[UPDATE] CYOA BFLO: 5/1 to 5/7
Sending an updated email from last night, a few events didn’t make it. Apologies, still getting used to this new platform! And thank you for all the support so far, much love.
Friends - I’ve had a few folks reach out asking to donate since our fundraiser a few weeks ago, so I’m adding an option to “Buy Me A Coffee” if you want to support my efforts. Absolutely no pressure. I truly appreciate it!! - Mario💓
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 1
Opening | Kyla Kegler: The Last Whole Earth - Rivalry Projects
Opening | Catastrophe & Diagram - Museum of Cold
Openings | Passionate Wretch by Emma Safir, Gitmo Baby by Isabelle Janssen - BICA
Opening | Curdle & Glow: Villa Maria College BFA Thesis Exhibition - El Museo
Opening | Josh Schlageter: Shroud - The Good Stuff Gallery
Film Screening | Lingua Franca - Hallwalls
UB Humanities Institute: New Publications Celebration - Fitz Books
Book Launch | Joe Hall’s Buffalo Free Rapid Transit - Fitz Books
En War Mental: Conversation Regarding the Impact of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine - Dnipro
Bike Month Breakfast #1 - Rick Cycle Shop
Matt Michaud Trio Meets Marley: A Jazz Look at a Reggae Legend - Pausa Art House
Matt Incontro Sextet - Black Dots
Buffalo Friends of Folk Music: Tommy Sands - Village Meeting House
BTPM Classical Live on Stage: A National Tuba Day Celebration - BTPM
The BPO with The Strictly Hip - Kleinhans
Lonesome Joan, RomCom Victims, Ave Elliot, Miss Bones - Area 54
Evan Anstey & the Old Ways - Sportsmen’s Tavern
Start Making Sense & Ocean Avenue Stompers Horns - Asbury Hall
julie & Fleshwater - Electric City
Alan Doyle - Buffalo State PAC
That Handsome Devil - Rec Room
Mo Lowda & the Humble w/ Lost Mary - Iron Works
Material Girls: Tributes to Cher, Madonna, Lady Gaga & More - Riviera Theatre
The Foxy Thrills Present Nymphs & Nudes: A Garden of Earthly Delights - Milkie’s
Saturday May 2
Silo City Reading Series: 2026 Lineup Announcement Party - Duende
Free Comic Book Day - Gutter Pop Comics
Silent Screams Film Screening & Panel Discussion - History Museum
Brazil's Classical Music with Stephen Guerra & Penn Watson - Duende
Family FUNKtion & the Sitar Jams, The Divi Romē Band - Duende
Oishi Jazz Jam - Cafe Gezellig
Emily Beisel & Bill Sack - Hallwalls
INCIPIO Singers: Lamentations - St. Louis RC
Buffalo State Opera Project - Ciminelli Recital Hall
Buffalo Silver Band: Notes From All Around - UB Slee Hall
Advance Base, Wylie Something, Dogs in Stereo - Black Dots
Charlie Ballantine - Pausa Art House
Socialite, Spiria, Night Owls - Milkie’s
Annie in the Water - Nietzsche’s
Dellwood & the Nightshades - Revolution Lounge
Tiger Chung Lee - Sportsmens Tavern
Fuzzy & the Rustbelts w/ OsbornNash - The Caz
The Royal Scam: A Tribute to Steely Dan - Riviera Theatre
Prince Laser Music Experience - Whitworth Ferguson Planetarium
Booty Jam Backroom Sessions DnB Night - Allen Street Hardware
Nightshade: Belladonna - Duende
Sunday May 3
Free Seminar: The Business Side of Music & the Arts - The Cave
She Walked Here: Street Tour of Historic Lesbian Bar Sites - Lafayette Square
Robert Creeley Reading Group - Fitz Books
20th Anniversary Concert: Harmonia Chamber Singers - St. Joseph Cathedral
Spring Awakenings with the Ars Nova Chamber Orchestra - St. Louis Catholic
GBYO Spring Concert - UB Slee Hall
Pissguzzler, Selfish Act, Alchemy, Detour, Bad Optics - Area 54
The Props, Not Normal, After the World - Hen House
Mutts Gone Nuts - Riviera Theatre
4th Annual Buffalo Flow Jam Fundraiser - Iron Works
Colin James, Matt Andersen, & Terra Lightfoot - Town Ballroom
Monday May 4
PLASMA Speaker Series: Wobbly (Jon Leidecker) - UB Center for the Arts
The Afghan Whigs: 40th Anniversary Tour with Mercury Rev - Town Ballroom
Classic Vinyl Live: Celebrating Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters, Thrust & Flood - Sportsmens Tavern
Tuesday May 5
Cinco de Mayo Celebration feat. Wendell Rivera Latin Quatro - Hunt Art Gallery
Buffalo State Philharmonia - Buffalo State PAC
Wednesday May 6
Kitchen Litho Workshop - Mirabo Press
Adjust The Sails & Thoughts On Bowling - Rec Room
Thursday May 7
Double Book Launch: Nick Daniels’ Limit Breaker + Courtney Zach’s Don’t Panic! - Gutter Pop Comics
REMAKE: A Community Celebration in Garment Transformation - Stitch Buffalo
Student Instrumental Chamber Ensembles Concert - Ciminelli Recital Hall
Isaiah Timothy Quartet - Pausa Art House
John Troy Group - Allen St. Hardware
The Mid-Week Vibe XLIII - The 9th Ward
Great American Music Showcase Pt. 1 - Nietzsche’s
The Azures w/ Little Liar - Iron Works
Ongoing
Selected Works by Edward G. Bisone - Art Dialogue Gallery (ends 5/2)
Memoria - UB Center for the Arts (ends 5/5)
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)
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)
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)
Nordic-American Decorative Art: The Bronze Work of Carl Sorensen - Burchfield Penney (ends 5/31)
Dianne Baker: Foundlings - The Phoenix at 269 (ends 6/27)
Carolyn Lazard: Pain Scale and Red - AKG (ends 7/6)
Kindred - K Art (ends 7/26)
Objectile Adventures: The Floor - UB Hayes Hall (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)