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SAD NEWS FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS
Just Buffalo mourns the passing of our friend, Gabrielle Bouliane, who died in Austin over the weekend, from cancer. Gabrielle arrived in town from Seattle about 5 years ago and approached Just Buffalo about organizing a poetry slam. She said she would run the whole show, and that all she wanted from us was help finding a venue and maybe some funding to cover the cost of visiting writers. Her tenacity and spirit quickly created the premier slam series in the region, The Nickel City Poetry Slam. For three years, she brought the best slam artists in the country to The Albright-Knox Art Gallery once a month to put on a show, while also developing the best of our local talent through the slam competition. She twice organized, coached and delivered a Buffalo team to the national poetry slam.
It's people like Gabrielle, whose selfless dedication to poetry above and beyond the attention they want to draw to their own work, that make Buffalo the great poetry center it is.
I wish there were more like her. She will be missed.
MIchael Kelleher
Artistic Director, Just Buffalo Literary Center.
EVENTS THIS WEEK
02.02.10
Poetics Plus at UB
Vanessa Place
Reading/Performance
Tuesday, February 2, 12:30 PM
UB Poetry Collection, 420 Capen, North Campus
Poetics Plus at UB
Vanessa Place
Poetry Reading
Tuesday, February 2, 8:00 PM
Karpeles Manuscript Museum, 453 Porter Ave.
02.03.10
Just Buffalo/Center for Inquiry Literary Café
John Marvin|Bill Wojciechowski|Rick LaClair
Literary Reading
Wednesday, February 3, 7:30 PM
Center for Inquiry, 1310 Sweet Home Rd., Amherst
02.05.09
BABEL/Just Buffalo/International Institute of Buffalo
Middle Eastern Night
Music, Culture, Food in celebration of Azar Nafisi's Visit
Friday, February 5, 6:30 PM
International Institute of Buffalo, 864 Delaware Ave.
Visit the literary buffalo calendar on our website for detailed event info.
All events free and open to the public unless otherwise stated.
MEMBER EVENTS
BABEL AT BETTY'S!
Book Discussion on:
Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi
Led by poet David Landrey, author of Consciousness Suite &
Professor Emeritus at Buffalo State College
Monday, February 22, 7 PM $10, free for members and subscribers.
Finger food, wine, coffee and tea will be served.
REGISTRATION OPEN NOW!
2010 Buffalo Small Press Book Fair
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum
The Buffalo Small Press Book Fair is a regional one-day event that brings booksellers, authors, bookmakers, zinesters, small presses, artists, poets, and other cultural workers (and enthusiasts) together in a venue where they can share ideas, showcase their art, and peddle their wares. Over a thousand people have attended this fair in each of the first three years!
We're taking applications for vendors and sponsors. We'd love to make this year's event the biggest one yet - so if you have wanted to vend and haven't, sign up! Our online vendor application can be accessed here:
http://www.buffalosmallpress.org/participate/
If you have considered donating money before or being a sponsor, this is the year to do it!
http://www.buffalosmallpress.org/sponsor/
We look forward to hearing from everyone, and we'll be announcing workshop topics and poetry readings as the information becomes available.
Best,
Christopher Fritton
Organizer, Buffalo Small Press Book Fair
 "Most Innovative Arts Programming (Any Artform)"
Buffalo Spree Magazine's Best of Buffalo 2009 Award
March 5, Azar Nafisi
April 16, Salman Rushdie
TICKETS
General Admission: $35
Patron Admission: $100 (reserved seating area + author reception)
Student tickets: $10 In-person only. Can be purchased at the event or beforehand at Just Buffalo's offices. Call 716.832.5400 for more information.
Purchase tickets now at www.justbuffalo.org/babel or by phone at 716.832.5400
JUST BUFFALO MEMBER WRITER CRITIQUE GROUP
NEW INFORMATION! NEW LOCATION, TIME, DAY OF THE WEEK!
Beginning in January, the JBLC Member Writer Critique Group will meet at our program offices on the second floor of WNYBAC, 468 Washington, Corner of Mohawk (NEW LOCATION), on first and third WEDNESDAYS (NEW NIGHT) from 6:30-8:30 PM (NEW TIME).
Click here for more info on how the group functions:
http://www.justbuffalo.org/media/pdf/CritiqueGroup1209.pdf
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Michael Kelleher
Artistic Director
www.justbuffalo.org
c. 716.861.9965
OFFICES
Performance Space & Program Office
@ Western New York Book Arts Center
468 Washington St. ( Corner of Mohawk), 2nd Floor
Buffalo, NY 14203
Business Office
@ CEPA Gallery
Market Arcade Building
617 Main St., 2nd Fl.
Buffalo, NY 14203
p. 716.832.5400
f. 716.270.0184
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