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Interested in performing at a downtown event? Artist selection is determined by a jury process. If you have been booked in the past, you will still need to submit a sound bite or link to your website along with your application. Music submitted must directly reflect the performance and style you would perform.

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Event Equipment Rental Requests or Event Technical Assistance

Are you planning an event yourself and looking for local resources from speaking with expert event planners in Ithaca to borrowing equipment from the Tompkins Festivals Equipment lending program? Downtown Ithaca can help advise and program support to help make your event a success. Click on the link to submit your request.

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Have an event coming up that you want featured on our site? Simply click the button below and follow the steps for submitting. Once you have submitted your event, it will then be listed on our calendar below (pending review).

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Downtown Ithaca Events Calendar

Turning Back to Ourselves: A Women’s Guide to Healing Self-Abandonment and Loving Who We Are

Buffalo Street Books 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca

Join Ithaca local Dalya Tamir for the launch of her new book. About the Book: Turning Back to Ourselves explores the pain of self-abandonment, the mind states of self-judgment, self-doubt, and even self-hatred that women too often find themselves experiencing. Drawing on Buddhist practices of mindfulness, compassion, and lovingkindness, and on her experience as a psychotherapist, Dalya Tamir offers a ... Read More

Drag Story Hour

Buffalo Street Books 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca

Parents and kiddos, our queens are back for Drag Story Hour! Sit in our beautiful butterfly room and enjoy a reading from two of Ithaca's very best storytellers.

Green Card Soldier with Sofya Aptekar

Buffalo Street Books 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca

Sofya Aptekar is joining us at BSB to read from her memoir Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat About the Book: While the popular image of the US military is one of citizen soldiers protecting their country, the reality is that nearly 5 percent of all first-time military recruits are noncitizens. Their reasons for enlisting are myriad, ... Read More

Ryan Petereson Trio – Jazz Jam Session

Liquid State Brewery 620 W. Green St., Ithaca

Ryan's trio will play a couple tunes to warm up the stage and then open the stage to members of the local jazz community. Each person who signs up will get approximately 2 tunes with the band before rotating. Bring your instrument and join in with this great band with Ryan Peterson on guitar, August Bish on upright bass, and ... Read More

$5

Movie Night! O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Liquid State Brewery 620 W. Green St., Ithaca

Come enjoy the hit film written and directed by the Coen brothers, O Brother, Where Art Thou. Order drinks and food right to your table. Space is limited so get your tickets today!

$5

Broken Words with Keyturah Moore

Buffalo Street Books 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca

Keyturah Moore will hold a reading and discussion from her chapbook "Broken Words" at Buffalo Street Books. This will be a time to sit down and discuss with the author the story behind "Broken words" and how she used her journey of dealing with depression to find a creative outlet to cope.

Book Tour: Palestine, Israel, and the U.S. Empire

Buffalo Street Books 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca

A sharp analysis of the struggle for Palestine gets an update following the events of October 7, 2023. Palestine, Israel, and U.S. Empire is an essential book for the current moment. Taking a firm anti-Zionist perspective on the history of Palestine and Israel, it traces the movements of resistance from British colonialism to the fight back in Gaza and the ... Read More

Board Game Night

Buffalo Street Books 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca

Bring your friends down to BSB for board game night! We have a wide selection of games we sell in store from Catan to Concept. Here's your chance to test out our games and browse our selection after hours! Leave your donations here!

Reading: Grace Period with Elisabeth Nonas

Buffalo Street Books 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca

Join Elisabeth Nonas for a reading from her new novel Grace Period. About the Book: Just as 70-year-old writing professor Hannah Greene walks into her retirement party, she's called to the ER because Grace, her wife of 25 years, has been in what turns out to be a fatal car accident. This was definitely not part of the plan the ... Read More

Makers Market @ Liquid State Brewing Company

Liquid State Brewery 620 W. Green St., Ithaca

Get ready for an epic day of local talent and good vibes at Liquid State Brewing! Join us on Sunday, April 21st, from 2-6pm for a Makers Market presented by @orozcogalleryithaca. Swing by 620 W Green St to peruse unique finds from 10 amazing local vendors while grooving to the beats of DJ Fox West. And of course, indulge in ... Read More

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