Category: PostEvents

Theatre, Arts and Culture Round-up is published at the beginning of each month and features performance, openings, premiers, and other cultural events. We invite local theatres, museums, and arts organizations to notify us of events that they have coming up by emailing events@buffalorising.com.

Theatre

Alleyway Theatre – 1 Curtain Up Alley, Buffalo, NY 14202 | 716-852-2600
Sept 9 – Oct 1 – The Magnolia Ballet

American Repertory Theatre – 545 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, NY 14222 | 716-697-0837
Sept 9 – Oct 1– The Paradigm Bomb
Sept 17 – Send in the Sondheim! A Celebration…
Sept 21 – Staged reading of Artie Award winning play “Speed of Dark”
Sept 26 – Staged reading of WNY Playwright James A Marzo’s “The Precarious Predicament of Maria D’Angelo”

Curtain Up Productions – Lockport Palace Theatre, 2 East Ave., Lockport, NY 14094 | 716-438-1130
Sept 8-18 – Pippin
Sept 23 – Mark Twain Live

Desiderio’s Dinner Theatre – 204 Como Park Blvd Cheektowaga, NY 14227 | 716-395-3207
Sept 15 – Nov 6 – Making God Laugh

Irish Classical Theatre – 625 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203 | 716-853-1380
Sept 16 – Oct 9 – Doubt, A Parable

Kavinoky Theatre – 320 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201 | 716-829-7668
Sept 2-25 – Rock of Ages

Lancaster Opera House – 21 Central Avenue Lancaster, NY 14086 | 716-683-1776
Sept 23 – Oct 9 – Man of La Mancha

MusicalFare Theatre – Damen College, 4380 Main St #123, Amherst, NY 14226 | 716-839-8540
Sept 7 – Oct 9 – Nice Work If You Can Get It

Niagara Regional Theatre Guild / Ellicott Creek Playhouse – 550 Ellicott Creek Rd, Tonawanda, NY 14150 | 716-260-2319
Sept 16 – Oct 2 – Kiss Me, Kate

O’Connell & Company – See listings for performance location | 716-848-0800
Sept 9-25 – Confessions of the Reverend Mother

Paul Robeson Theatre – African American Cultural Center, Inc., 350 Masten Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209 | 716-884-2013
Sept 9 – Wit

Road Less Traveled – 456 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14202 | 716-629-3069
Sept 15 – Oct 16 – Mysterious Circumstances

Rocking Horse Productions – 5658 Main St., Williamsville, New York. 14221
Sept 30 – Oct 9 – Brighton Beach Memoirs

Shaw Festival – 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON L0S 1J0, Canada | 800-511-7429
Now – Sept 3 – Chitra
Now – Sept 3 – Everybody
Now – Sept 4 – The Importance of Being Earnest
Now – Sept 16 – The Doctor’s Dilemma
Now – Sept 16 – Just to Get Married
Now – Sept 16 – August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean

Shea’s 710 Theatre – 710 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14202 | 716-847-1410
Sept 15 – Oct 2 – Once on This Island

Shea’s Buffalo – 650 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14202 | 716-847-1410
Sept 4 – Kurtis Conner Live
Sept 9 – Theresa Caputo Live! The Experience
Sept 13 – Alice Cooper
Sept 15 – Trixie and Katya Live!
Sept 27 – Oct 2 – The Prom

Starry Night Theatre Inc.- Ghostlight Theatre, 170 Schenck St, North Tonawanda, NY 14120 | 716-743-1614
Sept 15-25 – Halloween Dreams

Ujima Theatre Company – 429 Plymouth Avenue, Buffalo, New York 14213 | 716-281-0092
Sept 16 – Oct 2 – Church & State

Arts

Buffalo Art Movement – 255 Great Arrow Ave., STE 200, Buffalo, NY 14207 | 716-939-2445
Sept 16 – Oct 21 – Buffalo Society of Artists (BSA) 126th Catalogue exhibition

Buffalo Arts Studio – Tri-Main Center, 2495 Main St., Suite 500, Buffalo, NY 14214 | 716-833-4450
Now – Sept 3 – Jim Morris, On the Nature of Things
Now – Sept 3 – Kyle Butler, Big Trash Day
Sept 23 – Nov 5 – Matt Kenyon and Jason J. Ferguson, Homing
Sept 23 – Nov 5 – Mizin Shin, World Network Models

