Things to Do in Glens Falls - March 2009

Crandall Public Library

Film Series

Tuesday, March 31, 6:30pm
I'm Not There 77% Fresh Tomatometer (rottentomatoes.com) Todd Haynes (VELVET GOLDMINE, FAR FROM HEAVEN) delivers this dazzling, experimental take on the life of popular music's most revered and enigmatic artist: Bob Dylan. In keeping with the impossible-to-pin-down nature of Dylan himself, Haynes chose to cast six different actors to portray several incarnations of the groundbreaking troubadour. The result is a challenging, sprawling work that spans several decades and genres. Woody (Marcus Carl Franklin) is a young black child with a folk music obsession; Jack Rollins (Christian Bale) is an upstart folksinger whose protest songs have ignited an entire generation; Arthur (Ben Wishaw) is a Rimbaud-esque figure who has begun to embrace a new form of lyrical poetry; Robbie (Heath Ledger) is a well-known actor whose marriage to the lovely Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) crumbles under the weight of his lifestyle; Billy (Richard Gere) is a slippery frontiersman who echoes Dylan's infatuation with the Old West and American folklore; and, finally, there is the substance-abusing, confrontational Jude (Cate Blanchett), who represents Dylan in the turbulent mid-1960s. Much in the same way that Dylan appropriated a vast array of musical styles to create his own vernacular, Haynes does the same thing with I'M NOT THERE, using his expansive knowledge of movie history to pay homage to a variety of movements and genres (Godard, Fellini, Lester, etc.). The typically extraordinary cinematographer Edward Lachman outdoes even himself this time around, incorporating so many different visual styles that it's impossible to decide which is the most beautiful. While the cast all fare well in their roles, it is Cate Blanchett who runs away with the picture, proving once again that she is one of the finest actors the movies have ever seen.

Tuesday, April 7, 6:30pm
Scroll On! The Title Designs of Dan Perri USA., 1972-2008, 80 min, color, 35mm and DVD) Dan Perri's credit sequences that play as films start, are like preludes to an orchestral movement- they set the tone, establish a mood, and give the audience goose-bumps for what they're about to experience. A graphic designer at heart, he has a flair for movement, tempo and typography. His "credits" include Star Wars, Taxi Driver, The Exorcist, In the Valley of Elah, All the President's Men, Nashville, Days of Heaven, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raging Bull, Field of Dreams, Bull Durham and many, many others. He will be with us in person with a selection of clips and will discuss his career in movies.- Courtesy of the Central NY Programmers Group which also makes this program possible.

Tuesday, April 14, 6:30 pmpm
American Teen 70% Fresh Tomatometer (rottentomatoes.com) American Teen is the touching and hilarious Sundance hit that follows the lives of four teenagers - a jock, the popular girl, the artsy girl and the geek -- in one small town in Indiana through their senior year of high school. We see the insecurities, the cliques, the jealousies, the first loves and heartbreaks, and the struggle to make profound decisions about the future.

Tuesday, April 21, 6:30pm
Rachel Getting Married 87% Fresh Tomatometer (rottentomatoes.com) Young fans of Anne Hathaway's previous roles in family films such as THE PRINCESS DIARIES and ELLA ENCHANTED probably wouldn't know what to make of her character in RACHEL GETTING MARRIED. Hathaway's Kym is a recovering drug addict who leaves rehab behind to attend the wedding of her sister, Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt, MAD MEN), but Kym's problems follow her home. Rachel cannot forgive or forget Kym's many drug-fuelled transgressions, and their father (Bill Irwin, LADY IN THE WATER) dotes on his returned daughter. As the wedding grows closer, the spotlight shifts from Rachel to Kym, much to the bride's irritation. The alternately hilarious and heartbreaking dialogue in RACHEL GETTING MARRIED adeptly walks the line between wit and reality, giving audiences a picture of a family that feels entirely authentic. Before directing this indie-feeling drama, director Jonathan Demme spent time doing a few documentaries, such as THE AGRONOMIST, and JIMMY CARTER: MAN FROM PLAINS. These films seem like a departure from his normal oeuvre--including THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS--but they work as a bridge to RACHEL GETTING MARRIED. Demme chose to shoot this film with handheld cameras, lending it a naturalistic feel, as though a cameraman is simply shooting the family videos of a fascinatingly flawed group of people. The cast certainly deserves praise for the film's authenticity as well. Much has been made of Hathaway's masterly shedding of her usual roles to play the damaged Kym, but credit should also go to the other members of the cast, particularly Irwin as the too devoted father and DeWitt as the overlooked sister. Stories about dysfunctional families are nothing new in the world of cinema, but RACHEL GETTING MARRIED stands out thanks to its talented cast and excellent script from Jenny Lumet, daughter of director Sidney Lumet (NETWORK).

