Eight teams of business professionals will set aside their suits and ties in favor of guitars and microphones Saturday afternoon. It’s part of the region’s first Corporate Battle of the Bands, a fundraiser for Give for Greatness, a program of the Arts Services Initiative of Western New York (ASI). Tracey Drury, Reporter, Buffalo Business First [...]
Program features eight live bands in concert Inspired by events of its kind in other cities, the first "Battle of the Corporate Bands" in Buffalo will feature corporate sponsors and their competing bands of the most unlikely musicians - such as bankers, PR executives, accountants, lawyers, software engineers and others. The four-hour event will kick off at 2 p.m. [...]
Tod Kniazuk, at the podium, along with Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and representatives from various cultural institutions talked about the importance of this month's National Museum Day. More than a dozen area museums and cultural institutions are seizing an opportunity to expose the arts to more people. At least 15 such organizations across Western New [...]
Program features songs from popular musicals The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, in partnership with actors and organizations from the Buffalo theater community, will present "The Best of Broadway" at 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20, at Kleinhans Music Hall, 3 Symphony Circle Buffalo. Event proceeds benefit Give for Greatness, a program of Arts Services Initiative of Western [...]
Make a piece at Artpark's Free Family Saturdays this weekend Niagara County artist Karen Sirgey will be implementing her community art installation at Artpark this August. She will explore the theme of "Contribution" by inviting the public to participate in the creation of her large-scale sculpture. This Saturday, July 25, Sirgey welcomes the community to [...]
Not sure what to get your loved ones this holiday season. Well, look no further! Arts Services Initiative of Western New York (ASI) has reintroduced a crowd favorite when it comes to shopping for culturally inclined people. It’s a deck of cards filled with amazing deals and discounts at local cultural institutions – Buffalo Cultural [...]
The Arts Services Initiative of WNY has launched a new program aimed at increasing access to the region’s arts and cultural scene. The Arts Access program will connect individuals to free and low-cost arts and cultural programming through free tickets and an online database of free and low-cost opportunities. Tracey Drury, Buffalo Business First Reporter- [...]
Holders of EBT cards eligible for free program As more than 20 Western New York theaters prepare for tonight’s annual Curtain Up! celebration, a Buffalo arts group is launching a program to provide free tickets to theater productions and other arts activities to poor residents. The Arts Access program, announced today by the Arts Services [...]
The waterfront is coming alive with each passing summer season. We’ve see advancements at the Inner Harbor, the Outer Harbor, parks along Black Rock Channel, the Erie Basin Marina, and of course The Buffalo River. To add to the momentum, the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation (ECHDC) has announced a chunk of funding that will [...]
Governor hosts a conference designed to exploit state's cultural tourism resources ALBANY — Forget about natural gas trapped in the Marcellus shale or the glories of the Adirondacks, at least for a moment, and consider a man-made natural resource that New York could do more to exploit: its history. More than 200 historians, museum directors, [...]
