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With all the exciting events going on year-round, you'll never run out of things to do in Buffalo! From the Buffalo Winterfest and Powder Keg Festival in February, to the Taste of Buffalo, the Elmwood Festival of the Arts, the National Buffalo Wing Festival, and the National Buffalo Garden Festival (which features America's largest garden walk) in the summer, our events bring in visitors from all over the world.


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Friday Feb 03, 2012

Waterfront Glimpses Exhibit

  • February 3, 2012
  • Location: Buffalo Niagara Visitor Center
  • Address: 617 Main Street (Market Arcade Building), Buffalo, NY 14203
  • Recurrence: Recurring daily

Gene Witkowski is a self-taught photographer who grew up in Buffalo's Old First Ward and is well known for his fine art photographs of the city's massive grain elevators and historic waterfront. "Waterfront Glimpses" features selections from Witkowski's ongoing documentation of lake freighters unloading their grain in Buffalo.  

CSI: The Experience

Put your investigative skills to the test as a crime scene investigator.  Created in cooperation with the hit CBS franchise, CSI: The Experience invites you to step into the world of cutting-edge forensic science. 

Girl Talk the Musical

Girl Talk: The Musical is fun and fabulous, celebrating all things female.

You Say Tomato I Say Shut Up

  • February 3, 2012
  • Location: Shea's Smith Theatre
  • Address: 658 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14202
  • Venue: Shea's Smith Theatre
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
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After thirteen years of marriage, Annabelle Gurwitch (Dinner and a Movie, Fired!, Seinfeld, NPR) and Jeff Kahn (Emmy award winning writer The Ben Stiller Show, Forty Year Old Virgin) have found, “We’re just not that into us.” In their hilarious and ultimately moving new memoir, YOU SAY TOMATO, I SAY SHUT UP: A Love Story (Crown; February 23, 2010), actor/comedian/writers/real-life married couple Annabelle and Jeff prove that in marriage, all you need is love—and a healthy...

Harlem Globetrotters 2012 World Tour

The Harlem Globetrotters will celebrate their 86th consecutive year in 2012, continuing a world famous tradition of ball handling wizardry, basketball artistry and one-of-a-kind family entertainment that continues to thrill fans of all ages. Throughout their history, the Globetrotters have showcased their iconic talents in 120 countries and territories on six continents, often breaking down cultural and societal barriers while providing fans with their first-ever basketball experience. Proud ind...

Megan Greene, Esther Neisen, and Balint Zsako solo exhibitions

  • February 3, 2012
  • Location: Buffalo Arts Studio
  • Address: 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214
  • Venue: Buffalo Arts Studio
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
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Free public reception on 1/7 from 7pm-10pm to celebrate the opening of three solo exhibitions by Chicago-based drawing/collage artist Megan Greene, Buffalo-based mixed media artist Esther Neisen, and Brooklyn-based painter Balint Zsako. Features artist talks at 7pm followed by live bossa nova by Christian Campos from 8-10pm, complimentary snacks, and a cash bar.

Amaryllis & Cymbidiums

Special Garden Feature. *Included with admission

WNY Farm Show

  • February 3, 2012
  • Location: Showplex on The Fairgrounds in Hamburg.
  • Address: 5600 McKinley Parkway, Hamburg, NY 14075
  • Recurrence: Recurring daily
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Two day informational trade show focusing on agriculture in the WNY area.

Horticulture 1 Certificate Series

The Certificate Program, given by Horticulturist David Clark, is for the serious gardeners, as well as, those who just want to know more than gardening basics. To earn the certificate, you must attend all six classes, but individual classes may be taken if desired. (Classes will be repeated in 2013 in the event that you must miss one.) If you’ve ever attended a class that David has taught, you know you’re in for a memorable experience! David has a wealth of knowledge and is able ...

Richard Marx

With over 30 million albums sold and 13 songs hitting #1, Richard Marx has consistently and powerfully made his mark on the music industry. Between 1987 and 1994, he recorded seven songs that topped the Billboard charts – “Don’t Mean Nothing,” “Hold on to the Nights,” “Right Here Waiting,” “Satisfied,” “Keep Coming Back,” “Hazard” and “Now and Forever.” This intimate, acoustic concert will featu...

Buffalo's Bethune: America's First Professional Woman Architect

The exhibit addresses major themes from Bethune’s life and career: apprenticeship, design work, professional recognition, masterpiece, hobbies, and legacy.

Talk about the Weather

Weather Event focuses on Charles E. Burchfield's depictions of the weather south of Lake Erie, where the artist lived for most of his life. Individual weather events are examined through both an artistic and scientific lens.

The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

  • February 3, 2012
  • Location: Albright Knox Art Gallery
  • Address: 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222
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The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery will feature eighty iconic works by more than seventy-five artists from the late nineteenth century to the present, highlighting the history of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's extraordinary Collection, and the benefactors and museum professionals who made it possible. Founded in 1862 as The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy (now the governing body of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery), it is among the oldest arts organizatio...

