Our Response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak

As a precaution to help limit the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) and care for our community, Just Buffalo Literary Center has postponed a number of events, and we will follow the guidance of Buffalo Public Schools in terms of Just Buffalo Writing Center programming.

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Upcoming Civil Writes Project Events

The Civil Writes Project - Just Buffalo Literary Center
Each Spring, Just Buffalo presents THE CIVIL WRITES PROJECT with a series of interconnected community events that open conversations, encourage reading and writing, and invite widespread community participation around BABEL visits from the world’s foremost Black and African American writers.

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Just Buffalo Literary Center welcomes applications from individual artists, nonprofits and community organizations of all sizes for program support up to $2,500

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Wednesday, December 20, 2023 by 5:00pm

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Interested in learning more before you submit your application for program support?

Join us for a virtual info session. on Wednesday, December 13 at 5:00pm. Register here (required).

The Civil Writes Project - Just Buffalo Literary Center
Each Spring, Just Buffalo presents THE CIVIL WRITES PROJECT with a series of interconnected community events that open conversations, encourage reading and writing, and invite widespread community participation around BABEL visits from the world’s foremost Black and African American writers.

 

The Civil Writes Project runs from April 1 — June 30, 2024

Racial Healing Circle - My 21 2024 - Civil Writes Project - Just Buffalo Literary Center

Racial Healing Circle

Join National Federation for Just Communities for a racial healing circle in connection to Kiese Laymon’s book Heavy and his recent BABEL visit.
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Just Buffalo Writing Center
468 Washington Street, 2nd Floor, Buffalo, NY 14203
  • Just Buffalo Literary Center
Free
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Just Buffalo is proud to have partnered with the following artists & organizations for the 2023 CIVIL WRITES PROJECT:

  • Black Boys Read Too
  • Buffalo Center for Arts & Technology
  • The Galactic Tribe / Wakanda Alliance
  • Gray Wills Book Club
  • Justice for Migrant Families
  • Progressive Book Club 716
  • Torn Space Theater, “Agents of Change”
  • Western New York Network of English Teachers (WNYNET)
  • Kari Winter, “Labor’s Fruit”
  • Ujima Theater & Michigan Avenue Project, “Darker Wilderness”

Special thanks to the Grant S. Golden & Deborah A. Goldman Philanthropic Fund for their extraordinary support.

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Past Civil Writes Project Events

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