2011-03-14

Posted at 20:33 UT by Tamara

Segment 417 features a special poetry reading of Tamara Lynn Scott, featured reader in February for Poetry Santa Cruz, California.

Three of the four selections read were filmed for this broadcast.

This photo is of the monument to Poetry located out on the Point in Palo Alto, inscribed with "Phoenix Arise", winner of the New Millennium Poetry Contest, one of the poems read in this segment.

This photo was taken during delivery of "Poem to the People", the inaugural address, on the capital steps of Washington D.C. where she was invited as winner of Salon.com's Epic Poetry award.

Poem to the People was also given on the steps of Sacramento Capital on Inauguration Day

Previous Poetry has won national awards and press.

Local publications also have awarded the poetry.

You may read more works of poetry at the website: http://TamaraLS.blogspot.com

To open the Broadcast, a 10 minute cut from the Soroptimists International Awards Banquet is included, featuring the original vocals and lyrics of Tamara Lynn Scott's "How Do We Change Our World". The Ruby Award was presented for her work in helping women. As the chosen awardee for the Santa Cruz Bay Area, she will proceed to the State level for consideration of additional awards.

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2011-03-12

Posted at 21:40 UT by Tamara

SEGMENT 416 Soroptimists Awards

Capitola by the Sea hosted it's yearly awards banquet on the 100th year anniversary of the International Year of the Woman, and gave three local women awards. The " Ruby Award", once called the " Women Helping Women " Award, was given to Tamara Lynn Scott for her 10 years of self-producing a 4 times weekly, educational, not-for-profit, Broadcast Series that often features women both locally and around the world.

This broadcast is the major commentary of the evening, and features all three of the women awarded.

Check Cable 27 of Santa Cruz website for the airing dates.

In addition to the Soroptimist Award, Certificates of Recognition were given from the House of Representatives, the Congress, and the Senate.

Various News articles were released on the event.

Cuts of the evening can be viewed at the Internet Archives:
"RubyAwardSoroptimistsInternationalTamaraLynnScott", at archive.org.
http://www.archive.org/details/RubyAwardSoroptimistsInternationalTamaraLynnScott

Labels: SEGMENT 416 Soroptimists Awards