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8/18 Thursday
Wicked Children | 5:30 p.m. | South Hill Cider, 550 Sandbank Road
Empire Kings- 2022 Summer Con-
cert Series | 6 p.m. | Bernie Milton Pavilion, Center Commons
Music in Myers Park: City Limits |
6:30 p.m. | Myers Park | Free
Sunset Music Series: Yardvarks|
| Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd
8/19 Friday
Friday Sunset Music Series - ft.
Whiskey Business | 5 p.m. | Wagner Vineyards, 9322 State Route 414
Friday Night Music - Harry Nichols
Band | 6 p.m. | Hopshire Farms and Brewery, 1771 Dryden Rd Friday Night Farm Jams: | 6:30 p.m. | Finger Lakes Cider
Maddy Walsh & Miami Whizzdom
| 9:30 p.m. | The Range, 119 E State St | $10.00
8/21 Sunday
Music & Mimosas: Rachel Beverly |
Hosmer Winery | 1 p.m.
Sunday Music Series: Dr. Bob & Dr.
John | 1 p.m. | Red Newt Cellars, 3675 Tichenor Road | Free
Cider Sunday Concert Series:
Dennis Winge | 1 p.m. | Finger Lakes Cider House, 4017 Hickok Road Live music feat. Paul Noyd | | Treleaven Wines, 658 Lake Road
8/22 Monday
Jazz Monday with Dave Davies
RhythmMakers | 5:30 p.m. | South Hill Cider, 550 Sandbank Road
8/24 Wednesday
New eld Music Series at Mill Park:
Freight | 6 p.m. | Mill Park | Free
Concerts/Recitals
8/18 Thursday
Skaneateles Festival | My Soul Sings: Catalyst Quartet & Karen Slack | 8 p.m. | First Presbyterian Church, 97 E Genesee St. | $30.00 - $40.00 8/19 Friday
Chamber Music Festival at New
Park - 6th Season | 7:30 p.m., 1500 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA Skaneateles Festival | Freedom’s Voice: Catalyst Quartet & Karen Slack | 8 p.m. | First Presbyterian Church, 97 E. Genesee St | $30.00 - $40.00
Zac Brown Band - DICK’S Sporting
Goods Open | 8 p.m. | En-Joie Golf Course, 722 W Main St | $85.00 8/20 Saturday
The Decemberists | 7 p.m. | Beak & Ski Apple Orchards, 2708 Lords Hill Road
Skaneateles Festival Finale with Christian McBride & Inside
Straight | 8 p.m. | Anyela’s Vineyards, 2433 W. Lake Rd | $40.00 - $60.00 8/23 Tuesday
Wilco | 7 p.m. | Beak & Ski Apple Orchards, 2708 Lords Hill Road
8/25 Thursday
Kathleen Edwards | 8 p.m. | Center for the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St
8/26 Friday
Sawyer Brown | 8 p.m. | Tioga Downs, 2384 West River Rd | $30.00 - $40.00
Emmet Cohen Trio: The Robert G. Boehmler Community Foundation
Series at Ford Hall | 8:15 p.m.
Stage
Open Mic Stand Up Comedy Night @ The Downstairs at Downstairs
| 7 p.m., 8/17 Wednesday | First and third Tuesdays of the month! Kenneth McLauren hosts Open Mic Stand Up Comedy Night at The Downstairs. View on site | Email this event The Tempest | 6 p.m., 8/19 Friday | Sugget Park, Homer Ave | Shakespeare in the Park 2022: William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. FREE! 8/19-21 and 8/26-28. Check center4art.org for speci c dates and times. | Free
ComedyFLOPs 3rd Friday Improv Show To Support Suicide Preven-
tion | 7 p.m., 8/19 Friday | Virtual, https://www.youtube.com/comedy ops | ComedyFLOPs’ 3rd Friday streaming Improv Shows in support of local area non-pro t organizations. This month we’re supporting WRFI Community Radio. | Free The Great Leap | 2:30 p.m., 8/20 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd. | The Great Leap by Lauren Yee When an American college basketball team travels to Beijing for a “friendship” game in the post-Cultural Revolution 1980s, both countries try to tease out the politics
Singtrece’s Open Mic for Singers, Rappers, Songwriters & Poets @ The Downstairs at The Downstairs
| 7 p.m., 8/23 Tuesday | The Downstairs and SingTrece Publishing Production Presents Ithaca’s Best Open Mic for Singers, Rappers, Songwriters, Poets and Spoken Word.
