Our cultural organizations are still working hard for our community! Check them out below!
Listed alphabetically by organization (COVID-19 physical distancing still in force)
Other local resources:
Buffalo Niagara Events Calendar
Buffalo & Erie County Library Events
Work in the Arts Sector Listings
Is your organization a current Erie County Cultural Funding recipient? Click here to be included on this page!
350 Masten Ave., Buffalo, NY 14209
M-F 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
- Extended Hours: M-F 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM for Events and After-Hours Answering Service
Upcoming Events:
- OKTOBERFEST hosted by the Black Farmer's Market Ujamaa Vendors Village - 11am - 5pm 10/31
- August Wilson Monologue Competition (High School Students) - Registration begins in December 2020
612 Northland Ave. Buffalo, NY 14211
Open! Pay What You Wish
- Friday Noon – 7 pm
- Saturday 10 am – 5 pm
- Sunday 10 am – 5 pm
Exhibits:
Outdoors:
Virtual Programs:
One Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209
Hours:
- Tuesdays to Fridays: 11am - 5pm
- Saturdays: 11am - 3pm
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New Exhibition: “The Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society, Spring 2021 Members Show” - Judge: Nancy Lane - 4/23 thru 5/28
2655 South Park Ave, Buffalo, NY 14218
Open! Daily: 10am-4pm - Reservations Required
On site:
- Gardens After Dark
- Fairy Fest
- Gardens and Grub
- Dining at Dusk
- Summer Bulb Sale
- Feed the Fish
- Gardens In a Jar
- Pop-Up Weddings
Online:
- Art Classes - Watercolor I, II, III and IV
- Art Workshops
- Horticulture Classes
- Take-It Make-It Workshops for All Ages
- Botanical Demonstrations
- Virtual School Programs
- Virtual Tour
- #ConnectWithNature Campaign
- Learn At Home - Free for Kids
2495 Main Street, Suite 500, Buffalo, NY 14214
Tuesday-Friday from 11am-5pm
- What if there was a place? - the studio, gallery, and classroom spaces of Buffalo Arts Studio and how these spaces encourage individuals
- The Work of Making Art - the importance of Buffalo Arts Studio through the eyes of the people it has impacted
- Justina Dziama, A Millimeter of Space - January 22 - March 6, 2021
- Felipe Shibuya, Black Cherry - January 22 - March 6, 2021
- Exhibition by Edreys Wajed, Wish You Were Here
- Community Space Gallery: showing Creating Environmentally Responsible Public Art by Jozef Bajus and Jump Start Students
Classes: Season Class Offerings
Online Programming:
- Free Online Arts Classes
- Chat & Chill for Teens - 3pm Mondays
- BCAT Shop
15th Annual Buffalo International Film Festival – October 7 - 11, 2021
- Currently accepting submissions for the 2021 festival!
- Early Bird Deadline – April 15, 2021
- Regular Deadline – May 15, 2021
- Late Deadline – June 15, 2021
- Extended Deadline – July 10, 2021
- BPO Out of the Box
- BPOnDemand - Tuesdays at 7pm through June
- Memorial Day pops concert: American Anthems - 6/1 at 7pm
- #PlayOnWNY (choose & learn an instrument)
- BPO coloring book
- #PlayOnBPO musician videos
- Weekly special audio and video tracks
1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203
Saturdays 10 am - 4 pm starting April 24th. Mask and social distancing required.
