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Facet and Forge 2024
Embark on an exploration of stained glass creation at Facet & Forge 2024. This event is the perfect way to spend an evening immersed in the artistry and craftsmanship inherent in architectural glass art, mosaics, and other heritage building trades. Explore Trinity campus as it can rarely be seen: from the perspective of the skilled artisans and tradespeople that built and continue to maintain our city’s fantastic buildings, in live demonstrations.
Engage with artisans in live demonstrations of stained glass and mosaic art, metalworking, and sculpture. Gain insights into the meticulous craftwork involved in creating and preserving the cultural and artistic significance of architectural stained glass. The event is a commitment to the enduring nature of this timeless art form, highlighting the delicate interplay between tradition and contemporary methods.
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Brand Launch Event
WABUZ is an Indigenous led furniture company exploring the space between art and design forward objects to enhance one’s space. WABUZ is the brainchild of a former street artist moving into three dimensions and honing their craft through furniture.
WABUZ furniture is pleased to present a one-night-only Collection Launch Party for the new line of WABUZ Furniture designs, created by Indigenous artist & designer Ashley J MacDonald.
WABUZ embraces the absurd. Based on Ojibwe storytelling, the term refers to a rabbit; a powerful spirit being with great strengths and wisdom as well as some human weaknesses and foolhardiness. The brand is inspired by the modern world, pop art and street culture this debut collection is a wild mix of discovering roots, stray pathways, and the right here right now, with a slight nostalgic nod to the 90’s.
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Spring Into Art
Celebrate Spring at the UB Center for the Arts! Spring into Art showcases creators and artists from the departments of Art, Theatre and Dance, Music, and Media Study. The UBCFA atrium and screening room will come alive with performances, installations, interactive activities, and FREE refreshments! Come see, celebrate, and experience the artistry that happens right here on campus. The event also allows visitors to meet the UBCFA art community, explore the art galleries and learn about UB’s rich offering of programs.
Spring into Art is FREE and open to the public!
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Buffalo Chamber Players at the AKG – May
Experience creative music programs performed by our region’s finest performers in a unique and inspiring setting. The Buffalo Chamber Players presents innovative music programs performed by our region’s finest musicians. Formed in 2007 by Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra violist Janz Castelo de Armas, the group comprises members of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and other distinguished area musicians. The group’s critically acclaimed concerts explore both historical chamber music masterworks and works by living composers.
Purple Rain
Join the Buffalo Chamber Players in their return to the AKG! The opening program looks back at the ensemble’s sixteen-year history and explores trends shaping chamber music today.
Joan Tower’s Purple Rain (2020) for string quintet belongs to the composer’s series of “purple” works featuring the viola. Tower, who experiences synesthesia, explains that “purple is the color in all its various hues that most reminds me of the viola. In this quintet, ‘rain’ symbolizes many things: a steady repetition of light and heavy rhythms, flows of ‘held’ singing (particularly in the viola duets), and a kind of rapid ‘cascading/rolling’ in rivulets of sixteenth notes.”
Tower’s Purple Rain is paired with Johannes Brahms’s String Quintet No.2 in G Major, Op. 111, which uses the same instrumentation (two violins, two violas, and cello).
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Bring Back Plur
BRING BACK PLUR invites you to rediscover the essence of Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect in a vibrant celebration of music and community. Join us for an electrifying experience featuring world-class DJs, immersive live art, and interactive vendors. Dive into the colorful world of kandi-making and exchange bracelets as symbols of friendship and connection. Let’s reignite the spirit of PLUR together and create unforgettable memories filled with love and acceptance.
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Springville Art Crawl
For one day out of the year, Main Street, Springville becomes an art gallery, with artwork in every business, music in surprising corners and interactive art activities sprinkled throughout. There will be free activity for all ages throughout the National Register Historic District. Once 8:30pm hits, the after-party begins at Springville Center for the Arts, located at 37 North Buffalo Street. Refreshments will be provided in the Olmsted Gallery which features the Spring Community Exhibit. “Crawlers” vote on their favorite artist by ballot and the award is presented.
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CrossWalk
CrossWalk is a performance and fashion installation created by Torn Space; featuring the work of audio visual collective GroupWork, the clothing line of Buyer, fashion designer Kylie Priscilla and the public as models. The production explores topics of quantum mechanics, contemporary African dance and mob mentality.
These seemingly disparate subjects can be explored through the lens of complexity and unpredictability. Quantum mechanics deals with the fundamental unpredictability and non-linearity of the microscopic world, African contemporary dance often incorporates improvisation and spontaneity, mob mentality exhibits emergent behavior from individual actions.
Audience members will gather at the intersection of Paderewski and Wilson Street for a live photoshoot featuring models washed ashore from the seventh dimension. The models sunbathe on rocks from 400 million years ago, prepare for a match and gather around a limousine that once acted as the party transportation for Studio 54. As the sun begins to set the production moves to inside Torn Space where the action and party begins.
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Taste of Diversity Festival 2024
The Taste of Diversity Festival takes place each year on Grant Street, in the heart of Buffalo’s bourgeoning West Side Market District, one of the cities’ fastest growing business districts and most diverse neighborhoods . Plan to spend the day – there is always lots of delicious food, great vendors and wonderful live music all day long, all on Grant Street – the heart of one of Buffalo’s fastest growing business districts and most diverse neighborhoods.
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Art on the Riverwalk Festival – 20th Annual
Come by this beautiful setting for a full day of vendors, food, and a view of the water!
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Music is Art Festival 2024
Each September, the Music is Art Festival attracts thousands of people from WNY and the world. This annual homegrown festival showcases art in numerous forms. The festival also has many family friendly attractions including our ever popular Kids Village, an instrument zoo and plenty of food and drink!
This year’s festival promises an eclectic mix of music, live performances, art installations, and interactive experiences designed to engage, inspire, and entertain attendees of all ages. With the scenic AKG and Buffalo State campus serving as the canvas, the festival is poised to paint a vivid picture of Buffalo’s artistic prowess and cultural vibrancy.
Stay tuned for more announcements regarding the lineup, ticket information, and special events leading up to the festival. We invite artists, musicians, volunteers, and community members to join us in making this year’s return an unforgettable celebration of art, music, and community.
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