http://www.culturalquarterly.org Arts and Culture in Broward County en-us http://www.broward.org/arts/q_online/html/write-side-poets.html IIt’s Friday night in Lauderhill, and teenagers are streaming into a once-abandoned storefront to do something that would shock many of their peers – recite poetry they have written. Organizer Ray Dominguez has found the key to a door that educators and parents have not been able to unlock. Through the power of poetry, he has given today’s youth a voice. http://www.broward.org/arts/cq_online/html/atoy_08.html For the past 17 years, Greggs has been the music teacher at Plantation Park Elementary School. Believing that music provides the perfect foundation for any child’s future, she says, “I do what I do because I care about my students’ learning. Today’s students are tomorrow’s decision makers!” http://www.broward.org/arts/cq_online/html/exercising_creativity.html Cirrone writes with a zest for language evident in her books for fourth graders, in her short stories, most definitely in her young adult novels. “I want the reader to be totally immersed in the words. I create characters that look inside themselves, who are forced to decide if this is what they really want to do,” Cirrone says. http://www.broward.org/arts/cq_online/html/teen_sceen.html Blank Tape, Pembroke Pines’ own up-and-coming band, features a foursome of laid-back boys from Flanagan High. While the tight-knit group, consisting of Lennon Livesay (vocals/guitar), Fonzie Sander (lead guitar/vocals), Efrain Lopez (bass/vocals) and Alan Penton (drums/vocals) is more like a band of brothers, shopping and joking with each other around the clock, there is no kidding around when it comes to their music. http://www.broward.org/arts/cq_online/html/emerging-leaders.html he cultural leaders of the future are preparing today, as 15 young professionals in Broward County take part in the Broward Cultural Division’s new Emerging Cultural Leaders Program. This initiative, which began in September, will help these individuals learn about the importance of sustaining cultural organizations to enhance life in our community.