The Crow offers teens the opportunity to find their personal point of view and comedic voice. This stand-up course helps young adults write their own material and learn the concepts of building a story, premise, and punch line all while building confidence in public speaking and communication. We work on stage presence, finding courage to keep going when the going gets rough, thinking on your feet, and finding the funny. This six week course meets once a week for two hours, culminating in a public stand-up/storytelling show on The Crow’s main stage.

TEEN CLASS SCHEDULE 2024

Saturdays, 2 - 4:30 PM 

Saturday, January 13

Saturday, January 20

Saturday, January 27 

Saturday, February 2

Saturday, February 9 

Saturday, February 16

Showcase: Friday, February 23 at 6pm

The ability to comfortably stand on a stage and truly connect to an audience is one of the greatest superpowers a young person can possess. When teenagers are able to develop not only their voice, but the ability to articulate and express themselves in a way that invites an audience to feel and understand their personal ethos, they can move mountains. Amanda Gorman, at age twenty-two, the youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration, used her ability as a wordsmith to be a national change-maker. The Crow’s owner and instructor of our teen programming, Nicole Blaine, believes that teaching young adults the skills of public speaking through comedy, joke structure, and meaningful storytelling is a deeply impactful way to set our future change-makers up for success. 

When we make an audience laugh, we can bring communities together and open their minds to different perspectives. Sometimes, simply being able to truly listen to each other and experience joy together helps foster social progress. We love using real, raw and revolutionary storytelling to create the world we want to live in.