Things to Do in Glens Falls for March

Crandall Public Library

Spring Film Series

Tuesday, April 12, 6:30 pm
Tiny Furniture (2010) Winner of the best narrative feature at the SXSW Film Festival, TINY FURNITURE is a hilarious and endearing film that explores the depths of romantic humiliation and the heights of post-college confusion. Writer/director/star Lena Dunham is being called one of the most exciting new voices in American independent cinema and critics are hailing her film as "irresistibly funny", "unnervingly honest" and "near perfection". TINY FURNITURE also stars Dunham's real-life sister, Grace, and real-life mother, Laurie Simmons, the celebrated artist and photographer.

Tuesday, April 19, 6:30 pm
Another Year (2010) A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.

Tuesday, April 26, 6:30 pm
On the Bowery (1957) New York, the 50s, stark, sharp, beautiful black and white: men sleeping on the street, on park benches, in doorways (one reading an old Esquire stretched out on a pushcart); men being rousted by the cops, being kicked out of bars, arguing at the top of their lungs; men listening to patently sincere pep talks from recovered drunks at the mission, marking out their spots on the floor for the night with newspapers, looking up through the chicken wire ceilings over their beds at the flophouse: three days in the life of straight-from-the-road Ray Salyer, still good-looking and well spoken, a new arrival on the Bowery. Taken in hand by old-timer Gorman Hendricks, a puckishly charming bull slinger, Salyer goes on two benders, quits twice, hops on a truck for a day job, but finally states, "Me, I only care for one thing." Wealthy scion of a major fabrics firm (and later owner/operator of the Bleecker Street Cinema), Lionel Rogosin found himself drawn to world injustice, then, starting close to home, spent six months hanging out on the Bowery and environs (parts of which included today's SoHo), often under the tutelage of Hendricks, a cirrhosis of the liver sufferer who held off from a fatal last bender until the end of filming. Shooting for four months with cameraman Richard Bagley (The Quiet One), Rogosin staged scenes improvised from a sketchy story line, alternating with sequences taken by hidden cameras - all with non-professional Bowery denizens. The result: Best Documentary, Venice Film Festival and an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature, along with critical attacks from the likes of Bosley Crowther and Clare Booth Luce for showing the dark side of America. --© Film Forum

Tuesday, May 3, 6:30 pm
Nowhere Boy (2009) Imagine...John Lennon's childhood. Set in Liverpool 1955, "Nowhere Boy" is the untold story of John Lennon and the creation of The Beatles.

Tuesday, May 10, 6:30 pm
Inside Job (2010) 'Inside Job' is the first film to provide a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression,... 'Inside Job' is the first film to provide a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia. It was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.

Tuesday, May 17, 6:30 pm
Film Festival: Black Maria Short Films Twelve plus short films will be screened from the winners of the 2010 international competition. Titles and descriptions of the films will be available on the library's website and at the screening. The Black Maria Film Festival was named after the first motion picture studio built by Thomas Edison in Orange, NJ.

Tuesday, May 24, 6:30 pm
The Social Network (2010) A story about the founders of the social-networking website, Facebook.

Tuesday, May 31, 6:30 pm
The Fighter (2010) A look at the early years of boxer Micky Ward and his brother, who helped train him before going pro in the mid '80s.

Tuesday, June 7, 6:30 pm
My Dog Tulip A bittersweet account of the author's 14-year relationship with his adopted Alsatian, MY DOG TULIP was written, directed and animated by award-winning filmmakers Paul and Sandra Fierlinger, and is the first animated feature ever to be entirely hand drawn and painted utilizing paperless computer technology. An official selection of the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, MY DOG TULIP is based on the book by British author and distinguished man of letters J.R. Ackerley. Ackerley hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, in middle age, he came to adopt Tulip - a beautiful, yet intolerable 18-month-old German shepherd. To his surprise, she turned out to be the love of his life, the ideal companion he had been searching for in vain. Originally published in England in 1956, My Dog Tulip is now published in the US by the New York Review of Books, and is the best-selling title in their Classics Series. In vivid and sometimes startling detail, the film reveals Tulip's often erratic behavior, canine tastes, and Ackerley's determined efforts to ensure an existence of perfect happiness for her. -- (C) New Yorker

