Monday July 31st, 2017

Lebanese Festival

The 18th Annual Lebanese Festival will feature amusement rides,live entertainment, traditional dancers and fabulous Lebanese cuisine - think hummus, tabouli, kibbi and more. Friday, July 28th – 5:00 to 11:00 p.m. Saturday, July 29th – 2:00 to 11:00 p.m. Sunday, July 30th – 12:00 noon to 8:00 p.m. >>

SLoW Roll in July

Slow Roll will be at these locations in July: Venue The Oakk Room   - July 3rd 6:30PM 1435 Main St.  Buffalo,NY 14209 Phone: 716-885-6255 http://www4.theoakkroom.com/ PEDAL PARTY Venue Murphy Brown’s Craft Beer Empourium - July 7 @ 7:00 pm 9500 Main St  Clarence,NY14031 Presented in partnership with… >>

Bistro Bookers Presentation: David Oshinsky

Bellevue: three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital by David Oshinsky. The Pulitzer Prize winning author presents a sweeping and at times horrifying chronicle of Bellevue's rise from a wretched alms house infirmary to a revered public hospital and a premier trauma center… >>

2017 Junior Sail Camp Week 6: July 31 – August 4

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,… >>

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… >>

Buffalo Infringement Festival

The Buffalo Infringement Festival will take place in more than 80 venues, public spaces, and backyards this year! Look for Visual Art, Group Shows, indie-rock, Music, pop music and rock music performances and installations. For a list of all shows: http://www.infringebuffalo.org/allshows.php For a list… >>

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… >>

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… >>

Macbeth at Shakespeare in Delaware Park

Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatizes the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. Macbeth runs Tuesday through Sunday at 7:30pm from July 27 – August 20. Shakespeare… >>

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.  

Annual Canal Fest Member Art Exhibition At River Art Gallery & Gifts

River Art Gallery & Gifts located at 83 Webster St. in North Tonawanda presents the annual Canal Fest Member Exhibition opening on Saturday, July 22 and runs through Saturday, August 26. The opening reception is on Saturday, July 29 from 4pm to 7pm. There are a total of 25 artists exhibiting using a… >>

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,… >>

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… >>

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… >>

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,… >>