The Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Florida

presents a…

Words Create Worlds Spoken Word Virtual Showcase.

Make Your Voice Heard!

At Words Create Worlds, high school and college students are invited to apply to participate in a series of workshops that will culminate in a virtual spoken word showcase event. 

Two diverse cohorts of high school and college students from different religious, spiritual and secular backgrounds will come together to participate in a series of five creative workshops culminating in a final spoken word showcase.  Under the facilitation of nationally touring artist and educator, Joe Davis, students will get to know each other, develop community guidelines, and have a crash course in the history and culture of spoken word and slam poetry.  Students will be empowered to reflect on their own personal stories, and to work together to create poetry around their unique identities and backgrounds.  

Students will present their poetry to the community in a final virtual Spoken Word Showcase

This creative writing and performance workshop will empower students to share their unique stories with those who are different from them.  Big truths can be told on small stages, and we can learn about the universal through the particular. In our time together we’ll explore personal narratives through the creative expression of written/spoken word poetry and visual art.

No prior experience in poetry, spoken word, or performance art is required.

Throughout each session, we will curate a collection of writing and visual art from the students to be published in a “zine” or “chapbook” at the end of course.

Each student will receive a notebook to journal in throughout the course. They can take notes, respond to writing prompts, or express themselves creatively through poems, songs, stories, and doodles.