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  • apple keyboard, amusement park, clip board to do list, markers, stickers
    • Career Chats

    Create Your Own Theme Park with NBCU

    Online

    Aligned with the upcoming opening of Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios, this workshop will provide Mentees and NBCU employees, “Mentors of the Day,” with a space to escape end-of-year school and work worries, de-stress, and celebrate themselves as the true achievers they are—while designing their own theme park! Join NBCU for the chance to learn about exciting new careers, build your professional network in a night filled with nostalgia and imagination.

  • Keyboard, house plants, airpords, candle, list
    • Writing Works Workshops

    Acing Your Next Interview & Thank You Email

    Join Girls Write Now for a Writing Works Deep Dive on Interviews and Thank You Emails! Led by Girls Write Now Fellow Sally Familia, attendees will be guided through the art of the interview, where we will provide tips and tricks that can be used for in-person and virtual interviews and identify best practices for interview preparation so that you land the role! Mentees will also explore the components of a thank you letter after the interview and be able to recognize what makes a great thank you letter.

  • dried flowers, vintage video camera, screenwriting document, doodles
    • Writing 360 Workshops

    Making It Personal: Finding Your Voice In Documentary Screenwriting

    Online

    Have you ever wondered what a script looks like for a documentary? In this workshop Writer and Director Lagueria Davis will teach about different types of documentaries and share the process of screenwriting for participatory documentaries. You’ll hear about the sweet victories and the frustrating challenges, the truth and the myths, as well as the ins and outs of framing a documentary film. Join us to learn how to honor your unique voice and experience, while gaining the skills and insight to write personal voice over. It’s all about your unique point of view and the choices you make in telling your story.

  • photo of mentees, video camera, dried flowers, doodle
    • Writing 360 Workshops

    Sharing Our Collective Story: Video for Performance & Digital Storytelling

    Online

    Want to learn how video can be used for storytelling and self-expression? Join us for this cutting-edge workshop in which multimedia artist Lani Asunción will share aspects of their interdisciplinary performative practice. Participants will explore conceptualizing performance for video through capturing movement, sound, and artistic rituals. Lani will discuss fundamental elements of video production and teach us video editing on a non-linear timeline using the video editing app VITA. Participants will create their own video and collectively we will share our narratives in the form of performative storytelling.

  • polaroid photos of mentees and mentors, iPad and fun stickers
    • Publishing 360 Workshops

    Revolutionary Storytelling: Creating Our Zine

    Featured
    Online

    In February’s P360 workshop, we’ll learn about the history of zines as a revolutionary form of publishing, hear from some prominent zine editors, and then get brainstorming on our zine’s title and theme! (Note: we will decide the title and theme of the zine during this workshop!)

  • notebook with the word "confidence" highlighted in pink, stickers.
    • Writing Works Workshops

    Confidence to Dream: Defining Your Personal Narrative for Success

    Online

    In this workshop, participants will be guided through a series of creative writing exercises designed to help them assess how they show up in the world as different versions of themselves—aka, their various characters—and focus on developing themselves as one who has the confidence to dream big!

  • microphones, doodles, graphic of stand-up comedian, dried flowers
    • Writing 360 Workshops

    Tell it Through Jokes: The Joys and Benefits of Stand-Up Comedy

    Online

    In this workshop, we will learn the basics of stand-up comedy writing, giving special attention to the ways stand-up can be a tool for activism and awareness around pertinent social issues. Participants will gain an understanding of thoughtful comedy writing, what not to do in stand-up, and how to intentionally engage audience members and will have the opportunity to write jokes either for themselves or for Teaching Artist and stand up comedian Annabel Young. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn that stand-up is a medium for everyone—a medium with multiple benefits and applications that has the power to change the world…one joke at a time.

  • laptop, dried flowers, snapchat logo, mouse, crystal ball doodle, doodle of palm reading, doodles of moon and stars
    • Writing 360 Workshops

    Co-creating Future: Augmented Reality As Crystal Ball

    In this workshop, inspired by the I Ching, an ancient text of Chinese wisdom and the world’s oldest oracle, artist and educator Zhenzhen Qi takes us through a variety of cultural divination practices to collectively design new or alternative patterns for fortune-telling. As a group, using the software development environment Lens Studio, we will code these patterns into a Snapchat AR filter to develop our own fortune-telling software experience. No prior software design or development experience is needed!

  • polaroid photos of mentees and mentors, iPad and fun stickers
    • Publishing 360 Workshops

    Organizing Our Zine: Take Me with You to the Underground

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    Online

    In our next workshop, we’ll inspire one another with our project ideas, create an introductory Letter from the Editors, and orchestrate a plan to share our zine with others! Come share your brilliance, your questions, and get the support you need from the P360 community to make your creative dreams come alive.

  • Air pods, ghost with a pen, picture of a dark skinned arm holding a pencil, a big fountain pen
    • Writing Works Workshops

    Ghostwriters Anonymous: Sharing Profitable Secrets

    Online

    Join us as two ghostwriters discuss how to launch a career in ghostwriting, the differences between ghostwriting fiction and nonfiction, ghostwriting for individuals versus agents, the complexities of writing for hire and creating IP (intellectual property) and more! Attendees will learn about the IP process from beginning to end—including pitching, plotting, and writing—from both the editorial and the writing perspective. Whether you’ve always wanted to write a Star Wars tie-in novel or you think you’ve got the next Big Idea and want to know how to become an IP editor, join in to discover the secrets to ghostwriting!