For LTAB 2012 and tickets go to:

http://www.wbez.org/event/2012-02-18/louder-bomb-2012-12th-annual-chicago-youth-poetry-festival

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LTAB12 will feature over 75 individual events. If you’d like to buy tickets to any of our preliminary or festival events happening from February 23rd to March 3rd, just click the buttons below and email Melanie Decelles at mgdecelles@gmail.com to reserve your spot for the tickets you purchase. For every 10 student tickets bought, you get one free adult tickets.

Student Prelim Ticket

Adult Prelim Ticket

And if you would like ticket information for all of our marquee events, including College Finals, Semi-Finals, Individual and Team Finals, just click here!

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we are grateful and delighted the LTAB doc made its television premiere on the OWN channel this evening. you’ve a seen glimpse of the work we are doing year-round in Chicago and, because the film, in cities across the planet.

we invite you to help us create public spaces where young people can tell their story. you can do this in many ways. of course, you can donate to the non-profit organization, Young Chicago Authors that puts on Louder Than A Bomb every year. (there is a button over to your right & please read the post below)

we also hope you will COME to the 12th Annual Louder Than A Bomb in Chicago, Feb 18-March 10. you can participate in many ways: start a team at your school, bring students and young people, be a great audience member, connect us to the local high schools in your neighborhood or town.

& we hope you will consider STARTING a LOUDER THAN A BOMB in your city and/or state. Young Chicago Authors can HELP YOU. please email our National Outreach Coordinator Anna Festa at: annarfesta@gmail.com.

we believe the work we are doing at YCA and LTAB is helping to change the culture of Chicago bringing young people together across borders they are typically kept from crossing and re-engaging students in the process of their own education. please join us in this work.

stay in touch at facebook.com/louderthanabomb & facebook.com/YoungChicagoAuthors. & twitter.com/YoungChicagoAuthors.

we look forward to hearing from you.
sincerely,
kevin coval
poet. artistic director of Young Chicago Authors
co-founder of Louder Than A Bomb

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Friends,

At Young Chicago Authors we believe in young people as the innovators of art and culture. Through writing and the telling of their stories we are training and encouraging them to be in conversation with the rest of the city, country and world.  We think young people should be seen and heard which is why we make opportunities, cultural spaces and forums for them to gather, meet, speak with and listen to one another.

Chicago is the city of neighborhoods. It is our strength and our divide.  Our response is to intentionally organize young people from every neighborhood into central spaces to write and tell their stories.  Afterall, the true story of Chicago is told through the conversations of its communities.

This is why Young Chicago Authors exists and why we ask you to support our work.  In doing so, you are contributing to how and where these stories emerge.

For every $10 dollars you contribute, we are able to engage two more young people at Louder Than A Bomb, Young Chicago Authors’ youth poetry festival.

For every $100 you give, 10 young people are able to attend a workshop series, finding the training to tell their stories in their own voice.

For every $200 you donate, an experienced teaching artist can visit a new school, introducing our work to hundreds of students.

With every contribution of any size you help us meet our goals of:

• directly engaging 2,000 young people annually in our training
• cultivating an audience of 12,000 to hear their stories
• producing the online new journalism publication for and by youth: Say What
• running multiple workshops at our space for young people from across the city
• employing a vast cadre of professional and emerging teaching artists dedicated to bringing the highest quality of writing into the classrooms
• curating an anthology of the best of our students’ writing
• growing the audio archive of youth spoken word, in partnership with Chicago Public Media, accessed by media outlets across the globe

This will happen with your investment. Please use the “Donate” button at the top right of this page to make your donation with a credit card or you can mail your donation to Young Chicago Authors, 1180 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL  60642.

Yours,

Kevin Coval, Artistic Director                Rebecca Hunter, Executive Director

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Our Louder Than A Bomb co-presenter, Chicago Public Media, has been gracious enough to build us a brand new spiffy registration system.  We are eternally grateful for them, and thank you for your patience as we work(ed) the bugs out of it.  Now you can register as:

A High School Individual or College Individual
A High School Team or a College Team

This year we are inviting Colleges to send a team of 4-6 poets each and compete just as the HS teams do (except in 4 rounds and with no group piece restriction – duos, trios, quads welcome).

REGISTRATION FEES:

Team Registration – $200 (if payment is received by Monday, January 2, 2012); $250 after January 2. Please put your school or team name in the “Company” field (click the button).

HS indy poet – $30 (if payment is received by Monday, January 2, 2012); $37.50 after January 2 (click the button):

College indy poet – $50 (if payment is received by Monday, January 2, 2012); $62.50 after January 2 (click the button):

All registration closes on February 1st, 2012.

And make sure you email Robbie Q. Telfer (robbieq@youngchicagoauthors.org), LTAB’s Festival Director, so that you can be added to the LTAB update list!

See you soon!

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