Tuesday, June 14, 6:30 pm
Edward Hopper/Berenice Abbott The Hyde Collection opens a major exhibition this summer -- New York, New York! The 20th Century -- from the collection of the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL (June 12 - September 8). The library is celebrating with the screening of two films about painter Edward Hopper & photographer Berenice Abbott.

Tuesday, June 21, 6:30 pm
Nostalgia for the Light (2010) For his new film master director Patricio Guzmán, famed for his political documentaries (THE BATTLE OF CHILE, THE PINOCHET CASE), travels 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, where atop the mountains... For his new film master director Patricio Guzmán, famed for his political documentaries (THE BATTLE OF CHILE, THE PINOCHET CASE), travels 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, where atop the mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars. The sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe. The Atacama is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of Pre-Columbian mummies; 19th century explorers and miners; and the remains of political prisoners, "disappeared" by the Chilean army after the military coup of September, 1973 So while astronomers examine the most distant and oldest galaxies, at the foot of the mountains, women, surviving relatives of the disappeared whose bodies were dumped here, search, even after twenty-five years, for the remains of their loved ones, to reclaim their families' histories. Melding the celestial quest of the astronomers and the earthly one of the women, NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT is a gorgeous, moving, and deeply personal odyssey..--(c) Icarus

Tuesday, June 28, 6:30 pm
The King's Speech (2010) After the death of his father King George V (Michael Gambon) and the scandalous abdication of King Edward VIII (Guy Pearce), Bertie (Colin Firth) who has suffered from a debilitating speech impediment all his life, is suddenly crowned King George VI of England. With his country on the brink of war and in desperate need of a leader, his wife, Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter), the future Queen Mother, arranges for her husband to see an eccentric speech therapist, Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush). After a rough start, the two delve into an unorthodox course of treatment and eventually form an unbreakable bond. With the support of Logue, his family, his government and Winston Churchill (Timothy Spall), the King will overcome his stammer and deliver a radio-address that inspires his people and unites them in battle. Based on the true story of King George VI, THE KING'S SPEECH follows the Royal Monarch's quest to find his voice. -- (C) Weinstein

Summer Film titles, July 12 - August 30, to be announced.

Happenings

Wednesday, April 13, 7:00 PM
Author Julia Spencer-Fleming Best-selling author Julia Spencer-Fleming will be at Crandall Public Library for a discussion and signing of her most recent book, One Was a Soldier. Ms. Spencer-Fleming is the winner of the Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, Dilys, Barry, Nero Wolfe, and Gumshoe Awards, and an Edgar and Romantic Times RC Award finalist. Her appearance at the Library is co-sponsored by Red Fox Books, located at 28 Ridge Street in Glens Falls. The program takes place from 7 to 8:45pm in the Community Room. Book is available to preorder here.

Thursday, April 14, 7:00 PM
Live! Folklife Concert: Kevin Warren

Thursday, April 21, 7:00 PM
Live! Folklife Concert: Pesky J. Nixon

Wednesday, April 27, 6:30 PM
WOMEN'S HISTORY AWARDS

Thursday, April 28, 7:00 PM
Live! Folklife Concert: Andrew & Noah VanNorstrand Band

Thursday, May 5, 7:00 PM
Live! Folklife Concert

Thursday, May 19, 7:00 PM
FOODWAYS! TBA

Thursday, May 26, 7:00 PM
FOODWAYS! TBA

Thursday, June 2, 7:00 PM
FOODWAYS! DOCUMENTING LOCAL TRADITIONS

Saturday, June 4, 7:30 PM
Special Event: New Selected Shorts With Isaiah Sheffer, from Symphony Space, NYC. New Selected Shorts: These short stories will also be broadcast on NPR at a later date. $20 donation.

