Madison’s third-annual Teen Spoken Word Finals will feature winners from tournaments this week in four area high schools, as well as the college-prep People Program and the Warner Community Center. The 7 p.m. show will be followed by a performance of the Senegalese hip-hop group Daara J, with an after- show dance party.
It’s the culminating event this year for Youth Speaks Wisconsin, an organization designed to integrate the art of spoken word into the classroom and into young people’s lives. Tonight’s winners will receive an expenses-paid trip to the Brave New Voices International Poetry Festival in New York in April, where they’ll compete with teens from more than 40 cities in the United States and England.