April 2018
Upcoming events & things to do near you.
$5 Family Funday @ the Albright-Knox
On $5 Family Funday, the second Sunday of each month, museum admission for the entire family is just $5, and includes an array of activities. Unless otherwise noted, all events are free with $5 Family Funday admission. Schedule:10:30 am–noon Storytime…
Roycroft History Course
The Roycroft Campus will once again be offering a special Roycroft History Course this Spring. This semester's theme will be Thinking Outside the Box. We will take a closer look at different individuals from the turn of the 19th-20th century, and how…
Peach Mag Presents: Poetry Reading ft. Mortara, Maier, Williams, McKeon, Wiggins
Peach Mag is proud to present visiting poets Jamie Mortara and Jakob Maier alongside Buffalo poets Eve Williams, Dan McKeon, and Olivea Wiggins for a reading on Saturday, April 14th, at Georgette. The event is the third installment in Peach’s EPISODES…
Farewell to Arms
Rock Hudson stars in David O Selznick’s sweeping 1957 adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway classic, A FAREWELL TO ARMS, presented on the BIG SCREEN in glorious CinemaScope! The film will be screening as part of the Buffalo & Erie County Library’s exciting…
TRIMANIA 2018
TRIMANIA 2018 is an epic celebration of art, culture, and music that’s held every three years, for one night only, in the former manufacturing building that spans two city blocks. Buffalo Arts Studio, with a little help from Tri-Main Center tenants,…
The Healing Power of Plants
Celebrate World Health Month at our expanded Medicinal Garden feature full of information about the healing power of plants for your mind, body and spirit. Experts will be on hand to discuss the use of plants in pharmaceuticals, the healing power of…
Buffalo Mass Mob XXVI at Our Lady of Hope
The Buffalo Mass Mob is heading to the city's West Side for Mass Mob XXVI on April 15th for the Our Lady of Hope Church's 11:00am Mass. Come #PackThePews with us!
Taste of Ghana
Join us for a night of food and fun to benefit HOSIKIDS, a non-profit organization striving to provide education and healthcare to rural community schools in the Greater Accra region of Ghana, West Africa. All proceeds will go directly to our current…
Radical Women's Night Out
Celebrate "We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85." Explore the timely themes of this exhibition more deeply through a conversation with Jessica Lynne, cofounder and editor of ARTS.BLACK and Black Arts Incubator, and Jae Jarrell, founder…
Co-Artifact Silent Auction Fundraiser
Eleven Twenty Projects and Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (Starlight) are pleased to announce the 3rd Co-Artifact fundraiser featuring artwork created collaboratively between Starlight artists and community artists. The event will take place Thursday,…
Ten-Minute Play Festival: WNY Playwrights Celebrate ‘Buffalo Never Fails’
Staged reading of original plays inspired by selected artifacts in the Library’s World War I exhibition. This Ten-Minute Play Festival: WNY Playwrights Celebrate ‘Buffalo Never Fails' is part of the One Community One Book initiative and will take place…
M+T Third Friday - [BN] Blitz at The Buffalo History Museum
Join Buffalo News sports writers Vic Carucci & Jay Skurski to talk Draft Week and all things Buffalo Bills in the shadow of “Icons: The Makers and Moments of Buffalo Sports.”
M&T Third Friday
Free museum admission to the Museum, 10 am - 8 pm. Free admission to the Resource Center, 10 am - 5 pm. Located at 459 Forest Avenue, where Spirit of the City: Imagining the Pan-American Exposition is on view. 1-3 pm - Free - Docent Led Tours of both…
BABEL: Junot Díaz
At 8:00pm on Friday, April 20th at Kleinhans Music Hall (3 Symphony Circle) Just Buffalo Literary Center’s acclaimed BABEL series concludes its best attended season ever with Junot Díaz, the author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Following…
Movies In The Vineyard--The Secret of Santa Vittoria
The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969), a charming comedic tale set in the renowned winemaking town of Santa Vittoria, Italy towards the end of World War II. In the euphoria following the fall of Mussolini’s Fascist government, Santa Vittoria’s foolish…
Dog Ears' 10th Annual Gala
The tenth annual Dog Ears Bookstore Gala will take place from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. Saturday, April 21, in the Buffalo Irish Center, 245 Abbott Road, South Buffalo. This year’s theme is “Buffalo’s Small Plate Debate II,” featuring an incredible array of…
Earth Day at the Buffalo Museum of Science!
Celebrate Earth Day this April 22 at the Buffalo Museum of Science. With hands on activities throughout the Museum and local student artwork, this is a learning experience you won’t want to miss! In cooperation with Erie County Department of Environment…
Bistro Bookers - Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality and the Struggle for Oral Health in America, by Mary Otto. In this shattering new work, veteran health journalist Mary Otto looks inside America’s mouth, revealing unsettling truths about our unequal society. Reviewed…
Pulp/fictions | A Group Exhibition at the WNY Book Arts Center
Pulp/fictions features WNY artists and WNYBAC members who have spent the past year and a half experimenting with the Thai mulberry fiber known as Kozo. Building on their group exhibition last fall, the group again met regularly to process the fiber from…
Security
Torn Space Theater premieres a new three-day performance installation by long-time collaborators, Tim Stegner and Frank Napolski. Security runs April 27 through 29 at the resident theater of Torn Space, located at 612 Fillmore Ave. Buffalo, NY 14212.…