Reporter Volume 26, No.9 November 3, 1994

	UB opened its sparkling new Center for the Arts last weekend,
offering a full plate of performances, exhibits and tours to welcome
faculty, staff and students as well as the Western New York community.
The enthusiastic crowds gathered under the soaring atrium explored the
open spaces as well as the nooks and crannies of the handsome new
structure that finally brings the departments of Art, Media Study and
Theatre and Dance under one roof.
	Last weekend's Grand Opening events kicked off a month-long
festival that will introduce the state-of-the art facility to the
fferings last week were poetry presentations, concerts, drama and
dance performances, including appearances by Bruce Cockburn, the
Canadian Brass, the Amherst Saxophone Quartet and Tanzfabrik, Berlin
Dance Co. Among the coming week's features are plays, storytelling
theatre, video screenings, and an appearance by the Buffalo
Philharmonic Orchestra.