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.