Burchfield Penney Art Center – 1300 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, New York 14222 | 716-878-6011
Now – Sept 25 – Timothy Frerichs: Navigation: Lake Erie – the Great Lakes
Now – Oct 2 – Gratitude: The Sylvia L. Rosen Endowment Purchase Awards
Now – Oct 2 – Different Perspectives: A Museum Studies Exhibition
Now – Oct 23 – Bruce Adams: Freeing Marks
Now – Oct 30 – Martha Visser’t Hooft: Beyond the Realm of the Possible
Now – Nov 7 – Praise Works from the Collection
Now – Nov 27 – Bonnie Gordon: Mapping Image and Word, Stumbling into Streams of Consciousness
Now–Jan 1, 2023 – Totemic
Now – June 8, 2025 – Camp Everything
Sept 9 – Dec 31 – Shared Light: G. Peter Jemison and Charles E. Burchfield

C. Stuart and Jane H. Hunt Art Gallery – Brisbane Bldg, 403 Main St Suite 105, Buffalo, NY 14203 | 716-225-2098
Now – Sept 17 – Hunt Residencies Group Exhibition: Rooted and Released

CEPA Gallery – 617 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203 | 716-856-2717
Now – Oct 7 – A Soil Story: A Photographic Atlas of Our Natural Resource
Sept 3 – Oct 7 – Hostile Terrain 94: The Undocumented Migrant Project & Legacies of Forced Migration

K Art – 808 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14202 | 716-216-2941
Now – Oct 7 – Tangible/Intangible

Rivalry Projects – 106 College St., Buffalo, NY 14201 | 716-217-2923
Now – Sept 2 – Susan Metrican: Married To The Ground
Now – Sept 2 – Eric Ruby: Skies The Limit
Sept 9 – Oct 28 – Olivier Laude: CHIẾN THẮNG BA TƠ

WNY Book Arts Center – 468 Washington St., Buffalo, NY 14203 | 716-348-1430
Sept 16 – Oct 22 – Baby Bunny Might Live: An Exhibition by Julia Dzwonkoski
Sept 16 – Oct 22 – Illegible: An Exhibition by Muhammad Zaman

Culture

Buffalo History Museum – 1 Museum Ct, Buffalo, NY 14216 | 716-873-9644
Now – Oct 30 – Hodinöhsö:ni’ Resurgence: Marie Watt, Calling Back, Calling Forward
Now – November 2022 – Icons: The Makers and Moments of Buffalo Sports
Now – Continuum: A History of Erie County
Now – Spring 2023 – To Rescue The Color: Salvaged Renderings of the Rainbow City Colorized Pan-American Exposition Renderings
Sept 4 – Pan-Am Walking Tour
Sept 7 – Exhibit Opening: “Artifacts: Burchfield Themed Photographs”, The Day He Was Shot: The Last Pictures of McKinley
Sept 10 – Museum Tour
Sept 17 – Smithsonian Museum Day, Doors Open Buffalo: Free Admission
Sept 18 – Buffalo Sports Heritage Bus Tour
Sept 21 – Louise Blanchard Bethune, FAIA: Architect and Feminist
Sept 28 – The Fan Connection Documentary Screening

Buffalo Museum of Science – 1020 Humboldt Pkwy, Buffalo, NY 14211 | 716-896-5200
Now – Senserie
Now – Antarctic Dinosaurs
Sept 2 – COLLECTIONS LIVE: STUDY SKINS, THE SCIENCE OF PRESERVATION
Sept 3 – SOLAR SATURDAYS
Sept 6 – COLLECTIONS LIVE: THE AMAZING, AWESOME ARTHROPODA
Sept 7 – COLLECTIONS LIVE: GEOLOGY WITH JOE
Sept 9 – COLLECTIONS LIVE: STUDY SKINS, THE SCIENCE OF PRESERVATION
Sept 10 – SOLAR SATURDAYS
Sept 13 – COLLECTIONS LIVE: THE AMAZING, AWESOME ARTHROPODA
Sept 14 – WEE EXPLORER STORYTIME, COLLECTIONS LIVE: GEOLOGY WITH JOE, BEHIND-THE-SCENES TOUR: GEOLOGY ROCKS!
Sept 16 – COLLECTIONS LIVE: STUDY SKINS, THE SCIENCE OF PRESERVATION, SCIENCE AFTER HOURS: GET A CLUE
Sept 17 – SOLAR SATURDAYS
Sept 20 – COLLECTIONS LIVE: THE AMAZING, AWESOME ARTHROPODA
Sept 21 – COLLECTIONS LIVE: GEOLOGY WITH JOE
Sept 22 – FIND WHY: VANISHING RHINO EXHIBIT OPENING
Sept 23 – COLLECTIONS LIVE: STUDY SKINS, THE SCIENCE OF PRESERVATION, ART OF SCIENCE, TWILIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SEEING THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Sept 24 – SOLAR SATURDAYS
Sept 27 – COLLECTIONS LIVE: THE AMAZING, AWESOME ARTHROPODA
Sept 28 – COLLECTIONS LIVE: GEOLOGY WITH JOE, BEHIND-THE-SCENES TOUR: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Sept 30 – COLLECTIONS LIVE: STUDY SKINS, THE SCIENCE OF PRESERVATION

