CYOA BFLO: 5/15 to 5/21
CYOA Buffalo is a weekly, lightly-curated arts / music / cultural events newsletter, founded 2014. Email me if you'd like to submit an event, or if you just want to send a cute and encouraging message. 💓Mario
Friday May 15
Opening | There’s Things (an exhibition for / about / around Robert Creeley) - Black Rock Arts
Opening | Hunt Residencies IX - Hunt Art Gallery
Opening | Lost in the Funhouse - Revolution Gallery
Opening | GLAMerica 250 - History Museum
Hey Bitch (Friday + Saturday) - Hallwalls
Buffalo Fashion Week Presents: The Bare Maximum - Babeville
All Inclusive Clothing Swap - Area 54
John Bacon Quintet - Pausa Art House
Live Jazz with The Matt Michaud Trio - Black Dots
Choral Connections Community Sing: Voices of the Queen City - Holy Trinity Lutheran
Concierto de Aranjuez - St. Benedict RC
Hold Out, G.O.A., Full Blast, Bitchin Hour - Hen House
Falconeers, Tom Robert and the Mystic, Shaky Stage - Milkie's
Evan Anstey & the Old Ways - Duende
Tortoise Hardy - Revolver Records
GROSH Video Release - Sportsmens Tavern
Loop de Loop (Ween Tribute) - Nietzsche's
The Rush Experience: A Tribute to Rush (Friday + Saturday) - Riviera Theatre
She's Got the Beat: A Ladies-Only Throwback Dance Party - Electric City
DJ Cainite - Revolution Lounge
Cosmic Caviar - No Fun Lo-Fi Bar
Saturday May 16
The Insect Films: A Film Screening & Workshop with Amanda Besl - Burchfield Penney
Film Screening & Performances | The Ladies First Dog - Fitz Books
Open Gardens WNY Spring Weekend (Saturday + Sunday)
Shannon Reilly & Michael Serio: The Collection - Duende
Ian Liedke Trio Presents: A Tribute to Bill Evans - Pausa Art House
Nickel City Treble Makers Presents: Make Good Treble - Westminster Presbyterian
Micha Schnabel & Vanessa Jean Speckman - Revolution Lounge
The Brothers Band - Revolver Records
Glizzy McGuire, BD2 - Mr. Goodbar
Gathered in Their Masses: Black Sabbath Tribute Night - Nietzsche's
Groupwork Presents: Kiernan Laveaux - TBA
Sunday May 17
CEPA’s 1st Annual 1K Race For Artists - Front Park
Movie Matinee: Shadow of the Vampire - Nietzsche’s
Emmet Cohen Presents Miles & Coltrane at 100 - Kleinhans
Art of Jazz: Dave King Trio - AKG
Linus & Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - Jack Rabbit
Hadyn's Te Deum - Unitarian Universalist
Vocalis Chamber Choir: Voices of the Queen City - Holy Trinity Lutheran
Resurrectionists, Budge It, The Stranger - Hen House
Borderland Band Camp Fundraiser - Sportsmens Tavern
The Eagle Rock Gospel Singers w/ Part Time Genius & PA Line - Iron Works
Monday May 18
Curators in Conversation: Contemporary Latinx Art - AKG
Celebrate Spring - History Museum
Where Is My Mind? Trivia Night - Revolution Lounge
Tuesday May 19
Rhythm & Sound: Sound Bath with Matthew Knott and Special Guests - Kenan Center Taylor Theater
Aftermath, Gestation, The World Is Dead, War Bond - Area 54
An Evening with Andrew Duhon - The 9th Ward
Wednesday May 20
West Side Art Bash - West Side Community Services
Closing Gathering | Echo[es]: Traces in a Grid - UB CFA Gallery
Decide Today, Energy Weapon, Like Clockwork, STCLVR, Five Twelve - Area 54
Social Assassins - Nietzsche’s
Thursday May 21
Studies in Creeley: Performances, Artist Books, Editions, Films - Burchfield Penney
Look Into My Mind: A Solo Drum Performance by Isaiah Gethers - Black Dots
BICA School Reading Group: Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red - BICA
Austin Higgins Quartet - Nietzsche's
Glen, Stribing, Elizabeth & Marciniak - Nietzsche's
A Choral Evening with the St. Louis Choir - St. Louis RC
CAM GIRL, The Mookies, Comfort Object - Mothership 571
Metal Night: An Astonishing End, Petrifier, Vampiric Crypt - Milkie’s
Death Angel, Vio-Lence, Incite - Electric City
Southern Culture on the Skids - Rec Room
Thank You Scientist - Iron Works
DJ Annielogue - No Fun Lo-Fi Bar
Ongoing
The Art of Mark Di Vincenzo - Eleven Twenty Gallery (ends 5/16)
Hayley Martinez: Are You Bored Yet? - CEPA (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)
Emily Constantin: LUCKY YOU: Grief in Practice - Gallery at Seneca (ends 5/18)
Sophia Litterio: Girl World - UB Center for the Arts (ends 5/21)
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)
Curdle & Glow: Villa Maria College BFA Thesis Exhibition - El Museo (ends 5/23)
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)
Isabelle Janssen: Gitmo Baby - BICA (ends 5/30)
Helen Lin: APPLEPEAR - CEPA Gallery (ends 5/30)
Joshua Fraass: Lost Layers - ShopCraft (ends 5/30)
Gab Hall: In Between Two Tall Mountains - Buffalo Arts Studio (ends 5/30)
Brianna Bernas: Breathing In and Out - Buffalo Arts Studio (ends 5/30)
Nordic-American Decorative Art: The Bronze Work of Carl Sorensen - Burchfield Penney (ends 5/31)
Josh Schlageter: Shroud - The Good Stuff Gallery (ends 5/31)
Bill Jungels: Re imaging the trees around us, a photo exhibit - Fitz Books (ends 5/31)
Catastrophe & Diagram - Museum of Cold (ends 6/12)
Kyla Kegler: The Last Whole Earth - Rivalry Projects (ends 6/19)
Frank Chang: The Mesh - Hallwalls (ends 6/19)
Emma Safir: Passionate Wretch - BICA (ends 6/27)
Dianne Baker: Foundlings - The Phoenix at 269 (ends 6/27)
Carolyn Lazard: Pain Scale and Red - AKG (ends 7/6)
Diane Bush: Main Street - CEPA (ends 7/17)
Kindred - K Art (ends 7/26)
Objectile Adventures: The Floor - UB Hayes Hall (ends 7/26)
Emerging Visions: Buffalo State Student Work - Burchfield Penney (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)
A VAST, tiny WORLD: Burchfield's Insects & Spiders - 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)