The Kinder HSPVA Creative Writing Department presented a full season of multidisciplinary performances in the 2023-2024 school year. Students created work in a wide range of different writing styles and multimedia genres. Their evolving work is the direct result of all the unique courses and experiences the department offers. Your gifts provide the adjunct faculty needed to teach in-depth specialty courses, from songwriting and creative nonfiction to all the other classes highlighted below.
YOUR GIFTS PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES:
- Acting for Writers with Avery Kenyatta
- Art as Document with Amy Evans
- Cowboys and Aliens with Alinda Mac
- Creative Nonfiction with Baylea Jones
- Disney and Social Media with Sara Rolater
- Fiction with Jasminne Mendez, Sara Rolater, and Jan Saenz
- Graphic Novels with Amy Evans
- Illustration with Amy Evans
- Native American Literature with Ariana Brown
- Novella Writing with Tayyba Kanwal
- Origin Stories with Ariana Brown
- Photography with Laura Burlton
- Picturing Literature with Sara Rolater
- Playwriting Residency with Ricardo Perez
- Reading Angels in America with Brendan Bourque-Sheil
- Revision with Baylea Jones
- Songwriting with Lucas Masllorens
- Tactile Techniques (including collage, illustration, and painting) with Baylea Jones
- TV Adaptation with Ariana Brown
- TV Writing with Brendan Bourque-Sheil
- Writing About Place with Baylea Jones
- Writing a Novel in Verse with Jasminne Mendez
- Writing Musicals with Sara Rolater
YOUR GIFTS PROVIDED TECHNOLOGY, SUPPLIES, AND SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES, INCLUDING:
- A new Mac computer lab. This will allow the Department to add Adobe Premier and InDesign certification classes in the coming semesters.
- Departmental team-building day trip to Camp For All
- An annual subscription to Celtx, an industry-leading screenwriting and playwriting software
- Camera and audio equipment for photography, filmmaking, and podcasting
- Sketchbooks, dye, paint, and brushes for multimedia projects
- Books (lots of books!) and movies
XOXO STUDIO BRINGS VALENTINE’S CHEER TO DOWNTOWN
XOXO Studio is the Creative Writing Department’s pop-up poetry booth for made-to-order Valentine’s Day poems. In February, Creative Writing students wrote 305 poems for our downtown neighbors at Allen Center, Hess, Houston Center, and Texas Tower.
Thank you to the fabulous Creative Writing parent volunteers who helped set up and run the event! Your hard work resulted in $11,000 in corporate sponsorships for Creative Writing programs.
