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Who we serve

Piper Writers House and partner organizations will provide professional development opportunities, technical support, and open lines of communication. Specific support provided includes: scheduling, coordination, end-of-project celebrations, supplies, and feedback. We strive to build a community of teaching artists who feel valued and supported in their work and empowered to provide excellent community outreach and education.

Why

Our vision for community outreach is to enrich the lives of participants, teaching artists, and partner organizations by fostering closer connections through creative expression. Programs will be sustanable staples communities can rely on to discover and grow their passions and creative skills. Our goal is that these shared creative experiences provide a tool for communiity building and enrichment.

Open Opportunities

Please note:

Application reviewal period for Fall teaching happens February and May.

Application reviewal period for Spring teaching happens in August and November.

Delta Sigma Theta, Phoenix Metropolitan Alumnae Chapter:

Participants will gain skills to better share their own stories for the purposes of applying to scholarships. We aim to increase confidence in storytelling through both creative nonfiction writing, and performance. Performance aspects will focus on stage presence, recitation, and overall presentation. Experience in both creative nonfiction writing and performing is not required.

Dunbar Elementary:

This Spring, Dunbar students will embark on a series of workshops to expand their ideas of creative expression. You and their classroom teachers will collaborate to create curriculum incorporating material from their regular class content and which builds confidence in their voices and perspectives as young writers.

Projects within this position include:

• Mapping Dunbar’s Community, a focus on neighborhood history
• Multigenerational Interviews, optional physical/visual art component
• Community Comic Book, including peer interviews and student vignettes

Participants will explore their queer and intersecting identities through workshops which aim to build their voices and perspectives as artists. Community conversations are essential to this program, and participants are encouraged to help guide workshop topics and genre exploration.

Poesía del Sol: 

You will work with patients, caregivers and staff at the Mayo Clinic Center for Humanities in Medicine in Scottsdale. This is a dynamic program incorporating multiple modes of creative expression into the healthcare setting. You will serve as an artist-in-residence providing workshops for the populations above. Poesía del Sol heavily relies on the values of cooperative storytelling and poetry/storytelling as medicine. Must be comfortable in a healthcare setting.

Poesía del Alma:

You will work with patients, caregivers and staff at the Banner Health Compassion Center in downtown Phoenix. This is a dynamic program incorporates multiple modes of creative expression into the healthcare setting. You will serve as an artist-in-residence providing workshops for the populations above. Poesía del Almal heavily relies on the values of cooperative storytelling and poetry/storytelling as medicine. Must be comfortable in a healthcare setting.

Veteran’s Writing Circle: 

The Veterans Writing Circle is a group of veterans who meet twice a month to workshop and develop their writing. This program is versatile and open to your ideas; previous meetings have included generative workshops, workshopping participant writing, and discussing craft in all genres. You do not have to be a veteran to work with this program.

• Virtual workshops

• Meet twice per month, Jan-Nov

• Annual celebration takes place in Nov

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