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.

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Six Ways to Start (Youth) Timelines: 3b: Past Workshops (Unseen Archive)

Six Ways to Start

Sometimes starting is the hardest thing. In this workshop you will write and draw responses to six prompts inspired by contemporary comic artists. Drawing skills are welcome, but not required. This workshop will help you make your writing more visual or your drawings more story-oriented. You will leave with some new project ideas and a few ways to get started.

Where: Online Workshop
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2021
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.

ACCESSIBILITY NOTE:
Writers are welcome to participate with or without video and audio during any of our virtual sessions. If you have any questions/issues accessing any of these opportunities, please let us know and we will work with you to make sure you can participate.

Caitlin Cass

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 recently completed an 18-Month project about Women’s Suffrage and Civil Rights with the Burchfield Penney Art Center.