# Event Details - **Event Name**: Teen Poetry Slam Finals | Youth Speaks - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 24 Apr, 2026 at 05:30 pm – Fri, 24 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 pm (-07:00) - **Event Description**: Top 10 poets from the semi-finals compete with their best poems for a shot at $150 and the title of Grand Slam Champion!About this EventAfter over 75 youth poets competed in 2 preliminary bouts, a semi-finals competition, and a last chance showdown, the top 15 poets from all 4 bouts will go head to head and share their incredible original poetry on this night of Bay Area performance and poetic excellence.The top 6 scoring poets will receive a cash prize as well as a spot on the 2026 Brave New Voices Team, a group of young poets who will write, rehearse, and travel together to compete at the 2026 Brave New Voices Festival!Join us for a night celebrating powerful poets featuring TBDMasks are highly encouraged and available at check-in. If you have tested positive for COVID or been in close contact with someone with confirmed COVID, please do not attend Youth Speaks activities until you are able to produce a negative COVID test 5 days after your most recent exposure.VOLUNTEER @ YS Link - https://ideali.st/u3j5njTo support Youth Speaks, please send contributions to Network for GoodAgenda🕑: 05:30 PMHouse Opens🕑: 06:00 PMShow Start🕑: 08:30 PMShow End - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/san-francisco/teen-poetry-slam-finals-|-youth-speaks/100001977321506855 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, contests, festivals - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: San Francisco - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Brava Theater - **lat**: 37.7526826 - **long**: -122.4078404 - **full address**: Brava Theater, 2781 24th Street, San Francisco, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Teen Poetry Slam Finals | Youth Speaks - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/82f60767f581e7cab510f9543dda7273e75d3dd80622e9e4efec3493b21b6b97-rimg-w1200-h628-dc192629-gmir.jpg?v=1769227125 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Teen Poetry Slam Finals | Youth Speaks being held? - **A:** Teen Poetry Slam Finals | Youth Speaks takes place on Fri, 24 Apr, 2026 at 05:30 pm to Fri, 24 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 pm at Brava Theater, 2781 24th Street, San Francisco, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Teen Poetry Slam Finals | Youth Speaks? - **A:** Teen Poetry Slam Finals | Youth Speaks is organized by Youth Speaks. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Teen Poetry Slam Finals | Youth Speaks", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/82f60767f581e7cab510f9543dda7273e75d3dd80622e9e4efec3493b21b6b97-rimg-w1200-h628-dc192629-gmir.jpg?v=1769227125", "startDate": "2026-04-24T17:30:00-07:00", "endDate": "2026-04-24T21:00:00-07:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/san-francisco/teen-poetry-slam-finals-|-youth-speaks/100001977321506855", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Brava Theater", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "2781 24th Street", "postalCode": "94110", "addressLocality": "San Francisco", "addressRegion": "CA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "37.7526826", "longitude": "-122.4078404" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Top 10 poets from the semi-finals compete with their best poems for a shot at $150 and the title of Grand Slam Champion!", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-01-23", "availabilityEnds": "2026-04-24T21:00:00-07:00", "validFrom": "2026-01-23", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/san-francisco/teen-poetry-slam-finals-|-youth-speaks/100001977321506855" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-01-23", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-01-23", "url": "https://allevents.in/san-francisco/teen-poetry-slam-finals-|-youth-speaks/100001977321506855", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission (Youth)" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-01-23", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-01-23", "url": "https://allevents.in/san-francisco/teen-poetry-slam-finals-|-youth-speaks/100001977321506855", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission (Adults)" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-01-23", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-01-23", "url": "https://allevents.in/san-francisco/teen-poetry-slam-finals-|-youth-speaks/100001977321506855", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission (Educators)" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Youth Speaks", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/youth-speaks/23379497", "description": "At Youth Speaks, the voices of young people matter.Committed to a critical, youth-centered pedagogy, Youth Speaks places young people in control of their intellectual and artistic development. We are urgently driven by the belief that literacy is a need, not a want, and that literacy comes in various forms.As we move more deeply into the 21st Century, oral poetry is helping to define the new American Voice. By making the connection between poetry, spoken word, youth development and civic engagement, Youth Speaks aims to deconstruct dominant narratives in hopes of achieving a more inclusive, and active, culture. Believing that young people have the tools to take control of their lives through language, Youth Speaks encourages youth to express themselves using their own vernacular.Youth Speaks believes that having knowledge, practice, and confidence in the written and spoken language is essential to the self-empowerment of an individual. We fill a need for creative approaches to literary arts education and literacy development; we believe it is crucial to provide spaces where youth can undergo a process of personal growth and transformation in a program that enriches their educational, professional, artistic and leadership skills.Mission & VisionYouth Speaks creates safe spaces to empower the next generation of leaders, self-defined artists, and visionary activists through written and oral literacies. We challenge youth to find, develop, publicly present, and apply their voices as creators of social change.Ultimately, we hope to shift the perceptions of youth by combating illiteracy, alienation, and silence, creating a global movement of brave new voices bringing the noise from the margins to the core.HistoryFounded in 1996 in San Francisco, Youth Speaks is the leading nonprofit presenter of Spoken Word performance, education, and youth development programs in the country. Presenters of local and national youth poetry slams, festivals, reading series, and more, Youth Speaks also offers a comprehensive slate of literary arts education programs during the school day, in the after-school hours, on weekends and evenings, while providing numerous opportunities for youth to be published and heard. All told, Youth Speaks works with 45,000 teens per year in the Bay Area alone, and has helped create partner programs in 47 cities across the United States." } ] } ] ```