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Saturday, April 25: Poetry Inside Out award-winners to read at River of Words ceremony at San Francisco Public Library

River of Words is a national contest for children's poetry and art on an environmental theme, judged by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass. This year the Center is proud to announce that five Poetry Inside Out students have won awards, including a Grand Prize in the new "Creekseeker" category focusing on creeks.

Caroline Woods-Mejía, Maggie Gallagher, Jessica Jauregui, María Guzmán, and Audrey Larkin will be honored and have been invited to read at the River of Words celebration at the Koret Auditorium of the San Francisco Main Library, Saturday, April 25, at 1:30 p.m.

For more information about River of Words, visit the website.


Sunday, April 26: Poetry Inside Out at the 10th Annual Día de los Niños/Día de los Libros (Children's Day/Book Day) in San Francisco's Dolores Park

Dias de los NinosPoetry Inside Out will be participating in the 10th Annual Día de los Niños/Día de los Libros (Children's Day/Book Day) event this Sunday, April 26 from 1-4pm in San Francisco's Dolores Park (Dolores at 20th St.) This wonderful free community celebration honors children, families, and reading, and will offer interactive art activities and live multicultural music, dance, and storytelling. There will even be a book give-away providing each child with his or her own book.

If you live in or around San Francisco, we hope you'll come to the event and stop by our table for some fun poetry and writing activities for kids!

The event is sponsored in part by Children's Book Press and KQED. Other guests include the Zeum with an imagination station; SF Children's Art Center with a book-making project; Childhood Matters with face painting; SCRAP with a masks project, and many others; there will also be music, puppetry, storytelling, games, and a raffle.

For general information or in case of rain call, 1-800-723-ELMO (3566) for alternate location.

Finding Music in Neruda: The Art of Translation and Song
A Collaboration between Poetry Inside Out, ADORNO Ensemble, and the de Young Museum
Friday May 30th, 7:00 p.m.
Koret Auditorium, M.H. de Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

Program is free; access to museum galleries is by admission only

For more information, click here.

On Friday, May 30th, come see Poetry Inside Out students in concert at the de Young Museum for a special collaboration with the ADORNO Ensemble . The event features the world premiere of Odes to Neruda, a song cycle by Peruvian-American composer Gabriela Lena Frank, who has set Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's poetry to music. Poetry Inside Out students will accompany the music with Neruda-inspired original poems and translations in English and Spanish. The students' poems will be generated at a writing and composition workshop with ADORNO at the Berkeley Jazzschool on May 27th.

Stanford University professor John Felstiner joins the young poets and ADORNO at the de Young performance. Dr. Felstiner, author of the award-winning book Translating Neruda: The Way to Machu Picchu, will share his knowledge about the musical aspects of Neruda's life and work.

 
 
 
last update: May 19, 2008