Tuesday, April 28, 6:30pm
Sleep Dealer "True originality and artistic verve ... Sleep Dealer is a film with lofty dramatic aspirations, an ambitious visual palette and a folksy heart. Alex Rivera and David Riker have come up with something unique and engaging. Rivera's artistic bravery is impressive... it's a fantastic journey." - Steve Ramos, IndieWire.com. Courtesy of the Central NY Programmers Group which also makes this program possible.

Tuesday, May 5, 6:30 pm
Revolutionary Road 71% Fresh Tomatometer (rottentomatoes.com) Those who were waiting for the romantic reunion of TITANIC's Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet may be surprised by what they find in REVOLUTIONARY ROAD. The movie begins with a sweet scene where Frank (DiCaprio) and April (Winslet) meet at a party, but the rest of this drama based on Richard Yates's novel is devoted to watching the destruction of their marriage and their selves in 1950s suburbia. Frank works at a job he hates in New York City, then commutes home to two children and a wife who feels none of them belong in their cookie-cutter town. Their realtor (a fine Kathy Bates) recognizes their specialness and introduces them to her mentally unstable son (BUG's Michael Shannon, in another good, unhinged performance) in an effort to establish some normalcy for the man. However, Frank and April's marriage is not as perfect as it seems to the outside world, and the audience gets to witness their downfall. With its commentary on conformity and finding identity, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD bears more than a passing resemblance in both theme and tone to the TV series MAD MEN and director Sam Mendes's previous film AMERICAN BEAUTY. The characters here may live in a polite age where men wear ties and hats and women clean the house in skirts and heels, but the dialogue often enters brutal territory. Less capable actors wouldn't have been able to capture the volatile chemistry between Frank and April, but DiCaprio and Winslet are as wonderful at uttering sweet nothings as they are at tearing each other apart with verbal barbs. Mendes, directing his wife, Winslet, for the first time, is a perfect match for the source novel's lack of sentimentality and its wry commentary on life in the 1950s that still resonates half a century later.

Tuesday, May 12, 6:30pm
Frozen River 87% Fresh Tomatometer (rottentomatoes.com) Courtney Hunt's feature directorial debut FROZEN RIVER is a powerfully unflinching tale of two women, who, driven by economic hardship, form an unlikely partnership smuggling illegal immigrants... Courtney Hunt's feature directorial debut FROZEN RIVER is a powerfully unflinching tale of two women, who, driven by economic hardship, form an unlikely partnership smuggling illegal immigrants across the Canadian border. Melissa Leo turns in a gritty performance as Ray, a struggling dollar-store cashier and mother living in a trailer home in upstate New York who is desperate to make ends meet. When Ray's gambling-addicted husband runs off with the family's payment on a new doublewide trailer, her life quickly spirals into a financial tailspin. During a frenzied search for her deadbeat spouse, she apprehends Lila (Misty Upham), a Mohawk Indian from an area reservation, attempting to steal her car. In the process of taking back her vehicle, she learns of Lila's smuggling operation through an unpatrolled corridor within Mohawk territory--the frozen St. Lawrence River that forms part of the border between the U.S. and Canada. Out of necessity, they form an uneasy alliance: Ray, working to meet the payment's deadline, and Lila, who scrambles to earn money to redeem herself to her estranged in-laws and infant child. Within a stark, mostly minimalist screenplay, Hunt seamlessly works in contemporary anxieties: economic recession, immigration, and trafficking, but never puts too fine a point on social relevance to the detriment of a compelling storyline. As the plot heats up, the stakes Ray and Lila encounter get higher and the danger, more real. FROZEN RIVER is more than a somber meditation on lives in peril, it's a complex portrait of women from different walks of life struggling to find their ethical bearings in a harsh, unforgiving, and corrupt world.

