Philly Where I Am From.

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norttron:

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Philadelphia: High school students walk out of class and march to City Hall to protest severe budget cuts and planned school closings, May 9, 2013.

The budget cuts are absolutely horrific. Here are some of the proposed changes:

• Schools with more than 1,000 students would no longer be required to have librarians or librarian assistants.
• Schools would no longer be required to have counselors, and counselors’ caseloads would no longer be capped.
• Teachers could be assigned to unlimited classes outside their subject area, and high school teachers could be assigned an extra class without pay.  There would be no limit on amount of consecutive time taught in a school day.
• There would be no limit on class size
• The district would no longer be required to provide copy machines, or “a sufficient number of instructional materials and textbooks.”
• Counselors would no longer be guaranteed to have rooms with privacy and confidentiality, a telephone, a locked filing cabinet and a door.

There’s more here.

(via the-uncensored-she)

pypm215:

foundintheclouds:

10 Things I Love About PYPM

Poet lineup before the slam begins.

These kids.

THESE kids.

It’s 1 a.m. after judging 2 poetry…

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see what one of our lovely judges from finals, Lillian Dunn (of Philly’s own APIARY) had to say about PYPM <3

ourafrica:

Fellow Rutgers students and anyone in the surrounding area, please share this and help this person out. Imagine losing 5yrs worth of research.

(via tissuebox)

eraserhood:

SKATE SHOP: Nin Truong and Youth Arts Workshop

Public · By Asian Arts Initiative

Friday, June 14, 2013

6:00pm

Skate Shop: Nin Truong and Youth Arts Workshop

A Storefront Window Exhibition in partnership with WKND Studio 

Exhibition Dates: June 14 – September 27, 2013

Opening Reception: Friday, June 14, 6 p.m.

Asian Arts Initiative is proud to welcome Seattle-based multi-disciplinary designer and artist Nin Truong to develop and create Skate Shop, a youth-generated pop-up skate shop in the storefront window of our Youth Arts Workshop (YAW) space in the middle of the 1200 block of Vine Street in Philadelphia’s Chinatown North/Callowhill neighborhood. YAW’s space, a former hair salon appropriately named “The Salon” since becoming an integral part of AAI’s new permanent home and multi-tenant arts facility on Vine Street, offers an interesting opportunity to address the intersections of urban history and youth access, as well as the dynamism and challenges of the Vine Street Expressway in its front yard – a formerly pedestrian-friendly corridor now split in two by Interstate 676.

Beginning April, 2013 Truong will collaborate with Asian Arts Initiative staff and local teaching artist Nicole Schaller to lead a youth workshop as part of our Youth Arts Workshop (YAW) – a tuition-free afterschool arts program for youth grades 6-8. Youth participants will be invited to design their own skateboards, stickers, t-shirts and ultimately, a “mock skate shop” which will fill the storefront window of “The Salon.” Youth will explore “creative economies” through art and design, print-making, skate culture and aesthetics through field trips and 2-D and 3-D build workshops.

Skate Shop is supported in part through support from the National Performance Network’s Visual Artists Network.

(via SKATE SHOP: Nin Truong and Youth Arts Workshop)

wanderingboywonder:

pypm215:

PYPM GRAND SLAM FINALS

The big day is quickly approaching. 35 teens competed this season to represent Team Black at the 2013 Brave New Voices festival. We are down to the final 10. Six will go on to Chicago as members of the 2013 Philly Youth Poetry Team. 

Be part of a magical night hosted by PYPM’s own, Kai Davis & Jamarr Hall with PYPM’s DJ Reezy doing what he does best.

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE by the Swarthmore College Poetry Team.

GET YOUR TICKETS EARLY! This event WILL sell out.

I’m in this so come support all these dope people I know