Thursday July 20th, 2017

“Lance Diamond: A Diamond in the Buff” WORLD PREMIERE

The incredible story of Buffalo, NY lounge singer Lance Diamond, local legend, a gentleman known as “Buffalo’s Hardest Working Entertainer” who performed at every major event or festival in town, held a long-standing popular weekly residency on Elmwood Avenue, and wowed Western New Yorkers with his… >>

Love Songs, An Opera

Thursday, June 20, 8pm Art Park, Interior Gallery 450 South 4th Street Lewiston, NY 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… >>

Thin Man Brewery Beer Dinner

Love Beer & Food? We have the perfect event for you!Join us for a delicious 4-course meal featuring beer made by Thin Man Brewery on Thursday July 20th at 6:30pm. Weather permitting we could have the event on our patio!Dinner includes 4 beers with 4 courses for $55, (gratuity included) dinner is served… >>

ORIGAMI FLOWERS & BOOK VASE WORKSHOP

✿ ORIGAMI FLOWERS & BOOK VASE ✿ Thursday, July 20 • 6-9pm This workshop will introduce book origami techniques by producing a a bouquet of flowers and a folded vase from a recycled book. Together, we will carefully fold a vase and 4-5 Origami flowers to dress the top.  You can choose from an array of… >>

The Odds Are [Return Home Show]

FTMP Events Presents:The Odds Are [Return Home Show]w/ Evvergreen, Major Arcana, Kelsey Law, & DonnieOThursday, July 20th$7 General Presale, $10 Day Of Show18+ (ID Required) - No ID/No EntryDoors open at 6:00 pmTickets: http://www.purplepass.com/OddsAre072017at: Stamps... the bar98 Main StreetTonawanda,… >>

Artpark Art Camp

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,… >>

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… >>

Tours of Open Gardens

The Tours of Open Gardens offers twelve groupings of premier gardens open, for select hours, on Thursdays and Fridays in July – from Niagara County to East Aurora and Holland. Many of the gardens are not on any other tour, so this is your only chance to visit them. Get your Tours of Open Gardens and… >>

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… >>

Asbury Pointe Retirement Community Open House

Guests can tour the grounds – including the beautifully-appointed apartments with such amenities as granite countertops, stainless steel appliances and custom cupboards – speak to current residents, get answers to the questions they have and enjoy delicious refreshments. (Additional Open House events… >>

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… >>

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… >>

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… >>

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,… >>