Genesee Country Museum – 1410 Flint Hill Rd., Mumford, NY 14511 | 585-538-6822
Sept 3-4 – Neighbors Free Weekend
Sept 4 – Vintage Base Ball Games
Sept 10 – Vintage Base Ball Games, Hop Harvest Festival
Sept 25 – Vintage Base Ball Games

Larkin Square – 745 Seneca St., Buffalo, NY 14210 | 716-362-2665
Sept 1 – Cheesy Chick Lunchtime Food Truck Service
Sept 3 – Fitness in the Parks: Zumba
Sept 5 – Fitness in the Parks: Cardio Kickboxing
Sept 10 – Fitness in the Parks: Zumba
Sept 12 – Fitness in the Parks: Cardio Kickboxing
Sept 17 – Fitness in the Parks: Zumba
Sept 19 – Fitness in the Parks: Cardio Kickboxing
Sept 22 – Mark Goldman speaking on his book City of my Heart: Buffalo 1967 – 2020
Sept 24 – Queen City Traveling Market, Fitness in the Parks: Zumba
Sept 26 – Fitness in the Parks: Cardio Kickboxing

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site – 641 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202 | 716-884-0095
Sept 13 – “The Unexpected Inauguration” Double Decker Bus Tour

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JazzBuffalo is teaming up with Seneca One to bring to the community a Labor Day Weekend Buffalo Jazz Fest!  The West Plaza of the Seneca One Tower will be transformed to bring to you live music throughout the afternoon, food trucks, refreshments, and a family-friendly atmosphere! Tony Zambito Founder and Executive Director of JazzBuffalo shares not only his excitement about the event, but also his appreciation of the partnership with Seneca One,

“We’re trying to bring our diverse communities together through a joint effort like this. What we came up with this year is to end our summer use of the West Plaza with a real celebration of Buffalo – it’s just another way to enrich the community through the use of that space that’s been a very key part of bringing people back downtown.”

Hear music from the likes of New York City saxophonist John Troy and his quintet, the jazz organ quartet Trigger and the Sermon, West Coast jazz guitarist Dave Hill and his group, and special guest – The Wendell Rivera Latin Jazz Ensemble.

12 noon – 1:15 pm: The John Troy Quintet
1:45 pm – 3:00 pm: Trigger & the Sermon
3:30 pm – 4:45 pm: The Dave Hill Group
5:15 pm – 6:30 pm: Wendell Rivera Latin Jazz Ensemble

During the changeovers to the next band, we’ll have solo or duo jazz music provided by some of Buffalo’s fabulously talented next-generation of jazz musicians:

1:15 pm – 1:45 pm  –  Kevin Hall
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm  –  Ed Croft and Jared Tinkham
4:45 pm – 5:15 pm  –  Saranaide

“What really gets me excited about it is that I have felt for a very long time that Buffalo needs to join the ranks of other cities who have a city-defined jazz festival.  Especially during Labor Day Weekend.  We’ve seen through the growth of JazzBuffalo in the last seven years that the identity of Buffalo as a city with a rich history of jazz needs to be celebrated,” shares Zambito. The event is happening on September 4th from noon until 6:30pm. The team is also encouraging goers to bring lawn chairs to ensure the most comfortable experience. For any additional information visit https://jazzbuffalo.org/buffalo-jazz-festival/

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A number of window displays as well as interactive street installations are planned for Main Street in the Theater District the night of Curtain Up! on September 16. The moxie-themed displays are being organized by Dot + Line, a design boutique focused on visual merchandising and window displays.

“What makes #moxie unique is we were able to pick the topic as well as the design direction,” says Marissa Colucci, co-owner of Dot + Line. “Each installation, both window and street, will be calling attention to what it means to be a woman in this modern world.”

