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Costumes on. Candy bags ready. Explore Downtown, one sweet stop at a time. Halloween in Downtown is all about trick-or-treating at participating businesses throughout Downtown Ithaca. Bring the family, visit different storefronts, and look for Halloween event signs in the windows. Use the interactive Halloween map to plan your walk and find candy stops!
Join Sofya Aptekar and Shannon Gleeson for a conversation on Beyond Dreamers: Transitions to Adulthood in an Uncertain Age. Beyond Dreamers deftly underscores how deeply legal uncertainty continues to structure the lives of undocumented young adults. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with a racially and ethnically diverse group of undocumented college students in New York City, with and ... Read More
HALLOWEEN EVE! It's going down at Personal Best Brewing with DJ ha-MEEN and DJ Juno. Doors open at 9 PM. Entry is $5 until 10 PM. $10 after. 21 and up only. Costumes are not required... but c'mon, it's Halloween!
Join Sri Lankan human rights activist, poet, fiction writer, memoirist, and journalist Sonali Samarasinghe and First Amendment specialist and civil rights attorney Heather E. Murray for the third part of IMAGINE!, a series of dialogues on the power of imagination as a public good. Jason Freitag, professor of South Asian History at Ithaca College and chair of the Advisory Board ... Read More
IMAGINE! Sonali Samarasinghe & Heather E. Murray in Conversation Saturday, October 31, 1:30 to 3 PM Buffalo Street Books Dewitt Mall, 215 N. Cayuga Street, Ithaca FREE ADMISSION Join Sri Lankan human rights activist, poet, fiction writer, memoirist, and journalist Sonali Samarasinghe and First Amendment specialist and civil rights attorney Heather E. Murray on the power of imagination as a ... Read More
The Dead Letters Mailbox has been moved to Buffalo Street Books! The dead letters collected while the box was located at 415 N. Tioga street have been burned and the process has been made into a short film by Elizabeth Seldin. This film will be shown at the BSB reading room on Samhain. Afterwards we will share cookies and tea ... Read More
The Ithaca Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. invites you for a discussion of Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi! A young adult novel about a kingdom where magic was brutally erased. A young woman named Zélie, gets one dangerous chance to strike back and restore her people's stolen powers. To succeed, she must outrun a ... Read More
Theatre Incognita invites you to keep the Halloween / Day of the Dead spirit going with our staged reading of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Your ticket will go to support the great work of Kitchen Theatre Company. Featuring Judith Andrew, Dave Dietrich, Eric Michael Hambury, Dan Kiely, Kristin Sad, Elizabeth Seldin, Karen Veaner, Gary Weissbrot & Scott Whitham.
Hot People Read Book Club's mission is to uplift Black, Indigenous, Latine, queer, AANHPI, disabled, and neurodivergent authors. Everyone is welcome! Join us to discuss Blood Debts by author Terry J. Benton-Walker ˚˖❀ Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and New Orleans saw the greatest magical massacre in its history. In the days that ... Read More
Join Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America Book Club to discuss End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World by Naomi Klein! Come discuss, share your thoughts and create community!
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