GirlSpeak/BoyThink Release Party at Youmedia, Harold Washington Library
Photography by Stephen Flemister
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| Young Chicago Authors Newsletter
Word of Mouth, September 2010
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Calendar of Events:
Encyclopedia Show
Wednesday, September 1
Vittum Theater
1012 North Noble Street
7:30pm
Youth Media Council
Meeting
Tuesday, September 7
YCA Offices
1180 North Milwaukee Avenue
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Teacher Resource Fair
Thursday, September 9
YCA Offices
1180 North Milwaukee Avenue
4:00pm - 7:00pm
A Lyrical Tribute to
Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs
Friday, September 10
Ames Auditorium
Dusable Museum of African and American History
740 East 56th Place
Chicago IL 60637
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Big Table Day
Saturday, September 11
YCA Offices
1180 North Milwaukee Avenue
11:00am - 1:00pm
Saturday Writing Program Begins
Saturday, September 18
YCA Offices
1180 North Milwaukee Avenue
9:00am - 3:00pm
Youth Media Council
Meeting
Tuesday, September 21
YCA Offices
1180 North Milwaukee Avenue
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Passing The Mic
YCA Poets Perform
September 30 - October 1
University of Wisconsin
Madison
SAVE THE DATE
YCA Holiday Book Bash
Friday, December 3
Further details to follow.
Youth Media Conference
Friday, November 19
Venue
To Be Confirmed.
9:00am - 3:00pm
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Greetings!
Back to school is the fever on the streets, and at Young Chicago Authors we are gearing up for the beginning of the academic year. You can apply online for our Saturday Writing Program and Say What Editorial Board. For more information please scroll down further or visit our website at:
Issue 9 of our Say What Magazine will be ready for schools and we will have packs available for teachers at our Teacher's Resource Fair on September 9.
The LTAB Documentary has been selected for the Chicago Film Festival and nineteen other film festivals around the country. Watch this space for the announcement of screenings.
We wish you all a fruitful academic year, expanding the minds of tomorrow.
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,
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GirlSpeak/BoyThink Webzine
| The GirlSpeak and BoyThink Webzines are now available online.
The webzines have an annual life and we hope you keep submitting writing, artwork, videos throughout the year. There will be GirlSpeak and BoyThink Classes at the Youth Media Conference 2010. It is imperative that we keep these debates alive and as one student expressed at the release party:
'(GirlSpeak) touched me in ways I didn't know it could. This program has changed my life.'By Omaira Vega We want to thank the teaching artists, Krista Franklin, Sharrieff Muhammed, Adam Levin, Justin Wright and Carron Little for making this an unforgettable experience and to thank the many speakers, contributors and artists who came in to inspire throughout the six week program.
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Saturday Writing Program
| Meet the
staff and teaching artists who will be teaching the fabulous Saturday
Writing Program's first trimester classes. Learn how to earn Service
Learning Hours for Chicago Public Schools. Converse with some of the
professional writers who will be teaching the
programs. Roger Bonair Agard - poetry slam champion, published author,
arts organizer, one man show creater; Carron Little -
performance artist, poet, educator, art critic and organizer; Phillip VanLear -
actor, voice over artist, poet, and slam contender, and Jiton Davidson
- published fiction writer and educator.
A little food, a lotta of wondrous people, massive amounts of fun.
Sign up and begin the beguiling of the world with your words!
BIG TABLE DAY- COME MEET THE TEACHERS
Saturday, September 11th
11:00am - 1:00pm
YCA Offices
1180 North Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, IL, 60642
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
Apply online at: www.youngchicagoauthors.org
and go to Saturday Writing Program.
For Further Information please contact
Toni Asante Lightfoot
Young Chicago Authors
(773) 486-4331 ext.12
lightfoot@youngchicagoauthors.org
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| Say What Wants You!
Want to speak out, spark dialogue, question, create beauty, and effect change? Join Say What Magazine! Say What will
give you the tools and skills that you need to explore, document and
tell the stories that impact your lives and communities, and to express
yourselves creatively. With a national readership of over 20,000 and
nine issues published, Say What will
provide you with a professional publishing opportunity-which looks
great on college applications and resumes-as well as practical
information about the publishing industry!
Say What is currently recruiting students for its 2010-2011 Student
Editorial Board. Students can apply directly on the YCA website at:
http://youngchicagoauthors.org/boardmemberform.html.
The Editorial Board will resume meeting in late September.
Say What Summer Blog
The Say What Board had a busy summer. Our blog, featuring some of the writing that we did is up now at:
http://youngchicagoauthors.org/saywhatblog/
We will be announcing the official launch of Say What Magazine online this fall.
"We, the writers, editors and artists of Say What Magazine,
believe that young people are the only ones who can tell their own
stories and that each of us has that ability from birth. Say What
creates opportunities for young people to Use Their Words-to speak out, spark dialogue, question, create beauty and effect change." -Say What Editorial Board For information on any of the above please contact:
Natasha Tarpley
Young Chicago Authors
773.486.4331 x16
natasha@youngchicagoauthors.org
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| Teacher's Resource Fair
| We will be releasing the Say What Magazine and have free packs available for you to take back to your schools. We have a broad range of programming and would like to discuss with you what we can offer this academic year.
Would you like to enter Louder Than A Bomb and have a coach for your school slam team?
Would you like workshops in your school?
Do you have students who would be keen to join our Saturday Writing School which is free?
Would the young people you work with like to be apart of the Say What Editorial Board?
Would you like to be a part of the Youth Media Conference?
Would you like to arrange a night of fun with inspirational performers?
You make the date, we can organize for it to happen. Our hope is that we inject young people with enthusiasm for writing all over Chicagoland. Lets do it together!