Tuesday, May 19, 6:30pm
Synecdoche, New York 62% Fresh Tomatometer (rottentomatoes.com) Theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele (Catherine Keener) has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive (Sadie Goldstein) with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis (Hope Davis), is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel (Samantha Morton) has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. Worried about the transience of his life, he leaves his home behind. He gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside.

Tuesday, May 26, 6:30pm
Gran Torino 70% Fresh Tomatometer (rottentomatoes.com) or his fourth directorial feature in the span of two years, Clint Eastwood tells the story of a grizzled Korean War vet's reluctant friendship with a Hmong teenage boy and his immigrant family. Set in contemporary Detroit, GRAN TORINO tackles the shifting cultural and economic landscape of not only the Motor City, but America as well. Eastwood stars as Walt Kowalski, an unabashed bigot who never heard a racial insult he didn't love. Bitter, haunted, and full of pride, Walt refuses to abandon the neighborhood he's lived in for decades despite its changing demographics as he clings desperately to a mindset long since out of step with the times. When his Hmong neighbor Thao tries to steal his prized muscle car as part of a gang initiation, Walt is forced to grapple with the world around him. GRAN TORINO's approach to the complicated issue of race relations is equal parts Archie Bunker and CRASH. That is to say, there is nothing subtle about Walt's bigotry, yet his misanthropy knows no bounds, and Eastwood does a remarkable job of finding the humor in Walt's equal opportunity racism. More than simply a racial morality tale, however, GRAN TORINO is about the unlikely bonds that people form to navigate the subtle complexities every day life. Like MILLION DOLLAR BABY, GRAN TORINO explores the challenging yet rich new world that can open up when individuals let down their guard, even if for just a moment. Estranged from his family and his church, and without any sense of personal peace, Walt offers all that he has to Thao and his family, namely wisdom and protection. When tragedy strikes the family, Eastwood allows a little classic Harry Callahan to poke through, but the surprising finale posits a hero that Dirty Harry would never have the guts to be. It's a potent symbolic gesture to Eastwood's own growth as a storyteller.



Charles R. Wood Events

Saturday, April 4, 11:00 am
Billy Goats Gruff Lake George Opera: Opera To Go. Opera for Children. This is a FREE event.

Sunday, April 5, 7:00 pm
Timeless Tango Fusion Dance Company

Friday, April 17, 7:30 pm
Tom Paxton in Concert Sponsored by Cafe Lena.

Friday, May 1, 8:00 pm
Saturday, May 2, 8:00 pm
Sunday, May 3, 2:00 pm
Confessions of a Dirty Blonde Glens Falls Community Theatre

Saturday, May 9, 6:00 pm
Rising Stars at the Wood Second annual fundraiser for the Wood Theater featuring the best of local High School talent!

Saturday, May 16, 8:00 pm
Tribute to the Armed Forces Concert by Lake George Community Band

Wednesday, May 20, 2:00 pm
Thursday, May 21, 7:00 pm
Mayhem at the Wood aka Law & Disorder
Glens Falls Community Theatre's Senior Workshop. Donations accepted at the Door.

