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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.
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.
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
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
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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!
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.
Youth Speaks Writing Workshops Winter 2010 Campaign
All workshops start the week of January 18
Winter 2010
Write. Speak. Live. Repeat.
MONDAYS Downtown Oakland YMCA
2350 Broadway Oakland, CA – a few blocks away from 19th St. BART – Starts January 18th – 4 pm
Build Your Body Like a Fortress w/ Leah-Joy [...]
Every year hundreds of Youth Poets, Performers and Emcees claim the stage, and the mic in the Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam. This year, in 6 different preliminary slam events throughout the bay area, poets will share their truths in an effort to make the finals stage.
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radical love (and other) letters is the theme! This year, keep the tradition alive by celebrating Dr. King’s birthday with the Bay Area’s leading youth spoken word artists and performers as they remember Dr. King and the other unsung heroes in the movement.