
Teachers Are Writers: Soundscape Writing with Christina Vega-Westhoff
In this creative writing workshop we will reimagine place through its sonic layers, natural and industrial. We will write, self-translate, collaborate, and work with texture and silence!
- This workshop is FREE and aimed at teachers.BPS teachers can register on PGS; non-BPS teachers register by emailing Molly Eldridge at MEldridge@buffaloschools.org
Featured Artist
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Christina (Nina) Vega-WesthoffPoet, Translator
CHRISTINA VEGA-WESTHOFF is a poet, translator, choreographer, and educator living in Buffalo, NY. She is the author of Suelo Tide Cement (Nightboat, 2018). She served as translator for the bilingual Stories that Cook: Art, Memories, and Recipes / Historias que Cocinan: Arte, Recuerdos, y Recetas (Genesee Valley Council on the Arts, 2024), which features recipes, stories, and art from students, teachers, and staff associated with migrant education programs in Western New York. Her poetry has recently appeared in The Capilano Review’s Speculative Feminisms issue and Black Sun Lit’s Vestiges and her work is currently being supported by a New York State Choreographers Initiative Grant and an Artpark Writer’s Residency. She teaches aerial dance at The Bird’s Nest Circus Arts and is a teaching artist with Just Buffalo Literary Center.

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