During the summer of 2008, the Drammeh Institute, in cooperation with award winning filmmakers, spoken word artists and other personalities will launch its six week intensive course in filmmaking and spoken word development for high school youth in the Co-op City and Throggs Neck areas of the Bronx. 

Through support from the United Way of New York City, Tekserve authorized Apple specialists, and Urban Word NYC, this project aims to create intergenerational exchanges where youth have the unprecedented opportunity to work one on one with industry professionals to develop personal works.

As a literary intensive project, the program instructs on ways of seeing that strengthen communication skills and approaches to, articulating visually through film, and linguistically through the spoken word.  

With this interdisciplinary approach, students will explore content that is relevant to their lives, which has been proven to be the most effective way to motivate learning processes.

By defining the world around them and creating original works, students can transform technology and literary content into powerful instruments of communication.