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Overview
Overview
Poetry Out Loud engages high-school aged students in learning about the power of performing poetry by selecting poems to recite at the county and then state competitions. Contestants recite works they selected from an anthology of more than 900 classic and contemporary poems. The competition is presented in partnership with the California Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, and is part of a national program that encourages high school students to learn about great poetry through memorization, performance, and competition. This is a state-funded project, and Arts Connection has facilitated this program and competition every year for the past 6 years. In 2022, Arts Connection hosted nine students in the final competition for San Bernardino County. Finalists were invited in fall 2022 to perform at Creative Grounds Teen Open Mic to an audience of 30 people.
About Poetry Out Loud
About Poetry Out Loud
The event featured local poets and 8 student performances from:
Los Osos High School – Rancho Cucamonga
Encore Charter High School– Hesperia
Big Bear High School – Big Bear Lake
Norton Science and Language Academy – San Bernardino.
The structure of Poetry Out Loud is similar to a spelling bee. This annual program starts in the fall, with high school teachers using the free Poetry Out Loud teacher toolkit and related materials to teach poetry recitation and run classroom competitions. Classroom winners advance to a schoolwide competition; school champions compete at the district or county level by mid-February. County winners are then treated to an unforgettable two days at the California Poetry Out Loud State Finals in Sacramento, and a chance to compete in the national competition in Washington, D.C.
The California state champion received:
• $200 cash prize and an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C.
• $500 for their school to purchase literary materials
• An opportunity to compete at the National Finals for college scholarship funds
“To me, Poetry Out Loud means living. It means experiencing another person’s deepest thoughts and feelings and being able to bring them to life. When I am performing I lose myself and find the soul of the author come through. The connection you feel with language when you recite a poem is incomparable, and I believe it is something every person should do at least once.”
“To me, Poetry Out Loud means living. It means experiencing another person’s deepest thoughts and feelings and being able to bring them to life. When I am performing I lose myself and find the soul of the author come through. The connection you feel with language when you recite a poem is incomparable, and I believe it is something every person should do at least once.”
– Faith Bakhos, Poetry Out Loud San Bernardino County Champion
– Faith Bakhos, Poetry Out Loud San Bernardino County Champion
This is a public community archive for current and past public programming for Arts Connection - The Arts Council of San Bernardino County. We have highlighted some key photographs but encourage you to enter the Sun Spot Archive to check out the rest of the program highlights, using the button below.
This is a public community archive for current and past public programming for Arts Connection - The Arts Council of San Bernardino County. We have highlighted some key photographs but encourage you to enter the Sun Spot Archive to check out the rest of the program highlights, using the button below.
This is a public community archive for current and past public programming for Arts Connection - The Arts Council of San Bernardino County. We have highlighted some key photographs but encourage you to enter the Sun Spot Archive to check out the rest of the program highlights, using the button below.
This is a public community archive for current and past public programming for Arts Connection - The Arts Council of San Bernardino County. We have highlighted some key photographs but encourage you to enter the Sun Spot Archive to check out the rest of the program highlights, using the button below.
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