The popular monthly 4th Friday Poetry Series at the nonprofit Dog Ears Bookstore, located at 688 Abbott Road in South Buffalo, resumes at 7 p.m. Friday, May 25. Guest readers will include Elaine Chamberlain and George Grace.

Chamberlain taught English, creative writing and art and has done volunteer nursing in southern Mexico. She likes to write about growing up in Seattle, about the Mayan people who were her patients in Chiapas, and about travel on the cheap. She has traveled aboard chicken buses in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Bolivia; biked and ferried in Nova Scotia; and traveled by train, canal boat and bicycle rickshaw in India and Nepal. Last year she retired after 20 years as a mental health counselor. Her current passion is the art of collage and diorama. 

 

A variety of exhibits and classes are on tap at Enjoy The Journey Art Gallery in West Seneca, and the gallery has also announced details of a summer internship program for local high school students.

“Painting What I Know,” by artist Heather Lynn Harris, remains on display through June 2. Paintings include landscapes, portraits and man’s best friend. A photography exhibit by artist Dan Benevento is scheduled from June 6 through July 7, with an opening reception planned from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, June 8. 

Naked Buffalo Tours is debuts a new tour of Buffalo's Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood this weekend.  Historic Polonia will take place Saturday May 12 at 1pm. The tour starts inside the entrance to the Broadway Market and walks around the immediate neighborhood explotring the history of what was once the second largest business district in the county!

This tour runs every other Saturday. The company also will have Buffalo's Erie Canal Tour at 10am and Sunday tours. The website has a full calendar of events.

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