Friday, September 20, 2019 Poetic Intervening/Act/Intention Timelines: 3b: Past Workshops (Unseen Archive), 4: Christina Vega-Westhoff Workshops & Events

Instructor: Christina Vega-Westhoff
Where:
Just Buffalo Writing Center
468 Washington Street
Buffalo, NY 14203
Dates: October 22 & 24, 2019
Time: 4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
no registration required

POETIC INTERVENING/ACT/INTENTION
In this workshop, we’ll draw aspects of worlding into our writing — reorganizing time and space in the here and now through imagined, incomplete, dreamed, or divined actions. We’ll engage with the work of poets and performance artists and consider the role of audience, space, and invitation before writing our own scripts/spells/plays/rituals.

This workshop is FREE, aimed at young students aged 12–18, and limited to 12 participants.

About 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, 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.