Join us for an evening of shopping
and dining to benefit a great cause,
The Flight 3407 Memorial Fund
On the evening of
Friday, March 20, 2009
from 5-9pm
present this flyer at the following businesses
and a portion of the proceeds will go towards
The Flight 3407 Memorial Fund.
Clarence Center Coffee Company and Café
9475 Clarence Center Road
741-8573
www.clarencecentercoffee.com
Live Music 8-11pm
The Perfect Gift
6000 Goodrich Road
741-0722
www.theperfectgiftnewyork.com
Get Heeled
6000 Goodrich Road
741-1310
www.getheeled.com
Delmonte Hair System
9475 Clarence Center Road
741-6151
www.delmontehairsystem.com
gift certificates available
Mardee’s
9475 Maple Street
741-3807
(corner of Maple St & Goodrich)
Fish Fry Fridays
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
Upcoming events at UB Art Gallery
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Sandra Q. Firmin
Curator, UB Art Gallery
716.645.0570
sfirmin@buffalo.edu
Ani Hoover: Up Down Around
February 26 – June 20, 2009
Saya Woolfalk: No Place
February 26 – May 9, 2009
OPENING RECEPTION FOR THE ARTISTS:
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009, 5 TO 7 PM
Buffalo, NY – The UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts is pleased to present two solo exhibitions bursting with polychromatic exuberance curated by Sandra Q. Firmin.
UB Art Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday 11 AM to 5 PM with extended hours on Thursday until 7 PM. For information, please call 716-645-6913.
Ani Hoover: Up Down Around
Lightwell Project
February 26 – June 20, 2009
Ani Hoover’s lyrical repetition of circles in varying sizes and palettes in her abstract paintings produces fleeting impressions as lustrous pop colors buoyantly dance across the surface, bumping against or overlaid by circles that appear time-worn, reminiscent of urban decay or geological processes. Her Lightwell Project features a commanding series of vertical paintings thirty-feet high by five feet wide inspired by natural cycles of varying lengths—a day, a year, perhaps a millennium—cascading from ceiling to floor.
Originally from Missouri, Hoover went to graduate school in Washington, DC and then lived in Baltimore, MD before making her home in Buffalo, New York in 2002. Since moving to Buffalo, her colorful abstract paintings have been shown at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, the Castellani Art Museum, Buffalo Arts Studio, The Neighborhood Collective Gallery, and Insite Gallery.
Hoover’s paintings are in the collections of M & T Bank, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and numerous private collections across the country.
Saya Woolfalk: No Place
February 26 – May 9, 2009
New York-based artist Saya Woolfalk will be in residence for six weeks working on an installment of her ongoing investigations into No Place, a Technicolor society of lush abundance that Woolfalk depicts in performance, video, and sculptural installations. Her alchemical process transforms detritus of our consumer civilization into polychromatic totems and bodysuits sprouting bulbous forms that blend with the vibrant landscape of her invention. She invites us to make a journey to No Place and witness its androgynous inhabitants enact empathetic explorations of self and other as a form of creative expression.
Woolfalk will be in residence February 26 through April 15, 2009 working on another chapter of No Place. She will transform the UB Art Gallery into a stage and studio where the public can attend dress rehearsals and participate in artist-led workshops at scheduled times. Her residency will culminate with a live performance by the artist and students in UB’s Department of Theatre and Dance on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 4 pm.
Public dress rehearsals:
Thursdays, March 5, 19, and 26, and April 2 and 9, 5 to 7 pm.
Empathetic T-shirt Workshops:
Saturdays, February 28, March 21, and April 11, 2 to 4 pm.
Woolfalk’s work spans multiple media from sculpture, installation, and painting to performance and video. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from Brown University, and she recently completed the Whitney Independent Study Program in Studio. She has exhibited at PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, NY; the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, IN; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, IL; and Momenta Art in Williamsburg, NY. She received an Art Matters grant to Japan and a NYFA grant (2007), a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil (2005), and a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA grant (2004), and was a participant at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, and Sculpture Space. In 2008, Woolfalk was a resident artist at the Studio Museum in Harlem. She is currently working on a dance piece commissioned by the UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts. With the support of a Franklin Furnace fellowship, the piece will travel to New York City in the fall of 2009.
