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The Arts Council in Buffalo and Erie County presents its technical assistance workshop series “Workshop Wednesdays: A Series of Technical Assistance Workshops to Guide Arts and Cultural Organizations and Individual Artists Through Times of Economic Challenge.”

Today's workshop is titled Nonprofit Financial Management: A Fiscal Overview From A to Z. This workshop is a comprehensive overview of basic accounting practices for nonprofits. The discussion will range from reading a balance sheet, understanding P&L statements, and tracking a budget to internal controls, nonprofit tax filings, and management letters.

The workshop will be presented by Joseph J. Ryndak, a supervisor at Toski, Schaefer & Co., P.C. Ryndak provides audit, tax and consulting services to variety of nonprofit organizations. He previously served as Chief Financial Officer for several large multi-funded nonprofit organizations. He also owned and operated a successful transportation company for over 12 years. Ryndak received a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1981.

To register for any workshop in the series please contact the Arts Council at 716.856.7520 or via email.

Zion Dominion Global Ministries’ Legacy Conference 2008 presents an evening service with special guest speaker Bishop TD Jakes. Pastor Roderick L. Hennings and Zion Dominion Global Ministries are pleased to announce the theme of this year’s conference is A Clarion Call For A Critical Moment: No Time To Lose. This year’s conference kicks off with an evening service featuring one of the world’s most influential church leaders, entrepreneur, author and filmmaker, Bishop TD Jakes. The opening night service is free and open to the general public. Seating is limited, and available on a first come first serve basis, no tickets are needed.

The Buffalo State Rooftop Poetry Club presents Karen Sands-O'Connor. Karen Sands-O'Connor's poetry career began in fourth grade, when she wrote a now-buried book of poetry for her school's Young Authors program (on pink paper, no less!). Her first publication, however, came decades later with a birthday poem she wrote for a Bob Dylan fan and dear friend. She has been published in the British journal, Orbis, and in the Journal of Caribbean Literature, and has had poetry readings at the Burchfield-Penney in Buffalo and the Liverpool Poetry Cafe in the UK.

WBFO’s Wednesday Night Concerts (formerly known as Live in Allen Hall) are weekly hour-long shows featuring music and conversations with Western New York’s finest. This series showcases the diversity and talent of Buffalo’s professional performing musicians, including both established and emerging artists. Since October of 2007 WBFO has been broadcasting live from WBFO’s studio theatre in Allen Hall on UB’s South Campus. This summer they’re taking the show on the road to the newly founded Musicians' Park.

Like their musical contemporaries, Queen City Station make roots rock ' n roll sliding down a warm path towards country and wondrously loud enough to be never be considered tame. Like Springsteen, they shine a light on better days in a nowhere town. Like Whiskeytown and Lucero, Queen City Station opens their heart, chest open, without blinking and pours the contents of their lives together, into a solution of beautiful words and melodies with flashes of yesterday, the present and the future. Wildly original with their hat tipped towards their friends and musical inspirations, Queen City Station is ready to take the stage while you take a spot at the bar or in the crowd to listen, feel and love.

Photo by Lorraine Simon