2024 Saturday Cafe participants during workshop with guest artist, Kalpana Subramanian
Saturday Cafe is a no-cost, experimental, advanced-track youth media education program that provides students with challenging and engaging professional development and learning opportunities. Collaborative in nature, this student-led educational experience is co-created with the program’s primary mentors. Together they talk, work, create and experiment with technology and find new strategies to engage their surrounding communities with media art. Saturday Cafe is a keystone in our educational ecosystem, allowing young makers from multiple communities to collaborate in an equity-driven space of collaboration and community engagement.
Members are encouraged to be vocal, present, and willing to experiment with ideas and share them in respectful and generative ways.
For questions about Saturday Cafe, please contact Caroline Doherty at caroline@squeaky.org
The 2024-2025 Saturday Cafe application is open! Click the link to apply!
Are you a high school student who is passionate about film and/or media art? Do you love making things, and experimenting with new ideas, new software, and new equipment? Do you already have some experience with media art? (Including but not limited to video, animation, digital illustration, sound editing, creative coding, game design, digital photography, etc etc!) Do you want to spend your Saturday afternoons working on exciting new projects, meeting other teen artists, and working with amazing guest artists and mentors? Then Saturday Cafe might be the place for you!
This fall, we will begin with digital illustration, comics, and animation. After winter break, we will start incorporating photography, video, and analog film into our projects. We will wrap up the year with a public exhibition!
Fall 2024 dates:
October 12 – December 14 (no class November 30)
Saturdays 1:30-4:30 pm
Spring 2024 dates:
February 1 – May 10
Saturdays 1:30-4:30 pm
Daily bus passes available
FREE to participate
Stipends for completing the program!
Field Trips!
Apply online at this link.
Questions? Email caroline@squeaky.org
Videos from the 2024 program on the theme Stepping Into Your Light. Part of a larger collaboration with the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Just Buffalo Literary Center, and artist Julia Bottoms, these and other student works screened at the Burchfield Penney in May 2024.
