Things to Do in Glens Falls for June

Crandall Public Library

Spring Film Series

Tuesday, July 12, 6:30 pm
The Tempest (USA, 2010, 110 min., color, 35mm) Julie Taymor (Frida, Across The Universe), recently canned from the Broadway production of Spider Man, presents her bold and visually dazzling interpretation of Shakespeare's final play. In her version, she has inventively re‐imagined the lead character, the wizard Prospero as a woman, the sorceress Prospera, played by Helen Mirren. Whatever else Taymor does, she succeeds in keeping the camera’s gaze on Mirren, now in her 60s, longer than any director would unless Mirren were younger, and that’s refreshing! Filmed in Hawaii, the landscape is an amazing setting for the shipwrecked survivors. It also stars Felicity Jones as Miranda, David Strathairn, Ben Whisham as Ariel, Tom Conti, Alan Cumming, Chris Cooper, and Djimon Hounsou as Caliban.

Tuesday, July 19, 6:30 pm
127 Hours (USA, 2010, 94 min., color, 35mm) Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) has, with phenomenal cinematography and through innovative directing, managed to make an exuberant and watchable film out of material that is both grim and harrowing. James Franco,
in a solo performance, was nominated for Oscar for his inspired interpretation of hiker Aaron Ralston’s 2003 experience when he spent five days fighting to free himself after his arm was lodged under a boulder in a remote Utah canyon. Based on Ralston’s bestselling memoir, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, it depicts the ability of one human being to come to terms with the unimaginable. It was also nominated for Best Director and Picture Oscars.

Tuesday, July 26, 6:30 pm
The Music Never Stopped (USA, 2010, 105 min., color, 35mm) Jim Kohlberg’s first feature film premiered at Sundance 2011. Based on a case study “The Last Hippie” by Oliver Sacks, it follows the life of Gabriel (Lou Taylor Pucci), who disappeared in the 1960s after a fight with his father (J.K. Simmons of The Closer) and is found in 1986, living as a street person and suffering from a brain tumor which interferes with his ability to tell past from present. His parents take him in, and with the help of a music therapist (Julia Ormond) the son and his father begin to connect through the music and the issues of the 1960s that originally separated them.

Tuesday, August 2, 6:30 pm
Jane Eyre (USA, 2011, 110 min., color, 35mm) Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre) directs relative newcomer Mia Wasikowska (The Kids Are Alright) in the newest adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's well known moody romance about a simple young woman who accepts a post as a governess in a remote mansion. Filmed mainly with natural light, Fukunaga's interiors are appropriately foreboding and Wasikowska, though young, conveys the correct mixture of fright and determination. Also with Michael Fassbender as the secretive Mr. Rochester and Judy Dench as the loyal Mrs. Fairfax.

Tuesday, August 9, 6:30 pm
Amazing Shadows (USA, 2011, 88 min., color/b&w, 35mm) Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton document the process by which a film is selected to be one of the 25 films included annually by the Library of Congress in the National Film Registry. A spellbinding look at American film and by extension, American life, the list now includes over 550 films in every imaginable genre, from Hollywood blockbusters to home movies. With Rob Reiner, Christopher Nolan, John Waters, Debbie Reynolds, Tim Roth, Peter Coyote, and many others.

Tuesday, August 16, 6:30 pm
La Quattro Volte (Italy, 2010, 88 min., color, 35mm) Michelangelo Frammartino concentrates on the simple life of an old man, goats, a tree, and his other rural surroundings in an isolated region in Calabria, southern Italy in the film that translates as four times, realms, or stages. This is a cinematic piece of art that observes the daily life of the people, animals, and objects without dialogue but with a close attention to the details of life transforming them into a unique and satisfying film experience.

Tuesday, August 23, 6:30 pm
Waiting for Superman (USA, 2010, 11 min., color, 35mm) Director David Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) won the Audience Award at Sundance for this controversial and thought‐provoking film about the state of American education. Guggenheim interviews a number of reform-minded educators including Geoffrey Canada of Harlem, NY City and Michelle Rhee, former Chancellor of the Washington, DC public schools 2007‐2010 and founder of Students First. The heart of the film is the struggle of five families trying to win a lottery to get their young children into charter schools with superior academic records but with limited space. Filled with alarming statistics and situations, issues of the rights of tenured, unionized teachers, and poignant personal stories, the film is a rallying cry for change.

Tuesday, August 30, 6:30 pm
Toy Story 3 (USA, 2010, 103 min., color, 35mm) Pixar Studios (Up and Wall‐E) is known for its consistent ability to produce films as nostalgic and emotionally textured as they
are visually original. In this third installment of the series, the characters are familiar, old
friends to us. The toys face the new and daunting dilemma of being cast aside as their owner outgrows them. When the family decides to donate the toys to a daycare center, the real action begins, including brilliant escapes and thrilling scenes we’ve come to expect with the toys. Nominated for the 2011 Oscars for Best Picture and Best Animated Feature, it won for Best Animated Feature.

Happenings

Thursday, June 30, 5 - 9 pm
Saturday, July 2, 10 am - 2 pm
Call to Photographers: North Country Arts Center Juried Photography Show North Country Arts Center issues a call to photographers for its first-ever Juried Photography Show. For years, NCAC has held a Juried Arts Show every winter, but photography entries were excluded from that show – so they decided it was time to shine the spotlight on photographers. The show runs July 5 to 30 at Friends Gallery, upstairs at Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls, New York. The awards reception is set for Thursday, July 7, from 6 to 7 p.m. Drop-off and registration is at the Friends Gallery at Crandall Public Library Entry fee is $15 for non-members and $10 for NCAC members.
The call is to all photographers, amateur and professional, ages 18 and older. Entrants may submit two ready-to-hang photographs not previously entered in a competition. The works must be secured with wire on the back – no saw-tooth hangers will be accepted. Information and application online at www.northcountryartscenter.org. For details, call organizer Diane Collins at (518) 792-2811.

