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Two Stilll Waters Collective Teens to join Brave New
Voices this Summer
Angela Thompson, a senior at Riverside High School, and Nicole
White, a junior at
Milwaukee High School of the Arts, will join four students from
Madison, WI, torepresent Team Wisconsin at the 12th Annual Brave
New Voices Festival &Competition.
Brave New Voices 2009 features over 500 Teen Poetry Slam
Champions from 45 partsof the country and 5 additional cities from
across the globe, representing over 50,000young poets in their
local communities. These young writers are a diverse,
creative,intelligent group of trend setting community and cultural
leaders. They come to BraveNew Voices each year not only to
compete, but to attend world-class workshops led byrenowned poets
and writers, participate in youth development programs, and
highlightthe voices of a new generation of leadership.
http://www.hbo.com/bravenewvoices/
Brave New Voices 2009 will take place in Chicago, IL from July
14 - 19.P: 415.255.9035 F: 415.255.9065. For more info visit
bravenewvoices.org.
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HBO presents: Brave New Voices
A 7-episode series highlighting the voices of 21st Century
AmericaNarrated by Queen Latifah
Airing on HBO ll PM ET/PT Beginning Sunday, April 5th
"Without language, we are nothing." -Jamaica Osorio & Ittai
Wong
All over the United States, a new generation of poets is
emerging. This new HBO seriescaptures teenagers picking up the pen
and taking hold of the microphone with passion,intelligence,
creativity, honesty and power. These voices of 21st Century
Americatranscend race, class, gender, orientation, and red
state/blue state politics as they show
us all what the next generation of leaders looks and sounds
like.
Brave New Voices is a new seven-part series that features
teenage poets and theirmentors from San Francisco, Philadelphia,
New York, Santa Fe, Ft. Lauderdale,Honolulu and Ann Arbor as they
prepare for Youth Speaks' 2008 Brave New VoicesInternational Youth
Poetry Slam Finals.
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These young poets represent a growing national movement
featuring thousands andthousands of teenagers writing and
performing spoken word as a way to have voice intheir communities
and in the nation as a whole. These are the Brave New Voices andthe
organizations that support them.
The youth represent an amazing blend of spoken word, hip-hop,
poetry, music, power,voice, imagination, and more. Brave New Voices
sheds light onto this largely unseenworld, putting an honest
spotlight on some of the most dynamic young adults in
thecountry.
The 2008 Brave New Voices Festival (BNV) was held in Washington,
D, just threemonths before the presidential election. In the shadow
of the White House, America'syouth challenged each other with words
and ideas.
For five outspoken days in July 2008, over 500 talented teen
poets and spoken wordartists from teams around the country joined
together for workshops, poetry readings,
late-night cyphers, political organizing, and of course, to vie
for top honors at theNational Youth Poetry Slam. They came from
urban, rural and suburban areas, from theDeep South, Native
American reservations, Hawaii, college towns and even from
acrossoceans. Their backgrounds were diverse, yet they shared a
passion for opening mindsand hearts - starting with their own..
For many of the poets, the BNV festival was an eye-opening,
life-changing experience.They left their family, got on a plane,
performed in front of a crowd of thousands andfound new
opportunities for growth and friendship beyond borders. Equally
life-changingwas the four-month journey to get ready for the
festival.
Eventually, one team rose above the rest to become the 2008
National Youth SlamPoetry Champion. But all were winners.
Join us for this unique four-month journey and listen to the
Brave New Voices of today.
Still Waters Collective300 W. Walnut St.Milwaukee, WI
53212414.265.1500 fax.265.1515
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Still Waters Open Mic Poetry SeriesTaste of Art Cafe, 4701 W.
Lisbon8 pm - 10:30 pmBuffet Dinner & Show - $10Show Only -
$5
