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A day-long workshop culminating with an 8pm performance at Artspace. Workshops begin at 2pm and include dinner for participants. Bread & Puppet founder Peter Schumann will be participating.

The Erie County Department of Health, in association with the Niagara Frontier Veterinary Society and the Erie County SPCA, hosts a free rabies clinic today from 5-7PM.

Pets must be at least age three months to receive a rabies vaccination. Proof of previous rabies vaccination must be provided to receive a three-year certificate; otherwise, a one-year certificate will be issued. All dogs, cats, and ferrets must be restrained using a leash and/or pet carrier, and no person shall be allowed to have more than three pets in line at one time.

For more information, people can call the Erie County Department of Health at 7165.868.7690.

Photo: Tiny - up for adoption

Reading, discussion, signing. Jason Riley will be on hand to read, discuss and sign his book, Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders (Gotham). Riley is a member of The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board. He joined the paper in 1994 as a copyreader on the national news desk in New York. He moved to the editorial page in 1995 as copyreader and later became a copy editor. In April 1996, he was named to the newly created position of editorial interactive editor and maintained the editorial and Leisure & Arts section of WSJ.com. He was named a senior editorial page writer in March 2000, and member of the Editorial Board in 2005.

Born in Buffalo, N.Y., Mr. Riley earned a bachelor' s degree in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has also worked for USA Today and the Buffalo News.

Earth's Daughters magazine presents Michael Hopkins and Martha Deed as part of the Earth's Daughters Gray Hair Reading Series.

Poet, educator, jazz critic, and social commentator for over 30 years, Michael F. Hopkins is the author of A Kind Of Twilight (Smiling Cat Publications) and the ongoing critical forum A Deeper Groove. He has written for such periodicals as The Black Scholar, Contact II, and the international jazz magazine Coda. Through UB's Dept. of African-American Studies, Hopkins instituted the first courses ever taught on the pan-ethnic fantasy ElfQuest, the Pulitzer prize-winning comic strip Doonesbury, and pioneering science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. View his literary works at www.humblevoice.com/towncry.

Photo: Michael F. Hopkins

Saltimbanco- from the Italian “saltar in banco”, which literally means “to jump on a bench”- explores the urban experience in all its myriad forms: the people who live there, their idiosyncrasies and likenesses, families and groups, the hustle and bustle of the street and the towering heights of skyscrapers. Between whirlwind and lull, prowess and poetry, Saltimbanco takes spectators on an allegorical and acrobatic journey into the heart of the city.

Saltimbanco belongs to the emblematic style of Cirque du Soleil; a signature show inspired by the urban fabric of the metropolis and its colorful inhabitants. Decidedly baroque in its visual vocabulary, the show’s eclectic cast of characters draws spectators into a fanciful, dreamlike world, an imaginary city where diversity is a cause for hope.

Doug Morgano and Gretchen Schultz bring their rock, soul and blues grooves to The Sportsmen's Tavern tonight.