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

Thursday, June 30,
Friday, July 1,
Saturday, July 2
Adirondack Theater Festival Presents “The K of D, an Urban Legend” By Laura Schellhardt. Directed by Matthew Earnest. They’re called “urban legends,” but why do most of them take place somewhere rural? So it is with this remarkable one-woman show, featuring more than a dozen characters who try to make sense of the eerie events unfolding around their lakeside town during a lazy summer. A tragic accident changes the world of skinny Charlotte McGraw, her family and their community, forever. But it’s Charlotte’s strange behavior that has the neighborhood guessing – and gossiping. Did something happen when her twin brother gave her that strange, gentle goodbye? Why did she stop talking? And why does that mysterious blue heron keep appearing in the sky? The K of D is sure to have audiences talking—and wondering—long after the curtain comes down.

Thursday, July 7 through Saturday, July 16
Adirondack Theater Festival Presents "Shooting Star" By Steven Dietz. Directed by Mark Fleischer. Starring Diana Sheehan and James Crawford. A co-production with WaterTowerTheatre. Can young love make a return engagement? Reed and Elena were college sweethearts but haven’t seen each other in twenty-five years. He’s grown into a suit-and-tie with Blackberry while she has remained an idealistic hippy. When both are stranded at the same snowed-in airport during the “blizzard of the century”, the conversation crackles and the sparks begin to fly. When morning comes and all flights are cleared for departure – what’s the final destination for these two? Shooting Star is a sweet, touching comedy filled with humor, heartache, secrets and snow. Running Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes without intermission. Contains mature themes and some adult language

Tuesday, July 12 through Friday, July 15
Adirondack Theater Festival Presents "Second Act Cabaret" Starring Gary Adler and Phoebe Kreutz.

Thursday, July 21 (preview) through Saturday, July 30
Adirondack Theater Festival Presents "Hello Out There" Lyrics & book by Eric Price. Music by Frank Terry. Directed by Benjamin Endsley Klein. Music Direction by Andrew Gerle. Choreography by Wendy Seyb. It’s 1995 – the dawn of the Internet Age and the beginning of one of the most bullish financial eras in American history. Three 14-year olds from New Jersey – a stock market wiz, a computer geek and the self-proclaimed third-most popular girl in school – decide to spend their summer wheeling and dealing in the high-stakes world of securities. They’re only kids. What could go wrong? Throw in a cabbie from Bosnia, an SEC investigator and assorted other helpful adults, and you have the makings of a first-class financial meltdown — all accompanied by a delightful lineup of nearly 20 original songs.

Thursday, August 4
Friday, August 5
Saturday, August 6
Ruggiero Productions “The Servant of Two Masters” by Carlo Goldoni

Monday, August 8, 8:00
Tuesday, August 9, 2:00
The Seagle Colony presents: “Lullaby of Broadway”

Wednesday, August 10 through Sunday, August 14
Applause Factory and CR Wood Theater present “Menopause the Musical”

Saturday, August 20
The Applause Factory Presents “Ricky Nelson Remembered” : Starring His Sons Matthew and Gunner Two Performances

Thursday, August 25
Friday, August 26
”Madame With An E” Madame, the famous puppet from Hollywood Squares, returns with a new man on her arm. Not for kids.

Saturday, August 27, 8 pm
Sunday, August 28, 2 pm
Laura Roth's 911 Vaudeville Show Featuring Uncle Floyd Vivino and Michael Townsend Wright This unique show will feature music rarely heard today and Vaudeville sketches not seen in one hundred years. Laura will portray, in specially designed costumes, the greatest female names of Vaudeville, including Eva Tanguay, Vesta Victoria, Anna Held, Fannie Brice, and others. All three talents, full-time professional entertainers, will collaborate in riotous skits suitable for the entire family. Laura will be using staging, billboards, and other mechanisms to reproduce the way Vaudeville looked and sounded. In the lobby, Laura will display the original lobby card for Douglas Fairbanks in "The Thief of Bagdad", stamped by the Empire Theater, a former Vaudeville house in Glens Falls, as well as an actual early Empire Theater program. Tickets are only $25.00 and may be obtained through the Wood Theater box office at 874-0800.
Uncle Floyd has entertained since 1969, including five summers at the original Gaslight Village of Lake George, New York. He is an acknowledged expert on the Vaudeville era and will perform sketches with Laura and Michael that are a laugh riot even after all these years. His Vaudeville props and costuming fill several warehouses in New Jersey. He is writing a book on the greats of Vaudeville. He starred in a landmark television comedy series on cable TV in New Jersey, then on PBS and the NBC Network in the 1970's that is still being sold on DVDs, as it has become a cult classic. He frequently plays the Borgata in Atlantic City, as well as Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada, still finding time to perform a weekly radio show entirely in Italian in the New York-New Jersey area, as well as appearances in movies and on television. Floyd will do solo comedy in song, as well, accompanying himself on piano.
Michael Townsend Wright is a comedian and impressionist who does Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Ed Sullivan and other greats of the golden age of radio and television. He has made it a life mission to carry on the routines of Joey Faye and Joe Smith of "Smith and Dale." He works frequently with Floyd Vivino. His recent film work has included "The Rat Pack" on HBO and "Rescue Me" on television. His recent work as Eddie Foy in off-Broadway's "The Seven Little Foys" was critically acclaimed. These rarities will be on display to all attendees. The busy and popular Marilynn Beuhler, Laura's accompanist throughout the East, will be musical director and play the show. She worked with Floyd at Gaslight Village in Lake George for three years.

Friday, September 16
Saturday, September 17
Pendragon Theatre Company Fall Production: “The Mystery of Irma Vepp” By Charles Ludlum

Friday, September 23
Wood Theater and the City of Glens Falls Present: The “The Band” Band. Tribute band from Woodstock of The Band

Saturday, October 1
WCKM Tribute Concert: Dueling Pianos of Elton John and Billy Joel Tribute Artists

Saturday, October 8, 2:00 pm
Pendragon Theatre presents Fairy Tale Theater production of “Stuart Little”

Sunday, October 9, 8:00 pm
Chad and Jeremy British Invasion artists

Thursday, October 13, 8:00 pm
Lake George Community Band POPS Concert

Friday, October 14, 8:00 pm
Saturday, October 15, 8 pm
Leo Kottke

November 4, 5, 6; 11,12,13: 8:00 pm and 2:00 on Sundays
Glens Falls Community Theatre Presents: “The Drowsy Chaperone”

Friday, November 18
Saturday, November 19
West Mountain Educational Foundation Presents: Annual Warren Miller Ski Movie

