Wed 4/3 @ 6:30PM
More than a decade and a half ago the Maltz Museum launched the Stop the Hate Youth Speak Out competition to encourage young people in grades 6-12 to think and write about bigotry, intolerance and prejudice and how to fight back against them. Later it added the Youth Sing Out competition where classes work with area professional musician/educators to write songs on the same topic. This year, it added still another segment to the contest, where students took workshops with Lake Erie Ink to express their feelings in poetry. More than 4100 students from more than 100 schools across northeast Ohio took part in creating essays, songs or poems, competing for more than $100,000 in scholarship awards for themselves and anti-bias education grants for their schools.
The finalists have now been announced for this year’s 16th annual Stop the Hate awards. And the winners will be revealed at the awards ceremony at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public but you must register Go here.
Cleveland, OH 44106