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New York AAPI communities receive historic $30 million state fund
Yahoo News
August 2023
The state of New York is funding Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) organizations with a record $30 million to support critical services, including efforts to combat anti-Asian hate crimes.
State funding will help local Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities
WGRZ
August 2023
New York State Assembly members Jon Rivera and Bill Conrad on Wednesday said $75,000 will be given to different WNY organizations.
Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute Names 2023/24 PlayUSA Grant Recipients
The Violin Channel
June 2023
Totaling $500,000, the annual grants have been awarded to 22 music education programs across 16 U.S. states.
Finding community through music
Spectrum
May 2023
We’re celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month here at Spectrum News 1. It's important to learn about as the Asian population in New York has risen quite a bit over the past decade, by more than 37%, totaling almost 11% of the state's population between 2010 to 2020.
Yuki Numata Resnick chosen by Ryan as the ‘Women of Distinction’ honoree for 2023
Bollyinside
May 2023
New York State Sen. Sean Ryan has recognized Yuki Numata Resnick as a member of the 2023 New York State Senate “Women of Distinction” class of honorees. Resnick is an accomplished violinist, nonprofit leader, and educator who co-founded Buffalo String Works, a music program focused on leadership development and social change.
Ryan selects Yuki Numata Resnick as 2023 'Women of Distinction' honoree
Niagara Frontier Publications
May 2023
Accomplished violinist cofounded Buffalo String Works to promote equitable access to youth music education in Western New York
Buffalo String Works wins 2023 IDEA Award
Buffalo Business First
February 2023
Congratulations to Buffalo String Works, a winner of the 2023 Buffalo Business First IDEA Awards.
Introducing the 2023 IDEA (Inclusion Diversity Equity Awareness) Award winners
Buffalo Business First
December 2022
Twenty people and five organizations will be honored at the fourth annual IDEA Awards.
The Power of Music Education Without Barriers
Buffalo Magazine
August 2022
An after-school music lesson at Buffalo String Works goes way beyond teaching kids how to scratch out “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” on the violin. It’s a character-building, confidence-inspiring, leadership and social-skills laboratory for young students across Buffalo’s diverse neighborhoods.
SkyRide is a community bike ride that offers the only opportunity to ride a bike across the Skyway
Buffalo Rising
August 2022
Together Independent Health and GObike are striving to build a culture of health in Buffalo and Western New York. […] That’s why, earlier this week, adjacent to the beautiful cycle track on Niagara Street, seventy children gathered outside of Buffalo String Works…
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo awards more than $930,000 to WNY organizations
Niagara Frontier Publications
July 2022
The Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo announced awards totaling more than $930,000 to 41 Western New York nonprofit organizations through its 2022 competitive grants process. Competitive grants have been awarded to area nonprofits that support at least one of the Community Foundation’s four community goals…
Catching up with Bill Breeser and his Niagara Street developments
Buffalo Rising
February 2022
Yesterday I posted on Mint Cocktails & Kitchen, which will be opening at 1225 Niagara Street (corner of Breckenridge) this spring. The restaurant will be opening up in one of Bill Breeser’s buildings. Breeser has an extensive portfolio of properties on the street…
SUNY Fredonia attracts celebrated musicians to annual string festival
Observer Today
February 2022
Three acclaimed guest artists — violinist Yuki Numata Resnick, violist Phillip Ying and cellist Guy Johnston — will give master classes and also perform in concert with State University at Fredonia School of Music string faculty at the annual Fredonia String Festival on Sunday…
BPO and Buffalo String Works receive $35,000 in federal grants
WGRZ
January 2022
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Buffalo String Works have been awarded $35,000 by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) through the Grants for Arts project, which supports…
In your own words – the things you said that said so much
Buffalo News
December 2021
These thoughts are simply emblematic of so many who trusted me with their stories. I am grateful to all of you, and I offer this piece with the best possible New Year's wishes…
Our Promise, Our Future
RISE Collaborative
October 2021
Buffalo String Works aims to ignite personal and community leadership through accessible and youth-centered music education…
More focus on mental health for students, families as NY schools reopen
Spectrum 1 News Buffalo
September 2021
[Buffalo String Works] received more than $50,000 in grant funding from Generator Z, in partnership with the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation, to create a student-centered cafe for peers to connect, study and have access to mental health support.
Building Community Through the Arts
Buffalo Rising
May 2021
Yuki Numata Resnick, the Executive Director of Buffalo String Works, believes that music education can be a tool to build community. Buffalo String Works offers an afterschool program focused on the refugee/immigrant community and teaches their students to become leaders through music.
Beyond words for pain, Burmese community turns to music
Buffalo News
March 2021
Win Min Thant is putting together an impromptu concert Saturday of area musicians of all ages who will perform "Do You Hear the People Sing?" The idea came to Win Min Thant a few weeks ago…
Buffalo String Works Yuki Numata Resnick on work, family, and recording for Taylor Swift
Buffalo News
March 2021
Viewed from the outside, the world of popular music appears adorned in glitz and glamour with implicit nods to “the easy life.” That might be true for the Beyoncés and Taylor Swifts of the world. But for most working musicians, the reality is something quite different..
