Friday August 18th, 2017

Upcoming events & things to do near you.

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Buffalo Comedy Show
Fri Aug 18th

Buffalo Comedy Show

Local comedians Chris Gullo (Host) and Billy Whalen (Feature) join nationally touring headliner and always hilarious Mike Bova. Mike's material is unique and his show is very entertaining and absolutely hilarious! Do not miss this show! Tickets are $10/ea. at www.buffaloirishcenter.eventbrite.com and… >>

Artpark Rock Camp
Mon Aug 7th → Fri Aug 18th

Artpark Rock Camp

Artpark

Artpark's Rock Camp takes place Monday-Friday from 9am-4pm at the Mainstage Theater Attendees will form bands, write and perform original music, learn how to interpret music by others, and even gain knowledge about aspects of the music business. Rock Camp concludes with a free concert Artpark's Amphitheater… >>

Mon Aug 14th → Fri Aug 18th

Vacation Bible School Galactic Starveyors

For children entering 1st - 8th grade Monday - Thursday 9:00 am - 12:30pm Friday 9:00 am- 1:30pm Register at door or better online at nlcupc.com Cost per week $25.00/child or $45.00/family Each day is filled with worship rally, Bible lesson, music, sports, crafts, & snack. VBS Finale & Family Fun Day… >>

Peach Mag Season 1 Yearbook Launch Party
Fri Aug 18th

Peach Mag Season 1 Yearbook Launch Party

Peach Mag is excited to announce the launch of their freshman yearbook with a poetry reading from a cast of Season 1 all-stars: Alana KelleyCaroline RaynerHannah NathansonJoe HallKevin ThurstonNoah FalckPat KewleyRobin JordanSage Enderton In celebration of our first birthday, we are are publishing our… >>

Nature Explores Art & Science Camp at The Botanical Gardens
Mon Jul 10th → Fri Aug 18th

Nature Explores Art & Science Camp at The Botanical Gardens

Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens

Monday-Friday, 9am-4pm, Botanical Garden Members $36 per day/$180 per week, General Public $40 per day/$200 per week Campers who have completed kindergarten through 6th grade will discover plants and the natural world through art and science. Explorers will spend time discovering the Gardens, completing… >>

2017 Junior Sail Camp Week 9: Aug 14 – 18
Mon Aug 14th → Fri Aug 18th

2017 Junior Sail Camp Week 9: Aug 14 – 18

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,… >>

The Rifts, Johnny Hart and the Mess, Animal Sounds, & The Orange Friction
Fri Aug 18th

The Rifts, Johnny Hart and the Mess, Animal Sounds, & The Orange Friction

Mohawk Place

FTMP Events Presents:The Rifts, Johnny Hart and the Mess, Animal Sounds, & The Orange FrictionFriday, August 18th$5 Cover18+ (ID Required) - No ID/No EntryDoors open at 8:00pmat: Mohawk Place47 E Mohawk StBuffalo, NY 14203/ Keep updated on all the upcoming FTMP EventsWebsite: www.FTMPEvents.comwww.Facebook.com/FTMPEventswww.Twitter.com/FTMPEvents/… >>

Scottish Festival Pre Party
Fri Aug 18th

Scottish Festival Pre Party

New York Beer Project

Ah… T'was indeed the party everyone still talks aboot ….The Scottish Festival Pre Game Party at NYBP. There were bagpipes all over the house, kilts, Scottish drinking songs, more kilts, Scottish beer releases, wool socks in the summer, fiddles, Scottish tales, yet more kilts…but the best part… it’s… >>

Mon Aug 14th → Fri Aug 18th

Vacation Bible School Galactic Starveyors

For children entering 1st - 8th grade Monday - Thursday 9:00 am - 12:30pm Friday 9:00 am- 1:30pm Register at door or better online at nlcupc.com Cost per week $25.00/child or $45.00/family Each day is filled with worship rally, Bible lesson, music, sports, crafts, & snack. VBS Finale & Family Fun Day… >>

Party on the Portico featuring "Robert "Freightrain" Parker"
Fri Aug 18th

Party on the Portico featuring "Robert "Freightrain" Parker"

The Buffalo History Museum

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

Free Family Movie Night!
Fri Aug 18th

Free Family Movie Night!