The UB Art Gallery is funded by the UB College of Arts Sciences, the Visual Arts Building Fund, the Seymour H. Knox Foundation Fine Arts Fund, and the Fine Arts Center Endowment.
The UB Art Gallery is located in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus just north of the I290 on Millersport Highway. Traveling east or west on the I-290 take exit 5B to Millersport Highway North. Turn onto the campus at the Coventry entrance. As you enter the campus, the Center for the Arts is a high gabled white building directly ahead of you.
After 3 PM and on weekends, parking is free and a permit is not required. During all other times, guests must park in metered spaces, visitor parking lots, or obtain a parking permit from UB Art Gallery staff. In order to obtain a parking permit, temporarily park in the circle in front of the Center for the Arts and see a gallery attendant inside.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE through April 26, 2009
Contact: Sandra Q. Firmin
Curator, UB Art Gallery
716.645.0570
sfirmin@buffalo.edu
Enrique Chagoya: Adventures and Misadventures, Prints and Multiples 2002-2008.
UB Anderson Gallery
March 6 - April 26, 2009
Buffalo, NY – UB Anderson Gallery is pleased to present Enrique Chagoya: Adventures and Misadventures, Prints and Multiples 2002-2008, which is free and open to the public. The exhibition will be on view March 6 through April 26, 2009. There will be a public reception on Saturday, March 21 from 6:00-8:00pm. The artist will give a lecture April 9 at 5:30pm.
The show features approximately 15 works published by different presses, including ULAE, Sharks Ink, Segura, Magnolia Press, Hui Press and Trillium.
Chagoya has been actively making prints for over 25 years, and his work in the medium has become increasingly experimental in terms of scale, mixed technique and even dimension, which is the focus of the current survey. The exhibition begins in 2002 with Chagoya’s “Enlightened Savage,” a set of 10 “soup cans” published by Trillium Press. Mimicking Campbell’s labels, Chagoya’s offerings include “Critic’s Tongue,” “Cream of Dealer,” and “Museum Director’s Tripe.”
The most recent – and most ambitious - works in the show are two examples of his latest codex, published by Magnolia Press in December. Titled “New Illegal Alien’s Guide to Critical Theory,” each work combines lithography and monoprint on 8 foot long sheets of amate paper. Two superimposed layers of images hand drawn and printed on plexi sheets give the work a rich and startling sculptural dimension. The exhibition also features two “Codex” prints published by Shark’s Ink. in 2004 and 2005, “The Ghost of Liberty,” and “Double Trouble (Anthropology of the Clone),” both commentaries on the Iraq war, as well as “Thinking of Ensor and My Cat Diego” published in 2007 by ULAE.
Born in Mexico City in 1953, Chagoya received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA from the University of California at Berkeley. He currently resides in San Francisco and is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Stanford University. Chagoya's work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, LA County Museum, and the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., among others. A career survey exhibition organized by the Des Moines Art Center traveled to the Berkeley Art Museum and the Palm Springs Desert Museum in 2008.
Organized by the George Adams Gallery
UB Anderson Gallery is supported with funds from the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Anderson Gallery Program Fund, and UB Collection Care and Management Endowment Fund.
UB Anderson Gallery, located at One Martha Jackson Place near Englewood and Kenmore, is open Wednesday through Saturday 11am-5pm and Sunday 1-5pm. For more information, please call (716) 829-3754.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE through April 11, 2009
Contact: Sandra Q. Firmin
Curator, UB Art Gallery
716.645.0570
sfirmin@buffalo.edu
Buffalo, NY – The UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts is pleased to present two solo exhibitions for Naomi Marine and Kara Newbauer, on view from March 19 to April 11, 2009.
OPENING RECEPTION FOR THE ARTISTS:
Thursday, March 19, 2009, 5 TO 7 PM
UB Art Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday 11 AM to 5 PM with extended hours on Thursday until 7 PM. For information, please call 716-645-6913.
