“Youth Speaks partnered with Manifest Creative, a team of Bay Area filmmakers, photographers, and writers, to co-create a series of visual stories that take the viewer into the daily lives of four young poets. Whereas much of the media documenting youth spoken word focuses on polished stage performance, this multimedia installation gives a more nuanced…
VoiceWaves is a Long Beach youth-led journalism and media-training project. The youth are learning to report, write, and create digital journalism content. One of its graduates, Michael Lozano, is now managing editor of the project housed in offices at St. Luke’s Church at 7th and Atlantic Avenue. PalacioMagazine.com interviewed Michael and one of the students…
“Vacya Tipa is a passionate international school student whose service learning work with sea turtles in Lombok, Indonesia has been an ongoing project since she was in 6th Grade. She seeks to share the value of service learning, through her experiences, with others and highlight the power that service learning projects can have not only…
“Spoken Word Artist Gabriel Ramirez performs slam style poetry at The Poet WILL Be Televised!” For more, visit HERE
Ryse Youth Center poets remind us that there is power in naming ourselves as alive, as hope, and as our ancestors wildest dreams. “Everyone knows that the house caught fire / but they don’t know my descendants are birthed like a Phoenix / that these ashes are just a setting for the next generation to…
“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…
“Passionate about creative writing, Asfiyah Qadri is a student at JNIS IB who loves to read, write and act. Her article ‘Bor-Darr’ for the theme, Theatre Across Borders, was written for Thespo Ink, an initiative by QTP Entertainment, and was published on their website. Her love for theatre has drawn her to perform in plays…
Flashback; “Youth Speaks’ annual celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. held on January 16, 2018 at the Nourse Theater in San Francisco, CA”. Watch more at http://www.youthspeaks.org/MLK
“Born and raised in Brownsville, Texas, Sadie Hernandez is a force to be reckoned with. Her work focuses on reproductive healthcare policy and the inclusion of Xicanxs (Chicanos) in social justice spaces. Her name became a trending hashtag #StandWithSadie when she staged a 17-day protest against the Texas Governor in the summer for 2015. Since…
“From opinions about gun laws to issues of inequality and immigration tactics, middle and high school students with PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Lab asked teenagers across the country what is on their minds in the countdown to the 2018 midterms. Watch more at https://www.pbs.org/newshour/