Warning: These powerful words may shock you into action. The poets (in no particular order): DaJona Butler Anaya Frazier Kennedy Harris. This performance is from Grand Slam Finals held in Las Vegas, NV in July at the 2019 Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival by Young Chicago Authors representing Chicago, IL. 500 young people…
“Queeriosity, Youth Speaks’ annual showcase of LGBTQIA+ artists taking the stage to (re)frame perceptions of language, sexuality & gender.” Visit http://www.youthspeaks.org/Queeriosity for more.
“Created and produced by Youth Speaks, Brave New Voices is the nation’s first youth-centric poetry slam, and is the largest most diverse ongoing spoken word event in the world. Brave New Voices 2014 features over 500 Teen Poetry Slam Champions from 50 parts of the country and 5 additional cities from across the globe, representing…
“500 young people from across the world take center stage at the 21st Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival for a week of workshops, poetry slam, performances, and civic engagement from July 18 – 21, 2018 in Houston, TX. Brave New Voices brings the world’s leading young poets together to slam, dream,…
“http://www.bravenewvoices.org 500 young people from across the world take center stage at the 21st Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival for a week of workshops, poetry slam, performances, and civic engagement from July 18 – 21, 2018 in Houston, TX. Brave New Voices brings the world’s leading young poets together to slam,…
“500 young people from across the world take center stage at the 21st Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival for a week of workshops, poetry slam, performances, and civic engagement from July 18 – 21, 2018 in Houston, TX. Brave New Voices brings the world’s leading young poets together to slam, dream,…
“A look back at 20 years of Brave New Voices, the largest youth spoken word festival in the world. Watch as young poets from Brooklyn to Bermuda take center stage to get free through the power of poetry. Directed, shot and edited by Jamie DeWolf Documentary Film Crew Adam Parmalee | Camera – Steadi-Cam Operator…
“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.” – Raquel Willis, activist, and writer, quoting Audre Lorde. 600 young poets from around the world converged in the San Francisco Bay Area for the 20th…
Witness the magic of Brave New Voices. Listen to Yujane take a knife to US immigration forms, building a human narrative via the subversion of a cold beuqacratic text. 600 young poets from around the world converged in the San Francisco Bay Area for the 20th Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival….
Witness the magic of Brave New Voices. Listen do Deniero open up on the difficult subject matter of depression and mental illness. 600 young people from across the world take center stage at the 19th Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival for a week of workshops, poetry slam, performances, and civic engagement…