If the humanities remind us of our interdependence on one another, then we can discover in our stories, histories and all forms of art how that interrelatedness binds us as collectives, publics, neighborhoods and families. At the Buffalo Humanities Festival, we will examine how our many communities exist in relation to one another, while keeping a candid eye on the possibilities and pitfalls of co-existing—both in harmony and in struggle—in the hope of carefully redefining the radical potential of building trust, together, in the face of discord and division. Above all, our hope is to highlight “Communities” as the fertile ground of discourse across our disparate fields and spaces of work and living, marking our responsibilities to people and place as the engine that drives humanist inquiry.

Friday, Sept. 22 | 6pm | Buffalo & Erie County Public Library – Central Branch Auditorium | An Evening with Candy Chang [Click here for details]

Saturday, Sept. 23 | 11am | Rockwell Hall at SUNY Buffalo State University | Communities: Trust – Community Conversations Day [Click here for details]

Sunday, Sept. 24 | 2pm | Humanities Matinee at Kavinoky Theatre | A Special BHF Event by our partners at the D’Youville Kavinoky Theatre (discounted $25 available for purchase directly from Kavinoky Theatre): What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck, starring Lindsay Brandon Hunter (Associate Professor, Theatre & Dance), directed by Robyn Lee Horn. Post-performance talk-back session with Brian E. Herrera (Associate Professor of Theater and Gender & Sexuality Studies, Princeton University) [Click here for details]