Not So Far From Home


To rev you up for Election Day, a number of other shorts will be screened Saturday, including exploring democracy, “ballot confusion,” and freedoms.
Thursday, November 1 at Hallwalls, check out a retrospective of avant garde filmmaker, Ted Lyman’s work, in a collection entitled, “A Sense of Place.” A Vermont artists, Lyman, has been creating film since the 1970s, and has influenced many younger filmmakers. He visits Hallwalls, and the University at Buffalo for a two day Residency. On Friday, interested individuals may take part in a workshop at UB, beginning at noon, by sending an email here.
Thursday, November 1, 8PM TED LYMAN RETROSPECTIVE Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center $7 general, $5 students/seniors, $4 members Survey of films spanning the last 30 years of the filmmaker’s practice: Scotland with No Clothes (1977), Fla.Me (1982), Testament of the Rabbit (1989), First Surface (1996), and Flat Earth (work in progress).
Friday, November 2, Noon TED LYMAN WORKSHOP The University at Buffalo Department of Media Study Center for the Arts, Room 286 Workshop opening with a screening of Mansacts (1979).
Saturday, November 2, 8PM Ten Short Videos About My Childhood Home and other short videos Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center Tickets are $8 general $6 students/seniors $5 members.

For Amy Taravella, this weekend means her solo in what took two years to accomplish. The artist has been working in an intensive two-week creation session with three other artists in four different cities in two different countries. Together, they have scrapped together funds to combine their talents and create a unique production based on the four humours.
The four humours was a theory of the makeup and workings of the human body that began with Greek and Roman philosophers. The …
Alt Theatre now has some company in the Great Arrow Building at 255 Elmwood Avenue – The Manny Fried Playhouse. The Subversive Theatre Collective has been bounced from venue to venue to produce plays and our proud to present this newly opened theatre as their permanent home. They will be celebrating with a Theatre Warming party on Friday, September 5th.
The Playhouse will be named after Manny Fried, the man in the photograph with this post. Fried is a Buffalo native who since t …
In the March issue of BR, an image was used for the article of the Buffalo Club that led to the introduction to Dr. V. Roger Lalli, and his photo-realistic watercolors of Buffalo.
At 86 years of age, Dr. Lalli is a dynamic and passionate supporter of Buffalo as both the great city it once was, and the new one he sees dawning. He seems particularly well situated to tell his Buffalo story through his artwork, his role as an educator, historian and impassioned supporter of the cit …
Image: Antelope Headpiece with Basketry Cap, 18th Century 
(Bambara, Malli, Tji'Wara Society) 
Wood, plant, fiber - 
Collection Buffalo Museum of Science
The latest exhibit at the Albright-Knox will be one that takes viewers on a journey across the globe. It’s called “From Tusk to Tail: Animals and Art” and explores how different artists across the world have represented different animals. This is the second exhibit at the Knox that has been organized in partnership w … 
