Tuesday, May 17, 2011

2-Cent Presents: LISTEN Literacy & Arts Festival

Stop everything you’re doing and LISTEN!!!
Multimedia Organization promotes literacy among youth via Arts Festival

 
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 17th, 2011
New Orleans


Stop everything you’re doing and LISTEN!!!
Multimedia Organization promotes literacy among youth via Arts Festival

On May 21, 2011 at 12 noon, 2-Cent Entertainment outside The Community Book Center located at 2523 Bayou Road , will host its first annual “Listen!” Literacy & Arts Festival. 2-cent, a grassroots organization, took on the challenge of engaging New Orleans youth, in hopes of creating change by means of Music, Video, Photography, and now through Literacy.

4000 FREE books sponsored by Scholastic will be given away to all children in attendance. There will be food, local vendors, and performances by Dee-1, Lil Chuckee, Kourtney Heart, and Mannie Fresh with a special guest.

Among the numerous issues to be tackled in New Orleans, literacy is one of the most vital topics of concern. Studies have shown Children whose parents read to them become better readers and perform better in school. The National Institute for Literacy states: “Low literacy is strongly related to crime 70% of prisoners fall into the lowest two levels of reading proficiency”. Perhaps, getting to the root of the problem will help dissolve some of the other issues that trouble New Orleans .

Some of the Festival’s Sponsors include Scholastic Read and Rise, Q93, the “Read and Rise” program, Community Book Center , Youthnasia Foundation, IntheNowla.com, Metro and Richards Disposal and More.

2-Cent has been dedicated to giving this generation a voice. They have spoken on panels, created short films, held a summer camp and a host of other efforts. They were recently selected as one of the 15 Do Something Award finalists out of over 500 entries. DO Something recognizes young people making positive impacts in their communities and the people around them. Listen’s ultimate goal is to inspire young people to be readers and writers, and have an active part in molding their future.

Videos to promote Listen Festival:

Reading Rainbow Remix
: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI3PRajkR9s

Get Books or Die Trying:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQUf0s1kpkk


Contact: Brandan Odums
Tel: 504-330-6231
Email: BrandanOdums@yahoo.com
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Contact: Kevin Griffin
Tel: 504-722-0498
Email: kevingriffin2c@yahoo.com

 
 
 

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