Community Calendar

The Hamburg Farmers Market has been a Southtowns staple since 1977. Attendees are free to explore a variety of agricultural products from local farmers, ranchers, homesteaders, and culinarians.

Buffalo & the Erie Canal: An Enduring Legacy
On view now until January 15, 2026

Ring of Knowledge
Central Library in Downtown Buffalo
1 Lafayette Square
Buffalo, NY 14203
See https://www.buffalolib.org/locations-hours/central-downtown-buffalo for hours

Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Erie Canal with Buffalo & the Erie Canal: An Enduring Legacy, a new exhibition exploring the rich history of our city's social and economic growth as the Western terminus of the Erie Canal. Discover the work, travel, trade, and development of our region's local waterways and in canalside neighborhoods dating back from the early 19th through the early 21st century.

Join us on June 5 from 6:00pm–7:15pm for the exhibition opening, featuring a live musical performance by Buffalo-based folk duo Sally Schaefer and Tyler Bagwell.

Join us for our annual Roycroft Campus Holiday Show: Saturday & Sunday: December 6th & 7th, 10am-5pm both days.
The annual campus Holiday Show will feature over 50 artists, community groups, and food vendors. This festival is also a great opportunity to walk through & explore the inside of the Historic Roycroft Campus buildings.

Our Art & Design students have been hard at work honing their creative entrepreneurship skills and crafted some wonderful products for the Holiday Market & Student Sale at the Burchfield Penney, and I would love to see their hard work pay off.

Friday, Dec 5th and Saturday Dec 6th from 10AM - 4PM. The link below contains all the info:
https://burchfieldpenney.org/events/event:12-05-2025-10-00am-28th-annual-buffalo-state-student-sale/

Thank you so much!

Shasti OLeary-Soudant
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Asst. Professor of Art & Design
Buffalo State University
artdesign.buffalostate.edu
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olearyse@buffalostate.edu
cell +1(716) 440-0142
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shastiolearysoudant.com

Buy local this holiday season! Established in 2011, The Queen City Market is a one-stop-shopping event showcasing an exceptional mix of artisan crafters, vintage sellers, food, and more from Western New York.

The Queen City Market will be held on Saturday December 6th, 2025 from 11am to 5pm at Seneca One (1 Seneca St., in Buffalo, NY). This event will feature 50+ local vendors, selling either handmade or vintage items. Each vendor was handpicked to guarantee a wide selection of goods–including jewelry, ceramics, vintage clothing and housewares, local foods, and much more. This is a free event and is open to the public, so please pass it on! This is our fourteenth year and we want it to be a day that promotes our city and the people in it, so please consider coming in!

Food and beverages will be available for purchase from Edgy Vegy, Lloyd Taco Truck, Undergrounds Coffee House and Roastery, and Tellers Lobby bar inside Seneca One, along with a few other local vendors. Admission is free, but we're accepting non-perishable food items &/or personal hygiene products as donations for FeedMore WNY to help those in need.

Old Fort Niagara assumes a particularly festive air during the holiday season. Special activities kick off on Saturday evenings, December 6 and 13, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, as the Fort presents Castle by Candlelight, a tour of the Great Lakes’ oldest building illuminated entirely by candles. Throughout the Castle, visitors will encounter members of the Fort’s 18th-century garrison demonstrating everything from quill pens to fur trading to traditional games of skill.

Twice each evening, the garrison turns out to perform a grand feu de joie (firing of joy), a rolling fire of muskets and cannons. Cooks demonstrate 18th-century holiday recipes, musicians play popular songs of the era, and a Recollet priest reads the Christmas story in Latin in the Fort’s 299-year-old chapel. Visitors to the event can make a holiday ornament and a bird feeder and enjoy Native American songs and stories.

Visitors can warm up and enjoy hot refreshments in the Fort's log cabin, which will be available for purchase. Menu items include bread pudding, soup, hot chocolate, coffee, and tea.

Admission to the event is $25.00 per person in advance and $30.00 at the door. Please note, general admission tickets are not valid for this fundraising program, and tickets for this event are non-refundable. All proceeds benefit Old Fort Niagara’s educational programs and the site's preservation efforts.

Buffalo Astronomical Association
-Public Night at Beaver Meadows Observatory
-1635 Welch Road,
Java Center NY 14082

Come join us for this FREE Event for a live and in person event as we take you on a telescopic tour of our Solar System, galaxy, and the Universe!

Saturday April 5, 2025 7pm - 11pm
Join us rain or shine!

https://www.buffaloastronomy.com/event/public-night-bmo-observatory

Join us for an evening of laughs as our castaways spend Christmas Eve navigating a deserted island mystery! Enjoy new spins on classic Christmas Carols and experience the thrill of a White-Sand Christmas.

Join Houghton University in celebrating Christmas Prism, featuring Handel's Messiah, as we invite audiences into that brilliant display of timeless Scripture and magnificent music converging in a celebration of divine light entering the world.

Buffalo & the Erie Canal: An Enduring Legacy
On view now until January 15, 2026

Ring of Knowledge
Central Library in Downtown Buffalo
1 Lafayette Square
Buffalo, NY 14203
See https://www.buffalolib.org/locations-hours/central-downtown-buffalo for hours

Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Erie Canal with Buffalo & the Erie Canal: An Enduring Legacy, a new exhibition exploring the rich history of our city's social and economic growth as the Western terminus of the Erie Canal. Discover the work, travel, trade, and development of our region's local waterways and in canalside neighborhoods dating back from the early 19th through the early 21st century.

Join us on June 5 from 6:00pm–7:15pm for the exhibition opening, featuring a live musical performance by Buffalo-based folk duo Sally Schaefer and Tyler Bagwell.