Things to Do in Glens Falls in September

Crandall Public Library

Fall Film Series

Tuesday, Oct. 4, 6:30 p.m.
Jews & Baseball: An American Love Story (USA, 2010, 91 min., color/b&w, 35mm) Dustin Hoffman narrates Peter Miller’s loving documentary about the special Jewish passion for the great American pastime. With interviews and archival footage, Miller’s film chronicles every era of the sport—baseball was played and enjoyed by Jews eger to assimilate into American society at large as early as the 1860s. Players like Hank Greenberg are featured, but his real star is Sandy Koufax, who gives a rare interview for the documentary. "Confronted with nine Jews, most people would probably guess ‘Supreme Court’ rather than ‘ball club,’ but that's precisely the kind of bias that Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story successfully sends to the showers…strikes out a stadium-load of assumptions." – Stephen Holden, NY Times, 05/14/10

Tuesday, Oct. 11, 6:30 p.m.
The Company Men (USA, 2010, 113 min., color, 35mm) John Wells takes an inside look at the state of American employment. With an all-star cast including Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper, Maria Bello, and Kevin Costner, it’s unlike many recent films on the current recession. It centers on highly paid managers who are recently laid off from the same downsizing company. Suddenly jobless, without prospects
to market their considerable skills in a stagnant economy, each man has to confront a bleak future without giving into despair. The newly unemployed take advantage of company job hunting skills classes and go home each night to their families who are as bewildered by the changes as they are.
“…offers no great elation or despair. Its world is what it is… In good times, young people go to the movies and dream of becoming Gordon Gekko. In bad times, a house builder looks more like a Master of the Universe." – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times, 1/19/2011

Tuesday, Oct. 18, 6:30 p.m.
Submarine (UK, 2010, 97 min., color, 35mm) Richard Ayoade’s first film is a quirky, self-aware coming of age story set in the not-toodistant past. Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), a high school student, seems at times to be writing his own film—athough he clearly cannot control everything: his own blossoming relationship with a girl from school remains awkward and his mother (Sally Hawkins) is becoming romantically involved with an insipid new-age neighbor. Oliver spends much of his time at the local cinema watching old films and cultivating his eccentricities, but however peculiar a boy he may be, his problems are familiar to anyone who can recall adolescence. "… Mr. Ayoade’s keen visual wit and clever, knowing touches keep it surprising and nimble, especially in the quick, lurching early scenes, which are startlingly funny. At moments he approaches the mordant, heady sense of the sorrows and freedoms of youth captured by François Truffaut in The 400 Blows, a movie that, come to think of it, Oliver has no doubt already seen." – A.O. Scott, The New York Times, 6/2/2011

Tuesday, Oct. 25, 6:30 p.m.
Being Elmo (USA, 2011, 76 min., color, Blu-Ray) Constance Marks won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance for her look at the puppeteer behind the famed furry red Muppet Elmo. Kevin Clash, who animates and voices Elmo, grew up determined to be a puppeteer—an unusual ambition that he approached with rare determination in spite of his soft-spoken demeanor. Clash’s tremendous success is a testament to his years of hard work and the documentary is in some respects a Horatio Alger-like tale of a boy who is driven to succeed at what he loves. It’s appropriate that his signature Muppet is famed for his positive outlook on life. With appearances by Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnell, Frank Oz, and others. “Much of Being Elmo is a ‘local boy makes good’ story…Their subject is an open, friendly person who never seems to be holding back….He's humble and self-deprecating but takes pride in his accomplishments.” – Jay Seaver, efilmcritic.com, 5/2/10

Tuesday, Nov. 1, 6:30 p.m.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (USA/France, 2010, 90 min., color, 35mm) Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man) was allowed unprecedented access to film within France’s Chauvet Cave, site of the world’s oldest known cave paintings. Discovered in the 1990s, the cave was sealed immediately to
prevent damage to the paintings, the oldest of which are some 32,000 years old. The cave remains almost exactly as it was when the paintings were new: its floors still bear the footprints of Paleolithic visitors. Herzog’s
team is limited to three other men who must take extreme precautions and work under tremendous constraints of lighting, equipment, time, and space to photograph flickering images of mammoths, horses, cave bears, and giant cats. The effect is magical. “Transcendent, provocative and deeply humbling, Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a wonderful film, in the most literal sense of that word. It inspires not just delight and awe, but profound gratitude.” – Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post, 5/6/2011

