Things to Do in Glens Falls - Harvest - 2009

Crandall Public Library

Fall Film Program

Tuesday, November 24, 6:30 pm
Food, Inc. Robert Kenner tackles the food industry in this alarming documentary on the corporate takeover of U.S. agriculture. He contends that a few food superpowers, driven solely by greed to increase production also control our diets, while the USDA and FDA ignore, or consent to, their exploitation of the consumer. The film provides encouragement to break free from and take charge of the national problems of obesity, diabetes and new strains of e coli bacteria which are indications of a broken system.

Tuesday, December 1, 6:30 pm
Araya Benacerraf captures the life of the Venezuelan salineros and their backbreaking work in breathtaking images. The Peredas family works at night in the salt marshes, the Ortiz are fishermen and the Salaz collect salt. The three stories underline the harsh life of this region—all of which vanished with the arrival of industrial exploitation. Araya was originally compared to Flaherty’s Man of Aran & Visconti’s La Terra Trema (1947). Margot Benacerraf has described the film as “a cinematic narration based on script writing rather than a spontaneous action, a
feature documentary, the opposite of Italian neorealism” A film of such lasting beauty that Jean Renoir told Benacerraf after seeing the film: “Above all…don’t cut a single image!”

Tuesday, December 8, 6:30 pm
Still Walking Kore-eda’s [Afterlife & Nobody Knows] quiet drama is being compared with Ozu’s Tokyo Story. In 24 hours, an elderly couple unite with their family for the 15th time to mark the anniversary of their son’s death in childhood. The remaining siblings, a boy and girl are grown now. The son lives in the shadow of his brother while desiring to be accepted for his own accomplishments.

Library Events

Charles R. Wood Events

Friday, November 20, 5:30 and 8 pm
Saturday, November 21, 3pm, 7 pm and 9 pm
Warren Miller Movie: “Dynasty” Presented by West Mountain Ski Center Educational Foundation.

Friday, November 27, 8 pm
Saturday, November 28, 8 pm
Sunday, November 29, 2 pm
Tony DeSare in Concert Hudson Falls native Tony DeSare, the musician and songwriter, will be presenting three concerts at the Charles Wood Theater on Friday November 27 and Saturday November 28 @ 8 pm and Sunday November 29 @ 2pm. For tickets call 518-874-0800 or www.woodtheater.org.

Saturday, December 5, 2 & 7 pm
Yuletide Celebration Presented by Adirondack Repertory Dance Theater.

Saturday, December 12, 2:30 & 7:00 pm
Sunday, December 13, 2:30
“The Nutcracker” Ballet Presented by Adirondack Ballet Theater.

Thursday, December 17, 8:00 pm
Holiday Band Concert Presented by Lake George Community Band.

Friday, December 18, 7:00 pm
Saturday, December 19, 4 & 8 pm
Sunday, December 20, 2 pm
Santa’s List Presented by Rabine Productions and The Wood Theater.

December 31 and January 1 @ 7:00 pm
Irving Berlin’s White Christmas Presented by Mickey Luce and St Mary’s/ St Alphonsus.

Red Fox Bookstore

Every Saturday, 11 am
StoryTime for Busy Families Saturday, November 14: Ladybugs!

Saturday, November 21 - Sunday, November 22
Educators' Weekend 20% discount for area educators, giveaways, and drawing.

Thursday, December 3
Special Shopping Nights with LARAC, Sterling and Co, and Red Fox Books Local Authors Booksigning,

Saturday, December 5, 11 am
Holiday Stories from Around the World With the World Awareness Children's Museum.

Monday, December 7, 6 pm
Libba Bray and David Levithan Meet acclaimed teen authors Bray (Going Bovine, Gemma Doyle series) and Levithan (Love is the Higher Law, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist). Readings, Q&A, pizza.

Thursday, December 10 (Ladies Night)
Special Shopping Nights with LARAC, Sterling and Co, and Red Fox Books Holiday Cookie Bake off (bring your best cookies and win prizes!)

Thursday, December 17
Special Shopping Nights with LARAC, Sterling & Co. and Red Fox Books Jon Katz and Izzy

Friday, January 1, 12-4 pm
First Annual New Year's Day Sale! Up to 50% off everything in the store. Champagne and alka seltzer on hand.


Rock Hill Bakehouse

* Please help our local pantries with the October food drive by bringing canned goods, pasta, rice and mixes to the donation bin at the cafe. Thank you! *

Every Saturday & Sunday Noon to 2 pm Live Acoustic Renaissance

Our Film Forum: Our entire DVD collection is free to borrow with the purchase of a Film Forum membership ($25 a year - $15 Seniors/Students). Membership entitles you to borrow any film without charge. Upon its return, you may borrow another. 100% of your annual dues are used to purchase and screen more films.

Our Lending Library: We have amassed a collection of interesting books and are excited to share them with you. So, please feel free to borrow books from our collection. We just ask that you make an honest effort to return them so that others can enjoy them, as well.

Our Current "Artist in Residence" ... W.A.C.M. (World Awareness Children's Museum) Next up ... Leif Bernard

Matt's latest scribblings for the Times Union.

