CYOA BFLO: 4/24 to 4/30
Holy smokes, we hit our fundraising goal last week in like 15 minutes! Thanks so much to the speedy supporters, and for everyone who has reached out.
CYOA Buffalo is a weekly, lightly curated arts, music, and cultural events newsletter, founded 2014. Send me an email if you'd like to submit an event, or if you just want to send a cute and encouraging message. <3 Mario
Friday April 24
Opening | mojo: Lovesquadra - Transformation Station
Opening | Performative: Paintings by Eugene Sims - Beebe’s
Fourth Friday | Post Event Celebration for Live on Five - Buffalo Arts Studio
Meet the Residents: Ajunie Virk, Arielle Knight, Jason Rhee - Squeaky Wheel
MINTY SPARKLES New Merch Drop - Gutter Pop Comics
UB Choirs Present: Liebeslieder Waltzes & Love Songs - UB Slee Hall
The Jay/Sharptet - Pausa Art House
Pleasure Window, 8/10, DLIMB, Eat Your Hair - Duende
The Concert for Jenn IV - Nietzsche’s
Early Bird Aurora Release Party - Black Dots
War Bond, Hold Out, Slam Dunk, Hostile Makeover - Area 54
BEATrio: Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda, Antonio Sánchez - Kleinhans Mary Seaton Room
Lee Ritenour - Buffalo State PAC
Joe Goretti and Th1nk Mu2ik - The Cave
Tim Cappello - Evening Star Concert Hall
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong (Friday & Saturday) - Town Ballroom
Cash Live: The Music Of Johnny Cash - The Caz
Terry Lee Goffee: A Tribute to Johnny Cash - Riviera Theatre
DISORDER with DJ sets by Osiris + Chvck - Revolution Lounge
Saturday April 25
13th Annual Cherry Blossom Festival (Saturday & Sunday) - Delaware Park Japanese Garden
BPO: Mendelssohn & Dvořák - Kleinhans
Carolyn Lansom Quartet - Pausa Art House
Exploring the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili with Dr. James Russell - UB Central Library
UB Choirs Present: Liebeslieder Waltzes & Love Songs - St. Joseph University Parish
Stiff Arm, The New Fury - Area 54
Patient Basement, IMperfect, Anybody Else, Silver Proof - Milkie's
Px5: Post-Pigeons Playing Ping Pong w/ Night Zero - Nietzsche's
Old School B-Boys Motown Revue - The Caz
Duane Betts, Palmetto Motel - UB Center for the Arts
Wayne Newton - Riviera Theatre
A Celebration of Roy Orbison - Sportsmens Tavern
BoomRoom: 100% House Music - Buffalo Distilling Co.
DJ Colin Patrick, Interpretive Sound, chango4 - Gypsy Parlor
WKCR + knew’d - No Fun Lo-Fi Bar
Groupwork Presents: Breakroom - TBA
Sunday April 26
Members Connect | Meet the Artist - Burchfield Penney
Buffalo Bach Project - St. Mark's Episcopal
John Pizzarelli Trio - Kleinhans Mary Seaton Room
John Gallagher Jr - Sportsmens Tavern
Monday April 27
PLASMA Speaker Series: Tomás Henriques - UB Center for the Arts
Free Mighty WurliTzer Organ Concert - Riviera Theatre
California Cousins, Peeler, Relentless Moisture, Seventeen Knives - Area 54
Tuesday April 28
Landowner, The Ant Hill Kids, Aux Cab - BICA Garage
Jerusalem Quartet | Buffalo Chamber Music Society - Kleinhans Mary Seaton Room
Design Aloud: Tamara Lanier - Martin House
Buffalo State Music Prism Concert - Buffalo State PAC
Clementine, Pipe Bomb, romcom victims - Area 54
Wednesday April 29
Colter Harper: Multi-Channel Works for Baritone Guitar & Electronics - UB Slee Hall
Spring into Art 2026 - UB Center for the Arts
Workshop | Post-Concrete Machines: Sketching With The Typewriter - UB Center for the Arts
The Art of Mindfulness - Castellani Art Museum
Dr. Lonnie Smith Jazz Festival - The Caz
BPO UpClose: Musical Machinery - Kleinhans
Jerusalem Quartet: Slee Visiting Artist Series with Buffalo Chamber Music Society - UB Slee Hall
Age of Peace, Jake King, Plant Water - Area 54
Westcott/Dansey/Croft - Nietzsche’s
Hippie Sabotage - Electric City
Thursday April 30
Beyond Plastics Buffalo Presents a Screening of The Plastic Detox - HANSA Workspace
Mural Unveiling + Beer & Politics - Eugene V. Debs Hall
Film Neighbor Network(ing) Event - 500 Seneca
Elliot Sneider Presents: Don’t Borrow Trouble - Pausa Art House
Brainwash Victims, Brainwash Victim, SVS - Duende
The Travesties & Canela - Sportsmens Tavern
Kings Kaleidoscope w/ Hollyn - Iron Works
Lou's Garage: Master Mechanics, An Automotive-Themed Drag & Burlesque Show - Milkie’s
Ongoing
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)
Memoria - UB Center for the Arts (ends 5/5)
Alexa Joan Givens Wajed: Portions - Hunt Art Gallery (ends 5/9)
The Art of Mark Di Vincenzo - Eleven Twenty Gallery (ends 5/16)
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)
SuDi Wang: Where is Momo? - WNY Book Arts Center (ends 5/22)
Yayoi Kusama: One with Eternity - AKG (ends 5/24)
Juried Members Exhibition: Modern Works - Artists Group Gallery (ends 5/29)
The Pull - Mirabo Press (ends 5/30)
Teju Abiola: Tether - Project 308 Gallery (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)
Objectile Adventures: The Floor - UB Hayes Hall (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)