OK Magazine profiles Get Lit’s recent trip to Washington D.C., where they were the special guests of the President and First Lady of the United States. Read More>
Archive | May, 2011
Get Lit Coming to PBS
PBS followed the Get Lit Players for one week at workshops, in school performance & peer to peer teaching at El Rancho High, for interviews and their April 8th Actors’ Gang show. They will be included in an upcoming 2 hour special produced by Leo Eaton (aired on PBS) called ARTS & THE MIND, chronicling [...]
Get Lit Player Takes A Stand
Get Lit Player, Jazmine Williams, took part in a Hamilton High School assembly of students, fighting for the sustainability of Art programs in the community. She performed her original piece, “Song of the Masses.” See her article featured on AOL’s The Huffington Post.
Get Lit At The Bowery in NYC
Here is a link to a great blog written by Dana Goodyear, poet and writer for The New Yorker. The post features the Get Lit Players performing Robert Pinsky’s “The Shirt” at the Bowery in New York City. California Poet Laureate, Carol Muske-Dukes has written an accompanying article about the Get Lit Players and the [...]
Get Lit Launches “NEXT STEP” Program
In April, Jennifer Mandel from College Right Educational Consultants, joins our team to work one on one with our Players, assisting them with SAT training, college counseling, and scholarship opportunities. Many of our Get Lit Players stay on as mentors for our programs throughout college.
Poetry Out Loud
Executive Director of Get Lit Words Ignite, Diane Luby Lane, judged Poetry Out Loud’s recitation contest in Sacramento. Other esteemed judges included Bernard Boudreaux, Group Manager of Community Relations for Target; Malissa Feruzzi Shriver, Chair of the California Arts Council; Al Young, Poet Laureate of California (2005-2008); Brandon Cesmat, past president of CA Poets in the Schools [...]
Buzzine Feature
Get Lit was featured in the February issue of Buzzine with with an amazing article and Arts Review by Clare Elfman.
