Song of the Day – Joan Baez, “Birmingham Sunday”
From Subversive Theatre Collective:
To mark the 50th anniversary of one of the most painful moments of the Civil Rights Movement, Subversive Theatre is honored to present the new docu-drama FOUR LITTLE GIRLS: Birmingham 1963 by Christina Ham as the third installment of our Subversive Youth Series, opening Wednesday, May 22nd and running through Saturday, June 1st.
This touching hour-long play takes a powerful look back at the all-too-true story of four young black girls — Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, and Addie Mae Collin whose lives were brutally cut short when segregationist fanatics bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church of Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. Read more
City of Night 2013 – Call for Live Music Acts
From Seamus Gallivan: The Good Hood is onboard for the 2nd annual City of Night at Silo City on Saturday, August 17th, concurring with the contention made by Buffalo city planner Chris Hawley to The Buffalo News‘ Colin Dabkowski during the inaugural event that Silo City “is a landscape unlike any other place on the planet, and it’s something that folks in Buffalo are starting to realize exists and is now being seen as a resource for cultural and economic revitalization.”
Here, we’re sharing the various calls for participants, beginning with live music. Read on and reach out if you think you fit the bill! Read more
Good Neighbors Support The Good Hood
Young Audiences at Canalside – “I Went Down to the River to Play…”
By Nancy Sterman, Director of Education, Young Audiences of Western New York
When I was a child, Canalside served as a landmark to guide my Dad to the best parking spot for a Sabres game at the Aud. I remember looking longingly through the crisp, winter air at that giant ship moored like a foreign object or artifact left over from a far away time when things here happened on the water. Flash forward many years later and the ice has melted to reveal that life indeed does exist on the waterfront, and as last year proved, an overwhelming number of organizations are banding together to bring throngs of people, starved for a reason – to come down and support life down by the water. Read more
PUSHin’ the Envelope – “Righting with Copper” Christens GSNC as Art Exhibition Space
By Lonnie Barlow, Organizer, PUSH Buffalo
With the right of free speech comes the right of many rights – this includes the right to create art that imitates life, and the right to live a life that inspires artists. Sustainable democracy – which includes the right to sustainable housing for all, the right to living wage work opportunities, and basically the right to green and affordable living, is an art and a life all in itself.
The origin of the interior of “The Center” (Grant St Neighborhood Center, 271 Grant St, Buffalo) as an exhibition space for artists begins this spring. This humble beginning will take the form of one show – Sarah Myers: Righting on Copper. Read more
Good Neighbors Support The Good Hood
Song of the Day – Dave Ruch, “Oh! Dat Low Bridge!” (Erie Canal Song)
By Seamus Gallivan
While we’re set to announce next week a busy lineup of summer concerts at the Liberty Hound (1 Naval Park Cove), today marks the Open House for the Hound’s nextdoor neighbors on Buffalo’s Inner Harbor at Canalside, at which the state-run Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation has scheduled more than 750 events this summer, a truly amazing variety of activity sure to further establish Canalside as the centerpiece of a new era for Buffalo – one marked by community inclusion and ownership.
Today’s Open House features many of the organizations and performers presenting those 750+ events, along with the debut of the “Canalside Food Fight”, the first mobile food series competition on the waterfront, presented by a team including those behind Buffalo Soup Fest. The full lineup is as follows: Read more
Starlight Spotlight – 5 Steps for Sustainability & Rooftop Spirulina Farm
By Parrish Gibbons, Starlight Studio and Art Gallery
Starlight Studio is not only a cultural asset to the arts community, but has been home to over 50 artists with learning disabilities in the past eight years we’ve been open. The past few months have proven difficult for the Learning Disabilities Association of WNY, who opened Starlight in 2005, due to funding cuts in the NYS budget. Regardless, we have held our heads high and looked at our options with an open mind.
In the past few months we have taken steps to not only cut costs, but to become a sustainable part of our community by educating our participants and staff on how to become more earth-friendly.
In the studio we have taken the following five steps: Read more
Song of the Day – Bruce Springsteen, “57 Channels (And Nothin’ On)”
By Seamus Gallivan
There may have been nothin’ on the “57 Channels” Bruce Springsteen was watching back in ’92, but there’s somethin’ real from within our community on three Channels made possible by Squeaky Wheel and premiering tonight at Dipson Theatres Market Arcade Film & Arts Center (639 Main St, 7pm, $1-10 sliding admission).
From Squeaky:
Channels: Stories from the Niagara Frontier is Squeaky Wheel’s production initiative that connects area filmmakers with activist and community groups to make short documentaries about social justice issues impacting our region. After the screening, filmmakers and representatives from each participating group will be on hand to address audience questions and comments. This year’s projects include: Read more
Young Audiences Hosts Art Auction Benefit Saturday at Tapestry Charter School
By Nancy Sterman, Director of Education, Young Audiences of Western New York
When I was interviewing for my present job, I was asked what my definition of success was. To be honest, I don’t know how I answered, but I do know that for most of my life, real success would happen when I owned my own canoe and real, original art (as opposed to framed prints.)
My first real piece came to me as a gift from a student. It hangs proudly in my living room; stark, dark and just a little depressing, but I love it. It symbolizes her teenage angst coupled with intellectual prowess and the over-extended sense of sophistication that comes with being 18 and wealthy.
Putting a bid on a piece at a silent auction this year was my first tiptoe into the world of collecting for real. It was Read more
