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 held 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 with a favorite rapper in mind and to have digital access to the artist’s lyrics (to reference during the workshop). The workshop is open to students, faculty, staff and administrators.

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 of the 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. He also teaches English-225, Reading Literature: Culture and Ideas, with a theme of hip hop activist literature. In addition, Lessner 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 p.m. if you need accommodations to participate.

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