“We are also designing a VIP tent that will be outside of Bijou Grill that will be designed like a 1970s living room, the time when the modern women’s movement gained traction again,” adds Colucci. “Bijou will also be serving several drinks that are #moxie-centric”

Plans include:

Window Install #1: a mobile of objects that portray what it means to be a woman. Everything will be represented from tampons and birth control to briefcases and high heels. The intent is to show in a playful barbie pink all that a woman is and can be. 

Window Install #2: The idea is to have picture frames that highlight parts of a woman (legs, arms, breasts, etc) to call attention to how women are objectified despite being people with a voice.

Street Install #1: Paper dolls. The intent is to create an interactive display where people can step behind a translucent panel and become a paper doll. Buffalo State fashion students are designing the dolls.

Street Install #2: This will include a structure where a series of woman’s faces will be hanging down from the top of the structure, some will have magenta tape over their mouths. The goal is to represent the woman of the past and the woman of the present fighting for equal rights.

Street Install #3: An interactive panel will allow pedestrians to approach and write down what they are thinking, their hopes and dreams for women. This will be similar to the “before I die” installations seen in NYC.

Street Install #4: The constitution will be printed on a large format screen and displayed with a call to get to the polls. 

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For those who work during the day, or who have children that keep them busy during the day – for whatever reason that the daytime keeps people preoccupied, with little time to shop and have fun, Community Beer Works hosts a series of Midnight Markets (6pm – midnight).

These types of evening and night markets have become popular in other cities, especially for people who are considered night owls. And just think of the people who work weekends, who don’t have time to attend the various daytime pop-up markets around the city. It is for all of these people that the Midnight Markets are being held on select Saturdays.

The next two Midnight Markets are set to be held on September 3 and October 1. Along with live music, food and beer, the following vendors will be setting up:

Anna’s CandleArt & Tarot by CorahBakes by BeccaBab’s SausageCopper & Steel BuffaloGalaxy GlassMoneybags DumplingsStirCrazyThe Bloom and RoseUnapologetic CoffeeWNYBAC Coaster Printing

Community Beer Works | 520 7th St, Buffalo, NY 14201

Click here for details

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Shop local Aug. 29-Sept. 4 to discover new books, win BABEL tickets

Celebrate Buffalo’s thriving independent bookstore community during Buffalo Bookstore Week, Aug. 29-Sept. 4. Patrons who shop at participating bookstores—Alice, Ever After Books, Burning Books, Dog Ears Bookstore & Cafe, Fitz Books, Gutter Pop Comics, Rust Belt Books, Talking Leaves Books, Westside Stories, and Zawadi Books—from Aug. 29-Sept. 4 will be entered to win a season subscription to Just Buffalo Literary Center’s 2022-23 BABEL author series.

In addition to selling books in nearly every neighborhood, Buffalo’s independent bookstores host readings and events that support local writers and offer spaces for community members to come together. Said Meg Howe, owner of children’s bookstore Alice, Ever After Books in Buffalo’s Parkside neighborhood, “We’re here to start conversations. We’re here to share stories, both real and imagined. There’s also the data to show that when you spend your money in a local bookstore, more of that money goes back into your community than when you decide to buy online or from a big box bookstore.”

Patrons are encouraged to post photos of their Buffalo bookstore visits and “book hauls” on social media using the hashtag #BuffaloBookstoreWeek2022. For updates and bookstore features during Buffalo Bookstore Week, follow Just Buffalo Literary Center (@justbuffalolit) on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

“A city’s truer inner culture can be revealed through the choices of its stacks in independent bookstores,” said Kristianne Meal, owner of Rust Belt Books. “It is a total statement when a city can support a wide mix of independently run bookstores.”

Make a statement this week, Buffalo, and support our local bookstores!

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Being in nature is a sure way to boost endorphin levels and dopamine production, which promotes happiness. Luckily for us Buffalo is a place surrounded by nature trails and wooded areas that make getting into nature so easy! On top of that, Buffalo is also home to America’s largest garden walk which showcases the incredible gardens of our neighbors that make up this city. Not only does gardening create beautiful scenery, but this practice also benefits you mentally and physically. 

By getting outside and getting active while the weather permits, you are encouraging healthy body movement and also reducing stress in the process. It’s not often we get to see the fruits of our labor happen so fast, but with gardening the reward is almost instant. You don’t have to have a natural green thumb to be a good gardener, it is something that can happen with practice and patience, and the expert team at the English Gardener is here to help Buffalonians everywhere. Joseph Han, the company’s founder, has been creating gardens since childhood with his family and enjoys sharing unique (some might say, crazy) designs with people all across the Queen City. With gardening being such an influential part of Joseph’s life, he cherishes being able to share this amazing gift with others, 

“ One of our goals is to help our clients be gardeners, and we like to encourage people to think about their garden as a plant community. So, there are relationships between plants, but also there are also relationships with the caretaker or the gardener. So mentally I think it’s really the ability to care for something and then be rewarded with the joy of gardening.”

