Arts and Culture

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  • Deathways Open Doors to Unexpected Cultural Practices
    10/8/08
    Cremation, "air burial," grave cairns, funeral mounds, mummification, belief in life after death -- death practices sacred to one culture are often considered "odd" or even terrifying by another. In every social group throughout history, the disposal of the dead has special significance, and ways of death always fascinate those on the outside looking in, says a history professor at the University at Buffalo.
  • Work of UB Scholar Leads to Public Recognition of a Remarkable Life
    10/2/08
    The remarkable story of Jeffrey Brace, an African-born slave who won his freedom after fighting on the side of the colonial army during the American Revolution, might very well have been lost to history but for the work of historian Kari J. Winter, Ph.D., professor of American studies at the University at Buffalo.
  • The Derek Trucks Band to Perform at UB Nov. 2
    9/30/08
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present The Derek Trucks Band at 8 p.m. on Nov. 2 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • M&T Bank Dance Series to Feature Pilobolus
    9/30/08
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Pilobolus at 8 p.m. on Nov. 1 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Basinski To Be Featured at Eclectic, Offbeat 2008 UNC Greensboro New Music Festival
    9/25/08
    "City of Webs," a composition by University at Buffalo Music Department alumnus Alejandro Rutty (Ph.D., 2002) based on a text of the same title by Michael Basinski, Ph.D., curator of the UB Poetry Collection, will make its premiere as part of "Unimaginable Music & Unruly Artists," the 2008 New Music Festival to be presented by the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, School of Music Oct. 28-30.
  • Center for the Arts to Present Bowfire, the Total String Experience
    9/24/08
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Bowfire at 8 p.m. on Oct. 21 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The performance is sponsored in part by Monaco's Violin Shop and Music Center.
  • 'City Voices, City Visions' Digital Video Project Again Takes Center Stage
    9/24/08
    More than 100 educators will celebrate the success of and take cues from the University at Buffalo's pioneer "City Voices, City Visions" student digital video project during a regional conference to be held Sept. 26 in the WNED Studios, 140 Lower Terrace, Buffalo.
  • Compania Flamenco Jose Porcel to Perform as Part of M&T Bank Dance Series
    9/24/08
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Compania Flamenco Jose Porcel at 8 p.m. on Oct. 17 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The performance is sponsored by M&T Bank.
  • UB Poetry Collection Will Help Illuminate International Literary Conference
    9/2/08
    Michael Basinski, Ph.D., curator of the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo, will discuss the university's significant Robert Graves holdings at the ninth annual international Robert Graves Conference to be held at St. John's College, Oxford University, Sept. 9-13.
  • Premier Interpreter of American Popular Song Michael Feinstein to Perform Oct. 3
    8/28/08
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Michael Feinstein at 8 p.m. on Oct. 3 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.