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Posted: Thursday, November 19, 2009Hospitality and Tourism to Assist with AAC Event
Students, faculty, and staff from the Hospitality and Tourism Department’s catering management course, HTR 400, will provide event planning, food preparation, and hospitality management services for Advancing Arts and Culture Buffalo Niagara’s (AAC) Arts & Culturals’ Resources Showcase from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. tonight at Kleinhans Music Hall.
The showcase will provide an opportunity for two distinct groups—members of the region’s arts and cultural sector and the region’s technical service and resource-provider organizations—to come together in one setting. TheCommunity Foundation for Greater Buffalo is funding the event.
The mission of AAC is to expand the region’s arts and cultural sector. AAC’s vision is that the Buffalo Niagara region will build on the strengths of its arts and cultural heritage to reemerge as a vibrant, cultural, great American city-region.
The John R. Oishei Foundation, the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, and the Cameron Baird Foundation currently provide funding for AAC, which operates through a partnership with Buffalo State College and Niagara University’s College of Hospitality and Tourism.
“The Resources Showcase responds to one of the priority needs identified by AAC’s Coordinating Council—that of providing a better connection between the arts and cultural sector and existing resources that can assist them with their capacity-building needs,” said Florine Luhr, executive director of AAC. “The showcase helps close this gap by providing direct connection opportunities for the sector members with these service providers.”
Tonight marks the third event this semester where the Hospitality and Tourism Department has volunteered catering management services to benefit a local nonprofit organization—assisting with a benefit for Crisis Servicesof Buffalo on October 6, and hosting a wine dinner at Campus House on October 14 to benefit Field & Fork Network, which supports local food producers and buyers in Western New York.
The Resources Showcase is free for staff and board members of nonprofit arts, cultural and heritage organizations, and regional artists. Advance registration for the event is required; contact the AAC at (716) 512-5267 or luhrf@buffalostate.edu.
