Our latest, Volume 15.34
I received a pleasant surprise in my personal email today. An email from David Inocencio with a link to this video. Listening to this video brings tears to my eyes...so many memories.
Read the rest of TK's blog post about The Beat Within here.
The New York State Literary Center on The Beat Within.
Manos, a young man in our weekly workshops, recently wrote his life story for The Beat Within. We recently shared this insightful story with "Crime Report." Today it happens to be on the front page of their website. Crime report has been an incredible partner in helping share our work with their audience this past year. Take a look...
SF State The Beat Within Video
The Beat Within in collaboration with the Italo Scanga Foundation present an art contest. Get all your entries in before August 18, 2010. For more info, read this.
It's a go, The Beat does Dallas!
Roger Taylor writes:
David, I have passed this information on to the Detention Program Manager Cynthia Wallace. She has reviewed the information and is excited about having the program in Dallas County. Texas. She will be in touch soon.
Writes all about The Beat Within.
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David Inocencio and Monica Carlos of The Beat Within are part of The San Francisco Juvenile Justice Commission. You can find tons of info on the JJC site.
Bernalillo County Youth Services Center has two of their books up for download on their website.
Voices of Our Youth I
Voices of Our Youth II
Cheers to the Mercury News for this story on “The Beat Within,” a program that lets incarcerated youth create poems, essays and artwork to express their thoughts and fears.
Read moreRobert Pollie, host of The Seventh Avenue Project (88.9 KUSP Central Coast Public Radio) interviews Dennis Morton and Jill Wolfson, The Beat Within workshop facilitators for Santa Cruz County Juvenile Hall.
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SANTA CRUZ (December 2009) - Dennis Morton leaned across a table at Santa Cruz County’s Juvenile Hall reading aloud a paragraph penciled by a 14-year-old boy.
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Bay Area writers' autographed books are the prize in a seasonal fundraising drive
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A new Link page is up. From there you can visit websites that have mention us in the past. Check it out!
LivingSocial From Dec. 3 – Dec. 20, LivingSocial Deals will be running their “Twelve Days of Gifting” campaign, which will feature 12 different deals on great gift ideas for the holidays. During the campaign, LivingSocial will be donating part of the proceeds to local nonprofits, and The Beat Within is one of the featured charities! So, if you want to save money, and help give back a little too, go to deals.livingsocial.com! From there, you can sign-up to receive e-mail alerts for all twelve deals so you can be sure you don’t miss out!
Santa Cruz Beat facilitators started Books for The Beat to raise matching funds for a grant from the Community Foundation. Many authors have donated autographed copies of their books; when people send a check they receive a book and a copy of The Beat...check out the Blog at beatwithinsantacruz.blogspot.com
Voices Behind Walls has linked us on their site, we are returning the favor.
KPFA's show Cover to Cover, invited David Inocencio and Susan Stone (If These Walls Could Talk) to discuss the work of The Beat.
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