Friday July 21st, 2017

Party on the Portico featuring "The Tim Britt Band"

The happiest Happy Hour in Buffalo.  Enjoy a cash bar, light snacks, live music, and free Museum mini-tours.  Members $5.  General Public $10.

Winski, Crooked Gener8ion, Cardboard Homestead, Anchor, & Nurse Joyful

FTMP Events Presents:Winski, Crooked Gener8ion, Cardboard Homestead, Anchor, & Nurse JoyfulFriday, July 21st$10 Presale, $12 Day Of ShowAll Ages (No Alcohol / No Drugs)Doors open at 6:00pmTickets: http://www.purplepass.com/072117Winskiat: Sugar City1239 Niagara St. Buffalo, NY 14213/ Keep updated on… >>

Spree's 50th Birthday Party

Help Spree Magazine celebrate its 50th Birthday and raise funds for The Ride For Roswell. You'll enjoy tasting stations from 20 restaurants, complimentary valet, live entertainment, incredible auction items, swag bags and tons of surprises! A limited number of VIP tickets are available for a pre-event… >>

Love Songs, an opera

Love and music are two of most recognized universal languages.“Love Songs” is an unaccompanied opera for solo soprano. Through the primary text, “I love you”,  set in 100 languages, the story centers around the many types of love: from a child’s love, to the love of a parent, and all of the many loves… >>

Lord of Life SummerFest '17

Lord of Life Lutheran Adult & Child Services, Inc. will be holding its' annual SummerFest family festival on Friday, July 21st from 4pm - 8pm. Highlights of activities include a Chiavetta’s chicken BBQ, huge basket raffle, music & games, and live music by The Flat Tops. The event is free and open to… >>

Dream Spectrum

Electrifying the stages of Buffalo, NY, Dream Spectrum brings a whole new level of energy to instrumental rock. With a unique blend of blistering solos, a powerful rhythm section, and crowd grabbing melodies, Dream Spectrum delivers an awe-inspiring live show that leaves an indelible imprint in the… >>

Mega Kids Camp

July 18-21st from 6 -8:30 pm is for kids that have completed k-5th grade. Mega Camp is our way of including more kids into the camp experience by having new and different opportunities .    Our 4 options are … Flag football* cheer dance* art * science Choose a track for your week at camp. Each evening… >>

2017 Junior Sail Camp Week 4: July 17 – 21

We teach sailing.But, we also teach important life lessons.Every morning, we begin with a classroom session which goes over theory and explains what they will practice that day. Then sailors head out into the harbor and turn theory into practice. Over the week, the kids learn terminology, rigging, hoisting,… >>

Carl Dixon

Carl Dixon’s powerful vocals, artistry and stage presence have put him at the forefront of the Canadian rock industry for three decades. As one of Canada's most respected musicians, a prolific songwriter, he’s renowned as both a solo artist and band member of groups such as Coney Hatch, The Guess Who and April… >>

Edward McClelland at Talking Leaves

Talking Leaves is pleased to announce that Edward McClelland will be appearing on Friday, 7/21/17, at 7 pm at our store at 951 Elmwood Avenue to discuss and sign copies of his recently published How to Speak Midwestern (Belt Publishing).  The book is a look into and analysis of the unique speech and… >>

Artpark Art Camp

Canal Fest

Canal Fest of the Tonawandas is the largest festival of its kind along the Erie Canal. Shared by the Twin Cities of Tonawanda and North Tonawanda, it encompasses a 2-square-mile area, jam packed full of fun and entertainment. Enjoy eight full days of entertainment at the largest event held anywhere… >>

DeRay Davis

DeRay Davis is a multi-faceted comedic force who's conquered everything from the stage to the big screen. Davis first made a name for himself in the stand-up world, winning Comedy Central's Laugh Riots Competition and appearing in the Cedric the Entertainer Festival. Along the way he made the leap to… >>

Grease Pole Festival

Live music, carnival rides, and countless performances take place throughout this three-day celebration. Each year, the Grease Pole Festival features a grand finale. Contestants climb up on each other’s backs in order to scale a greased telephone pole. There is an assortment of prizes, but the best… >>

Fan World: 2017

Fan World brings gaming, animation, celebrity guests, cosplay, etc. fans from around the world an amazing event on the unparalleled Niagara Falls!Meet actors Todd Haberkorn (anime voice actor, Lt. Spock in Star Trek: Continues) and Christopher Robin Miller (fantasy actor, voice of Nintendo's Professor… >>

