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STUDENTS INVITED TO SPEAK OUT IN COUNTY "POETRY OUT LOUD" RECITATION CONTEST
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James Travers
Participants in the 2008 Ventura County Poetry Out Loud Competition at the High Street Arts Center in Moorpark.
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More from CamarilloThe Ventura County Arts Council invites all public, private, and parochial high schools, as well as home schoolers, to participate in the Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest, a competition that engages high-school students in the presentation of poetry through memorization and performance. Competitions are held in schools, with the school winners then competing on the county level in mid February 2009. The county winner then advances to the California state championship, and perhaps the national contest held in Washington, DC. in April 2009. Interested teachers, administrators, parents and students are encouraged to contact the Ventura County Arts Council at (805) 658-2213 for details on how their school can participate. The program encourages high school students to study and recite some of the richest language every written. In 2008, the first year we participated in the program, students representing nine schools participated in our county competition held at the High Street Arts Center, explained Margaret Travers, Executive Director of the Ventura County Arts Council. We hope to more than double the number of schools this year. Thanks to generous support from SAGE in Thousand Oaks, our Poetry Out Loud program can provide professional poets to work with teachers in the classroom through the VCAC and California Poets in the Schools. Nationally approved educational materials and teachers guides are free. There is no fee to participate. Students make their selections from an anthology of hundreds of poems. Individuals interested in having their schools participate in the 2009 Ventura County Poetry Out Loud program may contact the Ventura County Arts Council at (805) 658-2213. General information can be found at www.cac.ca.gov and www.poetryoutloud.org.
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