Sunday, December 27, 2020 Writing with the Equinox (Youth) Timelines: 3b: Past Workshops (Unseen Archive), 4: Christina Vega-Westhoff Workshops & Events
In anticipation of the Spring Equinox on March 20, when day and night are in balance, we’ll come together to write at the intersection of light and dark. We’ll explore recent uses of light projection in poetry, performance, and protest; architecture designed to mark astronomical alignment; and shadow theater and other methods of storytelling. Our practice will include ekphrastic response, writing from movement with manipulated light in our own spaces, and dream and ritual creation.
Where: Online Workshop
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Time: 4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
TO REGISTER:
Email the Writing Center at jbwc@justbuffalo.org.
This workshop is FREE, aimed at young students aged 12–18, and limited to 10 participants.
ACCESSIBILITY NOTE:
Writers are welcome to participate with or without video and audio during any of our virtual sessions. If you have any questions/issues accessing any of these opportunities, please let us know and we will work with you to make sure you can participate.
About the Teaching Artist
CHRISTNINA VEGA-WESTHOFF is a poet, translator, and aerialist. She is the author of Suelo Tide Cement, winner of the 2017 Nightboat Prize for Poetry. Vega-Westhoff also works as a teaching artist with the Geneseo Migrant Center and as a movement instructor with The Bird’s Nest Circus Arts. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, most recently BAX 2018: Best American Experimental Writing and Words Without Borders. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Arizona and a BA in English and Latin American Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She choreographs and performs interdisciplinary works independently and for festivals and theatre, dance, and circus companies.