Know if you are better off renting or buying, learn how to budget for your down payment, explore mortgage options, and understand how buying your first home can impact your bigger financial picture.

Buying a home is one of the biggest financial decisions you will ever make. The process can be intimidating and confusing: down payments, mortgage options, fees, the list goes on and on. In this class, we break down the home buying process and help to make the plunge into home ownership a little less painful.

So take a deep breath (we promise, everything will be ok), grab a drink and some food at The Establishment and learn about budgeting, funding, and programs that are available for first time home buyers and so much more in our first time home buyers class.

This event is free. Sign up here: https://www.theestablishmentbuffalo.com/classes/buying-first-home/

✿ Advanced Japanese Stab Binding ✿
Thursday, July 27 • 6-9pm

A perfect pairing with the basic Japanese Stab binding class! More intricate stab binding stitches will be covered, specifically Hemp Stitch and the Tortoise Shell Stitch will be covered. Learn to make your own journals & hand-bound books! Those who have not taken the basic Japanese Stab Binding workshop are still welcome to attend!

• Instructor: Kate Parzych
• PRICE
– Regular Price $40.00
– Member Price $30.00
– Student Price (with valid ID) $30.00

Pre-payment is required for all workshops at WNYBAC. You can pay online, by phone, or by mail. If you would like to send a check, please email info@wnybookarts.org to let us know. If you would like to pay over the phone, please call 716-348-1430. All workshops will take place at the WNY Book Arts Center and have no prerequisite knowledge required unless otherwise noted. A cancellation fee of $25 will be assessed if cancelled less than 1 week ahead of the workshop. Cancellations with less than 48 hours will not receive a refund. Sold out classes will accept a waiting list. By registering you agree to receive notifications from the WNY Book Arts Center. Workshops can cancel due to low enrollment, so please register early!

Beginner Glass Blowing-

In this fun and exciting short two hour class, participants will join Jason Dederich owner of Buffalo Glass Company as he covers the fundamentals of glass blowing by making a glass ornament. Choose from a variety of dates.

Students can choose color, design, and blow the piece themselves with the help of the instructor.

What you’ll learn:
Pipe turning, either using one or two hands.
Left or right-handed stance.
Pipe/Body/Hand positioning
Heating Glass

Other skills covered:
Point Turning
Marvering
Marvering in the air
Reset point on center
Basic glass balancing

Class Cost: $50 (all materials included)
Class Size: Min 2/ Max 6
Ages: 14 with parent permission
Cancellation Policy

Buy tickets for one of these upcoming class dates: July 13th, 15th, 18th, 27th
Private classes for 2-6 participants are also available, if interested e-mail: education@thefoundrybuffalo.org

*Ornaments must be annealed overnight and can be picked up the next day or during the work week 9am-6pm Mon-Thurs*

News, Brews & Rock ‘n’ Roll
featuring
Tom Toles & The Outlyers

Friday, July 28 @ 5:30 p.m.
Sportsmen’s Tavern
Once again back to perform for YOU! Tom Toles and The Outlyers! It’s a concert to benefit Investigative Post, Buffalo’s nonprofit investigative reporting center.

This year’s show has a different twist, a happy hour performance running from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Friday, July 28. Tickets are $20 and available online or at the door.

The Sportsmens Tavern, 326 Amherst St., will once again host the show.

Tickets are selling out fast- buy yours online or at the door $20

Lesley Maia Horowitz: Course of Empire
Closing Reception: Friday, July 28, 2017 6-9pm Artist’s Remarks at 7pm
Exhibition on view: June 8 – July 29, 2017
Gallery Hours: Friday & Saturday 11am-4pm
Eleven Twenty Projects: 1120 Main St. Buffalo, NY 14209
“If men were not insensible to the beauty of nature the great works necessary for the purposes of commerce might be carried on without destroying it, and at times might even contribute to her charms by rendering her more accessible; but it is not so. They desecrate whatever they touch. They cut down the forests with a wantonness for which there is no excuse, even gain, & leave the herbless rocks to glimmer in the burning sun.”
– Thomas Cole, 1836

Elevations: The Soundscape of Buffalo Grain Elevators 

The Buffalo Infringement Festival 2017 and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center will present “Elevations: The Soundscape of Buffalo Grain Elevators,” a multimedia installation featuring sounds and images from Buffalo’s Ohio Street corridor.

The Queen City’s stately procession of grain elevators has earned appreciation for architectural significance as well as historical importance to the foundational economy of the region. Much photographed, and even painted as beer cans, little has been said about the sonic symphony produced by these iconic giants.