Sunday, June 5, 2:00 PM
Special Event: Selected Shorts Hits With Isaiah Sheffer, from Symphony Space, NYC. $20 donation or $30 for those attending both programs. Online reservations are available at the library's website or by calling (518) 792-6508 x.284.

Friday, June 10, 9 - 5 pm
Saturday, June 11, 9 - 4 pm
Sunday, June 12, 1 - 4 pm
Friends of the Crandall Library Book Sale Books- Fiction & Non-fiction; Hard & Soft-Cover; CD & DVDs; Books on CD; Video tapes

Friday, October 21, 9 - 5 pm
Saturday, October 22, 9 - 4 pm
Sunday, October 23, 1 - 4 pm
Friends of the Crandall Library Book Sale Books- Fiction & Non-fiction; Hard & Soft-Cover; CD & DVDs; Books on CD; Video tapes

Charles R. Wood Events

Friday, April 29, 8:00 pm
Saturday, April 30, 8:00 pm
Sunday, May 1, 2:00 pm
Glens Falls Community Theatre Presents "RUMORS" RUMORS by Neil Simon. Directed by Bob Myers.

Saturday, May 7
Rising Stars at the Wood In years past the “Rising Stars” has been about performance only. The Wood Theater has decided to make the event more accessible to the local community, drop the silent auction and replace that portion of the evening with a gallery type reception highlighting the art of local students grade 9-12. All high school students in the local area schools are invited to apply for a place in this Art Exhibition. We are looking for paintings of all kinds, sculpture, photography and easily accessible video or installations. The work will be adjudicated by a panel of professional artists, post high school instructors and /or art curators. Application forms and examples of art work will be due by April 11, 2011 to Erin Coon at the Wood Theater. Applications are available in the local school art departments or from emailing erin@woodtheater.org.

Friday, May 13
Saturday, May 14
Sunday, May 15
The Glens Falls Ballet Center presents Yearly Dance Recital Various Times

Monday, May 16, 7:30 pm
Taylor Hicks in Concert “Tour That Never Stops.” On May 24, 2006, Taylor Hicks made television history when audiences made that evening’s American Idol finale one of the most watched television prorgams of the decade. It was an emotionally uplifting night when 36.4 million viewers tuned in and 63 million votes were cast to name Hicks the Season 5 winner of American Idol. Since winning American Idol, Hicks debut album went RIAA certified platinum; he has performed with the likes of Willie Nelson, Snoop Dog, Gladys Knight, Earth Wind and Fire and The Allman Brothers; appeared in concerts worldwide and penned a brisk-selling Random House autobiography; “Heart Full of Soul”. This one-night only, special event is being presented by Adirondack Broadcasting.

Wednesday, May 18, 7:30 pm
Paula Cole in Concert

Saturday, May 21, 8:00 pm
Sunday, May 22, 2:30 pm
The Lake George Community Band present Two “Armed Forces Day Patriotic Concerts”

Wednesday, May 25, 2:00 pm
Thursday, May 26, 7:00 pm
Senior Citizen Seminar on Theater “Hey Dude” performance

Saturday, May 28,
Sunday, May 29
Adirondack Ballet Center Yearly Dance Recitals

May 31-August 3
Adirondack Theater Festival

Red Fox Bookstore

Every Saturday, 11 am
StoryTime for Busy Families

Wednesday, April 13, 7:00 PM
Author Julia Spencer-Fleming at Crandall Public Library Best-selling author Julia Spencer-Fleming will be at Crandall Public Library for a discussion and signing of her most recent book, One Was a Soldier. Ms. Spencer-Fleming is the winner of the Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, Dilys, Barry, Nero Wolfe, and Gumshoe Awards, and an Edgar and Romantic Times RC Award finalist. Her appearance at the Library is co-sponsored by Red Fox Books, located at 28 Ridge Street in Glens Falls. The program takes place from 7 to 8:45pm in the Community Room. Book is available to preorder here.

