FSCO joins Generation Verb

Generation Verb is a spoken word scholastic program that uses poetic literature and performance to foster expression, communication, and social-emotional learning –building language skills, collaboration, and confidence in a post-pandemic world. Our children are our best shot at a better world. Poetry is an art that lends each one their voice even as it disciplines all those present to listen. When children learn at an early age to genuinely hear rather than judge and denigrate each other’s stories, their vantage will deepen and grow. The window into their world will necessarily include their peer’s stories—even if they are remarkably different from their own. Participants will invariably learn empathy by practicing it in the ongoing exchange of their own stories. Let’s give these students the right tools to build a better world.

Firey Strings Company will be joining Generation Verb at Transit Tech High School and at Frederick Douglass High School (FDA2) with an improvising string ensemble to accompanying poetry, spoken word, theater students in 2025.