We announced the winners and honorees of the 7th annual Spark Awards on Monday, November 16 at 7:00 pm. The presentation was streamed for free through our YouTube page here. The presentation featured each of this year’s honorees through pre-recorded speeches. It also announced the winners of the Artist of the Year and Arts Organization [...]
Thank you to all the honorees, sponsors and supporters - our 6th Annual Spark Awards is SOLD OUT! See you on May 22! More information can be found HERE!
Monday, October 29, 2018 Theatre of Youth 203 Allen Street Buffalo, NY 14201 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Speakers: Corinne Woods, Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York and Greg Taubman of ForgeNYC Join us for an information session to learn more about the Creative Opportunity Fund! The Creative Opportunity Fund is a state-wide regrant program [...]
Thanks to Mike Randall & WKBW for this video segment on Michael J. Beam, ASI's Trailblazer of the Arts Spark winner - view the video HERE! NIAGARA UNIVERSITY, NY (WKBW-TV) - It may not be an exaggeration to say that Michael Beam knows every square inch of the Castellani Art Museum on the campus of [...]
Western New York arts groups were awarded $100,000 in new funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. The grants are among 260 awards totaling $7.5 million across New York and $27.7 million awarded to support 1,126 projects nationwide. The majority of funds come through the NEA’s Art Works program, while others came through its [...]
Give for Greatness, the local arts philanthropy founded by then-Artvoice publisher Jamie Moses in the wake of the 2011 cultural funding crisis, has named its latest round of grantees. The grants, administered by Arts Services Initiative, will be awarded in $1,000 allotments to these 30 organizations, chosen from 83 applicants… By Colin Dabkowski, Gusto Blog (The Buffalo News) [...]
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. [...]
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Most have seen scalpers in person, holding signs outside concerts or sports venues offering to sell tickets — most at a premium price. But fans of Paul McCartney found a different type of scalper when they tried to buy tickets late last month for his tour stop in Buffalo. Tickets from places [...]