Art
A Gathering: From Baskets to Brownstones by Elizabeth Wick-
enden McMahon | | Kendal Gallery, 2230 Triphammer Rd. | A mid-career retrospective by Elizabeth Wickenden McMahon that brings together works that stretch across di erent years and di erent media, and between representation and abstraction. A common theme emerges, each work explores the energetic interplay of spontaneity and structure. | Free
2022 Cornell Biennial: Ken
Feingold Installation | 11 a.m., 8/17 Wednesday | Johnson Museum of Art, 114 Central Avenue | Experience Ken Feingold’s new media installation, “The Animal, Vegetable, Mineralness of Everything,” at the Johnson Museum of Art from July 18 through October 21, 2022. | Free Upcycled Vases | 5 p.m., 8/17 Wednesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 Main Street | For all ages: Join us on August 17th in preparing for the library’s Words and Wineevent with decoupaging upcycled wine bottles! All supplies are provided. | Free
New Work: Jane Dennis and Harry
Littell | 12 p.m., 8/18 Thursday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 West State Street | New work by Jane Dennis and Harry Littell at SOAG | Free Pop In Studio Night | 4 p.m., 8/18 Thursday | Artist Alley at South Hill Business Campus, 950 Danby Road | Several artists studios and the gallery will be open to the public every third Thursday from 4-7pm.
Hand-Built Mugs Class at Pottery
Works Cortland | 6 p.m., 8/18 Thursday | Pottery Works Cortland, 75 E. Court St | Learn the fundamentals of hand-building while creating two unique mugs. $60 Includes all instruction and materials, rings, use of tools, and glazes.
Summer Seconds Sale at Handwork Artisan Co-op at Handwork
Cooperative | 10 a.m., 8/19 Friday, 102 West State Street | Enjoy a wide range of discounts on locally made pottery, ber, jewelry, woodwork, glass, wall art and more at Handwork Co-op’s Summer Sale Days! August 19th through the 29th. “ESSENCE” Art Exhibit | 5 p.m., 8/19 Friday | The Cherry Gallery, 130 Cherry St | The Cherry Arts presents Essence, a collaborative art exhibition featuring the elaborate masks, prints, and performative works | Free Common Thread Invitational | 11 a.m., 8/20 Saturday | corners gallery, 903 HANSHAW RD | Common Thread Invitational showcases work by ve contemporary artists working in ber and textiles. Art Mondays! | 2 p.m., 8/22 Monday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road (Route 96) | ‘Bee’ sure to join us at the Museum this summer to create insect themed arts and crafts! This drop in activity will be happening on Mondays at 2pm in July and August.
