2023 B&ECP Library virtual IMAGINE Greater Buffalo Schedule  Lecture/Discussion
@ Downtown Buffalo & Erie County Public Library 

YouTube links for 100+ archived IMAGINE Greater Buffalo Programs
hosted by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqYMNlV1J5NlGn75D6yGEfUkBnp6Xuwa7

January 3 – Timothy Murphy
SUNY Distinguished Professor
Log on to: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81157952711
 
January 10 – Anna Kaplan
Executive Director, Graycliff
Log on to: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85387388221
 
January 17 – Angela Keppel & Sara Augspurger
Discovering Buffalo One Street at a Time
Log on to: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84731068975
 
January 24 – Kate Pfohl & Diane Picard
Massachusetts Avenue Farm Project
Log on to: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88631767329
 
January 31 – Stephanie Tisdale
M&T Bank
 
February 7 – Kara Kane
Erie County Dept. of Health
 
February 14 – Alan Oberst
Black Rock historian & Scajaquada Creek blogger
 
February 21 – Eva Doyle
Local historian & educator
 
February 28 – Samina Raja
Professor, Urban & Regional Planning, SUNY Buffalo



EARLY SPRING 2023

March 7, 2023 - 1st Tuesday - The Arts & Creativity 
Theme: "IMAGINE Greater Buffalo as a Premier North American Cultural & Nature Center: 
Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30pm - 1:00pm Speaker: Barbara Seals-Nevergold, PhD, Co-founder, Uncrowned Queens Institute 
"The Phyllis Wheatley Club: Audacious Black Women Challenging the 1901 Pan American Exposition." 
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March 14, 2023 - 2nd Tuesday - Architecture & Design 
Theme: "IMAGINE Greater Buffalo as a Premier North American Cultural & Nature Center: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30pm - 1:00pm Speaker: Justin Booth, Ex. Dir. GObike.
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March 21, 2023 - 3rd Tuesday - History & Future 
Theme: "IMAGINE Greater Buffalo as a Premier North American Cultural & Nature Center: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30pm - 1:00pm Speaker: Rick Falkowski - Topic will be bicycles, automobiles and airplanes from my book Profiles Volume II: Historic & Influential People from Buffalo & WNY - the early 1900s.
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March 28, 2023 - 4th Tuesday - Nature & Science 
Theme:"IMAGINE a Healthy, Wealthy, and Sustainable Community: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30pm - 1:00pm Speaker: Kristin Heltman-Weiss, Ex. Dir., Providence Farm Collective 
Partnered with the Buffalo Museum of Science, WNY STEM & Wellness Institute of Greater Buffalo & EC200+
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April 4, 2023 - C-SAAHN IMAGINE 1st Tuesday Focus - The Arts & Creativity 
Theme: "IMAGINE a Healthy, Wealthy, and Sustainable Community: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30pm - 1:00pm Speaker: Felix Klempka, Polish Art Club, "Artwork donation to the downtown B&ECP library" 
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April 11, 2023 -  C-SAAHN IMAGINE 2nd Tuesday Focus - Architecture & Design 
Theme: "IMAGINE a Healthy, Wealthy, and Sustainable Community: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30pm - 1:00pm Speakers: Kristine Kasbohm, Director-Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library "Canisius College Library Story" - 
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April 18, 2023 -  C-SAAHN IMAGINE 3rd Tuesday Focus - History & Future 
Theme: "IMAGINE a Healthy, Wealthy, and Sustainable Community: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30pm - 1:00pm Speaker: Sheryl Knab, Ex. Dir. WNYLRC 
Partnered with the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site & Western New York Heritage Press & The Buffalo History Museum & EC200+
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April 25, 2023 - C-SAAHN IMAGINE 4th Tuesday Focus - Nature & Science 
Theme: "IMAGINE a Healthy, Wealthy, and Sustainable Community: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30pm - 1:00pm Speaker: Charles Lyons, Director Butler Library, "Buffalo State Butler Library Story"