Saturday, November 26, 8:00 pm
Sunday, November 27, 2:00 pm
Tony DeSare in Concert

Thursday, December 1, 6:30 pm
World AIDS Day Celebration

Saturday, December 3
Adirondack Repertory Dance Theater Christmas Show

Saturday, December 10
Sunday, December 11
Adirondack Ballet present: The Nutcracker

Friday, December 16, 8:00 pm
Lake George Community Band Christmas Concert

Saturday, December 31
The Wood Theater Presents “From Broadway to Billboard” A Musical Review

Red Fox Bookstore

Every Saturday, 11 am
StoryTime for Busy Families

Wednesday, July 6,
Wednesday, July 13
Wednesday, July 20,
Wednesday, July 27, 3:00 pm, - 4:00 pm
Kids' Summer Book Club Our 4th Annual Kids' Summer Book Club for grades 2-6. We will have 4-book packs available for purchase in June. Book packs include a free bookmark and free attendance at the summer book club meetings. The cost of attending the book club meetings without purchasing the books is $30. To register and for more information: info@redfoxbookstore.com

PPD, Date TBA
Difficult Reads Group: Emily Dickinson Poems Book discussion focuses on the several Emily Dickinson poems.

Thursday, July 21, 12:00 pm
Third Thursdays Shakespeare in City Park: A Midsummer's Night Dream. Bring a lunch and a blanket or lawn chair. The plays are available at Red Fox Books for 20% off.

Thursday, August 18, 12:00 pm
Third Thursdays Shakespeare in City Park: The Tempest. Bring a lunch and a blanket or lawn chair. The plays are available at Red Fox Books for 20% off.

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.

Sunday, July 17, 4:00 pm
Glens Falls Food Coop Organizational Meeting The coop will be looking to add members to the committee. Decide on an organizational model for its initial phase and determine what kinds of foods it will initially be looking to get for its members. All are welcome.

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 Saturday, September 17
New York, New York: The 20th Century The Hyde Collection introduces its major summer exhibition from the collection of the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida. This exhibition features over sixty paintings, photographs, sculptures, and works on paper that capture New York City’s unique urban atmosphere and the human interface with it. The Norton Museum of Art owns a wealth of artworks that feature this remarkable metropolis.The objects in the exhibition are centered on some of the most notable and beloved features of the city and date from 1889 to 2009. Artists represented in this exhibition include Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, George Bellows, Stuart Davis, Andreas Feininger, Childe Hassam, Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh, and Jim MacMillan’s moving photograph of the World Trade Center on September 12, 2001.

Tuesday July 12, 12:00PM - 2:30PM
Wednesday July 13, 12:00PM - 2:30PM
Thursday July 14, 12:00PM - 2:30PM
Friday July 15, 12:00PM - 2:30PM
Vacation Art Studio Classes The Hyde Collection will host two sessions of art studio classes for students in grades 2-6. These classes will focus on reusing resources to create art. Students will make portfolios from old maps, sketchbooks from found papers, abstract sculptures from scrap wood and experience printmaking by creating their own collograph with reclaimed cardboard! $20 per child of Hyde members, $30 per child all others.

Wednesday, June 29, 1:30PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, July 6, 1:30PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, July 20, 1:30PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, July 27, 1:30PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, August 3, 1:30PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, August 10, 1:30PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, August 17, 1:30PM - 3:30PM
ART CIRCUS Let your children combine their imagination and our art supplies to create their own masterpiece each week! Educators will be available to help children learn how to use new materials, problem solve a project, help with inspiration, and answer any questions. Art Circus is for ages 3-12 with adult caregiver (adults are welcome to participate in creating art with their children). No registration needed. Children and adults accompanying them for programs are admitted free of charge. Donations are accepted to help offset the cost of program supplies.

Saturday, October 2, 2011 - Saturday, December 4, 2011
Draw Me a Story: A Century of Children’s Book Illustrations A good children’s illustrated book still has the power to whisk young minds off to another time and place – even in today’s high-tech world of computer games. Draw Me a Story: A Century of Children’s Book Illustrations explores one-hundred years of bold adventures, classic fairy tales, amazing animals, and imaginative ABCs, all seen through the eyes of forty-one artists who have created works especially for children. Originating from the Cartoon Museum in San Francisco, California, Draw Me a Story presents forty original works of art and thirteen books in a thematic and nostalgic journey through the history of children’s book illustrators and illustration techniques. Among the artist/illustrators included in the exhibition are Ralph Caldecott, Jules Feiffer, Edward Gorey, Kate Greenaway, Sarah Noble Ives, William Steig, and Chris Van Allsburg.
Draw Me a Story is a Program of ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-American Arts Alliance and The National Endowment for the Arts.

Chapman Museum
The Chapman Historical Museum, located at 348 Glen Street, Glens Falls, is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm, and Sunday, noon to 4 pm.
For info call (518) 793-2826.

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

Bay Street Beadworks Located at the foothills of the Adirondacks in the heart of Downtown Glens Falls (at 206 Glen Street), and minutes between Lake George and Saratoga Springs, Bay Street Bead Works is upstate New York's premier bead shop! We specialize in bringing our customers the highest quality beads, including semi-precious gemstone beads, focal beads, genuine freshwater pearl beads and Czech glass beads at the best possible prices.

Glens Falls Civic Center

Sunday, October 2, 8:00 pm
Bill Engvall The star of the former TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show and member of the Blue Collar Comedy group, is a popular stand-up comedian with eight comedy albums. Engvall will also be the host of the 2011 revival of the Game Show Network’s (GSN) series Lingo, premiering this June. Among other shows that Engvall is associated with is host of the Country Music Television’s (CMT) hit show Country Fried Home Videos. Bill Engvall’s stop at the Glens Falls Civic Center will be a part of his current 2011 North American comedy tour which includes over 40 destinations across the United States and Canada. Tickets are available exclusively through New Era Tickets at 1-855-GFCC-TIX, online at glensfallscc.com, or in person by visiting the Glens Falls Civic Center box office.