Free Family Movie Night!  Games and activities begin at 7:30pm, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs begins at dusk.  Food/concessions available, all proceeds given to Let Them LOL.  Bring your lawn chairs and join us for some fun!

Used Book Sale
Thu Aug 17th → Sat Aug 19th

Used Book Sale

Used books- fiction & nonfiction, books on CD Thousands of books, video, audio books! Early Bird Preview Thursday, August 17, 8:30-11 am $5 donation for admittance and first picks   Regular Sale starts –Thursday, Aug. 17 11 am - 6:30 pm   Friday, Aug. 18 8:30 am - 2 pm   Saturday, Aug. 19 8:30 am -… >>

Erie County Fair
Wed Aug 9th → Sun Aug 20th

Erie County Fair

The Erie County Fair is back for the 178th consecutive year at the Fairgrounds. There is fun for the whole family! The Fair features food, rides, shows, animals and shopping. There is something for everyone as we celebrate 178 years of tradition, agriculture and excitement.

Pet Connection Programs, INC at the Erie County Fair!
Wed Aug 9th → Sun Aug 20th

Pet Connection Programs, INC at the Erie County Fair!

Come see us this year at the Erie County Fair! Pick up one of the shelter’s popular Doggy Bag for Tabby tote for a small $10 donation filled with TONS of goodies for your favorite four-legged friend! 100% of all proceeds goes to our shelter animals and future rescues in need. August 9th 12pm-10pm, August… >>

Disney’s The Little Mermaid
Tue Aug 15th → Sun Aug 20th

Disney’s The Little Mermaid

Broadway's Under the Sea Spectacular!In a magical kingdom beneath the sea, the beautiful young mermaid Ariel longs to leave her ocean home to live in the world above. Based on one of Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved stories, with music by eight-time Academy Award winner Alan Menken, it's a hauntingly… >>

Macbeth at Shakespeare in Delaware Park
Thu Jul 27th → Sun Aug 20th

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… >>

Canal Bicentennial Celebration with the Schooner Lois McClure
Tue Aug 15th → Sun Aug 20th

Canal Bicentennial Celebration with the Schooner Lois McClure

The Lois McClure, an authentic replica of a 19th-century canal boat, will be in Tonawanda on August 15 and on Canalside in Buffalo on Friday, August 18-Sunday, August 20 , as part of a Canal Bicentennial Celebration - the groundbreaking of the Erie Canal was held in Rome, N.Y. on July 4, 1817. The community… >>

M&T Plaza Concert Series
Mon Jun 12th → Fri Aug 25th

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
Fri Jun 30th → Sat Aug 26th

Shape of a Pocket

Squeaky Wheel

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,… >>

Sat Jul 22nd → Sat Aug 26th

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… >>

Build a Better World! Passport to Reading contest
Thu Aug 3rd → Fri Sep 1st

Build a Better World! Passport to Reading contest

The Library System has unveiled a new Passport to Reading contest which encourages families to travel the highways and byways of Erie County to visit all of the public libraries. Library travelers can pick up a special commemorative Passport and have it stamped for a chance to win great prizes including… >>

2017 Little Free Library® Design Competition
Mon Jun 5th → Fri Sep 1st

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
Thu Jun 1st → Fri Sep 1st

Travel Raffle at The Botanical Gardens

Buffalo & Erie County 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
Fri Jun 30th → Sun Oct 1st

Shark Girl: Never Quite There

Albright-Knox Art Gallery

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
Sun Jul 16th → Sat Oct 14th

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
Wed May 24th → Sun Oct 15th

Saint Joan at Shaw Festival

Shaw Festival Theatre

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
Wed Apr 5th → Sun Oct 15th

Me and My Girl

Shaw Festival Theatre

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
Thu Apr 20th → Sat Mar 31st

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,… >>