Join us in welcoming the 2024 InsideOut Youth Performance Troupe: Jordyn Sage, Faithful, Jessica, and Hidden! These incredibly talented teens have opportunities to grow their craft, work with professional writers as mentors, perform to wide-reaching audiences, and become spokespeople for the power of youth voice. We are incredibly grateful to Toyota Motor Corporation for supporting our Performance Troupe and investing in the power of youth voice! Photo credit: @radicalplay.art / www.radicalplay.art
InsideOut Literary Arts
Non-profit Organization Management
Detroit, MI 382 followers
Inspiring students to think broadly, create bravely, and share their voices with the wider world since 1995.
About us
Since 1995, InsideOut Literary Arts has helped over 65,000 Detroit youth build their literary and academic skills through creative writing. By working with professional writers, students are inspired and equipped to think critically, create bravely and share their voices with the world. InsideOut is Detroit’s largest and oldest literary non-profit, serving more than 100 classrooms and community sites annually through a unique school-based Writer-in-Residence program and Citywide Poets, our award-winning afterschool program. From hosting a statewide youth poetry festival to partnering with celebrated cultural institutions like the Detroit Institute of Arts, InsideOut also provides young people opportunities to share their voices through community events. In recognition of our ability to foster and empower authentic youth voice, the White House awarded InsideOut the highest honor in youth arts programming, the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, presented by Michelle Obama in 2009. InsideOut is widely recognized as one of the nation’s premiere writers-in-the-schools programs and has been featured on PBS NewsHour and performed on the stage of the Kennedy Center.
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http://insideoutdetroit.org
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- Non-profit Organization Management
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- 11-50 employees
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- Detroit, MI
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1995
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5201 Cass Ave.
Prentis Hall, 3rd Floor
Detroit, MI 48202, US
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Coverage of InsideOut's Citywide Poets program has won an award from Society for Features Journalism! Congratulations to Eleanore Catolico and Detroit Metro Times on this honor. 🥳 Read the award-winning piece here: https://lnkd.in/gZCxVgRZ
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InsideOut is proud to announce the IF THE RIVER COULD SING poetry contest, seeking poems that celebrate and give voice to the beauty and history of the Detroit River (or another area river). The winning poem will be printed as a broadside on-site by SIGNAL-RETURN at InsideOut's If the River Could Sing event on Thursday, September 12 at Valade Park on the Detroit Riverfront (Detroit Riverfront Conservancy)! Submissions due 8/12. To learn more and submit: https://lnkd.in/gYbJ_M8T
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InsideOut student poet, Charisma Holly, is a finalist for the Pulitzer Center's Fighting Words Poetry Contest in the Climate and Environment category. Check out the full poem (excerpt in photo), "Healing Roots", and join us in congratulating her on this honor! https://lnkd.in/gys8BNXX
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InsideOut is proud to announce the IF THE RIVER COULD SING poetry contest, seeking poems that celebrate and give voice to the beauty and history of the Detroit River (or another area river). The winning poem will be printed as a broadside on-site by SIGNAL-RETURN at InsideOut's If the River Could Sing event on Thursday, September 12 at Valade Park on the Detroit Riverfront (Detroit Riverfront Conservancy)! Submissions due 8/12. To learn more and submit: https://lnkd.in/gYbJ_M8T
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InsideOut students poets Ingrid and Kya speak with Amyre Makupson about the importance of self-expression during #Pride Month on CBS News Detroit! View the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/gc2mW3Xn
InsideOut Literary Arts helps Detroit students grow as writers
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InsideOut is proud to announce that Cedar Rock is the winner of this year's Citywide Poets Scholarship! The life-changing scholarship opportunity covers up to $25,000 per year in tuition, for up to 4 years of undergraduate education, and applies to any school the recipient chooses to attend. The Citywide Poets Scholarship was created in 2019 by an anonymous donor who has witnessed the impact of InsideOut's Citywide Poets programming. Cedar Rock is a Detroit-born poet, actor, writer, and artist. Cedar recently self-published her first collection of poetry: Enough. Her goal is to help other young people to embrace their own creativity and discover the fire that lives in each one of them. “I am beyond grateful to be honored with this scholarship,” Cedar says. “I hope to be able to further explore my craft as a poet and artist and to dive into inter-personal relationships, learning what drives each of us. This scholarship will help to springboard my educational, artistic, and future goals in ways that I never could have imagined.”
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Unleash your creativity at our Capturing the Reel/Real Writing Workshop at the @DIA this Saturday, June 15th from 11 AM-1 PM! 🖋️✨ Immerse yourself in the world of Black Cinema and let the art inspire your words. Join us on Saturday for a 2-hour generative workshop. Don't miss this unique opportunity to explore the exhibit Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 and let your inner writer shine. *Registration required* Sign up for your FREE spot! https://lnkd.in/g7ncKRpa
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Art and film lovers, we have two upcoming events at the Detroit Institute of Arts just for you! Inspired by the DIA exhibit Regeneration Black Cinema 1898-1971. Learn more and register at https://lnkd.in/gnBi4rgX 🎞The Real Reel – A Poetry Performance at the DIA🎙 Friday, June 7 / 6 PM A reading celebrating the creative and enduring legacy of African Americans in film from its very beginning through the start of the Civil Rights Movement. The event will showcase new poetic works written during visits to the Regeneration exhibition. Featuring performances by MARS. I. Marshall, La Shaun phoenix Moore, kahn Santori Davison, Brittany Rogers, Scheherazade Washington Parrish, Charisma Holly, and Kya Mills. ✏️ Writing Workshop: Capturing the Reel/Real at the DIA📓 Saturday, June 15 / 11 AM - 1 PM Participants will explore the art, objects, film clips and themes represented in the Regeneration exhibition and write creative pieces including silent film “scripts” inspired by poetic forms. The workshop is designed for teens and adults. Instructors: Alesyn McCall and Shawntai Brown.
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