Summer Youth Employment Rally 2008

REMINDER: THURSDAY: SURVEY, IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTs, GREAT ADVENTURE RAFFLE!!

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New York City has cut funds for Summer Youth Employment Programs which will affect many of our participants. We attended a rally in favor of more funding for youth employment!

And in The End, There Could Only be One Winner

The Uno Tournament

UP COMING LES TEENS EVENTS

MAY 29th:
RAFFLING OFF 20 FREE GREAT ADVENTURE TICKETS!!

May 28th WEDS --SYEP Rally with LES Teens at 4:00pm

May 29th THURS --3:30pm LES Family Forum and Participant Survey (Important ANNOUNCEMENTS, so PLEASE be HERE)

June 10th TUES --LES Teens awards and dinner gathering celebration for ALL our LES Teens Participants

June 19th THURS --Grand Street Youth Services Party in Marta Valle school yard

June 20th FRI --Youth Services Showcase and Fashion Show with Shaheeda at the Beacon



(LES STAFF ONLY: June 13th FRI: Grand St Staff Development Day & LES Staff Get Together 9am to 6pm)

TBA: LES Teens SkateBoard Contest
TBA: LES Teens College Bound Dinner Get Together

Dana's Birthday and LES in the Spring

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LES TEENS GRADUATION SHOUT OUT

Congratulations to our seniors!!!



Tionna, Millennium High School --heading to Howard University
Deja, Manhattan Center High School
Destiny, Norman Thomas High School --heading to Lehman College
Marcos, Sattelite High School --applying to college
Danny, Frederick Douglas High School --heading to Syracuse University
Efia, Marta Valle High School --heading to Queensburough or Kingsburough
Jasmine, Marta Valle High School --heading to Wood Tobe Coburn College
Donald, Lowell School High School

LES Teens & Broadway!

Thank you to Stew and Kim for tickets to the show. We all thought the show was incredible and we had a really great experience! Thank you so much!

"Epiphanies become fair-weather friends"

"Slaves have options to rebel, die, escape. Cowards have consequences."

"I realize now that the life I'm living is based on my decisions as a teenager."

We also got to see Samuel L Jackson sitting a few rows ahead of us! And Stew spent some time with him after the show...


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Academic Games:

LES TEENS & Broadway!

Stew is the creator of Passing Strange, a new hit Broadway musical. Stew is also the nice guy (along with his partner Kim) who has donated tickets for some of our LES Teens participants to come see the show! Thank you Stew & Kim. We'll be attending this Saturday.

About Passing Strange:
A young black musician travels on a picaresque journey to rebel against his mother and his upbringing in a church-going, middle-class, South Central Los Angeles neighborhood. He finds new experiences in Amsterdam, and artistic, chaotic, political Berlin, where he struggles with ethics and integrity when he misrepresents his background as poor to get ahead. Along with his "passing" from place to place and from lover to lover, the young musician moves through a number of musical styles from a background of gospel to punk, and then blues, jazz, and rock. He finally returns home!!