Thursday, April 14, 7:00 PM
Annual Poetry Reading Join us for our annual celebration of National Poetry Month with a reading by local poets and an open mic. Readers include: Stuart Bartow, Robert Faivre, Peter Fernbach, Kathleen McCoy, Paul Pines, Lucyna Prostko, Jay Rogoff, Barbara Ungar, and Nancy White. Copies of their books are available at our store.

Sunday, April 19, 11:00 AM
Join us for a fun storytime featuring Spot, the Dog. Spot will be here and will help us read his books. Activities, too.

Fridays, April 29, May 6, May 13, 7:00 PM
CLASS: Street Tweets: Basic Birding Skills Ever wonder what kind of bird has landed in your backyard? Spend a few Friday evenings with us and you'll find out! Learn about local birds and develop basic birding skills with Joyce Miller, who has been birding for 30 years. This class will take a short field trip each session to a local park, weather permitting, which will require some standing and walking. $50 fee includes bird identification book and light refreshments. Ages 16 and up. Class size is limited to 12. Classes run on Fridays, April 29-May 13 from 7-8:30 pm.
Instructor Joyce Miller has been birding for about 30 years, traveling to six continents. She is a long-time member of Southern Adirondack Audubon Society, Hudson-Mohawk Bird Club, and the N.Y.S. Ornithological Association. She is a professor of library science and the reference and instruction librarian at SUNY Adirondack.

Wednesday, May 4, 12:00 pm
CLASS: Be My Friend!: Facebook Basics Join us for a lunchtime class on the basics of Facebook and get help setting up your personal Facebook page. Also good for those who have a page but want to know more about different features. Bring a bag lunch; bevereages provided. Class fee: $5. This class is led by Sara Friedman. Register today; class size limited: info@redfoxbookstore.com

Rock Hill Bakehouse

Every Saturday & Sunday Noon to 2 pm Live Acoustic Renaissance

Progressive 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 more films for our collection.

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.

Matt's blog at the Times Union.

Hyde Collection
The Hyde Collection is open Tuesdays through Fridays, 11 am to 4 pm and weekends from noon to 5 pm. Closed Mondays and national holidays. Suggested donation for non-member admission to the Museum complex is $8 for adults, free for children 13 years old and under. Tuesday afternoons – Tours for Tots – Guided tours and art-making sessions for children ages 3-6, accompanied by an adult. 3-4 pm. Free. Wednesday afternoons (during school weeks) – ARTfull Afternoons – Drop-in art program for children ages 6-12, accompanied by an adult. Free. 1:30-4:30 (participants must arrive no later than 3:45). Free. NOTE: ARTfull Afternoons will not be held on February 17, 2011.
The Hyde Collection announced the debut of its new website, aimed at broadening the Museum’s connection with cyber-visitors of all ages and interests. In addition to the new format, which features monthly event and activity highlights, as well as Hyde News on the homepage, www.hydecollection.org now presents excerpts from the Museum’s new orientation video, along with podcasts featuring personal views of works from The Hyde’s permanent collection.

