From Page to Performance
 
  

a writing group
for emerging writers
and ready-to-come-out-of-the-closet writers

 

Where:


Hastings-on-Hudson, New York (private home)

 

When:


Fridays, 7:15 - 9:15 pm
Winter 2006 Series: 1/20; 2/3; 2/24; 3/10; 3/17 (snow date 2/17)
$180 / 5 sessions - includes discussion, writing, in-class exercises and critiquing

 

Why:


Because you've always wanted to do it

 

How:


Call Monique (914-478-3190) or Golda (877) 529-9528

 
group limited to 6
 
Monique Avakian is a high-energy, nature-based teacher, writer, poet and musician. She is the published author of several historical reference books for middle and high school students. She has earned honors and awards for her non-fiction and poetry, including Library Journal's Best Reference Source List/Print, the Carter G. Woodson Honor Book Award, the Richard A. Seffron Memorial Poetry Prize, New York Public Library's Recommended "Books for the Teen Age," and the Colorado Springs Junior League Creative Writing Award, First Place, Poetry; Third Place, Fiction. Monique performs her “off-the-hook” poetry in NYC and Westchester as a solo performer and with the poetry/jazz music program, Po’ Jazz. She is also a veteran performer in the annual festival known as Mamapalooza. Her spoken word CDs, Devil’s Knot and As Yet Untitled, are available via email. As a Literacy Specialist, Monique works with struggling readers and writers ages 6 - adult. She also creates enrichment programs for youth and professional development workshops for adults. Monique also plays drum kit, vibes and keyboard. She plays drums with two Westchester-based bands: the Blues Mothers and the Rock ‘N Soul Revue. www.moniqueavakian.com

Golda Solomon, "the medicine woman of jazz," is a professor of communications, speech, and theater arts; a poet, performer, producer, and docent; a supporter of women musicians as well as young musicians, poets, and performers. She was project director of Po'Jazz at The Hudson Valley Writers' Center for four years before bringing the series to The Cornelia Street Café in 2003. Golda has pioneered several unique businesses including JazzJaunts, a personalized jazz service, and, with Barbara Sfraga, ICAAN (Interactive Communication and Arts Network), which provides innovative, on-site, organization-specific arts programming to workplaces, schools, and other organizations. She has a collection of poetry, Flatbush Cowgirl, published in 1999, for which she co-produced a companion CD, First Set. She also co-produced the CD Po'Jazz: Takin' It To The Hollow, which includes over 20 poets and musicians, and has a 2-cd set of live Po'Jazz performances from the Cornelia Street Café due out later this year. In 2002, Golda's poetry won first prize at the Writer's Workshop in Asheville, North Carolina. She was recently named an International Women in Jazz awardee, and was invited to perform her jazz-flavored poetry at a celebration of the organization's 10th anniversary at the "Jazz Church", St. Peter's in midtown Manhattan. Several of her poems are currently featured on the poetry page of www.jerryjazzmusician.com, and her poem "This Ocean" appears in the current issue of Vernacular, the new online literary magazine of Women's Studio Center, www.womenstudiocenter.org. Her book and CDs are available on www.amazon.com, www.cdbaby.com and www.jazzjaunts.com.

 

 

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