CYOA BFLO: 5/8 to 5/14
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 8
Opening | Joshua Fraass: Lost Layers - ShopCraft
Opening | Ashley Fidler: A Pleasant Place - RÓ Homeshop
Second Friday - Burchfield Penney
Film Screening | Ayden Warnes: Surface Level - Whitworth Ferguson Planetarium
A Community Conversation: 5/14 Buffalo Massacre - History Museum
The Intersect Gala: Fundraiser for Pride Arts Festival - Duende
Rhythm & Brews (Fundraiser) - Kleinhans Mary Seaton Room
Virginia MacDonald with the Elliot Scozzaro Quartet - Pausa Art House
Slugg, Explainer, Canticle Fade, Humiliated Supplicant - Revolver Records
Velvet Bethany, Power Creep, spud, Pretty Good State University - Area 54
Life Vest, After the World, Eternal Requiem, Ordinary Feeling - Mothership 571
Pipe Bomb, Orange Dog Club - Black Dots
The Skiffle Minstrels - Duende
Iron Fist, Kill Uncle, Dredneks - Revolution Lounge
EMF with DJ Nicholas Picholas - Town Ballroom
LoveSexy: A Tribute to the Music of Prince - Riviera Theatre
The Smith Etc: The Queen Is Dead 40th Anniversary - The Caz
That Comedy Show @ Babeville - The 9th Ward
Fuerza: LGBTQ+ & Latin Dance Night - Hot Mama’s Canteen
Carpet Factory Presents: STFU/DNC - Area 54
Saturday May 9
Film Screening | Dondre Baker’s Neue Eden - The Story Garage
Artist Talk | Alexa Joan Givens Wajed - Hunt Art Gallery
Fantasyland: Truth & Desire with bebe d’lure - Backyard Shenanigans
Eco-Gratitude: A Walking Workshop with Christina Vega-Westhoff - Silo City
World Collage Day with Jacob Kedzierski - TENfold Gallery
Super Sale - Niagara Street Vintage Collective
6th Annual Plant Sale - Groundwork Market Garden Farm
Equinox String Quartet - Duende
BPO: Haydn Cello Concerto - Kleinhans
BTPM Classical Live on Stage | Bridging: Music in American Pop Culture - BTPM
Vox Lusciniae: Let Them Find Home - Holy Trinity Lutheran
Songs From The Sirens: A Candlelit Gothic Immortal Performance - Revolution Lounge
Elena Izquierdo and The Stu Weissman Trio - Pausa Art House
Buffalo Friends of Folk Music: Amy Speace - Village Meeting House
Will Holton's Queens United II - The Caz
Dropdead, Do Crime, Growth, Bile Study - Duende
Joshua Quimby & Matt Pless - Nietzsche's
The Glenn Miller Orchestra - Riviera Theatre
Bertha: Grateful Drag - Asbury Hall
Prince Laser Music Experience - Whitworth Ferguson Planetarium
Darkwave Video Dance Party - Hot Mama’s Canteen
Sunday May 10
Pissguzzler, Fed Ash, Common Decency, So Over It, Dislexia - Hen House
Monday May 11
Jazz Night with the John Bacon Quartet - Gene McCarthy’s
Free Throw: Moments Before The Wind Tour - Electric City
Tuesday May 12
The Naked Shape Cult: Figure Drawing Session - Revolution Gallery
Natural Information Society - Hallwalls
Sour Tooth, T.W.M.S.O., Pipe Bomb - Area 54
SatchVai Band feat. Joe Satriani + Steve Vai - Kleinhans
Silversun Pickups - Town Ballroom
Wednesday May 13
Buffalo Chamber Players: Distinctive Voices - Asbury Hall
Among the Music: A Candlelit Experience - Kleinhans
Endless Mike and the Beagle Club - Area 54
Hed PE: Still Broke In America 25 Year Anniversary - Rec Room
Nekrogoblikon w/ Psychostick & Galactic Empire - Iron Works
Thursday May 14
Opening | Sophia Litterio: Girl World - UB Center for the Arts
Book Launch | J'Juan Smith’s Fragment - Rust Belt Books
Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project: Queer History Night - Debs Hall
Mary Ramsey & Friends - Pausa Art House
Pipe Bomb, Tight Schedule, Sailing Stones, The Mookies - Milkie's
The Sneers, Radical Operations, Blind Adam & The Federal League - Area 54
The Sheila Divine - Electric City
Chantal Kreviazuk - Asbury Hall
Fireworks: Gospel 15-Year Anniversary - Rec Room
Maggie Baugh w/ 12/OC - Iron Works
Ongoing
Alexa Joan Givens Wajed: Portions - Hunt Art Gallery (ends 5/9)
Performative: Paintings by Eugene Sims - Beebe’s on the Square (ends 5/12)
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)
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)
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
Catastrophe & Diagram - Museum of Cold (ends 6/12)
Kyla Kegler: The Last Whole Earth - Rivalry Projects (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)
Valeria Cray: Surface Tension - Burchfield Penney (ends 9/27)
Human/Nature: Envisioning the Environment - Castellani Art Museum (ends 1/23/27)