Tuesday, Nov. 8, 6:30 p.m.
Win Win (USA, 2010, 106 min., color, 35mm) Thomas McCarthy (The Station Agent and The Visitor) casts Paul Giamatti as a gloomy lawyer and off hours wrestling coach in an offbeat comedy/drama about a down and out man who thinks his luck might be about to change. Business is slow at Mike Flaherty’s NJ law firm. Plus the boiler in his office needs a major repair, a dead tree is menacing his house, and the high school wrestling team he coaches is on a losing streak. Things begin to look up, however, when he works up a scheme to become the legal guardian to an elderly client in order to collect a healthy monthly stipend from the man’s estate. He puts the client in a nursing home but it is not long before a relative—a runaway teenaged grandson—appears on the scene to change everything. “Mr. McCarthy—who is a first-rate character actor specializing in second-rate characters—has a deep and nuanced understanding of the rules of comedy, which is at once the most rigorous and the most elastic of narrative genres. He also possesses a sharp wit and a generous spirit, mocking his characters without meanness and lampooning their social circumstances without condescension.” – A.O. Scott, NY Times, 3/17/2011

Tuesday, Nov. 15, 6:30 p.m.
Meek's Cutoff (USA, 2010, 104 min., color, Kelly Reichardt (Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy) brings us the true story of a group of three pre-Civil War pioneer families as they move Westward. They begin to question their increasingly unreliable guide. As it becomes clear that Stephen Meek is as lost as they are, and that the entire party faces the grim prospect of starvation, they are surprised to stumble across a lone American Indian in the deserted territory. With the group often on the edge of survival in a hostile landscape, who they chose to rely on will determine their future. With Paul Dano, Shirley Henderson, and Zoe Kazan. “Meek’s Cutoff is as unsentimental and determined as Ms. Williams’s character, its absolutely believable heroine. It is also a bracingly original foray into territory that remains, in every sense, unsettled.” –
A.O. Scott, NY Times, 9/25/09

Tuesday, Nov. 22, 6:30 p.m.
In a Better World (Denmark, 2010, 119 min., color, 35mm) Suzanne Bier’s film won the 2011 Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film. Two intersecting storylines, one in Africa and one in Denmark, examine the place violence holds in the lives of both the moral and immoral. Anton, a Swedish doctor who works in an unnamed African nation gripped by ethnic conflict, faces the dilemma of whether or not to provide treatment to an injured warlord. In Denmark, his son is taunted by bullies for being an outsider, but is protected by a new friend who thinks swiftly but acts
brutally. The poignant performances and powerful storylines create a film both beautiful and disturbing. “The performances are impeccable...” – A.O. Scott, NY Times, 3/31/2011

Tuesday, Nov. 29, 6:30 p.m.
The Tree of Life (USA, 2011, 138 min., color, 35mm)Terrence Malick (Days of Heaven) won the 2011 Palme d’Or at Cannes. Impressionistic and cinematically beautiful, it conveys the entire span of human existence. Sean Penn stars as the middle-aged Jack O’Brien. Much of the action takes place during his childhood in 1950s Texas, where his mother and father (Brad Pitt) are like light and dark personified. Tragedy befalls the family, but we find the adult Jack, alone in the modern world, still grappling with the same unresolved issues of his childhood. Malick has successfully created something we have never seen before. ”This movie stands stubbornly alone…it’s defiant peculiarity it shows a clear kinship
with other eccentric, permanent works of the American imagination…of homegrown romantics like Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Hart Crane and James Agee.” – A.O. Scott, NY Times, 3/31/2011

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African American Film Forum Tuesdays in February at 6:30 p.m. Co-sponsored by the Glens Falls Chapter of the NAACP. Films TBA.

Happenings

October 6, 2011, 7 p.m.
Community Garden Forum - Preparing Your Garden for Winter Bert Weber Community Garden Coordinator for Cornell Cooperative Extension will be holding a community garden forum. Topics will include the past growing season, preparing the garden for winter and planning your garden for next year. Discussion will also focus on area community vegetable gardens and great opportunities to learn more about community gardening in your region. The meeting is free and open to the public. For more information contact Bert Weber at 518-668-4881.

