UMass Dartmouth will be holding a free screening of "To be Heard" on Monday, April 11 at 6 p.m. The documentary will be shown at the Main Auditorium of the UMass Campus Centre. Director and producer Amy Sultan will be present.

"To Be Heard" is the story of three teens from the South Bronx whose struggle to change their lives begins when they start to write poetry. As writing and reciting become vehicles for their expressions of love, friendship, frustration, and hope, we watch these three youngsters emerge as accomplished self-aware artists, who use their creativity to alter their circumstances. Their seed of inspiration comes in the form of a radical poetry class, called Power Writing, taught by a trio of outside teachers: Joe, Amy and Roland. They come bearing a simple gift in the form of a motto: If you don’t learn to write your own life story, someone else will write it for you.