Voices from the Bay Area: Spoken Word & Poetry with Youth Speaks
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 4: Sounds of California / Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2016 July 09
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content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0709_SOCA_Stage_and_Plaza_0007
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Youth Speaks; Adriel Luis One of the world's leading presenters of spoken word performance, education, and youth development programs, Youth Speaks champions a movement of young people picking up pens, stepping onto stages, and declaring themselves present. Founded in San Francisco in 1996, Youth Speaks produces local and national youth poetry slams, festivals, and reading series, alongside a comprehensive slate of arts-in-education programs during the school day, after school, and on weekends. The artists presented in this one-time only session are: Antique, Ebony Donnley, Natasha Huey, gabrielanthony, Benjamin Earl Turner, and Tassiana WillisYouth Speaks' Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam, the largest festival of its kind, will be presented in Washington, D.C., from July 12 to 16, 2016.