Brave New Futures July 8th National Youth Open Mic

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Friday | July 8 BRAVE NEW FUTURES FESTIVAL

All Events below are CC, ASL, PUB, Youth Access noted**

Friday July 8th
4:00 pm-6:00 pm | Opening and National Youth Open Mic | CC, ASL, PUB
Hosted by Dallas Fort Worth Writers & Poet Gabby Elvessie, and Brave New Futures Manager Carlynn Newhouse

Since 2013, Young DFW Writers, Inc (YDFW) has been transforming the lives of young people through critical and creative writing programs. Modeled after Young Chicago Authors (YCA), the original founders of the Louder Than a Bomb Youth Poetry Festival (also a 2011 documentary), YDFW is one of more than 14 cities across the country and Canada who use the YCA model to help educate and organize. Our programs include four years of curriculum, free writing workshops, and open mics for young poets and participation in our local Louder Than a Bomb festival.

Dallas Youth Poets seeks to provide a platform for youth in the greater Dallas area to hone their craft as poets.The program is facilitated by Dallas Youth Poets Alum, Gabby Elvessie. Initiated in Spring of 2012, Dallas Youth Poets was designed with the goal of teaching youth poets that their voices are their power and with their voices they can write the wrongs of the world one poem at a time. Students who actively participate in the program throughout the year become eligible to compete in the Dallas Youth Poets area wide competition, where the highest scoring poets form the current year's Dallas Youth Poets team, that will go on to represent Dallas at the Brave New Voices youth poetry festival.

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Through the intersection of arts education and youth development practices, civic engagement strategies, and high quality artistic presentation, Youth Speaks creates safe spaces that challenge young people to find, develop, publicly present, and apply their voices as creators of societal change.

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