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🎤✨ K-HOUSE Karaoke K-Pop-Up at Lot 10 Ithaca - Fridays AND Saturdays thru the Fall Semester! ✨🎤 You asked for more… so we’re giving you MORE! 🔥 The K-FAM will be KJ-ing every Friday AND Saturday night downstairs at Lot 10. 💜🎶 🎙️ Same crew. Same K-HOUSE magic. New downtown stage. 📍 106 S. Cayuga Street (Lot 10 – downstairs) ... Read More
Join us at Buffalo Street Books with author Kent Nerburn for a book club discussion of Neither Wolf Nor Dog! Book club titles are 10% off at BSB!
Join us for an immersive and hands-on workshop where a local attorney will walk you through the steps to create an LLC in real time. Workshop attendees can expect to file for their LLC during this workshop, and walk away with all of the information they will need to finish the formation process and maintain their LLC. Register at: https://forms.gle/tw6Nuzv8dJzaMCcR9
Jesse Collins Quartet plays live at Ithaca Beer Taproom this Thursday, Sep. 11, from 6-8pm. There is no cover charge for this event, and we are family and dog friendly. Join us every Thursday at The Taproom, located at 122 Ithaca Beer Drive, for live music and delicious food.
Drop in for figure drawing sessions at CSMA, generally held on the 2nd and 4th Friday evenings of each month. If you’re an intermediate or advanced-level artist interested in drawing from the nude model, come join our non-instructed, open sketch sessions. Just grab your own supplies and enjoy an evening of creativity in the company of other artists.
Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County Celebrates 2025 Hispanic Heritage Month with a Full Schedule of Community Events The Latino Civic Association (LCA) of Tompkins County is proud to announce its 2025 Hispanic Heritage Month celebration, featuring a series of engaging events throughout September, October, and November. Now more than ever, building community is essential, and the LCA is dedicated ... Read More
Join us at Buffalo Street Books for community discussions about climate change, seen through fiction and non-fiction books!
Join artists from the Greater Ithaca Arts Trail for an artist talk: Bethany Parisi, Vivinne Williams, Lauren Reid, Sarah Lopez, James Burlitch, and Barbara Behrmann. They dive into their work, what inspires them, and more about what being an Ithaca artist is about. Thanks to our sponsors, P.W. Wood & Son, INC, Bousquet Holsten PLLC, Cornell University, WSKG and Different ... Read More
Join us at Buffalo Street Books with author Christopher Gonzales to celebrate the release of Return of The Lost Son. The memoir is set primarily in the Ithaca of the 60's as the author explores his fathers past, and his own heritage.
Thursday, September 18, 5pm LOCATION: Rhodes-Rawling Auditorium, Klarman Hall KG70 The Fall 2025 Zalaznick Reading Series kicks off with a reading by Kevin Young Kevin Young is the poetry editor of The New Yorker, where he hosts the poetry podcast, and is widely regarded as one of the leading poets of his generation. He was the director of the Schomburg ... Read More
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