Bring your journaling to life in this group workshop series for beginning playwrights, ages 55 and up. Playwrights Project Founder Deborah Salzer guides the process. Learn playwriting techniques, as you write short plays depicting moments from your life.

Sessions involve six 90-minute instructional sessions, and one 90-minute performance with professional actors reading short scripts created in the sessions. Up to 12 participants. No playwriting experience necessary. Cost: $180/person.

To sign up, call or email Playwrights Project
(858) 384-2970 or write@playwrightsproject.org

Join us for WordPlay Tuesday, where local writers, Vince Ripol, Rio Villa, and Lizzie Silverman, will hear short segments of their new works read out loud in a relaxed "open-mic" style setting in front of a friendly audience.

Actors - we want to remind you what a great opportunity this is to brush up on your cold reading skills! Arrive early - around 7:30pm - to hear the writers announce their casting needs, then volunteer for a part.

Anyone who is a fan of watching new works come to life is invited to join the conversation. The readings are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Read more: www.diversionary.org/wordplay.html

Playwrights Project's founder Deborah Salzer is one of six women selected for the 5th Annual Women of Valor, a celebration of San Diego's Jewish Women. This year the women's inspirational stories will be told in a world premiere staged reading.

Proceeds from the reading benefit Torah High, SCY High, and San Diego Jewish Academy.

Visit www.sdrep.org/jewish_festival.php for more information.

Join us for staged readings of plays drawn from community members living along the US/Mexico border. Participants worked with playwright and anthropologist Olivia Ruiz to transform their stories into plays. This event is free and open to public.

Save the Date! Playwrights Project presents its 6th annual Deborah Salzer Excellence in Arts Education Award to Nicolas Reveles, esteemed musician, educator, and Education Director of the San Diego Opera. Join us for a lively evening of stories, memories, accolades, and fun!

Contact Playwrights Project with your email address to receive an invitation:
(858) 384-2970 or write@playwrightsproject.org

Tune into 1 Talk Network for an interview with 94 year old Lifestages participant , Calvin Jones. Mr. Jones, born in 1919, is a poet, a writer, an entertainer and so much more! He traveled the world as a merchant marine and received his college degree while serving time in Leavenworth Prison for robbery. Listen to this amazing individual all this week, including Saturday and Sunday on http://www.1talknetwork.com/ at 7am and 1pm.

We are proud to be a beneficiary of Qualcomm, which enables us to provide playwriting and live theatre programs to at-risk youth. And we are inspired to be included in the California Arts Council's award to the William James Association, which will provide Arts & Corrections services in a wide variety of arts disciplines in several correctional facilities throughout the state. This support will enable us to expand our programming for incarcerated adults. Check out this KPBS interview to learn more about some of the local programs that are part of this statewide effort.

We are also happy to announce recent grants from the Pratt Memorial Fund and the City of Encinitas & the Mizel Family Foundation.