Again this year, the annual public hearing on the proposed Erie County budget was dominated by cultural agencies and the library system. County Executive Poloncarz's spending plan calls for a 3.4 percent hike in the property tax, in a budget dominated by mandated spending. By Mike Desmond, WBFO 88.7FM, 11/20/12 11202012 Most support tax hike [...]
The Buffalo Zoo could be moving a little closer to its goal of constructing a new polar bear exhibit, thanks to additional funding earmarked in the City of Buffalo’s 2013 capital budget. By Deidre Williams | News Staff Reporter, The Buffalo News, November 2, 2012 - 4:12 PM, updated November 2, 2012 at 11:26 PM 11022012 Mayor Brown [...]
A New York State grant program for small arts organizations that has been in disarray for the past several years is getting back on track with help from a newly formed local arts agency. The New York State Council on the Arts' decentralization grant program, which hands out small grants to individual artists, educational groups [...]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The Cuomo administration is hoping a new statewide series of roadside signs designed to promote New York's rich history will help boost the state's economy by steering visitors to historic sites and cultural attractions. More than 200 signs were unveiled this week in Albany as part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's "Path [...]
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, [...]
Catherine Schweitzer will head a new Erie County Arts and Cultural Advisory Board that will help administer a new process for distributing county funds to arts and cultural organizations. County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz has named Schweitzer, who is executive director of the Baird Foundation, to serve as chairwoman of the new board. Ted Brinson, [...]
(WKBW release) Friday, Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz announced members of the new Erie County Arts and Cultural Advisory Board (“Erie Arts Board”) that will administer the new, reinvigorated process for local cultural institutions to compete for County funding. By WKBW News, June 29, 2012 06-29-12 Poloncarz Announces Members of New EC Arts and [...]
Theater, music, film and art are among the more than 500 events planned along Canalside and the Buffalo River For many years, the most popular events of Buffalo’s hyperactive summer culture have been held in certain expected places: It’s a given, for instance, that crowds will flock weekly to the grassy median at Elmwood Avenue [...]
Poloncarz to name panel for review of 2013 requests Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz will create a new advisory board to review funding requests from arts and cultural groups for 2013. The panel — expected to be named in the next few weeks—will make recommendations for how to distribute millions of dollars of county [...]
Last year, if you were tuned in at all to the issues that preoccupy Western New Yorkers, you might have noticed that the regional cultural community of Western New York mounted a full-scale offensive against the government of Erie County. By Colin Dabkowski , News Staff Reports, The Buffalo News, Published:May 20, 2012, 12:00 AM May [...]
