 
Photograph by Amy Braswell, Art Project for GirlSpeak, all images can be viewed on Webzine, along with a video of the performance.
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Young Chicago Authors Newsletter
Word of Mouth, August 2010
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Calendar of Events:
GirlSpeak/ BoyThink
Webzine Release Party
Thursday, August 5th
Harold Washington Library
You Media Center
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Saturday Writing Program
Deadline for applications
August 31st 2010
Youth Media Conference
Teacher Deadline
August 31st 2010
All Star Performances
Tuesday, August 3rd Picasso at Daley Plaza
50 West Washington Street
4:00pm
Tuesday, August 3rd
Tribune Tower
435 North Michigan Avenue
5:00pm
Thursday, August 5th
Graceland Cemetery 4001 North Clark Street
4:00pm
Thursday, August 5th
Margie's Candies
1960 North Western Avenue 6:00pm
Tuesday, August 10th
Redline from Howard to 95th Street
4:00pm
Thursday, August 12th Osaka Garden
5800 South Lake Shore Drive
4:00pm
SAVE THE DATE
YCA Holiday Book Bash
Friday, December 3, 2010
Further details to follow.
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Greetings!
We want to congratulate the LTAB Slam Finalists, Kuumba Lynx Team at getting to the semi-finals at Brave New Voices last week. The LTAB documentary will be screening in Los Angeles and New York as part of Docuweeks and we encourage you to tell all your friends and family who are there to go see it. The Youth Media Council has started to get-together to plan the Fall
2010 conference on Whose Body Is This? We are now accepting
applications for the Saturday Writing Program for 2010-2011 and for the Say What Board.
The summer has been a busy, creative month for us all at YCA. GirlSpeak and BoyThink have been digging deep into the issues that affect young women and young men in today's society. The Say What Board are in the developmental stages of Issue 10. To find out more about our innovative approaches to developing journalism please scroll down further.
We would like to give a warm welcome Julie Sutter, CEO of the Association of Prospect Researchers for Advancement to our Board of Directors and we look forward to working with you.
Yours Sincerely
Carron Little
Young Chicago Authors
(773) 486-4331 ext.15
carron@yougnchicagoauthors.org
"Young Chicago Authors transforms the lives of
young people by cultivating their voices through writing,
publication and performance education."
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GirlSpeak/BoyThink Webzine
  Photographs by Morrie Bowie | Its been a busy summer with visiting artists and speakers coming into YCA to talk to the GirlSpeak and BoyThink groups. Brandee Butler from the MacArthur Foundation came into discuss philanthropy from an international perspective. Joseph Ravens gave an artist talk about censorship in art and representation of the body. Trips to the Charles Steffen exhibition at Intuit, Museum for Intuitive and Outsider Art and a boat trip filled with pirate stories organized by Great Lakes Young Writers. BoyThinkers went to Toni Fitzpatrick's studio to hear stories about growing up on the south side of Chicago and meet a professional artist at work. GirlSpeak went to Amy Braswell's photography studio to shoot and film their art project. The groups also had technology training at the New Media Center attached to Harold Washington Library with Mike Hawkins to help develop the Webzine. This was all in addition to writing, editing submissions, and putting the bloggs together ready for the Release of the Webzines on the August 5th.
'GirlSpeak has made me grow as a writer and as a person.'by Anita Wota'BoyThink has made me more aware of my sense of self and where we stand in this world.'
by Kevin Harris WEBZINE RELEASE PARTYYou Media,
Harold Washington Library,
Thursday, August 5th,
6:00pm-8:00pm
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Saturday Writing Program
| This is a free writing program available to all Chicago Area Youth who enjoy writing and want to use writing to transform their lives and others.
BIG TABLE DAY- COME MEET THE TEACHERS
Saturday, September 11th
Check out the classes offered and sign-up.
FIRST TRIMESTER BEGINS
Saturday, September 18th
Intro to Journalism
Intro to Poetry
Intro to Performance Poetry
Intro to Storytelling
Application Deadline: August 31st 2010
You can go to our website and fill in the application form and email it to lightfoot@youngchicagoauthors.org
For Further Information please contact
Toni Asante Lightfoot
Young Chicago Authors
(773) 486-4331 ext.12
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| Say What...
The group of young people who gathered to form the Say What Board this summer have been dynamic and engaging. It has been a real joy to be surrounded by their enthusiastic energy.
We are recruiting for the year long annual Say What Board for 2010-2011 to publish Issue 10.
For more information please contact:
Natasha Tarpley
Young Chicago Authors
(773) 486-4331 ext.15
natasha@youngchicagoauthors.org
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YOUTH MEDIA CONFERENCE FALL
WHOSE BODY IS THIS?
| We want to thank film-makers Junko Kajino and Ed M Koziarski for screening their film 'The First Breath of Tengan Rei' and Megan Twohey, an investigative journalist from Chicago Tribune for presenting for our first Youth Council meeting. It was an inspirational evening for all.
The Youth Council will be meeting every two weeks throughout the summer firstly to discuss ideas related to the body and secondly, to start the planning of the Fall 2010 Youth Media Conference. If you are a young person who would like to get involved please contact:
Carron Little
Young Chicago Authors
(773) 486-4331 ext. 15
carron@youngchicagoauthors.org
TEACHER PROPOSALS FOR CONFERENCE
DEADLINE AUGUST 31ST 2010
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN FACILITATING A WORKSHOP PLEASE CONTACT CARRON LITTLE ON THE ABOVE INFORMATION.