World Awareness Children’s Museum go! the interactive exhibition space of the World Awareness Children’s Museum is offering three exciting summer programs for children 8 to 12 years old from 10am to noon, each Tuesday and Thursday during the month of July and August at 89 Warren St. Downtown Glens Falls. Using cultural objects and art from the Museum’s collection, children will learn about celebrations and practices, international crafts created around the world and global foods. All three programs are hands-on and will involve the process of making some- thing, from shadow puppets to amulets, guacamole to Asian dipping sauce. For further information about go!, contact the Museum at 518-793-2773 or visit the web site at www.worldchildrensmuseum.org. Follow our progress on Facebook at www.facebook.com/gochildrensmuseum.

Thursday, June 30, 11:00am - 7:00pm
Pre-Opening of GO! Interactive Exhibit Space You're invited to be among the first to see this awesome new exhibition space, set to open officially on July 5. This FREE, family-friendly, drop-in event offers tours, fun entertainment throughout the day, and free goody bags to the first 250 kids.
Schedule:
11 to 7 - Tours of the exhibition spaces
11 to 1 - Rowdy the Clown: Laughs and Balloons
1 - Glens Falls Tae Kwon Do Institute Demo
3 to 5 - Lyl Harper on Steel Drums
5 - Bolton Dance Academy
6 - Chinese Lion Dance

The Shirt Factory The Shirt Factory is a community of Artisans, Craftspeople, Healers and Professionals located in the historic Shirt Factory Building on Lawrence and Cooper Streets in Glens Falls, NY.

Saturday, Now through July 2
Encaustics at Buttondown Gallery
Encaustic paintings by local artists Karen Koziol, Jeri Macdonald, and Anastasia Nute, feature painted and collaged, gestural and dimensional surfaces encased and layered in bee's wax. An opening reception will be held Saturday May 14, 4 -7 pm. All are welcome, refreshments will be served. On Thursday June 16, the artists will demonstrate the encaustic technique during Glens Falls Third Thursday Art Walk event, 4-7pm. Buttondown Gallery is located on the first floor of the Shirt Factory, Lawrence and Cooper Streets, Glens Falls. NY. Hours are Thursday - Saturday 11am - 5pm. Free gift wrapping and gift certificates available. For more information call: 793-9309 email: workswithfire@yahoo.com

Friday, July 1, Dusk
APE Presents Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory: Grey Gardens Runtime: 1:45. Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange headline this fact-based drama centered on the two eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy-Onassis who served as the subject of David and Albert Maysles' similarly-titled 1975 documentary. Directed, produced, and co-written (along with Patricia Rozema) by Michael Sucsy, Grey Gardens tells the story of Big Edie (Lange) and Little Edie (Barrymore), the aunt and cousin of Kennedy-Onassis respectively. The reclusive socialites made headlines across the country when the health department threatened to raid their sprawling, flea-and-raccoon-infested twenty-eight room East Hampton, NY mansion in the early-1970s, prompting Kennedy-Onassis herself to intervene in an attempt to save the family name. Jane Tripplehorn stars as former first lady Kennedy-Onassis in a film also featuring Daniel Baldwin, Ken Howard, Malcolm Gets, and Ayre Gross. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Friday, July 8, Dusk
APE Presents Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory: GiGi [1958,116m,G] Leslie Caron plays Gigi, a young girl raised by two veteran Parisian courtesans (Hermione Gingold and Isabel Jeans) to be the mistress of wealthy young Gaston (Louis Jourdan). When Gaston falls in love with Gigi and asks her to be his wife, Jeans is appalled: never has anyone in their family ever stooped to anything so bourgeois as marriage! Weaving in and out of the story is Maurice Chevalier as an aging boulevardier who, years earlier, had been in love with Gingold's character. Chevalier gets most of the best Lerner & Loewe tunes, including Thank Heaven for Little Girls, I'm Glad I'm Not Young Any More, and his matchless duet with Gingold, I Remember it Well. Caron's best number (dubbed by Betty Wand) is The Night They Invented Champagne while Jourdan gets the honor of introducing the title song. Filmed on location in Paris, Gigi won several Oscars, including Best Picture; it also represented the successful American movie comeback of Chevalier, who thanks to this film was "forgiven" for his reputed collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. ~ Hal Erickson

Friday, July 15, Dusk
APE Presents Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory: Temple Grandin [2010,103m,PG] Director Mick Jackson teams with screenwriters Christopher Monger and William Merritt Johnson to tell the story of autistic icon Temple Grandin, a woman who refused to let her disorder limit her true potential. Adapted from Grandin's own writings, the film allows the audience to experience the world much like she does while recounting her colorful life and remarkable achievements from childhood to adulthood. ~ Jason Buchanan

Friday, July 22, Dusk
APE Presents Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory: Exit Through the Gift Shop [2010,87m,R] Exit Through the Gift Shop marks the feature-film debut of notorious street artist Banksy. The documentary's focus is French-born L.A. thrift-shop owner Thierry Guetta, whose apparent compulsion to videotape every moment of his life led him to document the phenomenon of contemporary street art. Guetta's cousin, a street artist known as Space Invader, allowed the avid cameraman to tape him as he illegally spread his artwork, and Space Invader also introduced him to other street artists, whose work Guetta captured on tape. Eventually, Guetta hooked up with Shepard Fairey, who was best known (before he created an iconic Barack Obama campaign poster) for his widespread stickers featuring an image of the late wrestler Andre the Giant over the word "OBEY." Guetta soon hears about the mysterious street artist/prankster Banksy, and becomes obsessed with finding him and videotaping his exploits. Thanks to Guettta's growing reputation among street artists, the two eventually meet and form a sort of partnership. Guetta even videotapes Banksy's infamous "Gitmo" prank at Disneyland, wherein a handcuffed, hooded figure in an orange jumpsuit is placed beside one of the rides. They get along quite well until Banksy suggests that Guetta stop shooting, take the countless hours of footage he's accumulated, and start assembling them into a documentary. Banksy eventually takes over the documentary project, and inadvertently pushes Guetta's creative energy in a new direction, as Guetta becomes a kind of street artist himself, with shocking results. Exit Through the Gift Shop, narrated by Rhys Ifans, had its world premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. While it was very well received, there was much speculation as to the documentary's veracity and the provenance of Guetta, his videotape, and his artwork. Given Banksy's reputation, that should not come as a surprise. ~ Josh Ralske

