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Experimental Study Program for Teens Deadline: September 28 This fall, the New Museum will again offer its semester-long after school program for young people ages fifteen to twenty. Fifteen participants will meet every Thursday, 4–6 p.m., from October 15 to December 17, excluding Thanksgiving Day. The nine-session program, in its fifth season, will offer teens the chance to learn about contemporary art, work directly with artists, and engage in critical discussions about culture. Through close work with peers and interactive workshops, participants will collaborate with artists in residence at the New Museum. This season the Experimental Study Program will explore PERSONA as a theme, considering the ways we craft our own identities and present ourselves to others, while reflecting on the roles that the media, celebrity culture, politics, theater, and art play in our ideas of self. The Museum seeks applications from people between ages fifteen and twenty that are curious about contemporary art and enthusiastic about connecting with other teens. The Experimental Study Program is free. How to Apply: Download the application HERE. Fill out the application, and respond to the prompts. Include the contact information of a teacher, a counselor, or a supervisor who can provide a reference. Send the completed application to the following email or mailing address bySeptember 28. Email: gclass@newmuseum.org G:Class New Museum 235 Bowery New York, NY 10002 Contact gclass@newmuseum.org or 212.219.1222 x231 with questions. Generous lead support is provided by the Keith Haring School, Teen, and Family Programs Fund. The Global Classroom is made possible, in part, by the Bloomingdale’s Fund of the Macy’s Foundation, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum. The New Museum’s Experimental Study Program is made possible by Westfield World Trade Center.

High Schools: Fall 2015 Writing Internship at YCteen Magazine
Application Deadline: October 2, 2015
Event: Starting week of October 12, 2015
Contact: Holly St. Lifer/212-279-0708; ext.116

YCteen invites motivated students interested in writing personal stories to apply for our fall writing internship. YCteen writers are mentored by a professional editor as they learn memoir-writing and journalism skills. YCteen writers get to be a voice for other teens, and their work is published in print and online. Writers must be between the ages of 15 and 20. The YCteen office is located in midtown Manhattan and is open to writers from 1:00-6:00pm, Monday through Thursday. Within that time frame, writers must commit to a minimum of two days a week, two hours a day (for a total of at least 4 hours per week). Writers must commit to participating for a minimum of 3 months. Interested students who meet these requirements should click here for more information and to submit an online application. Applicants are encouraged to read stories on YCteen’s website, YCteen.org, to get a feel for the work.

Writing 114 provides an introduction to creative nonfiction (CNF), a genre that encompasses many kinds of prose: memoirs, biography, travel writing, science writing, and literary journalism, to name a few.  CNF writers almost always—in some way or other—focus on the tensions that emerge between individuals and the world around them.  Thus, the title of this course, “Writing Culture,” refers to writing about oneself and others in the context of a broader culture.  How do we negotiate cultural norms, expectations, rituals, and practices?  How does culture shape us as individuals?  To what degree do we absorb or resist our cultural influences?  And how do we, as individual actors and witnesses to our world, shape the culture in which we live?  These are just a few of the many questions we’ll ask ourselves as we move through this course.

In this class, we’ll read and reflect upon a variety of creative nonfiction texts*, as well as compose our own essays.  You’ll have the freedom to explore a wide range of topics and experiment broadly with voice, style, form, and the use of research to enrich your writing.

Rather than present reality as a series of raw facts, CNF writers borrow techniques of fiction writing—description, anecdote, scene construction, characterization, and dialogue—to tell dynamic and compelling true stories. The crucial distinction between creative nonfiction and fiction is that nonfiction purports to tell the truth with very little embellishment, while fiction claims to be “made up.” Creative nonfiction also draws from poetic approaches to language, including imagery, metaphor, tone, and shifts in point of view and perspective.  We’ll study these building blocks of creative nonfiction and use them in the composition process.

Since this is an intensive writing class, we’ll often engage in writing workshops in class, including brainstorming and freewriting activities**, and structured peer critiques.  You will need to come to class prepared to write.  All students will need a dedicated notebook for this purpose.