Naomi Marine: Nothing of Significance
March 19 - April 11, 2009
Opening Reception, Thursday, March 19, 5 to 7pm
Naomi Marine's installation Nothing of Significance explores the fantastical intermingling of perceptual and material transformation. Guided by her sensual relationship to color and texture, Marine reconfigures hair, flooring insulation, textiles, paper trash, and other abject materials culled from her domestic environment into whimsical arrangements that seem uncanny in their perverse familiarity. Marine's desire for immediacy and a love of repetitive, ritualistic actions results in marks and forms generated as multiples which use her own theatrical daydreams and desires as humorous catalysts to ponder the complexity of human motivations and the dueling powers of thought and action to transform reality.
Naomi Marine is currently living, working and collecting in Amherst, NY, far from the shimmering heat and mountains of Arizona in which she grew up. Marine received her B.F.A. in painting from Arizona State University in 2005, and is now in the final semester of study for her Master's of Fine Arts from the University at Buffalo. She has exhibited her sculptures, paintings, and installations commercially and independently in the greater Phoenix area and Western New York, and her work is included in numerous private collections.
Kara Newbauer: Color Stacks & Painted Pictures
March 19 - April 11, 2009
Opening Reception, Thursday, March 19, 5 to 7pm
Kara Newbauer's Color Stacks & Painted Paintings uses observational painting, reproductions of paintings, and found images to create a space that allows the viewer to discover relationships within the surrounding world, as well the very way the world is represented, re-represented, and validated through historical record. In this case, she pursues her imagery in stacks of art history books. Throughout the installation, paintings reference images, images reference paintings, and illusion references flat color, creating a self-reflexive space where remembering, forgetting, and critical questioning become the dominant experiences.
Newbauer was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and is currently living and working in Buffalo, New York. She received a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2006, and is currently completing an Master's of Fine Arts at the University at Buffalo.
The UB Art Gallery is funded by the UB College of Arts Sciences, the Visual Arts Building Fund, the Seymour H. Knox Foundation Fine Arts Fund, and the Fine Arts Center Endowment.
The UB Art Gallery is located in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus just north of the I290 on Millersport Highway. Traveling east or west on the I-290 take exit 5B to Millersport Highway North. Turn onto the campus at the Coventry entrance. As you enter the campus, the Center for the Arts is a high gabled white building directly ahead of you.
After 3 PM and on weekends, parking is free and a permit is not required. During all other times, guests must park in metered spaces, visitor parking lots, or obtain a parking permit from UB Art Gallery staff. In order to obtain a parking permit, temporarily park in the circle in front of the Center for the Arts and see a gallery attendant inside.
Contact: Sandra Q. Firmin
Curator, UB Art Gallery
716.645.0570
sfirmin@buffalo.edu
Ani Hoover: Up Down Around
February 26 – June 20, 2009
Saya Woolfalk: No Place
February 26 – May 9, 2009
OPENING RECEPTION FOR THE ARTISTS:
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009, 5 TO 7 PM
Buffalo, NY – The UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts is pleased to present two solo exhibitions bursting with polychromatic exuberance curated by Sandra Q. Firmin.
UB Art Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday 11 AM to 5 PM with extended hours on Thursday until 7 PM. For information, please call 716-645-6913.
Ani Hoover: Up Down Around
Lightwell Project
February 26 – June 20, 2009
Ani Hoover’s lyrical repetition of circles in varying sizes and palettes in her abstract paintings produces fleeting impressions as lustrous pop colors buoyantly dance across the surface, bumping against or overlaid by circles that appear time-worn, reminiscent of urban decay or geological processes. Her Lightwell Project features a commanding series of vertical paintings thirty-feet high by five feet wide inspired by natural cycles of varying lengths—a day, a year, perhaps a millennium—cascading from ceiling to floor.
Originally from Missouri, Hoover went to graduate school in Washington, DC and then lived in Baltimore, MD before making her home in Buffalo, New York in 2002. Since moving to Buffalo, her colorful abstract paintings have been shown at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, the Castellani Art Museum, Buffalo Arts Studio, The Neighborhood Collective Gallery, and Insite Gallery.
Hoover’s paintings are in the collections of M & T Bank, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and numerous private collections across the country.
