Tag: youth
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SMCPL Calendar 2022
June 30, 2022, 5:30pm-8:30pm Skyline College Summer of Poetry & Farewell to San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto, at the Farallon Room. June 28, 2022, 9am Final San Mateo County Poet Laureate Reading at San Mateo County Board of Supervisors Meeting June 25, 2022, 3pm Daly City Public Library Farewell to San Mateo County…
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Highlights 2019-2021
I was appointed by the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors to serve as Poet Laureate in October 2018. In January 2019, I launched my “Speak Poetry in San Mateo County” campaign in schools, city halls, the county jail, nursing facilities and local libraries. In April 2020, I curated the community poem, “Love in the…
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BREATHE, an Official Selection in the Nature & Culture Poetry Film Festival in Copenhagen
BREATHE is an Official Selection in the Nature & Culture – Poetry Film Festival and will be screened at Kulturhuset Islands Brygge Cultural Center (Denmark) on November 21st & 28th! SMC youth’s crowdsourced poem, “Breathe,” will also be included in an anthology forthcoming from Poetic Phonotheque, Copenhagen. “Breathe” features work by Cassandra Bousquet, Chloe Chou,…
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SSF Youth Ecopoetry Workshop
Save the date: August 11, 2021 at 5pm Pacific via Zoom! Youth Ecopoets’ Workshop with 2020 U.S. Youth Poet Laureate & 2020 UN Sustainable Development Goals Ambassador Meera Dasgupta Organized by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto and the South San Francisco Public Library, this workshop is made possible by the Academy of American…
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June 2021 to June 2022: Youth Ecopoetry Project
UPDATE: The San Mateo County Youth Ecopoetry Project culminated on June 30, 2022 with the filmed roundtable, “The Future Is Poetry,” which was an official selection in the Lift-Off Filmmaker Sessions. A shorter version of the recording was featured in the Nature & Culture Poetry Film Festival at Kulturhuset Islands Brygge Cultural Center in Copenhagen.…
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Youth Climate Ambassadors
The San Mateo County Office of Sustainability and San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto present a youth ecopoetry workshop at the Youth Climate Ambassadors Summer Retreat. *With Keynote Address & Workshop by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto and National Youth Poet Laureate Alexandra Huynh (This ecopoetry workshop, organized by San Mateo…
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Midpen Media Celebrates Youth Poets
San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto is joined by The Midpen Media Center founder Elliot Margolies, local teacher Jim Ward, contributors to the youth anthology, I Have a Dream: Inaugural Poems for a New Generation, and winners and finalists of the 2020 Housing Leadership Council Youth Poetry Competition, 2021 Daly City Youth Poet Laureate…
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Growing Home / Affordable Housing Month
In late 2019, the Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County and SMCPL Aileen Cassinetto began collaborating on what would be an annual countywide youth poetry, music & art competition to raise awareness of Affordable Housing Month and highlight young people’s notions of home. The theme this year is “Growing Home,” the title of last…
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National Youth Poet Laureate
2021 National Youth Poet Laureate Virtual Ceremony May 20 Judges for this year’s National Youth Poet Laureate finals include Juan Felipe Herrera, former U.S. Poet Laureate; Nikay Parades, Senior Programs Manager, Academy of American Poets; Rob Caper, Poetry Director, Library of Congress; Dr. Yolanda Sealy-Ruiz, poet and professor at Columbia University; SJ Miller, Associate Professor…
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Inaugural Daly City Youth Poet Laureate
“City Launches Youth Poet Laureate Program, First Of Its Kind In San Mateo County,” SF Gate (January 15, 2021) “San Mateo County’s poet laureate Aileen Cassinetto said Daly City’s youth program “amplifies the role of youth in the community and the power of the literary arts in inspiring civic engagement.” “I see the Youth Poet…
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