May & June 2023

May 2, 2023 -  C-SAAHN IMAGINE 1st Tuesday Focus - Art & Creativity
Theme: "IMAGINE a Healthy, Wealthy, and Sustainable Community: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30pm - 1:00pm Speaker: Bogdan Kotnis, Author, "Kaz: War, Love, and Betrayal" 
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May 9, 2023 -  C-SAAHN IMAGINE 2nd Tuesday Focus - Architecture & Design 
Theme: "IMAGINE Greater Buffalo as a Premier North American Cultural & Nature Center: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30pm - 1:00pm Speaker: Joe Martin Lin-Hill PhD, Deputy Director Emeritus, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, “Essential Transformations:  Building the new Buffalo AKG”
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May 16, 2023 -  C-SAAHN IMAGINE 3rd Tuesday Focus - History & Future 
Theme: "IMAGINE Greater Buffalo as a Premier North American Cultural & Nature Center: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30pm - 1:00pm Speaker: Scott Scanlon, Quality of Life and Solutions Journalism Editor, The Buffalo News "How to Move Up the RWJF NYS County Ranking" 
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May 23, 2023 -  C-SAAHN IMAGINE 4th Tuesday Focus - Nature & Science 
Theme: "IMAGINE Greater Buffalo as a Premier North American Cultural & Nature Center: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30pm - 1:00pm Speaker: Beth Kreutzer, Co-Chair, Garden Walk Buffalo & Samantha White, Co-Chair, East Side Garden Walk 
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May 30, 2023 - C-SAAHN IMAGINE 5th Tuesday - The "Art of Investing"
Theme: "IMAGINE a Healthy, Wealthy, and Sustainable Community: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30pm - 1:00pm "Art of Investing - in Your Values"
Speaker: Allison DeHonney Executive Director, Buffalo Go Green 
Co-host: John "JD" Hartman, Member, WNY Sustainable Business Roundtable 
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June 6, 2023 -  C-SAAHN IMAGINE 1st Tuesday Focus - The Arts & Creativity 
Theme: "IMAGINE a Healthy, Wealthy, and Sustainable Community: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30pm - 1:00pm Speaker: Jonathan Kaledin & Jajean Rose, WNY Land Conservancy, "Floating Fen" 
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June 13, 2023 -  C-SAAHN IMAGINE 2nd Tuesday Focus - Architecture & Design 
Theme: "IMAGINE a Healthy, Wealthy, and Sustainable Community: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30pm - 1:00pm Speaker: Mark Wenzler, Dir. CHQ Climate Change Initiative, "14th Annual Buffalo Day @ CHQ, Tuesday August 8, 2023" - Invited
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June 20, 2023 -  C-SAAHN IMAGINE 3rd Tuesday Focus - History & Future
Theme: "IMAGINE Greater Buffalo as a Premier North American Cultural & Nature Center: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30pm - 1:00pm Speaker: Michelle Urbanczk, Explore & More Children's Museum & Stanton Hudson, TR Site "IGB Fourth Grade Cultural Explorer Initiative" - Invited


