Poetry Performance
Since 2012 Jarvis has performed for a wide range of audiences from concert venues to college campuses to charity fundraisers. Sharing his narrative as a queer Latin male born and raised in the San Jose Bay Area. He has performed at 5 nation slam poetry competitions, Albuquerque's South West Shoot Out, Los Angeles' Ink Slam Poetry Festival, New York's Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the Oakland Jazz Festival, San Francisco's de Young Museum, the San Jose Museum of Modern Art, for the Oakland Symphony Mixtape.
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Notable Performances:
San Jose Museum of Art
SPARKED at the Battery SF
Poets House NYC
Bowery Poetry Club
Write About Now
Content Magazine Pick-Up Party
LA’s Ink Slam Poetry Fest.
ABQ’s Southwest Shootout
Men and Boys of Color
Policy Summit
Oakland Metro Operahouse
Literary Pop at Fanime
De Young Museum
SFMOMA
Sonido Clash Music Fest.
The Oakland Jazz Fest.
Oakland Symphony Mixtape
Nuyorican Poets Café
Menlo College
San Francisco State
Bellarmine Academy’s
Latinx Conference
Marin Academy
Poets For Puerto Rico
Writing Workshop
With a BA in Creative Writing, Masters in Education from Harvard University, and over 6 years of in-classroom teaching artist experience, Jarvis has been bringing poetry/ spoken word education into classrooms and writers groups throughout the Bay Area. Jarvis has been a teaching artist for SFJAZZ, Youth Speaks, MACLA / Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, & Future Arts Now. His workshops focus on facilitating introductory generative writing experiences where students explore personal narrative storytelling, community building, communication literacy development, and public speaking skills.
Let’s figure out a workshop I can facilitate tailored to your writer’s needs.
Noteable Workshops
Community Works
Project WHAT!
Men and Boys of Color
Youth Conference
Lighthouse Community
Charter School
Youth Speaks’
Emerging Poets Mentors
Digital Media & Culture
Studio at MACLA
SFJAZZ
Jazz In The Middle
Marin Academy Writers Conference
DMC Studio x Acer
826 Boston
Poetry Center San Jose
Poets at Play
Summer Bridge (SFUSD)
Echos Of Hope (USC)
Drew School (SF)
Future Arts Now
Workshop Lesson Plans and Curriculum
As a seasoned teaching artist with a Ed.M from Harvard I have developed a unique skill of developing lesson plans and curriculum sets intended to generate new writing, practice performance techniques, and gain a entry level understanding of spoken word poetry. For over 6 years I have been creating personalized and original lesson plans for middle, high school, college, and adult level learners. Any of my premade lesson plans can be customed to fit the needs and experiences of your participants. Alternatively, I can create a specified lesson plan to tailor fit the scope of your workshop. Just send me a massage and tell me a little about what your looking for.
Download a Sample for use in your own workshop or classroom:
Hello Joy: A Classroom Guide
Resume
Curriculum Vitae (C/V)
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