Saturday Cafe - Application - Fall 2023
Apply by Sunday, October 8, 11:59 pm

Saturday Cafe is Squeaky Wheel's youth media arts program for high school students. 

Media art refers to things like video, film, audio, animation, photography, AR/VR, coding, game design, and new processes that build on or experiment with these and related tools. You don't need to have a lot of experience with these tools to apply, but you must be genuinely interested in learning about and experimenting with them. Saturday Cafe members are encouraged to be vocal, present, and willing to experiment with ideas and share them in respectful and generative ways.  

This program meets from October - May
Fall 2023 dates:
October 7 - Info Session and Buffalo International Film Festival youth screening
October 14 - December 16 (no class Nov 25)
Saturdays 1:30-4:30 pm

FREE to participate
Daily bus passes available
Stipends for completing the program!
Field Trips!
Final screening at the Burchfield Penney Art Center!

In addition to working on a range of smaller media art projects and building new skills, this year's Saturday Cafe participants will work on a longer term project called Stepping Into Your Light. For this project, students from both Saturday Cafe and Just Buffalo Literary Center will work in response to the work of Buffalo-based artist Julia Bottoms, whose work is on view at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Bottoms uses portraiture to express the nuance and complexities of Black identity beyond limiting, reductive stereotypes. She has also been selected to fabricate a sculpture of Shirley Chisholm. As the first Black woman to be elected to Congress in 1968, and the first Black woman to run for President of the United States, Chisholm’s life and legacy are rooted in carving a place for her voice to be heard and to advocate for her community.

Through sessions at the Burchfield Penney and at Squeaky Wheel, students will be inspired to imagine what it means to dream beyond imposed societal limitations, and to define how they see themselves in history on their own terms. Through creative writing and multimedia video, students are encouraged to consider how they find their voice, to think through how the visual arts can be a catalyst for more expansive and meaningful representation.


Please fill out the entire form to the best of your abilities. If you have any questions or need assistance please email Caroline Doherty at caroline@squeaky.org
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First Name *
Last Name *
Nickname or chosen name
What are your pronouns? *
Age *
What grade are you in? *
What school do you go to? *
Mailing Address *
Phone Number *
Student Email Address *
Your preferred method of contact *
If you have any accessibility needs, you may share them below. *
Do you have any allergies? (food or otherwise) *
Brief Bio - Tell us about yourself and your art. *
Show us what you like to make or do! 

You may share in-progress or completed artworks including, but not limited to: photography, video, short films, audio, music, dance, drawing, painting, sculpture, etc etc. 

Your work sample should be located online, somewhere that you can link to, like a website, online portfolio,  dropbox, youtube, google drive, etc. Paste the link(s) in the box below. 

Please limit your time-based work (video, audio, music, etc) to no longer than ten minutes. 

Make sure to provide passwords to video links that are protected and double check that security settings for shared folders are correct. 
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