Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler! (Let the Good times Roll!)

The 17th Annual Artvoice Mardi Gras is just around the corner. This year Mardi Gras will be on February 21st and once again all proceeds of the event will be donated to Give For Greatness. This event will kick off our 2012 Give Season and we are getting very excited about seeing all of Buffalo come out to celebrate Fat Tuesday and support our local arts community. Buffalo hosts the second largest Mardi Gras party behind New Orleans!

Kick off the fall season by spending a day in the woods. Enjoy crafts for kids, live animals, hands-on activities, food, live music by Nan Hoffman and more. No registration required for this event.

 

Come to Ellicottville when the foliage of the surrounding hills is ablaze with color for their Fall Festival, October 8th and 9th, 2011. It's the southtown's oldest and largest Festival. Tens of thousands of festival goers make for a lively weekend of unique foods, an arts and Crafts Show, carnival rides, live entertainment and much more.

 

The Buffalo Irish Festival, August 26-28, 2011 has found a new home - the Statler Hotel in downtown Buffalo.

The FIRST ANNUAL YOGA FEST will be August 14, 2011 from 10am-4pm at the Erie Canal Harbor Central Wharf.

There will be free classes all day long, yoga postures, meditation, dance, singing, and activities for children. You can get a massage or energy healing, Henna and learn about what the yoga and holistic wellness community in WNY has to offer.

Schedule:

10:00am-10:45am Healing Yoga for Back, Neck & Shoulders
by Lisa Walter from Anjali Yoga & Wellness Studio

This July 8-10, 2011, join us in celebrating 3 days of traditional music, ethnic food, and dancing; a celebration of community and culture at the 40th Annual Grease Pole Festival at the Pucho Olivencia Center on Swan Street. Hispanic food, music and culture marks one of the oldest ethnic celebrations in Buffalo.

The festival also includes carnival rides and games. 

Williamsville - Amherst Old Home Days. - Island Park, July 12 - July 15, 2011 from 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. - A popular celebration to honor a century-old community tradition. Parade, food, amusements and rides, beer tent, music and family entertainment.

Click on the links below to see 2011 Schedule:

Our featured speaker is Kerry Mendez, owner of Perennial Yours in Ballston Spa, New York, a frequent contributor to HGTV and many national magazines including Fine Gardening. Kerry is author of The Ultimate Flower Gardener's Top Ten Lists (2010), and will have a really new book—coming out in May—on shade gardening, just in time for us!

Schedule for the day:

he Juneteenth Festival of Buffalo was started in 1976 by B.U.I.L.D., a community-based organization, as a culturally relevant alternative to the country's Bicentennial Celebration. The group blocked off part of Jefferson Avenue -- the "Main Street" of Buffalo's Black community -- for a weekend celebration. Murals were painted and vendors set up booths to sell ethnic foods and wares -- entertainment and festivity were abundant.