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Rescheduled from Sat 1/30 due to winter storm:

Saturday

2/06/10  6:00pm-8:00pm

Sacrificial PoetsYouth Poetry Slam

Sacrificial Poets will be hosting several youth slams (ages13-19) this year up until April to select its 2010 slam team. The top 6 poetswill earn a place on the team and an opportunity to travel and represent ChapelHill / Durham, NC at the International Brave New Voices Competition in LosAngeles, California. We encourage all community members to come support andenjoy spoken word by some of the best local youth poets around. 

The Sacrificial Poets are North Carolina’s only youthPerformance Poetry Team, composed of youth ages 13-19 from the ChapelHill-Durham area to compete in international competition. The students are chosen in a local competition (Slam) andrequired to attend practices, workshops, and local community performances. Nowin their fifth year, they teach how to work effectively in a team environment;learn to effectively express themselves through poetry and performance; learnhow to become community opinion leaders and change makers in thecommunity.  Sacrificial Poets recentlyformed a partnership with the St. Josephs Historic Foundation/Hayti HeritageCenter in Durham, and with these partners are striving to make Sacrificial Poetssummer camps and after school programs a reality in 2010.

Last year the new 2009 team reached the semi-finals atYouth Speaks Brave New Voices in Chicago and placed top eight out of fifty plusteams from around the globe. While at BNV, Sacrificial Poets members G Yamazawaand Jake Jacoby were featured in the Youth Speaks annual Speak Greencompetition. While this success demonstrates the caliber of our youth poets,the true measure of our accomplishments lies in their fundamental growth ashuman beings. Their achievements both on and off the stage demonstrate thepower of poetry as a tool for personal development and social change.