Girl Be Heard's G!TALK

Girl Be Heard’s 2020 Mainstage show, CITIZEN BE HEARD explores ways to cultivate a civic consciousness and make a difference in the life of our communities. On their soapboxes are cast members standing up and advocating for a decent and fair quality of life in their communities. This episode stars Felicity and Alyssa in May I Have Your Attention/I Am More Than Who I Love.

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Girl Be Heard’s 2020 Mainstage show, CITIZEN BE HEARD explores ways to cultivate a civic consciousness and make a difference in the life of our communities. On their soapboxes are cast members standing up and advocating for a decent and fair quality of life in their communities. This episode stars Jamilah and Menasha in Choosing Health/ Living Our Dreams.

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Girl Be Heard’s 2020 Mainstage show, CITIZEN BE HEARD explores ways to cultivate a civic consciousness and make a difference in the life of our communities. On their soapboxes are cast members standing up and advocating for a decent and fair quality of life in their communities. This episode stars Camryn and Spencer in Invisible Shackles/ Living in America.

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Girl Be Heard is partnering with New York City Health and Hospitals on a public health initiative to fight COVID-19 in order to help New York City reopen safely and get back to school and work. Girl Be Heard's Company Members Jai Camacho and Menasha Thomas discuss the effects of the pandemic on the lives and well being of NYC youth and give advice on how to stay productive during these tumultuous times.

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Girl Be Heard Company Member and the 2019 NYC Youth Poet Laureate Camryn Bruno reads from her new book of poetry, “Queen Bee Cavity.” Published in collaboration with Urban Word. Camryn’s book of poetry is a love letter to social justice, feminism and as the poet Shivanee Ramiochan says, “she is a young poet who measures the worth, the weight, of every word before using it to set the system on fire.” Camryn starred in GBH’s 2019 main stage show, 2030: The Future Is Ours, a collection of devised works around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, performed at TADA Youth Theater in Manhattan.

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Girl Be Heard Company Members, Jordan Sanchez and Christiana Kallon, GBH alumni currently attending Harvard University and Syracuse University, talk about their performances in GBH’S 2018 main stage show INDIVISIBLE: Liberty and Justice for Who? Performed at DR2 in Manhattan. With rap and spoken word poetry based on their own experiences as immigrants, Jordan and Christiana discuss the challenges of living in America and how young black, immigrant women can make the American dream a reality.

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Girl Be Heard Alumni, Shenny de Los Angeles and Aastha Jain perform their original spoken word performances from Girl Be Heard’s 2018 main stage show, INDIVISIBLE: Liberty and Justice for Who? at DR2 in Manhattan. Their works, Welcome To America and Fighting My Mind unpack the physical and mental burdens of college debt and the ways in which performers can overcome depression and mental illness using art and activism.

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