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Saturday, September 5, 2020 Anxiety Cartooning (Youth) Categories: Official JB Events Timelines: 3b: Past Workshops (Unseen Archive)

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Anxiety Cartooning - Fall 2020 Youth Writing Workshops - Just Buffalo - Buffalo NY

The things that irritate you are hilarious. In this workshop we will explore ways to turn your anxieties into relatable single-panel cartoons. Come with a list of observations of things you find odd, annoying or terrifying. We will run them through “filter” exercises changing context, utilizing hyperbole and sprinkling in cute animals to find the best jokes. One tiny anxiety could yield upwards of ten cartoons. All of your fretting may have a purpose after all.

Where: Online Workshop
Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Time: 4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.

TO REGISTER:
Email Writing Center Coordinator Robin Jordan at rjordan@justbuffalo.org.
This workshop is FREE, aimed at young students aged 12–18, and limited to 8 participants.

About the Teaching Artist

CAITLIN CASS makes comics, cartoons and art installations about failing systems and irrational hope. For the past ten years she has published a bi-monthly comic periodical called The Great Moments in Western Civilization Postal Constituent. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, The Lily and The Nib. She was a 2018 NYSCA/ NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction. She just completed an 18-Month project about Women’s Suffrage and Civil Rights with the Burchfield Penney Art Center.