2013-363 Arts - Sacrificial Poets Spring 2013 Art Grant Agreement $1,500

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Sacrificial Poets: Organizational Profile Sacrificial Poets is an award-winning spoken word poetry organization that serves middle,high school, and college-aged youth in the Triangle Area of North Carolina. The organization facilitates writing and performance workshops throughout the state and hosts regular youth poetry events. In addition, Sacrificial Poets selects a team of six youth every year to take to the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival(as seen on HBO). Sacrificial Poets utilizes their own innovative arts education curriculum, known as YouTh ink. Workshops are based on a culturally responsive pedagogy that celebrates learning differences, and is designed to benefit participants in five specific ways: enhance emotional literacy,facilitate identity exploration, refine writing and analytical skills, develop performance and public speaking competency, and build self-confidence. Sacrificial Poets does not empower youth,rather we seek to create diverse, welcoming,and transformative environments where youth can empower themselves. Sacrificial Poets recently became a 501 (c)(3)non-profit organization in late 2012. In past years the organization operated under the fiscal sponsorship of the St. Joseph's Historic Hayti Heritage Foundation. Sacrificial Poets: Examples of Current Programs and Services In-School Programs ➢Workshops and Residencies: Sacrificial Poets teaching artists bring the YouTh ink. Curriculum into the schools,teaching writing and performance workshops in high, middle, and elementary school classrooms. This year, SacPoe has run in-school programs across Chapel Hill-Carrboro,Durham,Alamance,Wake, and Chatham County school districts.In addition, SacPoe also collaborated with Playmakers Repertory Company out of UNC-Chapel Hill to provide a special workshop series to four local high schools. The workshop curriculum was centered around the play A Raisin in the Sun, which the students went to see on a field trip, and the program culminated with a final performance at the Paul Green Theatre on UNC campus. A Poetry Club Outreach: Sacrificial Poets helps to facilitate the creation and development of poetry clubs at local high schools. These clubs are headed up by youth poets at the school, and SacPoe Teaching Artists make regular visits to the clubs to teach workshops, help boost recruitment, and inform club participants about upcoming events which they may attend and share their art. These clubs also serve as the basis for slam teams that compete in our Word Rivalry high school team slam. After-School Programs ➢Poetic Justice: This 10-week workshop series is designed to target underserved and"at- risk"high school youth in Durham,NC );,,Durham Nativity School: Working in conjunction with the Mallarme Immersion Into the Arts program, Sacrificial Poets teaching artists worked with middle school youth at the Durham Nativity School for 6 weeks in the Fall. ➢Blue Ribbon Mentor Advocate: Working in conjunction with the Blue Ribbon Mentor Advocate program, Sacrificial Poets offered a series of after-school workshops to youth mentees at Phillips, McDougle, Smith, and Culbreth Middle Schools throughout the Fall of 2012.