Taking Art to Action

Title of Course: Taking Art to Action

Facilitator: BUGS ofPoetic Assassins

Email: poeticassassins@gmail.com Phone: 612 251 3366

Class Time: Wednesdays 5-7

Class Dates: 6/17- 8-20

Place: Lawn across the street from Coffman Union

Course description: We will be examining the role that art, specifically literary art (i.e spoken word, hip hop, short story writing etc), can play in shaping our society by shaping our individual communities. We will also be looking at examples of art and discussing how and why and if they inspire action.

Class size: Minimum __5_______ Maximum ___the more the merrier______

What experience do you bring to this class? I am a licensed teacher and currently applying for a admission into a doctorate program. We (Poetic Assassins) have taught two semesters with exco in the past. I am a published blogger (if that is even a word) as well as a member of Poetic Assassins an award winning spoken word group from Minneapolis; this last year we won the VERVE grant , Best Hip Hop Production Urban Griot award as well as we were nominated for the Best Group award. I am also the co-founder of a literary organization called Sai Werd Ink.