Thu 4/3 @ 6:30-9PM
The Maltz Museum launched its 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. And, as discrimination, inequality, exclusion and bullying are being encouraged and even written into law by elected officials — look no further than the Ohio Legislature — getting young people to think about pushback is essential.
Later it added the Youth Sing Out competition where classes work with area professional musician/educators to write songs on the same topic. Last year, it added still another segment to the contest, where students took workshops with Lake Erie Ink to express their ideas in poetry. This year, nearly 4500 hundred students from more than 160-plus 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 Maltz Museum recently named the finalists in its 17th annual Stop the Hate Youth Speak Out and Youth Sing Out contests and will be announcing the winners at an awards ceremony at the Tri-C’s Eastern Campus Mandel Theatre on Thursday April 3. The Youth Sing Out winners will be performed by the winning schools. It’s free and open to the public but you should register here.
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