Thursday, November 19, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
THIRD THURSDAY ART WALK & RECEPTION On the 3rd Thursday of each month, our current "Artist in Residence" holds a reception. Wander the other participating downtown locations and end up at "the Rock" to grab a bite, meet our artist & check out Open Mic. glensfallsartwalk@yahoo.com

Thursday, November 19, 5:30 pm & 6:30 pm
RANDY GIRARD: THIRD THURSDAY SPOKEN WORD As an added bonus, local writer and poet, Randy Girard, will perform spoken word along with a local musician friend or two. Very cool!

Thursday, November 19, 7:00 pm
OPEN MIC NIGHT hosted by our very own Cory Avon. Sing, play, read or just watch and listen. Free.

Friday, November 20, 7:00 pm
THIN Lauren Greenfield (2006) 105 min. Eating disorders have reached epidemic levels in America–yet only recently have they been recognized as serious mental illnesses. One in seven people with anorexia nervosa will die, making it the deadliest of all psychiatric diagnoses. With Thin, Lauren Greenfield, a photographer acclaimed for illuminating women's and society's attitudes toward the female body, gains unprecedented access to a Florida residential treatment center to observe four anorexic women, aged 15 to 30, struggling to recover over a six-month period. Her intimate, unflinching, yet unobtrusive, camera ventures into private and painful rituals like early morning weigh-ins, one-on-one and group therapy sessions, confrontations with staff, and tormenting mealtimes. As individual dramas surface and convoluted group dynamics erupt, the frightening tenacity and complexity of this affliction emerge. While each woman's fight is unique, abusing the body as a means of asserting control and measuring self-worth seems common to all. One patient shockingly admits that being thin is her greatest ambition: "If it takes dying to get there, so be it." The film's flawless vérité approach engenders closeness and emotional investment in the characters and allows us to draw our own conclusions about the treatment protocol and an insurance system unwilling to accommodate patients' wishes. Thin offers haunting, groundbreaking insight into the tangle of personal, familial, and cultural factors–beyond mere self-esteem or body-image issues–that produce the immeasurable, confounding suffering of so many.

Thursday, November 26, 7:00 pm * Cancelled * Closed for Thanksgiving


Friday, November 27, 7:00 pm
HOLES IN HEAVEN New Science Ideas (2005) 60 min. HAARP (or High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project) is a controversial high-frequency radio transmitter operated by the U.S. military which beams high-level energy into the Earth's upper atmosphere. Ostensibly for ionospheric research, HAARP can also be used to locate hidden oil reserves and missile silos around the world. However, critics of HAARP say it could blow a massive hole in the upper atmosphere as well as disrupt the subtle magnetic energies of all life on Earth. This fascinating film narrated by Martin Sheen employs a journalistically balanced style to investigate a subject that could have a dramatic effect on us all.

Hyde Collection

Exhibitions

Saturday, November 28 through Sunday, February 28, 2010
Divided by a common language? British and American Works from The Murray Collection The exhibition of approximately twenty works of Modern art from the twentieth century are part of a larger collection donated to the Museum by the late Jane Murray. Between 1991 and 1996, Murray gave nearly sixty works of Modern art to the Museum, the first significant donation of twentieth-century art received by The Hyde. An additional group of works was bequeathed by Murray upon her death earlier this year. This donation helped to form the foundation of the Museum’s Modernist holdings.
The exhibit, curated by The Hyde’s Executive Director David F. Setford, celebrates the works donated by Murray and reflects the breadth of her collection, while looking at differences and similarities between British and American Modernism. Artists represented in the exhibition include Britain’s Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, John Piper, Howard Hodgkin, and Paul Mount. American artists include Gregory Amenoff, Betty Parsons, Stuart Davis, and Ellsworth Kelly.
“This exhibition was organized as a tribute to Jane Murray’s legacy,” said Setford, “Her generosity to our Museum is only surpassed by the attention she paid in selecting works for her impressive Modern art collection.“ According to Setford, the exhibition pieces were selected to help visitors examine the similarities and differences between American and British works of the period, as both are areas of particular strength in the Murray Collection. Admission to the Museum complex is free for members. Voluntary suggested donation for non-members is five dollars.

Saturday, June 12, 2010 through Sunday, September 5, 2010
Andrew Wyeth: An American Legend The exhibition, organized by The Hyde Collection, will introduce the broad span of work by this most beloved American artist. Curated by Hyde Executive Director David F. Setford and Deputy Director and Chief Curator Erin B. Coe, the exhibition will seek to unravel the myth surrounding Wyeth and understand the man behind the paintbrush. According to Setford, “This will be the first opportunity since the artist’s death earlier this year to begin to critically reevaluate his contribution to and position in American art of the twentieth century.”
The exhibition will feature sections devoted to early coastal watercolors and landscape paintings, as well as a look at Wyeth’s models, his interest in vernacular architecture, and his connection to both the Regionalist tradition and Magic Realism.
The exhibition will comprise approximately fifty works, with the core coming from the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine. Featured in the exhibition will be examples of the artist’s works created in dry brush, watercolor, pencil, and tempera - including The Hyde’s own Wyeth watercolor – The Ledge and the Island, 1937- as well as works on loan from museums and private collections. “By showing the spectrum of the artist’s subject matter and his masterful skill in a variety of media, we expect the exhibition to appeal to a very broad audience,” said Coe.

