The Wordshop also offers a Pre-Mothers-Day Celebration in May, which features great activities such as paint-and-sip, Bingo, food, music, and poetry. All of our events have wonderful vendors, and plenty of surprises. The largest event offered by the Wordshop for the past twenty-five years is our annual Kwanzaa Celebration, which is usually held the second Saturday of December. In 2024, Kwanzaa was held in the gymnasium of The Nativity School. Kwanzaa always features, African Dance and Drumming, a Fashion Show, Community Leaders Awards ceremony, vendors, food, and guest artist. This event has something for the whole family and has attracted more than a thousand participants each year. The Wordshop also offers The Griot Collective, which is dedicated to the art of African Storytelling. The Griot Collective offers programs throughout the year by request at special community events, during our Black History events, the International Storytelling Festival, our Juneteenth and Kwanzaa Celebrations the Wordshop provides Leadership and mentoring for the Greater Harrisburg NAACP ACT-SO Program, and for gold medal winners in the local NAACP ACT-SO Competition, who will compete in the national competition. All winners in the areas of written poetry performance, oratory, essay, and dramatics are given the opportunity to work with one of our professional writers and poets, to prepare for the national competitions.

The Wordshop has published three Anthologies, which featured local and national writers. The Anthologies have included high school students in the publications. The Wordshop has partnered with the Harrisburg Police Athletic League (PAL) to provide writing workshops, publishing opportunities, and performance platforms for youth ages 4 th through 12 th grades. In 2019, the Wordshop escorted eight students from the PAL program to the National PAL Youth Convention in Washington, D.C. The Wordshop has partnered with the Harrisburg School District to offer writing and poetry workshops to their After-School program participants for more than fifteen years. The Wordshop served as Poets-In-Residence for the Camp Curtin YMCA for five years. We worked with more than eight-hundred youth over a Five-year period. The Wordshop produced six plays written by Founder and Director Nathaniel Gadsden. The Wordshop also sponsored twelve plays which were written by local and national playwriters. The Wordshop was a residential company of the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts for five years. Nathaniel Gadsden wrote the official poem for the Whitaker Center. The Wordshop participated in the grand opening of the Whitaker Center with a Choreopoem, featuring the original poetry of twenty-five Wordshop poets.

Nathaniel Gadsden was named Poet Laureate for the City of Harrisburg, by Mayor Stephen R. Reed, 1998 – 2002. Claude Lewis, Esq., a long-time member of the Wordshop was Poet Laureate for the city from 2002 – 2006. Iya Isoke, a long-time member of the Wordshop, served two terms as Poet Laureate from 2006 to 20014 Over the past forty-eight years, the Wordshop has featured such national Poets as Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez, Kwame Alexander, E. Ethelbert Miller, Oliver LaGrone, Ethridge Knight, Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, Haki R. Madhubuti, and Naomi Long Madgett.