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Dwayne is a regular participant in Tacoma Public Library's StoryLab, creating original beats and raps. When he heard about the listening project the day of the event, he created an original piece within two hours and recorded that same day.
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Dwayne is a regular participant in Tacoma Public Library's StoryLab, creating original beats and raps. When he heard about the listening project the day of the event, he created an original piece within two hours and recorded that same day.
Summer at Peace Youth Leadership Class
The Summer at Peace Youth Leadership Class decided to take on the issue around stereotyping in their schools. This team poem represents their response to the stereotyping that they have experienced in high school and reclaiming of their identity on their own terms. Since they come from high schools throughout Tacoma, we have identified the place where they gave voice to their identities: at Peace Community Center in Tacoma's Hilltop Neighborhood.
TDH is a member of 2012 and has spent most of his career giving a voice to justice through hip hop. He often uses elements of his own story to inspire others.
Josh Rizeberg is a spoken-word poet, M.C., father, and a member of Hilltop Build And Destroy.
Trevor is from the Pacific Northwest but studied and worked abroad before returning in 2005. Trevor is educated as a scientist and technologist.
Jeremy Silas is a multidisciplinary artist. He is a painter, musician/composer, writer, and spoken word performer.
Rev. Abigail Vizcarra Perez worked as a credentialed educator for private and public schools in California until moving to Washington when she learned at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. In 2011 she completed her thesis entitled The Poetics of Children's Ministry. For 13 years she has served children and families in non-profits across the country. In 2016 she became the first person of Latinx descent to be ordained by the United Methodist Church in the Pacific Northwest. She currently lives in Tacoma with her partner, Nathan.
Connie Walle is the president of Puget Sound Poetry Connection, now celebrating 25 years in business.
Kellie is a lifelong educator and activist for access and equity. She embraces poetry and spoken word.
Lucas Smiraldo, the 2013-15 Tacoma Poet Laureate, developed and wrote this piece for City Club in response to a presentation by the chief engineers of the new Tacoma Narrows Bridge. The work subsequently was integrated into a spoken word drama of seventeen movements titled "Voice of the Americas". Composer Wrick Wolff created a soundscape behind each piece for the final cd and live theater performance.
Darcy Nelson has claimed Tacoma as home for the past four years and works in the non-profit sector.
Carl "Papa" Palmer, retired Army, retired FAA, lives in University Place, WA. He is a Pushcart Prize and Micro Award nominee with a contest winning poem riding buses somewhere in Seattle. MOTTO: Long Weekends Forever.
Lucas is the 2013-15 Tacoma Poet Laureate and launched "The Laureate Listening Project."
Segment on the Washington State Fair in Puyallup with Frank Buster, and Lillian Barna.
Segment with Virginia Anderson about hotels in Tacoma.
June Zambian/ Tacoma Actors Guild/ Nancy Mendoza/ Cheney Studs
1st segment is an interview with June Zambian from Public Utilities. 2nd is a segment about the Tacoma Actors Guild. 3rd segment is an interview with Nancy Mendoza. Last segment is talking about the Cheney Studs.
PT. Defiance Zoo/Bob Barker/Joe Dimaggio/James Watt
PM Tacoma segment on the Point Defiance Zoo. Also on this cassette, previous interviews with Bob Barker, Joe Dimaggio, and James Watt.
Charles M Schulz/ John Denver/ City Council Building
Interviews with cartoonist Charles M Schulz and musician John Denver. Last segment on this cassette is about the Tacoma City Council building.
This cassette is a Tacoma Tigers interview.
Awareness of Newborns/ Computer Programming
Pediatric doctors talk about newborns in the first segment. Next segment is about computer programming, programming language with Computer Land on 9th and Broadway.
The Tacoma Arts Commision talks about the Tacoma Art Bowl.
This cassette is a broadcast of a Tacoma Tigers game.
Handford Nuclear Waste Repository
Segment with Washington representatives talking about Dr. Dixy Lee Ray's comments on the Handford Nuclear Waste situation.