Books Of Hope

Youth Performance & Publishing Based In Somerville, MA [email protected]

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The Somerville Youth Arts Festival is an annual event presented by Books Of Hope that provides a paid opportunity for local young artists to showcase the work they’re created over this season. If you are between the ages of 12-20 in the greater Somerville area, you can earn $50-$100 for sharing your digital art or virtual performance!

The theme for this year’s SYAF is “In This Together”, which is the title of BOH’s new anthology of young writers from all over Massachusetts during the year 2020! In addition to poetry and musical feature performances, this free virtual festival will include a digital art gallery with paid commissions for youth artists, as well as Jackbox games with viewers.

To register for this event and earn paid stipends for your art, please fill out this form (tinyurl.com/SYAF2021), and join Somerville’s youth-run Discord server, the Villeside Digital Cultural Center! (tinyurl.com/DiscordYS)

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Somerville High senior Ekaterina Hicks-Magana sets her eyes on Broadway

Somerville High School senior Ekaterina Hicks-Magana is a singer, actor, dancer, writer, and poet, and is ready to make her mark as a performer.

BOH Author, Facilitator, and Open Mic Host, Ekaterina Hicks-Magana is doing big things!

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2020 Somerville Youth Arts Festival will be held online, at twitch.tv/youthsteamBOH !!!! #boh #booksofhope

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Register for the Somerville Youth Arts Festival, by filling out the form below! The theme is “We Can See Tomorrow”. 

https://forms.gle/NDjhQS88FzmrLKuu9

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THE OUTLAST PROJECT is a cathartic poetry event & interactive healing art project designed to empower survivors of sexual assault.

More info about The Outlast Project: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-outlast-project#/

Rachel McKibbens is a Chicana poet, activist, & mental health advocate with nearly two decades of involvement exposing the transformative power of poetry to a broad spectrum of humans: from needle exchanges to high schools, half-way houses to Ivy League universities.

More info about Rachel McKibbens: www.rachelmckibbens.com/

More info about musical guest goddess Mal Devisa: https://maldevisa.bandcamp.com/

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See BOH Slam Team Member Andrine Pierresaint reading her original poem “Boulders for Cheekbones” in response to Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped: A Memoir the featured text of this years ICA Reads. 

Watch Andrine perform below:

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In preparation for the the 5th Annual Massachusetts Louder Than A Bomb Competition, 5 local teams gather for a friendly matchup! Come see youth poets compete with each other gearing up for the preliminaries the following week!

Sponsored by The Mystic Learning Center, The Massachusetts Cultural Council, The Somerville Arts Council, The Boston Public Library.

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BOH is recruiting young writers & performers to be part of the 2016 Been Out Here youth poetry slam team! Using lyricism, humor, imagery and raw emotion, the BOH team will write, edit & practice spoken word performances to represent BOH at the youth poetry slam, Louder Than A Bomb, in April 2016.

The BOH Youth Slam Team is sponsored by The Mystic Learning Center + The Massachusetts Cultural Council + The Somerville Arts Council

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Bring your songs, poems, raps, rhythms to our Teen Open Mic at the Armory, workshop your work then put it on the mic! 

Brought to you by Books of Hope, Somerville Center for Teen Empowerment, Arts At The Armory, The Mystic Learning Center, and the Massachusetts Cultural Arts Council. 

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Bring your songs, poems, raps, rhythms to our Youth Open Mic at the BPL Teen Central (Copley Branch), workshop your work then put it on the mic!