Saturday, May 30, Time TBD
Dance Recital Glens Falls Ballet and Dance

Wednesday, June 24 – Friday, July 3
Ordinary Days A new musical by Adam Gwon

Monday, July 6 – Saturday, July 11
The Goat Show: an odyssey behind barn doors Written and performed by Jennifer Fawcett

Tuesday, July 7 – Saturday, July 11 @ 9:45 pm
I Will Make You Orphans A one man hip-hopera, ghetto comedy and social drama. Written and performed by Sean C. Lewis

Thursday, July 16 – Saturday, July 25
Leaving Iowa A family vacation comedy. By Tim Clue and Spike Manton

Sunday, July 19 & Monday, July 20
Brush the Summer By by Hal Corley. A reading of a play in progress

Red Fox Bookstore

Saturday, March 28
Fundraiser for World Awareness Children's Museum Every Saturday in March Red Fox Books will donate a percentage of their sales to the World Awareness Children's Museum.

Friday, April 3
Saturday, April 4
Sunday, April 5
First Annual Hardcover Sale Buy three and take 40% off each! Don't miss this spring cleaning sale. (Other discounts don't apply).

Saturday, April 4, 2009 11:00 am
Spelling Bee Location: Crandall Public Library, Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY 12801 Description: The Second Annual Spelling Bee! Ages 8-10, 11 a.m.; Ages 11-14, 1 p.m., and 15+, 2:30 p.m. Sign up at Crandall Library or Red Fox Books. Prizes and refreshments included.

Sunday, April 5, 2009 1:30 pm
Magic Tree House Activity Day Our monthly Magic Tree House Activity Club will meet for the first time on April 5. oin us for crafts, storytime, and a trivia game. All ages welcome. Please register, 793-5352.

Rock Hill Bakehouse

Our Progressive Film Forum memberships are just $25/yr ($15 Seniors/Students). Members can borrow films without charge. There are plenty of thought-provoking DVD's to choose from as we use our membership dollars exclusively to buy and screen new films.

Thursday, March 26, 7:00 pm
OPEN MIC NIGHT Hosted by our very own Cory Avon. Sing, play, read or just watch and listen. Free.

Friday, March 27, 7:00 pm
EXCELLENT CADAVERS (2005) Marco Turco 92 min RT Rating = 77 % Based on the book by Alexander Stille and featuring the photos of Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, the film chronicles the recent history of the Mafia and its integral, seemingly ineradicable, relationship to postwar Italian politics. Whereas in the past the Cosa Nostra used to kill only their own, beginning in the Seventies the Mafia began assassinating prosecutors, judges and others who were fighting them, and thus began producing the "excellent cadavers," as Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia called them. This documentary focuses on the efforts of two courageous prosecutors, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, whose efforts in the mid-Eighties led to the Maxi-Trials in Palermo, where, in a heavily-protected underground bunker the size of a football field, hundreds of Mafia defendants were tried and convicted. The film shows us that successive Italian governments -- including the current Berlusconi regime -- either ignore the Mafia or essentially do nothing about it.

Saturday, March 28, 7:00 pm
PIANO MADNESS (Part Two) Local composer and pianist, Steven Galluci, cooks up more of his unique blend of his own classical and contemporary music.

Wednesday, April 22, 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
OPEN YOUR MOUTH FOR MAMA (An Unconventional Earth Day Celebration) Basically this is a scheduled forum for speakers, poets, musicians and artists to celebrate our home. Come claim your 15 minutes of fame for Mother Earth. She feeds you and, now, it's your turn to give back. Sing, dance, speak, dream and demonstrate your concern. Celebrate Your Soul!Contact Pam (Shining Moon) Lunz at pamlunz@yahoo.com to secure some time to express your own feelings and thoughts.

Saturday, May 9, 7:00 pm
SECOND SATURDAY POETRY SLAM Hosted by Mark DeVit. The second Saturday of each month we hold our monthly poetry slam. Everyone is welcome to participate. You can sign up the night of the event or email Mark (mdevit@gmail.com). There is a prize of a Rock Hill VIP Lunch For Two and a $25 cash prize for the "winner".

