Youth Expression Showcase

Joining us, team members and Director and Coach Joy Nix from First Row, a program offered by The Three Rivers Rowing Association.

City Theatre’s Young Playwrights Festival includes seven performances of new works by middle and high school students, as well as workshops on various aspects of theatre.

Joining us are Cassidy, 7, Melissa, 15, Ana, 10 and Mara, 14, all students at the Pittsburgh Music Academy. Here they share their accomplishments and talents as young classical musicians, live on SLB.

Joining us, Bethan Neely, 16, piano and organ, and Federico Garcia, Music Director, of The Hope Academy’s East Libery Community Engagement Orchestra (EL CEO).

Participation in Hope Academy’s EL CEO is open to young musicians, and their musically-inclined parents, of all ability levels. This season’s orientation for EL CEO is on Saturday, September 10th, 3pm at East Liberty Presbyterian Church. More information is available below.

Marcus Meston, 16, is a singer-songwriter from Upper St. Clair High School. Active in several other projects, here he performs his lavish and melodic pop-rock, live on SLB.

Teens Elena Jackendoff and Joanna Weiss, winners of Carnegie Library’s Ralph Munn Creative Writng Contest, join us to share some of their poetry and discuss their experiences. Open to students in grades 9-12 throughout the county, these contests are just one way CLP engages its teen audience. See website below for further detail.

Gemini Theater produces original, interactive, children’s musicals which focus on artistic, cultural and educational themes. This week we welcome members of the cast of ‘Cinderella’ as they preview their production of this classic story.

Dennis Miller, 15, is a singer-songwriter and guitar player from Beechview. He brings his unique form of alternative rock for its world premier, live on SLB.

Sarah Krastman, 11, is an accomplished singer from Pittsburgh. Her forte is in musical theater and opera, and she shares her lovely voice with us, live on SLB.

Rising college freshman participating in the Heinz Endowments’ Summer Youth Philanthropy Internship discuss their experiences making radio documentaries with SLB.