Story Archive
Below you’ll find a sampling of recent work by Voices Youth Staff. You can see work of specific types by clicking on the links to the left.
February 26, 2010
Natalee Dawson on KUAZ
Natalee Dawson, a junior at Salpointe Catholic High School, speaks about her family’s growing bird collection. “There are birds, small trilling creatures, and then there are Birds with a capital ‘B’ – the ones whose beaks are uncomfortably large in comparison to your fingers.”
February 26, 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 [...]
February 19, 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 [...]
February 18, 2010
VOICES Photo: Krystle Marie Chavez, Brian Hernandez, Cassandra Valadez
January 8, 2010
Written and Directed by Jose Morgan, Edge High
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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 [...]
December 4, 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 [...]
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. [...]
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)
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 [...]
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 [...]
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)
October 19, 2009
RadioActivism 10.12.09 Voices Charlie Franco Godzilla
(Photo/Lilliana Lopez)
August 12, 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!
