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January 29, 2010

VOICES x KUAZ: Jacob Lopez tells how he is using his life-long fascination with make-up

VOICES x KUAZ: Jacob Lopez tells how he is using his life-long fascination with make-up

“Paranoid  that someone was coming toward the bathroom, I would wash my face even faster.  I was scared as hell. Now that i’m 19, I want to show others the freedom that makeup has given me.”
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(VOICES Photo/Lilliana Lopez)
more on Jacob:
Jacob Lopez, 19, Pima Vocational High School
I’m here at VOICES as a youth apprentice in Radio. [...]

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January 8, 2010

voicesTV: Last day at the De Anza Drive-In Theater

voicesTV: Last day at the De Anza Drive-In Theater

Written and Directed by Jose Morgan, Edge High
Vidcaps of De Anza story:

More about the film-maker:
Jose Morgan, 17, Edge High School
I hope to go to college right after high school. I had acquired an interest in journalism and I thought Voices was the perfect opportunity to get a head start. I have always had a passion [...]

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December 4, 2009

Editorial: Brigette Dumais on Jazz Solos and Social Skills

Editorial:  Brigette Dumais on Jazz Solos and Social Skills

Jazz Solos and Social Skills
By:  Brigette Dumais, 16, Tucson High Magnet School
The coffee shop at the Idyllwild Arts Academy in the mountains of southern California had several round tables that could sit four or five people at once, wooden floors and big windows that faced the forest. It smelled like rain and freshly brewed [...]

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December 3, 2009

Tucson Weekly: Stephanie Fleming on supporting her soldier brother

Tucson Weekly:  Stephanie Fleming on supporting her soldier brother

Click here to read the story on the Tucson Weekly’s website.

Guest Opinion: I am a proud sister of a U.S. Army veteran
by Stephanie Fleming
When I was young, my brother Patrick and I were always close. We would play Zelda together, or eat buttered tortillas and watch The Emperor’s New Groove.
In 2005, all of that changed. [...]

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November 25, 2009

Attitude of Gratitude: VOICES is thankful for…

Attitude of Gratitude: VOICES is thankful for…

( VOICES Photo collage by:  Marena Priday, Michelle Rogers, Maria Aguirre, Samuel Crosswell, Anthony Valencia, Victoria Garcia, Fabian De La Pena)
 
We polled the staff, youth staff, Board and volunteers of VOICES to learn what people are thankful for in this season of gratitude. Check it out, we’re a thank-filled crew:

“I’m thankful for chickens, turkeys, beets, [...]

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November 24, 2009

KUAZ: Lewis Dawley-Hill on Cosplaying

KUAZ:  Lewis Dawley-Hill on Cosplaying

Lewis Dawley-Hill, 15, Canyon Rose Academy
Lewis, a “self-described all-around nerdy teen,” shares his adventures in cosplay, in which he dresses up as his favorite villain from a video game and prepares for his first major cosplay convention.
AZSpotlight_2009_11_20_Voices_L_Dawley-Hill.mp3
(VOICES Photo/Lilliana Lopez)

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November 24, 2009

The Bat Mitzfit: How I Found Womanhood and Lost Religion

The Bat Mitzfit: How I Found Womanhood and Lost Religion

By:  Dylyn Shapiro, 17, City High School
My cheeks were as hot as fresh Hamentaschen cookies. I was up on a podium, reciting from the Torah at my Bat Mitzvah, the traditional rite of passage for most 13-year-old Jewish girls. My eyes, wet with salt water, gave me a blurred view of the Hebrew texts. I [...]

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voicesTV takes home 8 awards from the MLK Day Film Projét Short Film Festival!

January 19, 2010

A big thanks to all that were involved and congrats to all the winners, especially to our own Jose Morgan who won “Best Documentary” and “Best Film”!

Youth Winners:

Best Screenplay A Look Around (City High)
Best Documentary Jose Morgan’s Last Day at the Drive-In (VOICES)
Theme Integration Noor Jabbar’s Senior Refugees (VOICES)
Non-Profit Entry Juan Acedo’s [...]



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voicesTV submits 8 shorts for MLK Day Film Projét Short Film Festival!

