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Last month, Kuumba Lynx took home its sixth team championship at the Louder Than A Bomb poetry contest.
Kuumba Lynx veteran Sejahari Saulter-Villegas also took home the 2017 Gwendolyn Brooks Lit Award.
Performers include Elephant Rebellion, Kuumba Lynx and Connect Force.
Events include "Mask of Zorro" in the park, Sound Da Alarm Festival and sidewalk sales.
The festival is June 15-19 at Clarendon Park, 4501 N. Clarendon Ave.
The group hopes to raise $15,000 to support their new youth media team.
Kuumba Lynx performed at the Brave New Voices Poetry Slam Festival in July.
Held at Uplift High School, the free summer program allows grade schoolers to learn from older kids.
The teens are slated to represent Chicago in an international poetry slam competition.
The teen poets trained in Uptown are slated to be an opening act for Mos Def and Talib Kweli.
The contest aims to celebrate Uptown's people and engage its issues through pictures.
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