2013-035 EDC-Arts - St Joseph's Historic Foundation $1,500

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Current Programs and Services In the 2012-2013 fiscal year, Sacrficial Poets is running fully-funded writing and performance programs with the following schools and organizations: • Lakeview School in Durham (10-week program) • Northern High School in Durham (10-week program) • Durham Nativity School (6-week program) • Phillips, Smith, McDougle, and Culbreth Middle Schools (year-long through the Blue Ribbon Mentor Advocate Program) • Playmakers Reportory Company (Workshop series with classes from East Chapel Hill High, Chapel Hill High, Northern High, Carrboro High around productions of A Raisin in the Sun and Clybourne Park) • Ackland Art Museum (Workshop series with high schools TBD) • Residencies with English and History Classes at Chapel Hill High School, Phoenix Academy • Weekly workshop series with the Boomerang program • Workshops and performances at Southwest and E.K. Powe Elementary Schools in Durham. Proposed Uses of Grant Funds: Program Summary Sacrificial Poets is seeking support for the 4t' annual Word Rivalry and Fellowship Festival. The festival will be a day-long event held in May 2013 in which teams representing area high schools will share their art and stories, witness performances from nationally renowned spoken word poets, and compete in the Word Rivalry inter-high school poetry slam. Sacrificial Poets will use grant funds to 1) run at least 5 hours of outreach and spoken word workshops in each of the four area high schools (total of 20 hours between CHS, CHHS, ECHHS, and Phoenix Academy)to help youth prepare for the festival, and 2) organize and run the festival at a Chapel Hill-Carrboro community venue. The workshops will be conducted by Sacrificial Poets' facilitators as well as guest artists and educators from the national spoken word scene, and will help youth participants craft original works of spoken word poetry to be presented at the final festival event. This culminating event will be open to the public, and will give youth participants the opportunity to share their art with their peers and the greater community. Program Narrative In 2009 George Yamazawa, a high school student at Jordan High and member of the Sacrificial Poets youth poetry slam team, organized the first ever intramural poetry slam competition between Jordan and Hillside high schools in Durham. The event, known as "Word Rivalry", expanded over the next three years, including new teams of youth poets from Chapel Hill High, Carrboro High, the Durham Performance Learning Center, and Northern Durham High School. This year Sacrificial Poets' goal is to create an outreach program that will provide a series of writing and performance workshops at area high schools in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Durham to develop the spoken word poetry clubs at each school, and prepare teams to compete in the 2013 Word Rivalry and Fellowship Festival (WRFF). The festival will be a day- long event in which teams representing 8-10 area high schools will share their art and stories,