Creative Writing Scribes with the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, 5-6th grade
In this camp, a partnership between Hugo House and the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, students will experiment in a wide variety of prose and poetry, utilizing materials & information from the Burke Museum to inspire their creative writing. Students will examine works from carefully curated authors and will participate in writing activities, craft exercises, and artistic experiences designed to ignite their imaginations and hone their writing skills. Camp sessions will be facilitated by two local teaching artists: Sara Brickman is a published writer and educator and Matt Gano is a published poet, performer, and educator, alongside guest educators from the Burke Museum.
This camp is for students entering 5th & 6th grade in Fall 2022 and will take place in-person at the Burke Museum. Be sure to read the Burke Museum's Covid safety policies before registering for this camp. Scholarships are available by application. Questions? Please email youth@hugohouse.org.
*Note – all Scribes Summer camps are in Pacific Standard Time
Matt Gano
Matt Gano is a Seattle based poet, MC, and Teaching Artist currently writing, recording, and performing as, "ENTENDRES." He is the author of Suits for the Swarm, a poetry collection from MoonPath Press, co-founder of the Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Program, and was the principle bricklayer/Program Director of Abbey Arts' NEXT STAGE program—a career training program for emerging artists. He works as a writer-in-residence for Seattle Arts and Lectures: Writers in the Schools program, and as a guest teaching artist for the Skagit River Poetry Foundation. Gano made waves nationally as a spoken word poet and Slam champion in the early 2000’s while representing Seattle multiple years at the National Poetry Slam. With a voice rooted in and born of 90’s hiphop, Gano studied and built his craft in a rising era of the Seattle poetry and hiphop scene. Performing and writing alongside poets, Anis Mojgani, Buddy Wakefield, Tara Hardy, Iyeoka Okoawo, and many others, he completed multiple tours across the United States as a featured artist performing poetry on some of the world’s most legendary stages.
Sara Brickman
Sara Brickman is a queer Jewish writer and performer born in Ann Arbor, MI. The winner of the Split This Rock Poetry Prize, Sara has received grants and scholarships from the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Yiddish Book Center, 4Culture, and Artist Trust, and their performance have appeared at On The Boards and theaters and community spaces nationwide. A BOAAT Writers Fellow and Ken Warfel Fellow for Poetry in Community, their writing appears in Narrative, Adroit, The Indiana Review, Muzzle, and the anthologies Ghosts of Seattle Past, The Dead Animal Handbook, and Courage: Daring Poems for Gutsy Girls. They are currently at work on a book of poems and hybrid essay collection and performance about community resilience, trauma, statuary, and collective organizing in Charlottesville, VA during the white-nationalist rallies of 2017. Sara holds an MFA from the University of Virginia and lives in Seattle, where they work in a library, teach writing to youth and adults, and parent a cat named Latke.
