On Tuesday, April 18th, Spark House partnered with 651 ARTS to conduct a master class with their New Media Arts Fellows!  This years fellowship encouraged fellows to explore the works of Black Brooklyn artists, build their own platforms, tell their own stories, and critique and review work that speaks to them, all while considering how art can have major impacts on... Read More

Terrance J. (10th grade) reminds us of the terrifying beauty we may find when we take a good look inside ourselves in his original poem “Imagine the Unbelievable.” Take a look below: Imagine the Unbelievable we are the voices of those who can’t be heard misunderstood for who we are what if we are all... Read More

Beotis Creative & Button Poetry are celebrating National Poetry Month with a book giveaway! We’re happy to announce Spark House was selected to receive $75 in Button Poetry Books for our scholars. Many of these poets are taught in our classes, so we’re excited to gift our scholars with their complete collections. Thanks to all who nominated us and thank you,... Read More

On Thursday, March 30th, Frederick Douglass Academy III Scholars reclaimed narrative at their Culminating Event! The house was full of tears and cheers as scholars shared their brutal truths with a sold-out house at the Pregones Theater in the Bronx. For many of our scholars, this was the first time they’ve ever performed before an... Read More

On Wednesday, March 15th, special guest poet: Candice Iloh led two workshops on the power of affirmations for the scholars at Frederick Douglas Academy III in the Bronx! Scholars laughed, leaped, snapped, wrote, and shared their brutal truths. Thank you, Candice, for holding space in a way that was sacred and essential and bringing all that... Read More

Yesterday, The Center for Justice invited our founder to present on the ways in which we use narrative & transforming space as resistance at the 2017 Beyond the Bars Conference at Columbia University. Najee sat on a panel with Robyn Walker Murphy (Groundswell) and Christopher Sotto (Poet, Activist) to discuss art as activism. The room was full... Read More

Spark House presents Reclaiming Narrative: an evening of poetry and performance by Frederick Douglass Academy III scholars that examines the depth, complexity, and beauty of the personal story. For weeks, scholars have been introduced to and investigated historic and contemporary poets and poems that look and sound like them. And on Thursday, March 30th they’re entering the... Read More

We live in a world where anything and everything we thought to be a norm has been, and is, shifting rapidly. When scholars were posed with the question: how can poems inform/mobilize/transform our communities?… they responded with an outcry of social issues that affect them and those they love. Scholar, Alex C. (10th Grade), chooses to use... Read More

On December 13th we launched a 30-day crowdfunding campaign via StartSomeGood to jumpstart our Residency Programs. We’re excited to announce we not only met, but exceeded, our goal with a total of $11,175 raised to bring poetry & performance programs to NYC youth! And we couldn’t have done it without you. Thank you for the... Read More