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
July 2026
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
Given Names
Date
Friday, July 17
Time
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Thirteen people tell their stories through their first names. Their answers blend personal histories with broader ...
Arts & Ideas
Where To?
Date
Sunday, July 19
Time
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
A Palestinian Uber driver and a lost young Israeli cross paths during a series of taxi rides through Berlin, leading to ...
Arts & Ideas
Landscapes of Memory
Date
Monday, July 20
Time
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
While living and working in Germany, filmmaker Leah Galant reckons with family trauma and the the historical memory of ...
Arts & Ideas
The Soundman
Date
Tuesday, July 21
Time
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Set at a Brussels radio station on the eve of the 1940 German invasion, this tragicomic story of the intertwined ...
Arts & Ideas
Amazing Live Sea Monkeys
Date
Wednesday, July 22
Time
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM
A widow fights powerful corporations to reclaim her late husband’s famous Sea-Monkeys toy empire while protecting its ...
Arts & Ideas
I Don't Know What I'm Doing Here
Date
Friday, July 24
Time
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Guided by her grandmother’s unmarked photographs, an American college student journeys through Romania, searching for ...
Arts & Ideas
Oxygen
Date
Saturday, July 25
Time
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Anat, a schoolteacher, awaits her son Ido’s army discharge. When a new war erupts and she learns he has volunteered to ...
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