Calendar of Events
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.
Wednesday May 16, 2012
Wish You Were Here
- May 16, 2012
- Location: Albright-Knox Art Gallery
- Address: 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222
- Venue: Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Wish You Were Here: The Buffalo Avant-garde in the 1970s surveys a creative ecology that flourished in Buffalo in the 1970s comprising a loosely organized group of collaborative, interdisciplinary artistic communities spanning the visual arts, film, video, performance, literature, and music. Looking back on the art and ideas these groups propagated, one might argue that aspects of postmodern and contemporary art were seeded during this time, and that Buffalo was one of a group of geographic pock...
Joe Bonamassa
- May 16, 2012
- Location: Shea's Performing Arts Center
- Address: 646 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14202
- Visit Website
Live in concert, Joe Bonamassa' The Guitar event of the year! Part of the 2012 U.S Tour
Spring Tours of Frank Lloyd Wright's Graycliff Estate
- May 16, 2012
- Location: Frank Lloyd Wright's Graycliff
- Address: 6472 Old Lake Shore Road, Derby, NY 14047
- Venue: Frank Lloyd Wright's Graycliff
- Recurrence: Recurring daily
- Visit Website
- graycliff@verizon.net
Graycliff is an architectural jewel set on a scenic 8.4 acre estate on a bluff overlooking Lake Erie, with high sweeping views of Canada beyond. The complex, with three buildings and extensive grounds and gardens, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Isabelle and Darwin Martin as a summer estate. Built between 1926 and 1929, it was occupied by the family until the mid-1940s. Spring, 2012 Tours of Frank Lloyd Wright's Graycliff Estate begin Thursday, April 5, although Graycliff is closed on ...
Blithe Spirit
- May 16, 2012
- Location: Kavinoky Theatre
- Address: 320 Porter Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201
- Venue: Kavinoky Theatre
- Visit Website
Our friend Mr. Coward is back this season, and this time he’s got ghosts up his sleeve. Indeed, the situation at the heart of this mannered comedy is a fine one — an ill-conceived cocktail party séance brings one man’s ex back from the dead. She’s funny, needy and manipulative, and not necessarily in that order. This might be less of a problem if our man’s flesh-and-blood wife weren’t already a bit on the jealous side (can you say &ldqu...
Western New York Reflections
- May 16, 2012
- Location: Buffalo Niagara Visitor Center
- Address: 617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203
- Visit Website
Even though Barbara Crocker is relatively new to the art world she has enjoyed more than moderate success in the past few years. Having lived in Western New York her entire life she has come to appreciate her surroundings. Barbara is always amazed by the architecture and the abundance of green space that is all around the City of Buffalo. She believes it is a wonderful privilege to live so close to one of the natural wonders of the world, Niagara Falls. Working digitally with a camera and a ...
Rachel- Arcangel Gallery Exhibit
- May 16, 2012
- Location: Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens
- Address: 2655 South Park Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14218
- Venue: Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens
- Recurrence: Recurring daily
- Visit Website
- egrajek@buffalogardens.com
Through a Child’s Lens Her first exhibition... Rachel is a 10-year-old fourth grader. Her photographs have received first place at the Erie County Fair and she has won first place in the Binational Tourism Alliance’s Doors Open Niagara Architage Contest four years in a row, including an award for the photograph of the Botanical Gardens that is in this exhibition. She enjoys taking pictures of plants and architecture, which makes the Gardens a natural fit. In the future, she hopes...
Bisons Baseball
- May 16, 2012
- Location: Coca-Cola Field
- Address: 275 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203
- Visit Website
- info@bisons.com
Vs. Gwinnett (Braves)
Betsy Potter: Breaking Nature explores the conflict between humankind and the natural world
- May 16, 2012
- Location: Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University
- Address: Lewiston Road and College Avenue, Niagara University, NY 14109
- Venue: Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University
For Betsy Potter, a native Western New Yorker, the survival of the natural world is paramount. The works featured in Breaking Nature illustrate the complex relationship between humankind and the environment. Potter says her paintings "...are about the fight between mankind and nature...a war is going on," Her paintings are staging grounds for tales that express nature's vulnerability, fragility and battle for survival in the face of industrialization. Potter explains that her richly ...
Rachel - Gallery Exhibit
- May 16, 2012
- Location: Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens
- Address: 2655 South Park Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14218
- Venue: Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens
- Recurrence: Recurring daily
- Visit Website
- egrajek@buffalogardens.com
Exhibit in the Arcangel Gallery at the Gardens. *Included with admission Through a Child’s Lens Her first exhibition... Rachel is a 10-year-old fourth grader. Her photographs have received first place at the Erie County Fair and she has won first place in the Binational Tourism Alliance’s Doors Open Niagara Architage Contest four years in a row, including an award for the photograph of the Botanical Gardens that is in this exhibition. She enjoys taking pictures of plants and arch...