Best of Buffalo

Join us for a downtown walking tour of the best of Buffalo architecture and history! The buildings included on this overview tour help to tell the story of Buffalo’s rapid rise to prominence, from the opening of the Erie Canal to the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. Buildings seen on this tour were designed… >>

Artpark Theater Academy: A Broadway Jr. Program

Coleus & Color at The Botanical Gardens

10am-5pm - Included with Botanical Garden admission - $11 adults, $10 seniors (62+), $9 students (13+ with ID), $6 Kids 3-12, members and kids 2 and under are free! Rainbows of color will be incorporated into this summer exhibit of thousands of coleus and so much color! See many different botanical… >>

Pretty/Funny at MusicalFare

A World Premiere musical from Buffalo native Marisa Guida, Buffalonian Philip Farugia and MusicalFare!  A coming of age story inspired by the life and work of comedienne, Imogene Coca.  Mom gets a promotion, Dad gets fired and their pre-pubescent daughter, Genny, is being picked on at school.  With… >>

William Smyers

Arcangel Gallery Exhibit - Included with Botanical Garden admission - $11 adults, $10 seniors (62+), $9 students (13+ with ID), $6 Kids 3-12, members and kids 2 and under are free! Presenting his third exhibit in the Arcangel Gallery, Smyers is a known photographer in WNY. He takes pride in his high… >>

M&T Plaza Concert Series

Plaza Event Series will feature 54 performances this summer. It starts June 12, with the season’s last performance scheduled for August 25. Five new acts have been added to the line-up, and several favorites will continue their longtime streaks of Plaza Event Series appearances.  

Shape of a Pocket

June 30–August 26Opening: July 7, 6–9pmEvents: July 29, August 12, August 25 Featuring work by Morgan Arnett, Jason Bernagozzi, Charlie Best and Jaz Palermo, W. Michelle Harris, Kyla Kegler, Dana McKnight, Przemyslaw Moskal, Van Tran Nguyen, Elisa Peebles and the United Melanin Society, Carl Spartz,… >>

Travel Raffle at The Botanical Gardens

Tickets - $20 - 3 Chances to WIN and only 700 will be sold!  Tickets on sale June 1-September 1 Grand Prize - Dream Vacation! - A trip for two to Ireland, Mexico, or the Caribbean!  You pick where AND when! All arrangements will be made for you through The Travel Team Inc. Travel voucher has a maximum… >>

2017 Little Free Library® Design Competition

The Buffalo Architecture Foundation's 2017 Little Free Library® Design Competition is an Open, Two-stage, Design Competition to design, construct, and install a contemporary book shelter in underprivileged neighborhoods in Buffalo, NY. Architects, designers, sculptors, carpenters, students, etc. interested… >>

Shark Girl: Never Quite There

Clifton Hall Link In the two short years since Casey Riordan Millard’s iconic Shark Girl arrived in Western New York, the sculpture has been so widely shared and experienced that it is now one of Buffalo’s best-known citizens. However, it is perhaps less well-know that Shark Girl has served as one of… >>

An Octoroon

Hilarious. Uncomfortable. Vital. An edgy new American comedy set on a slave-owner’s plantation at the Shaw festival. When Dion Boucicault wrote The Octoroon in 1859, it was considered a masterpiece. Its story of a plantation owner falling for a woman of mixed race was taken as a bold plea for racial… >>

Saint Joan at Shaw Festival

Who was Joan of Arc? The saviour of France … or a deluded country girl? Bernard Shaw’s greatest play about the most remarkable teenage girl in history. Saint Joan is Bernard Shaw’s greatest play. At its centre is the most remarkable teenage girl in history. But who is she? The divinely-inspired saviour… >>

Me and My Girl

Can a Cockney man give up his old life – and love! – to join the upper class? The sparkling and fun British hit musical. This delightful comic romp from the thirties follows the fortunes of Bill Snibson, a proud Cockney who is amazed to learn that he’s actually the fourteenth Earl of Hareford. But if… >>

BUILDING BUFFALO: Buildings From Books, Books From Buildings

This new exhibit, open free to the public, focuses on an outstanding collection of rare and exquisitely illustrated books encompassing the history of architecture and landscape design from the late 15th through mid-20th Century.  Part of one of the finest civic collections on architecture in the country,… >>