Intersection's Education Program provides opportunities for people to engage in an interactive exploration of the process of creating new art. The unique curriculum includes master classes, artist talks, tours, films, lectures, workshops, special events, and opportunities to perform, present and interact with the ongoing array of multidisciplinary arts programming Intersection supports. Intersection's Education Program cultivates artistic and informative environments where personal and collective ideas and projects generate larger, more inclusive worldviews and broader aesthetic, social, political, and cultural perspectives.

Our educational programs are suitable for all ages and are available to educators, students, community groups, artists and non-artists with all levels of skill and experience. To register for a workshop, contact Intersection's Program Director for Education & Community Engagement Rebeka Rodriguez or click here>>

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Beginning Acting Workshop with Margo Hall
Mondays, June 9, 16, 23, 30; July 7
6-9pm
$195 ($185 for Intersection Members)
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This five-week workshop led by award-winning writer, actor, director, and member of Intersection's Resident Theatre Company Campo Santo Margo Hall, will focus on basic acting techniques with a goal of actors reaching full emotional potential as well as confidence in the audition and rehearsal process. The readings, discussions, exercises and scenework are designed to enable students to feel uninhibited in their acting.

Margo Hall is an award winning Bay Area actor, director and playwright. A founding member of Campo Santo, she has worked at the American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Magic Theatre and Word for Word.

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Beginning Acting Workshop with Margo Hall
Mondays, July 14 21 & 28; August 4 & 11
6-9pm
$195 ($185 for Intersection Members)
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This five-week workshop led by award-winning writer, actor, director, and member of Intersection's Resident Theatre Company Campo Santo Margo Hall, will focus on basic acting techniques with a goal of actors reaching full emotional potential as well as confidence in the audition and rehearsal process. The readings, discussions, exercises and scenework are designed to enable students to feel uninhibited in their acting.

Margo Hall is an award winning Bay Area actor, director and playwright. A founding member of Campo Santo, she has worked at the American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Magic Theatre and Word for Word.

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Re Writing Your History With Beats, Rhymes And Spoken Word
Tuesdays & Wednesdays July 22, 23, 29 & 30
6-9pm
$180 ($170 for Intersection members)
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Learn new basic beat and musical techniques and put them in the mix of your theatre, poetry and spoken word. In this workshop you will also explore new performance and writing techniques to go with your own music and beats. Work directly with the theatre/music/new performance making duo Dan Wolf and Tommy Shepherd on the same themes and aesthetics they are using in creating their next project. Using critically acclaimed book Angry Black White Boy by Adam Mansbach, this class will push and peruse the provocations and polemics of race and identity and how it plays out in hip hop theatre aesthetics.

Dan Wolf is an actor, playwright, MC, and rapper. He is a founding member of the live hip hop band Felonious, and a Resident Artist with both the Z Space Studio and the Hybrid Project at Intersection for the Arts. His play Beatbox: A Raparetta (co-authored with Tommy Shepherd) has been produced in San Francisco, Oakland, Petaluma, Germany, and at the New York Hip Hop Theater Festival. Beatbox will be published by TCG Books in the upcoming hip hop theater anthology Plays from the Boom Box Galaxy. His play Stateless, a hip-hop and beatbox infused theatrical collaboration with Tommy Shepherd balancing German and Jewish history with the problems of racism and the Jewish African American Experience, has been seen in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Hamburg Germany, and New York. He is currently creating the play Angry Black White Boy based on the novel by Adam Mansbach. As an actor he has worked with Word for Word, Crowded Fire, Intersection for the Arts, Traveling Jewish Theater, Porchlight Theater Company, and the Shotgun Players. As an educator he has worked with Berkeley Rep School of Theater, Hybrid Institute at Intersection and Youth Speaks. Dan is the Program Manager of The Hub at the JCCSF which promotes the revolution of Jewish identity through arts, culture and new ritual.


Tommy Shepherd is a father, an actor, playwright, b-boy, rapper, drummer, and beatboxer. His wife Anna Maria just had their baby boy in November 2007! His most recent conquest was re-writing a script formerly written by Duke Ellington called Queenie Pie for the Oakland Opera in May. This past December Tommy created and performed his first one act solo performance piece The MF in ME, premiering at Intersection Grounded festival of new works. Shepherd has spent much of the last couple of years performing and touring internationally with Marc Bamuthi Joseph in Scourge and as a Musician/Beatboxer for the break/s, which will premiere at Yerba Buena in June. He also created the score for Donald Lacy’s touring show Color Struck. The next collaboration with Dan Wolf is called Angry Black White Boy He’ll be performing and creating the live musical soundscape. Tommy is also co-founder of the live hip hop band, Felonious: onelovehiphop, which plays throughout the world and also develops and creates theatrical productions. Tommy was a long time Hybrid Resident Artist at Intersection along with Erika Chong Shuch and Dan Wolf. He is also a member of resident theatre company Campo Santo and with Erika Chong Shuch’s The ESP Project.


