Network for New Music announces The Germantown Poetry Project (GPP), a new initiative pairing poets, composers and musicians with Germantown-area teens and adults, with the goal of creating new poetry and music for FREE public performances in April 2017.

Designed to enliven the public space at the Joseph E. Coleman Northwest Regional Library, the project invites Germantown/NW Philadelphia community members to participate in weekly workshops, creating poetry and music in a fun and informal setting. The poetry and musical material – infused with the broad theme of “community” and what that means to workshop participants – will be developed in the workshops, and used by the poets and composers in the creation of their new world premiere works.

Anyone can participate in these FREE workshops! Just come with an open mind and a desire to take part in the creative process. All events take place at the Coleman Library, in “the pit” space. Info about project events and artists, as well as videos of the workshop process, can be accessed at: http://www.networkfornewmusic.org/gpp/

The Germantown Poetry Project culminates in two free 2017 concerts, April 8 at the Parkway Central Library, and April 9 at the Joseph E. Coleman NW Regional Library in Germantown. Workshop participants will be invited to help perform the poetry at the concerts.