300 Parkside Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14214
Fridays thru Sundays: 10am to 4pm. Reservations required
- Wild Winter Family Workshops
- #TheZooToYou
- Call for Entries: Art in Craft Media 2021 - deadline: April 30 2021
- A Conversation With Art
- Burchfield Connects Live - 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
- Musical performances by the Adam Bronstein Trio
- Buffalo State College design students will be presenting an ensemble of theater costume designs
- Artpark Idea Series - Sculptor Owen Morrel - 7pm
- M&T Second Fridays - performances & art demonstrations - 5:30 - 8:30pm
- Burchfield Connects (exhibitions, talks, & performances) - Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays
- Thursday April 15
- Meet Making Strange Artist Alice Alexandrescu
- TAG: A Poeta Project - Noah Falck reading
- Beyond Boundaries - Virtual Screening/Discussion: The Infiltrators - 7:00 PM
- Friday April 16
- Artpark Idea Series - Sculptor Evan Lewis - 7:00 PM
- Thursday April 15
- Burchfield Penney Digital Education
- Take A Look (TALK) Short videos created for art teachers - Tuesdays
- Art Inquiry Guides: In The Fullness of Time
- Virtual Book Club
- At the Water's Edge, paintings and drawings by Mildred C. Green - 4/9 thru 9/26
- A Forgotten Lens: Philip C. Elliott Rediscovered - 4/9 thru 10/24
- Reactions - 4/9 thru 10/24
- TAG: A Poeta Project - 3/12 thru 6/27
- Artists Up Front: Markenzy Julius Cesar: The Groveland Four - 3/12 thru 9/12
- Charles E. Burchfield & The American Scene: Self-Guided Tour
- Ani Hoover: Forget-Me-Not Self-Guided Tour
- Gallery Hours: by appointment at 716-856-2717 or info[at]cepagallery.org
- Darkroom and Digital Photo Lab are available to book online
Current Exhibitions:
- Wild Things: Disrupting the Photographic Archive in the Time of a Pandemic - 9/19 - 12/20
- Matt Kenyon: Wolf at the Door - Saturdays until 11/15, 1-5pm
Other Programming:
3329 Broadway, Buffalo, NY 14227
Mondays 11am - 3pm & by appointment
Historic Sites:
- Chapel of Our Lady Help of Christians - 4125 Union Rd, Cheektowaga, NY 14225 (services)
- War of 1812 Cemetery - Aero Drive, Cheektowaga, NY 14225
Meetings & presentations every 3rd Thursday 7-9pm
- "Cystal Beach Memories" by Mark Janik - 7pm 11/19
- “Old Time Radio” - 7pm 12/17
M-Th 10:30am-8:30pm
- Offering both in-person and virtual classes for the 2020-21 season
- 14th Annual Performances - June 9 & 10, at the Transit Drive-in Theatre
125 Jewett Parkway, Buffalo, NY 14214
Martin House is open for public visitation. Visit martinhouse.org/tour for current tour offerings.
The grounds are open, so please consider exploring the landscape, the exterior of the buildings and the Jun Kaneko Public Art Exhibition (outdoors)
- New: Virtual school programs for educators and classrooms
- Wright at Home (school & scout activities for home)
- Martin House coloring page
- Virtual Tours:
- YouTube channel
- Facebook, Instagram - weekly
- Private Standard & Extended tours, Hybrid Essentials tours, and Open House tours - Friday through Sunday in April; every day except Wednesdays in May
- Mother's Day Weekend Hybrid Tours - May 8 - 9 at 10AM, 11AM, 1PM, 2PM, with add-on flower options, and flower pop-up from Florabundus
- Monthly special events/workshops
- Socially Distant Studio Visits with visual arts curator John Massier
- Exhibition Live Stream | John Oswald: stillnessence
- Artsy Exhibition to Benefit Hallwalls
- Notes Towards an infinite Film
- Music:
- Point 9 Mile Collaborative Live Streaming Solo Concerts: Nicole Mitchell | Mazz Swift
- Sonic Vault (Live Streaming of never before seen concerts from our archives): Charles Gayle | Henry Grimes
- More Video Content from Archives YouTube | Instagram
1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, New York 14203
Open! By appointment during library hours; contact 716-402-1HHC (1442)
438 Walden Avenue, Buffalo NY 14211
Open! Gates open daily seasonally; manned by volunteers on Saturdays, and by appointment
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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion – April 9-25, 2021 - Virtual Theatrical Production, available to stream on-demand. *Available with ASL interpretation and Closed Captioning