With the happenings of everyday life busying up schedules most days, it is imperative for our mental and physical wellbeing to slow down and connect with the natural world that surrounds us. 

“Physically, we have to get our exercise and moving around and certainly gardening is a physical activity, but being outside with some fresh air and in the elements- it’s very important these days. I think people are rediscovering the joy of gardening and the peace it provides as well. We have all these distractions in life and we’re on our phone, but being in the garden- when you talk to gardeners, they’ll talk about how much joy it really brings them.”

On top of gardening creating a healthy environment for us individually, it can also help to maintain healthy larger environments around us. As humans, we have a massive responsibility to maintain and steward the earth well, and while years of neglect can not be undone overnight, everyday we have the opportunity to create change (both big and small). Gardening may not be the first thing thought of when discussing solutions to our planet’s fate, but according to Joseph’s expertise, it should be!

“We look at gardening more as stewardship and that stewardship is of the outdoors, the environment, the ecology, there are so many dimensions to gardening.​​These days there has been a greater focus on the ecology of gardening. With climate change, global warming, less diversity in the environment and species and wildlife, there’s a greater interest in how it does make a difference if you grow plants, which are part of the food web that the insects, the birds, the bees and the butterflies all come to. That ultimately supports a better environment.”

Gardening does so much more than just create beautiful lawns and settings (although, that is exciting too), it ultimately serves us in bigger ways than we could imagine. You don’t have to be a green thumb expert to reap the benefits of gardening, because in this case it really is the thought and simple action that counts. 

For more advice on how gardening can help you live your best life visit https://english-gardener.com
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Large as life animals and fantastic creatures – including dinosaur succulent topiaries, a coleus peacock, moss-made dinosaurs, a giant buffalo, a dragonfly, and a shark – can now be found at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens.

These living plant creatures are made from live plants, which allows them to come life in ways that are hard to imagine. Typically, when we imagine a triceratops, brachiosaurus, wooly mammoth, or a giant raptor skull, we tend to think of reconstructed fossilized bones. But not in this case.

The Coleus and Creatures exhibition at the Botanical Gardens not only teaches us about the fascinating plants that have been painstakingly fashioned into a series of creatures, the exhibition also teaches visitors about the pre-historic animals themselves.

Creatures After Dark will highlight the Coleus and Creatures Exhibit under spectacular lights just in time for the spooky fall season for a magical, Jurassic-like adventure. 

Director of Horticulture at the Botanical Gardens, Joe Mannion, comments, “The Horticulture team is extremely pleased with how the Coleus and Creatures exhibit turned out. Back in May, we started planting up a stegosaurus, and we had so much fun that we started working on a tyrannosaurus rex, pterodactyl, buffalo, a globe, and we just kept finding more and more creatures to create. We also grew 1,000 coleus plants (known for colorful foliage) to give us lots of vibrant colors throughout the greenhouses for the exhibit. It is amazing what our team created to make our creatures come alive and make visitors feel like they are walking through a pre historic world. I really encourage people to visit and get lost in this wonderful experience.” 

Coleus and Creatures will be on display daily through October 31 from 10:00am to 4:00pm. This exhibit is included with regular admission to the Botanical Gardens. Ticket prices are $14.00 for adults, $12.50 for seniors (62+) and students (13+ with ID), $7.50 for kids 3-12 and kids 2 and under and Garden Members are free. Tickets are available online now at buffalogardens.com.  

Coleus and Creatures (running now through October 31) coincides with the upcoming and historic Chrysanthemum (Mum) Exhibit. The Mum Exhibit is the Botanical Gardens’ oldest exhibit that brings many Western New Yorkers back each year to see the beautiful colors in the fall. The Mum Exhibit will be taking place daily from 10:00am to 4:00pm from October 1 through October 31. Both exhibits are included with regular admission to the Botanical Gardens.  

Visitors will be able to make the most of this new experience with Creatures After Dark. Creatures After Dark will be the newest exhibit in the Gardens After Dark series happening on October 13, 14, 16, 20, 21, 23, 28, 29, and 30 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Creatures After Dark will highlight the Coleus and Creatures Exhibit and the Mum Exhibit under spectacular lights just in time for the spooky fall season for a magical, Jurassic-like adventure. 

