Things to Do in Glens Falls for July

Crandall Public Library

Summer Film Series

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, July 28, 7:00 pm
Ivy Rowe: A One-Woman Show with Barbara Bates Smith Theatrical Excitement! A lifetime's worth of sass, whoop, hurt, and reflection... Off-Broadway, The Village Voice
Barbara Bates Smith becomes Ivy Rowe, the feisty character from Lee Smith's novel Fair and Tender Ladies, adapted by Barbara Bates. Musical accompaniment by Jeff Sebens

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

Now 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 G.J. Ruggiero Productions, the professional wing of World Theatre of Children, will make its 2011 Glens Falls appearance in Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters. World Theatre of Children is a conservatory style program that engages children as young as 6 years old in the craft of Acting. Three WToC Actors will appear in this production whose rollicking plot and stunning characterizations have thrilled audiences since its 1753 debut in Venice. World Theatre of Children has developed child actors for over 12 years in Newtown, PA. The program has a unique element in that it integrates Neurotypical children and autistic children in its programs. Many Asperger children have improved their socialization and communication skills through the use of specialized improvisational techniques developed by Gorman John Ruggiero, founder and Executive Director of WToC.

Monday, August 8, 8:00 pm
Tuesday, August 9, 2:00 pm
The Seagle Colony presents: “Lullaby of Broadway” The Seagle Music Colony of Schroon Lake presents “Lullaby of Broadway” directed by Richard Kagey and Richard Williams. Lullaby of Broadway is a musical revue featuring almost 30 songs from the history of American Musical Theater. Included will be songs from My Fair Lady, Babes in Arms, the Rodgers and Hammerstein song book, Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story, The Lion King and many others. Featured singers from the Seagle Music Colony will be Jacquelyn Kelly, a graduate music student at Oklahoma State University, Jordan Gouge, a recent graduate of the University of Kansas School of Music, Sean O’Malley , member of the Stetson University Opera and Stephanie Schoenhofer a recent graduate of the Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinatti. All performers are members of the performers group of the Seagle Music Colony this summer. Tickets are $20.00 pp and available at the Wood Theater Box Office 874-0800 or www.woodtheater.org

Wednesday, August 10 through Sunday, August 14
Performances: August 10, 11, 12, 13 at 8:00pm
Wednesday, August 10, 8:00pm
Thursday, August 11, 2:00pm
Thursday, August 11, 8:00pm
Friday, August 12, 8:00pm
Saturday, August 13, 2:00pm
Saturday, August 13, 8:00pm
Sunday, August 14, 2:00pm
Sunday, August 14, 5:30pm

Applause Factory and CR Wood Theater present “Menopause the Musical” The hilarious musical is set in NYC’s Bloomingdale’s store, where four women with seemingly nothing in common but a black lace bra meet by chance at a lingerie sale. The cast laughs at their woeful hot flashes, forgetfulness, mood swings, wrinkles, night sweats and chocolate binges. A sisterhood is created between these diverse women as they realize that menopause is no longer The Silent Passage! It is a stage in every woman’s life that is perfectly normal!
Menopause The Musical® is the work of writer and producer, Jeanie Linders. The laughter-filled 90-minute production includes parodies from the classics of the ‘60s and ‘70s and ‘80s. Disco hit “Stayin’ Alive” becomes “Stayin’ Awake,” Motown favorite “My Girl” is transformed into “My Thighs,” "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" switches to "In the Guest Room or on the Sofa, My Husband Sleeps at Night,” and “Puff The Magic Dragon” becomes the anthem to exercise, “Puff, My God I’m Draggin’”.
Inspired by a hot flash and a bottle of wine, writer and producer Jeanie Linders created the show as a celebration of women who are on the brink of, in the middle of, or have survived “The Change”. "Most women know intuitively that every other woman is experiencing hot flashes or night sweats,“ says Linders. "There is always a close friend or two who can sympathize or identify with her, but when they are sitting in a theatre with hundreds of other women, all laughing and shouting‚ 'That’s me! That’s me on stage!' they know what they are experiencing is normal. They aren’t alone…or crazy. It becomes a sisterhood."

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”

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

Thursday, February 16, 8:00 pm
Chad and Jeremy British Invasion artists.

