Youth Speaks

Youth Speaks present the annual…

Unified District Poetry Slam (UDPS) Championship

Friday, February 26
7:00pm
Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library
100 Larkin Street, San Francisco
Free & Open to the public!

Come witness the skill and power as the top 6 high school poetry slam teams from across the Bay Area perform for the title of Youth Speaks’ Unified District Slam champion!

For the first time ever, the District Slam is a team slam, so each school has a team of 4-5 poets representing them. Now open to schools beyond San Francisco and Oakland, this year’s slam includes teams from across the East Bay, North Bay, and Peninsula. Preliminary slam bouts take place the week of February 15 at the deYoung Museum and Laney College.

For more info, email jhealey@youthspeaks.org

In partnership with the San Francisco Unified School District, Oakland Unified School District, deYoung Museum, Theater Department of Laney College, and the San Francisco Public Library.

Participating schools include:

SFUSD

• Balboa High School
• Downtown High School
• Wallenberg High School
• June Jordan School for Equity
• Burton High School
• Gateway High School
• O’Connell High School
• Galileo High School

OUSD

• Oakland School for the Arts
• McClymonds High School
• Life Academy
• Oakland High School
• Farwest High School
• Skyline High School
• East Oakland School of the Arts (EOSA)
• Metwest High School

S.L.A.M. Union

• San Leandro High School
• Cal Prep Academy (Berkeley)
• Tennyson High School (Hayward)
• Berkeley High School
• Sonoma Academy
• Irvington High School(Fremont)
• San Lorenzo High School
• El Camino High School (South SF)
• Kennedy High School (Richmond)
• College Park High School (Pleasant Hill)