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Its Your Future After All: Create Your Own Performance
Mondays and Wednesdays July 21, 23, 28 & 30
6-9pm
$180 ($170 for Intersection members)
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Co-taught by choreographer ESP Project’s Founder Erika Chong Shuch and actor/director and co-founding member of Campo Santo Sean San Jose, the workshop is open to performers of all backgrounds who are interested in experimenting with the intersection of movement and text. Learn how to develop and perform both original and found text and how to generate original choreography that is underlined with a theatrical impulse. Work to create your own short piece with the directors of After All a world premier dance theatre collaboration with Campo Santo an the ESP Project. Work directly Erika Chong Shuch and Sean San Jose employing techniques used throughout the development of After All. In this workshop, we will look for the words that move, and moves that speak. The final class includes a performance for an invited audience.

Erika Chong Shuch is the Director of the dance theatre group The ESP Project, in residence at Intersection for the Arts since 2004. Under Chong Shuch’s direction The ESP Projects creates an evening length dance theatre piece annually. Since 2004 they have developed, premiered, and performed their new pieces at Intersection for sold out extended runs of 5 to 6 weeks. Pieces include: All You Want, One Window, Orbit, and last season’s 51802. Chong Shuch is one of the Founding Directors and Teachers of the Experimental Performance Institute formerly at New College. Erika was one of the Intersection’s Hybrid resident artists from 2001- 2005.

We need to create little worlds for ourselves to make the whole big world make sense.’ This could be an artistic credo for the Erika Shuch Performance Project's signature style of theater, an assemblage of little worlds in which everyman characters pour their souls into monologues teeming with unlikely metaphors, then burst into angelic songs and winking dances.
-Rachel Howard San Francisco Chronicle Review of 51802


Sean San José is the Program Director of Theatre at Intersection for the Arts and their resident theatre company Campo Santo. He has overseen more than 50 premiere productions of theatre, dance and interdisciplinary performances. He has created works with Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Jessica Hagedorn, Margo Hall, Tommy Shepherd, Octavio Solis, Erin Cressida Wilson, Dan Wolf, and more than 500 artists in his time at Intersection. He has created theatre works from the writings of Jimmy Santiago Baca, Dave Eggers, Denis Johnson, Greg Sarris, Ntozake Shange, and is currently developing a new piece for Intersection and Campo Santo from Junot Diaz’ Pulitzer Prize winning book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

[Campo Santo has] consistently produced by far some of the most exciting and risk-taking productions around. ..it's fair to say Campo Santo's output has been nothing short of awesome.
-Robert Avila San Francisco Bay Guardian


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DREAM IT & BUILD IT: Creating a Set or Installation on a Bare-Bones Budget A two-workshop series with Victor Cartagena & Joshua McDermott $250


(Take both workshops and participate in a group exhibition in the Intersection gallery August 15 & 16)

Visual Design for Theater or Art Installation
Tuesdays and Thursdays July 31; August 5, 7, 12, 14 & 19
6–8pm
$180 (for this workshop only) ($170 for Intersection members)
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Learn how to transform physical space with your artistic vision. In this workshop you will use sculptural materials and other media to modify environments, and create a complete sensory experience for your audiences. Students will combine new and old technologies, work with readymade, found and specially created objects and media while simultaneously learning how to work within no and low budget scenarios.

Instructor: Victor Cartagena was born in El Salvador, and has been making art in the Bay Area since the late 80s. The work that Cartagena produced in the early to mid-1990's battled with memories of the violence in El Salvador and the pain and separation that he experienced in relocating to the U.S In the San Francisco-Bay Area, Cartagena has exhibited at Southern Exposure, Palo Alto Cultural Center, the University Art Museum at UC Berkeley, Galeria de la Raza, New Langton Arts, Ampersand International Arts, Intersection for the Arts, Catharine Clark Gallery, Euphrat Museum, the Mission Cultural Center, MACLA/Center for Latino Arts, and the Sonoma Museum of Visual Arts, among others. Cartagena's work has been reviewed in Art Nexus, art.es, Artweek, Art Issues, emisferica, The San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco Weekly, The San Jose Mercury News, The Oakland Tribune, Cambio and El Latino, Hoy (L.A.), among others. Nationally, Cartagena has exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, Honolulu, and all over California, including Los Angeles. Internationally, Cartagena has exhibited in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Japan, El Salvador, Spain, Belarus, Ecuador and Greece.

