It’s difficult to choose one word to sum up the She’s the First Poetry Workshop hosted by Azure Antoinette at the Young Women’s Leadership School in Brooklyn today. Awe-inspiring? AMAZING? Authentic? Well, take a look at the stream of tweets below, the Flickr photos by Kaitlin Davis, or a video of Azure’s performance for the girls on YouTube, and you can tell us!
THIS is what enthusiasm in the classroom looks like!
Truth is, there aren’t words to describe what we felt connecting with 13-and 14-year-old girls in Brooklyn today, meeting them in a round of soft-spoken introductions, only to watch Azure work her magic and have them all jumping out of their seats with hands raised to recite their poetry before the room — which takes a lot of guts when you’re a teen!
Our goal was to connect the girls to the concept of “If the world was your classroom…” — to tell them about our mission, and the girls we sponsor in the developing world, so they feel part of a global community. We started a cherished relationship with the Young Women’s Leadership Network, where girls will contribute to a She’s the First poetry anthology that will support the cause and build cross-cultural communication…but more to come on that later!
In the meantime, stay tuned to Aspire for the last leg of the campaign later this week — the ecards that will fundraise for a girl’s sponsorship in Sudan! And don’t forget to contribute your own verse to the She’s the First Twitter poem, by answering the prompt here and tagging #stfpoem.
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