CYOA BFLO: 6/26 to 7/2
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 June 26
Opening | Erin Long Loganathan: Dear Life - Hunt Art Gallery
Opening | Gabriel Martinez: Sites of Encounter - Rivalry Projects
Opening | Dana Hunt-Locklear: hey, are you online? - Niagara Frontier Food Terminal
Opening | Deb Stewart: Propagation and Endurance - Buffalo Arts Studio
Nickel City Comic Con (Friday to Sunday) - Convention Center
Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express 4K Restoration (6/26 to 7/2) - North Park Theatre
Rabbit Jaw on the Patio - Revolution Lounge
Elliot Scozzaro Quintet Plays the Music of Blue Note Records - Pausa Art House
Pocketship, High Pines - Nietzsche's
Science Man, Hex, Civilized People - Hickory Urban Sanctuary
James McMurtry & the Martial Law Review - Sportsmens Park
2nd Annual Midsommar Party - Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center
Dishonored, Pure Bliss, Pissguzzler, Hostile Makeover, Bus Stop Abortion - Hen House
Redd and the Paper Flowers - Hot Mama’s Canteen
Grub, Sophistafunk - Iron Works
Standard Of Living, Common Kings, Airview, Mixtape & Dan Erickson - Rec Room
The Comedy Showcase XIII - Buffalo Comedy Collective
Dreamer: The Supertramp Experience - Riviera Theatre
DISORDER with DJ sets by Osiris and Chvck - Revolution Lounge
Saturday June 27
Open Essex 2026 - Essex Street Arts Complex
Silo City Reading Series: Ross Gay, Aitina Fareed-Cooke, Readers of Gratitude - Silo City
Screening | Keeping the Lights On - Medina Triennial
Exquisite Corpse: A Live Drawing Event - Revolution Gallery
Taste Of Diversity Festival - Grant Street
Myanmar Water Festival - Grant Street
Community Celebration: In Gratitude - Duende
Jazz & Justice II - Pocket Park (589 Ellicott St)
Coop Buffalo 2026 Co-op Fest - Five Points Bakery
Urban Sketchers Buffalo - Central Terminal
Thurman Barker & Time Factor - Hallwalls
Tiny the Dream, Mogra, Cheap Peach - Hickory Urban Sanctuary
Peak Fun, Racehearse, Echolocator - Tudor Lounge
Les Greene & the Swayzees - Nietzsche's
Karma Queen LP Release Party - Milkie's
The Fredtown Stompers - Sportsmens Tavern
Mr. Brightside: The Music Of The Killers - The Caz
The “Private” Party with DJ Goose & DJ Unk - Lloyd Elmwood
Atri, Jubei, Vintage Sample - No Fun Lo-Fi Bar
Sunday June 28
Afro-Caribbean Block Party - Johnnie B. Wiley Sports Pavilion
Ujima Theater: Yalla Bitch - Duende
Brahms' Requiem - St. Joseph’s Cathedral
Hardcore Matinee: Gasket, Hostile Makeover, Numbskull, Sleep Lost - Area 54
Caitlynne Curtis, Voyagr - The Caz
Monday June 29
Perennial, Velvet Bethany, The Mookies - Area 54
Tuesday June 30
Bidwell Parkway Concert Series: The George Caldwell Quintet
Food Truck Tuesday with Brothers Band - Larkin Square
Wednesday July 1
Stars, Stripes and Stitches: 250 Years of American Quilts - History Museum
Live at Larkin: Letter to Elise does Goo Goo Dolls 7.4.04 - Larkin Square
The Mid-Week Vibe XLV - The 9th Ward
The Chicago Authority 2026 Reboot - The Strand Theater
Thursday July 2
Department 9, Astronot Junkie, Detempts/Entemps - Area 54
Ongoing
Lost in the Funhouse - Revolution Gallery (ends 6/26)
Paintings by John Merlino - Art Dialogue Gallery (ends 6/26)
it should be possible - BICA (ends 6/27)
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)
Joshua Nickerson: Trap Door Index - Crucible Art Collective (ends 6/29)
Hannibal Kilroy: Be Queer Conquer Fear - The Good Stuff Gallery (ends 6/30)
Carolyn Lazard: Pain Scale and Red - AKG (ends 7/6)
Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters - Artists Group Gallery (ends 7/10)
Diane Bush: Main Street - CEPA (ends 7/17)
Good Impressions: 18th Annual Book Arts Members’ Show - WNY Book Arts Center (ends 7/18)
To Be Native: Works by Kaycee Colburn - El Museo (ends 7/24)
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)
Rachel Shelton: Slow Looking - Buffalo Arts Studio (ends 8/1)
Warren Quigley: Erratic - Buffalo Arts Studio (ends 8/1)
The Connector - TENfold Gallery (ends 8/16)
Buffalo on Film II - CEPA Gallery (ends 8/31)
Medina Triennial 2026 (ends 9/7)
With us at the center of our world: animals, domestications, dreams - Squeaky Wheel (ends 9/11)
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)
Hardwired: Foundational Works in Digital Art - Castellani Art Museum (ends 1/9/28)