Our Young@Arts program aims to return older adults to the arts of Wester New York or introduce them for the first time. For the past two years, we've scheduled monthly trips to some of the most outstanding arts and cultural institutions to engage and immerse folks through socialization. Funding from the NYSCA Regrant program helped to subsidize the major cost of the trips to keep it affordable. As of 2024, NYSCA has withdrawn the funding from Western New York and we are activitely pursuing alternative funding to keep our program running. Stay tuned for more information!
UPDATE JUNE 1, 2024
Thanks to the generous sponsorship of M&T Bank, we can once again start planning and scheduling our trips to some of Western New York’s best arts & cultural events and locations. There will be a trip in August, so look in the July newsletter for all the details. And there may be an announcement at the SENIOR Prom June 7th. As they say in Star Trek, we are going to boldly go where we have never been before!
WATCH THIS SPACE FOR FUTURE TRIPS!
Young @ Arts 2024 Trips
February - Buffalo AKG Art Museum
April - Whitworth Ferguson Planetarium
Young @ Arts 2023 Trips
February - Buffalo Botanical Gardens
March- Aquarium of Niagara
April- Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin Martin House
May- Frank Lloyd Wright's Graycliff Estate
June- Spirit of Buffalo Sailing Ship Cruise
July- The Blueberry Treehouse Farm
August- Shakespeare in Delaware Park
September- The Color Purple: The Musical at Shea's 710
October- Buffalo AKG Art Museum
November- Moulin Rouge at Shea's
December- Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra at Kleinhan's Music Hall- JoAnn's Classical Christmas
Young @ Arts 2022 Trips
May - Buffalo History Museum
Tifft Nature Preserve
June - Buffalo Double Decker Bus Tour
Buffalo River History Boat Tour
July - Buffalo Zoo
Buffalo Bison's Baseball Game
August - Erie County Fair
Buffalo Bison's Baseball Game
September - Buffalo Double Decker Bus Tour
Buffalo Science Museum
October - Whitworth Ferguson Planetarium
Forest Lawn Cemetery
November - Shea's Performing Arts Center for "Tina: The Tina Turner Musical"
December - Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra at Kleinhan's Music Hall for "Holiday Pops Concert"
This program was made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Services Inc. for 2022-2023.