I wanted to ask you if your restaurant could offer a promotion for the participants in the annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam? They will have shows throughout the week at about 10 different Downtown venues with about 750 youth competing, and over 10,000 people attending the different events. The event organizers give the youth participants small booklets with information about how to find the different venues, etc. and will definitely highlight the restaurants giving participants discounts. Would you be willing to offer a 10-20% discount to the approximately 750 youth participating in the International Poetry Slam to food at your restaurant?

Background on Brave New Voices:

Brave New Voices has youth participants from all across the United States and Europe, making it the largest ongoing spoken word event in the world.

Brave New Voices 2012 brings together young artists, outspoken activists, educators, poets, and emerging leaders to the San Francisco Bay Area to participate in a celebration and demonstration of free speech, artistic empowerment, and youth voice.

This festival will create forums for dialogue, provide workshops for open and free expression, and facilitate conversations formally and informally that foster artistic and personal growth. BNV pulls together young people from throughout the United States and several international countries who celebrating literature and empower themselves through the written and spoken word. Brave New Voices reflects diversity as a value, crossing and challenging notions of ethnic, racial, and socio-economic division. Brave New Voices is for a generation of young people who reflect a new ethic of mutual respect, cross-cultural communication, sincere expression, social justice and radical love. Brave New Voices is for youth who speak for themselves.

Brave New Voices focuses primarily on the power of young peoples' voices both on and off the stage, and offers the chance for the next generation to speak about issues of education, detention, immigration, arts, politics and the environments in which we live.

Thanks so much for considering supporting this amazing event!

Best,

Shifra

 

Shifra de Benedictis-Kessner
Program Assistant
Downtown Berkeley Association
2230 Shattuck Ave. Suite C
Berkeley, CA 94704
510.549.2230 x10
shifra@downtownberkeley.com

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