September & October 2023 IMAGINE Greater Buffalo Speakers

September 5, 2023 - C-SAAHN IMAGINE 1st Tuesday Focus - Art & Creativity 
Theme: "IMAGINE Greater Buffalo as a Premier Cultural & Nature Center: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30 P.M. - 1:00 P.M. Speaker - Brad Hahn, Ex. Dir., Explore Buffalo, "2023 Doors Open Buffalo"
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September 12, 2023 -  2nd Tuesday Focus - Architecture & Design
Theme: "IMAGINE Greater Buffalo as a Premier Cultural & Nature Center: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30 - 1:00 P.M. Speaker - John Spears, Dir. B&ECPL  
Partnered with Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site, Western New York Heritage Press, The Buffalo History Museum & EC200+
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September 19, 2023 - 3rd Tuesday Focus - History & Future 
Theme: "IMAGINE Greater Buffalo as a Premier Cultural & Nature Center: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30 - 1:00 P.M. Speaker: Jennifer Rizzo-Choi, executive director, International Instituteof Buffalo 
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September 26, 2023 - C-SAAHN IMAGINE 4th Tuesday Focus - Nature & Science 
Theme: "IMAGINE Greater Buffalo as a Premier North American Cultural & Nature Center: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30 P.M. - 1:00 P.M.Speaker: Jeffrey Lebsack, The Riverline Director 
Partnered with Buffalo Museum of Science, WNY STEM, Wellness Institute of Greater Buffalo & EC200+
ZOOM LINK:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86254564194
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October 3, 2023 - 1st Tuesday Focus - The Arts & Creativity 
Theme: "IMAGINE Greater Buffalo as a Premier Cultural & Nature Center: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning" 
12:30 - 1:00 P.M. Speaker: Lisa Smith, President & CEO, Buffalo Zoo
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October 10, 2023 - 2nd Tuesday Focus - Architecture & Design
Theme: "IMAGINE a Healthy, Wealthy, and Sustainable Community: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
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October 17, 2023 - 3rd Tuesday Focus - History & Future
Theme: "IMAGINE Greater Buffalo as a Premier Cultural & Nature Center: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30pm - 1:00pm Speaker: Rita Argen Auerbach, artist and author, "Sketches and Reflections of a Journey: 
The Chautauqua Institution/Eisenhower Institute Conference on U.S.-Soviet Relations....A Journey to Open Diplomacy in Riga, Latvia, September, 1986" 
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October 24, 2023 - 4th Tuesday Focus - Nature & Science
Theme: "IMAGINE Greater Buffalo as a Premier Cultural & Nature Center: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30 - 1:00 P.M. Speaker: Kelly Hayes McAlonie, Architect & Author, "Louise Blanchard Bethune: every woman her own architect" 
Partnered with Richardson Olmsted Campus, Explore Buffalo, Wellness Institute of Greater Buffalo & EC200+
ZOOM LINK:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81026217025
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October 31, 2023 - C-SAAHN IMAGINE 5th Tuesday - The "Art of Investing"
Theme: "IMAGINE a Healthy, Wealthy, and Sustainable Community: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30pm - 1:00pm "Art of Investing - in Your Values"
 Frits Abell & Krishna Rajan, Erich Bloch Endowed Chair of the newly founded Department of Materials Design and Innovation (MDI) and Empire Innovation Professor at the University at Buffalo - State University of New York.
Co-host: John "JD" Hartman, Member, WNY Sustainable Business Roundtable
 Partnered with Richardson Olmsted Campus, Explore Buffalo, Wellness Institute of Greater Buffalo & EC200+
ZOOM LINK:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86712562809

Dennis Galucki
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The Sunday October 2, 2022 Buffalo News Viewpoint article "How would Olmsted handle going green today?" by Carl Francis Penders will serve as a cornerstone for the 14th Annual Buffalo Day @ CHQ on Tuesday August 8, 2023.
 

YouTube links for 100+ archived IMAGINE Greater Buffalo Programs
hosted by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqYMNlV1J5NlGn75D6yGEfUkBnp6Xuwa7

Audio recordings available at ImagineLifelongLearning.com
C-SAAHN Audio Catalog contains over 1200 audio recordings
from Buffalo and Chautauqua Institution

NEW - The 28 page Explore Buffalo Downtown Tour Workbook is now available for educators and place-based lifelong learning family members:https://buffaloah.com/h/eb/Workbook.pdf


Center for the Study of Art & Architecture; History & Nature
&
IMAGINE Lifelong Learning.com

Creators of C-SAAHN 'IMAGINE' Video, Lecture & Discussion Series
Noon-Hour Tuesdays, September - June, Since 2009
Recipient of the:
WNY Library Resources Council 2018 Outstanding Library Advocate Award;
The Buffalo History Museum 2017 Red Jacket Augspurger Award;
New York State Senate 2017 Proclamation by Senator Timothy M. Kennedy;
Erie County Executive "IMAGINE" 2017 Recognition;
Niagara Legacy Council 2015 Recognition Award;
AIA Buffalo/WNY "Friends of Architecture" 2013 Community Service Award

"Imagination is more powerful than knowledge" - Albert Einstein

"Appreciating our Past = Imagining our Future = Pursuit of Happiness" - Dennis Galucki
                                                                                                           
C-SAAHN was established in 2009 as a unique digital enterprise and network designed to help link volunteers and lifelong learning communities as part of the "Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea:
Exploring American legacy and Imagining one city - Buffalo - being inspired by
Chautauqua to become a Place-based Lifelong Learning Center"
                      
  Besides the IMAGINE Series, C-SAAHN is also the creator and sponsor of:

First Sunday Franciscan-based Reflective Walk in Delaware Park 
"Imagine Greater Buffalo (IGB) as a Premier North American Cultural & Nature Center"
 Annual Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua
"Art of Investing" Weekly Monday Discussion Class at Chautauqua Institution

Dennis Galucki, C-SAAHN Founder
Chuck LaChiusa, Webmaster, BuffaloAH.com & C-SAAHN



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