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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Arts and cultural groups and organizations working to combat violence in the City of Buffalo will share $200,000 in grants under a spending plan approved Friday that contains only minor changes from what was proposed by Mayor Byron W. Brown. City lawmakers unanimously ratified a budget for the 2012-13 fiscal year that establishes a “cultural [...]
Earlier this evening, members of Buffalo's cultural community dominated an hour-long public hearing of Buffalo Common Council. The cultural funding advocates, responding to a city budget that includes no funding for the arts, echoed and in many cases built upon the eloquent arguments of last year's Erie County cultural funding crisis. By Colin Dabkowski, The [...]
Arts and cultural groups Monday descended on City Hall seeking funding assistance in the upcoming city budget. Nineteen of the 21 speakers during an hourlong public hearing in Common Council Chambers requested aid from the Council and Mayor Byron W. Brown in the city's new spending plan. By Aaron Besecker, NEWS STAFF REPORTER, The Buffalo News, [...]
