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Welcome to Outside Voices! In the words of the timeless June Jordan: We Are Seeking An ATTITUDE!

We hope you are excited to join us creating new speech and debate opportunities right here in the Windy City. The goal of this debate league is to provide a widely accessible and community driven program that emphasizes critical thinking, creativity, performance, rhetoric and advocacy. We want a robust circuit that meets Chicago youth where they are at, and invites rigorous sense making of their world.

Tournament Details:

9am-4pm

3 Events, Public Forum, Original Oratory & Interp

PF Topic: Standardized Test scores should not be a component of college admissions.

Oratory: 6-10 Minutes, Original Writing, can include poetry or other performance. Single or Duo competitors.

Interp: 6-10 Minutes, Adapted from another author, can include screenplays, poetry, essays... Single or Duo competitors.

Beginners welcome! We don't bite!

Free Lunch will be Served