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Youth Speaks,
the nation's leading spoken word performance, education and
youth development organization, is proud to present the 11th
Annual Brave New Voices, International Youth Poetry Slam Festival.
Convening over 450 of the top teenage poets and spoken word
artists from across the country, is a
one-of-a-kind festival. Held in a different city each year,
Brave New Voices, (BNV) gives participants the opportunity to
explore a new cultural landscape and region while helping to
build sustainable programming locally.
For the first time ever, the seven-day festival will be held
in Washington, D.C., just three months before the presidential
election. Brave New Voices, directly addresses the youth perspective
on local and national issues, using spoken word as a tool for
civic engagement, arts education, and literacy development -
and reflecting the changing demographics of the United States.
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