Buffalo Tours: Buffalo City Hall

  • February 3, 2012
  • Location: Buffalo City Hall
  • Address: 65 Niagara Square, Buffalo, NY 14202
  • Venue: Buffalo City Hall
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
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Learn all about this Art Deco masterpiece - inside and out. Buffalo Tours offer free tours of Buffalo City Hall every weekday (except holidays and when City Hall is closed). Tours begin at Buffalo City Hall at the Info Desk in the lobby. Most guided tours do not require reservations. Simply arrive at the designated starting point a few minutes for the tour is scheduled to begin. Tours will take place rain or shine. In the event of extreme weather, call (716) 852-3300 for cancellation information...

Haydar Hatemi: The Istanbul Painter at the Castellani Art Museum Showcases the Opulence of the Ottom

Iranian-born artist Haydar Hatemi was trained in classical Persian miniature painting and gilded illumination in his home country. In 1983, he immigrated to Turkey where he was inspired by the cosmopolitanism and rich history of Istanbul. Taking the city as his subject, Hatemi creates artworks imagining Ottoman life and landscapes. "Istanbul is for me a very special city," he explains. "In Turkey, they know me as the ‘Istanbul painter.'" Hatemi believes that the Ottoman...

The Hostage

  • February 3, 2012
  • Location: Irish Classical Theatre Company
  • Address: 625 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
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In a seedy Dublin house-of-ill-repute, irrepressible characters sing, shout and carouse; their antics a stark contrast to the violence and brutality taking place just outside the door. Inside, a kidnapped enemy soldier is threatened with death if British authorities carry out the planned execution of 18 year old member of the IRA. In this riotous play with music, the gaiety and exuberance of the brothel patrons burst through the growing hostilities; and, as the deadly conflict rages, a tender,...

Nunsense A-men

Sit up straight! Eyes forward! Hands in Hallelujah pose! The Nuns are coming! Dan Goggin's funny, nunny musical starring the Little Sisters of Hoboken is the original "Nunsense" show with all of the characters being portrayed by ... men ! Think of it as "Mrs. Doubtfire enters the Convent". Done totally seriously, this show is - to quote a critic - "no drag". A whole new layer of comedy surfaces with lines like "The guys in the old neighborhood still can'...

A Chorus Line

Eighteen aspiring performers sing and dance their hearts out hoping for a part in a Broadway Musical. This Pulitzer Prize winning show includes the musical numbers "The Music and the Mirror," "What I Did for Love," "One" (Singular Sensation) and "I Hope I Get It."

Free Style

  • February 3, 2012
  • Location: Vault, The
  • Address: 702 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14202
  • Venue: Vault, The
  • Recurrence: Recurring daily

Featuring a new collaborative wall mural by Tingley and Ogre along with box-sculpture, painting and other works by the duo.

The Gin Game

  • February 3, 2012
  • Location: American Repertory Theatre of WNY
  • Address: 1410 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209
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The Gin Game, written by D.L. Coburn. Directed by Michael Lodick, two retirees (Gary Darling & Joy Scime) locked away in a senior citizens home learn of each others history over a friendly game of gin rummy. As the game becomes increasingly one-sided, friendliness turns to bitterness as the two begin to exploit the more unpleasant side of each other's history.

Studio Art Faculty X

  • February 3, 2012
  • Location: Canisius College (Peter A. and Mary Lou Vogt Gallery in the Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library)
  • Address: 2001 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14208
  • Venue: Canisius College

Canisius studio art faculty members, including Maria Pabico LaRotunda, David Miller, Jan Nagle, Christine Walsh and Tom Wolf, delight and instruct with their recent works.

Avenue Q

  • February 3, 2012
  • Location: Musicalfare Theatre
  • Address: 4380 Main Street, Amherst, NY 14226
  • Venue: Musicalfare Theatre
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
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AVENUE Q is Broadway's smash-hit, 2004 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book. A hilarious show full of heart and hummable tunes, AVENUE Q is about trying to make it in NYC with big dreams and a tiny bank account. Called "one of the funniest shows you're ever likely to see" by Entertainment Weekly, it features a cast of people and puppets who tell the story in a smart, risque and downright entertaining way. The New Yorker calls it "SUBVERSIVE and UPROARIOUS!&...

Night Lights at the Garden

The interior of the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens will be illuminated with theatrical and interactive lighting.

A Raisin in the Sun

  • February 3, 2012
  • Location: The Manny Fried Playhouse
  • Address: 255 Great Arrow Avenue, 3rd floor, Buffalo, NY 14207
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Thursday, Friday, Saturday
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Written in 1958, A RAISIN IN THE SUN is one of theatre's most inspiring tributes to the struggle for civil rights and for human dignity. Set in tenements of Chicago's racially divided southside, this landmark play offers an awe-inspiring look at the struggle of one African-American family to move ahead in the face of brutal economic disparity and bitter prejudice.

Cut-Ups

  • February 3, 2012
  • Location: Alleyway Theatre
  • Address: One Curtain Up Alley, Buffalo, NY 14202
  • Venue: Alleyway Theatre
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Thursday, Friday, Saturday
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Little girls are hiding in the furniture, the landlady's making pasta in her kitchen downstairs and Buster Keaton drops in without warning just to share a laugh and say "hello." Winner of the 2010 Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition, directed by Kim Piazza. Suitable for adults and teens.

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