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.

Learn More

Mapping Home + Future Timelines: 3b: Past Workshops (Unseen Archive), 4: Christina Vega-Westhoff Workshops & Events

mapping home + future

Mapping Home + Future

How do we live in / with / on this land? Where are we? Who are we, who are we with? We will look at a variety of regional maps (depicting watersheds, city design, place names, and more), and question perspective and omissions in a collage of writing. We’ll write alternative maps and poem maps of present and future.

Where:
Just Buffalo Writing Center
468 Washington Street
Buffalo, NY 14203

When:
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 @ 4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 5, 2020 @ 4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

No registration required. This workshop is FREE, aimed at young students aged 12–18, and limited to 12 participants.

Christina Vega-WesthoffAbout the Teaching Artist

Christina 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. 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.
Learn More