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

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.

Rock Hill Bakehouse

Every Saturday & Sunday Noon to 2 pm Live Acoustic Renaissance

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

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

Matt's blog at the Times Union.

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

Now through 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.

Saturday, October 15, 8 am to 2 pm
Chapman Tag Sale Great deals to be found on Glen Street -- linens, flatware, china, furniture, paintings, framed prints and other household furnishings. Same day as the Greater Glens Falls Senior Center’s Fall Fair.

October 20, 5 to 8 pm
Elevating the Everyday Exhibit Opening From carvings to quilts, doll houses to doorknobs and everything in between, Elevating the Everyday takes a fresh look at commonplace items from the mid 19th century to the early part of the 20th century, particularly how they were embellished upon by human hand or by machine.

Saturday, October 22, 1 to 3 pm
Family Program -- Halloween Activities Participants will enjoy the reading of a classic scary story in the DeLong House library, and then create Holloween decorations to take home. Cost $3/child

November 18, 5:30 – 8 pm
Wine & Chocolate Tasting At the Queensbury Hotel. Featuring wines of all varieties from around the world with decadent chocolates and artisan cheeses. Cost: $30 in advance/$35 at the door. “A Finer Experience” – try great wines presented by a wine expert, starting at 5 pm. Cost: $75 per person (Includes the main event). For tickets call (518) 793-2826 or go to www.chapmanmuseum.org.

Saturday, November 19, 1 to 3 pm
Family Program -- Traditional Holiday Crafts Participants will make hand dipped candles and other items to take home as gifts for family members or friends. Cost: $3/ child.

Lower Adirondack Arts Council

Friday, October 7, 4:45 pm - 7 pm
Friday, October 7 – Friday, November 4
Input/Output Opening reception features local musical artist, James Hood. A Gallery Talk begins at 4:45 pm with two of the presenting artists. This exciting exhibit explores the works of three artists: John Hampshire, Michael Marks and Peter Russom. Each artist utilizes a particular source, or ‘input’, that inspires their work, using paint or drawing materials to interpret their findings. The result is an exhibit that shows the ‘output’ of their efforts, and creates a dynamic exchange between the source, the artist, the materials and the viewer.

Saturday, November 5
Sunday, November 6
LARAC’s 29th Annual Fall Arts and Craft Festival Taking place for the third year at the Adirondack Sports Complex on Upper Sherman Avenue, the juried festival is accepting applications from fine and handcrafted artists in all categories: pottery, metalwork, woodwork, oil and watercolor painting, fiber art, photography, soaps, stained glass, and much more.

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

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, October 8,
Gallery Openings and Potter Tour The Shirt Factory Arts and Healing Center plays host to five simultaneous must-do events:

FLUX Silver Gallery (Suite 113) opens in its new first floor location with a special “Precious Metal Clay” show featuring work in precious metal clay by Nancy Miller, Winnie Chai and guest artist Heidi Price. The exhibit opening is from 4 to 8 p.m. and refreshments will be served. Info: 832-9881 or www.fluxsilver.com.

BJSArtworks (Suite 212) owned by Beverly Saunders and located on the second floor opens its fourth annual “Break the Chains Domestic Violence Art Exhibit and Fundraiser, with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. with live acoustic music by Pam Barker. The show is accompanied by a raffle of original artwork aiming to raise $1,000 to donate to Catholic Charities' Domestic Violence Project. Featured artists in the show include Pam Barker, miChelle Vara, Jane Bouchard, Pam Barker, Fred Holman, Connie Dodge and others. The gallery is also accepting monetary donations for Catholic Charities. The show continues through Monday, October 31. Info: 792-9350 or www.bjsartworks.com.

The Jeffrey Anderson Gallery (Suite 310) opens its new show Cavalo: Portuguese Horse Culture with a reception from 4 to 8 p.m. The show features images by award-winning American photographer Jeffrey Anderson as he takes you on a journey through the Iberian countryside. Breeding farms, bullfighting training grounds, a winery and, of course, the endless coastline, all provide backdrops for the stunning Lusitano, the rare and exotic Sorraia and the rest of the equine family of the Iberian Peninsula. Meet the horses and people of Portugal through the eye of Jeff's personal filter he likes to call “Portraiture in Motion.” The show runs through Saturday, November 9. Info: 625-0983 or www.jeffreyandersonphoto.com.