Hyde Collection
Now through Sunday, April 19, 2009
Thomas Chambers (1808-1869): American Marine and Landscape Painter This exhibition - the first major survey of Thomas Chambers' work since 1942 - seeks to define his style, examine his sources, and investigate the popular audience for marine and landscape painting in the mid-nineteenth century. Active for almost three decades as a painter, Chambers left behind a boldly expressive and puzzling body of work. Recovered from obscurity in the mid-twentieth century, he was enthusiastically celebrated as an American folk painter whose rhythmic sense of contour, lively pattern, and strong color anticipated modern taste.
Thomas Chambers (1808-1869): American Marine and Landscape Painter will feature approximately sixty works, borrowed from public and private collections throughout the United States, including forty-five paintings by Chambers and related paintings by his contemporaries.
This exhibition was organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and its Center for American Art, in association with the Indiana University Art Museum, and with the support of a generous gift from Mr. and Mrs. William C. Buck.

Now through Sunday, May 24, 2009
Old Master Prints from the Sparling Family Collection Late last year, Tobin Sparling donated nearly thirty prints in memory of his parents, Leon H. and Marie Buttlar Sparling. The exhibition, titled Old Master Prints from the Sparling Family Collection, will be on display in the Hoopes Gallery at the Museum through May 24. Ten etchings, seventeen engravings, and two wood cuts from the donated works will be included in the exhibition in addition to two prints on loan from the donor. The collection surveys the major printmaking styles and techniques from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries in both Southern and Northern Europe. Included are prints by some of the most influential artists working in this period such as, Albrecht Altdorfer, François Boucher, Jacques Callot, Albrecht Durer, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Hendrik Goltzius, Francisco Goya, and Marcantonio Raimondi. The exhibition is organized by Erin B. Coe, The Hyde’s chief curator.
The collection of prints was assembled by Tobin Sparling, who currently resides in Houston, where he is Associate Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law. A graduate of South Glens Falls Senior High School, Dartmouth College, and Columbia University, Sparling worked for a number of years in the rare books and print departments of the Yale Center for British Art and the New York Public Library. His father, Leon Sparling, was a former English teacher at South Glens Falls Senior High School. Tobin’s mother, Marie, had served for many years as Director of Adult Education Programs for the Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex County BOCES.
David F. Setford, the Hyde’s executive director, noted the uniqueness of the exhibition. “The Hyde now has a significant collection to add to our existing Old Masters’ works. The fact that the donation was made in memory of a local family who regularly visited our Museum makes this exhibition very special to us and to the area,” said Setford.

Sunday, April 19
Closing Reception With Kathleen A. Foster, Philadelphia Museum of Art The curator of Thomas Chambers (1808-1869): American Marine and Landscape Painter, Kathleen A. Foster of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, will speak at the exhibition’s closing reception at The Hyde on Sunday, April 19, 2009. Sponsors of the exhibition at The Hyde Collection are SCA Tissue and NBT Bank.

Sunday, July 12, 2009 through Sunday, October 18, 2009
Degas & Music
Coming in 2009 to the Charles R. Wood Gallery. Edgar Degas, known throughout the world as "the painter of dancers," was equally inspired by the world of music. This exhibition will bring together works that reflect the French Impressionist's fascination with music, including portraits of musician friends, dramatic images of cabaret singers, and stunning scenes of the music-filled world of the ballet. Degas & Music presents an engaging subject that has never been explored in depth or chosen as the subject of an exhibition. Degas & Music is organized by The Hyde Collection and curated by guest curators Richard Kendall and Jill DeVonyar.

