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JustWrite Partners with UNM Film & Digital Arts class Moving Image Art. Reply
We are excited to announce that JustWrite is partnering with UNM Film & Digital Arts class, Moving Image Art, taught by Eden Radfarr as part of our adult exchange program between folx locked up at the Bernalillo County Detention Center and university students. Check back for updates on this meaningful and impactful exchange.
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Manifesto
Never silent
We lived so hard
And so authentically
We decided
To Write our lives
My fellow poets
Our hearts shake the world
A constant tremor
We heard the call
And chose not to remain
Silent
Now they have our
Hearts in their hands
This is how we pulled them
Into The Conversation
No wrong
Just Write
ABQ Zine Fest 2024 Reply
JustWrite will be at the ABQ Zine fest this year! Come by and purchase one of our collaborative zines featuring original poetry and artwork by folx locked up, returning citizens, university students, high school students, and the wider community. Learn more here.
Paño Connections Reply
JustWrite at ZineFest 2019 Reply
JustWrite will be tabling at the Albuquerque Zine Fest Saturday, October 5 from 11-5pm at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. We’ll be releasing our latest zine created by the gente of JustWrite inside the Bernalillo County Detention Center in collaboration with Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) students, in partnership with Jodi Burshia. Catch us this Saturday and get a copy of our new zine; we’ll have all previous volumes on hand as well. We can’t wait to see you there!
Zine cover art by Acoma aka Tristin Routzen.
JustWrite and SIPI Virtual Performance Reply
JustWrite has a now established partnership with Jodi Burshia’s English classes at Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute for a write and art exchange which culminates in a night of poetry and digital storytelling. This spring our featured writers are Byron Aspaas and Aleksander Sosaya. (See bios below.) Please joins us virtually via Zoom on April 7 from 5-6:30pm for this event.
JustWrite at ABQ Artwalk Reply
JustWrite will be posted up outside The Boiler Monkey from 6 to 9pm downtown Albuquerque tonight 10/5 for First Friday Artwalk. ABQ Artwork is a collaboration between downtown businesses, venues, and artists. We hope to see you there!
JustWrite featured in the Albuquerque Journal Reply
JustWrite facilitates ongoing workshops in the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center. Albuquerque journalist Matthew Reisen joined us for one of our workshops and wrote an article about it, Inmates find solace in writing program.
Albuquerque, New Mexico Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal
JustWrite Partners with SIPI and Two Way Street for 2018 Write Exchange Reply
JustWrite is partnering with Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) and Two Way Street for a write exchange in 2018. Jodi Burshia (Laguna Pueblo, Diné, Hunkpapa Lakota) is a faculty at SIPI and will engage her English class in a the write exchange. Two Way Street will also participate in this exchange. This exchange will culminate in a reading/performance on Thursday August 9, 2018, 5-7pm in the Academic Support Center on SIPI campus.
Diahndra of JustWrite is facilitating writing and visual art workshops at the Albuquerque Metropolitan Detention Center currently. JustWrite also engages those incarcerated through postal mail across the state of Nuevo Mexico. Visit us here on our website, nowrongjustwrite.org, for updates and to see this exchange come to life.
You can find this exchange and new poetry each week from these writers under “Write” or here.
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