Events

[ART] A visit by local legend media scholar Dr. Gerald O’Grady, the founder of Media Study/Buffalo and instrumental in establishment of the UB Center for Media Study in the 1970s, is the centerpiece of the Burchfield Penney Art Center fall launch festival this weekend, running Thursday, November 12 to Sunday, November 15.  On Saturday, O’Grady will be interviewed on stage by John Minkowski, media critic and former curator of video at Media Study/Buffalo, and Anthony Bannon, executive director of the Burchfield Penney center and a former curator of photography for Media Study/Buffalo. The interviews will take place from 10am to noon, and 1:30pm to 4:30pm. Another O’Grady event Saturday evening, starting at 7pm. Screening of a new documentary film by Francois Miron on Paul Sharits, and films or video by Hollis Frampton, James Blue, Peter Weibel, and Woody and Stein Vasulka, and audience discussion led by O’Grady. And on Sunday, beginning at 1:30pm, screenings of independent films selected by O’Grady as significant to the development of media culture in Buffalo. 

The festival opens Thursday evening at 7pm with a performance by the Lehrer Dance Company, featuring a new dance and video work. And on Friday at 8pm, a concert by Musical Feast and friends, featuring a piece called Water, arranged by and performed on guzheng—a kind of Chinese zither—by virtuoso on that instrument Zhongbei (Daisy) Wu, accompanied by a video by Robert John Holland entitled The Way of Clinton Brook. Other music with and without video accompaniment by composers from Mozart and Handel to Ruth Wiesenfeld, Coleen Marie, Joshua Smith, and John Bacon.