Social Justice Festival
A two-day celebration of stories from multiple disciplines that build community, manage conflict, and explore identity. This highly experiential festival is an academic ritual at Buffalo State and includes workshops, performances, and art exhibits that challenge, teach, and explore diverse social and personal justice topics.
AFP 2024 | Home: Building Our Collective Story
SEPTEMBER 25 & 26, 2024 | SUNY BUFFALO STATE UNIVERSITY
ATTEND
The 2024 Festival explores how we can bring our different stories together to build a collective story
We are thrilled to announce our 16th annual social justice festival, AFP 2024 - Home: Building Our Collective Story. We are honored to host this signature two-day celebration of stories at Buffalo State University: A campus that welcomes students from all over the world to immerse themselves in education, diversity, and social justice. Here, at Buffalo State, this is our community. What if we took this one step further and created an environment not only considered a community, but also, a Home?
This year, we challenge our university students, faculty, staff, alums, and our off-campus audiences to define ‘Home.’ How can we collectively bring our different stories together to build our collective story; our Home? A home where our stories are protected, honored, and shared without fear.
Using our annual festival as a platform, we have the opportunity to achieve Anne Frank’s wish to “repair the world” by deconstructing and rebuilding what we call Home.
SUBMIT
Artists, activists, educators, and students are invited to submit proposals for inclusion in AFP 2024
We invite artists, activists, educators, and students to submit proposals for AFP 2024 - Home: Building Our Collective Story. We are seeking proposals from a variety of disciplines, cultures, perspectives, and communities to share and teach ways to build our collective homes.
All proposals must reflect directly on this year’s theme and follow AFP’s kinesthetic and experiential pillars: one-third theory, two-thirds practice. Interactive workshops can include art making, collaborative group work, dancing, yoga, cooking, singing, spoken word, film making, writing, rapping, and multiple other practices. Our annual festival, an academic ritual at Buffalo State, is a unique way to emphasize the importance of doing for a more meaningful and effective educational experience. This reflects Buffalo State University's commitment to applied research and experiential education.
Please Note: AFP staff are available to assist proposers in crafting the kinesthetic element of their sessions.
HISTORY
Since its inception in 2009, our Social Justice Festival has explored underpinnings of humanity.
Through our Social Justice Festival, we’ve led brave and deep explorations of issues like shared humanity, social responsibility, defining inclusion, community engagement, mental health, systematic racism, the roots of Genocide, innovations in education, and personal healing. With an emphasis on doing, the festival is part of student coursework, connecting them to experts, artists, and leaders from around the globe who facilitate the interactive sessions.
Click below to download and explore past festival programs.