Saya Woolfalk: No Place
February 26 – May 9, 2009
New York-based artist Saya Woolfalk will be in residence for six weeks working on an installment of her ongoing investigations into No Place, a Technicolor society of lush abundance that Woolfalk depicts in performance, video, and sculptural installations. Her alchemical process transforms detritus of our consumer civilization into polychromatic totems and bodysuits sprouting bulbous forms that blend with the vibrant landscape of her invention. She invites us to make a journey to No Place and witness its androgynous inhabitants enact empathetic explorations of self and other as a form of creative expression.
Woolfalk will be in residence February 26 through April 15, 2009 working on another chapter of No Place. She will transform the UB Art Gallery into a stage and studio where the public can attend dress rehearsals and participate in artist-led workshops at scheduled times. Her residency will culminate with a live performance by the artist and students in UB’s Department of Theatre and Dance on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 4 pm.
Public dress rehearsals:
Thursdays, March 5, 19, and 26, and April 2 and 9, 5 to 7 pm.
Empathetic T-shirt Workshops:
Saturdays, February 28, March 21, and April 11, 2 to 4 pm.
Woolfalk’s work spans multiple media from sculpture, installation, and painting to performance and video. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from Brown University, and she recently completed the Whitney Independent Study Program in Studio. She has exhibited at PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, NY; the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, IN; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, IL; and Momenta Art in Williamsburg, NY. She received an Art Matters grant to Japan and a NYFA grant (2007), a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil (2005), and a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA grant (2004), and was a participant at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, and Sculpture Space. In 2008, Woolfalk was a resident artist at the Studio Museum in Harlem. She is currently working on a dance piece commissioned by the UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts. With the support of a Franklin Furnace fellowship, the piece will travel to New York City in the fall of 2009.
The UB Art Gallery is funded by the UB College of Arts Sciences, the Visual Arts Building Fund, the Seymour H. Knox Foundation Fine Arts Fund, and the Fine Arts Center Endowment.
The UB Art Gallery is located in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus just north of the I290 on Millersport Highway. Traveling east or west on the I-290 take exit 5B to Millersport Highway North. Turn onto the campus at the Coventry entrance. As you enter the campus, the Center for the Arts is a high gabled white building directly ahead of you.
After 3 PM and on weekends, parking is free and a permit is not required. During all other times, guests must park in metered spaces, visitor parking lots, or obtain a parking permit from UB Art Gallery staff. In order to obtain a parking permit, temporarily park in the circle in front of the Center for the Arts and see a gallery attendant inside.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE through April 26, 2009
Contact: Sandra Q. Firmin
Curator, UB Art Gallery
716.645.0570
sfirmin@buffalo.edu
Enrique Chagoya: Adventures and Misadventures, Prints and Multiples 2002-2008.
UB Anderson Gallery
March 6 - April 26, 2009
Buffalo, NY – UB Anderson Gallery is pleased to present Enrique Chagoya: Adventures and Misadventures, Prints and Multiples 2002-2008, which is free and open to the public. The exhibition will be on view March 6 through April 26, 2009. There will be a public reception on Saturday, March 21 from 6:00-8:00pm. The artist will give a lecture April 9 at 5:30pm.
The show features approximately 15 works published by different presses, including ULAE, Sharks Ink, Segura, Magnolia Press, Hui Press and Trillium.
Chagoya has been actively making prints for over 25 years, and his work in the medium has become increasingly experimental in terms of scale, mixed technique and even dimension, which is the focus of the current survey. The exhibition begins in 2002 with Chagoya’s “Enlightened Savage,” a set of 10 “soup cans” published by Trillium Press. Mimicking Campbell’s labels, Chagoya’s offerings include “Critic’s Tongue,” “Cream of Dealer,” and “Museum Director’s Tripe.”
