LAKEPORT, Calif. – The annual Poetry Out Loud Lake County Competition is returning to the Soper Reese Theatre next month.
The competition takes place at the theatre beginning at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9.
It will feature competitors from high schools around the county.
Winners at this event will go on to compete at the state level.
The public is invited to attend; entry is free of charge.
A partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Foundation, and the California Arts Council and Lake County Arts Council, Poetry Out Loud is a national arts education program that encourages the study of great poetry by offering free educational materials and a dynamic recitation competition to high schools across the country.
Schools that choose to participate in Poetry Out Loud start the program in the classroom, where teachers may use the Poetry Out Loud toolkit to teach poetry recitation and run classroom competitions.
Students select, memorize and recite poems from an anthology of more than 1,100 classic and contemporary poems.
Beginning at the classroom level, winners will advance to the school-wide competition, the county-wide competition on Feb. 9, then to the state competition and ultimately to the national finals in Washington, DC.
Since the program began in 2005, more than 3.8 million students and 60,000 teachers from 16,000 schools across the country have participated in Poetry Out Loud.
The Soper Reese Theatre is located at 275 S. Main St. in Lakeport and can be reached at 707-263-0577.
Soper Reese to host Feb. 9 ‘Poetry Out Loud’ competition for students
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