Cultural Calendar

Buffalo Rising's monthly art, music, and culture guide, WNY SoundStage, has evolved into a full calendar!

The new Arts + Culture Calendar connects our thriving industry to readers in real-time, and seeks to provide Buffalonians with a comprehensive overview of all this region has to offer - including gallery shows and exhibits, live music concerts and events, theatre and dance performances, history tours, and more happening throughout WNY.

Our team will add events to this calendar daily. If your art, music, or performance-based event is missing, please email events@buffalorising.com.

Photography Days – Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens

Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens 2655 South Park Ave, Buffalo, NY

Bring along your favorite photographer and join us for Photography Days to get the most out of your photo experience at the Botanical Gardens! We are opening up the Botanical Gardens for the public to take family photos, engagement shoots, senior portraits, maternity photos, baby photos or photos of any special occasion at a reduced rate.  Our Photography

$20
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Exhibition: The Power of Resilience and Hope – Photography & the Holocaust: Then and Now

CEPA Gallery 617 Main St, Buffalo, NY

The Power of Resilience and Hope & Photography & the Holocaust: Then and Now. will feature 30 contemporary, regional, and international artists and writers whose works juxtapose and interact with archival material to create new imagery that delves into the complexities of time and space, place and memory, nature, and the devastation of civilized society.

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Curious George: Let’s Get Curious

Buffalo Museum of Science 1020 Humboldt Parkway, Buffalo, NY

The world’s busiest monkey is coming to Buffalo!  Visitors will hone their math and science skills as they make their way through hands-on activities based on the popular book and television series.  Free admission to members.

$16 – $19
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5th Annual Black Doll Exhibit: “Recognizing Royalty”

Buffalo & Erie County Central Library 1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY

Everyone is invited to the 5th annual Black Doll Exhibit at the downtown Central Library.  Presented by Erie County Legislative Chairwoman April N.M. Baskin & the Library System. Recognizing Royalty is the theme of the exhibit.  Prepared by be wowed by the display of 25 – 30 dolls from the collection of Lisa Jacobs-Watson, curator and

free
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Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon

Buffalo AKG Art Museum 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY

How High the Moon is the first retrospective to trace the evolution of Stanley Whitney’s wholly unique and powerful abstractions over the course of his fifty-year career. The exhibition’s title is inspired by the 1940 song penned by Nancy Hamilton and Morgan Lewis, which became a jazz standard that has conveyed enchantment, longing, and, in some

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Exhibitions: Total Solar Eclipse + Astral Visions

Burchfield Penney Art Center 1300 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, NY

Total Solar Eclipse & Astral Visions will include depictions of the sun, moon, and constellations by Charles E. Burchfield, alongside stunning solar astrophotography by Alan Friedman taken from “his backyard observatory in Buffalo.”   

Eclipse: The Sun Revealed

Join us for our new fulldome show with amazing visuals that explore the historical and cultural views of eclipses the geometry that gives us lunar, partial, annular, and (of course) total solar eclipses a visualization of what can be seen from within the shadow of a total solar eclipse scientific discoveries supported by total solar

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“Looking Up,” Artists from the Hunt Gallery Residency Program

Buffalo Arts Studio Tri-Main Center, 2495 Main St., Suite 500, Buffalo, NY

Buffalo Arts Studio is thrilled to present a new group exhibition in partnership with The C. Stuart and Jane H. Hunt Art Gallery. Looking Up is an exhibition of new work by four artists who were a part of the Hunt Gallery Residency program. The C. Stuart and Jane H. Hunt Art Gallery provides emerging

free
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Exhibition: Sin Wai Kin: It’s Always You

Buffalo AKG Art Museum 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY

It’s Always You, 2021, encourages viewers to reflect on the performance and commodification of identity in our present moment. The two-channel video work features a boyband of Sin’s construction in which they perform dressed up as each of the band’s four members The Universe, The Storyteller, The One, and Wai King (a pun on the

Solar Eclipse Safety Training

Buffalo Museum of Science 1020 Humboldt Parkway, Buffalo, NY

The April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse is almost here! A total solar eclipse is an extremely rare and special event. Our communities will need as many trained volunteers as possible when the eclipse arrives. This hands-on workshop will teach you how to view the eclipse without the danger of damaging the eyes or affecting

included-with-museum-admission
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Exhibition: “Before and After Again”

Buffalo AKG Art Museum 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY

The Buffalo AKG Art Museum has announced a landmark exhibition that will respond to the tragic slaying of ten members of Buffalo’s Black community on May 14, 2022. Before and After Again will feature new paintings, poetry, and prose by artists Julia Bottoms, Tiffany Gaines, and Jillian Hanesworth, who previously served as the inaugural Poet

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Spring Exhibit at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens

Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens 2655 South Park Ave, Buffalo, NY

Spring has finally sprung! As the snow outside starts to melt, enjoy the brilliant blooms of the Botanical Gardens’ Spring Flower Exhibit. Experience fragrant hyacinths, vibrant daffodils, colorful tulips, and more! These beautiful bursts of color will put you in the perfect mood for spring. The Botanical Bunny will be joining us on Sunday, March

included-with-admission