[LECTURE] Fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech called “The Future of Integration” at Kleinhans Music Hall, a speech which imagined a world free of the simmering oppressions of racial and economic injustice and the violence which those oppressions inevitably engendered.
[AUTHOR’S TALK] You may not know it, but Western New York’s social service and educational institutions are bracing for an anticipated influx of refugees who are not fleeing, as refugees before them, war or political persecution or ethnic violence (or at least not only those oppressions), but rather the effects of climate change.
[LECTURE] The second installment in a new lecture series at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center called “Talk the Talk“—in which an artist delivers a lecture on the work of another artist—is bound to be a popular one: The subject is Adam Zyglis, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Buffalo News; the lecturer is Andrea Mancuso, cofounder of the artist collective virocode and an art instructor at the Nichols School.
[CLASSICAL] In residence this week with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra is the esteemed Polish pianist Konrad Skolarski, an assistant professor at Warsaw’s Chopin University. Naturally, the 37-year-old’s stay in Buffalo will highlight the works of Poland’s most famous composer. First up is a free solo recital on Wednesday, November 1 at 8pm in the Mary Seaton Room, where the program ranges from Chopin to Liszt and Rachmaninoff—a pianist’s showcase.
“New York is not a safe haven” warns Thomas Feeley, new Buffalo Field Director of ICE (Immigrations and Custom Envorcement — U.S. Department of Homeland Security).
Michael Prezioso’s Bela Lugosi is part of the current exhibit of realists at Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora).