2025 | Fabrication
Sept. 19-20, 2025
FREE and OPEN TO ALL
What is the Buffalo Humanities Festival? An annual celebration of ideas, art, and activities featuring talks and panel discussions by scholars, artists, and community activists designed to provoke thought, spur new encounters, and introduce you to new friends in our city. Join us for Fabrication.
Why Fabrication? Click here for more about this year’s theme.
Friday, Sept. 19 | 7 p.m. | An Evening with NICK CAVE
Location: Asbury Hall at Babeville (341 Delaware Ave.) – doors open 6:30 p,m. with cash bar
The organizers of the Buffalo Humanities Festival are delighted to announce internationally acclaimed sculptor, dancer, performance artist, and educator NICK CAVE as the spotlight speaker of the 2025 Buffalo Humanities Festival: Fabrication (Sept. 19-20, 2025).
Join us for a special screening of Nick Cave’s video work “Gestalt” followed by an on-stage conversation with independent curator Claire Schneider (C.S. 1 Curatorial Projects) and Buffalo artists Celeste Lawson, Victoria-Idongesit Udondian, and Edreys Wajed.
Saturday, Sept. 20 | 9:45 a.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Fabrication Festival Day
Buffalo & Erie County Public Library – Central Branch (1 Lafayette Sq.) – check-in begins at 9:15 a.m.
Please join us for a full day of talks, conversations, and demonstrations as we examine FABRICATION.
Saturday Line-Up
- Robert B Caldwell Jr.
- Millie Chen
- Alissa Ujie Diamond
- Chanon Judson
- Matt Kenyon
- Philip Longson
- Janet McNally
- Ariel Nereson
- Yotam Ophir
- Claire Schneider
- Shasti O’Leary Soudant
- Victoria-Idongesit Udondian
- Julio Montalvo Valentin
- Christina Vega-Westhoff
- Yvonne K. Widenor
- and more!
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