Events

[VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS] If you’re one of those who thinks the Allentown Art Festival should be renamed the Allentown Craft and Fried Dough Festival, or if you openly loathe the slow transformation of Allentown from a Bohemian-friendly neighborhood to one that now markets $2000 apartments in a “cultural” neighborhood, it’s time to infringe that shit this Friday because the Allentown-centered open studio event known as First Friday is running in confluence with an explosion of Infringement Festival events. This is your Allentown. You won’t be able to catch it all, and we won’t be able to tell you about it all here, just take heart that if you land on Allen between Wadsworth and North Pearl, follow your ears, eyes, and nose. Starting at 5pm, shops, restaurants, galleries will have music, art shows, and on the street there’ll be buskers, the roving Brass Pro and the Waterfront Revivalists. Inside Giacobbi’s, David Adamczyk’s Sound Strategy.  At Paw Prints, the amazing puppetry of theatreFiguren at 7:45pm. Openings of new gallery shows at Pine Apple Company, El Museo, Pausa Art House, Caffèology. At GCR Recording Studio: at 564 Franklin, a show of historical underground Buffalo rock posters and fliers hosted by a live music recording with Fems Fatale. Hang out on Days Park, erm, we mean “Disco Park” with DJ-ed rhythms programmed from 5-10pm. There’s something for everyone and nothing for anyone all at the same time! Have fun out there.