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TONIGHT! Come out to support youth poetry in Hawai'i! It's our final day of the 2017 Interscholastic Poetry Festival! Ou...
03/27/2017

TONIGHT! Come out to support youth poetry in Hawai'i! It's our final day of the 2017 Interscholastic Poetry Festival! Our sacrificial poets tonight will be the final two poets from the Indy poetry slam! See who will come out victorious (even though we all the real winners). Then teams from Iolani, Molokai, Farrington & Waipahu will compete in our decolonized poetry slam!
Held at the Doris Duke Theater. Doors open 6:30pm. Slam starts 7pm. $10 at the Doors. All Ages Welcome!

Day 1 of the 2017 Pacific Tongues Interscholastic Poetry Festival. Thank you to Akahele for sharing so much with these y...
03/25/2017

Day 1 of the 2017 Pacific Tongues Interscholastic Poetry Festival. Thank you to Akahele for sharing so much with these young poets. Mahalo to everyone for coming through! We will see you guys tomorrow for Day 2!

The 2017 Pacific Tongues Interscholastic Poetry Festival starts TODAY! Must be PRE-REGISTERED to attend!
03/24/2017

The 2017 Pacific Tongues Interscholastic Poetry Festival starts TODAY! Must be PRE-REGISTERED to attend!

The Pacific Tongues 2017 Interscholastic Poetry Festival is less than two weeks away! Check out a quick schedule breakdo...
03/14/2017

The Pacific Tongues 2017 Interscholastic Poetry Festival is less than two weeks away! Check out a quick schedule breakdown. Registration is now closed!
Please check out the entire festival guide online at www.pacifictongues.org!

2017 Pacific Tongues Interscholastic Festival Guest Facilitator, Lyz Soto: Lyz Soto is Co-founder of Pacific Tongues and...
02/24/2017

2017 Pacific Tongues Interscholastic Festival Guest Facilitator, Lyz Soto:
Lyz Soto is Co-founder of Pacific Tongues and between 2008 and 2012 she was the Executive Director of Youth Speaks Hawaiʻi. She has worked as the head coach of the Youth Speaks Hawaiʻi Slam Team from 2008 until 2012 and she is currently working towards a PhD at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where she also teaches English. She has performed in Hawaiʻi and across the continental United States. She has also had the honor of traveling with Youth Speaks Hawaiʻi alumni to Aotearoa, where she had the great pleasure of performing with the South Auckland Poets Collective. Her chapbook, Eulogies, was published in 2010 by TinFish Press.
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Are you a youth poet that would like go attend this workshop? Email: [email protected]

2017 Pacific Tongues Interscholastic Guest Facilitator, Jahra Rager:Jahra ‘Rager’ Wasasala is a contemporary dancer, cho...
02/23/2017

2017 Pacific Tongues Interscholastic Guest Facilitator, Jahra Rager:
Jahra ‘Rager’ Wasasala is a contemporary dancer, choreographer and spoken word artist. Born and raised in Aotearoa, New Zealand. She has roots in many places around the world, but her pacific heritage comes from the islands of Fiji (Macuata/Ba).

In 2009, she participated in Black Grace's Urban Youth Movement as a leading female performer. She was then invited to take part in an internship with the company, training, rehearsing and, learning repertoire. In 2010, Jahra began her formal training at Unitec. She graduated after 3 years of study with a Bachelor in Performing and Screen Arts, majoring in Contemporary dance.

Aside from graduating in 2010, Jahra also began to make her mark on the NZ Poetry scene. She competed in the acclaimed Poetry Idol Slam Competition. She placed second and also represented Auckland in Wellington at the National Poetry Slam. Since graduating Jahra has collaborated and performed for artists such as Sarah Foster-Sproull (Orchids), Grace Woollett (MOTHER/JAW), Thomas Fonua (Malaga), MAU Company/Lemi Ponifasio (I AM), and Grace Taylor (Rising Voices Movement).

Jahra's work (poetry & dance) has taken her to many parts of the world including The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. Also creating opportunities where she has collaborated with an array of artists extensively. In 2014, Jahra travelled to Banff to take part in the internationally acclaimed Indigenous Dance Residency. She was also a part of 'Chewing Your Ears' a spoken word show that was picked up by the Adelaide Fringe Festival.