Pre-purchased tickets are required for Creatures After Dark. Tickets are $15.00 for adults, $13.50 for seniors (62+), $13.50 for students (13+), $7.50 for kids 3-12. Tickets for Garden Members are $13.00 for adults, $11.50 for seniors (62+), $11.00 for students (13+), $7.50 for kids 3-12. Guest passes, coupons and Arts Access passes are not valid at Creatures After Dark. 

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Bitwise Industries has selected Douglas Jemal’s 368 Sycamore Street as its Buffalo location according to Buffalo Business First.  The Fresno-based company works with primarily marginalized communities to obtain the skills and resources o to access opportunities in the tech industry. The company was heavily lobbied to open a facility in Buffalo by the region’s business community.

Bitwise Industries provides paid apprenticeships to students to learn tech skills. It has a proven model of providing pathways into the technology industry for people coming from stories of poverty and/or exclusion. It has ten locations across the country and due to Covid, has been holding locally classes virtually while it searched for a permanent location.

Jemal paid $615,000 for the three-story, 32,698 sq.ft. warehouse in March.  The circa-1949 building was most recently occupied by Concept Logistics. Bitwise is currently refining its plans for the building which will include classrooms, space for its own business, a daycare center, and additional space for other companies to co-locate there. An completion and opening date have not been set.

Bitwise Industries uses its unique two-sided marketplace approach to drive outcomes and growth. The company teaches people the skills they need to access opportunities in the tech economy–ranging from Salesforce administration to web development–and hires many of those trainees to build enterprise technology solutions for customers as a part of Bitwise Technology Consulting. 

In each of the ten cities that it serves, Bitwise seeks to renovate a blighted historical building, creating a technology hub and houses its operations at the city’s urban core to bring back life to the area. The company has already transformed a combined total of nearly a million square feet of downtown commercial space throughout the country.

Bitwise Industries is supported by a broad range of investors that includes: Kapor Capital, Motley Fool Ventures, JP Morgan, ZOMA Capital, Candide Group, Gingerbread Capital, Promedica, M&T Bank, 43North Foundation, the Ralph C. Wilson Foundation, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, Acumen America, and the New Voices Fund. 

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If you’re thinking that you’ve got to drive to Vermont to view the fall foliage this year, you might want to consider an easier trip. Leaf peepers in the know, are already booking their tickets for the Autumn Adventure Train Ride that is organized by the Medina Railroad Museum.

The two-hour round-trip train ride is also for train lovers who will be thrilled to be aboard a vintage rail car. And what better time of year to climb aboard, than during the fall season? Not only will sightseers travel through woodlands, they will also travel along the Erie Canal, for added epic scenery. This old-fashioned railroad experience is the perfect day trip for anyone looking for something completely different. Not only will the kiddos love it, the adults will be just as enthusiastic.

Trains departure at 10am and 1pm.

Choose from first class or coach seating.

Museum admission is include in train fare.

For more information, visit: www.medinarailroadmuseum.org

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Festival season is still in high gear. As the summer winds dow, one festival/parade to look forward to is Buffalo’s Pulaski Festival & 84th Pulaski Parade. The multi-cultural event takes place on Saturday, September 10 at Niagara Square.

This year marks the 84th year that the festival/parade that honors the life of General Casimir Pulaski (“The Father of the American Cavalry,” the 7th honorary citizen of the United States, and the man who is credited for savings George Washington’s life).

The first 2500 people at the dessert tent receive a free Buffalo Polish reusable tote bag!

Many people will be familiar with the General Pulaski statue at Main and N. Division in downtown Buffalo, but relatively few people are aware of the annual celebrations that take place honoring the brave freedom fighter (learn more).

Details:

The Parade will begin at 11AM from Edward St and Delaware Ave and head south on Delaware Ave towards Niagara Square. Annual Buffalo’s Pulaski Festival with 2 stages and 5 bands performing 4 Time Grammy Nominated Polka Family (Polish), Der Haus Band (German), Penny Whiskey (Irish), Formula Band ( Italian), All Star Band (w/ members of Rick James band) – at Niagara SquareCultural food, WNY’s Largest Dessert Tent, Huge Basket Raffle with $500 Door Prize, Cultural Tent with presentations, lots of activities for kids, Tatra Sheepdogs, and some surprises! – at Niagara Square

Organizers: General Pulaski Association of WNY

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