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BRAVE NEW VOICES
This years Louder Than A Bomb winners Kuumba Lynx have just returned from the
Brave New Voices International Youth Slam in Los Angeles. The team
performed brilliantly, making it to the semi-finals. All the
participating youth and mentors had a truly transformational experience.
The finals were hosted by Common and Rosario Dawson, and featured an
impromptu performance by Talib Kweli. We look forward to participating
in the 14th Annual BNV in San Francisco in the summer of 2011. But
first, we rest. Stay tuned for a special performance from the Kuumba
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| Check The Method  | The
two-week writing class of Check The Method has been highly productive, with over twenty
participating young poets from all over the Chicagoland area. Lots of
great poetry has been produced, and the youth have had the honor of
working with the legendary Dr. Margaret Burroughs - whose art is an inspiration. Alot of the work produced will be featured at an event in September dedicated to the important life and work of Dr. Burroughs. Stay
tuned for that. The work from this years summer program will be archived by
Chicago Public Media's Chicago Amplified audio archive. Please check out the link soon to be posted on our website and facebook page. |
| Freshman Connections
| Poets from YCA J.W. Baz and Eboni D. Logan have just completed teaching at Hope College Prep, Manley Academy and Von Steuben High School. Please visit our website to read the poetry produced by this project at:
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Louder Than A Bomb
| A documentary film
by Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel
Louder Than a Bomb tells the story of four Chicago high
school poetry teams as they prepare for and compete in the world's
largest youth slam. By turns hopeful and heartbreaking, the film
captures the tempestuous lives of these unforgettable kids, exploring
the ways writing shapes their world, and vice versa. While the topics
they tackle are often deeply personal, what they put into their
poems-and what they get out of them-is universal: the defining work of
finding one's voice.
Louder Than a Bomb premiered at the Cleveland International
Film Festival in March 2010, where it won both the Roxanne T. Mueller
Audience Choice Award for best film and the Greg Gund Memorial Standing
Up Film Competition for films that celebrate social justice and
activism. An official selection of the DocuWeeks Theatrical Documentary Showcase, Louder Than a Bomb
will also screen at the Woods Hole Film Festival in August, and was an
official selection of the Little Rock Film Festival in June.
For more information, contact ltab@siskeljacobs.com
Produced and Directed by
Greg Jacobs & Jon Siskel
Editor: John Farbrother
Director of Photography:
Stephan Mazurek
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| Google Alerts To Check Out:
| Chicago Amplified: YCA with Civic Symphony
http://www.wbez.org/Content.aspx?audioID=43005
Slideshow of YCA with Civic Symphony Orchestra
www.chicagopublicradio.org/Slideshow.apsx/slideshowID=350
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All Star Performance Schedule
| With the support of a generous grant from the Dreihaus Foundation, the members of LTAB's All Star Team have been participating in workshops at Chicago landmarks. The landmarks include the Picasso Sculpture at Daley Plaza, Margie's Candies, Graceland Cemetery, Tribune Tower, Osaka Garden, and the redline from Howard to 95th Street. In these workshops, the All Stars took inspiration from the landmarks as the basis for their writing. The All Stars will be publicly performing at the landmarks on the following dates:
Tuesday, August 3 4:00pm Picasso at Daley Plaza, 50 West Washington Street
(performance will take place directly in front of the
sculpture.) 5:00pm Tribune Tower, 435 North Michigan Avenue
(performance will take place in pioneer court, just south of
the tower.)
Thursday, August 5 4:00pm Graceland Cemetery, 4001 North Clark Street
(performance outside of the entrance) 6:00pm Margie's Candies, 1960 North Western Avenue
Tuesday, August 10 4:00pm Redline from Howard to 95th
(performance on the train)
Thursday, August 12 4:00pm Osaka Garden, 5800 South Lake Shore Drive
(behind the museum of science and industry)
"Struggle is a never ending process" Coretta Scott King
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Please come and join us for the premiere release of the GirlSpeak and BoyThink Webzine and follow the news on the LTAB Documentary. Most importantly please get involved, keep writing to create better awareness in the world.
If you would like to engage in any of our conversations please visit our blog at www.youngchicagoauthors.org
Yours Sincerely,
Carron Little
Young Chicago Authors
"Young Chicago Authors transforms the lives of
young people by cultivating their voices through writing,
publication and performance education."
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Young
Chicago Authors is grateful for support from Alphawood Foundation, Arts
Work Fund for Organizational Development, The Chicago Community Trust, C.N.A. Foundation, Chicago
Tribune Foundation, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs-City
Arts Program,Chicago Public Media (WBEZ 91.5FM), Columbia College Chicago, Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, The Leo S. Guthman Fund,
Illinois Arts Council, MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at The
Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, McCormick Foundation, National
Endowment for the Arts, Northern Trust Charitable Trust, The Poetry
Foundation, President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities,
Sahara Enterprises, Inc., Schopf & Weiss Charitable Giving Fund,
Speh Family Foundation, Spring Board Foundation, and contributions from many individual donors and community partners.
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