Youth Programs at #SplitThisRock2014
Wednesday, March 26th
6:00 – 7:00pm Split This Rock’s Kennedy Center Millennium Stage Performance Featuring Sarah Browning,
Gayle Danley, Joy Harjo, Jonathan B. Tucker, Elizabeth Acevedo, Pages Matam,
Amina Iro, Thomas Hill, and Malachi Byrd
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F St NW, Washington, DC 20566
Thursday, March 27th
4:00 – 5:30pm Disturbing the Piece: A Dialogue on Activism & Art with Young Splitistas
Facilitated by Jonathan B. Tucker and members of the DC Youth Slam Team
Charles Sumner School, Room 300
1201 17th St NW, Washington, DC 20036
Young people have often led the way for major social movements, in the U.S. and abroad. This discussion will bring together young poets and activists for a facilitated dialogue about the current state of youth activism as it relates to our art. Adults (anyone over 20) are welcome to witness, but will not be allowed to speak. Using the fishbowl style, the young people will sit in the center of the circle and the adults will sit outside, while the conversation is guided by DC Youth Slam Team coach and Split This Rock youth programs coordinator, Jonathan B. Tucker.
7:30 – 9:00pm FEATURED READING with DC Youth Slam Team Member Amina Iro
Joy Harjo, Dunya Mikhail, Danez Smith
National Geographic Auditorium
1600 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036
Friday, March 28th
4:00 – 5:30pm Fly Language: A Writing Workshop
Led by the DC Youth Slam Team
Human Rights Campaign, Room 105A
1640 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036
Teenage poets from Split This Rock’s award-winning DC Youth Slam Team lead this writing workshop for all ages. These young poets will impress and inspire you. Come ready to write and share and have fun.
7:30 – 9:00pm FEATURED READING with DC Youth Slam Team Member Malachi Byrd
2014 Poetry Contest Winner Karen Skolfield
Anne Waldman, Tim Seibles, Maria Melendez Kelson
National Geographic Auditorium
1600 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036
Saturday, March 29th
11:30 – 1:00pm A Bridge Across Our Fears: Poetry in Service of Racial Solidarity
Franny Choi, Danez Smith
Human Rights Campaign, Room 3
1640 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036
Throughout history, communities of color have been pitted, intentionally, against one another. True change can only begin when our communities stand in solidarity, meeting these divisive forces with the same intentionality and mindfulness. Poetry, as the site of radical reimagining as well as deep introspection, offers a particularly rich space to discover and build points of racial solidarity. Members of the multi/inter-racial Dark Noise Collective lead participants through writing exercises that aim to uncover common ground, finding strength in the differences among our lived experiences of oppression. Workshop leaders will also speak on their experience constructing a cross-cultural poetry cooperative whose goal is to leverage our shared language(s) to challenge dominant structures of power. Though our focus will primarily be racial solidarity, we invite participants to speak and write on their experiences creating solidarity across other points of difference.
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11:30 – 1:00pm March to Equality: How Poetry Can Connect Youth To History
Kelly Di Giacinto, Neosha Hampton, Ryan Hurley, Maria Peeples, Margaret Rozga
Human Rights Campaign, Room 2
1640 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036
Poets and activists will present the March to Equality gallery exhibit, a project that utilizes student-written poetry to bring Milwaukee’s rich Civil Rights history to life— developing a social justice curriculum that bridges disciplines, teaches 21st century research skills, builds community, and ignites a passion for change beyond the project’s original goals. The project chronicles the Milwaukee Fair Housing struggle of the 1960’s, focusing on the role of poetry in giving contemporary meaning and context to a struggle that happened decades ago. In the last half hour of the presentation, the audience will be invited to engage in a powerful dialogue on how the written and spoken word, imbued with local history, can awaken the next generation of change-makers.
2:00 – 3:30pm Spit Dat: A Youth Open Mic
Dwayne Lawson-Brown, Drew Anderson, Gayle Danley, and the DC Youth Slam Team
Beacon Hotel, Beacon Room
1615 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036
In partnership with the Kennedy Center’s One Mic Global Hip-Hop Festival, young poets and emcees (20 and under) are invited to share their poetry in a lively and supportive atmosphere. Hosted by “The Crochet Kingpin” and “Droopy the Broke Baller,” co-hosts of DC’s longest-running open mic, the Legendary Spit Dat, this youth open mic will feature slam champ Gayle Danley, the teens of the 2013 DC Youth Slam Team, ranked 2nd-in-the-nation after their performance at the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival in Chicago, as well as other young poets who sign up to perform. Each artist can perform one piece, 3 minutes or less.
4:30 – 6:00pm FEATURED READING with DC Youth Slam Team Member Lauren May
Claudia Rankine, Eduardo C. Corral, Myra Sklarew, Gayle Danley
National Geographic Auditorium
1600 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036
8:30 – 10pm FEATURED READING with DC Youth Slam Team Member Thomas Hill
Yusef Komunyakaa, Wang Ping, Franny Choi
National Geographic Auditorium
1600 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036
Sunday, March 30th
11:30am – 1:00pm FEATURED READING with DC Youth Slam Team Member Reina Privado
Natalie Diaz, Sheila Black, Shailja Patel
National Geographic Auditorium
1600 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036
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