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Youth Speaks Free Writing Workshops / Summer 2010

Mondays 5pm – 7pm starts June 7th. One Mic’s Urban Prophets will help grow a movement of young people utilizing word, sound, and po wer to tell their stories and help create change in their worlds—spiritually, politically, and artistically.

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Youth Speaks: Auditions for PAID Poet-Mentor positions: July 1, 2010

We’re currently HIRING for additions to our School Visit team and Poet Mentors for the 2010-2011 school year! We are seeking Bay Area-based poets, spoken word artists, emcees, teaching artists, and hip-hop educators who are interested in joining us to help young people find, develop, and share their voice through the written and spoken word.

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Free After School Workshops / Spring 2010

We must become something we have never been and or which our education and experience and environment have ill-prepared us. WE MUST BECOME BIGGER THAN WE BEEN: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook… owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to… the human community.” -Haile Selassie

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Grand Slam Finals 14, at the Historic Warfield Theatre

The Grand Slam Finals at the Historic Warfield Theatre. This will SELL OUT!
Join hundreds of poets & fans from throughout the bay as they vie for a spot on the 2010 Brave New Voices Los Angeles.
Talk about transformation… this is the stuff you only find in Super Hero’s!
Get your tickets now.
$18 General Admission
$6 [...]

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14th Annual Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam: SEMI-FINALS (TIX!)

This is the Semi-Finals! 500 bout it out for 18 spots, and a chance to perform at the Grand Slam Finals at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco on Saturday, April 3rd. Get your Tickets early! They Sell Out EVERY YEAR!

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