- Home for the Holidays with ICTC - Free, virtual Holiday Special with poetry, spoken word, song, and a hearty dose of good cheer
- Celtic Connections - An inspiring, informative, and free series of behind-the-scenes theatre experiences
- A virtual season of Five Staged Readings
- EXQUISITE POTENTIAL - 4/8-28
- BABEL: Marilynne Robinson (virtual) -3/18/21
- BABEL: Ta-Nehisi Coates (virtual) - 4/22/21
- Just Buffalo Writing Center (free, virtual creative writing workshops for youth)
- LIT CITY VOICES (video series)
- LIT CITY Sidewalk Poems around the city
- LIT CITY Banners along Buffalo's Literary Corridor
- Music Industry Alliance - currently offering financial assistance & virtual meetings
- Eighth Note Session Interviews
- Stories of Life (On Demand) - 3/5 - 4/9
- I'm Still Singing: An Evening with Broadway's Lindsey Brett Carothers (Live Stream) - 3/13 - 3/28
- In Our Own Voices (On Demand) - 3/26 - 4/23
- An Evening with Broadway's Emily Koch (Live Stream) - 4/29 - 5/30
- In-studio & virtual ballet classes, begin 9/14
- Whirl & Twirl (ages 3 - 6)
- Foundation Ballet (ages 6-9)
- Beginner Ballet (8-12)
- Ballet 4 (Intermediate)
- Pre-Professional
- Pointe
- Boys Program
- Adult Ballet (Monday Nights)
- The Gamelan Masters Guest Lecture Series - 7:30pm Sundays & Wednesdays
- Online Javanese Dance Classes with Danang and Galuh - 7:30pm Thursdays
Northwest Buffalo Community Center: 155 Lawn Avenue Room RM # 107, Buffalo, NY 14207
Meeting address: Harlem Road Community Center, Auditorium, 4255 Harlem Road, Amherst, NY 14226
Amherst Male Glee Club
Upcoming Programming:
- Spring 2021 Streaming Performance Series (details to come)
- Other programming to be announced and further details on above on our website
- Buffalo Rises 2.0 (Six 10-minute radio plays written by 6 Buffalo playwrights) - Mondays & Thursdays in November
- Off Road with Peter Palmisano (bi-weekly podcast)
31 S Grove St, East Aurora, NY 14052
- Campus Tours & Museum: Tuesdays to Saturdays, 11am-3:30pm by appointment; 48 hour notice - REGISTER (required)
- The Copper Shop (Artisan Consignment) - Tuesdays - Saturdays 11am-5pm
- Events
Online:
- Campus and artifacts videos
- Motto illumination/coloring sheets
- Summer Camp Registration is Now Open! Ages 6-16 - camp is July 12 - 24
- Free Reading Series - 4/19 and 5/3
- MISCAST 2021 - 5/16
- ONCE UPON A TIME: A digital interactive musical!
- Up Cycled Costume Clutches
- Thursday and Friday - 12 to 5pm
- Saturday - 10am to 2pm
Workshops & Events:
- Needle Felting: Pumpkins - 10/31, 10am – 12:30pm
- Needle Felting: Ornaments - 12/12, 10am - 12:30pm
Exhibits:
- Places and Spaces: Nature Depicted through Fiber by Kari Roslund - 10/14 - 12/12
Virtual:
617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203
- Water in the Desert
- Part 1: April 17, 8 pm ET
- Part 2: April 18, 6 pm ET
- Virtual Screening: Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer's Empty Metal - 7pm 4/7/21
- Department of Media Study PLASMA speaker series: 6pm Mondays
- April 19: Sindhu Thirumalaisamy
- Window Exhibition:
- Squeaky Wheel’s Excellent Adventure
- Rent Equipment
- SIMULATION (virtual exhibition)
- Virtual Media Art Workshops
Heritage Discovery Center, 100 Lee Street Buffalo, NY 14210
Tuesdays, Thursdays, & Saturdays 10am-5pm
Exhibits:
- Live stream concerts by New Orleans artists
- Live stream concerts by Buffalo bands - 5:30pm Fridays & Saturdays 9/19 - 10/17
- NEW KID by Dennis Foon - streaming 12/1-20
- THE OUTSIDERS - streaming 3/5 -19
641 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202
Open! Reservations Required
- Wednesday-Friday hourly tours 10:30am-3:30pm
- Saturday & Sunday hourly tours 11:30am-3:30pm
Online:
- #ArtThatHeals
- The Dunbar Project (pre-professional theater arts training program for ages 12-18)
- Vocális Christmas - Virtual Concert - 12/4, 8pm thru 1/1/2021
- Memory Cafe for caregivers & loved ones (Free music and refreshments) - 1st & 3rd Wednesday each month, 12-1pm
- Outdoor concert - 10/17, 3 - 6pm
- Yoga/meditation classes- Saturday mornings, 10/17 - 11/21
495 Pine Ridge Heritage Blvd., Cheektowaga, NY 14225
Monday-Thursday 9am-5pm, and Fridays by appointment
- "The Bills Now. . . & Then: An Historic Season and a Storied Franchise" - 11/12/20 at 12pm
