Workshops

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Monday, November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Instructor: Scribe staff
Cost: Free
Scribe's staff is available to answer your questions and provide details about all our programs. 
Billie Holiday Singing
Saturday, November 22, 2025, 10:00 AM- 12:00 PM
Instructor: Faye Anderson
Cost: Free, Registration Required
  Join Fall of Freedom, a nationwide wave of creative resistance to censorship, authoritarian control, and whitewashing of history.   Led by Dread Scott and Lynn Nottage, Fall of…
Sound Board
Saturday, November 22, 2025, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Instructor: JT Takagi
Cost: $35, $20 for Scribe members
JT Takagi is a NY-based filmmaker and a sound recordist on documentaries, with credits on numerous PBS films, including the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning Strong Island. Takagi also directs Third…
filming
5 Sessions - Tuesdays, December, 9,16 & 23, 2025 and January 6 & 13, 2026, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Instructor: Louis Massiah
Cost: $125, $100 for Scribe members
Turn your documentary idea into a workable shooting script. This workshop covers research, developing and visualizing ideas, scripting, and storytelling techniques. Participants must submit a one-…
paper cuts
2 Sessions - Wednesdays, December 10 & 17, 2025, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Instructor: Valerie Keller
Cost: $60, $45 for Scribe members
What’s a filmmaker to do when they have a lot of footage but not a lot of time (or money) to edit? Paper edits. Paper edits allow you to visualize and “read” your work before you invest time in an…
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Monday, January 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Instructor: Scribe staff
Cost: Free
Scribe's staff is available to answer your questions and provide details about all our programs. 
screen
6 Sessions - Mondays, January 5, 12 & 26 and February 2, 9 & 16, 2026, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Instructor: Ryan Saunders
Cost: $135, $100 for Scribe members
This workshop teaches participants essential skills needed to edit any video in Premiere Pro, whether it’s a three-minute trailer or an hour-long documentary. Participants learn how to skillfully…
TVs
4 Sessions - Wednesdays, January 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2026, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Instructor: Rashid Zakat
Cost: $150, $100 for Scribe members
  Explore how emerging AI tools can expand access and possibilities within video art and filmmaking, from writing and ideating using ChatGPT and Claude to mood boarding and visual…
graphics
4 Sessions - Thursdays, January 8, 15, 22 & 29, 2026, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Instructor: Gabriel Coffey
Cost: $150, $100 for Scribe members
This workshop will focus on the fundamental principles of animation for video.  Using After Effects, students will learn how to create titles, kinetic typography, and simple compositing to…
Water Born
4 Sessions - Saturdays, January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2026, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Instructor: Lowell Boston
Cost: $100, $80 for Scribe members
In dreams, and in animation, anything is possible. In this workshop, you will be encouraged to visualize a dream (in the broadest sense) through animation. Animator, filmmaker, and college professor…
camera
2 Sessions - Wednesdays, February 4 & 11, 2026, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Instructor: Hébert Peck
Cost: $50, $35 for Scribe members
Prepare for your upcoming production by learning organizational strategies to break down your script or treatment into an achievable shooting schedule. Learn how to plan, organize and execute your…
remembering
Thursday, February 26, 2026, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Instructor: Yvonne Welbon
Cost: $15, $5 for Scribe members
  Yvonne Welbon is an award-winning filmmaker and the founder and CEO of the Chicago-based non-profit Sisters in Cinema. In this Special Learning Session, Yvonne Welbon will discuss the…