The most recent – and most ambitious - works in the show are two examples of his latest codex, published by Magnolia Press in December. Titled “New Illegal Alien’s Guide to Critical Theory,” each work combines lithography and monoprint on 8 foot long sheets of amate paper. Two superimposed layers of images hand drawn and printed on plexi sheets give the work a rich and startling sculptural dimension. The exhibition also features two “Codex” prints published by Shark’s Ink. in 2004 and 2005, “The Ghost of Liberty,” and “Double Trouble (Anthropology of the Clone),” both commentaries on the Iraq war, as well as “Thinking of Ensor and My Cat Diego” published in 2007 by ULAE.
Born in Mexico City in 1953, Chagoya received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA from the University of California at Berkeley. He currently resides in San Francisco and is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Stanford University. Chagoya's work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, LA County Museum, and the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., among others. A career survey exhibition organized by the Des Moines Art Center traveled to the Berkeley Art Museum and the Palm Springs Desert Museum in 2008.
Organized by the George Adams Gallery
UB Anderson Gallery is supported with funds from the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Anderson Gallery Program Fund, and UB Collection Care and Management Endowment Fund.
UB Anderson Gallery, located at One Martha Jackson Place near Englewood and Kenmore, is open Wednesday through Saturday 11am-5pm and Sunday 1-5pm. For more information, please call (716) 829-3754.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE through April 11, 2009
Contact: Sandra Q. Firmin
Curator, UB Art Gallery
716.645.0570
sfirmin@buffalo.edu
Buffalo, NY – The UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts is pleased to present two solo exhibitions for Naomi Marine and Kara Newbauer, on view from March 19 to April 11, 2009.
OPENING RECEPTION FOR THE ARTISTS:
Thursday, March 19, 2009, 5 TO 7 PM
UB Art Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday 11 AM to 5 PM with extended hours on Thursday until 7 PM. For information, please call 716-645-6913.
Naomi Marine: Nothing of Significance
March 19 - April 11, 2009
Opening Reception, Thursday, March 19, 5 to 7pm
Naomi Marine's installation Nothing of Significance explores the fantastical intermingling of perceptual and material transformation. Guided by her sensual relationship to color and texture, Marine reconfigures hair, flooring insulation, textiles, paper trash, and other abject materials culled from her domestic environment into whimsical arrangements that seem uncanny in their perverse familiarity. Marine's desire for immediacy and a love of repetitive, ritualistic actions results in marks and forms generated as multiples which use her own theatrical daydreams and desires as humorous catalysts to ponder the complexity of human motivations and the dueling powers of thought and action to transform reality.
Naomi Marine is currently living, working and collecting in Amherst, NY, far from the shimmering heat and mountains of Arizona in which she grew up. Marine received her B.F.A. in painting from Arizona State University in 2005, and is now in the final semester of study for her Master's of Fine Arts from the University at Buffalo. She has exhibited her sculptures, paintings, and installations commercially and independently in the greater Phoenix area and Western New York, and her work is included in numerous private collections.
Kara Newbauer: Color Stacks & Painted Pictures
March 19 - April 11, 2009
Opening Reception, Thursday, March 19, 5 to 7pm
Kara Newbauer's Color Stacks & Painted Paintings uses observational painting, reproductions of paintings, and found images to create a space that allows the viewer to discover relationships within the surrounding world, as well the very way the world is represented, re-represented, and validated through historical record. In this case, she pursues her imagery in stacks of art history books. Throughout the installation, paintings reference images, images reference paintings, and illusion references flat color, creating a self-reflexive space where remembering, forgetting, and critical questioning become the dominant experiences.
Newbauer was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and is currently living and working in Buffalo, New York. She received a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2006, and is currently completing an Master's of Fine Arts at the University at Buffalo.
The UB Art Gallery is funded by the UB College of Arts Sciences, the Visual Arts Building Fund, the Seymour H. Knox Foundation Fine Arts Fund, and the Fine Arts Center Endowment.
The UB Art Gallery is located in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus just north of the I290 on Millersport Highway. Traveling east or west on the I-290 take exit 5B to Millersport Highway North. Turn onto the campus at the Coventry entrance. As you enter the campus, the Center for the Arts is a high gabled white building directly ahead of you.
After 3 PM and on weekends, parking is free and a permit is not required. During all other times, guests must park in metered spaces, visitor parking lots, or obtain a parking permit from UB Art Gallery staff. In order to obtain a parking permit, temporarily park in the circle in front of the Center for the Arts and see a gallery attendant inside.
