WORKSHOP | FREE | ALL AGES | Junior High x Shopify’s monthly "Teach-In" series is a revitalization of the 60s movement by the same name. Teach-Ins dissect entrepreneurial topics, while prioritizing participation, practicality, and accessibility. Once a month, Junior High and Shopify will host different facilitators across various industries.
This June, poet Alyesha Wise will help attendees take an honest look at what stops us from saying all that we feel we need to say. Together, and individually, we’ll explore falling in love with our loud by learning from our silence.
Participants will be able to:
1. Write a poem.
2. Safely push ourselves to a level of vulnerability.
3. Learn more about ourselves through all that lives and breathes around us.
4. Tap into some basic elements of poetry including metaphor, imagery and my personal favorite, honesty.
5. Deeply explore the power of the imagination in self and in writing.
Teach-Ins will be held at the Shopify storefront in Downtown Los Angeles. There is accessible parking on-site with validation. Featuring coffee courtesy of Go Get Em Tiger.
About the Facilitator: Alyesha Wise is an award-winning, published poet, educator & speaker from Camden, N.J. Currently residing in LA, she is the co-founder of Spoken Literature Art Movement and the Director of Program Development for Street Poets, Inc., an organization mostly serving juvenile injustice-involved youth with mentorship and arts programming. Alyesha has been featured on platforms and in publications such as OWN TV, BET, LA Times, Bustle, Afropunk, PBS, Buzzfeed and more. Other collabs include the ACLU, The Shabazz Center, The Nantucket Project, Brave New Films and the Google Interstellar Project. Ron Howard once wrote about Alyesha's work, "Very Powerful."
COVID-19 vaccinations are mandatory to attend events. Proof must be available upon request. You may access your Digital Vaccination Record here.
This event will be indoors.