Buffalo String Works 7th annual musical benefit will be virtual
WKBW
March 2021
The Buffalo String Works mission is to provide music instruments and lessons to children free of charge. According to Executive Director and Co-founder Yuki Namata Resnick "Eighty-five percent of our students are from refugee families." The organization provides lessons to the students after school.
'It breaks you down to pieces': A Year with COVID-19 in WNY
Buffalo News
March 2021
We all have images we will forever associate with the Covid-19 pandemic, which shut down Western New York a year ago this month. One of mine, in an aching crossroads of heartbreak and history, was walking last spring with Frank Billittier Sr. through an almost deserted Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, in Cheektowaga…
National Endowment for the Arts grants $65,000 for local programs
WKBW
February 2021
The National Endowment for the Arts has granted $65,000 for local programs. Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Buffalo String Works, and Hallwalls will receive funding through the NEA.
Buffalo String Works aims to expand, March benefit concert features international acts
WBFO
February 2021
After-school music program Buffalo String Works, who currently serves immigrants and refugees on Buffalo’s West Side, plan to expand their operations in the coming years. In an effort to raise funds, the non-profit is announcing their 2021 Spring Benefit Concert will include…
Buffalo String Works getting ready for 7th annual benefit concert
WGRZ
February 2021
On March 20, Buffalo String Works Students will play alongside 13 artists, with names you may recognize such as The National and Arcade Fire.
Burmese Buffalonians Denounce Military Coup
RISE Collaborative
February 2021
The recent and ongoing military coup in Burma has direct effects on over 10,000 Burmese Buffalonians. As the military there cuts off all digital access to the outside world, our neighbors and friends here are speaking out, demanding the world's attention and action to bring this coup to an end.
Burmese community, Buffalo String Works collaborating to speak out against Myanmar coup
WBFO
February 2021
The coup in Myanmar has shaken thousands in Buffalo’s refugee and immigrant population who once called Burma home. An after-school music program that serves immigrants and refugees on Buffalo’s west side, Buffalo String Works, plans to hold multiple events to educate the public on what is happening in Myanmar…
Despite pandemic, art scene continues to inspire creative outlet in WNY
WGRZ
February 2021
Buffalo String Works' executive director says 96% of students in their after school program are coming to virtual classes and they had an increase in enrollment.
Getting to Know Yuki Numata Resnick, Executive Director Buffalo String Works | Part I
Buffalo Rising
January 2021
Neil Farrell interviews Yuki Numata Resnick, Buffalo String Work’s Executive Director.
In conversation with Aaron Siegel, Carnegie Hall’s Director of Special Projects
Carnegie Hall
April 2020
In this week's episode, Yuki Numata Resnick, string teacher and executive director of Buffalo String Works, reflects on the quick shift to digital brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In time of crisis, Buffalo refugee community finds solace in Buffalo String Works
Buffalo News
April 2020
The kids had been working toward this evening for months. They had been capping off their school day with music lessons three days a week at the Dream Center on Lafayette Avenue, prepping their parts and eagerly anticipating…
For young pupils at Buffalo String Works, music as shared language
Buffalo News
February 2020
Dim Lam Lun made the decision the first time she touched the keys. She was a teenager in Burma, forced to seek an education far from home amid sweeping reprisals in 1988 that shut down government schools…
Welcome to America, you are welcome here!
School Band and Orchestra Magazine
October 2019
Buffalo, New York is known for many things, including Buffalo Wings that are rapidly replacing the hot dog as the All-American food at baseball games and other sporting events… SBO’s attention was drawn to the Buffalo String Works (BSW) while researching the recent PlayUSA grant recipients.
You Supported This: Buffalo String Works Performs The Bridge Thursday April 4
Rise Collaborative
April 2019
Buffalo String works is excited to announce the next installment of our cross-cultural, interdisciplinary arts series The Bridge. To further our mission of uniting communities in Buffalo, A Celebration of Music, Dance, and Photography, will take place at Lafayette International High School on Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 6pm.
Buffalo String Works: The Bridge 2019
Buffalo Rising
March 2019
One of Buffalo String Works’ missions is to promote cross-cultural ties within the city. Their stance is that everyone should have access to playing music, no matter their background or abilities. Through inclusiveness, they have managed to work with numerous refugee groups that might not otherwise have access to music classes and artistic programming.
'Joe's Violin' to promote donating instruments to change lives
WBFO
March 2019
A special performance and screening of the award-winning short film Joe's Violinwill be held Saturday evening as part of the Buffalo International Jewish Film Festival that runs March 22 through March 28. WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says the event will focus on how to donate instruments to change.
Buffalo String Works
Buffalo Rising
February 2019
One spring day in March, 2014, accomplished violist Virginia Barron and violinist Yuki Numata Resnick delivered a performance for an enthusiastic audience at PS 45 International School on Hoyt Street in Buffalo. What they received in return was priceless.
Using art to bring together kids on Buffalo's west side
WKBW Channel 7 ABC
August 2018
Young refugees are getting a big boost to help them better immerse in the culture of Western New York.“...newcomer youth face daunting hurdles including learning a new language...
