Encouraging Winds Educational Cooperative

🌿 Life is Succulent Presents: Our 1st Buy Nothing Fair! 🌿

✨ Saturday & Sunday, August 23rd & 24th | 10 AM – 5 PM

We’re thrilled to host our very first Buy Nothing Fair—a weekend celebrating community generosity, sustainable living, and shared abundance!

This event is a simple and beautiful way to give what you don’t need and take what you do—keeping good items out of landfills and in the hands of neighbors who will love and use them.

Here’s How It Works:
1️⃣ Gather Your Donations
Collect clean, gently used items ready for a new home.
✨ Ideas: books, craft/art supplies, houseplants & planters, small décor, toys, puzzles, games, kitchen goods, and gently worn clothing.
🚫 No large furniture, broken items, or heavily worn goods.

2️⃣ Pack & Drop Off
Group donations in boxes or bags for easy storage.
📦 Drop-off deadline: Friday, Aug 22nd during shop hours.
Miss the deadline? No worries! Volunteers can accept new donations during the event.

3️⃣ Browse & Take Home Treasures
On Aug 23rd & 24th, our space transforms into a free, community-powered marketplace.
Take home anything that sparks joy or fills a need—absolutely free!
Unclaimed items will be donated to local charities (suggestions welcome!).

💡 No donation? No problem!
You don’t have to give in order to take. This event is built on community care, not transactions—sometimes we have more to share, and sometimes we simply need support. Come as you are and take what serves you.

🌟 Volunteers Needed!
Help us make this event magical:
Event Prep: Sort & set up donations
Day-of Support: Greet neighbors & display new arrivals
Pack Up & Donate: Box leftovers & deliver to local orgs

Send us a DM, email, or stop in to sign up—your support makes this possible!

Why Join the Buy Nothing Fair?
💚 Declutter your home
💚 Find treasures without spending a dime
💚 Connect with neighbors & support sustainability

Help us make our first Buy Nothing Fair a weekend of sharing, connection, and joy!

We love highlights! Fun and Educational.

With Spring upon is, who else is eager to start their seedlings!

Several Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries host seed libraries, offering a wide variety of vegetables, fruits, herbs & flowers. Together, we can help foster a community of gardeners at all levels! Call or visit your library for details.

This is one of our favorite local FREE resources for enrichment classes in ART. Everyone in the family has taken at least one of their offered classes each year and we keep coming back. Love the classes, love the staff, love the accessibility!! Check out their new schedule for the fall and try out one of their many classes!!

Starting September 21st, our fall session begins. We offer FREE art classes including:
Painting + Drawing
Ceramics
Animation
Photography

Visit the link to sign up: https://form.jotform.com/242004123355139

Our 62nd Annual Art Show is ONE MONTH away! Mark your calendars 📆

We’re just two weeks away from Community Health Day sponsored by Independent Health! ❤️

On June 19, families are invited to enjoy FREE MUSEUM ADMISSION all day long and participate in fun and interactive happenings with a focus on health and wellness.

We’re excited to welcome partners from UB PREPARE, GoBike, Buffalo Lafayette Optimist Club, UB School of Nursing and School of Pharmacy & Pharmacology, Blue Flag Memorial Project and a Juneteenth story time with the East Side Bike Club.

Activities take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and the Museum will remain open until 4 p.m. No pre-registration needed, just stop on by!

Did you know...? This fantastic museum of science in Miami is a reciprocal museum. If you have a Buffalo museum of science membership/ASTC passport you can gain entrance to this museum in Miami. We only paid for parking. My family and I had the wonderful opportunity to touch a stingray and to learn about them. There's so much to see and do at this museum!

https://www.frostscience.org/

June Bacon-Bercey is best known for her time as a television meteorologist during the 1970s - right here in Buffalo, NY on WGRZ! 🦬

She was the first woman and first African-American to be awarded the American Meteorological Society's Seal of Approval for her broadcast forecasting. During her career, she also worked for the National Weather Service (NWS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

She was a staunch advocate for STEM education for women and minorities, setting up the American Meteorological Society's Board on Women and Minorities and using winnings from the TV game show “The $128,000 Question” to establish the June Bacon-Bercey Scholarship in Atmospheric Sciences for Women through the American Geophysical Union.

Dr. Bacon-Bercey is among the number of people we are recognizing this Black History Month for their contributions to science here at the Museum.

Did you know......?

Admission at the AKG Art Museum is PAY-WHAT-YOU-WISH on the first Friday of every month 10am-8pm.

Who's going?! 🙋‍♀️

M&T FIRST FRIDAYS | Buffalo AKG Art Museum Upcoming DatesFebruary 2, 2024 First Friday of every month10 am–8 pm Museum-wide

Did you know...?
Curious George Exhibit is at the Buffalo Museum of Science.