Film
2022 Movies in the Park: In the
Heights | 7 p.m., 8/19 Friday | The Tompkins Chamber and Serendipity Catering are collaborating to host Movies in the Park again this year, showing ve free community movies on Friday nights in the summer from the last Friday | Free
Silent Movie Under the Stars -- 12th Annual at Taughannock Falls
State Park | 8 p.m., 8/20 Saturday | Join Wharton Studio Museum for Silent Movie Under the Stars, its 12th annual screening of a silent lm under the night sky with live music at Taughannock Falls State Park on Saturday, August 20th 120 E. Green St., Ithaca August 19-August 25, 2022. Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. New lms listed rst. *
Elizabeth Bishop and The Art of
Losing* | An documentary on Pulitzer Prize Winning poet Elizabeth Bishop. “|The art of losing isn’t hard to master;/so many things seem lled with the intent/to be lost that their loss is no disaster…” |84 mins NR A Love Song* | At a campground in the rural West, a woman waits alone for an old ame from her past to arrive, uncertain of his intentions while bashful about her own.| 81 mins PG Bodies, Bodies, Bodies | When a group of rich 20-somethings plan a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game turns deadly in this fresh and funny look at backstabbing, fake friends, and one party gone very, very wrong.| 95 mins R Emily the Criminal | Down on her luck and saddled with debt, Emily gets involved in a credit card scam that pulls her into the criminal underworld of Los Angeles, ultimately leading to deadly consequences.| 95 mins R
Marcel the Shell with Shoes
On | A beloved character gets his big-screen debut in this hilarious and heartwarming story about nding connection in the smallest corners. | 89 mins PG Nope | Jordan Peele’s latest lm in which the residents of a lonely gulch in inland California bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery. | 135 mins R
Cornell Cinema
All lms are shown at Willard Straight Hall on Cornell campus. The Batman | 8/20 & 8/22 at 7:00PM | Robert Pattinson dons the cowl of the world’s greatest detective to hunt a puzzle-obsessed serial killer in this noir-ish reboot of the DC franchise. Mississippi Masala | 8/21 & 8/23 at 7:00PM | A Romeo and Juliet romance that follows the tensions between passion and tradition when an Indian family, expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin in 1972, is forced to relocate to Mississippi. The Conversation | 8/24 at 7:00PM | Gene Hackman stars in this brilliant, early standout from director Francis
WEEK THIS
CHAMBER MUSIC AT NEW PARK 2022 FESTIVAL
FRIDAY, AUGUST 19TH & SATURDAY, AUG. 20 AT 7:30PM; SUNDAY, AUGUST 21 AT 3:00PM
New Park, 1500 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca| It’s one of the best-kept secrets of summer, and for those who appreciate ne chamber music, it’s a must-see-and-hear. The
Festival’s artistic director is Britton Riley (pictured), cellist with the National Symphony Orchestra, who conceived of the festival and has led it since 2016. (Photo: Provided)
12TH ANNUAL SILENT MOVIE UNDER THE STARS UNDER THE STARS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 20 AT 8:00PM
Taughannock Falls State Park, Trumansburg| A silent lm with live music under the night sky by the lake sounds heavenly! This event is FREE and family friendly.
Featuring: Buster Keaton’s “Steamboat Bill, Jr.” Bring a chair, bring a blanket, family & friends. (Photo: Provided)
Ford Coppola. A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.
Special Events
Ithaca Night Bazaar at Steamboat Landing, Ithaca Farmers Market
Pavilion | 6 p.m., 8/18 Thursday | A monthly festival of musicians, makers, artists, performers, doers and dreamers. Go Bowling at The Glen | 3 p.m., 8/21 Sunday | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Route 16 | The NASCAR Cup Series returns to Watkins Glen International! Be there to experience the NASCAR Cup Series take on the historic road course! Trumansburg Fair | 8/23 Tuesday | Trumansburg Fairgrounds, Route 96 |
Books
The 4 Seasons Spring Book Club - The Summer Seekers by Sarah Morgan (location subject to
change) | 6:30 p.m., 8/18 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |
Sweet Reads at the New eld Pub-
lic Library | 6:30 p.m., 8/18 Thursday | New eld Public Library, 198 Main Street | Join us to talk about the books we are reading over dessert! | Free
Kids My First Day of Kindergarten
Storytime | 4 p.m., 8/17 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Meet an Entomologist! | 1 p.m., 8/18 Thursday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road (Route 96) | Do you have a question about insects? Ask an expert! Toddler & Preschool Music | 11 a.m., 8/18 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |
Groton Public Library Storytime
at Groton Public Library | 6 p.m., 8/18 Thursday | Join the Library for a monthly storytime. This months theme is around The Winter Olympics. Get up close with a roach! | 10 a.m., 8/19 Friday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road (Route 96) | Get ready to ‘bug out’ and get up close with a roach! Join us on Fridays at 10am in July and August to meet-andgreet a cockroach and learn about this incredible insect! Summer Baby Storytime | 10:30 a.m., 8/19 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Arthropod or Insect Tour | 1:30 p.m., 8/19 Friday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road (Route 96) | Crawl around the Museum on an arthropod or insect tour this summer! These ‘ANTastic’ tours will be on Fridays at 1:30pm in July and August.
