CYOA BFLO: 9/11 to 9/17
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
Featured Event: Sonic Studio
@ AKG, Friday September 11
Join exhibition artist (and former DJ) Ali Banisadr and Bill Brandel from The Vintage Audio Shop as they spin a curated collection of vintage vinyl that draws on elements of the artist’s process. Get your tickets here!
Friday September 11
Second Friday - Burchfield Penney
Opening | Two Against Nature - Cass Gallery
Foolish Thaw: Second Opening & Artist Talk - Transformation Station
Sonic Studio: Ali Banisadr - AKG
Headshrinker Studios: Film Screening & Discussion - BICA
Trans Film / Trans Space Presents: Cool Shorts - Hallwalls
Cort Lippe Album Release feat. Jonathan Golove and Steve Solook with Wooden Cities - Fitz Books
Hey I’m Outside, False Teeth, Patchwork - Buffalo Tap House
Upstate Connection Plays Miles Davis - Pausa Art House
Dgi-Dgi Does Zeppelin - Secret Headquarters
The Skiffle Minstrels - Duende
Slow Animals Presents The Strokes' Is This It 25th Anniversary Show - Black Dots
Remo Drive x sports. - Mohawk Place
Shady: A Live Band Tribute to the Music of Eminem - Riviera Theatre
Kenan After Dark: Shaun Murphy - Kenan Center
Let Her Cook: Women Belong in the DJ Booth - Milkie's
Saturday September 12
Closing Party for Snow Pix 26 - Museum of Cold
The Sound Of Silent Film Festival - Duende
Music is Art Festival - Terminal B
BICA’s 2026 Generator Fund IRL Info Session - Roycroft Campus
3rd Annual Eco Justice Block Party - Jefferson-Utica Plaza
88th Annual Pulaski Day Parade + Music - Veterans Park, Depew
Buffalo Reading Invasion - AKG
Fever Pitch String Quartet - Duende
Missing In Action Microfest - Secret Headquarters
Cheryl Ferris Presents: The Nancy Wilson Songbook - Pausa Art House
Taker, Rex Tycoon, Robbery Club, Steel Bashers - Buffalo Tap House
Noah Lee & The Stetsons, AJ Jabaji of Vøyagr, Savannah Swatland - Mr. Goodbar
Please Don’t Destroy - Asbury Hall
O.A.R Three Decades Tour - Artpark
Little River Band - Riviera Theatre
The Seven Wonders - Iron Works
Borgore: 360 Tour - Town Ballroom
Blues Vinyl with Delta Mike - Soul Stop Records
Kincize, Brian Louis, Justin Reeves, Nish - No Fun LoFi Bar
Dark Wave & Alternative Video Dance Party - Hot Mama’s Canteen
Sunday September 13
Earl/Thomas/Gray: The Jazz Caché - Nietzsche's
Volumes, Until I Wake - Iron Works
Monday September 14
Creative Sustainability Summit - Villa Maria College Recital Hall
The Art of Transformation: Curating the New Buffalo AKG
Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: In Concert 40th Anniversary - Riviera Theatre
6,000 Sheep, Humiliated, Supplicant, Jack Burton - Area 54
Minus The Bear: Menos El Oso 20th Anniversary Tour - Town Ballroom
The Callous Daoboys - Rec Room
Anees: Lucky Duck Tour - Iron Works
Tuesday September 15
East Side Parkways Coalition Presents: It Is Up To Us - Hallwalls
Brian Fallon & The Painkillers - Town Ballroom
Sam Barber: The American Route Tour - Terminal B
Wednesday September 16
SONIC:SALON | shindig - Fitz Books
Long Way Home: 40 Years of the Goo Goo Dolls - History Museum
Cara Benson in Conversation with Janet McNally - Hallwalls
The Art of Mindfulness - Castellani Art Museum
Spitballin’ Jazz Jam Session - Area 54
Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls - Town Ballroom
Thursday September 17
Community Is Now: Buffalo As Art - History Museum
The Isaiah Timothy Quartet: ReSoundings Concert Series - Burchfield Penney
Homecoming Alumni Music Department Concert - Buff State Ciminelli Recital Hall
The Maze Piper Drum Trio, Coltrane Centennial - Pausa Art House
The Bouncing Souls, The Suicide Machines - Town Ballroom
Vintage Sample - No Fun LoFi Bar
Ongoing
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)
Incoming MFA Showcase - UB CFA (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)
Scar Markham: My Friend’s Band - The Good Stuff Gallery (ends 9/30)
Janna Willoughby-Lohr: What Remains - OSB Buffalo (ends 9/30)
Robert Harris: The Sacred & The Propane - Fitz Books (ends 9/30)
35th Annual Juried Regional Artists Exhibition - Artists Group Gallery (ends 10/2)
Abe Ferraro: Every Which Way - TENfold Gallery (ends 10/3)
Melissa A. Swiatek-Odien: Guiding Light - The Foundry (ends 10/8)
Dusty Herbig: Conned - Mirabo Press (ends 10/17)
One and Many Chairs - UB CFA (ends 10/17)
Imaginal Stitching: Creations in Thread by Barbara Murak - Hunt Art Gallery (ends 10/24)
Robert Booth: Presence - Buffalo Arts Studio (ends 10/31)
Bethany Krull: Home - Buffalo Arts Studio (ends 10/31)
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)
BIFF Presents: Buffalo’s Vitascope Theatre + Edisonia Hall - Central Library (ends 1/4/27)
Human/Nature: Envisioning the Environment - Castellani Art Museum (ends 1/23/27)
Ragnar Kjartansson: Politics of the Obvious - AKG (ends 1/31/27)
Natvar Bhavsar: Free Yourself - AKG (ends 4/4/27)
Hardwired: Foundational Works in Digital Art - Castellani Art Museum (ends 1/9/28)