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Whodunit: Write Your Own [No] Murder Mystery Dinner Timelines: 3b: Past Workshops (Unseen Archive)

Instructors: Evan Courtin & Robin Jordan
Where:
Just Buffalo Writing Center
468 Washington Street
Buffalo, NY 14203
Dates: October 29 & 31, 2019
Time: 4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
no registration required

Whodunit: Write Your Own [No] Murder Mystery Dinner

What monster ate my clearly-labeled yogurt? During this writing experience, we’ll create collaborative, murder [less] mystery-inspired short plays. We’ll end the workshop by performing our mysteries for each other while we dine and, together, figure out “whodunit”?

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

About the Teaching Artists

Evan Courtin has been playing on the Buffalo music scene for the past 10 years. During his time at school he served as concertmaster of the BSC Philharmonia. From 2007 to 2013, he was a member of local prog group Peanut Brittle Satellite, which received a Buffalo Music Award in 2008 for Best New Original Music. In 2013 he received an All WNY Music Award as an instrumentalist not traditionally found in a rock band.

Robin Jordan - Staff - Just Buffalo Literary Center

Robin Jordan’s creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry has been published in various journals, including Dream Pop Press, alice blue review, Puerto del Sol, Paper Darts, Peach Mag, and My Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry (Blazevox). She received her MFA in Poetry from Oregon State University and is currently working on a mixed-genre collection. She is a founding member of the grassroots community arts project (B)uffalo (A)rt (D)ispensary.