CYOA BFLO: 4/17 to 4/23
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Friday April 17
Opening | SuDi Wang: Where is Momo? - WNY Book Arts Center
Opening | mojo: Lovesquadra - Transformation Station
Meet the Residents: Ajunie Virk, Arielle Knight, Jason Rhee - Squeaky Wheel
Poetry Reading & Book Signing with Former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera - AKG
The Lowliest One, Wild Gone Girls, happygroupppp - BICA Garage
Buffalo String Works Soirée - The Caz
pReFringe: A Refringe Preview - Ol’ Wondermoth
Dalí Quartet: Slee Beethoven Cycle Part II, Concert V - UB Slee Hall
The Camerata Chamber Orchestra & the Choir of St. Louis Church - St. Louis Church
Guabaza’s 4 Year Anniversary Celebration - Pausa Art House
Headbutt Album Release Show - Nietzsche’s
A Potter’s Field, Michael Oliver Band - Revolution Lounge
The Dead Duke’s Ball - Area 54
Evergreen Echoes, After the World, Astronot Junkie - Milkie’s
Jantsen, Canvas, Floret Loret, Big Basha - Electric City
Simply The Best: A Tribute to Tina Turner - Riviera Theatre
That Comedy Show - The 9th Ward
Kenan After Dark - Taylor Theatre
Saturday April 18
Opening | 30th Annual Juried Members Exhibition: Modern Works - Artists Group Gallery
Workshop | Post-Concrete Machines: Sketching With The Typewriter - UB Center for the Arts
Live On Five 2026 - Buffalo Arts Studio
Art To Go Vending Machine Launch Party & Gallery Opening - ShopCraft
Leanne Darling, viola + loops - Duende
Singing Resistance: All Ages Sing - Unitarian Universalist
Dalí Quartet: Slee Beethoven Cycle Part II, Concert VI - UB Slee Hall
BTPM Classical Live on Stage: A Journey Through Time - BTPM
Ed Croft Trio: The Music of Grant Green - Pausa Art House
Shakti Lounge: Fredtown Stompers - Shakti Yoga
West Ferry, The Step Down, Velvet Bethany, Kodama - Area 54
Fotocrime, Bad Bloom, Dolly Sods, Budge It - Milkie’s
The Vinny Barbarino Experience - Nietzsche's
The Surfrajettes - Sportsmens Tavern
Moon Walker's Wasteland Country Tour - Rec Room
The Glam Vamps Presents: Broad City Burlesque - Hot Mama’s Canteen
Sleaze Ball: Sleazechella - Nietzsche's
Sunday April 19
Opening | Teju Abiola: Tether - Project 308 Gallery
Intro to Balinese Gamelan (free) - Nusantara Arts
DJ Lucas, Chango4, Ryan Bell / Justin Von Strasburg, Silas Rubeck - BICA Garage
Art of Jazz: Cécile McLorin Salvant & Sullivan Fortner - AKG
Croft, Wasik, Docenko Do Guaraldi - Duende
Band of Horses: Celebrating 20 years of Everything All The Time - Electric City
Hail The Sun, Foxy Shazam, Makari, Resilia - Iron Works
Monday April 20
Opening | Objectile Adventures: The Floor - UB Hayes Hall
PLASMA Speaker Series: David Mawer - UB Center for the Arts
4/20 Fest w/ Pocketship, Strange Standard - Nietzsche's
Killer Queen: A Tribute To Queen - Buff State PAC
Tuesday April 21
Opening | Memoria - UB Center for the Arts
Ideas From Art: An Interactive Workshop with Anthony Billoni - 225 Louisiana Street
Canisius Contemporary Writers Series Presents Marcus Jackson - Grupp Fireside Lounge
Discovering the Galápagos: Sarah Knutie | National Geographic Live - Kleinhans
Buffalo State Jazz Ensemble - Buffalo State PAC
Birddog, Jake King, Evan McMillian - Area 54
Field Medic, Euphoria Again - The 9th Ward
Wednesday April 22
SALON:ARTALK | Claire Connolly: 5AW - Fitz Books
A/V Club April - Squeaky Wheel
Sequoia Rose - Hot Mama’s Canteen
Al Olender, Aubrey Haddard - The 9th Ward
Roux Burns Jug Band - Nietzsche’s
Student Recital: Lucas Bastos - Ciminelli Recital Hall
King Falcon, Little Liar, Blissen - Iron Works
Thursday April 23
BABEL: Imani Perry - Kleinhans
Signal Diagnostics: An Evening of Experimental Music & Video - UB Slee Hall
The Bird-Friendly Buffalo Symposium, Sponsored by Buffalo Audubon Society - UB Hayes Hall
Padmanabha / Glenfield Duo CD Release Show - Hallwalls
West African Drumming Ensemble, Diaspora Drumming Ensemble - Ciminelli Recital Hall
Maggie's Wake - The Village Meeting House
Tali’s Corner: A Celebration of Latin Music - Pausa Art House
Queen City Radio, Silver Maple - Milkie's
The Meridian Trio - Nietzsche's
Magnolia Boulevard - Sportsmens Tavern
Waxahatchee & MJ Lenderman - UB Center for the Arts
Vincent Antone, Father Figure, DJ Rhythmic Noise - Iron Works
Ongoing
Marjan Khorramgolkaran: Landless - Hallwalls (ends 4/17)
Cold Visions - Museum of Cold (ends 4/17)
Mise-en-Abyme - BICA (ends 4/18)
Kathleen Shandraw: Any Given Time - Carnegie Art Center (ends 4/23)
A Breathing Solitude - Rivalry Projects (ends 4/24)
Enjoy the *#$%! Slices - Black Rock Arts (ends 4/25)
re- : Work by Doğa Ertekin - CEPA Gallery (ends 4/25)
Mini Masterpieces - Revolution Gallery (ends 4/25)
Mark Maio: Against The Grain - Burchfield Penney (ends 4/26)
Allan D’Arcangelo: Landscapes and Constellations - AKG (ends 4/26)
Monument & Memory - TENfold Gallery (ends 4/30)
Selected Works by Edward G. Bisone - Art Dialogue Gallery (ends 5/2)
Alexa Joan Givens Wajed: Portions - Hunt Art Gallery (ends 5/9)
Martha Jackson In Paris - UB CFA Gallery (ends 5/17)
Dignity: Art as a Lens for Social Justice - Castellani Art Museum (ends 5/17)
Transient Signal: Gardener Astalos , Shelia Bush, Torrein Harris - Starlight Studio (ends 5/22)
Yayoi Kusama: One with Eternity - AKG (ends 5/24)
The Pull - Mirabo Press (ends 5/30)
Nordic-American Decorative Art: The Bronze Work of Carl Sorensen - Burchfield Penney(ends 5/31)
Dianne Baker: Foundlings - The Phoenix at 269 (ends 6/27)
Carolyn Lazard: Pain Scale and Red - AKG (ends 7/6)
Kindred - K Art (ends 7/26)
Clayton Pond: A Retrospective - UB Anderson Gallery (ends 7/31)
The Connector - TENfold Gallery (ends 8/16)
Camp Everything - Burchfield Penney (ends 9/27)
Valeria Cray: Surface Tension - Burchfield Penney (ends 9/27)
Human/Nature: Envisioning the Environment - Castellani Art Museum (ends 1/23/27)