Animal Encounters! at Cayuga
Nature Center | 12 p.m., 8/20 Saturday | Join us in the courtyard at noon to learn all about the Cayuga Nature Center’s animal ambassadors!
Wildlife Weekend Insect Inves-
tigations | 11 a.m., 8/20 Saturday | Join NYS Parks FORCES stewards at the Taughannok Falls Overlook to learn all about native (and invasive!) insects.
Museum Family Visit: Meet
the Walking Man! | 1 p.m., 8/20 Saturday | Johnson Museum of Art, 114 Central Avenue | Visit the Johnson Museum as a family and get to know a fan-favorite sculpture: Giacometti’s Walking Man !
Family Workshop: Chalk Painting
| 10 a.m., 8/22 Monday | Johnson Museum of Art, 114 Central Avenue | Use enormous telescoping paintbrushes to cover the sidewalk with your art, ll a giant chalk outline of the Johnson Museum with artistic illustrations, or play with vibrant chalk paint and water LEGO Build Night for Families | 5 p.m., 8/23 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |
Notices
Pearls of Wisdom Senior Group
| 11 a.m., 8/17 Wednesday | Online, Center Ithaca | Pearls of Wisdom Online Senior Support Group | Free
Loaves & Fishes of Tompkins
County -Indoor Meal Service | 12 p.m., 8/17 Wednesday | St. John’s Episcopal Church, 210 N. Cayuga St. | Free hot meals are served every weekday. Lunch: Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 12 noon -1:00 pm. Dinner: Tuesday, Thursday from 5:30-6:30 pm. Interested in volunteering? email info@loaves.org, or go to www.loaves. org. All are Welcome! | Free
Trumansburg Farmers Market |
4 p.m., 8/17 Wednesday | Farmers Market, Hector St. | On the corner of Route 227 & 96 … In the heart of Trumansburg
Marijuana Anonymous Meeting
| 7 p.m., 8/17 Wednesday | Ithaca Community Recovery (518 W. Seneca St), 518 West Seneca St | Marijuana Anonymous in-person meeting every Wednesday @ 7pm at Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca St, 2nd oor in Room #2. Enter from back door of building. For more info: maithacany@gmail.com | Free Free Community Cruise | 7 p.m., 8/17 Wednesday | Allan H. Treman Marina, 1000 Allan H. Treman Road | Free 1.5 hour cruise with presentations by community members on board. | Free Red Cross Blood Drive | 10 a.m., 8/18 Thursday | The Shops at Ithaca Mall, 40 Catherwood Rd. | Come give blood in August and get a $10 e-gift card, plus automatically be entered for a chance to win gas for a year (a $6,000 value), or a $250 Gas Card! | Free
Nutrition Workshop Series - Slaw
Slaying | 3 p.m., 8/18 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Candor Farmers Market | 3:30 p.m., 8/18 Thursday | Candor Town Hall Pavilion, 101 Owego Road | Local vendors with produce, crafts, cheese, meat, maple products, baked goods, food truck | Free Community Garden | 4 p.m., 8/18 Thursday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 Main St. | For ages 16+: Join Library Director Andrea Tillinghast and new Teen Advocate Brooke Donnelly for some leisurely gardening at the Library’s Community Garden Plot at the Ovid Community Garden. | Free Chess Club | 6 p.m., 8/18 Thursday | Cortland Free Library, 32 Church St | An all ages chess club for beginners and experts. Meets every Thursday at 6 p.m. Beginners will get a lesson on the basics of chess and experts can meet and play. Potorti Gorge Walks | 10 a.m., 8/19 Friday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road (Route 96) | Join us for our annual James Potorti Museum of the Earth/State Parks Gorge Walks on Fridays in August.
