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WE RISE 2021: Deadline for Why I Rise Poetry Competition
May 8, 2021
If you are 13-22 years old, we invite you to share: How has mental health impacted your life, your family, and your community? What ideas or solutions do you imagine to reduce stigma and increase access to mental-health resources?
Why I Rise features an online spoken word and hip hop competition. Six individual winners will receive a $1,000 cash award. Why I Rise participants will have the opportunity to be featured on National Public Radio and their videos will be distributed across all Get Lit and Why We Rise Channels. Winners will be selected by a group of diverse, dynamic artists whose work centers around mental health. At Get Lit, young people respond to classic poetry with original spoken word poems. For this competition, young people will answer the question: Why I Rise … and respond with their own two to three minute poem.
Six individual winners will receive a $1,000 cash award, and five honorable mentions will receive a $100 cash award. To enter, visit werise.la/contest and submit your entries by Saturday, May 8, 2021. The poems will be showcased at a presentation on May 19, 2021 at 7 p.m.
For more information on WE RISE 2021 programming, visit https://whywerise.la/werisela/.