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The Telling Room students meet an author they ll never forget Students in the Young Writers and Leaders program are visited by a world-famous author who shares his challenges with writing - as well life lessons. Author: Peggy Keyser (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 8:14 AM EST February 25, 2021 Updated: 11:48 AM EST February 25, 2021 PORTLAND, Maine Just over five years ago, the Obama White House honored the Young Writers and Leaders program at Portland’s The Telling Room with a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, the highest recognition for an afterschool arts program in the country. Young Writers and Leaders (YWL) is one of the programs at The Telling Room that works to empower students to use their voices through writing to tell their stories and impact change in the world. Those lessons came to life recently when an unlikely guest paid that program a visit. ....
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The whole thing was like so unreal : Former President Obama surprises writing students on Zoom Share Updated: 11:22 AM EST Feb 19, 2021 WMTW News 8 Share Updated: 11:22 AM EST Feb 19, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript WMTW NEWS 8 S ALICE KEEFE TALKED WITH SOME OF THOSE STUDENTS. AND HAS OUR STORY. BACK IN DECEMBER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA SENT A COPY OF HIS NEW MEMOIR, A PROMISED LAND, TO THE 26 MAINE HIGH SCHOOLERS WHO MAKE UP THE YOUNG WRITERS AND LEADERS PROGRAM. AND FOLLOWED UP WITH A LETTER. 1:01-1:17 YOU CAN SPARE SOME TIME FROM YOUR BUSY LIVES AS STUDENTS TO JOIN ME FOR A ZOOM CALL ON TUESDAY THEN WE CAN TALK TOGETHER ABOUT OUR LIVES AS WRITERS AND LEADERS. BEST WISHES BARACK OBAMA ááSCREAMINGáá 10:22 IT WAS SURREAL 10:32-36 THE WHOLE THING WAS LIKE SO UNREAL. BUT IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED, AND WE HAVE, LIKE, VIDEO PROOF THAT IT HAPPENED. WHILE OBAMA WAS PRESIDENT. THE WHTIE HOUSE ACTUALLY NAMED ....
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Watch: Obama drops in, via Zoom, for a chat with Telling Room students The former president, who recently published a memoir with help from the Telling Room s co-founder, answers questions from students in the Portland writing program. Share Hipai Pamba, co-teacher and graduate of the Young Writers & Leaders Program at the Telling Room, participates in a Zoom call with former President Barack Obama. “I was enlightened by what he had to say,” Pamba says. Photo courtesy of the Telling Room Former President Barack Obama spent an hour on a Zoom chat with 26 students from the Telling Room in Portland in late January, talking with them about writing, his recently published memoir, “A Promised Land,” and the importance of storytelling, community and conquering self-doubts. ....