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[clears throat]
[giggling]
- My name is Cedric Champion.
I do production, art and MC.
- My name is Shaliyah.
I'm an artist here at TRUE Skool.
- My name is Ebony Childress.
- My name is Monterius Lenon.
- I'm Izabela Ruberté.
- I'm a dancer.
- I like to do art here.
- I'm Iniah Boles and
my interests are doing visual arts here at TRUE Skool.
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- One thing that I really love being at TRUE Skool
is that we have a big family and
everything that we talk about stays in TRUE Skool.
- You can express yourself and you get to learn new people and
do a lot of group projects.
- A project I really enjoy working on
is the TRUE Skool book that we make.
- What we do there, like we can all connect,
at the end of the day.
- We also work with other organizations.
- We're doing murals for our aquaponics team and
our mural team.
- We worked on the murals this summer for our job intern.
- We drew the mural on a small sheet of paper.
Then we transferred it into the big piece of canvas.
- It was a lot of hard work.
- I like drawing on the canvas
and taking it to the community and letting'em paint it.
- We were kinda like the voice for the youth
that couldn't come out and
express what they've been going through,
like the juvenile system.
So we were their voice for them.
- We was just thinking about like justice and
what the people like--
how can get somebody to speak out...
speak out to the community.
- I think it was empowering and I thought it was very moving
cuz I don't go through stuff like this
but to talk for other people I think is very cool.
- I like being here at TRUE Skool
because I have a lot of support.
And I can just express myself.
- Some people do music.
Some people do art.
Some people do band and it's very fun.
- We gotta keep it one big family.
We're never going to be apart.
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