Friday, July 29, Dusk
APE Presents Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory: Danny Deckchair [2003,100m,PG-13] Jeff Balsmeyer makes his writing and directing debut with the Australian romantic comedy Danny Deckchair. Rhys Ifans plays Danny Morgan, a building tradesman living in the Sydney suburbs with his upwardly mobile real-estate agent girlfriend, Trudy (Justine Clarke). When she chooses to postpone their vacation together in order to show a house to TV personality Sandy Upman (Rhys Muldoon), Danny takes matters into his own hands by fastening helium balloons to a chair and sailing over the city. Landing in the small town of Clarence, he meets and falls in love with parking cop Glenda (Miranda Otto). ~ Andrea LeVasseur

Friday, August 5, Dusk
APE Presents Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert [1994,103m,R] The usually menacing British actor Terence Stamp does a complete turnaround as Bernadette, an aging transsexual who tours the backwaters of Australia with her stage partners, Mitzi (Hugo Weaving) and Adam/Felicia (Guy Pearce). Their act, well-known in Sydney, involves wearing lots of makeup and gowns and lip-synching to records, but Bernadette is getting a bit tired of it all and is also haunted by the bizarre death of an old loved one. Nevertheless, when Mitzi and Felicia get an offer to perform in the remote town of Alice Springs at a casino, Bernadette decides to tag along. The threesome ventures into the outback with Priscilla, a lavender-colored school bus that doubles as dressing room and home on the road. Along the way, the act encounters any number of strange characters, as well as incidents of homophobia, while Bernadette becomes increasingly concerned about the path her life has taken. ~ Don Kaye

Friday, August 12, Dusk
APE Presents Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory: In the Realms of the Unreal - The Mystery of Henry Darger [2004,82m,NR] Award-winning short filmmaker Jessica Yu makes her feature-length debut with In the Realms of the Unreal, a documentary about outsider artist Henry Darger. Born in 1892, Darger lived in Chicago and worked as a janitor for most of his life. When he died in 1972, his landlord found his life's work: The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion (often simply referred to as The Realms). A massive, multiple-volume fantasy novel, The Realms also contains nearly 300 illustrations of collages, drawings, and paintings. Rather than interview art scholars and psychologists, Yu chooses to look at Darger's work from the viewpoints of those who knew him. Yu also incorporates animation segments into the documentary, using Darger's original images. In the Realms of the Unreal was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004 as part of the documentary competition. ~ Andrea LeVasseur

Friday, August 19, Dusk
APE Presents Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory: An Evening of Shorts [NR] Various short films by local film makers, in partnership with Lake George Arts Project.

Friday, August 26, Dusk
APE Presents Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory: This is Spinal Tap [1984,82m,R] Largely improvised by director Rob Reiner and his cast, This Is Spinal Tap looks and sounds like a "real" documentary, with Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest as David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls, and Nigel Tufnel, the key members of a going-nowhere British heavy metal band called Spinal Tap. The "group" started as an informal skiffle band, eventually maturing into an R&B act called the Thamesmen (their hit was "Gimme Some Money"). After going through a psychedelic period with "Listen to the Flower People," the band mutated into Spinal Tap, a hard rock outfit responsible for such albums as "Intravenous DeMilo," "The Sun Never Sweats," and "Bent for the Rent." This Is Spinal Tap finds them in the midst of their first American tour in years as they support their new LP Smell the Glove, with filmmaker Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner), who specializes in TV commercials, on hand to document the occasion. Just about anything that can go wrong does: shows get canceled, stage props go wrong, wireless guitar pickups start broadcasting air-traffic reports, no one shows up for in-store appearances, David's girlfriend tries to take over the band, they wind up billed second to a puppet show at an amusement park, and the group teeters on the verge of breakup. After the film's initial release, McKean, Guest, and Shearer did a short club tour as Spinal Tap; the "band" reunited in 1992 for a new album, Break Like the Wind, followed by a full-fledged tour and TV special, The Return of Spinal Tap.

World Awareness Children's Museum The World Awareness Children’s Museum is an educational institution which fosters knowledge and appreciation of world cultures through exhibitions, interactive programming, the International Youth Art Exchange and educator-led tours. We are committed to using art conceived through the eyes of children to promote peace and understanding among people of the world.

Tuesday, July 5, 10:00 am
World Awareness Children's Museum: go! Interacte Space Grand Opening The World Awareness Children's Museum will officially open its new go! where children discover the world interactive space at 89 Warren St., in downtown Glens Falls (two blocks from centennial circle) on Tuesday, July 5, 2011 with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 9am. Summer programming will begin at 10am. The Museum will be open from 10am to 4pm Monday-Saturday and Sunday 12 to 4pm during July and August. Hours will change in the fall. On June 30th there will be a free pre-opening tour from 11am to 7pm for the public. There will be entertainment and children will receive free tote bags with gifts.
go! where children discover the world offers a number of exhibition galleries which will feature international children's art, exhibited artifacts and educational objects that children can touch along with other interactive activities. Visitor's will be greeted in the Welcome Center with children's photographs and art on monitors along with a special exhibitions of children's art from Ecuador during July and August. The Global Art Gallery will feature international youth art projected on a wall with a large globe in the middle of the space. Artifacts from the Museum's collections as well as other fun activities about geography tie in with Kid's Connect, where children can explore websites about world cultures and geography on available computers. There will be periodic opportunities to Skype with children in different countries. Visitors will be able to create their own art projects in the Express Yourself Art Studio which will also to be used for educational programming. At Destinations, the Museum's fair trade shop, visitors can browse handcrafted items from South America, Asia and Africa as well as art supplies, Museum books and prints of the international youth art.

Art in the Public Eye APE cultivates a partnership between the area arts community and local businesses, to promote established and emerging artists and local commerce and to create greater access to the arts through cultural activities and public exhibitions. APE's administrative offices and new fine art gallery can now be found at 176 Glen Street.

