PLAY/GROUND 2022

RI BU VE F RWFA L O O RK S

OCTOBER 7–10

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Opening Night Party 7–11PM

OCTOBER 7-10, 2022

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11AM–5PM

Join Arts for Learning Teaching Artists for free family programming for all ages!

Hours: Friday 7–11PM Saturday 11AM–5PM Sunday 11AM–5PM Monday 11AM–5PM

Noon–5PM

Stitch Buffalo Rope Making Workshop

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11AM–5PM

Join Arts for Learning Teaching Artists for free family programming for all ages!

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Bills vs. Steelers on the big screen in RiverWorks

BUFFALO RIVERWORKS 329 GANSON STREET, BUFFALO NY

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M&T Free Day! Visit the silo installations for free!

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GLF SILOS

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ENTRANCE

TICKETS

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ARTS FOR LEARNING*

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STONEHENGE

RESTROOMS & RESTAURANT 16

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MERCH

OPENING NIGHT SCHEDULE

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Miggie Wong ALL EVENING StarEyes: Round of

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Applause

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Mobile River Lab: Mary Mattingly & Julie Chen River Lab BUF

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Bethany Krull Chrysalis

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Amanda Besl The Harvest

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Jacob Broussard & Adam Thibodeaux Mighty Real

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Zeitpunk (Matthew Graham) Brick & Mortar

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Logan Ryland Dandridge Invisible Church

Adam Weekley Camp Everything

8:00 PM

Adam Weekley & Torn Space Camp Everything presented by The Burchfield Penney Art Center 2 on map

8:30 PM

Brandon Williamson & Saranaide Poetry on the Upbeat RiverWorks Mezzanine

9:30 PM

Chango4, Way2WavyBaby, OGLXRY Eden RiverWorks Mezzanine

Miggie Wong StarEyes: Round of Applause Heather Leslie & Xinghuai Huang Transcendent Nature

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Jodi Lynn Maracle WHY HERE WHY NOW 15 on map

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Serweta Peck Buffalo O’s

7:15 PM

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Shawn Chiki The Interactive Womp Womp Machine

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Jess Bass Funnel

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Jodi Lynn Maracle WHY HERE WHY NOW

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Jesse Walp The Very Foundation

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Rebekkah Palov presented by Buffalo Intl Film Fest

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Ong Siraphisut & Manon Wada Siloscope

KEY Opening Night Performance Weekend-long installation *Saturday & Sunday **Saturday Only

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SERWETA PECK

BUFFALO O’S Buffalo O’s invites everyone to enjoy a beach party in a life-size cereal bowl filled with marshmallow foam pillows inspired by Buffalo icons (part of a balanced breakfast).

ADAM WEEKLEY

CAMP EVERYTHING Camp Everything is a mobile installation and performance piece. Aesthetically, the piece borrows from nostalgic memories and impressions of 1980’s summer camps to create a whimsical world of inclusiveness and celebration. Don’t miss the performance by Torn Space on Friday night!

One-Night-Only Performance 10/7 8–11PM

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Presented by the Burchfield Penney Art Center

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MOBILE RIVER LAB: MARY MATTINGLY & JULIE CHEN

RIVER LAB BUF

Experience the Buffalo river with your senses like you never have before.

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AMANDA BESL

THE HARVEST A haunting refrain; the wheat remembers the scythe.

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ZEITPUNK (MATTHEW GRAHAM)

BRICK & MORTAR Step Right Up! Act Now! Don’t be Fooled by Cheap Imitations.

This is a Limited Time Offer.

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SHAWN CHIKI

THE INTERACTIVE WOMP WOMP MACHINE Teleport to another dimension in this powerful interactive sound and light piece.

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JESS BASS

FUNNEL Funnel explores how the past and present meet through a growing interactive installation made with homemade playdough.

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JESSE WALP

THE VERY FOUNDATION This work’s intention is to arouse the feelings of uneasiness and anxiety that uncertain times expose within us by dismantling the very ground we walk on with an unknown force that changes what we thought we could count on.

MIGGIE WONG

One-Night-Only Performance 10/7 7–11PM

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STAREYES: ROUND OF APPLAUSE One Applause-Circle will be created under the Buffalo historic silo on opening night of PLAY/GROUND. Individuals are welcomed to visit the Applause-Circle and receive a round of applause service facilitated

by StarEyes Representative.

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HEATHER LESLIE & XINGHUAI HUANG

TRANSCENDENT NATURE Transcendent Nature creates a future to explore where human impact is still prevalent while nature thrives alongside.

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CHRYSALIS Creatures constantly work to integrate and infiltrate our own built environments despite our architectural efforts to hold nature at bay.

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JACOB TODD BROUSSARD & ADAM THIBODEAUX

MIGHTY REAL Celebrate the legacy of Buffalo native and queer underground dance music pioneer Patrick Cowley in the kind of marginal architectural space queer communities have activated through history.

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LOGAN RYLAND DANDRIDGE

INVISIBLE CHURCH

Invisible Church responds to the poem Southern Gothic by Rickey Laurentiis - the liminal rooms his poems worship, dream, and dance within and the weightless atmosphere they create: an infinite Black continuum.

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ONG SIRAPHISUT & MANON WADA

SILOSCOPE Siloscope is a site responsive installation that transforms a grain silo of Buffalo RiverWorks into a metaphorical telescope/ microscope and viewing portal of an alternate universe.

One-Night-Only Performance 10/7 7:15PM

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JODI LYNN MARACLE

WHY HERE WHY NOW Haudenosaunee material culture, and acts of gratitude in the form of traditional Haudenosaunee song and dance, songs and dances that made this land and our lives possible.

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REBEKKAH PALOV

SCRIPTING TO PASSAGE TO SUSPENSION

Presented by the Buffalo International Film Festival

This piece of visual poetry invites the viewer to make their own meaning as colorful images and text captivate attention and animate imagination. The trilogy includes: “Scripting” followed by “Passage”, and “Suspension Landscape After the Drought,” it's a gentle and thoughtfully crafted essay on secrets, self, and social censorship.

The Buffalo AKG Art Museum is proud to support PLAY/GROUND 2022 and all of the creative producers that make our community a vibrant place to live and grow.

9:30PM

8:30PM

ONE-NIGHT-ONLY PERFORMANCES

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7

BRANDON WILLIAMSON & SARANAIDE

POETRY ON THE UPBEAT Brandon Williamson and Saranaide come together to bring you an evening of music and spoken word intended to stimulate, uplift, and inspire.

CHANGO4, WAY2WAVYBABY & OGLXRY

POETRY ON THE UPBEAT Transcend into our seventh heaven color wheel of truth & delusion, as you awaken your childlike spirit to newfound promise.

Finger Lakes Wine THANK YOU, SPONSORS!

and everyone at Buffalo Riverworks!

PARTNERING FOR A VIBRANT FUTURE.

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