First, we offered workshops in all five boroughs.
Students registered for free workshops to explore connections between climate change, social justice, and the arts, taught by experts in climate issues and expert poets and performers.
Students registered for free workshops to explore connections between climate change, social justice, and the arts, taught by experts in climate issues and expert poets and performers.
Select students received multiple opportunities for in-depth performance coaching and mentoring by expert poets and performers.
They participated in a live rehearsal followed by additional coaching, prior to auditioning before a panel of judges on May 13 and May 15, 2019.
Semi-finalists and finalists received intensive additional coaching and rehearsal before both the audition and the performance.
Click each photo to meet and read the poems of each of the fourteen finalists who took the stage.