Red Fox Bookstore

Every Saturday, 11 am
StoryTime for Busy Families

Saturday, July 30, 11 am
Storytime with Jennifer Fosberry and Reading Dog, Terra! Jennifer Fosberry is the author of the acclaimed children's books, My Name is Not Isabella (Sourcebooks, 2010) and My Name is Not Alexander (Sourcebooks, 2011). She is from the Glens Falls region and now lives in Oregon. She will be reading from her books and signing them. In addition, we will have a new reading dog, Terra, who will be visiting. Children may practice their reading skills with Terra. The storytime will take place on Saturday, July 30 from 11 am to 12:30 pm. RSVPs are appreciated. Cookies and lemonade provided.

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

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, August 14, 6:00 pm
Glens Falls Food Coop Committee Meeting The coop will be looking to add members to committees. 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.

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.

Now through Sunday, September 25
Harnessing the Hudson In 1903, the Spier Falls hydroelectric dam located on the Hudson River eight miles upstream from Glens Falls, began to produce electricity. Touted at the time as the largest dam of its type in the United States, the dam supplied electricity not only to surrounding communities but also to the large General Electric plant in Schenectady 50 miles away. The dam quickly became part of a network of power plants and transmission lines that supplied power for factories, transportation and lighting in the Capital region. The Chapman Historical Museum's summer exhibit explores the history of how people in the region have harnessed the renewable energy of the Hudson River. Featuring archival materials and artifacts from the museum’s collections and other regional archives, the exhibit tells the story of water power on the Hudson from early sawmills to the development of “the grid.” Hands-on activities provide greater understanding of the science and technologies involved. Public programs relating to the exhibit include talks about specific dam sites on the Hudson, the development of the electric grid, the social history of electricity in the early 20th century and river ecology, and Saturday afternoon hands-on programs for families.

Saturday, August 27, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Family Paddle Tour on the Hudson River In conjunction with its summer exhibit, Harnessing the Hudson, the Chapman Historical Museum is sponsoring a Family Paddle Tour on the Hudson River in collaboration with Moreau Lake State Park. Guided by a Moreau Lake State Park Naturalist, the program will explore the history and ecology of the Spier Falls hydroelectric dam built in 1903. Members of the public are invited to bring their own canoe or kayak; life-jackets are required. Moreau Lake State Park has a limited number of kayaks available to rent at $15. Food and water are recommended. Advance reservations are required to participate. Cost is $3/person. For additional information and reservations call Moreau Lake State Park at 793-0511.

Mow through Sunday, September 4
Seneca Ray Stoddard's Photos of New York Bay Famous for his views of the Adirondacks, Seneca Ray Stoddard also photographed the sites seen on New York City’s waterfront — boats on the river, docks, bathers and fisherman. He also photographed such major landmarks as the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty, the Battery and the Coney Island pier. In particular Stoddard was intrigued by the Statue of Liberty, the newly erected statue on an island in New York Harbor. He not only photographed it by day, but also captured it at night using flash powder to illuminate the enormous subject.

Lower Adirondack Arts Council
Now through Friday, August 12
Paper Works Paper Works features the work of four artists; Melinda McDaniel, Kara Renfro, Matt Rink, and Russell Serrianne. Exploring a variety of methods and materials to create sculpture, each artist has their own unique approach. Paper is the unifying link between each of the artists' works and in this exhibit acts as both a surface and structure. Paper Works highlights the diversity of sculpture and mixed media. An assortment of forms are represented; traditional, collaborative, digital, and site specific. What's so exciting about this exhibit is that it's the first time Lapham Gallery is featuring two artists that are making 'site specific' pieces.....meaning artwork that is completely created just for this exhibition space. It will be completely built and created in the gallery space, and only exist for the duration of this show! It will also feature the results of Experience Mapping: Glens Falls, a community participation project inspired by Matt Rink. As participants rode a bicycle around our beautiful city of Glens Falls, GPS data was recorded and compiled that will create the actual artwork. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday 10 am – 3 pm. For more information on the exhibit, or for directions to Lapham Gallery, call 798-1144, ax-2 or visit the website at www.larac.org.

Wednesday, August 3, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
LARAC Presents Wednesday Night Out at the Roundabout LARAC will be presenting Wednesday Nights Out, an original music series, which will be part of the Glens Falls Event, “Take a Bite!” Each Wednesday night from 5- 7 PM there will be a performance near Centennial Circle, the corner of Ridge and Glen St. The music will be local bands playing their own original music. Each week a local Not for Profit Organization will be featured as well; allowing the community to learn more about the organization’s mission, needs, and events. Also the Featured Organization will be fundraising for their cause by asking the community to give generously during the event.

