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Weekly Architectural Tours of Saint Francis Xavier Church: - Saturdays at 12 noon - Sundays at 1pm Tours are docent led and cost $8 See the Religious Arts Center as it undergoes conversion into Xavier Hall Broadway-Fillmore Alive Buffalo Central Terminal Buffalo Rising The Buffalo News Buffalo Tours Campaign for Greater Buffalo Friends of Saint Ann's Olmsted Parks Conservancy Preservation Buffalo Niagara H. H. Richardson Complex WNY Heritage Press Come join us in our effort to create a space that preserves and celebrates the religious art of the immigrant, ethnic heritage of Buffalo. |
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Reminder - Rediscover Amherst Street Festival this
Saturday!
June 19th, 2009 - Don't forget! Tomorrow is the Rediscover
Amherst Street Festival, with tons of music, food, events and
fun for the whole family. Buffalo Rising did a great article
here, listing all the events. At the Buffalo Religious Arts
Center, we will be doing quick low cost tours of the site, and
selling desks from the school for extremely reasonable
prices. Stop by and visit the former St. Francis Xavier Church,
and our growing collection.
The Windows of St. Joseph's
- June 17th, 2009 - Jay Tokaz had a great piece in today's
Buffalo News about the beautiful windows of St. Joseph
Church in North Tonawanda, and their fate after the church
closed. Fortunately, all of the windows went to great uses, in
Buffalo, and overseas.
- The main recipient of the windows is the Jesus de Riscate
Shrine in Nicaragua, a country with so few art glass windows
that most of the shrine's visitors have probably never seen
one. The windows depict a number of events in the life a
Jesus, making them very appropriate for such a location.
Other local recipients are a mausoleum in Niagara Falls, and
a Catholic grade school in North Tonawanda.
- The Buffalo Religious Arts Center is proud to be home to four
of the windows, that have particular significance to Western
New York. They are Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha (pictured
here), a Mohawk woman who lived in Central New York in the
seventeenth century, St. Maxmillian Kolbe, who was killed
Auschwitz, St. Joseph holding a small model of the North
Tonawanda church, and a rendering of a former bishop of
Buffalo. These windows are not on display now because
while we received sufficient donations to purchase the
windows, we are still raising money to display them properly.
Please contact us at 957-9251, if you wish to Adopt one of the
windows, and help us put it back on view in Western New
York.
Buffalo Tours Partnership Starts This Saturday
- June 4th, 2009 - Another great way to visit the Religious Arts Center
starts up this weekend, as we begin our partnership with Buffalo
Tours by co-sponosring the Neighborhood Tour of Black Rock. The
tour starts at 10:00am, this Saturday the 6th of June, and meets at
the corner of Niagara and Amherst Streets, just two blocks from the
Religious Arts Center. The $10 cost covers not only a walking tour of
the neighborhood, but entrance into the Religious Arts Center and a
mini-tour of the former St. Francis Xavier Church. Hope to see you
there!
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Rediscover Amherst Street Festival June 20th
- May 23rd, 2009 - The latest edition of Rediscover Amherst Street, the
festival that celebrates the people and businesses of Black Rock
that make it such a vibrant community, will be Saturday June 20th.
There are events up and down Amherst Street, including a parade,
live music, food and drink specials, and arts displays. The Buffalo
Religious Arts Center is getting involved by have a desk sale. That's
right, we're selling off the desks of the former school for cheap, and
hoping they go to a number of good causes and places that can use
them. In addition, we'll be giving discount $5 tours of the former St
Francis Xavier Church, and talking about our ongoing projects. Make
your plans now to Rediscover Amherst Street on June 20th.
New Website Unveiled
- May 20th, 2009 - We've been working on it for months, and today we
are pleased to unveil our new website. It should load faster, be
easier to read, have crisper layouts, and generally be much more
user friendly. Please check it out, look at some new pages and
information, and let us know if there are any bugs. And don't worry -
we've kept the archives intact, so all the old stories and information
is still there.
- Thanks for the website goes to one person: our intern for the Spring
Semester, Nicole Crapez. Besides doing marketing researching,
designing new promotional materials, and researching grants,
Nicole also found time to redo our website. We are extremely grateful
to her, and can't say enough good things about the job she did for
us. Thank you Nicole!
- May 15th, 2009 - Don't forget that the concert of great choral music is
this Sunday, May 17th, at 3:30pm at the former Saint Francis Xavier
Church. Tickets are $10 ($7 for seniors and students), and can be
purchased at the door. Come hear fantastic music in the magnificent
space that it was meant to be sung in. See you there.
Great Clean Up Last Week
- May 10th, 2009 - Thank you to all our volunteers that
came out to help clean up the center, and get it ready
for tour groups. The nave, pews, altars and artifacts
look great. A special thank you to Joyce DiChristina,
our volunteer coordinator. We can't put on these
events without her!
- And don't forget, we're open each Saturday and
Sunday now for tours, plus other special events,
including the WNY Chorale concert this coming
Sunday at 3:30pm.
Reminder: Tours Start Tomorrow
- May 1st, 2009 - Don't forget: the 2009 tour season at the
Religious Arts Center starts tomorrow. Architectural tours of
the former St. Francis Xavier Church, and growing collection
of the Buffalo Religious Arts Center, are Saturdays at 12:00,
and Sunday at 1:00pm. Admission is $8, with Member's
getting their first tour free. Hope to see you there!
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