2025 Early Fall IMAGINE Greater Buffalo Schedule
“IMAGINE Creating a Culture of Sustainability: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning”
VIRTUAL IMAGINE PROGRAMS HOSTED BY THE DOWNTOWN BUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR EC200
September 2, 2025 –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: Suzanne Ernst, “2025 Doors Open Buffalo”
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84147528424
September 9, 2025 – 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: Paris F. Roselli, Ex. Dir. Richardson Olmsted Campus, “Lipsey Architecture Center Buffalo Update”
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87050071134
September 16, 2025 – 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: Susan Buttaccio, manager of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library’s Special Collections
Introduction: Library Interim Director Dorinda Darden.
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84421693110
September 23, 2025 – 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: William Butler, Pres. Black Rock Historical Society, “Black Rock Erie Canal 200 Celebration”
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84422424057
September 30, 2025 – 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 Speaker: Sarah Herbst, Board Member & Treasurer of the WNY Sustainable Business RoundTable and the Global Sustainable Sourcing Manager for Rich Products Company
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85986903765
October 7, 2025 – 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: Alan Davis, Pres. Friends of Griffins Mills & Robert Goller, Aurora Town Historian – Invited
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83586712120
October 14, 2025 – 2nd Tuesday Focus – Architecture & Design
Theme: “IMAGINE a Healthy, Wealthy, and Sustainable Community: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning”
12:30 – 1:00 P.M. Speaker: Louis Cannata, Project Manager, “Restoring EB Green’s Buffalo Castle Complex, Mayfair Lane”
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81958352070
October 21, 2025 – 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: Melissa Parker Leonard, 7th Gen Cultural Resources, “Two Sides of the Waterway: Reflecting on the Erie Canal Through an Indigenous Lens”
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89361888339
October 28, 2025 – 4th Tuesday Focus – Nature & Science
Theme: “IMAGINE a Healthy, Wealthy, and Sustainable Community: Imagine Place-based Lifelong Learning”
12:30pm – 1:00pm P.M. Speaker: Mason Winfield, author, “Buffalo’s Occult Architecture”
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89167066869
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