Please join us for

3rd Annual Poetry Slam and Jazz Celebration

Friday, April 27th

Open Mic for you to read and share poetry all day

Jazz Band ensembles to perform all day

Come prepared with a poem to read and share.

Share a poem you have written or a poem you love.

Come with your class or during your free period.

Enjoy Jack Powers, resident published Poet of the day, who joins us from Joel Barlow High School.  Powers was the 2005 CCTE Connecticut Poet of the Year and the 2008 NEATE Poet of the Year. We look forward to Jack spending the day with us. 

Enjoy Alex Levin, resident Jazz pianist of the day, who joins us from New York City.  Alex has shared his musical talents with us and the SHS Jazz Band for two years to high acclaim.

http://www.alexlevinjazz.com/bio/

Kakenya Ntaiya from Kenya, who was betrothed at age 5, is coming to the Library Learning Commons this Thursday, April 26 during the lunch waves. Kakenya’s unforgettable story began when she begged her father not to marry so she could attend school and avoid the traditional path of Maasai women. She paid the personal price of circumcision for the privilege of education and completed her doctorate in the United States while building the first school for rural girls in Kenya.

Staples Teen Vital Voices has sponsored her trip to SHS. The club continues to fundraise for Kakenya’s school and has established friendships with the girls in Kenya.

Kakenya has accomplished much, yet she continues to dream. Bring your classes on Thursday to meet this accomplished visionary and listen to her remarkable story.

For more information about Kakenya and her dream:

http://www.kakenyasdream.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR66wYYJrpM

If you are bringing your class please email Robin Stiles or Julia Roberts. Let us know which lunchwave and how many students, please.