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“Get-Lit”-Words Ignite

Featuring Tim Robbins and guests …

Saturday, July 10, 2010
5:30 pm

The Ash Grove invites you to a benefit dinner and a show with the
Get Lit Players, hosted by Tim Robbins and friends, featuring those
teenage wizards of poetry, great music, and a fine dinner. That's
Saturday, July 10th, 5:30 pm, at the Gilmore Adobe, in the South-East section of LA's famous Farmers Market, East of 3rd and Fairfax, off Gilmore Rd, and N.E.of the Market's watchtower. Look for tall trees,

Founded in 2005 in Los Angeles, Get Lit is L.A.'s leading non-profit presenter of literary performance, education and teen poetry programs. Get Lit has started a movement of young people picking up a book and a pen, often for the first time in their lives. They are committed to providing youth with opportunities to develop a love of literature and language and to present their voices in public performance, print, and on line. By inspiring teens to read, Get-Lit levels the playing field between rich and poor, mainstream and marginalized, bringing previously unheard voices to the front.

The evening benefits the Get Lits, best described by Jimmy Santiago Baca, winner of the Pushcart Prize, American Book Award, and International Prize for Poetry: "The Get Lit Players are altering the lives of thousands of young people. They are tackling the darkness of illiteracy and lighting the way for our youth."

The donation is $100 per person. Send a check payable to the Ash Grove, write 'Get Lit' in the memo and mail to:
Ed Pearl at 901 E. Edgeware Rd., Los Angeles, CA, 90026.

Information:

www.GetLit.org,

www.AshGroveMusic.com

or call 310-391-5974

If you can't come and/or wish to donate whatever, please send to the above address and make check payable to the Get Lit Players.

KPFK is a Proud Media Sponsor

For more information about Get-Lit, visit their website at http://www.getlit.org/

Get Lit – Words Ignite

Founded in 2005 in Los Angeles, Get Lit - using the power of literature to change lives - began a movement of young people picking up a book and a pen, often for the first time in their lives.

Now Get Lit is LA's leading non-profit presenter of literary performance, education and teen poetry programs, serving over 10,000 teens annually through its variety of in school, after school, Get Lit Player and Magic Poetry Bus programs.

Get Lit is committed to providing youth with as many opportunities as possible to develop a love of literature and language and to present their voices in a variety of ways, including public performance, printed anthologies, and on-line.

By inspiring teens to read, we level the playing field between rich and poor, mainstream and marginalized, bringing previously unheard voices to the front.

We provide an educational model for poetry and literature that helps transform underperforming LAUSD high schools to rise from the bottom of national literacy rankings to the top, becoming a model for teen literacy throughout the nation.

Get Lit has the great fortune of merging withCalifornia Poet Laureate, Carol Muske-Dukes who has incorporated her own teaching strategies and poetic techniques into the Get Lit curriculum creating an even more evolved learning strategy.

Together we have created, ‘Ignite-Proactive Poetry', an after-school literacy and spoken word project that increases teen literacy by combining “spoken word” or “hip hop” influenced poetry with traditional works, where students engage in a “dialogue” with the writers in the same style as the pieces they have chosen - a fresh, engaging, and relevant way of teaching poetry!

In addition, Carol Muske-Dukes has brought her interactive ‘Magic Poetry Bus' program to Get Lit so poetry can be experienced “on-line” in rare video clips.

Ignite! (After School) is an after school performance program exploring classic and contemporary poetry in an interactive forum, offering a sounding board for teens to construct and perform their own pieces in Workshops moderated by acclaimed poets, writers, and performers.

“THE GET LIT PLAYERS” perform classic/ contemporary poetry in addition to their own original works at schools, bookstores, universities, libraries and community events across the nation. They are creating a resurgence of interest in the printed word by making it accessible for all. Currently a documentary is being filmed about the Get Lit Players, entitled, “Literary Riot.”

The Get Lit Players were semi-finalists in the 2008 Brave New Voices International Teen Poetry Slam,where they placed among the top ten teams in the world for their own original poetry. They are the premiere classic teen poetry troupe in America.

Get Lit-Words Ignite is the official teen poetry program of the Los Angeles Public Library who hosts Get Lit Player workshops and performances at their branch locations.

“The Get Lit Players are altering the lives of thousands of young people. They are tackling the darkness of illiteracy and lighting the way for our youth.”

-Jimmy Santiago Baca, winner of the Pushcart Prize, American Book Award, and International Prize for Poetry

“Everyone loved the Get Lit Players. I'm sure we'll be asking you to present at future conferences and workshops. Thanks!” -Faye Peitzman, Ph.D. UCLA Writing Project Director

“The work Get Lit performs within the schools is outstanding. It is an organization dedicated to changing the face of illiteracy in Los Angeles by reaching out to students other organizations overlook. I would strongly recommend the Get Lit Program to any school lucky enough to get it.” -Roman Del Rosario, Vice Principal, John C. Fremont High

“The contribution that Get Lit is making to the education of these youths is truly remarkable. If we intend to maintain an enduring interest among our youth in literature and language, we must lend our support to such programs as Get Lit.” -Pat Abrams, English Department Chair, Fairfax High School

SUPPORT GET LIT - SUPPORT LEARNING!