Friday, May 21st, 2010
Victoria Garcia explains the complex reasons she and her younger sister, Ashley, began shoplifting. We come from a low-income family that my mother can barely support with her minimum wage salary, Garcia said. The need for necessities was strong but when we fulfilled those needs, the desire for things and objects [...]
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Marena Priday, 17, a junior at Sahuaro High School, shares how she learned that the seven signs of Suicidal Ideation – the detailed thoughts and plans to harm oneself – fit her. She sought, and received, help and is now working to make others aware of the warning signs.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
VOICES Photo: Krystle Marie Chavez, Brian Hernandez, Cassandra Valadez
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 [...]
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
The members of VOICES Summer Photo 101 workshop created a video comprised of sequenced still photographs. Four weeks of technical photography training and many hours of shooting and editing by more than 20 teenagers created this slide show. If you are interested in learning more about photography, enroll in VOICES Photography workshops!
Wednesday, March 11th, 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…
Saturday, January 31st, 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.”
Tuesday, December 30th, 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 [...]
