Arts and Culture

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Ballet Flamenco Jose Porcel at 8 p.m. on Nov. 2 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. A pre-performance talk will be held at 7 p.m. The performance is sponsored by KeyBank. Media sponsor is WGRZ-TV.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Mitch Albom at 8 p.m. on Nov. 18 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The event is sponsored by the Center for Hospice and Palliative Care.

The Department of Theatre and Dance at the University at Buffalo will present Zodiaque Dance Company: Dance Wonders Oct. 19-23 in the Drama Theatre located in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

From Oct. 20-23, more than 30 scholars from Taiwan, China and North America will converge on the University at Buffalo and Albright-Knox art galleries to examine, in their global contexts, the historical and aesthetic significance of the so-called "Great Wall," along with many other Chinese boundaries, both physical and metaphorical.

With the trial of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein expected to begin soon, the Jewish Law Students Association at the University at Buffalo Law School will host a multi-media presentation and lecture on a war-crimes tribunal from years past.

A keynote speech by Winona LaDuke, a former U.S. vice presidential candidate, will kick off the fourth-annual UB "Gender Matters/Gender Week," to be held Sept. 19-23 at the University at Buffalo.

The Center for the Arts has announced that the spring 2005 series Music is Art Live @ The Center, a television series celebrating Western New York's best contemporary musicians and visual artists, will begin airing on Sundays on UPN 23 WNLO starting Sept. 18 at 10:30 p.m.

The rebuilding of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina gives the city an unprecedented chance to create new city neighborhoods that are economically and racially diverse, says University at Buffalo urban geographer Meghan Cope, Ph.D., associate professor of geography in the College of Arts and Sciences.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Opera Verdi Europa: Madama Butterfly at 7:30 p.m. on Oct 17 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

The University at Buffalo will present the American Museum of Natural History's Margaret Mead Traveling Film and Video Festival, the longest-running showcase for independent cultural documentaries in the United States, encompassing a broad spectrum of work from indigenous community media to experimental nonfiction, Sept. 22 to Nov. 10.