Sage Enderton began attending the Just Buffalo Writing Center (JBWC) in 2014, right when the center opened. As a matter of fact, Sage was one of the very first youth participants.
photo: Nancy J. Parisi You know BABEL is a world-class series that takes place right here in Buffalo, but did you know one of the most magical aspects of BABEL is the student event that takes place in the afternoon? Click here to read the reflection of Fiona S. (Park, '20) who introduced Min Jin Lee in March.
Meet Writing Center Youth Ambassador Sage Enderton. The first picture is from 2014, when she first started coming to the center. And here's Sage this past week, leading a poetry and collage workshop as a Teaching Artist! She's the first young writer to become a Teaching Artist and we couldn't be more proud of her. Watching her change from being too shy to share her work to realizing that "I have a voice and it's loud and it's powerful and I have a lot to say" has been an honor and a privilege. For the workshop, Sage explored the idea of collage in poetry and visual art. Participants wrote centos* and then created collages inspired by their poems. *From the Latin word for “patchwork," the cento (or collage poem) is a poetic form made up of lines from poems by other poets.Thank you for supporting the Just Buffalo Writing Center; this transformation wouldn't have been possible without you.
Education Director Noah Falck was able to sneak back into town before the storm. He spent a few days at the NYSCA offices for a conversation on professional development opportunities for arts educators. It is always a great occasion to meet our colleagues at other organizations; we're all stronger together! back row:Elizabeth Bennett of Staten Island ArtsEd Friedman & Maura O'Malley of Lifetime Arts, Inc.Helaya de Barros of Association of Teaching ArtistsStephen Butler of CNY ArtsBryant 'Drew' Andrews of Center for Creative EducationAlex Sarian of Lincoln Center EducationRosemary Williams of Western New York Book Arts CenterNoah Falck of Just Buffalo Literary CenterAnnette Ramos of The Rochester Latino Theatre Company- RLTCNelle Stockes of Magic Box Productions front row (kneeling / sitting)Katie Rainey of Community-Word ProjectSusan Perlstein of Elders Share the ArtsChristine Leahy & Kavie Barnes of NYSCA
A Recipe For Horror STEP ONE: Everyone writes the title of horror movie that doesn’t exist. You’ll Need Your Rubber Gloves In 1922, on a lonely hike to a waterfall, William Kobialski encountered a carefully woven basket.
Whoever said memes can’t be art doesn’t have a sense of humor, or of art for that matter--and they definitely haven’t met Travis Sharp. That idea was one of the jumping-off points at the Drawing Words & Writing Visual Texts workshop he ran at the Just Buffalo Writing Center in early October. Sharp, a PhD student in the Poetics program at SUNY Buffalo, centered the first day of workshop around the visual and physical structure of letters and words.
Check out the digital version of WORDPLAY 2018: Just Buffalo's Anthology of Student Writing.
An alien abduction, an anthropomorphic squirrel, and a collection of disjointed body parts all walk into a workshop – or rather, come out of it. These were the images that the “Art Comix” workshop conjured on the evening of September 13th in the Just Buffalo Writing Center.
Presenting 2018 JBWC Youth Fellow Trinity Ridout.
"Do I approve of violence? / Oh is that the question?" read this poem by 2018 Just Buffalo Writing Center Youth Fellow Maya Simmons inspired by an interview with Angela Davis.