Chapman Museum Events

Now through Thursday, April 30 Stoddard Exhibit: Adirondack Interiors Linen tablecloths, folded napkins, selections of fine cigars… and mounted deer heads? These items do belong together, in the setting of the Adirondack lodgings photographed by Seneca Ray Stoddard. This new exhibit will feature glimpses into the interiors of the hotels and inns that flourished in northern New York during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. While offering a light-hearted view of Victorian “rustic” décor, these fascinating images speak also of the lifestyle enjoyed by the wealthy of the period and their penchant for maintaining a level of comfort and control amidst the wildness of the Adirondack mountains.

Thursday, April 23 - Sunday, October 18, 2009
All Cordially Invited: Entertainment in the North Country, 1850 - 1920 What did people in Glens Falls and other communities in the North Country do for entertainment before TV? The Chapman Historical Museum’s summer 2009 exhibit, All Cordially Invited, will explore forms of entertainment from 1850, when most North Country communities were quite isolated, through 1920 when the automobile and the radio radically changed how people socialized.
In the 19th century the ball or dance was a popular form of entertainment that drew people together, often to support a local cause. Other social gatherings included lectures, picnics, revival meetings, clam roasts, excursions and ice cream socials. Later, railroads brought the circus and Wild West shows to town. Agricultural fairs, baseball games and horse tracks attracted crowds of spectators. People also experienced such new forms of entertainment as vaudeville acts and nickelodeons -- to be replaced by movie houses. Soon to follow in the 20th century was the radio, which with the automobile ended the region’s isolation, changing social customs as it did.
"All Cordially Invited" is planned in conjunction with the Hyde Collection’s Season of Degas. From July 12 to October 18, 2009, The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York will present Degas & Music, an exclusive exhibition devoted to the music-inspired works of French Impressionist Edgar Degas (1834-1917). To enhance the experience of regional visitors and tourists alike, The Hyde Collection is collaborating with area arts and community organizations to present a full summer/fall calendar of Degas-related events. The Season schedule will include exhibits, musical performances, lectures, and family events complementing the Degas exhibition.

LARAC Events

Thursday, March 26 - Saturday, April 25
ONCE AGAIN Jane Bouchard, Helga Grobel, Lynda Naske, Jon Segan, Lise Winne. Opening Reception: Friday, March 20, 5-7 pm

Friday, May 8 - Sunday, June 14
LARAC ANNUAL MEMBERS SHOW Opening Reception: Friday, May 8, 5-7 pm. Due to the popularity of this exhibition, we must limit each member to one piece of artwork.

Saturday, May 23, 7:00 pm
Art Auction to Benefit the Glens Falls Medical Mission to Guatemala
**SAVE THE DATE**
Enjoy an evening of music, wine and refreshments during a unique fine art and utilitarian art auction. From painting, photography and pottery to walking sticks, trout flies and hand painted original floor cloths; this auction is not to be missed!

Saturday, June 13, 10 am - 5 pm
Sunday, June 14, 10 am - 5 pm
2009 LARAC June Arts Festival Glens Falls City Park, downtown Glens Falls. Local non-profit groups provide food as well as various children’s activities.

Friday, June 26 - Friday, July 31
MIDSUMMER MIX Opening Reception: Friday, June 26, 5-7 pm

Friday, August 14 - Sunday, October 4
IN THE SPIRIT OF DEGAS: ART INSPIRED BY MUSIC Juried exhibition: Work to be dropped off Aug. 1, 3, 4. Pick-up of work not juried into the exhibition: Aug. 6, 7, 8. Opening reception: Friday, August 14, 5-7 pm

Friday, October 9 - Saturday, October 31
THE WORK OF TOM MYOTT Opening Reception: Friday, October 9, 5-7 pm

Glens Falls Civic Center

Thursday, March 26
Larry the Cable Guy

Friday, March 27
Saturday, March 28
Sunday, March 29
High School Basketball
New York State Federation of Secondary Schools Athletic Association
Boys & Girls Basketball Championships

Friday, April 3, 7:30 pm
Albany River Rats AHL Hockey
The Albany River Rats, of the American Hockey League, will play four of their home games at the Civic Center this season.

