2025 I Want To Believe Gala

Saturday, October 25 | 7–8 PM VIP | 8-11 General Admission
30 Essex Street, Buffalo
🎟️ Tickets start at $30 | 🍸 VIP: $100 (7–8 PM open bar + first access)

BICA Bucks are your currency for drinks, food, and anything weird you find along the way

Dress code: Costume or Cocktail

What do you want to believe in?

An apple a day. The power of art. The Bills. Climate change. Socialism. God. Bigfoot. Aliens. Acupuncture.

BICA’s annual gala is a celebration of belief — in art, in transformation, and in the wild idea that gathering together can still mean something. On October 25, we’re transforming our campus for a night of light, sound, food, and surreal experience.

✨ Here’s what’s waiting for you:

• Music by Groupwork (yes, dancing!)

• Live tattooing by Mandhi

• Visit the Tooth Fairy for a tooth gem

• Get your aura photographed by Silas

• Be baptized by BICA School

• Whisper to a wishing well

• Get drawn live by Laney & Koala

• Chill in a wave of glimmering iridescence

• Sip belief-bending cocktails by Aaron & Chloe

• Eat pizza you won’t believe by Extra Extra

• Drink with intention: Usonia Wine, named for Frank Lloyd Wright’s utopian ideal

• Bid in the silent auction featuring one-of-a-kind posters inspired by belief

• See two belief-charged exhibitions: angelic portals and sculptural altars to memory and movement

• Capture your glow — document the look, the vibe, the moment

All proceeds support BICA’s exhibitions, education programs, and continued mission to make art public.

🛸 We want to believe. Do you?