North Country Pottery Tour includes five Shirt Factory ceramicists: Bill McCarthy of EastSide Pottery in Suite 103, Debbie Davidson of Pottery By Debbie D in Suite 309, Sarah Bates of Tactile Ceramic Art in Suite 311, Dolores Thomson of Clay Concepts featuring guest artist Bruce Hoffman in Suite 312, Patrick Girard of Girard Stoneware featuring guest artist Randi Kish in Suite 313. The tour takes place on Saturday, October 8, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, October 9, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and also includes the studios of Wayne Smith, Lisa Brzozowski, Chris Walton and her students and David J. Coleman as well as a special show at Buttondown Gallery in the Shirt Factory (details below). Info: www.northcountrypotterytour.com.

Buttondown Gallery (Suite 110) hosts a show called Clay opening from 4 to 7 p.m. featuring an all-clay show including works by fine ceramicists Regis Brodie, Jill Fishon-Kovachick, JoAnn Axford, Audrie Sturman and others. It's part of the North Country Pottery Tour (details above).

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.

Saturday, October 22, 7pm - 10pm
APE's Annual Fundraiser: The Rat Pack Show Live music, dancing, silent auction, cigar bar, photo booth, and more. The funds raised at this event will be used to help fund APE’s public arts programs including Third Thursday Glens Falls Art Walk, Chalk Fest, Outdoor Cinema, Gallery 99, Art Cart, & Vantage Gallery!
-COCKTAIL HOUR & SILENT AUCTION (7-8pm)
-OLD TIME PHOTO PORTRAITS by Potographer Zack Zoll (7-8pm)
-CLASSIC CAR SHOW & OUTDOOR CIGAR BAR hosted by Cup O’ Joes (7-10pm)
-RAT PACK TRIBUTE SHOW -- Brian D. & The Georgie Wonders Orchestra (8-10pm) revive the sound of the coolest cats in town from the 50’s and 60’s – Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford. Please stop in at Samantha's Cafe or Vantage Gallery in downtown Glens Falls to get your tickets.

Vantage Gallery
APE's gallery shop includes original artwork from a small group of artists including Jamie Perian (glass objects), Serena Kovalosky (ceramic sculptures), Laura Von Rosk (paintings), Helga Grobel (paper sculptures), Jeffrey Anderson (photography), and more.

Glens Falls Public Exhibitions

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

Monday, October 3, 3:30 pm - 4:30pm, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Tai Chi at Glens Falls Hospital This is a free Tai Chi group that meets Mondays in the community rooms at Glens Falls Hospital. Facillitator: Neil Carter.

Thursday, November 3, 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Haitian Art Show At Aimie's Dinner & a Movie. This art show features authentic Haitian art and benefits the relief work of Tim and Catherine Rogers as well as real Haitian people. Tim and Catherine work for the Mission Aviation Fellowship and the artwork, which includes paintings, drawings, jewelry, purses and other accessories, and wooden bowls and other kitchen items has been acquired with help from the Apparent Project. (http://apparentproject.org/) Light refreshments will be served and live cello music featuring concert cellist Esther Rogers of Rochester, NY. Event is free, all art is for sale and will be on display the entire month of November during Aimie's open hours.

Friday, November 4, 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Haiti Party Music Festival At Park Street Theater. This is a collaborative art event, featuring seven different bands and or DJ's for $7 at the door. Proceeds benefit the relief work of Tim and Catherine Rogers of M.A.F. Performances by BIRTHDAYS (of Boston), Matthew Carefully, Rawhead, DJ Midas, Colorful Tones, William Hale, and the Black Ships (Saratoga). This is an all ages show and there will be a dazzling visual arts stream celebrating Haitian culture on the theatre screen during the music performances, put together by John-Paul Sliva. Many more surprises in store day of.

Saturday, November 5, 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Haiti Benefit Dinner At Christ Church United Methodist on Bay Street. Free authentic Haitian food. Meet missionaries Tim and Catherine Rogers. Music by concert cellist Esther Rogers, Ray Agnew and Gisella Montanez-Case. Free and open to the public.