New website for Theater Alliance
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Theatre Alliance of Buffalo www.theatreallianceofbuffalo.com
Media Contact: Director of Communications & Community Relations,
Constance McEwen Caldwell, cmcaldwell88@aol.com 716.353.0104
March 2, 2009
Theatre Alliance of Buffalo Announces Its New Website
A one-stop- shop for theatregoers!
BUFFALO - Theatre Alliance of Buffalo (TAB) launched, for the first time, a dedicated website www.theatreallianceofbuffalo.com.
TAB’s website, rich with production images and easy navigation, provides a “one-stop-shop” for theatre-goers looking to take in a show by theatre, date or genre.
TAB’s website, a focal point of all TAB activities, also offers a comprehensive weekly picture of theatre in the Buffalo Niagara region, making its link with other regional websites an invaluable connection.
The website’s capacity to gather information is beneficial to all TAB members communication outreach.
An added feature is the artist gallery, a sub-set of pages that includes actors, designers, directors, photographers and production professionals’ contact information. The purpose of the artist gallery is to serve local talent industries and other theatres seeking talent for work or information.
Web host and design for TAB’s website was created by CORE 101.
To learn more about the website and TAB members, visit www.theatreallianceofbuffalo.com.
Theatre Alliance of Buffalo www.theatreallianceofbuffalo.com
Media Contact: Director of Communications & Community Relations,
Constance McEwen Caldwell, cmcaldwell88@aol.com 716.353.0104
March 2, 2009
Theatre Alliance of Buffalo Announces Its New Website
A one-stop- shop for theatregoers!
BUFFALO - Theatre Alliance of Buffalo (TAB) launched, for the first time, a dedicated website www.theatreallianceofbuffalo.com.
TAB’s website, rich with production images and easy navigation, provides a “one-stop-shop” for theatre-goers looking to take in a show by theatre, date or genre.
TAB’s website, a focal point of all TAB activities, also offers a comprehensive weekly picture of theatre in the Buffalo Niagara region, making its link with other regional websites an invaluable connection.
The website’s capacity to gather information is beneficial to all TAB members communication outreach.
An added feature is the artist gallery, a sub-set of pages that includes actors, designers, directors, photographers and production professionals’ contact information. The purpose of the artist gallery is to serve local talent industries and other theatres seeking talent for work or information.
Web host and design for TAB’s website was created by CORE 101.
To learn more about the website and TAB members, visit www.theatreallianceofbuffalo.com.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Strong National Museum of Play
If you have young children (or even older ones) the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester is the perfect place to take them. I took my two youngest children there last week when they had off from school for their mid-winter break. They had a lot of fun!
This is the only museum in the world that focuses on the importance of play in learning. It is home to the National Toy Home of Fame, which is located on the second level of the museum. A few years ago the museum underwent a multi-million dollar expansion; a butterfly garden was added, along with expanded exhibit space.
One of the newer exhibits is on the Berenstain Bears, which my youngest son just loved. We also spent quite a bit of time in the Fields of Play area, which has all sorts of fun things for kids to do. You can easily spend the whole day here, even two days, if you take the time to look at the antique toys and Americana items that were collected by the late Margaret Strong, who founded the museum in 1968.
Strong Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Square, Rochester 585-263-2700, http://www.museumofplay.org/
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Dance classes in Lewiston
Here's some information I thought I'd pass on to people
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 16, 2009
FROM: Lewiston Council on the Arts, (716) 754-0166
RE: Gifted and Graceful
Dance Classes for Students With Special Needs
(Lewiston, New York) Lewiston Council on the Arts is pleased to offer ballet classes
for students with special needs. Saturday classes will begin on March 14th through
April 4th, and will be held on the second floor of the beautiful and historic Lewiston Opera
Hall, 732 Center St., Lewiston.
The dance classes are sponsored by Rivershore, Inc. and have been created for special
needs children who can walk without crutches, walkers or wheelchairs and follow multi-step
directions. Under the watchful eye of instructor, Susan Akin, students will enjoy 50 minutes
of elementary ballet and creative interpretation, designed to help them enjoy music, express
themselves through dance and gain musicality and body control.
