GRANTS TO INDIVIDUAL THEATER ARTISTS Deadline to Apply: Friday, October 7 at 12pm (noon) Call for applications from actors, directors, writers, producers, designers, storytellers, dog acts, performance artists, musicians, dancers, puppeteers, multimedia theater artists, and more! Since 1989 the David R. Fendrick Theatre Fund has awarded grants to individual artists to enable them to realize or [...]
At ASI, advocacy for the cultural sector is an important part of what we do in service of the area’s 300-plus not for profit cultural organizations, their thousands of employees, and the hundreds of thousands who invest in the cultural sector through their attendance, service, and donations. Each election cycle, Arts Services Initiative poses a [...]
Wednesday, August 31, 2016 Sportsmens Tavern 326 Amherst Street Buffalo, New York 14207 7:00PM - 10:00PM $20 tickets at the door Thanks to the generosity of Rick Smith and the Twang Gang, proceeds will go to ASI and help us continue our work in the 5 counties of WNY for the arts and cultural community. Join [...]
These grants are intended to support arts and cultural programming and the creation of artworks in Erie and Niagara Counties. Administered by Arts Services Initiative of Western New York, Inc. (ASI) and funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). New this year: We now accept applications through a new, online grants [...]
November 5, 2016 at Town Ballroom …we are gearing up now!!! Enter your corporate band today and show’em who is boss! 9 bands from local corporations will take the stage to B-A-T-T-L-E. Download and complete the registration form to be one of the nine bands!!! Do you have what it takes to win?? CLICK HERE [...]
Monday, October 3, 2016 UB Center for the Arts 103 Center for the Arts Buffalo, New York 14260 7:30PM $47 | $37 Click here to purchase tickets. New Orleans native Trombone Shorty is the bandleader and frontman of Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, a hard-edged funk band that employs hip-hop beats, rock dynamics and improvisation [...]
Monday, August 1 Burchfield Penney Art Center (Auditorium) 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo Arts Services Initiative of WNY celebrates its five year anniversary with President and CEO of Americans for the Arts Bob Lynch. Key Note: Bob Lynch discussed Americans for the Arts' Transforming America’s Communities Through the Arts Initiative which examines the transformative powers of the [...]
Wednesday, July 13 - at WNY Library Resources Council (4950 Genesee Street, Cheektowaga, NY) Courtney Mealy (from the Cattaraugus County Arts Council) led several 45 minute individual sessions on effective website design and creating websites using Weebly or other platforms. Part of the ASI professional development series, made possible by Fund for the Arts, [...]
Tuesday, June 28 WBBZ-TV Studios This FREE professional development workshop focused on creating video content for cultural groups and artists - for your own websites, for use by local media, or other uses. Attendees learned about the technical-side of camera options, what photojournalists look for when they attend events, and filming education programs and equipment available to [...]
The Economic Impact of Western New York’s Not-for-Profit Industry November 2014 Prepared By: Kent Gardener, Ph.D. – Project Director; Center for Governmental Research Inc. Click here to download the 2014 Economic Impact of Western New York Full Report SUMMARY Center for Governmental Research (CGR) was engaged to estimate the impact of the not-for-profit cultural industry [...]