Vantage Gallery

Now through July 10
Jeremy Holmes: 1/4 Mile Art in the Pubic Eye announces the first exhibit in our new Vantage Gallery, featuring the work of artist Jeremy Holmes. An opening reception will be held as part of the Third Thursday Glens Falls Art Walk on June 16, 2011 from 5-8 PM. The gallery will be open Thur-Fri 4-8 PM and Sat-Sun 12-4 PM, or by appointment. Jeremy Holmes grew up in Cooperstown, NY and studied at the State University of New York at New Paltz where he graduated with a BFA in Sculpture in 2007. He currently lives and has a studio in Ithaca. “I construct abstract wood sculptures, which emphasize materiality and an engagement between the viewer, the site, and the work. Seen as three-dimensional line drawings in space, the installations collaborate with unique found architecture to construct a new and unexpected space made by joining long thin lengths of wood together. I make thin boards using traditional woodworking techniques, soak the wood in water and then use a free form bending method to bend the long pieces into abstract shapes. Once the wood has dried I am able to finish it and join them together into different configurations, including small and large sculptures, which contrast with the geometric rooms that we build and live in. The viewer becomes aware of the whole volume of a room with my work because of the way it travels around the floors, walls and ceiling. Social and public art is the main interest that I am focusing on now, trying to get art into unused spaces in original and un-expecting ways, filling voids in interiors that otherwise go un-noticed.” Holmes has shown at Bloom Art Fair in Koln Germany, Exhibit A in Corning, Lucky Gallery in Brooklyn, The Cooperstown Art Association, The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at New Paltz, Blink Gallery in Saratoga, Windsor Whip Works Gallery, and The Arsenal Center for the Arts in Boston. Recent public installations include Art in the Heart of Ithaca, Brewery Ommegang, Great Blue Heron Music Festival, and Mountain Jam Music Festival. For more information visit holmesarts.com

Glens Falls Public Exhibitions

Friday, July 1, Dusk
APE Presents Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory: Grey Gardens Runtime: 1:45. Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange headline this fact-based drama centered on the two eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy-Onassis who served as the subject of David and Albert Maysles' similarly-titled 1975 documentary. Directed, produced, and co-written (along with Patricia Rozema) by Michael Sucsy, Grey Gardens tells the story of Big Edie (Lange) and Little Edie (Barrymore), the aunt and cousin of Kennedy-Onassis respectively. The reclusive socialites made headlines across the country when the health department threatened to raid their sprawling, flea-and-raccoon-infested twenty-eight room East Hampton, NY mansion in the early-1970s, prompting Kennedy-Onassis herself to intervene in an attempt to save the family name. Jane Tripplehorn stars as former first lady Kennedy-Onassis in a film also featuring Daniel Baldwin, Ken Howard, Malcolm Gets, and Ayre Gross. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Friday, July 8, Dusk
APE Presents Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory: GiGi [1958,116m,G]

Friday, July 15, Dusk
APE Presents Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory: Temple Grandin [2010,103m,PG]

Thursday, July 21
Third Thursday Art Walk and Outdoor Cinema in City Park: Breakfast at Tiffany's Run time 1:55. In an idealized New York City during the early '60s, Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is a charming socialite with a youthful zest for life who lives alone in a nearly bare apartment. She has such a flippant lifestyle that she won't even give her cat a name, because that would be too much of a commitment to a relationship. Maintaining a childlike innocence yet wearing the most perfect of designer clothes and accessories from Givenchy, she spends her time on expensive dates and at high-class parties. She escorts various wealthy men, yet fails to return their affections after they have given her gifts and money. Holly's carefree independence is changed when she meets her neighbor, aspiring writer Paul (George Peppard), who is suffering from writer's block while being kept by a wealthy woman (Patricia Neal). Just when Holly and Paul are developing their sweet romance, Doc (Buddy Ebsen) appears on the scene and complicates matters, revealing the truth about Holly's past. Breakfast at Tiffany's was nominated for several Academy awards, winning Best Score for Henry Mancini and Best Song for Johnny Mercer's classic tune "Moon River". ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

Friday, July 22, Dusk
APE Presents Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory: Exit Through the Gift Shop [2010,87m,R]

Friday, July 29, Dusk
APE Presents Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory: Danny Deckchair [2003,100m,PG-13]

Friday, August 5, Dusk
APE Presents Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert [1994,103m,R]

Friday, August 12, Dusk
APE Presents Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory: In the Realms of the Unreal [2004,82m,NR]

Thursday, August 18
Third Thursday Art Walk/ChalkFest and Outdoor Cinema in City Park: Rango (PG, 1 hr. 47 min) Rango is a sheltered chameleon living as an ordinary family pet, while facing a major identity crisis. After all, how high can you aim when your whole purpose in life is to blend in? When Rango accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt - a lawless outpost populated by the desert's most wily and whimsical creatures - the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt...

Friday, August 19, Dusk
APE Presents Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory: An Evening of Shorts [NR, various short films by local film makers, in partnership with LGAP]

Friday, August 26, Dusk
APE Presents Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory: This is Spinal Tap [1984,82m,R] Friday, August 19, Dusk
Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory

Thursday, September 15
Third Thursday Art Walk

Thursday, October 20
Third Thursday Art Walk

Around Town

Monday, July 11, 3:30 pm - 4:30pm, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Tai Chi at Crandall Park This is a free Tai Chi group that meets Mondays. In
the winter, the group meets in the community rooms at Glens Falls Hospital. In the warmer months, it meets by the picnic pavilion in Crandall Park. Facillitator: Neil Carter.

Monday, July 18, 3:30 pm - 4:30pm, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Tai Chi at Crandall Park This is a free Tai Chi group that meets Mondays. In
the winter, the group meets in the community rooms at Glens Falls Hospital. In the warmer months, it meets by the picnic pavilion in Crandall Park. Facillitator: Neil Carter.

Monday, July 25, 3:30 pm - 4:30pm, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Tai Chi at Crandall Park This is a free Tai Chi group that meets Mondays. In
the winter, the group meets in the community rooms at Glens Falls Hospital. In the warmer months, it meets by the picnic pavilion in Crandall Park. Facillitator: Neil Carter.

Monday, August 1, 3:30 pm - 4:30pm, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Tai Chi at Crandall Park This is a free Tai Chi group that meets Mondays. In
the winter, the group meets in the community rooms at Glens Falls Hospital. In the warmer months, it meets by the picnic pavilion in Crandall Park. Facillitator: Neil Carter.

Thing to Do in Glens Falls, May 2011

Crandall Public Library

Spring Film Series

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 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

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

June 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, July 1, July 2
Adirondack Theater Festival Presents “The K of D”

Sunday, June 26, 8:00 pm
Monday, June 27, 8:00 pm
Adirondack Theater Festival Presents “Dream Street”

Thursday, July 7 through Saturday, July 16
Adirondack Theater Festival Presents "Shooting Star"

Tuesday, July 12 through Friday, July 15
Adirondack Theater Festival Presents "Second Act Cabaret" Starring Gary Adler and Phoebe Kreutz.