Now through Thursday, April 21
Objects of Wonder and Delight: Four Centures of Still Life from the Norton Museum of Art The show brings together fifty-one works of art from the collection of the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida. The subject matter is still life and the exhibition at The Hyde comprises works in a variety of media including painting, watercolor, collage, sculpture, ceramics, glass, and textiles. Spanning four centuries, from the Ming dynasty of China to the early twenty-first century, this remarkable array of images and objects includes all of the major sub-genres of still life such as tabletop arrangements, flowers, and fruits and vegetables. Arranged thematically, the exhibition illustrates both the diversity and the longevity of the still-life tradition in China, Europe, and the United States.
The exhibition, which runs through April 21, 2011, features some of the most famous artists in Western art history, such as Marc Chagall, Gustave Courbet, William Harnett, Robert Mapplethorpe, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georgia O’Keeffe, Yinka Shonibare, and Andy Warhol.
At 2:30 pm on January 29, Dr. Roger Ward, chief curator of the Norton Museum of Art and organizer of the exhibition, Objects of Wonder and Delight, will provide a lively presentation entitled Birds Pecking at Grapes and Other Shiny Objects: Four Centuries of Still Life from the Norton Museum. The talk will be a fast-paced account of the evolution of still-life painting in Europe and America, from Antiquity to the present, and how the diverse collection for which he is responsible has been deployed to create this exhibition.

Now through Sunday, May 29
What’s New? Acquisitions from 2008 to 2010 The exhibition, which will be on display through May 29, features approximately twenty-four works of art acquired by The Hyde Collection between 2008 and 2010. During this period, the Museum accessioned an unprecedented ninety-six objects into its permanent collection through bequests, gifts, and purchases from a variety of donors and sources. What’s New? highlights a selection of these recent additions, many of which introduce artists who have not been represented in the collection to date. The exhibition also emphasizes the variety of media in which these artists worked. Featured are such works as the monumental etching, The Gate Of Venice from 1888, by the American artist Thomas Moran (1837-1926) and a stunning Pond Lily Lamp from the Tiffany Studios, dating to the early-twentieth century. Also on display are a luminous watercolor by the American modernist Arthur Dove (1880-1946) from 1934-35 and an early engraving by the German Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). The works will be on view in the Hoopes Gallery and in the Education Wing of the Museum. The exhibition is curated by Erin Coe, chief curator, and Jayne Stokes, associate curator of The Hyde Collection.

Chapman Museum

Ongoing
S.R. Stoddard Exhibit - Animal Studies
Stoddard is best known for his landscape views of the Adirondack region. However, he also photographed other subjects that caught his creative fancy. This lighhearted sampling of the museum's 3000 Stoddard photographs features animals -- kittens, dogs, cows and even a frog.

Lower Adirondack Arts Council

Now through Friday, May 6
"Identity In Itself" Featured Artists: Benjamin Duke, Painter. Lorraine Hall, Ceramicist.

Saturday, May 28th 10:00-3:00 pm
Digital Camera Workshop Instructor Kristen Freeborn. An intensive workshop for beginning and intermediate level photographers on how to use and get the most out of their cameras. Topics will include: camera functions, operations and procedures, cleaning the camera, effective use of the shutter, aperature and ISP, priority settings, lighting and composition. The class structure will include lecture, breakout lab sessions and one-to-one instruction. Requirements: SLR Camera highly recommended. Quality digital point and shoot cameras are acceptable. $15 LARAC Members/$20 non-members

Saturday, June 4th 10:00 - 3:00 pm
How to Photograph your Art Instructor Kristen Freeborn. A workshop to learn the ins and outs of photographing your own artwork for show, competitions, portfolio samples and archiving. Covered topics will include: setting up your art to look it's best for the camera, lighting, color temperature, white balance, appropriate lenses, files types and sizes, and the "how to" for photographing different kinds of 2-D art from drawings to oil paintings.
Requirements: SLR Camera highly recommended. Camera Digital Storage Card. Unframed 2-D artwork. $25 LARAC Members/$35 non-members

Wednesday, June 1st 6:30 - 7:30 pm
Gallery Submission Process Workshop Workshop held by LARAC Gallery Coordinator Jenny Hutchinson. If you are new to the gallery submission process or looking for some extra tips of how to revamp your application, attend this one-hour workshop. Participants will learn about effective ways to organize application materials such as a cover letter, artist statement, resume, and biography. We will also cover image requirements and discuss how to organize an image CD. Examples and handouts will be provided. Free!

