No Place For Art: A Symposium on Youth Voice in Education

The Youth Arts Advocacy Council is a coalition of young makers and musicians from Buffalo String Works and the Buffalo Center for Arts & Technology. Together they have developed a platform for discussing and advocating for the promotion of arts access in school as well as inclusion of youth voice in the development of public, private, and non-profit arts education. Join us for a day of celebrating the power and talent of youth-driven arts in our city. The day will surround a discussion of youth arts and the need for youth voice in access to equitable education. 

Activities Include Youth Led:

• Panel Discussions
• Exhibition Tours
• Music Performances
• Poetry Performances
• Interactive Creative Activities 

Schedule

1:00 -1:30pm : Greeting & Check-in 

1:35 - 1:50pm -Opening of symposium with:

Poetry performance from Just Buffalo Writers
Opening Remarks : Dr. Kamalah Poles

1:55 pm - 2:30 pm -  Not What You Wanted : Film Screening and panel discussion with youth filmmakers and Curator Tiffany Gaines 

2:30pm-2:45pm - Intermission : Take a break and interact with the youth maker run activities! 

2:50 pm - 3:20 pm  - Exhibition Tour: "Living in Color" with poetry performances from Just Buffalo writers

3:20pm - 3:30pm - Intermission 

3:30pm - 4:10 pm - Musical Performance from Buffalo String Works and talk with BPO Violinist Xiafoan Liu

4:15pm - 4:30pm - Exhibition Tour: "Sharing Our View" led by curator Tiffany Gaines

4:35 pm - 4:50 pm - YAAC roundtable discussion and Q&A moderated by Aitina Fareed-Cooke 

This event is free and open to the public.