Thursday, July 21 through Saturday, July 30
Adirondack Theater Festival Presents "Hello Out There"

Thursday, August 4
Friday, August 5
Saturday, August 6
Ruggiero Productions “The Servant of Two Masters” by Carlo Goldoni

Monday, August 8, 8:00
Tuesday, August 9, 2:00
The Seagle Colony presents: “Lullaby of Broadway”

Wednesday, August 10 through Sunday, August 14
Applause Factory and CR Wood Theater present “Menopause the Musical”

Saturday, August 20
The Applause Factory Presents “Ricky Nelson Remembered” : Starring His Sons Matthew and Gunner Two Performances

Thursday, August 25
Friday, August 26
”Madame With An E” Madame, the famous puppet from Hollywood Squares, returns with a new man on her arm. Not for kids.

Saturday, August 27, 8 pm
Sunday, August 28, 2 pm
Laura Roth's 911 Vaudeville Show Featuring Uncle Floyd Vivino and Michael Townsend Wright This unique show will feature music rarely heard today and Vaudeville sketches not seen in one hundred years. Laura will portray, in specially designed costumes, the greatest female names of Vaudeville, including Eva Tanguay, Vesta Victoria, Anna Held, Fannie Brice, and others. All three talents, full-time professional entertainers, will collaborate in riotous skits suitable for the entire family. Laura will be using staging, billboards, and other mechanisms to reproduce the way Vaudeville looked and sounded. In the lobby, Laura will display the original lobby card for Douglas Fairbanks in "The Thief of Bagdad", stamped by the Empire Theater, a former Vaudeville house in Glens Falls, as well as an actual early Empire Theater program. Tickets are only $25.00 and may be obtained through the Wood Theater box office at 874-0800.
Uncle Floyd has entertained since 1969, including five summers at the original Gaslight Village of Lake George, New York. He is an acknowledged expert on the Vaudeville era and will perform sketches with Laura and Michael that are a laugh riot even after all these years. His Vaudeville props and costuming fill several warehouses in New Jersey. He is writing a book on the greats of Vaudeville. He starred in a landmark television comedy series on cable TV in New Jersey, then on PBS and the NBC Network in the 1970's that is still being sold on DVDs, as it has become a cult classic. He frequently plays the Borgata in Atlantic City, as well as Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada, still finding time to perform a weekly radio show entirely in Italian in the New York-New Jersey area, as well as appearances in movies and on television. Floyd will do solo comedy in song, as well, accompanying himself on piano.
Michael Townsend Wright is a comedian and impressionist who does Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Ed Sullivan and other greats of the golden age of radio and television. He has made it a life mission to carry on the routines of Joey Faye and Joe Smith of "Smith and Dale." He works frequently with Floyd Vivino. His recent film work has included "The Rat Pack" on HBO and "Rescue Me" on television. His recent work as Eddie Foy in off-Broadway's "The Seven Little Foys" was critically acclaimed. These rarities will be on display to all attendees. The busy and popular Marilynn Beuhler, Laura's accompanist throughout the East, will be musical director and play the show. She worked with Floyd at Gaslight Village in Lake George for three years.

Friday, September 16
Saturday, September 17
Pendragon Theatre Company Fall Production: “The Mystery of Irma Vepp” By Charles Ludlum

Friday, September 23
Wood Theater and the City of Glens Falls Present: The “The Band” Band. Tribute band from Woodstock of The Band

Saturday, October 1
WCKM Tribute Concert: Dueling Pianos of Elton John and Billy Joel Tribute Artists

Saturday, October 8, 2:00 pm
Pendragon Theatre presents Fairy Tale Theater production of “Stuart Little”

Sunday, October 9, 8:00 pm
Chad and Jeremy British Invasion artists

Thursday, October 13, 8:00 pm
Lake George Community Band POPS Concert

Friday, October 14, 8:00 pm
Saturday, October 15, 8 pm
Leo Kottke

November 4, 5, 6; 11,12,13: 8:00 pm and 2:00 on Sundays
Glens Falls Community Theatre Presents: “The Drowsy Chaperone”

Friday, November 18
Saturday, November 19
West Mountain Educational Foundation Presents: Annual Warren Miller Ski Movie

Saturday, November 26, 8:00 pm
Sunday, November 27, 2:00 pm
Tony DeSare in Concert

Thursday, December 1, 6:30 pm
World AIDS Day Celebration

Saturday, December 3
Adirondack Repertory Dance Theater Christmas Show

Saturday, December 10
Sunday, December 11
Adirondack Ballet present: The Nutcracker

Friday, December 16, 8:00 pm
Lake George Community Band Christmas Concert

Saturday, December 31
The Wood Theater Presents “From Broadway to Billboard” A Musical Review

Red Fox Bookstore

Every Saturday, 11 am
StoryTime for Busy Families

Tuesday, May 31, 7:00 pm
Difficult Reads Group: Heart of Darkness Book discussion focuses on the Joseph Conrad classic.

Monday, June 13, 7 pm
A Community Discussion on the Future of Bookstores & Red Fox Books Please join us on Monday, June 13 at 7 pm for a community meeting. As many of you know, the bookselling industry is in a period of transition. Ebooks and online sales are challenging the business model of the traditional bookstore. How do we fit in and what is our role in our community? Come join us for an open discussion on the future of bookstores and how we at Red Fox can continue to meet your needs. We will offer a short presentation on the current state of publishing and bookselling and then we will open the floor to discussion, questions, and suggestions. We value our customers and the loyal support you have given us these past few years. We want to hear what you have to say. Please contact us if you have any questions: info@redfoxbookstore.com And be sure to "like" us on Facebook so you can get the latest information.

