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Bring your children to Urban Roots this Saturday to learn how to make a terrarium with Buffalo Science Teachers. Members of the Buffalo Science Teacher Network will lead children and their parents through the elements that make up a mini, low cost, self-sustaining garden on Saturday. The project qualifies as a Life Science requirement in most school districts, and takes place from 12noon to 2pm in the yard at Urban Roots, 428 Rhode Island Street.

Other projects for children and families on Saturday include face painting, painting pumpkins, leaf rubbing, and carving a clay tile. Projects for children run 11am – 4pm, Saturday, October 6. Celebrate the outdoors with your kids this weekend at Urban Roots Community Garden Center.

Looking for something fun to do with you kids that will take you back to your Saturday mornings spent wrapped in a blanket in front of the TV watching cartoons? The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra presents Cartoons in Concert this Sunday, September 23 at 2:30 pm.

Remember that animated music that accompanied Tom and Jerry and the Pink Panther? Well, the BPO, under Resident Conductor Robert Franz will take you on that fun journey through cartoon music this week. A part of their family series, the animation will be projected during the concert, and classical favorites by Liszt, Beethoven and Strauss will also be performed. What a great way to get your kids hooked on live music!

Buffalo Contemporary Dance is opening a school for young people in modern dance. Eventually broadening their scope to include children, aged 5 to 19, they will begin their programming this fall with classes for young dancers aged 11 to 19. An intermediate class will also be offered for adults this fall, but scholarships are available for young dancers. The school will be led by the nurturing and artistically excellent Director, Leslie Wexler.

I couldn’t tell you there was one better thing my parents could have done for me than signing me up for dance classes at the age of four. My dance school became my second home in high school, where I choreographed, led classes, and learned to be a creative, thinking person. Dance also gave this shy person the ability to have presence on stage and in front of groups. Dance is an incredible tool for young people to establish a hea…

As parents know, it is difficult to keep your children in the habit of studying when the sun is shining and the swimming pool is beckoning them. Talking Leaves has the solution to your problem. On Thursday, July 12, Wendy Lichtman, Buffalo native and author, is returning to the area to debut her new children's novel Do The Math : Secrets, Lies and Algebra.

This novel will not only keep your child intrigued, but they will grasp some basic knowledge of mathematics. The plot of the book centers around an eighth grade girl, Tess, who suddenly realizes that there is more than one way to solve life's problems. Tess begins to answer her questions regarding friends, family and boys using algebra. Summertime and studying really do add up!

Wendy Lichtman's personal essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune,…

Talk about an institution! The Locust Street Neighborhood Art Classes is holding its 47th Annual Art Show, opening on Sunday, June 3, from 2-5 PM.

This year’s exhibit will feature the year’s most significant accomplishment(s) from each regularly attending student, as well as a mural done with “There’s None Like You” Family Outreach, and photos of the tile installation at Futures Academy. You’ll also be able to view Public Art Planting Tires done with Daemen College’s after school program “the Friday Thang”, a great way to both get rid of waste and add a touch of color to a neighborhood garden.

There will also be a showing of the work of Squeaky Wheel’s “ TechArts for Girls”, which is a community action project begun to encourage girls from Buffalo and Erie County to learn about computers. Girls work with media professionals for whom computers are an in…

The Central Terminal Restoration Corporation hosted the Student Celebration of the Visual Arts show at Buffalo's Central Terminal, Paderewski Drive in Buffalo this weekend May 19th and 20th. The Exhibit, now in it’s fourth year, featured the works of more than five hundred Western New York students.

The Student Celebration of Visual Arts Show was founded in 2004 by Brad Curcio, a Williamsville North High School art teacher and a member of the CTRC. The 2004 Exhibition was held in Williamsville.

The Central Terminal Restoration Corporation purchased the building in 1997 hoping to preserve the terminal which served millions of passengers from it’s opening in 1929 until its closure by Amtrak in 1978.

Since opening the exhibit to all Western New York districts and moving to the terminal from Williamsville in 2005, “There has been an overwhelming response from the surrounding…

In a very special edition of Gusto at the Gallery, the Albright-Knox pairs with the Just Buffalo Literary Center to present Tell My Horse: Zora Neale Hurston at the Albright-Knox. Tonight's events will be filled with material inspired by the Big Read selection, Their Eyes Were Watching God, as well as fun art activities for the kids, and a moving performance of A Symphony Down in My Soul . The evening is capped off by a live taping of Off-Beat Cinema, presenting White Zombie. (In addition to her classic novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston also wrote a famous study of Caribbean voodoo called Tell My Horse. The cast of Channel 7’s Off Beat Cinema will do a live taping of the show on site and present a classic B-Horror Film about voodoo and zombies.) Full schedule below.

Friday, May 18, 2007 Free Albright-…

The KidBiz© Market is returning this summer as a project of the Buffalo State College Small Business Development Center and Forever Elmwood. The KidBiz© program is a small-scale entrepreneurial and educational program for 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, which culminates in an open air market along Elmwood Avenue. Anyone interested in participating must take part in a Get Ready for KidBiz© training session, where children learn how to serve customers, how much supplies might cost, and how much to charge. Upon completion, young entrepreneurs will receive a KidBiz© Startup Kit and a KidBiz© Certificate! Kids can sell anything that will fit on the 4-foot tables, rented for $2 per day – old toys, sports cards, books, crafts, homemade food and drinks, crafts, or clothes they have outgrown are all suggested. Sales days are June 16, July 14, and August 11.

Training: May 19, 9:30 AM �…

Designed as a way to raise awareness of hunger globally, and feed the local hungry, Empty Bowls is in its fourth year. Local artists, teachers and students have combined forces with local restauranteurs to create this event first conceived by the Art Education and Design Department at Buffalo State College.

Here's how it works: Individuals purchase one of 1,000 bowls made by local students throughout the community ($5 to $10) and receive a meal in return. The proceeds from the sale then go to the Food Bank of Western New York and Friends of Night People. Last year's event netted $5,000.

The festive gathering will also feature live music and fun activities. A documentary about Empty Bowls with Buffalo Schools Visual and Performing Arts high school film students will also have its first showing at the event.

Special Empty Bowls lesson plans were created by students in the …

A favorite fairy tale comes to life as the Buffalo City Ballet Youth Company presents Cinderella, making many little girls’ dreams come true on the stage of Rockwell Performance Hall. A classic tale of love and redemption, Cinderella is a ballet that every one should see once in their life.

Since 1972, the award-winning Buffalo City Ballet’s Youth Company has nurtured the talents and confidence of children with few economic, academic and social opportunities through the discipline of classical dance. Students trained at the Buffalo City Ballet have been accepted at many prestigious dance venues including American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet, Dance Theater of Harlem, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center. The Buffalo City Ballet, under the Executive Directorship of Marvin Askew, was honored this year with an Arts Award for an Outstanding Arts O…

Special Discount announced from Shea's: All tickets for this event are now $5 off! Use the codeword "Jack" online or on the phone to receive this very special discount!

Few people are lucky enough to love their jobs as much as Jack Hanna, who had his first position working with animals at age eleven, cleaning cages for a local vet. From that summer job to college, to his own pet store, to transforming the Columbus Zoo into a state-of-the art park, Jack has devoted his life to understanding and caring for animals. After an appearance on the David Letterman show turned into a series, and then into appearances on Larry King Live, Entertainment Tonight and more, it seemed a natural for Jack to take over as the new television face of the wild kingdom with Jack Hanna’s Animal Adventures. Now, Jack brings his Jungle Jack Hanna Live eve…