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Moving from Concept to Reality
Saturdays August 2 & 9
12-3pm
$90 (for this workshop only) ($80 for Intersection members)
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Learn how an artistic concept is translated into reality, moving from idea to materials, fabrication, and installation for both gallery and performance spaces. This class covers crafting a realistic budget, sourcing cheap or even free materials, basic fabrication techniques, and practicable lighting theory and application. We will focus on your own individual vision, and how we can bring that vision to fruition.

Joshua McDermott graduated from the University of Hawai'i with a M.A. in Asian Theatre. Since then he has found a home in the Bay Area, living in the East Bay, and working in the West Bay at Intersection for the Arts as Technical Director, and freelance as a designer and technician at the New Conservatory Theatre Center, ODC Theater, Artaud theater, CELLspace, Theatre of Yugen, and several more. Current major projects include organizing a cooperative wood shop for artists and trying to get his '68 BSA back on the road.

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Personal Stories for the Stage
Wednesdays, August 6, 13 20 & 27, 2008
6 -9 pm
$180 ($170 for Intersection members)
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For the Past six years, the Porchlight Storytelling Series, has been San Francisco’s premier showcase for firs-person stories. With a firm belief that absolutely everyone has stories to tell, Porchlight curators Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick offer their first ever storytelling class Emphasis will be on mining your life for material and executing a well-crafted (yet not overly theatrical) version for the stage. This workshop is open to people of all skill levels and backgrounds who are interested in crafting their personal stores for the stage. Participants should be prepared to share work publicly. The final class includes a performance for an invited audience.

Arline Klatte is a native San Franciscan and former reporter for the Moscow Times. She received her postgraduate degree in journalism from Columbia University and has worked as an editor for SF Gate and CBS Marketwatch. In 2002, she co-founded the Porchlight Storytelling series and is currently a top selling agent with San Francisco real estate broker TRI Coldwell Banker.

Beth Lisick is the author of four books, including the New York Times bestseller Everybody Into the Pool and the national bestseller Helping Me Help Myself. She has also made a few films, done some acting, and had a band, but one of her favorite projects is Porchlight, which she co-founded with Arline Klatte in 2002. Her comedic stage show with Tara Jepsen, Getting In On The Ground Floor and Staying There, premieres this summer at the Center for Sex and Culture.

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Writing from Experience
Tuesday, August 19
6-9pm
$50 ($45 for Intersection members)
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Your experiences, and how you process them, are what make you unique as an individual. They're also the most valuable things we can offerreaders. We'll talk about writing from experience in fiction and non-fiction, and how to use our lives as jumping off points and framing devices for the stories we tell about others. We'll also talk about the dangers of writing from experience and overcoming the blocks set in place (often unnecessarily) by our fears of exposure. We'll look at strategies for getting past those fears and for dealing with friends and relatives whose memories might be different from our own. Finally, we'll focus on unlocking our lives and the joy and value of integrating the worlds we know with the worlds we create.

Stephen Elliot is the author of six books including Happy Baby, a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lion Award as well as a best book of 2004 in Salon.com, Newsday, Chicago New City, the Journal News, and the Village Voice. In addition to writing fiction he frequently writes on politics. In 2004 he wrote Looking Forward To It, about the quest for the Democratic Presidential nomination. His most recent book is an almost all true sexual memoir called My Girlfriend Comes To The City And Beats Me Up. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is a member of the San Francisco Writer's Grotto.


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ONGOING WORKSHOPS & EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

The Intersection Incubator Workshops
The Intersection Incubator currently provides FREE workshops to its Incubator Members. These include orientation meetings on specific grant applications through Nancy E. Quinn Associates; classes in grant-seeking through the Foundation Center; courses in arts marketing and special events planning through the Business Arts Council; workshops on legal issues through California Lawyers for the Arts; and classes on a wide range of arts management topics through the East Bay Resource Center for Nonprofit Support, Theatre Bay Area, and the Small Business Administration.

Arts Training Internships
Our Arts Training Internship Program provides: an opportunity to work in a creative atmosphere with artists, writers, and performers; experience in the non-profit arts world; the chance to build contacts and working relationships in the Bay Area art community; school credit; and recommendations. Intersection can be a resource for the intern to learn about any and all facets of arts and nonprofit management. He or she will gain skills that can be used in future positions. The Intersection staff is happy to assist with resume development and future job placement.

Gallery Tours
Intersection offers FREE gallery tours of its exhibitions and installations to educators, students and community groups. We also offer public programs in our gallery in conjunctions with our exhibitions, which include lectures, gallery talks, panel discussions, performances, readings and film screenings by artists, critics and scholars. For further information, please contact Intersection's Program Director Rebeka Rodriguez.