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May 21, 2026

CYOA BFLO: 5/22 to 5/28

Don't Keep Buffalo A Secret

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

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Friday May 22

Opening | Rachel Shelton: Slow Looking - Buffalo Arts Studio

Opening | Warren Quigley: Erratic - Buffalo Arts Studio

For Love: A Centenary Symposium for Robert Creeley | Roundtable, Live Music, Food, Community Poetry Reading - UB Anderson Gallery

Gallery Talk | Alexandra J. Gold: Creeley And The Art Of Collaboration - UB CFA Gallery

Exhibition Talk | Stephen Fredman on Robert Creeley & Robert Duncan - UB Capen Hall

Open Facilities Night: Emulsion Night - CEPA

The Isaiah Timothy Trio Presents: Freedom Speech - History Museum

Timothy James Allen - Hallwalls

Digba Ogunbiyi Quartet Album Release - Pausa Art House

Bach & Brews w/ the Buffalo Chamber Players - Taylor Theatre

An Evening of Acoustic Music - Debs Hall

Pure Ink X Operation Infinity Presents: Poetry Vs Hip Hop - Area 54

Buffalo Story Group - Café Gezellig

Henry’s Summer Kitchen - Duende

The Honk Committee - Nietzsche's

The Sandwich Boiz, BEÜ - Jack Rabbit

Central Groove - The Caz

Highly Suspect & The Tour Of Yellow Roses - Electric City

Vinyl Night with Dj Who Cares & Bosun - Black Dots

Time to Pretend: Indie Dance Party - Milkie’s

DISORDER Goth Night - Revolution Lounge

Twin Flames Dance Party - Duende

Saturday May 23

Lehning-Graser-Weissman Trio - Duende

BPO | Patriotic Pops - Kleinhans

BPD Trio - Black Dots

Funk•Soul•Latin•Jazz with Ryan Wood - Soul Stop Records

Brower, Jake King Band & More - Revolver Records

Canetis, Robbery Club, Smac - Nietzsche's

The Robert Zimmerman Philharmonic - Duende

Hot Stuff, DJ Looney Tunes - Milkie's

Mormon Mincers, Ate, Dollmaker, Miss Guerrilla Fighter - Wastelands

Machine Country, Bile Study, BAAG, Nine Layers Deep, Seraphines Cleaver - Area 54

Addisyn Logan, Stress Dolls - Revolution Lounge

Wilcox Mansion, Landfill Hearts, Anxious Cricket - The Cave

Vibe Garden - Other Half Brewing

Back 2 the Ballroom, Part 2 - Town Ballroom

Kabaka Pyramid - Electric City

Candy Cult Presents: Dancing Through the Decades - Forbes Theater

Sunday May 24

Opening | 3rd Annual Sketchbook Exhibition - Crucible Art Collective

Two Islands, One Gong: Celebrating 10 years of Gamelan in Buffalo - Asbury Hall

Masti World Music Ensemble - Duende

Film & Gender, Jerry Big's World Famous Band, Hostile Makeover, Lil Twiggy & The Green Aardvark Mafia - Area 54

Sunset Sundays: Ship Wrek - Riverworks

Anybody Out There: The Ultimate Pink Floyd Experience - Sportsmens Tavern

Monday May 25

Buffalo Trans Choir Cabaret - Area 54

Tuesday May 26

The Naked Shape Cult: Figure Drawing Sessions - Revolution Gallery

Loosey, Taker, Pilot Field, Autoignition - Duende

Fentanyl, War Bond, Havana Syndrome, Leaking Head - Area 54

Wednesday May 27

SONIC:SALON | one year on - Fitz Books

CAM Meets | Picturing America - Castellani Art Museum

Tyler Westcott Band w/ Nate Kalnitz & Elton Hough - Nietzsche's

'68: Farewell Tour - Rec Room

Superheaven - Electric City

Thursday May 28

Members Connect | Burchfield Visionary Picks Tour - Burchfield Penney

Intro to Balinese Dance - Nusantara Arts

Tina Williams Sings Jazz with Stu Weissman & Ed Croft - Pausa Art House

WonderFULL Soul Sessions: Curator Drea D’Nur with Curtis Lovell - Eat Off Art Studio

Tim Kasher - Nietzsche’s

Stratosphere, Triple Dog, Death Barrage - Area 54

Big Dawgs: Emma Dalenberg & Sunny Laprade - Milkie’s

The Igloo Presents: Goosebytheway & More - Iron Works

Don McLean: Starry Starry Night Tour - Riviera Theatre

Ongoing

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)

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)

Hunt Residencies IX - Hunt Art Gallery (ends 6/20)

Lost in the Funhouse - Revolution Gallery (ends 6/26)

Emma Safir: Passionate Wretch - BICA (ends 6/27)

Dianne Baker: Foundlings - The Phoenix at 269 (ends 6/27)

There’s Things (an exhibition for / about / around Robert Creeley) - Black Rock Arts (ends 6/27)

Carolyn Lazard: Pain Scale and Red - AKG (ends 7/6)

Diane Bush: Main Street - CEPA (ends 7/17)

Yayoi Kusama: One with Eternity - AKG (ends 7/26)

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)

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