Archive for the ‘Stories’ Category


Fabian De Le Pena Montero: Day of the Dead Altars

Friday, February 26th, 2010

VOICES Youth Apprentice Fabian De Le Pena Montero, 16, a junior at Tucson High Magnet School, investigated the spiritual, cultural and artistic aspects of altars created to remember lost loved ones during Day of the Dead celebration. Montero interviewed five people as a way to explore the different ways that people turn the grief of [...]

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Photo Competition: The Rhetorical Triangle

Friday, February 19th, 2010

The Spring 2010 VOICES Magazine staff participated in their first photo competition during their training on the basic concepts of rhetoric:  Logic, Passion, and Character. VOICES uses rhetoric as a tool to develop stories that explore, challenge and appeal to the logic, passions and character of readers. Working in teams of three, the staff had [...]

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Photo of the Week: 2.19.2010

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

VOICES Photo:  Krystle Marie Chavez, Brian Hernandez, Cassandra Valadez

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

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Written and Directed by Jose Morgan, Edge High
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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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Editorial: Brigette Dumais on Jazz Solos and Social Skills

Friday, December 4th, 2009

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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Tucson Weekly: Stephanie Fleming on supporting her soldier brother

Thursday, December 3rd, 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

Tuesday, November 24th, 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

Tuesday, November 24th, 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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Halloween “Spooky Photo” Shoot-Out

Monday, November 2nd, 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’

Friday, October 30th, 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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