January 18, 2010

 
Who needs the Golden Globes when you’ve got voicesTV? voicesTV had 8 youth submissions! Come out and support youth and adult media!
Celebrate MLK Day “A day on, not a day off” January 18th with the MLK Day Film Projét Short Film Festival. Short films are based on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s concept of “Beloved Community.” [...]



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Tucson Weekly: Stephanie Fleming on supporting her soldier brother

December 3, 2009

Click here to read the story on the Tucson Weekly’s website.

Guest Opinion: I am a proud sister of a U.S. Army veteran
by Stephanie Fleming
When I was young, my brother Patrick and I were always close. We would play Zelda together, or eat buttered tortillas and watch The Emperor’s New Groove.
In 2005, all of that changed. [...]



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KUAZ: Lewis Dawley-Hill on Cosplaying

November 24, 2009

Lewis Dawley-Hill, 15, Canyon Rose Academy
Lewis, a “self-described all-around nerdy teen,” shares his adventures in cosplay, in which he dresses up as his favorite villain from a video game and prepares for his first major cosplay convention.
AZSpotlight_2009_11_20_Voices_L_Dawley-Hill.mp3
(VOICES Photo/Lilliana Lopez)



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The Bat Mitzfit: How I Found Womanhood and Lost Religion

November 24, 2009

By:  Dylyn Shapiro, 17, City High School
My cheeks were as hot as fresh Hamentaschen cookies. I was up on a podium, reciting from the Torah at my Bat Mitzvah, the traditional rite of passage for most 13-year-old Jewish girls. My eyes, wet with salt water, gave me a blurred view of the Hebrew texts. I [...]



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voicesTV films TPAC Open House

November 10, 2009

Bicycles, Air Supply, Mariachi, cheese…what else can you ask for? Filmed by voicesTV: Avory Baur — Tucson High, Ricardo Bojorquez — Pueblo High, Anastasia Moneymaker — EDGE Highschool



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Halloween “Spooky Photo” Shoot-Out

November 2, 2009

In honor of Halloween, the entire Youth Apprentice staff of VOICES Documentary Arts Program participated in a “Spooky Photo Shoot-out” photo competition in which youth apprentices were divided into two groups – Magazine & Radio, Photography & Video. Within these two groups, youth apprentices were paired into teams for a timed photo exercise. Each duo [...]



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KUAZ: Christina Lopez on her spooky experience with the spirit of ‘La Llorona’

October 30, 2009

Christina Lopez, 17, a student at City High School, recounts her frightening experience with the spirit of “La Llorona”, The Weeping Woman, on a dark night along the Santa Cruz River.
KUAZ: Christina Lopez on La Llorona

(Photo by Lilliana Lopez)



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RadioActivism: Charlie Franco on never taking off his childhood Godzilla costume

October 19, 2009

RadioActivism 10.12.09 Voices Charlie Franco Godzilla

(Photo/Lilliana Lopez)



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Benefit for VOICES, Inc., & Chax Press on October 30th

October 12, 2009



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KUAZ: Katie Tarter on Being in the Band Family

September 5, 2009

VOICES: Community Stories Past & Present Inc. High school student Katie Tarter talks about her impending decision to continue with music in college after she graduates from Tucson High School this May.
KUAZ: Katie Tarter

Katie Tarter, 17, is a senior at Tucson High School.   (photo by Reyes Suarez/VOICES)
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I (Heart) Downtown Tucson poster project

August 20, 2009

Posters in celebration of downtown Tucson are now hanging in the windows of Hotel Congress. The I (Heart) Downtown Tucson is a VOICES, Inc. production, in which youth artists interview and photograph Tucson residents about their downtown love stories. Guest artists Kimi Eisele and Josh Schacter led the project. Funding provided by Tucson Pima Arts [...]



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Avory Baur, 16, Tucson Magnet High School
I honestly never expected to actually get hired at VOICES, but I am really glad that I did. I’ve always been flaky, noncommittal and self-deprecating, but being at a place where people actually care what I have to say as helped me immensely. I’ve developed as a filmmaker, writer, [...]

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