Artwork by Ralph Sirianni
- May 16, 2012
- Location: Ashker's Juice Bar and Cafe
- Address: 1002 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222
- Venue: Ashker's Juice Bar and Cafe
- Visit Website
Artwork by Ralph Sirianni. Sneak Preview: Fri 5/11 7pm-9pm Opening: Fri 5/18 7pm-9pm
Charlotte's Web
- May 16, 2012
- Location: Theatre of Youth (TOY)
- Address: The Historic Allendale Theatre, Buffalo, NY 14201
- Venue: Theatre of Youth (TOY)
- Visit Website
Joseph Robinette's play captures the playful and endearing spirit of this family favorite. All of the classic characters are here: Wilbur, the irresistible young pig who desperately wants to avoid the butcher; Fern, the sweet and energetic girl who understands what animals say to each other; Templeton, the gluttonous wise-cracking rat who can occasionally be talked into a good deed; the Zuckerman family; and most of all, the extraordinary spider, Charlotte, who proves to be a good friend and wr...
Comedy Juggler John Park
- May 16, 2012
- Location: Darien Lake Theme Park Resort
- Address: 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center, NY 14040
- Venue: Darien Lake Theme Park Resort
- Visit Website
Fast- paced comedy & incredible juggling- big laughs, big tricks, and a big, big finish!
Thursday May 17, 2012
Wish You Were Here
- May 17, 2012
- Location: Albright-Knox Art Gallery
- Address: 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222
- Venue: Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Wish You Were Here: The Buffalo Avant-garde in the 1970s surveys a creative ecology that flourished in Buffalo in the 1970s comprising a loosely organized group of collaborative, interdisciplinary artistic communities spanning the visual arts, film, video, performance, literature, and music. Looking back on the art and ideas these groups propagated, one might argue that aspects of postmodern and contemporary art were seeded during this time, and that Buffalo was one of a group of geographic pock...
Tyler Perry's "Madea Gets a Job"
- May 17, 2012
- Location: First Niagara Center
- Address: 1 Seymour H Knox III Plaza, Buffalo, NY 14203-3007
- Venue: First Niagara Center
- Visit Website
In this performance, hard times, and the judge, caught up with Madea and she is forced to come out of retirement to go to work. Still on probation, Madea is not a star candidate for employment, no way, no how but she has to fulfill her community service obligations. In Tyler Perry's "Madea Gets a Job" Madea's unconventional job highlights an inevitable situation we face- getting old. You will find that nursing homes can put a strain on family relationships and the hardships some famil...
Spring Tours of Frank Lloyd Wright's Graycliff Estate
- May 17, 2012
- Location: Frank Lloyd Wright's Graycliff
- Address: 6472 Old Lake Shore Road, Derby, NY 14047
- Venue: Frank Lloyd Wright's Graycliff
- Recurrence: Recurring daily
- Visit Website
- graycliff@verizon.net
Graycliff is an architectural jewel set on a scenic 8.4 acre estate on a bluff overlooking Lake Erie, with high sweeping views of Canada beyond. The complex, with three buildings and extensive grounds and gardens, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Isabelle and Darwin Martin as a summer estate. Built between 1926 and 1929, it was occupied by the family until the mid-1940s. Spring, 2012 Tours of Frank Lloyd Wright's Graycliff Estate begin Thursday, April 5, although Graycliff is closed on ...
Blithe Spirit
- May 17, 2012
- Location: Kavinoky Theatre
- Address: 320 Porter Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201
- Venue: Kavinoky Theatre
- Visit Website
Our friend Mr. Coward is back this season, and this time he’s got ghosts up his sleeve. Indeed, the situation at the heart of this mannered comedy is a fine one — an ill-conceived cocktail party séance brings one man’s ex back from the dead. She’s funny, needy and manipulative, and not necessarily in that order. This might be less of a problem if our man’s flesh-and-blood wife weren’t already a bit on the jealous side (can you say &ldqu...
