Workshops

An experienced and multi-award-winning playwright, author, poet, and essayist; as well as a tenured professor of English and Communications, Mwalim offers a variety of workshops and is available for artist/writer-in-residence projects to educational and community institutions and organizations including upper grade high school levels, colleges, universities, arts organizations, and continuing education programs.

A life-long social justice organizer, and Black arts and cultural scholar, Mwalim offers a range of workshops and presentations related to the exploration of the historic and present impacts of systemic racism, and traditional approaches of marginalized people and communities to survive and even thrive in this environment.

Offerings:

All workshops can be designed as a single presentation or custom designed as a residency (3 Days to 12 Weeks).

CREATIVE WORKSHOPS:

  • Writing For Solo Performance: Poetry, Storytelling and Monologues

  • Skit, Sketch, and Short Play Writing (Intro & Advanced)

  • Short Fiction Writing (Intro)

  • Digital Storytelling

  • Guerrilla Filmmaking

  • Theater Arts (Acting, Directing & Improvisation)

  • Song Writing & Music Composition

  • Jazz, Funk & Soul music clinics for student musicians (high school, college, and music academies).

 

DIVERSITY & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

  • Improvisational Theater As An Educational Tool

  • Strategies For Parents of BIPOC Students To Partnering With Schools

  • Transforming The Hood Into A Community

  • The BIPOC Artist and the American Cultural Plantation

  • Fathers Of Color As Single Parents In America

  • Social & Economic Development For BIPOC Artists

  • A BIPOC Guide To Navigating The American Social Mine Field

  • Black Studies For American History Teachers: There Is No Theory In Facts

  • Theater Arts Methods For Business People