Students at the Youthlight Photography Project learn how to take good pictures… they also learn how to develop and print their own film.

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• We meet the musicians of the Baltimore Songwriters Association, a collective that’s been meeting for the past ten years, where members share songs and critiques in an effort to perfect their craft.
• We talk with writer Madison Smartt Bell about his latest project, a book that takes readers on a series of guided walking tours through the heart of Charm City.
• We visit with the photographers of the Youthlight Project, an award-winning program that gives middle and high school students a new way to view their surroundings, and themselves.
• And self-described “Afro-centric Feminist” Larnell Custis Butler shares her drawings and her poetry, and talks about the experiences that have shaped her outlook on life.

HELPFUL LINKS:

Learn more about The Baltimore Songwriters Association and their new compilation CD “Songs from a Charmed City” at: www.baltimoresongwriters.org

Find out more about writer Madison Smartt Bell and his book “Charm City: A Walk through Baltimore” at: faculty.goucher.edu/mbell

Check out the Youthlight Project at: www.youthlightproject.org

Learn more about Larnell Custis Butler and her book “Improvise in the Amen Corner” at: raven.ubalt.edu/features/passager/Passager_Books.htm