Space Code: Youth Open Mic

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WOKESHOP: Space Code: Youth Open Mic
LOCATION: Northstar Church of the Arts [220 W Geer St. Durham NC 27701]
DATES: THIRD THURSDAYS, Feb 15-June 21
TIME: 6:30PM-8PM
COST: FREE
FACILITATORS: Lani & Alicia Marie
DESCRIPTION: Space Code Youth Open Mic is Back 🙌🏾Pop out with Black Space every 3rd Thursday starting next week Feb 15th 6:30PM at NorthStar Church of the Arts! We are looking for Youth poets ages 13-15, so channel your inner Amanda Gorman and come ready to share your poems, rhymes and heart! Know someone who is passionate about rhyme? Bring them and meet us at this FREE event!
WHO IS THIS FOR?: All youth
CONTACTS: 

J Rowdy – [email protected]

Lani – [email protected]

Alani Rouse is a Senior studying African American Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. They are from Durham, North Carolina and graduated from Durham Performance Learning Center in 2018. Upon graduating high school, they worked with a cohort of other students at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice to raise the age for minors charged as adults to 18. While in college Alani has been published in several literary magazines, won awards for her work in the community and has worked to continue being a leader and a light. In the last year Alani led a poetry workshop at PBS’s Rootle event and performed at the NYC Youth Summit 2022. Currently, Alani does work with the Ella Baker Organizing Collective and Girls for Gender Equity. Alani plans to use her talents to teach healing via the arts and to be an educator to Black children.

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