BlogSpeak: FREEDOM – creating websites for our imprisoned love ones!

Saturdays. July 25th, Aug 1st & Aug 8th, 12 – 3PM

Websites are a useful tool to communicate across the walls, connect imprisoned people to their communities outside, and support campaigns for their release. In this series of three 3 hours hands-on workshop, we will build creative and easy to manage websites for our incarcerated loved ones. The workshops will cover conceptualizing and customizing a WordPress blog and how to incorporate text and digital media such as (letters, poems, legal documents, photographs, audio and videos). These websites will be featured in the A Living Chance project and other prisoner rights/anti-prison campaigns. Join us to learn how to build a website and to meet other people fighting for their loved one’s freedom.

Things to bring: laptop, photos, drawings, documents, and audio/visual materials. If you don’t have a computer, let us know. We will try to help you find one for the workshop.

Location:
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Room for Big Ideas: CONCEIVING PLACE
SPARKmakers Thinkering School
701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

Free Admission

RSVP the facilitators – Limited for 6 participants.

Facilitators: artists-activists, Adrienne Skye Roberts and Mabel Negrete (cns)

Day 2 – How to Manage the Dashboard of your WordPress website! – 12-3PM

½ hour – 12-12:30PM

1. Introductions:

a) Go around

b) About the workshop in general

2 hours – 12:30-2:30PM

2. Workshop:

a) Visualizing Layout – Using the Feedback from workshop Day – 1!

b) Sign up for WordPress account at http://wordpress.com, play around, experiment!

c) Introduction to how to use the dashboard and set up the website.

½ hour – 2:30 – 3:00PM

3.  Check-out, feedback, cleanup next week!

Day 1 : Conceptualizing Our Websites | 12-3PM

½ hour – 12-12:30PM

1. Introductions:

a) Go around

b) About the workshop in general

2 hours – 12:30-2:30PM

2. Workshop:

a) Group Storytelling / Brainstorming – One share his/her/them story and others take notes for feedback on content!

½ hour – 2:30 – 3:00PM

3.  Check-out, feedback, cleanup next week!