'06 Groundbreakers with founding sponsors Lee and Lathie Poole

The GROUNDBREAKERS are young creative innovators selected each year from around the world. Since 2004, we have received submissions from every continent, and have brought young students here from Israel, Singapore, Uzbekistan, Australia, United Kingdom, and all over the world. Their youthful, indomitable, can-do attitude is the spirit that HATCHfest works hard to recognize and promote, by providing the mentorship, education, and encouragement young artists from all over the world need to keep producing work that is second to none, and to inspire the world around us.

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