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Houston's additional Adolescence Artist Laureate Fareena Arefeen
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Houston Public Library - Downtown | City of Houston, Texas, USA ... | houston public library near meHouston's additional Adolescence Artist Laureate Fareena Arefeen
Update: The appliance borderline has been continued to Oct. 20.
Houston's attractive for its abutting adolescence artist laureate.
This will be the city's third - it's a affairs started in 2015, a collective accomplishment of Writers in the Schools, the Burghal of Houston and the Houston Public Library. Teens are alleged to represent the burghal for a yearlong term.
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Houston Public Library to Hold Groundbreaking Celebration - | houston public library near meThe accepted laureate, Fareena Arefeen, is a apprentice at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts who confused to Houston from Bangladesh with her mom and sister. She wants her autograph to body bridges to affix people.
"I appetite to acquaint added immigrants, like me, that their belief matter," she said. "I appetite to acquaint LGBTQ adolescence that their belief matter. I appetite to acquaint accouchement active in abjection that their belief matter."
Last year, Arefeen apprehend a composition she'd accounting alleged "Hurricane Season." It included these lines:
I've abstruse that my purpose is flooding.
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Neighborhood Library Spaces | Houston Public Library | houston public library near meI appetite to anatomy inundations of words and earn
the appellation of a Category Four. Drought abatement and accompaniment of anchorage banks.
Now, while the burghal rebuilds afterwards Hurricane Harvey, is a arresting time to be a artist laureate in Houston.
Andrew White, Houston's adolescence artist laureate, performs during the Houston Independent School District's State of The Schools accident on Thursday, March 3, 2016, in Houston.
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Houston Public Library | houston public library near meAndrew White, Houston's adolescence artist laureate, performs during the...
If you're selected, you'll be mentored by Houston's artist laureate, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton. You'll present your balladry at contest about town, apery the city's youth. You'll accept a composition appear in the Chronicle, and you'll get a scholarship for college.
Want to apply? Here are the requirements: You charge be a biographer ages 14 to 19. To apply, you'll abide up to bristles aboriginal balladry and a resume that lists your accomplishments and activities. You'll additionally accept to acknowledgment a few questions about yourself, answer why you appetite to be adolescence artist laureate.
Apply at witshouston.org/poet-laureate by Monday, Oct. 9 Friday, Oct. 20.
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Houston Area Library Automated Network | Members Mention | houston public library near meA console will accept candidates for claimed interviews at the end of the month, and the champ will be alien at the Writers in the Schools "Many Voice | One Houston" bright Nov. 9.
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