Friday, June 24 at 1 pm
Lunch with two Maine mystery writers: Paul Doiron and Julia Spencer-Fleming ost is $10, includes lunch and a 20% discount off the authors' books. Paul Doiron is the author of the Edgar Award finalist, The Poacher's Son. The sequel, The Trespasser will be out in June. Julia Spencer-Fleming is the author of seven books in the Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery series set in Washington County. Seating is limited, please RSVP: info@redfoxbookstore.com

Wednesday, July 6,
Wednesday, July 13
Wednesday, July 20,
Wednesday, July 27, 3:00 pm, - 4:00 pm
Kids' Summer Book Club Our 4th Annual Kids' Summer Book Club for grades 2-6. We will have 4-book packs available for purchase in June. Book packs include a free bookmark and free attendance at the summer book club meetings. The cost of attending the book club meetings without purchasing the books is $30. To register and for more information: 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.

Sunday, June 5, 7:00 pm
Glens Falls Co-Op Meeting All are invited to discuss the creation of a food buying cooperative.

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.

Chapman Museum
The Chapman Historical Museum, located at 348 Glen Street, Glens Falls, is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm, and Sunday, noon to 4 pm.
For info call (518) 793-2826.

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

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

Bay Street Beadworks Located at the foothills of the Adirondacks in the heart of Downtown Glens Falls (at 206 Glen Street), and minutes between Lake George and Saratoga Springs, Bay Street Bead Works is upstate New York's premier bead shop! We specialize in bringing our customers the highest quality beads, including semi-precious gemstone beads, focal beads, genuine freshwater pearl beads and Czech glass beads at the best possible prices.

Thursday, June 16 · 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Nancy Leeper Seed Bead Class Embellished Peyote. Need a minimum of 2 people, max 6. $25 plus materials. Materials must be purchased from BSBW. If these dates and times don't work for you, please leave a note as to when would be better .

Glens Falls Civic Center

Sunday, October 2, 8:00 pm
Bill Engvall The star of the former TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show and member of the Blue Collar Comedy group, is a popular stand-up comedian with eight comedy albums. Engvall will also be the host of the 2011 revival of the Game Show Network’s (GSN) series Lingo, premiering this June. Among other shows that Engvall is associated with is host of the Country Music Television’s (CMT) hit show Country Fried Home Videos. Bill Engvall’s stop at the Glens Falls Civic Center will be a part of his current 2011 North American comedy tour which includes over 40 destinations across the United States and Canada. Tickets are available exclusively through New Era Tickets at 1-855-GFCC-TIX, online at glensfallscc.com, or in person by visiting the Glens Falls Civic Center box office.

World Awareness Children’s Museum
go! the interactive exhibition space of the World Awareness Children’s Museum is offering three exciting summer programs for children 8 to 12 years old from 10am to noon, each Tuesday and Thursday during the month of July and August at 89 Warren St. Downtown Glens Falls. Using cultural objects and art from the Museum’s collection, children will learn about celebrations and practices, international crafts created around the world and global foods. All three programs are hands-on and will involve the process of making some- thing, from shadow puppets to amulets, guacamole to Asian dipping sauce. For further information about go!, contact the Museum at 518-793-2773 or visit the web site at www.worldchildrensmuseum.org. Follow our progress on Facebook at www.facebook.com/gochildrensmuseum.

The Shirt Factory
The Shirt Factory is a community of Artisans, Craftspeople, Healers and Professionals located in the historic Shirt Factory Building on Lawrence and Cooper Streets in Glens Falls, NY.

Saturday, Now through July 2
Encaustics at Buttondown Gallery
Encaustic paintings by local artists Karen Koziol, Jeri Macdonald, and Anastasia Nute, feature painted and collaged, gestural and dimensional surfaces encased and layered in bee's wax. An opening reception will be held Saturday May 14, 4 -7 pm. All are welcome, refreshments will be served. On Thursday June 16, the artists will demonstrate the encaustic technique during Glens Falls Third Thursday Art Walk event, 4-7pm. Buttondown Gallery is located on the first floor of the Shirt Factory, Lawrence and Cooper Streets, Glens Falls. NY. Hours are Thursday - Saturday 11am - 5pm. Free gift wrapping and gift certificates available. For more information call: 793-9309 email: workswithfire@yahoo.com

Saturday, June 11
Sunday, June 12
The Shirt Factory Open House Visit the studios, shops, and galleries, and also the guest exhibitors throughout the building during the Open House, to find original works of art and unique handcrafted items.

Saturday, June 4, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Opening Reception for THE FLOW Mixed-media artist Kate Austin-Avon opens a new mixed-media art show called THE FLOW at the D.H.B. Thomas Gallery in Suite 306 on the third floor of the Shirt Factory, located at the corner of Lawrence and Cooper Streets in Glens Falls, New York. The show runs June 4 to 30 and opens with a wine and cheese reception. Kate, who herself has a studio in The Shirt Factory, an arts and healing center, is known for her bright, textural, experimental abstract-ish works on Yupo, a plastic paper. About this show, she says, “There's new stuff. Stuff on canvas. And a goat-duck. You don't want to miss these signature Kate Austin-Avon braindroppings.” The show, THE FLOW, is named for a scene from HBO's Six Feet Under. Kate says, “I'd tell you more about the scene, but it's got swearing and ecstasy in it and I happen to think that way without ecstasy and don't want you to get the wrong idea.”

Art in the Public Eye APE seeks to cultivate a partnership between the area arts community and local businesses, to promote established and emerging artists and local commerce and to create greater access to the arts through cultural activities and public exhibitions. APE's administrative offices and new fine art gallery can now be found at 176 Glen Street.

Thursday, June 16
Third Thursday Art Walk and Outdoor Cinema

Thursday, July 21
Third Thursday Art Walk and Outdoor Cinema

Thursday, August 18
Third Thursday Art Walk/ChalkFest and Outdoor Cinema

Thursday, September 15
Third Thursday Art Walk

Thursday, October 20
Third Thursday Art Walk

Around Town

Monday, June 6, 3:30 pm - 4:30pm, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Monday, June 13, 3:30 pm - 4:30pm, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Monday, June 20, 3:30 pm - 4:30pm, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Monday, June 27, 3:30 pm - 4:30pm, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Tai Chi at Crandall Park This is a free Tai Chi group that meets Mondays. In
the winter, the group meets in the community rooms at Glens Falls Hospital. In the warmer months, it meets by the pavilion in Crandall Park. Facillitator: Neil Carter.

Sunday, June 26, noon - 1:00 pm
Meditation at City Park People gather for public meditation the last Sunday each month at City Park by Crandall Library.