Blunt Youth Radio Presents "Youth Voices Live on Stage"
Young people from six area high schools will use music, voice,
recorded interviews and sounds gathered from the world around
them to present an evening of live radio on stage.
The event, "Youth Voices Live on Stage," will take
place from 7 to 9 p.m., Friday, March 7, at the First Parish
Church, 425 Congress Street, Portland. Tickets at the door
are $6 for youth/seniors and $10 for adults, or $5 and $8
in advance. Free tickets are available for organizations that
serve youth. For more information, contact Claire Holman at
767-1785, or e-mail cholman@usm.maine.edu.
"Youth Voices Live on Stage" will showcase the
teens' live radio pieces that they produced originally for
Blunt Youth Radio, a program founded in 1994 to give Greater
Portland teens the opportunity to work in radio and learn
about audio journalism. Youths receive training free of charge
as they learn to produce a weekly, public affairs radio show
on WMPG-FM, the community radio station based at the University
of Southern Maine.
Topics to be staged at "Youth Voices Live on Stage"
include "Dealing with Parents," "The Coffee
Shop in Hell," "Growing Up," "Body Image,"
and "An Incarcerated Youth Calls Home." All the
pieces were written and produced by the high school students,
and by teens in Blunt Youth Radio's outreach program at the
Long Creek Youth Development Center (formerly the Maine Youth
Center).
Proceeds will help fund the group's trip to the National
Federation of Community Broadcaster's annual conference and
Golden Reel Awards ceremony. Members of Blunt Youth Radio
have been nominated for two national awards: one for locally
produced news and commentary, and the other for radio drama.
The teens were up against adult professionals from all across
the USA.
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