CYOA BFLO: 8/21 to 8/27
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 August 21
Opening | Natvar Bhavsar: Free Yourself - AKG
Buffalo Funk Fest (Fri to Sun)
Music in the Gardens: Patti Parks & Soulfulicious - Kenan Center
Raavi, Nerix, Isiah Timothy Trio, April Showers - Secret Headquarters
Parking, Anxious Cricket, Debris Bardot, Ordinary Feeling - Nietzsche’s
War Bond, MGF, Lil Twiggy and the Aardvark Mafia, Rank - Area 54
Baker/Eppolito/Wachowiak - McGarret's
Mini Marching Machine, Naryan Padmanabha - Revolution Lounge
Oresteia, Selfish Act, Hold Out, Hostile Makeover - Hen House
An Evening With Joanne Shaw Taylor - Electric City
Blacktop Mojo w/ Seven Year Witch - Iron Works
Saturday August 22
Dead Media Residency: Open Video Studio #4 - 980 Northampton
Casting Buffalo Actor’s Expo - Rich’s Catering
Guitar Open Mic - West Side Bazaar
Ghost Down - Secret Headquarters
Happy Hour with Trio Donny - Milkie's
The Dream Eaters, Velvet Bethany, Dang! - Milkie's
Whelp, Isaac Raven, Cardboard Homestead - Area 54
Komrads, STCLVR, Succulent & Sinister, CHVCK - Revolution Lounge
Vibe Garden - Other Half Brewing
Neftali & Dominic Missana Band, Curtis Lovell, Knew’d - Legacy House
India Ramey - Sportsmens Tavern
Miles Kirsch Plays Records - Rohall’s Corner
Daft Disko [french house & disco party] - Rec Room
Shaky Jake, Knew’d, Chris B - No Fun LoFi Bar
Joey Harkum w/ Part Time Genius - Iron Works
Fetty Wap - Terminal B @ Outer Harbor
Sunday August 23
10th Annual Beau Fleuve Music & Arts Celebration - Silo City
All Polish Composers Concert - St. Stanislaus
Monday August 24
Levitt VIBE Music Series: The Brass Machine and Organ Fairchild - Ralph Wilson Park
Tuesday August 25
State of Things Book Club - Fitz Books
Food Truck Tuesday with Will Holton - Larkin Square
Wednesday August 26
SALON | Bring-Em-In Record Share - Fitz Books
Meet the Residents: Liat Berdugo & Senem Pirler - Squeaky Wheel
Live at Larkin with Grosh Prime - Larkin Square
TFBUNDY, Jake King Band, Spooky Visions - Hickory Urban Sanctuary
Broken Locker, Hopeless Otis - Area 54
Andy Thomas - Sportsmens Tavern
Thursday August 27
Opening | Incoming MFA Showcase - UB CFA
Rivalry: After Dark - Rivalry Projects
BICA School Reading Group: David Foster Wallace & Edouard Glissant - BICA
Film Screening | Cuba After Castro - Hallwalls
Transforming Historic Neighborhoods: Lecture Series - The Caz
ReSoundings: The Isaiah Timothy Quartet - Burchfield Penney
Stu Weissman Duo - Beebe’s on the Square
Nickel City Jazz - Nietzsche's
Sarah Borges - Sportsmens Tavern
WU-TANG FOREVER: The Final Chamber - Darien Lake
Vintage Sample - No Fun LoFi Bar
Ongoing
Healing Hands Create - Artists Group Gallery (ends 8/21)
Erin Long Loganathan: Dear Life - Hunt Art Gallery (ends 8/22)
52nd Annual Members Exhibition - Hallwalls (ends 8/28)
Paintings by Julie McIndoo - Art Dialogue Gallery (ends 8/28)
Buffalo on Film II - CEPA Gallery (ends 8/31)
New Formations - BICA (ends 9/5)
Nicholas Christakis: Junk Drawer - BICA (ends 9/5)
Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way - AKG (ends 9/6)
Medina Triennial 2026 (ends 9/7)
With us at the center of our world: animals, domestications, dreams - Squeaky Wheel (ends 9/11)
SNOW PIX 26 - Cold Museum (ends 9/12)
Annual Member's Exhibition - Hunt Art Gallery (ends 9/12)
Star-tastic: Summer Art Show & Sale - Starlight Studio (ends 9/18)
Dianne Baker: Debris & Transcendence - Betty’s (ends 9/20)
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)
Theia | Sara Kow-Falcone - CEPA Gallery (ends 9/28)
Salem Browning: Foolish Thaw - Transformation Station (ends 9/30)
Abe Ferraro: Every Which Way - TENfold Gallery (ends 10/3)
Melissa A. Swiatek-Odien: Guiding Light - The Foundry (ends 10/8)
FIT: Buffalo Fashion, Identity, and Transformation - Burchfield Penney (ends 11/1)
Ali Banisadr: Temple of the Mind - AKG (ends 11/8)
Andy Krzystek: Sifting Through Latent Cause - Burchfield Penney (ends 12/27)
Paradigm Shift: Change Is Here To Stay - Burchfield Penney (ends 12/27)
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)