To the ears of Buffalo composer and music educator, Kilissa Cissoko, the buildings hum a starkly beautiful song, droning over pulsating mechanical rhythms. Mysterious rumblings behind rusted steel and crumbling cement facades harmonize in an industrial soundscape of rich textures and subtle variations.

“The inspiration to create my “Elevations” project came while floating on the Buffalo River in a rented kayak from Canalside,” said Cissoko. “I was amazed by the noises emanating from General Mills and echoing off the rounded walls of the Grain Elevators. I went back on another day to record—and I took video and photos. I discovered my car wheels made an ominous humming and clanking as I drove over the lift bridges. I had to drive back and forth several times to get a good recording!”

The “found sounds” became source material which Cissoko edited and looped to create pieces with titles such as: “Car on Louisiana Street” and “Bridge Monks.” Her Buffalo Infringement Festival presentation of the work will also feature live performance on percussion, flute and vocals. “Interacting with this material as a performer can be trance inducing. When I play the flute against these gritty beats, it feels like I am offering a prayer in a cathedral to industry.”

“Hearing the musicality in raw sounds comes naturally to me, I suppose,” mused Cissoko, who also credits her mentors at SUNY Buffalo’s Department of Music, where she studied composition and new music performance with the likes of Yvar Mikhashoff and Jan Williams.

This unique work will be on display one night only during the 2017 Buffalo Infringement Festival at Hallwalls on Friday, July 28 from 7-11 pm. Twenty-minute performance sets start on the half-hour. Admission is a free-will donation of $5-20.

The Buffalo Infringement Festival runs from July 27 through August 6 in venues across the city. See www.infringebuffalo.org for the full schedule.

Elevations: The Soundscape of Buffalo Grain Elevators 

The Buffalo Infringement Festival 2017 and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center will present “Elevations: The Soundscape of Buffalo Grain Elevators,” a multimedia installation featuring sounds and images from Buffalo’s Ohio Street corridor.

The Queen City’s stately procession of grain elevators has earned appreciation for architectural significance as well as historical importance to the foundational economy of the region. Much photographed, and even painted as beer cans, little has been said about the sonic symphony produced by these iconic giants.

To the ears of Buffalo composer and music educator, Kilissa Cissoko, the buildings hum a starkly beautiful song, droning over pulsating mechanical rhythms. Mysterious rumblings behind rusted steel and crumbling cement facades harmonize in an industrial soundscape of rich textures and subtle variations.

“The inspiration to create my “Elevations” project came while floating on the Buffalo River in a rented kayak from Canalside,” said Cissoko. “I was amazed by the noises emanating from General Mills and echoing off the rounded walls of the Grain Elevators. I went back on another day to record—and I took video and photos. I discovered my car wheels made an ominous humming and clanking as I drove over the lift bridges. I had to drive back and forth several times to get a good recording!”

The “found sounds” became source material which Cissoko edited and looped to create pieces with titles such as: “Car on Louisiana Street” and “Bridge Monks.” Her Buffalo Infringement Festival presentation of the work will also feature live performance on percussion, flute and vocals. “Interacting with this material as a performer can be trance inducing. When I play the flute against these gritty beats, it feels like I am offering a prayer in a cathedral to industry.”

“Hearing the musicality in raw sounds comes naturally to me, I suppose,” mused Cissoko, who also credits her mentors at SUNY Buffalo’s Department of Music, where she studied composition and new music performance with the likes of Yvar Mikhashoff and Jan Williams.

This unique work will be on display one night only during the 2017 Buffalo Infringement Festival at Hallwalls on Friday, July 28 from 7-11 pm. Twenty-minute performance sets start on the half-hour. Admission is a free-will donation of $5-20.

The Buffalo Infringement Festival runs from July 27 through August 6 in venues across the city. See www.infringebuffalo.org for the full schedule.

The 10th Annual Walk Off Hunger to benefit the Food Bank of WNY will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 29th, at Island Park in Williamsville. Presented by Life Storage, this family-friendly event will help the Food Bank of WNY provide more nutritious meals to hungry children and families this summer.

Walk Off Hunger is once again co-hosted by Calvary Episcopal Church and Congregation Shir Shalom. Check-in and registration will begin at 10 a.m., with the 2-mile walk starting at 11 a.m. The walk will be followed by a festival featuring food, children’s activities, bounce houses, a climbing wall, musical entertainment, visits from local sports teams’ mascots, an auction and more. Attendees are welcome to park at Mill Middle School, located at 505 Mill St. in Williamsville, and take a free shuttle bus provided by First Student to and from the event.