Teacher's Resource Fair
Young Chicago Authors Offices
Thursday, September 9
4:00pm to 7:00pm
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Passing The Mic, Poetry Festival
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September 30 - October 1 2010
YCA
students will travel to Madison for this regional poetry festival as part of
the University of Wisconsin's First Wave Hip Hop Arts undergraduate
program. Our students will
participate in performances, workshops, and see the new work being
produced by the First Wavers, many of whom are graduates from YCA's
programs. It is a wonderful celebration of education!
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YOUTH MEDIA CONFERENCE FALL
WHOSE BODY IS THIS?
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We have now formed a phenomenal group of youth leaders to decide and create Chicago's Youth Media Conference. We had an inspirational training and planning session with Wide Angle Media from Baltimore where the Youth Council devised performances to go into schools, created a facebook page, and have designed publicity material.
At the next youth council meeting we will be making a promo video to take into schools and deciding on the content of the conference in relation to the theme 'Whose Body Is This'.
Next Youth Media Council Meeting:
Tuesday, September 7
YCA Offices
1180 North Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, IL, 60642
7:00pm to 9:00pm
The deadline for teaching proposals was August 31 but if you are keen and would like to be a part of this amazing event exploring issues around the racialized, latinoized, sexualized and differently abled body in relation to media representation, please contact:
Carron Little
Young Chicago Authors
(773) 486-4331 ext. 15
carron@youngchicagoauthors.org
'Building a space to celebrate youth voice and youth culture.'
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Encyclopedia Show
| September 1 2010
The Vittum Theatre
1012 N Noble Street
Show begins at 7:30PM
Tickets are a veritable bargain at $6
Doors at 7:15PM.
The
season premier of our third season. This month features the topic THE
PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS. The cast includes National Poetry Slam champs
and finalists, comedians, the winner of last year's LTAB MC Olympics
and an interview with New York Times Best-selling author Sam Kean ( samkean.com). Full details here: http://www.encyclopediashow.com/EncyclopediaShow/This_Month.html |
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Louder Than A Bomb
| A documentary film
by Greg Jacobs and Jon SiskelThe Louder Than A Bomb documentary has been selected along with twenty others to be a part of Chicago Film Festival and nineteen other Film Festivals around the country.
http://www.chicagofilmfestival.com/news/display_news.php?article=46th_chicago_international_film_
festival_sneak_preview
Produced and Directed by
Greg Jacobs & Jon Siskel
Editor: John Farbrother
Director of Photography:
Stephan Mazurek
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All Star Landmarks
| Find out what the All Stars have been up to this summer at our website:
http://youngchicagoauthors.org/blog/?page_id=469
You can download their poetry and check out this space for the release party announcement.
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| Google Alerts To Check Out:
| Check The Method · Young Chicago Authors
youngchicagoauthors.org/blog/?page_id=421
Louder Than A Bomb ? Independent Documentary Review
Suite101.com
Ten years ago, the Young Chicago Authors, a youth-oriented creative writing and literacy organization, started Louder Than A Bomb, which would become the ...
Suite101.com
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| A Lyrical Tribute To Dr. Margaret Burroughs.
 | Friday, September 10 2010
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Ames Auditorium
Dusable Museum of African and American History
740 East 56th Place
Chicago IL 60637
Featured Poets:
Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs
Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti
Kevin Coval
Quraysh Ali Lansana
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After two weeks in a creative workshop at the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Southside Community Arts Center, participants in The Check The Method program will present their poetry inspired by the artwork and writing of Dr. Burroughs. Please join us for this very special event. No registration required and admission is free. The event is presented by the collaborative Programs Subcommittee of Legends and Legacy Award Celebration Committee. The Legends and Legacy Award will be presented to Dr. Margaret Burroughs in a celebration on Friday, October 22 at The Art Institute of Chicago. To order tickets to The Legends and Legacy Award please visit: www.artic.edu/legendsandlegacy2010 |
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Staff and Teaching Artists
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Robbie Q Telfer will be performing at
Molly Malone's, Monday, September 13th
7:00 pm Open Mic sign-up 7:30pm Open Mic 9:00pm Featured Reader 7652 Madison Street, Forest Park $5 if you can, $3 if you can't
Also Robbie Q Telfer will be the Judge at the 4th Annual Book Cellar Spelling Bee Awards on Friday, September 17, 7:00pm at
4736-38 North Lincoln Avenue.
Carron Little is performing at the Renegrade Art Fair with Hanh Pham as
part of Pham's recycle piece on Sunday, September 12th from 2:00pm - 6:00pm.
Carron Little will be performing at Links Hall on Sunday, September 19, with the Incubator Poets, 2010 Edition of Tour Guides.
We are devising a script on the real and the raw stories of Chicago. After the performance there will be a question and answer session to get the audiences feedback prior to the fall run in December.
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Erica Dickerson 'This Side of Mourning'  Photo by Morrie Bowie
The summer months have created on excitement in the offices expanding into celebrations around the city. Former student Erica Dickerson's book launch and art exhibition at the Silver Room entitled This Side of Mourning was a collage of all the great poetic voices in the city. Mentors and students performed together, radiating the brilliance of the creative community that expands beyond the doors of Young Chicago Authors. Erica's confidence and self-esteem being an inspiration to her peers and mentors alike.
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, C.N.A. Foundation, The Chicago
Community Trust, Chicago Tribune Foundation, The City of Chicago
Department of Cultural Affairs-CityArts Program 2, Chicago Public Media
(WBEZ 91.5 FM), 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, The Poetry Foundation, President's
Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, The Richard H. Driehaus
Foundation, Sahara Enterprises, Inc., Schopf & Weiss Charitable
Giving Fund, Speh Family Foundation, and contributions from many
individual donors and community partners.
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