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Voices Rising: The Grit of Youth

Minneapolis, MN, United States
ID: 589106Exp: 8/5/2025
Description:

In Minneapolis, a group of 6 teens in a spoken‑word program fight to find their voices while their community battles gentrification, grief, and survival. At the center is 15‑year‑old Alicia Price, an Afro-Dominican poet, whose words spark a movement to save her father’s soul food restaurant — all while quietly wrestling with the ache of a mother who walked away.

2 roles

Lyndon FrancisFemale14-17 y.o.African-American

Guarded, foster‑care survivor with a quiet intensity.

Eli ThompsonMale14-17 y.o.White / Caucasian

Introspective, dry humor, old soul raised by his grandfather.