Literature & Writing
Interested in enhancing your writing skills? Join us for creative writing workshops, and be driven by the passion and energy of the JCCSF community.
Get help from a volunteer facilitator to polish off your existing work or simply get some first words together. Apart from gaining skills, you’ll gain new friends as you work through the creative process together.
This group will be meeting online. Please reach out to Shiva Schulz at [email protected] to find out how.
2020 – 2021 Creative Writing Class Anthology
The collection below is a sampling of pieces contributed by many of the writers who attended our online creative writing workshops during the pandemic. Enjoy!
Schedule
June 2026
Arts & Ideas
Jewish Painters: On the Forefront of Abstract Expressionism
Date
Tuesday, June 23
Time
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Learn about Helen Frankenthaler and other Jewish women and men artists who had a significant impact on this midcentury ...
July 2026
Arts & Ideas
Matinee Movie: Yankee Doodle Dandy
Date
Thursday, July 2
Time
1:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Celebrate America’s 250th anniversary by enjoying this patriotic classic in state-of-the-art sound and video in the ...
Arts & Ideas
Star Spangled Song & Dance of WWII
Date
Tuesday, July 7
Time
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Appreciate the powerful significance of the topical songs and movie musicals that sustained and uplifted spirits ...
Arts & Ideas
I Hear America Singing: American Opera in the Mid-20th Century
Date
Thursday, July 9
Time
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
American opera came into its own in the mid-1900s. Explore how American composers created a markedly new operatic style.
Arts & Ideas
Early Elvis: Meteoric Rise to Stardom
Date
Thursday, July 16
Time
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Thrill to footage of Elvis’s classics from the '50s that laid the groundwork for him being anointed the King of Rock ...
Arts & Ideas
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Date
Friday, July 17 – Sunday, July 26
Time
12:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Rooted in a shared commitment to vibrant Jewish storytelling and cultural life, this collaboration kicks off the the ...
Arts & Ideas
Vashti to Ginsburg: A Tradition of Jewish Female Resistance
Date
Thursday, July 30
Time
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Discover a powerful lineage of Jewish women who challenged norms, claimed their voices, and redefined what it means to ...
August 2026
Arts & Ideas
Henri Matisse: The Decade That Shook the Art World
Date
Thursday, August 13
Time
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Get insight into the shock and awe that Matisse and the Fauves sparked at the Salon in Paris as he re-invented the rules ...
Arts & Ideas
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: America Gets Tested
Date
Tuesday, August 18
Time
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators assassinated the 16th President in April 1865. We’ll investigate their ...
Arts & Ideas
The Assassination of President Kennedy: An Investigation
Date
Wednesday, August 26
Time
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
It’s been 63 years since the assassination of a US president. We're still fascinated by questions such as who fired ...
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