Rachel- Arcangel Gallery Exhibit
- May 17, 2012
- Location: Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens
- Address: 2655 South Park Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14218
- Venue: Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens
- Recurrence: Recurring daily
- Visit Website
- egrajek@buffalogardens.com
Through a Child’s Lens Her first exhibition... Rachel is a 10-year-old fourth grader. Her photographs have received first place at the Erie County Fair and she has won first place in the Binational Tourism Alliance’s Doors Open Niagara Architage Contest four years in a row, including an award for the photograph of the Botanical Gardens that is in this exhibition. She enjoys taking pictures of plants and architecture, which makes the Gardens a natural fit. In the future, she hopes...
Rhythm of Color
- May 17, 2012
- Location: Quaker Bonnet Eatery
- Address: 175 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201
- Venue: Quaker Bonnet Eatery
- Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Thursday
- Visit Website
- Ingrid.Luongo.Art@gmail.com
Rhythm of Color is a solo exhibit by local artist Ingrid Luongo. It engages the viewer to explore music visually through vibrant colors, while portraying the beauty of the guitar and a variety of other stringed instruments. The exhibit will be held on Friday, May 4th (First Friday) from 5pm-8pm.
Bisons Baseball
- May 17, 2012
- Location: Coca-Cola Field
- Address: 275 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203
- Visit Website
- info@bisons.com
Vs. Gwinnett (Braves)
Buffalo Uncorked
- May 17, 2012
- Location: Statler City
- Address: 107 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202
- Venue: Statler City
- Visit Website
Taste great wines from across New York and around the world, complimentary souvenir wine glass with ticket plus $25 Gift Certificate to the Buffalo Chop House, opportunity to purchase bottles of your favorite wines, enjoy food samples from area restaurants and dessert places, music, giveaways and more.
Local Playwrights One-Act Showcase
- May 17, 2012
- Location: Buffalo East
- Address: 1410 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214
- Recurrence: Recurring every 3 weeks on Thursday, Friday, Saturday
- Visit Website
- artofwny@msn.com
American Repertory Theater of WNY Presents The Local Playwrights One-Act Showcase Featuring the works of John F Kennedy, DonnaMarie Vaughan, Justin Karcher Directed by Michael Lodick, April A Jones, Drew McCabe Buffalo East, 1410 Main Street, Buffalo. BUFFALO, NY-The last production of the American Repertory Theater of WNY season features the annual Local Playwrights One-Act Showcase. The showcase has been a highlight of ART's programming for most of this young theater's history and reflects the...
Night Out with Buffalo Sports Legend Ritchie Campbell
- May 17, 2012
- Location: The Oakk Room Restaurant and Lounge
- Address: 1435 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14209
- Visit Website
- KarismaMarCom@gmail.com
Xavier Films Production and Total Package Sports Academy host a Night Out with Buffalo sports legend Ritchie Campbell. Join us for an evening of drinks, food and fellowship with Buffalo Basketball legend Ritchie Campbell at Buffalo's newest dining establishments The Oakk Room. This is event is free and open to the public. Donations will be accepted. Monies raised will help offset the cost for upcoming documentary and summer basketball league. We will also preview the extended trailer of the upco...
Wire Wrapped Stone Cabochon
- May 17, 2012
- Location: Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens
- Address: 2655 South Park Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14218
- Venue: Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens
- Visit Website
- egrajek@buffalogardens.com
Diana Traver of Exotic Gemmery will teach you how to create a pendent of your own! A cabochon (from the French word caboche or head), is a gemstone which has been shaped and polished as opposed to faceted. Chain not included.
Betsy Potter: Breaking Nature explores the conflict between humankind and the natural world
- May 17, 2012
- Location: Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University
- Address: Lewiston Road and College Avenue, Niagara University, NY 14109
- Venue: Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University
For Betsy Potter, a native Western New Yorker, the survival of the natural world is paramount. The works featured in Breaking Nature illustrate the complex relationship between humankind and the environment. Potter says her paintings "...are about the fight between mankind and nature...a war is going on," Her paintings are staging grounds for tales that express nature's vulnerability, fragility and battle for survival in the face of industrialization. Potter explains that her richly ...
Rachel - Gallery Exhibit
- May 17, 2012
- Location: Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens
- Address: 2655 South Park Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14218
- Venue: Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens
- Recurrence: Recurring daily
- Visit Website
- egrajek@buffalogardens.com
Exhibit in the Arcangel Gallery at the Gardens. *Included with admission Through a Child’s Lens Her first exhibition... Rachel is a 10-year-old fourth grader. Her photographs have received first place at the Erie County Fair and she has won first place in the Binational Tourism Alliance’s Doors Open Niagara Architage Contest four years in a row, including an award for the photograph of the Botanical Gardens that is in this exhibition. She enjoys taking pictures of plants and arch...










