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Creative Collaboration With Spoken Word

Creative Collaboration With Spoken Word

by Laura Garcia | Oct 9, 2019 | Art Start, Brooks, D97 Schools, Featured, Julian, News, OPEF Organization, OPEF Programs, Spoken Word

Brooks Middle School 7th graders are being encouraged to write poems about what’s important to them in their daily lives. Spoken Word teaching artist Mo Santiago, one of our latest Oak Park Education Foundation additions to the team, led last week’s class with...
Voices Shake the House at School of Rock

Voices Shake the House at School of Rock

by Laura Garcia | May 17, 2019 | Brooks, D97 Schools, Julian, News, Poetry Slam, Spoken Word

OPEF Spoken Word students shook the house at the School of Rock with their raw honesty and powerful words last week. The poetry slam, titled Respect the Mic, fostered creativity and self-expression while giving kids the opportunity to speak about their lives in a...
Spoken Word Residencies Start at the Middle School

Spoken Word Residencies Start at the Middle School

by Marta Segal Block | Oct 19, 2018 | Brooks, News, Spoken Word

  Fall is here and poetry is in the air. Seventh grade students in Ms. Stringham’s Language Arts classes at Brooks received the first Spoken Word residency of the year. Spoken Word artist Christian Robinson (also known as rapper Rich Robbins) met with...
Art Start at Village Hall

Art Start at Village Hall

by Marta Segal Block | Mar 22, 2018 | Art Start, Beye, Brooks, Irving, Lincoln, News, OPEF Programs

Thanks to Camille Wilson White, art from OPEF’s Art Start program is now hanging in the Oak Park Area Arts Council Hall Gallery at Village Hall. Artful Portraits (Brooks), Why Triangles? (Irving), Who Are the Peacemakers? (Lincoln) and Meditation, Yoga &...
Battle of the Bots thrills record crowd

Battle of the Bots thrills record crowd

by Mary Beth Hausken | Mar 12, 2018 | Battle of the Bots, Brooks, Julian, VEX Robotics

Slideshow photos of the tournament courtesy of Kristi Braun and other photographers. On Saturday, March 3, the OPEF 2018 Battle of the Bots set a number of records, including the most teams in attendance (42!) and the largest crowd of spectators ever. It also kept...
December competition slideshow

December competition slideshow

by Mary Beth Hausken | Jan 25, 2018 | Brooks, Julian, News, VEX Robotics

Select the photo below to see a slideshow of great photos courtesy of Kristi Braun from the OPEF VEX Robotics competition on 12/09/17.  
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