Join the “Check Your Technique: Hip Hop Writing Workshop 2.0,” Nov. 15

Join Joshua Bruce and Steve Lessner for “Check Your Technique: Hip Hop Writing Workshop 2.0.”  Building on their previous workshop last spring, this interactive workshop will focus on the connections between Hip Hop and writing and invite participants to:

• explore a variety of rappers’ techniques of writing, invention and delivery,
• analyze a favorite rapper’s lines for their invention and delivery and
• create rap lyrics of their own.

Participants are encouraged to come to the workshop with a favorite rapper in mind and have access to this artist’s lyrics digitally to refer to during the workshop.  This workshop is open to students, faculty, staff and administration.

This event will be held Wednesday, November 15 from 1 p.m. until 2:15 p.m. at the Annandale Campus (CA-302).

Joshua Bruce is a NOVA alum who holds a degree in General Studies. Bruce displayed in-depth analyses and knowledge of Hip Hop artists, as well as poetic elements of Rap in writings produced for his completed English coursework at NOVA. Steve Lessner is an associate professor of English at the Annandale Campus where he teaches college composition courses using Hip Hop and popular music; as well as English-225: Reading Literature-Culture and Ideas with a theme of Hip Hop Activist Literature. Lessner also serves as a mentor for Man Up, NOVA’s first generation male mentoring program. 

Please contact Steve Lessner at SLessner@nvcc.edu by Friday, Nov. 10 at 12 pm. should you need accommodations to participate.

Submitted by:
Steve Lessner, AN-English, SLessner@nvcc.edu