Buffalo String Works hopes to bridge the gap with refugee community through concert series
WIVB Channel 4 News
February 2018
An organization called Buffalo String Works is launching a new concert series with a special part...
Buffalo String Works Launches New Concert Series
The Public
February 2018
In an effort to extend a welcoming hand to Buffalo’s diverse West Side community, and particularly to its newly arrived refugees and immigrants, Buffalo String Works is launching a concert series, The Bridge. Each performance presented by The Bridge will honor Buffalo’s refugee and immigrant population through its programming with the intention of bridging gaps within the refugee community and between the community and Buffalo itself.
Carnegie Hall's DECODA in Buffalo for Buffalo String Works
Classical 94.5FM WNED Interviews
February 2018
Buffalo String Works was formed to bring the gift of music (free instruments and lessons) to the West Side...
Buffalo String Works: Bridging the Gap
Rise Collaborative
February 2018
Walking through The Dream Center on a Wednesday afternoon you’ll hear violins echo through the massive building on Lafayette Ave. There are six music classes going on for ages ranging from about 5 to 12 – the second stop of the day for Buffalo String Works lessons.
Buffalo String Works Launches a New Concert Series with Decoda
Artvoice
February 2018
Buffalo String Works, a creative grassroots program serving refugee students on the Lower West Side is launching ‘The Bridge’, a new, free concert series designed to bridge gaps within the refugee community as well as between the refugee community and the rest of the people of Buffalo itself.
Buffalo String Works launches new concert series, The Bridge
Buffalo Rising
January 2018
Buffalo String Works is launching a new concert series with a very special segment of the city in mind – immigrants and refugees. The concert series is aptly called “The Bridge”.
Music is providing a sense of belonging for refugee community
WKBW Buffalo - Channel 7 ABC
December 2017
Music is a universal language and it gives a sense of belonging.
Especially to Htoo Htoo Shar, 12, from Thailand. Shar has been a violin student at Buffalo String Works for the past three years.
Benefit concert will raise awareness to help more refugee kids learn music
Buffalo Business First
December 2017
With very few resources and a small staff, it’s extremely difficult for a tiny nonprofit to grow awareness about its cause. Buffalo String Works will get an opportunity to share its story with hundreds of music fans...
The National aims to effect change through music and help refugees
The Buffalo News
December 2017
These are trying times. Hanging around on social media and arguing about it will not change this fact. You can beat your head against the digital wall and take a few years off your life while doing nothing to alter grim reality. Or you can do something to make things better.
Friendship, belonging and a love of music are cultivated in young immigrants on Buffalo’s West Side
WBFO, Buffalo's NPR News Station
September 2017
The transition for immigrants trying to start a new life in Western New York is fraught with challenges—and more so for refugees uprooted by war and social upheaval. Resettlement agencies in our community...
Classically Speaking / Virginia Barron and Buffalo String Works
Buffalo Spree
July 2017
Many readers will recognize Virginia Barron’s name as that of the Classical 94.5 WNED announcer who recently left radio to devote more time to Buffalo String Works, a West Side after-school music program that she cofounded and directs with Yuki Numata Resnick...
Find Your Light Foundation Video
Find Your Light
June 2017
Buffalo String Works was one of three featured organizations at Find Your Light's 2nd Annual Celebration for Arts Education. The spotlight is on us from 8:59 - 11:38 within the 13 min video, created by Chris Groban.
Music a universal language for UB student violinists and Buffalo’s refugee children
UBNow
November 2017
One recent afternoon, the sounds of the first movement from 19th-century Russian composer Aleksandr Borodin’s “String Quartet No.2” filled the auditorium of Buffalo P.S. 18 on the city’s West Side. The audience, a group of students from the school — fifth through eighth graders — had stayed after class for the concert, performed by four student musicians from UB...
Buffalo String Works to host Ensemble Signal
Karibu News
April 2016
May 1, Buffalo String Works will be hosting a free concert...
Buffalo String Works provides music lessons to refugee and immigrant children
The Spectrum
February 2016
Music students of all ages know that music is not just memorizing notes from Vivaldi and practicing the proper technique. It becomes an outlet of creative expression, a way to convey thoughts and feelings to the audiences...
Music—a universal language
Buffalo Spree
January 2016
It’s a big day for the students of Buffalo String Works. One of the directors, Elise Alaimo Golove, announces that the beginner violinists, who began learning the instrument mere weeks ago, will receive bows for the first time. Squeals of “oooh” and “yay!” abound before the children split into three groups...
BSW Helping to Shape the Future of this City
Buffalo Rising
August 2015
Buffalo’s immigrant and refugee community has spurred a number of socio-economic developments that can be felt throughout the city. From restaurants to retail shops, the livelihood of these new Buffalonians is having an impact on us all. In order to accommodate the needs of these growing communities...
Buffalo String Works
MusicOvation
July 2015
Don’t believe everything you’ve read about Buffalo!
Yes, the city does have occasional epic snowstorms, and for decades has faced the usual rust-belt challenges. What you might not know is that the city of Buffalo is on the rise. Businesses are moving back...