Station Calendar:

Leadership Circle & Founder’s Society Events:

• SAVE the Date! Leadership Circle and Founder's Society Annual Meeting

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 ~ 5:30pm-7:30pm

Please join fellow members and our President for a preview of the upcoming season and new happenings at WNED. Your feedback and suggestions are encouraged to keep WNED a valuable asset in Western New York and Southern Ontario.

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WNED Station Calendar:

• WNED Kidfest 2008 - February 2nd & 3rd - This event was a huge success last year and gave tons of families a break from the boredom of winter. Parents and children got out of the house for a day of fun visiting with PBS kid program characters, doing arts and crafts, seeing themselves on television, entering the coloring contest, getting PBS Kid character tattoos and more! Don't let this great opportunity pass you by! Come out and enjoy the 2nd Annual WNED Kidfest!

• The JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition, presented by WNED and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, will present its third biennial competition June 9-13, 2008 at Buffalo's Kleinhans Music Hall. Ten of the best classical guitarists in the world will visit Buffalo and compete for a prize package that includes a paid return engagement with the Buffalo PHilharmonic Orchestra. Also a new program has been designed in conjunction with the event titled "Adopt a Competitor" where a corporation or individual sponsors and hosts a single performer thus "adopting" him or her during his or her stay in Buffalo. Through the program we feel confident that all of our international visitors will depart Buffalo with love and admiration for our City of Good Neighbors.
• The Schedule of events includes:
  - Community Welcome, Monday, June 9, WNED (**free and open to the public)
  - Semifinals, Tuesday, June 10 and Wednesday, June 11, 7:30pm, Mary Seaton Room, Kleinhans
  - Finals, Friday, June 13, 7:30pm, Kleinhans Mainstage

Events in the Community:

• WNED and Locust Street Neighborhood Art Classes present: Selections for the "Locust Street" Permanent Collection
  • When: Showing through November 2, 2007
  • Hours: Weekdays, 9am to 4:30pm
  • Where: WNED's Horizons Gallery: 140 Lower Terrace, across from the Adam's Makr Hotel in downtown Buffalo / Free parking available.
  • Phone: (716) 845-7000
    Free & Open to the public
  From bold, colorful portraits to dramatic urban street scenes, paintings, drawings and photographs express the views of artists as young as 5. Topics include nature, abstract graphics and photographs of the fire that destroyed Buffalo's landmark Little Harlem Hotel.
  
  The "Locust Street" Story
  "Locust Street" is a non-profit organization that offers free instruction in the visual arts (painting, drawing, clay, photography) and creative writing for all age groups (preschoolers to senior citizens). Intended for those who might otherwise have little opportunity to pursue creative training, classes are held in a historic former convent on Buffalo's East Side at 138 Locust Street. Students come from throughout the Buffalo area, but primarily from the immediate Fruit Belt neighborhood. The organization began in 1959 when neighborhood children knocked on the door of artist Molly Bethel and asked her to teach them how to paint. "Painting parties" held in her home quickly overflowed with children, and program offerings soon expanded.

• WNED is a proud media sponsor of Ancient Peru Unearthed, Golden Treasures of a Lost Civilization, showing at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto

• WNED Supports Gusto at the Gallery- Free at the Albright Knox Art Gallery every Friday night from 3pm-10pm. www.albrightknox.com

• WNED Supports Roswell Park Cancer Institute’s Paint Box Project. They have cards for every occasion! Visit www.PaintBoxProject.com to support groundbreaking cancer research and compassionate patient care programs.