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Two Stilll Waters Collective Teens to join Brave NewVoices this Summer
Angela Thompson, a senior at Riverside High School, and Nicole White, a junior atMilwaukee 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.==================================================================
HBO presents: Brave New Voices
A 7-episode series highlighting the voices of 21st Century AmericaNarrated by Queen LatifahAiring on HBO ll PM ET/PT Beginning Sunday, April 5th"Without language, we are nothing." -Jamaica Osorio & Ittai WongAll 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 showus 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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