Saturday, April 4, 1:30 pm
Playhouse Disney Live on Tour!

Friday, April 10, 7:30 pm (Doors Open @ 6:00pm)
Saturday, April 10, 7:30 pm (Doors Open @ 6:00pm)
AMP TOUR’S PRESENTS: THUNDERSLAM Monster Trucks Motorsport Spectacular! Featuring TWISTED DRAGON joined by other Big Blown Bad Boy Monster Trucks including PREDATOR, PROWLER, VIPER, DRAGON FLY, AND MORE. See them crush cars like bugs, jump off large stacks of trucks & vans, do Giant Power Wheelies, and compete in sky jump contest. This winner-takes-all competition has an unbelievable super finale using a pyramid of crushing cars & vans. Guaranteed fun for the entire family!
Special Feature; EXTREME FREE STYLE MOTORCYCLE – FMX SHOW! Just like you see on the X-Games & Dew Tours jumping Ramp to Ramp, doing Sick Tricks over 70 feet in the air. Will we see a Back Flip? Be there to find out!!!
Plus watch MOTOCROSS & QUADS RACING compete in the largest purse ever! Attention all you Local Racers, we’re going to build you a fast flat track – so bring out your Bad Boy and Play! Enter at the Pit Gate at 5:00pm and sign up to win the biggest cash purse and prizes available!
The 1st 500 Kids receive a FREE Monster Truck Show Gift! Come early experience the FREE Pit Party starting @ 6pm and ending about 7pm.

Friday, April 17
Saturday, April 18
Sunday, April 19
North Country Home and Garden Show

Monday, April 27
Music As A Weapon IV Tour Featuring Disturbed, Killswitch Engage, Lacuna Coil, Chimaira. Festival opens at 2PM. Concert starts at 7PM. All Tickets: $39.75

Friday, May 1, 8pm
Saturday, May 2, 8pm
Professional Bull Riders Glens Falls Invitational
The PBR Glens Falls Invitational marks the first time the Professional Bull Riders have held an event at the Civic Center. The country's top bull man, Jerry Nelson, will be bringing the world's toughest bulls to buck at the PBR Glens Falls Invitational. Mr.. Nelson is the owner of the country's top bulls including the 2006 PBR World Finals Champion Bull, SCENE OF THE CRASH, and the 2005 PBR Bull of the Year, BIG BUCKS. Mr.. Nelson's Frontier Rodeo Company's extensive background supplying livestock to the PRCA's National Finals Rodeo and the Professional Bull Riders Cup events, guarantees the event to be first rate.
The legendary eight-time bull riding World Champion Don Gay will serve as the PBR Glens Falls Invitational Master of Ceremonies. "Donnie" is regarded as the preeminent analyst of bull riding and serves as the color analyst of ESPN's bull riding and rodeo programming.
The PBR Glens Falls Invitational begins at 8:00 p.m. Ticket prices are $18-$31 and go on-sale Saturday, February 28th at 10:00 a.m. ALL KIDS tickets are only $11!

Friday, May 15 - Sunday, May 17
2009 Northeast Regional YMCA Gymnastics Championship Athletes representing 40 YMCAs from the Northeast, including Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Maine and Massachusetts. The competitors, all female, range in ability from levels 4 to 10, and are from the ages of 6 to adult.

Explore! (103 Warren Street)
Sunday, April 5 - Friday, May 15
THE WORLD is GREEN An interactive family exhibit, sponsored by SCA Tissue. Museum members' reception on Saturday, April 25, 5 - 7 pm, to celebrate Earth Day! Located at Explore!, 103 Warren Street, Glens Falls. Free evening for the public - Saturday, May 2, 2 - 8 pm, sponsored by SCA Tissue.

The Boar's Nest 1263 Patten Mills Rd, Fort Anne NY
Sunday, April 5, 1p - 6p
Fundraiser Benefit Live music, food, auctions all to benefit a member of the community. Suggested donation $15.