Chapman Museum Events

LARAC Events

Now through Thursday, December 24
LARAC Holiday Shop A good place to check out for your holiday shopping.

The Shirt Factory
Friday, November 27, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Saturday, November 28, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday, November 29, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Shirt Factory Holiday Open House 2009 The Shirt Factory Artists Association announces its 8th Annual Holiday Open House.
The Shirt Factory, located on the corner of Lawrence and Cooper Streets in
Glens Falls, N.Y., is home to a variety of artist studios, galleries, shops, and services. Over 30 artists will be exhibiting their art and fine crafts throughout the building. The Holiday Open House is an excellent opportunity to meet the artists, visit their studios and shop for unique art and one of a kind handcrafted items.

World Awareness Children's Museum

Tuesday, December 1 through Monday, January 18, 2010
World Celebration of Light From the Collection of the World Awareness Children’s Museum at Ridge Street Coffeehouse, 1 Ridge Street, Glens Falls, 12801

Friday, January 22 through February 27, 2010
World Awareness Children’s Museum Exhibit of Art & Artifacts At LARAC, 7 Lapham Place, Glens Falls, NY 12801

March 1 – 31, 2010
World Awareness Children’s Museum All Country Show New works from the International Youth Art Exchange. Crandall Public Library, 251 Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY 12801

Ridge Street Coffee Company

Saturday, November 21, 11am - 1pm
Tunes Before Noon Music by Mark Rabin. Brunch for your ears.

Glens Falls Civic Center

Saturday, November 21
Sunday, November 22
NYSPHSAA Girls Volleyball Championship

Sunday, December 6
TNA Live! Wrestling TNA Live! is an interactive entertainment experience that sends its craziest fans BACKSTAGE to meet TNA Superstars!
· Ring announcer Jeremy Borash will hide a backstage pass at the Glens Falls Civic Center and announce its location on Twitter before the show!
· At TNA Live! in Glens Falls fans can GET CLOSER to these Superstars and the LOUDEST FANS will be invited backstage for a special TNA experience!

Friday, February 12, 7:00 pm
American Carnage: Slayer and Megadeth Megadeth and Slayer will join forces to co-headline "American Carnage," the most blistering, the most explosive, and the most eagerly anticipated mega-tour of the winter - and you do not want to miss it. Tickets go ON-SALE Saturday, November 28 at 10:00 a.m. Visit the Civic Center website (www.glensfallscc.com) and sign up for the Cyber Club to receive special presale passwords and event information.
"American Carnage" is the first time that Slayer and Megadeth will have toured the U.S. together since 1991's epic "Clash of the Titans" tour. To celebrate that and in recognition of the tough economic times that many of their fans are having, Megadeth and Slayer have decided to roll back the price of a portion of tickets at the Glens Falls show to the "1991 price" of $10.00. These specially-priced tickets are limited so when they're gone, they're gone. Megadeth has also teamed with iloveallaccess.com to provide an Ultimate Fan Package including premium seats, meet and greets, pre-show parties and more.
In addition, Testament - who was also on the "Clash of the Titans" bill, will be Special Guests on the entire tour, marking the first time that all three bands have shared a stage together in more than 18 years, making this a "must see" metal event.
TICKETS: $49.50 - $39.50 - $29.50 *On-Sale Saturday, November 28th at the Civic Center Box Office, all Ticketmaster locations, www.ticketmaster.com or charge by phone at 1-800-745-3000. (For more info: www.glensfallscc.com)

Saturday, February 20, 8:00 pm
34th World Championship Ice Racing Series In a points series similar to NASCAR and other motorsports series, the Glens Falls tour stop is an important World Championship Points Round and is expected to draw the best of the best in the tough professional Manufacturers World Cup Motorcycle Division and likewise in the wild Pro Unlimited Outlaw Quads. These very competitive series will showcase the challenge and thrill of racing motorcycles and ATV-type vehicles on ice!
A special part of the Glens Falls event will be the opportunity for amateurs to try their hand at ice racing in the Glens Falls Civic Center. This will allow local participants to have their time in the spotlight and race in front of family, friends, and hometown fans. The amateur classes include the ICE Breaker Amateur Quads, Big Dogs Pit Bikes and the Nitro X-Karts. For information concerning racing call (843) 213-1182 or go online to www.icespeedway.com.
The colorful, action packed World Championship ICE Racing Series is a family-friendly event. With this in mind, Global Spectrum is offering a $5.00 child ticket to help make this special event accessible to all families. That's right - kids age 12 and under are just FIVE BUCKS!
The first of over twenty action packed races begins at 8PM on February 20th. Doors will open at 7PM. For information, visit www.glensfallscc.com. Don't miss The Greatest Spectacle On ICE!