ten and then yes my name's jenny frankel i work with the city of seattle department of neighborhoods and i'm here to talk about the choice this is a new program where there is seven hundred thousand dollars of the cit budget that youth ages eleven to twenty five get to decide how to spend or you between the ages of eleven and twenty five would you like to be in this driver seat on how to spend the city's money yes excellent so this is your opportunity i can talk a little bit about what we've done so far in the program yeah so back in february we had this big we had a series of beliefs where we invited everybody to put in ideas about what they wanted in seattle what they wanted to see what kinds of programs what kinds of infrastructure anything at all to dream big and we got five hundred and thirty some ideas from all over seattle and in the past two months we've had about twenty youth working through those five hundred thirty ideas trying to narrow them down and put ones put the duplicate stick gather and then also weed out the ones that kind of outside the public funding constraints and now we have nineteen nineteen project for and during the week of may twenty first and may twenty ninth we are asking youth ages eleven to twenty five to vote on these nineteen projects and you can vote on your top seven some of them out ok the first one is houses for people experiencing homelessness the second one is homeless children and youth liason services that there are one is job readiness workshops for homeless you upgrades and many more is a range of projects that have to do with the parks has to do with eating healthy homeless youth it's a range truly is a range and it's  every single one of the tips to be funded so may twenty first to may twenty ninth i need i need you if you're between the ages of eleven and twenty five and if you live work or go to program or go to school within the city of seattle i need you to vote i need you to vote on your top seven and i had to leave so there's not going to be here there's there's an on line i think it's  and then there's also a lot of schools and programs all over seattle who are participating so when you go on to that website bet dot li slash used voice vote you'll see a list of different places where you could cast your  negative my name is jordan keith i'm a poetry planner for poetry on buses that's twenty sixteen twenty seventeen or so today's event is to introduce people to the theme of water and to encourage people to write whether you've written before or never written at all all ages people to come out and write poems together think about water how we're connected to it and how it's important in our lives and what's happening here around us to protect the water create the poems that will then be displayed for the on the bus poetry on buses so people will have an opportunity to submit their poems through their website and they can publish their if it selected this is our second workshop we have eleven scheduled for from now the final one is september eighteenth so through for the next several months throughout the atl king county actually there's a poetry workshop settle b in different languages as well as in english this is our second workshop the first one was a point jobby workshop two weeks two sundays ago in renton i started this program  i began working for them in february two i didn't i'm not the founder of the program it's from for culture and an office of arts of culture and king county metro many partners seattle public utilities king county waste water of all come together to provide this opportunities the workshops for people and poetry liaison's in the community to represent their thoughts about water and the theme being your body of water well yes i mean there are as many other meanings to water for me picking the theme of your body of water understanding that we are mostly water our bodies are mostly water will perish without it and because of that we are connected to the rivers and the lakes and the streams and it all comes back so taking care of our bodies is another way that we take care of the waters and the things that live in the waters as well so that the images that are represented around the room show water as lakes water in our toilets water in our fossil it's and then we have our our memories and our ancestral meanings of water from different places so childhood memories are connected to what we think of water as well as our adult experiences i expect that we're going to have a lot of fun we're going to sit down and  write poems based on the images that we see and our thoughts about the rivers that we've known our ancestral homes and then where we live today that people at the end will have poems that they have an opportunity to submit right now today which will be the case with all the workshops we have a few computers ready that website for poetry on buses dot org is set up and you can go and submit your poem well our community liaison nick reese is a great person to talk with as well as our featured poet is a us to talk with about reaching into the community and encouraging part of how poetry on buses is set up is that there are people who know people in each community spread the word create the relationship and then really encourage other people write about the theme of water so any message come out write poetry write poetry at home write it wherever you can about the theme of water and how we're connected and submit then the next ethiopian community workshop is september and the next one is here september eighteenth oh scuse me it's at the  county we're working with the seattle office of arts and culture presenting poetry on buses for twenty sixteen and seventeen and today we had a community outreach workshop with the ethiopian community center on rainier avenue water poetry and busses we do like to have a central theme so everyone submitting their poems for the project has something similar that they're writing about this year's theme is a water based theme we have a number of programs sponsors that are part of the seattle public utilities and king county water agency departments and the water theme has been determined through our poet planner jordan  entitled it your body of water and it's meant to invoke the multiple layers of connection that we have through water both as human as alive beings through water with water our bodies are made of water we all drink water to sustain life and then the bodies of water that we all enjoy and share together lakes and rivers and streams and the ocean the workshop was fun yes i was here at the workshop it's very always nice to have these opportunities to connect with the community and talk about poetry both the tradition of the community so it was wonderful to have asked share some of his poetry and to hear some poetry about from links and use and then the writings of people that attended the worksh the participants the participants were wonderful we i love to have people of all ages come to participate in the workshops and it's always nice to be able to meet people from different parts of the community and join together day we will be having this is the second of eleven workshops that we're holding for this program the workshops actually extended through the end of september our last one being september eighteenth  there workshops in different locations will have another workshop that's focused on ethiopian poetry and that will be in the central district on september eighteenth at the assembly restaurant on cherry street and the final message is just that touch in buses is about the community and the communities voice and people's individual reflections on poetry you do not have to be a professional poet to have to have ever written poetry before in your life to submit a poem to be considered part of the program poetry submissions can be done online put you on buses dot org the put your submission process open today may fifteenth and it will close on september thirtieth so people have several months to consider their poems and to submit them through our online portal is there some ability to submit your poems in gh and