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Cassie Puccia, Director of Organizational Development at Buffalo Center for Arts & Technology

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The Faces Behind the Fair: How BCAT’s Community Resource Event Brings Buffalo Together

Dallas Taylor

What made the BCAT Community Resource Fair stand out wasn’t just its size, more than 30 community organizations participated, but its purpose. It was about connection, access, and collaboration.

"Baristas vs. Billionaires" explores the real people behind the successful union organizing efforts of Buffalo Starbucks locations in 2021. They grabbed national headlines, and led to other movements at hundreds of other U.S. Starbucks locations.

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Starbucks union center of documentary premiering at Buffalo International Film Festival

Ryan Zunner

"Baristas vs. Billionaires" is a film years in the making that takes a look at the union efforts of Starbucks baristas in Buffalo, a successful effort that led to a nationwide movement at the coffee chain.

Guitarist Mike Campbell was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2002 as lead guitarist of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. After Petty's passing in 2017, Campbell has been going full force fronting the band the Dirty Knobs. With three studio albums and a recently released memoir, Campbell heads to Artpark in Lewiston July 31.

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Former Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell reflects on life, career, fronting the Dirty Knobs

Ryan Zunner

Mike Campbell was an integral part of the decades long history of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee reflects on that legacy, and how his band the Dirty Knobs is pushing new ground with a stop at Artpark July 31.

Artist Jay Carrier stands in front of some of his paintings in his Niagara Falls studio

Interest grows into work of Niagara Falls artist Jay Carrier

Jay Moran

Artist Jay Carrier focuses on Niagara Falls, Native issues and more.

Bronze and gold image of the letters C and B with a depiction of a city hall building. Next to it reads "Casting Buffalo"

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Second Actors Expo set for August

Jay Moran

Held in 2023, the first Actors Expo drew nearly 500 people. Jay Moran speaks with the organizers ahead of the second Expo set for Aug. 3 at The Atrium at Rich's.

A woman with black hair stands in front of a large black poster with artwork on it.

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Jamestown artist honors Native traditions

Jay Moran

The arts and culture center KayCo is the professional home of Kaycee Colburn, a young artist who is very much connected to history, though it's a history that dates well before the 1900's.