Hilltop High School: My Life Like Poetry / Mi Vida como Poesía

My Life Like Poetry / Mi Vida como Poesía is an original, student-created performance that captures the lives of Hilltop High School students in the language of poetry with heartfelt beauty, strength, love, pain, paradox and irony. Without a traditional narrative structure, the show weaves together powerful personal life experiences through multiple artistic forms, including spoken word, movement, puppetry, storytelling, music and videography. 

Through raw honesty and creative collaboration, these young mothers share their lived experiences and offer their voices, stories, and truths as poetry in motion.

Written by Hilltop High School students, My Life Like Poetry/Mi Vida como Poesía is co-directed by Sierra Gonzalez and Maica Folch in collaboration with Hilltop teacher Elizabeth Zamboldi.

Support for A.C.T.'s Education & Community Programs is provided by a community of very generous foundation, corporate, government, and individual donors and partners, including: the San Francisco Department of Children, Youth & Their Families, Martin Tannenbaum and the Estate of Gerald B. Rosenstein, the Laird Norton Family Foundation, The Kimball Foundation, US Bank, Bank of America, the Sato Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, Jeri Lynn & Jeffrey W. Johnson, and Matt and Lisa Sonsini. Foundational general operating support for all of A.C.T.'s programs is provided by San Francisco Grants for the Arts and the Shubert Foundation.