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Welcome in the New Year at two beautiful venues connected by an outdoor patio with fire pits. Dance to amazing live music in the former Ithaca mayor's house and Duncan Hines world headquarters! Nosh on some of our complimentary hors d'oeuvres and desserts, relax on one of our 19' velvet couches, cook s'mores around the fire pits, order award-winning cocktails ... Read More
The January Gallery Night in the Tasting Room will feature local artist Katrina Clark. Meet Katrina and check out her artwork, enjoy a complimentary sample of cider and a small bite.
First Friday Ithaca Gallery Night on Friday, January 5th from 5-8pm. Several artists and galleries to visit around the downtown Ithaca area and Commons. Each of the participating galleries and venues feature different art exhibits- for detailed listing please go to at www.Ithacagallerynight.com.
WHERE: Joe Mareane Conference Room (Second Floor), Located inside the Tompkins Center for History & Culture, 110 N Tioga St, Ithaca NY 14850 HistoryForge Transcription sessions happen every other Saturday from 11am-1pm. They happen in-person at the Tompkins Center for History & Culture on the Ithaca Commons usually in the Second Floor Conference Room. Be sure you're on the email ... Read More
Writers! Is your forward motion stalled? Novel in the closet? Poems under the bed? Memoir in your mind? Despair in your creative heart? Bring your questions and issues to this open session with writer, editor, and literary agency veteran Leslie Daniels. Get answers and solutions. Leave with momentum and maybe a surprising next step. This event is co-hosted by Story ... Read More
Join Kate Manne and Adrienne Bitar as they discuss Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia. For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was born. She’s been bullied and belittled for ... Read More
Join Deedi Brown at Buffalo Street Books for conversation about R.F. Kuang's Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Book club books are 10% off. About the ... Read More
Carol Van Den Hende, award-winning author of the Goodbye, Orchid series, will be at Buffalo Street Books signing copies of her trilogy. Come meet Carol, ask questions about her work, and get your books signed! Copies of the Goodbye, Orchid series are available to order at Buffalo Street Books.
About the Event Jenn M. Jackson--abolitionist, organizer, writer, and professor--will be at Buffalo Street Books with local leaders Shacoya Kidwell and Dr. Nia Nunn to discuss their new book, Black Women Taught Us. About the Author Jenn M. Jackson (they/them) is a genderflux androgynous Black woman, a lesbian, an abolitionist, a lover of all Black people, and an Assistant Professor ... Read More
New Roots invites you to join us for a Celebration of Learning, where students of all grade levels are excited to share their work from the Fall semester with you. Additionally, our immersive art class has constructed a tree in the Elevate Gallery. Many students are also displaying their photography and artwork from our photography studio art classes. Please join ... Read More
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