Arts and Culture

The University at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance will once again offer its exciting and educational Summer Dance Program July 23 to Aug. 9.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Dream Theater with special guests Redemption & Into Eternity on Aug. 20 at 7 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

The book "Mudman: The Odyssey of Kim Jones" (MIT University Press, 2007), a monograph edited by Sandra Q. Firmin, curator with the University at Buffalo Art Gallery, and Julie Joyce, director of Luckman Art Gallery, California State University at Los Angeles, is receiving national praise.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Steve Vai at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 24 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Pat Metheny Trio with Christian McBride and Antonio Sanchez at 8 p.m. on Oct. 25 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Solid Blues with Mavis Staples, Charlie Musselwhite, North Mississippi Allstars & Joe Krown at 8 p.m. on Nov. 7 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present the Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary Tour at 8 p.m. on March 11, 2008, in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Barrage at 8 p.m. on Nov. 2 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

If you're in the market for a weird, intriguing and exciting Saturday night, head down to Buffalo's Central Terminal, 495 Paderewski Drive, for a multi-media marriage of ghosts, puppets, mechanical spiders, robotic dance partners, hallucinatory discovery and industrial progress -- together at last at an event produced by University at Buffalo robotic artist Don Paul Swain.

In the name of raising environmental awareness, enterprising University at Buffalo students are turning their campus into a virtual -- and real -- playground this week as they conduct a final project for their class in "Pervasive Gaming," an emerging game genre in which virtual and real-life play come together.