Street of Dreams, a program of the nonprofit Musicians for Education, is hosting its spoken word concert at Logan Heights Library on May 7, featuring performances by students from Lindsay Community School for pregnant and parenting teens, and some graduates
, an education partnership with Children of the Rainbow for pregnant and parenting teens in ninth through 12th grades. Each week, the students participate in three-hour workshops taught by local artists, focused on public performance, video production, photography, filmmaking, literacy, and creative writing. Part of their work culminates in a public
How we’ve evolved is we started with 20 students and today we have 100. Also, our motto is “Think small and do a good job.” That means that we keep the numbers small purposely. We go deep, we don’t go wide. Another thing is that we have expanded Street of Dreams to include Street of Dreams graduates who are also college graduates who come back and mentor their younger peers. We also have a “Train the Trainer” program where they learn the method and teach it.
Their topic is “I Am a Hero,” but will come from many different angles this year. We have a tremendous influx of Haitian students. If you know what’s going on in Haiti, it’s bad, so a lot of our Haitians are so new that they don’t even speak English yet. They will deliver their poetry, some of them in French, some of them speak Spanish.
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