Wednesday, August 10, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
LARAC Presents Wednesday Night Out at the Roundabout LARAC will be presenting Wednesday Nights Out, an original music series, which will be part of the Glens Falls Event, “Take a Bite!” Each Wednesday night from 5- 7 PM there will be a performance near Centennial Circle, the corner of Ridge and Glen St. The music will be local bands playing their own original music. Each week a local Not for Profit Organization will be featured as well; allowing the community to learn more about the organization’s mission, needs, and events. Also the Featured Organization will be fundraising for their cause by asking the community to give generously during the event.

Wednesday, August 17, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
LARAC Presents Wednesday Night Out at the Roundabout LARAC will be presenting Wednesday Nights Out, an original music series, which will be part of the Glens Falls Event, “Take a Bite!” Each Wednesday night from 5- 7 PM there will be a performance near Centennial Circle, the corner of Ridge and Glen St. The music will be local bands playing their own original music. Each week a local Not for Profit Organization will be featured as well; allowing the community to learn more about the organization’s mission, needs, and events. Also the Featured Organization will be fundraising for their cause by asking the community to give generously during the event.

Wednesday, August 24, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
LARAC Presents Wednesday Night Out at the Roundabout LARAC will be presenting Wednesday Nights Out, an original music series, which will be part of the Glens Falls Event, “Take a Bite!” Each Wednesday night from 5- 7 PM there will be a performance near Centennial Circle, the corner of Ridge and Glen St. The music will be local bands playing their own original music. Each week a local Not for Profit Organization will be featured as well; allowing the community to learn more about the organization’s mission, needs, and events. Also the Featured Organization will be fundraising for their cause by asking the community to give generously during the event.

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.

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.

Now through Sunday, September 4
First Annual Invitational Art Show Thirteen local artists will exhibit their paintings, prints and sculptures at Buttondown Gallery. An opening reception will be held Saturday July 9, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm. All are welcome, refreshments will be served.

Friday, August 5, 8:30pm
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

Saturday August 6, 10 am - 5 pm
Sunday August 7, 10 am - 5 pm
The Shirt Factory Summer Open House Come visit the artist studios, shops, and galleries in the historic Shirt Factory building, and visiting artists in the hallways. Shop for unique handcrafted items and original works of art created by local artisans. Some artists will be demonstrating their work, Debbie D Pottery is offering a free mini lesson, $10 for her to complete what you make.
On Sunday Sam Ling will have free kung fu lessons & lion dance demos inside the studio all day. Outside on the lawn, there will be plein aire painters, bounce houses and face painting for the kids! There will be a lion dance practice on the lawn from 10:30am -11:30am on Saturday.

Friday, August 12, 8:30pm
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, 8:30pm
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, 8:30pm
APE Presents Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory: Across the Universe (PG-13, 2 hr. 8 min.) Set against the anti-war protests, rock & roll revolution, and mind-expanding psychedelia of the 1960s, Julie Taymor's hallucinogenic musical follows the arduous journey of star-crossed lovers Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) as they and a small group of musicians are swept up in the raging waters of the volatile counterculture movement. Guided through their journey by a pair known only as Dr. Robert (Bono) and Mr. Kite (Eddie Izzard), Jude and Lucy are eventually forced to find their way back to one another after being split apart by powerful forces beyond their control. The music in the film consists exclusively of songs made popular by the Beatles during the time period depicted in the movie. ~ Jason Buchanan

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.

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 August 21, 2011
Made in Stone In partnership with The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center of West Rutland, Vt. The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center is located at the head of two hundred acres of former marble quarrying and manufacturing facilities. The post-industrial landscape was a key element in the founding of our organization over 20 years ago. Today, inactive quarries and former manufacturing facilities offer a fantastic landscape for the imagination. The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center has expanded programming to include exploration of most sculptural media.Opening Reception: July 21st. Closing Reception: August 18th

Glens Falls Public Exhibitions

Friday, August 5, 8:30pm
APE Presents Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert [1994,103m,R]

Friday, August 12, 8:30pm
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...
Third Thursday is a city-wide event that takes places at approximately 20 traditional and alternative gallery venues on the Third Thursday of the month from May through October (5-8pm). Experience the wealth of talent our area has to offer including visual artists, filmmakers, musicians, and more!