Summer Seconds Sale at Handwork Artisan Co-op at Handwork
Cooperative | 10 a.m., 8/19 Friday, 102 West State Street | Enjoy a wide range of discounts on locally made pottery, ber, jewelry, woodwork, glass, wall art and more at Handwork Co-op’s Summer Sale Days! August 19th through the 29th. Ovid Farmers Market | 3 p.m., 8/19 Friday | Three Bears Complex, Main St. | Every Friday from 3-7. Be sure to purchase fresh, local produce and other local products. Support your local farmers and producers and keep your hard-earned dollars in your local community. | Free
Night Sky Cruise at Allen Treman
State Park | 9:30 p.m., 8/19 Friday | Come enjoy the wide, open skies for yourself and see if you can recognize some zodiac signs from our boat, the spacious MV Teal!
Ithaca Farmers Market - Satur-
days at Steamboat | 9 a.m., 8/20 Saturday | Steamboat Landing, 545 Third Street | Shop all of the best food, art and ag within 30 miles!
Cayuga Trails Club Hike at Various
trails in the Ithaca region. | 10 a.m., 8/20 Saturday | Various | Explore local trails on weekly Saturday hikes starting at 10:00am. Hike length varies from 2.5-4 miles. Click here to see the location of the hikes for each week. View on site | Email this event
Brooktondale Farmers Market |
10 a.m., 8/20 Saturday | Brooktondale Community Center, 526 Valley Rd | The Brooktondale Farmers Market o ers a relaxed combination of live music, food from the grill, and friendly vendors, every Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm. Sound Healing | 2 p.m., 8/21 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd | Sound healing experience with Neko, 1st and 3rd Sunday of every month. 2pm—3pm $22-33 sliding scale Email: nekothreesixty@gmail. com to register WRAP Bingo | 1 p.m., 8/22 Monday | Peer Outreach Center, 171 E. State Street, Center Ithaca, Suite 115 | Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP®) Bingo game. | Free
Tree “Buds”: Weekly Tree Phenol-
ogy | 3 p.m., 8/22 Monday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd | Be our tree “buds” and join our weekly citizen science walk to observe and collect data on seasonal changes in trees. | Free
Drywall Basics - 5 Day Class for Women at Hammerstone School:
Carpentry for Women | 4 p.m., 8/22 Monday | The ubiquitous wall covering in most modern houses is drywall (sheetrock). Done right, it’s an inexpensive, smooth, at surface that you can customize with paint. Online Teen Game Group | 4:30 p.m., 8/22 Monday | Mental Health Association in Tompkins County | Online Teen Game Group | Free Social Knitting | 6 p.m., 8/22 Monday | Cortland Free Library, 32 Church St | Why work alone when you can work with others? Knitting, crocheting, sewing – bring whatever it is you are working on! Open to all skill levels (ages 12 and up).
29TH CHENANGO BLUES FEST
FRIDAY, AUGUST 19 AT 5:30PM AND SATURDAY, AUGUST 20 AT 11:00AM
Chenango County Fairgrounds, Norwich | A family friendly event. Headlining Friday will be Blues rocker Popa Chubby. Food vendors and on-site camping are a great way to settle in and enjoy the whole weekend. Saturday is a day-long a air with several performers and Jimmie Vaughan (pictured) headlining that evening. (Photo: Provided)
GO BOWLING AT THE GLEN
SUNDAY, AUGUST 21 AT 3:00PM
Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen | The NASCAR Cup Series returns for its annual event at WGI. The Go Bowling at The Glen is a 220.5-mile-long motor race, and this year is the 39th trip to WGI for the
Cup Series, with the rst visit in 1957. Kyle Larson is the defending winner of the race. (Photo: Provided)