Four - 2 hr. sessions: Tuesday, June 7 and Thursday, June 9, Monday, June 13 and Wednesday, June 15, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm all four sessions
Songwriters Workshop Series
Instructor Doug Irving. Songwriters of all levels are welcome, both lyric and music writers. The workshop will include the writing and marketing of your songwriting. It will conclude with a FREE CONCERT by any or all workshop participants to be held right here in LAPHAM GALLERY as part of the Third Thursday Glens Falls Art Walk this summer! $65 LARAC Members / $75 non-members

Glens Falls Civic Center

Thursday, April 14, 3:30 pm & 6:30 pm
Imagination Movers' ''In a Big Warehouse'' Disney's Emmy Award-winning Imagination Movers will make a stop on their "In a Big Warehouse" concert tour presented by local promoter Andrew Meader from Applause Factory. Since signing to Walt Disney Records, the Imagination Movers have sold more than 100,000 albums, received multiple awards and earned critical praise from the Associated Press, Entertainment Weekly and many other media outlets. Their newest release, In a Big Warehouse, the soundtrack for the second season of the television series, hit the charts this fall, debuting at #2 on Billboard’s Top New Artist Albums chart and bowing at #3 on Billboard’s Children’s Chart. The Imagination Movers television series, which features the blue-suited band as brainstormers working hard to solve “Idea Emergencies” in their Idea Warehouse, is a hit with audiences around the world, airing in over 55 countries -territories and in 12 languages since September 2008. The Movers are currently filming the third season of the series and recently filmed a concert in their hometown of New Orleans with some very special guests. Season three of the series and the concert special will air in 2011. Imagination Movers airs daily during Disney Channel's Playhouse Disney programming block for preschoolers.

Saturday, April 16, 7:00 pm
Rodney Carrington - Laughter's Good Rodney Carrington has become an iconic American stand-up comedian, actor, and country music singer. He has released 6 major-label studio albums and a greatest-hits package, on Mercury Records and Capital Records. Singing and comedy are Carrington’s specialty, however he has also stared in sitcoms and movies throughout his time including the sitcom “Rodney” and the movie Beer for my horses which also starred Toby Keith. His comedy act usually consists of stand-up comedy and original songs.

Out or Around Town

Tuesday, June 14, 5:30 pm - 9:30 pm
North Country Arts Center Gala Fundraiser At the Inn At Erlowest/Sun Castle, located at 3178 Lake Shore Drive in Lake George, New York. Tickets ($80) are currently on sale, and seating is limited. RSVP by Thursday, April 21, to northcountryartscenter@gmail.com or (518) 623-0708. Space is limited. “It will be an evening to celebrate the arts,” says organizer Heidi Maxwell. “We have so much planned! - Dance performances, live jazz music, dinner and a live art auction featuring exceptional artwork from highly-regarded local artists, auctioned by an expert auctioneer. It's going to be a fairy tale night.”
Entertainment is by the Adrian Cohen Jazz Trio, The Glens Falls Ballet and Dance Center and Salsalvation Dance Company. Auctioneer is Ralph F. Passonno, Jr. from Uncle Sam Auctions. There will be a cash bar. It's a black tie affair.

The Shirt Factory

Saturday, April 30
Sunday, May 1
The Shirt Factory Open House May Day is coming! Get Free Acupuncture all weekend...You earned it! Every year on May Day, people around the world celebrate the hard work we all do to take care of our families and our communities. For several years now, Community Acupuncture clinics around the country have used this day to give away free acupuncture- because, hey, you earned it. The Acupuncture Studio is lucky enough to not only join in this celebration, but also to participate in the annual Open House at the Shirt Factory in Glens Falls. All day on Saturday and Sunday April 30 and May 1, you can walk the halls of this beautiful old building, check out the work of artists and craftspeople and healers, sip gourmet tea...and get free acupuncture!