Friday, August 19, 8:30pm
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, 8:30pm
APE Presents Outdoor Cinema at The Shirt Factory: Across the Universe (PG-13, 2 hr. 8 min.) Set against the anti-war protests, rock & roll revolution, and mind-expanding psychedelia of the 1960s, Julie Taymor's hallucinogenic musical follows the arduous journey of star-crossed lovers Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) as they and a small group of musicians are swept up in the raging waters of the volatile counterculture movement. Guided through their journey by a pair known only as Dr. Robert (Bono) and Mr. Kite (Eddie Izzard), Jude and Lucy are eventually forced to find their way back to one another after being split apart by powerful forces beyond their control. The music in the film consists exclusively of songs made popular by the Beatles during the time period depicted in the movie. ~ Jason Buchanan

Thursday, September 15
Third Thursday Art Walk A city-wide event that takes places at approximately 20 traditional and alternative gallery venues on the Third Thursday of the month from May through October (5-8pm). Experience the wealth of talent our area has to offer including visual artists, filmmakers, musicians, and more!

Thursday, October 20
Third Thursday Art Walk A city-wide event that takes places at approximately 20 traditional and alternative gallery venues on the Third Thursday of the month from May through October (5-8pm). Experience the wealth of talent our area has to offer including visual artists, filmmakers, musicians, and more!

Around Town

Now through Saturday, August 27
Power of Music Art Show at Adirondack Audio and Video Adirondack Audio and Video will continue the run of the Power of Music art show through Saturday, August 27, 2011. The opening was an “unqualified success,” says ADKAV co-owner Jason Tavares, with more than 75 in attendance at the reception, including many of the artists – including one from New Hampshire and another from Arizona!
Images from the show are now posted on www.adkav.com and the ADKAV Facebook Page at www.facebook.com/AdirondackAudioVideo. Admission to the show is free. The juried show, organized with help by promotional company Advokate, features works by local artists Dolores Thomson, Kat Griffin, Jeff Anderson, Beverly Saunders, Jon Segan and others as well as artists from as far away as New York City, Las Vegas and Greece! From fine oil paintings to clay rattles to works made from pieces of musical instruments, there is something for everybody in this show.
The opening reception on July 9 also marked the grand opening of Adirondack Audio & Video's retail showroom, with a ribbon cutting by the Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce. Formerly known for their custom home installations, ADKAV's building at 1048 State Route 9 now features high-end audio and video equipment available for browsing and demonstrations with knowledgeable salespeople.

Monday, August 1, 3:30 pm - 4:30pm, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Monday, August 8, 3:30 pm - 4:30pm, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Monday, August 15, 3:30 pm - 4:30pm, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Monday, August 22, 3:30 pm - 4:30pm, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Monday, August 29, 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.

Tuesday, August 2, 8:00pm
Wednesday, August 3, 8:00pm
Friday, August 5, 8:00pm
Saturday, August 6, 8:00pm
Tuesday, August 9, 8:00pm
Wednesday, August 10, 8:00pm
Friday, August 12, 8:00pm
Saturday, August 13, 8:00pm
Tuesday, August 16, 8:00pm
Wednesday, August 17, 8:00pm
Friday, August 19, 8:00pm
Saturday, August 20, 8:00pm
The Last of the Mohicans Outdoor Drama An exciting outdoor historical theater adaptation of the classic James Fenimore Cooper novel, will premiere July 29th through August 20th at it’s new home, Wild West Ranch on Route 9 in Lake George. Previously in 2010, the production was performed in the courtyard of Fort William Henry in Lake George to sold out audiences every single night! Performed on the very ground where historical events transpired, The Last of the Mohicans blends historical fact and romantic fiction to create an exciting tale that has been popular for nearly 200 years. With it’s proven story, and including military skirmishes and Native American dance, flaming torches and roaring cannons, horses and period costumes, as well as professional actors, the production promises a magical evening of family entertainment. Seating begins ½ hour before the show, and tickets are available onsite at the box office, by calling 518-681-1574, or by logging onto www.lastofthemohicans.org.

Friday, September 9, 4:30pm - 7:30pm
Saturday, September 10
Sunday, September 11
SunKiss Balloon Festival Balloons will launch 20 hot air balloons from SUNY Adirondack Community College on Friday evening, then Saturday and Sunday launches will be at Kingswood Golf Course in Kingsbury.

Saturday, September 24, 10 am to 4 pm
13th annual Colors of Fall Arts and Crafts Festival Festival will be held outside at Crandall Park by the pond at 576 Glen Street, Glens Falls, New York.