerous & Dastardly Dungeon

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

What's the scariest place you can think of? A haunted house? A interrogation chamber? A middle school dance? In this workshop, students will learn how an exciting setting can come alive and become a central part of a story. They … Read more

Echo Park: Oozing Lava Monster + Magnetic Slime – A STEM Workshop

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

We will make an erupting volcano! Make your own magnetic magma (magnetic slime) that devours magnetic objects! We will also have a special guest speaker, a medical doctor, talk about her everyday life in the medical field.

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Mar Vista Workshop: Journalism

826LA Mar Vista 12515 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, 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 seven session workshop as they brainstorm, research, write, and edit their own articles. We’ll celebrate the publication … Read more

Volunteering 101 – Mar Vista

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

During Volunteering 101 you’ll get information about the history and mission of 826, receive our volunteer handbook, informative volunteer training video, and every question you might have about 826LA, programs, working with students, and the space-time continuum. It’s our one-stop … Read more