Registration for the walk is $25 per person; children ages 16 and younger are free to participate. Walkers can register the day of the event or online at www.foodbankwny.org. In celebration of the walk’s 10th anniversary, there is a special drawing for a chance to win a $2,000 AAA gift certificate to plan a family vacation. Tickets are $10 per entry or $20 for three entries. Tickets for the drawing are currently available at www.foodbankwny.org and will also be sold at the walk. Participants in the drawing need not be present at the walk to win.

While donations to the Food Bank of WNY slow significantly during the summer, the need in the community remains high. Summertime is especially difficult for families whose children rely on their school’s free or reduced-meal program. During summer vacation, many of these families turn to the Food Bank of WNY’s member agencies to help make up those missed meals. Walk Off Hunger was strategically created as a summertime fundraiser in order to help the Food Bank of WNY replenish its shelves and provide more meals to hungry local families.

Walk Off Hunger is made possible through the generosity of many sponsors, including Presenting Sponsor – Life Storage, Diamond Sponsors – Andreozzi Bluestein LLP, Evans Bank, Father Sam’s Bakery, Galbani, Praxair, Inc., SEFCU and Wireless Zone Foundation for Giving; and Platinum Sponsors – Delta Air Lines, First Student, Foxy Delivery Service and Eduardo and Amy Heumann.

Held in conjunction with Garden Walk Buffalo, we are excited to introduce the Official Walking Tour Around the Japanese Garden in Delaware Park, presented by Wegmans.

Paula Hinz, Buffalo Cherry Blossom Committee Co-Chair, will bring you on an insightful walking tour around the gorgeous garden to learn about its origins, history and fun facts.

This walking tour is FREE for all. We will appreciate a donation of any amount if you are inspired to do so.

Please reserve your ticket as spaces are limited.

July 29 – RESERVE YOUR TICKET @ https://www.bfloparks.org/parks/delaware-park/
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm OR 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

July 30, Tour – RESERVE YOUR TICKET @ https://www.bfloparks.org/parks/delaware-park/
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm OR 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

For more information, please contact Zhi at (716) 838-1249, ext. 31 or email zhi@bfloparks.org.

Since arriving in the US in 1980 from his native country Brazil, Cyro Baptista has emerged as one of the premier percussionists in the country performing with some of music’s most popular names including Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis, Paul Simon, and Sting. Baptista worked with Buffalo sculptor Shasti O’Leary Soudant and UB students on the creation of a unique sculpture/percussion instrument called the “Beat Blossom” which is being installed in the Percussion Garden at Artpark. The new installation will officially open on July 30, 2017 with a performance by Baptista, Billy Martin, Tom Kolor, UB music students, participants in the Sound of the Community workshop, and others.

Since arriving in the US in 1980 from his native country Brazil, Cyro Baptista has emerged as one of the premier percussionists in the country performing with some of music’s most popular names including Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis, Paul Simon, and Sting. Baptista worked with Buffalo sculptor Shasti O’Leary Soudant and UB students on the creation of a unique sculpture/percussion instrument called the “Beat Blossom” which is being installed in the Percussion Garden at Artpark. The new installation will officially open on July 30, 2017 with a performance by Baptista, Billy Martin, Tom Kolor, UB music students, participants in the Sound of the Community workshop, and others.

The UNUSUAL SUSPECTS a unique comedic storyteller experience.

Monday, July 31st Tudor Lounge on 335 Franklin St will play host to Buffalo’s first ever comedic “criminal investigation”.

Producer Don Johnson has rounded up Buffalo’s most infamous comedic criminals and hauled them down town to the Tudor Lounge.

Comics will be interrogated by non other that “comedy detectives” Don Johnson (Producer, host of Tudor Lounge Comedy Open Mic) and Jesse Winterhalter (Host of Milkies Comedy Open Mic) under hot lights and YOU the audience help determine who is Buffalo’s guiltiest story teller. This unique first ever show is equal parts Comedy, Story Teller, Improv & Theater performance

Suspects include…

Brandon Trusso
(2017 Buffalo’s Funniest Person runner-up ‘Second place’)

Gary Wallace
(regular at Helium’s dirty show & horrible person Showcase)

John Lockwood
(producer of ‘This is a Comedy Show’ and all around public enemy #1)

Ryan Fay
(Co-Producer of The Tralf Summer Comedy Series)

Sean Marciniak
(Local comedian, Theatrical & improvisational actor, host of the FREE COFFEE w/ Sean Marciniak podcast)

Tickets are $5 at the door, doors are 8pm, show starts @9pm

***50/50 raffles & Costume Contest
(Dress up as your favorite TV crime show characters. Law & Order, CSI, X-Files, NCIS, Monk ect.. Ect..)