VOICES SUMMER VIDEO SHOOTOUT!
May 19, 2009
Create a short film this summer with VOICES, the Pima County Public Library and the professionals from Pan Left Productions. Experience the filmmaking process first-hand while you make a trailer based on a favorite book. We’ll post it to the Library website and YouTubSee your film with friends and family at a special LOFT Cinema [...]
VOICES on the Cover of the Tucson Weekly!
May 13, 2009
Check out VOICES in the current issue of the Tucson Weekly!
Teen Tales: A Selection of Stories From the Youth at VOICES
Each afternoon at VOICES Community Stories Past and Present Inc., low-income youth age 14 to 21 from all over Tucson stream into our downtown headquarters to grab laptop computers, digital cameras and recorders—becoming journalists and [...]
“It’s easy to spend, difficult to save”: by Talena Brown
April 14, 2009
Every other Thursday always goes like this: I run down to the bank and cash my paycheck, thinking about how soon I can get to Urban Outfitters. I make it through two hours of work until I can catch the bus to the Main Gate Plaza…
The Fourth Avenue Underpass by Jackie Enriquez
April 14, 2009
Downtown construction. An unpleasant reality for most people in Tucson…
Chris Stagg in Downtown Tucsonan
March 11, 2009
Skateboarding has been a part of my family for years. Before I was born, my dad Chris traveled to skate competitions all over the west coast. At home, when I was little, we had a halfpipe ramp in our backyard and my dad and his brother…
Young Voices: My heart still beats for Samjana By Laxmi Narayan Dahal
February 20, 2009
Young Voices
My heart still beats for Samjana
By Laxmi Narayan Dahal
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 02.16.2009
Five months ago, I left Nepal and my praemika (girlfriend), Samjana, to come to America. Since I’ve been here, I’ve noticed high school boys go through many girlfriends. But I believe that love should be with only one girl, not a thousand.
I [...]
Zach Khalil in the Feb. issue of the Downtown Tucsonan
January 31, 2009
Writing and Photography by Zach Khalil.
“A train rumbled through downtown and its whitsle brought me out of the indifference of sleep and back to my senses.”
VOICES Executive Director Stephanie Balzer at the UA Poetry Center
January 13, 2009
Come hear VOICES Executive Director Stephanie Balzer read some poems at The University of Arizona Poetry Center on February 5th at 8 p.m. It’s Free! It’s BYOB! (Bring Your Own Beret). Her poems have appeared in CUE, Mid-American Review, and Chelsea, and are forthcoming in Cannibal.
POET STEPHANIE BALZER
Winner of the Mary Ann Campau Fellowship will [...]
VOICES in the Downtown Tucsonan
January 9, 2009
VOICES will now be published in the Downtown Tucsonan, so be on the look out!
Young Voices: Cathrine Suddarth published in the Arizona Daily Star
December 30, 2008
Getting centered by celebrating Yule
Three years ago, my family went through a rough Christmas. But it wasn’t so much the family drama we were going through that made it so hard as it was the Christmas season itself.¬† People I saw on the street were so focused on themselves that they would actually run into [...]
VOICES does Storycorp!
December 19, 2008
Two Former Youth staff Kristen Suagee-Beauduy and Donnamarie Miranda were able to tell their stories on Storycorp. You can check them out below!
Part 1: Donnamarie and Kirsten talk about how they met at VOICES and why they didn’t think about going to college
Part 2: High school vs College
Donnamarie and Kristen talk about the difference [...]
Pima County Public Library Recognizes Why Vote? Video Contest Winners
November 17, 2008
VOICES WINS A DIGITAL CAMERA!
Released: 11-17-08
Two Pima County youth and one youth group were recently awarded prizes for videos they created in programs sponsored by the Pima County Public Library.
Evan, age 12, for Why we should vote – Lego
Hassael, age 17, for Hassael tells you to vote
The youth of VOICES for Youth [...]
VOICES wins a digital camera for TEENZONE’s ‘Why Vote?’ youtube contest!
November 12, 2008
Check out VOICES video promoting people to go out and vote. Sponsored by the Pima Public Library.
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Ashley Alshouse
My name is Ashley Alshouse and I’m 16 years old and I go to Alta Vista High. Things that I like are writing, taking pictures and also music and science. I think is music, writing and taking pictures all have a story to tell. That’s why I thought VOICES would be a great thing to [...]
