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Photo slide show: Victoria Garcia on why she started stealing

krista — Fri, 21 May 2010 23:01:00 +0000

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 got stronger and became the reason we shoplifted. Victoria and her sister stopped shoplifting after Ashley was caught and arrested.

Click on the link to view Victoria’s story on the VOICES YouTube channel:

watch?v=umO8DYkDbac

Marena Priday on Suidical Ideation

krista — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:33:05 +0000

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.

Click this link to view Marena’s photo slide show on VOICES’ YouTube channel: watch?v=xWD-IDftk6M

(VOICES photo/Lilliana Lopez)

Fabian De Le Pena Montero: Day of the Dead Altars

krista — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:30:18 +0000

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 death into a celebration.

Click below to view Fabian’s Photo Slideshow.

VOICES Fabian De La Pena Montero: Day of the Dead Altars

Photo Competition: The Rhetorical Triangle

krista — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:59:21 +0000

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 less than one hour to explore downtown Tucson to find visual examples of the three concepts. Here are the winners, as judged by the photographers.

The Grand Prize was awarded to the photography team that had the best image in all three categories: Logic, Passion, Character. Each category was also awarded a First Place.

Grand Prize: Krystle Marie Chavez, Brian Hernandez, Cassandra Valadez

First Place – Passion: Nini Boufelfel, Julian Juan, Fernanda Frias

First Place – Logic: Fabian De La Pena Montero, Mattea Wallace, Alejandra Durazo

First Place – Character: Nini Boufelfel, Julian Juan, Fernanda Frias

Photo of the Week: 2.19.2010

krista — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:12:45 +0000

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

Halloween “Spooky Photo” Shoot-Out

krista — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:17:08 +0000

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 had 20 minutes to find or create the spookiest photo within downtown Tucson. The youth staff then judged the winners from their group – selecting first, second, third place and honorable mentions.

Woo Hoo! Summer Photo 101

krista — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:19:21 +0000

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!

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Chris Stagg in Downtown Tucsonan

ian — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:51:40 +0000

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…

Zach Khalil in the Feb. issue of the Downtown Tucsonan

ian — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:22:28 +0000

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.”

Young Voices: Cathrine Suddarth published in the Arizona Daily Star

ian — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:06:51 +0000

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 each other. They couldn’t even pay attention to the simple things in life. Since that Christmas, I’m trying to rebuild and remake myself. That’s how I came to celebrate Yule.

Yule is a Wiccan holiday that falls on the winter solstice. And to me, it is more personal and less materialistic than Christmas. Yule is about renewal and rebirth in different forms. Many celebrants perform rituals and tell stories about how Wicca came to be. On Yule, gifts are given, but they’re usually different than the gifts people get at Christmas. Instead of that iPod everyone seems to lust for, I would rather get candles, books and herbs.

When I celebrated Christmas, I always thought about what to buy my friends and family. I always wanted to get them gift cards, but I never had the money. When Christmas finally came around, I felt greedy because I received more than I gave. When I decided to let Christmas go, I became a new person through my own power. I had never thought like that around the holidays before.

Around Christmas, many people have parties, gift exchanges and family gatherings. One of my favorite things about celebrating Yule is that I do it alone. I am a solitary practitioner, which simply means that I don’t have a group of other Wiccans that I worship with. In the future, I would like to join a small coven, but for now the quiet time alone is refreshing, and rare for me.¬† Yule encourages me to think about what I need to change in my life, and not just things like my style. I reflect on how I can better the world and myself and be more stable and successful. How I can be more respectful to others and myself and deal with my anger.

I also celebrate by making a list of my favorite and least favorite moments from the past year. Then I list what I plan on doing this upcoming year: Stop having outbursts with Mom, get along better with the kids at school and save money so my mom and I can move. Anytime I think about Yule I think about the divine and the gifts I have received: I live with my mom again; I have found a good school; I have a cat named Benson; and I have an on-again, off-again boyfriend who cares about me. To me, Yule is a reflection on the choices I’ve made. It is the beginning of changing.

Cathrine Suddarth is a staff member of the 110¬? afterschool magazine project, which is run by Voices: Community Stories Past and Present Inc. For more information, visit www.voicesinc.org

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/272512.php

Getting centered by celebrating Yule

Opinion by local teens and young adults

By Cathrine Suddarth

SPECIAL TO THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR

Published: 12.22.2008