Schools
Summer Camp for Echo Park's Young Literati
The Echo Park Branch of LA826 is keeping it campy with programs for kids all through the hot months.
Echo Park is lively with summer enrichment, not least of which is recreational writing. What? Yes.
EP's famous literary outpost, 826LA-Echo Park, fronted by the TIme Travel Mart, offers summer camp for kids -- as young as six, through high school.
LA826 Offers All Kinds of Camps
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There are English-language-learner camps. Playwrighting camp. 'Zine camp.
One caveat: the website is peculiar. I was only able to find info on the camps through the website because I knew they were there, and then I almost gave up.
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Here's a direct link to the information.
Echo Park Has Strong Literary Tradition
LA826-Echo Park builds on a long literary tradition in Echo Park and environs: Anais Nin, Theodore Sturgeon, Amy Gerstler, Benjamin Weisman, Elizabeth Stromme, Jonathan Lethem, Ixta Maya Murray, Brandon Skyhorse, Michael Connelly, D.L. Haney, Janet Fitch. for example.
They moved here -- or visited here -- from far away locales. The nonprofit 826LA, instead, is here to help EP build more of its writers from the hood on up.