"We're hoping to fill these classes. There's a little "DIVA" in everyone!" said Ms. Akin.
Participants will need a pair of ballet slippers, leotard and tights, or other comfortable dance
clothes. No jeans or sneakers, please. Parents are encouraged to stay.
Ages 7 - 12 2:00PM, Ages 13 - 21 3:00PM
Cost is $40.00 per student. Pre-registration is required.
For more information: 716-754-0166
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 16, 2009
FROM: Lewiston Council on the Arts, (716) 754-0166
RE: Gifted and Graceful
Dance Classes for Students With Special Needs
(Lewiston, New York) Lewiston Council on the Arts is pleased to offer ballet classes
for students with special needs. Saturday classes will begin on March 14th through
April 4th, and will be held on the second floor of the beautiful and historic Lewiston Opera
Hall, 732 Center St., Lewiston.
The dance classes are sponsored by Rivershore, Inc. and have been created for special
needs children who can walk without crutches, walkers or wheelchairs and follow multi-step
directions. Under the watchful eye of instructor, Susan Akin, students will enjoy 50 minutes
of elementary ballet and creative interpretation, designed to help them enjoy music, express
themselves through dance and gain musicality and body control.
"We're hoping to fill these classes. There's a little "DIVA" in everyone!" said Ms. Akin.
Participants will need a pair of ballet slippers, leotard and tights, or other comfortable dance
clothes. No jeans or sneakers, please. Parents are encouraged to stay.
Ages 7 - 12 2:00PM, Ages 13 - 21 3:00PM
Cost is $40.00 per student. Pre-registration is required.
For more information: 716-754-0166
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Enjoy the taste of Thailand
My daughter and I recently checked out two recently opened Thai restaurants in the northtowns. Thai Orchid Café in the Evanstown Plaza has a beautiful contemporary deco. However, we got our food take out that particular evening. The Pad Thai is especially good. we also tried a chicken and mixed vegetable stir-fry and Vietnamese curry, which was also good.
We ordered some of our favorite beverage, Thai iced tea, to go. We even got my husband to try Thai food, but I’m not sure if he cared for it too much. He did not like the Thai iced tea at all, which meant that there was more for us! Of course we had to order pizza for the boys, because they won’t try foods that have vegetables in it. Thai Orchid Café, 716-565-2094, 416 Evans Street, Williamsville, NY 14221
We also had the opportunity to have lunch at the new second location of Saigon Bangkok, which just opened a couple weeks ago at the corner of Maple and Transit Road in Williamsville in the Tops Plaza. We started out with the spring rolls. I had the Panang Curry, which was very good and my daughter opted for the Red curry. Both were very good. Again we had the Thai iced tea. Saigon Bangkok, 716-632-8884, 8080 Transit Road, Williamsville, NY 14221.
Other Thai restaurants we have visited include the original location of Saigon Bangkok, 716-837-2115, 512 Niagara Falls Blvd. Amherst; King & I, 716-839-2950, 2188 Kensington Avenue, Amherst and one of our favorites, but a bit of a drive, The King and I: Cuisine of Thailand, 585-427-8090, 1455 East Henrietta Road, Rochester, which has the best sesame chicken!
Wine and Chocolate Weekend along the Chautauqua Lake Erie Wine Trail
Why not enjoy some wine and chocolate with your significant other along the Chautauqua Lake Erie wine Trail, which has 21 wineries in Chautauqua County and northern Pennsylvania. Enjoy locally produced wines paired with a chocolate creation at each winery.
February 7 & 8, 2009
Tickets $25 Weekend, $20 Sunday Only
Available online until February 1; by phone until February 5th - 877-326-6561
Lodging at local Inns, B&Bs and Hotels still available
Please visit www.chautauquawinetrail.org for more information
February 7 & 8, 2009
Tickets $25 Weekend, $20 Sunday Only
Available online until February 1; by phone until February 5th - 877-326-6561
Lodging at local Inns, B&Bs and Hotels still available
Please visit www.chautauquawinetrail.org for more information
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