Street Poets Inc.

STREET POETS Inc. is a poetry-based peace-making organization dedicated to the creative process as a force for individual and community transformation.

TO INSPIRE at-risk youth in the juvenile detention facilities, schools and streets of Los Angeles County to discover and develop their voices as writers, artists and human beings.

TO EMPOWER these young people to use the skills and increased self-awareness engendered through the arts to transcend self-destructive lifestyles.

TO CREATE a healing community that unites different racial, ethnic and socioeconomic segments of our city around the transformational power of the creative process.

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STREET POETS INC. - One Street One Heartbeat One Love 2006 Fundraiser

Saturday, October 7th, 6:30pm @ Bergamot Station, Track 16 Gallery

Join us as we celebrate our own transformation from DreamYard/LA to Street Poets Inc. by transforming art galleries into inspiring poetry lounges where you can experience the work of our leading Street Poets with all of your senses. Fine food, hosted bar & special guest performances.

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STREET POETS INC. - WORD ON THE STREET NEWSLETTER

Spring/Summer 2006 Volume 1 Issue 1

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Street Poets Inc.'s violence prevention-themed poetry performance group, composed of our formerly incarcerated workshop alumni and staff, performs at schools, youth justice & peace conferences and juvenile detention facilities throughout Los Angeles County and beyond. The group's original performance is a riveting celebration of the transformational power of the written word. Since their first show at the Los Angeles Theater Center in 1998, Street Poets United has performed over one hundred times for thousands of at-risk youth and young adults from downtown Los Angeles to Europe.