Sat, Apr 29
|Frederiksted
GIVE THE YOUTH A MIC + DJ Kazz + Open Mic
Original Poetry & Prose by Teens & Young Adults Collaboration between Tai Allen, CMCArts Artist-in-Residence & Sayeeda Carter Complex Drama Teacher & Founder of ACT OUT ENSEMBLE: Theater of the Oppressed Virgin Islands
Time & Location
Apr 29, 2023, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Frederiksted, 10 Strand St, Frederiksted, St Croix 00840, USVI
Guests
About the Event
GIVE THE YOUTH A MIC
Original Poetry & Prose by Teens & Young Adults
April 29, 2023 from 1-3pm
CMCArts Courtyard
Plus Open Mic (Youth/Family friendly)
DJ KAZZ will spin serious tunes for serious times and some jams too.
The audience will be treated to live performances of students writing both prose and poetry. St. Croix Educational Complex drama club members and their peers from other schools will give you a window into what young people are thinking. What happens when you give the youth a mic? Much of the featured work was created over the course of the semester in an after-school program.
The newest work focuses on the upcoming 175th Emancipation Celebration is born out of a culminating two-week project with Jamaican-Brooklyn poet and musician Tai Allen, CMCArts Artist-in-Residence and Complex High School Drama Teacher Sayeeda Carter.
This is a FREE EVENT but donations are welcomed by CMCArts to assist with future education programs.
Special Thanks to CFVI-Popular Bank VI Community Fund Grant & Alpine Securities for supporting this program.