CYOA BFLO: 8/7 to 8/13
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 7
Opening | All I Know - Mothership571
Opening | Exploring Allentown: Photography Showcase - Intersection Cafe
Valkyrie International Film Festival (Friday to Tuesday) - Hallwalls
Cat Video Fest (Friday to Thursday) - North Park Theatre
Matt Wellins + Martin Freeman, Sheet, Lala Buckstar - BICA Garage
Eat Your Hair, Thread Cocoon - Museum of Cold
Music in the Gardens: Handsome Jack - Kenan Center
Elliot Scozzaro Quintet Plays the Music of Cannonball Adderley - Pausa Art House
FAR Album Release - Sportsmens Tavern
Girls Don’t Cry: A Night of Dark Dance - Area 54
Fundraiser for Spud - Nietzsche’s
Dizgo, Pocketship - Iron Works
Anxious Cricket, Paper Tigers, Cowboy Vampires, The Nigh - Mohawk Place
Silverstein, Story Of The Year - Terminal B @ Outer Harbor
All Revved Up: The Ultimate Meat Loaf Tribute - Riviera Theatre
Steam Powered Giraffe - Electric City
RAPTURE: New Wave & Punk w/ DJ Dr Wisz - Revolution Lounge
Saturday August 8
IMB’s Summertime Soirée Series: Little Cake Band - Trinity Chapel
Chalk The Block - Ellicott Street
Strange Summerfest 8 - The Hilltop Inn & Grove
Enter the Last Chamber - Backyard Shenanigans
Michael DeLano Band, Curtis Lovell - Revolver Records Elmwood
The Hot Club of Buffalo - Revolution Lounge
Walter Kemp 3: Modern Jazz & a Cuban Cookout - Pausa Art House
Naryan Padmanabha: Fusion Sitar - Duende
Danielle A., Flame Tides, New Finch - Indigo Chapel
The Funky Ducks, Evan Laedke Band - Nietzsche’s
Alex Francis & Friends, Courtyard - Mr. Goodbar
Igor & The Red Elvises - Sportsmens Tavern
BoDeans: 40 Years of Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams…and Good Things - Asbury Hall
Buffalo is Burning Fetish Ball - Electric City
Nine Inch Nullz: Nine Inch Nails Tribute - Iron Works
Darkwave Video Dance Party - Hot Mama’s Canteen
Reggae/Rocksteady/Soul Records with Duke Luke - Soul Stop Records
T.S Fonk & Knew’d - No Fun LoFi Bar
Sunday August 9
She Walked Here: Street Tour of Historic Lesbian Bar Sites - Central Library
Lipsey Summer Jazz: Jay Bianchi Collective with David Kayne - AKG
Pine Grill Jazz Reunion - MLK Park
Havana Nights featuring the Wendell Rivera Latin Jazz Ensemble - Ellicott & Huron
Asian Food & Culture Festival - Canalside
Ultrabomb, Wolf Tickets - The Cave
Johnny Manchild and The Poor Bastards - Rec Room
Monday August 10
Levitt VIBE Buffalo Music Series: Will Holton and Drea d’Nur - Ralph Wilson Park
Intel, The Stranger, Foot Fetish, Draino Inferno - The Snag
QCDC & RERUN Herd-ganizing Meeting - Jewish Museum
Tuesday August 11
Bidwell Parkway Concert Series: Nineties by Nature
Of Virtue / Savage Hands - Rec Room
Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers - Riviera Theatre
Rhythm & Sound: Soundbath Sessions - The Caz
Wednesday August 12
2026 Generator Fund Virtual Info Session
Summer Youth Showcase - Squeaky Wheel
Live at Larkin: Handsome Jack Does CCR - Larkin Square
Howard Jones: Things Can Only Get Better - Artpark
One with the Riverbed - Area 54
ALEXISONFIRE, Underoath, Snapcase, Spaced - Terminal B @ Outer Harbor
Left of the Dial: 1980s College Radio Happy Hour w/ DJ Dr Wisz - Revolution Lounge
Thursday August 13
Opening | Melissa A. Swiatek-Odien: Guiding Light - The Foundry
Closing | Direct Message - Fitz Books
BICA School Summer Info Session & Cookout - BICA
Presidential Descendants in Conversation - History Museum
Screening on the Silos: Conan the Barbarian - Duende / Silo City
Darksoft, Elemantra, Hundred Plus Club - Milkie's
Adam Bronstein & ABTrio - Nietzsche's
The Other Side of Peggy Farrell - Pausa Art House
Buckwheat Zydeco, Jr. - Sportsmens Tavern
Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country - Town Ballroom
Gannon Fremin & CCREV - Iron Works
Craig Robinson (Thursday to Sun) - Helium Comedy Club
Ongoing
Gabriel Martinez: Sites of Encounter - Rivalry Projects (ends 8/14)
The Connector - TENfold Gallery (ends 8/16)
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)
Abe Ferraro: Every Which Way - TENfold Gallery (ends 10/3)
FIT: Buffalo Fashion, Identity, and Transformation - Burchfield Penney (ends 11/1)
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)