Her creative works are interdisciplinary, solo and group theatre dance works. Jahra’s choreographies and poetic pieces are generally interdisciplinary works based on political and social events, specifically those surrounding race and gender movements and dislocated cultural identity. She explores the space between contemporary dance and live poetry, whilst incorporating other mediums. Her work serves as a platform to create open discussions on the connections with historical events.
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Are you a youth poet that wants to attend this workshop? Email: [email protected]

2017 Pacific Tongues Interscholastic Festival Guest Facilitator, Grace Taylor:Grace Taylor is a Aotearoa born and bred p...
02/23/2017

2017 Pacific Tongues Interscholastic Festival Guest Facilitator, Grace Taylor:
Grace Taylor is a Aotearoa born and bred poet of Samoan and English heritage. She has been performing, producing, teaching in the spoken word world for the last 7 years. Co-Creator of the first youth poetry slam in Aotearoa RISING VOICES YOUTH POETRY MOVEMENT. Her first collection of poetry AFAKASI SPEAKS published by Ala Press in 2013. Directed her first poetry theatre show SKIN in 2014 and debut as a playwright in her current poetry theatre show MY OWN DARLING. Recipent of the Creative New Zealand Emerging Pacific Artist Award 2014.
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Are you a youth poet that wants to attend this workshop? Email: [email protected]

2017 Interscholastic Poetry Festival Facilitator, TravisT:TravisT (Travis Kaulula'au Thompson): Co-Founder, since 2005. ...
02/21/2017

2017 Interscholastic Poetry Festival Facilitator, TravisT:

TravisT (Travis Kaulula'au Thompson): Co-Founder, since 2005. As a Pacific Islander, scholar, worker, activist, poet, mentor, and organizer with over 15 years of experience in the Honolulu spoken word poetry community, TravisT is also a co-founder of the award-winning local youth literacy non-profit known as Youth Speaks Hawaii (as seen on HBO). As a poet, he is an eight time member of the HI-slam team; the 2007 HI-slam Champ, the 2003 Red Shark Slam Jam People's Champ; and has performed his poetry on dozens of stages across the nation. He's been featured on NPR, WBAI, Pacifica, HPR, KTUH, & Olelo TV. He released a cd "The TrapperKeeperT Files" in 2007 & authored two chapbooks "Serving LIFE SENTENCES" (2003), & "the Politics of Lips" (2004). As an activist, mentor and organizer he co-founded Youth Speaks Hawaii in 2005; co-hosted "Words @ Ward Rafters", "re:VERSES", "2nd Saturdays", the "Hawaii Theatre Slam"; taught Creative Writing at Palama Settlement's ICTP and the Kapolei Juvenile Detention Center; and has has visited countless classrooms across O'ahu. He is currently pursuing his MA in Pacific Island Studies at UH Manoa,
and is a part-time raw-vegan chef.
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Are you a youth wanting to attend this work and/or the festival? Email us at: [email protected]

Check out one of our 2017 Interscholastic Festival Guest Workshop Facilitators, Jonathan "Intrepid" Clarke Sypert:Jonath...
02/21/2017

Check out one of our 2017 Interscholastic Festival Guest Workshop Facilitators, Jonathan "Intrepid" Clarke Sypert:

Jonathan Clarke Sypert teaches singing, dancing, acting, poetry, rap and music production for a variety of organizations including Henry J. Kaiser High School, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, PALS/PLACES on the Waianae Coast, The Clarence T.C. Ching PUEO Program at Punahou School, STEPS to Success with Ohana Komputer, and Pacific Tongues.

Jonathan uses his talents and connections to build partnerships with charities and organizations that are entrenched in the front lines of social causes and issues. In 2017 Jonathan will be involved with the S*x Abuse Treatment center of Honolulu and Honolulu Theatre for Youth for the respect 2.0 interscholastic rally; pacific tongues' interscholastic poetry workshops; organize entertainment for events to benefit the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children; will host a YouTube channel to reveal "What's Poppin" in the culture and arts of the Aloha State; and will co-design an online marketing strategy for FASD Communities, a not-for-profit organization that is laying the foundation for a network of rehabilitative residencies for adults afflicted with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
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Are you a youth wanting to attend this workshop? Email: info Pacific Tongues.org

2nd SAT CANCELED unfortunately 😭
02/12/2017

2nd SAT CANCELED unfortunately 😭

We are STILL on for TODAY'S 2nd SAT Slam! At the Arts at Marks Garage. Doors open 2:30pm. Slam starts 3pm. Rain or shine...
02/11/2017

We are STILL on for TODAY'S 2nd SAT Slam! At the Arts at Marks Garage. Doors open 2:30pm. Slam starts 3pm. Rain or shine we still spitting poetry!

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