AGE UP News & Updates

Heyy its gmoneyfoshizzle (Gabby M) and the honay boobae (Kaitlyn S) in da hOUse! Today Shelby taught us that youth speaks is a youth organization that helps takeout your innerself through poetry. We expressed ourselfs by writing our own poem to share out with our fello age SQUADDD. We ate spring rolls with multiple sauces. It…

Today, we learned about back-stabbing and smack talking from our awesome returner Edmel. For example, we split into groups and created a skit, poem, or rap based on the topic that was given to us. To demonstrate, Katie was asked to squeezed toothpaste, or Talkin’Smack Paste  from a tube and then she had to put…

10/22/14 Hey how’s it going?!  It’s Callie and Kim! Today at Age Up, we ate some French toast with A LOT of whipped cream and for toppings we had strawberries and blueberries (the blueberries were from Lynda’s grandma’s garden)! We played a lot of wild n’ out games like dictionary, so fly, and remix! Today…

Another successful Age Up session today! Jude Watson (J J J JUDEEEEEE) came in the Jefferson building to explain more on the topic of racism and sexism feeding off the topic from last week’s session. We heard many different opinions on the topics from everyone. We all talked about different diversities in our communities and schools. From…

10/1/14 Hello beautiful friends!! Tonight was the second session for our first years. Caitlin Cordell (Brady) from the AGEUP leadership team led a workshop on privilege. After a delicious dinner of fried chicken and fried rice we were divided into five groups. On a poster we wrote our definition of privilege. On the back of…

Yo, this is KhaThy and Olivia from the super awesome fall AGE UP session.  We just had our first AGE UP session for first years, and it was amazing!!!  Washington Bus sent a representative to lead the workshop and inform us on politics and voting.  We learned about how youths can affect politics and issues…

Hey ya’ll we’ve got lots of fun things happening for everyone this year! We got an all new programming team, an all new program structure and we’re looking forward to sharing the year with our AGE UP family! We will be doing a first year girls program in the fall! Applications are now out and…

Alright people. AGE UP / Southend Ultimate is doing big things. We’re now an official non-profit organization (though let’s be honest – we’ve been official), and we’re creating our first board of directors to steer this ship into the future. There are three spots reserved on the board for current high school students. The application is…

Today the AGE UP media team met up at Bananas Grill with an exiting individual clad in purple and green paisley. Who could this be? JORDAN ALAM! She is a really cool lady from Seattle but now she works in New York on a blog that is by and for Asian American artists and activists…