Denice Peter Karamardian - ODAR Trilogy Reading
2025-02-16 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca
Join BSB for a reading and conversation with local author, Denice Peter Karamardian on her compelling three part series!
About the Books: ODAR (meaning “other” in Armenian) is a three part trilogy that “offers a searing portrait of the immigrant experience, examines the sense of belonging, identity, and heritage that is inherent in every human being…is a thought-provoking work with sharp insights that historical fiction fans will love.” says Lily Andrews for Reader Views. Based on the true story of a local family’s journey to and life in Ithaca, New York that spans decades and generations.
About the Author: Denice Peter Karamardian owns and operates a regional publication called Finger Lakes Libations for visitors and is at work on several more books. She is retired from a rich tapestry of overlapping careers spanning forty plus years that included instructing voice, the host/producer of a radio concert broadcast series (called Crossing Borders Live), fifty years of music and theater performance, and freelance columnist and reviewer. She also operated a bed and breakfast for two decades and still lives here, in her hometown of Ithaca, New York.

Red Ear Marketing Open Hours @ BSB
2025-02-18 15:00 - 17:00 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca
Come speak with Lincoln Weinstock of Red Ear Marketing – Tuesdays at 3 PM at Buffalo Street Books.

Game Night at BSB!
2025-02-19 17:00 - 19:00 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca
Join us for our February game night! Escape the cold, warm up with us, and test out some of the games we sell in store. Let us know if you’re coming and register here 🙂

Let's Read & Discuss Climate @ BSB
2025-02-20 15:00 - 17:00 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca
Talk with others in our community about climate change, seen through contemporary fiction and non-fiction books.
About the Books:
The Water Knife, a futuristic thriller by Paolo Bacigalupi about criminality in water distribution in a hot and dry Southwest meets A Thirsty Land by Seamus Mc- Graw, a true account of conflicts over water rights in Texas that pit communities against each other.
In Water Wars, Shiva uses her remarkable knowledge of science and society to outline the emergence of corporate culture and the historical erosion of communal water rights. Using the international water trade and industrial activities such as damming, mining, and aquafarming as her lens, Shiva exposes the destruction of the earth and the disenfranchisement of the world’s poor as they are stripped of rights to a precious common good.

Images, Intuition and Insight: A weekend of SoulCollage® and Depth Journaling
2025-02-22 10:00 - 16:00 | Community Corners, 409 E Upland Road, Suite 203B, Ithaca, 14850
A weekend of creativity, soulful connection and tapping into the deeper layers of your psyche.
You’ll leave with your own personal and symbolic deck of SoulCollage® cards – completely unique to you. Using techniques of Jungian/Depth Psychology, Internal Family Systems, journaling, and art making we give voice to the different parts within us. By delineating these parts we see better our motivations and hesitations. This is a great way to rein in the parts that hold us back and empower the strength within us.

Micro Producers in the Finger Lakes: Need to Know Hidden Gems of the Region
2025-02-22 15:00 - 17:00
Join certified sommelier Laura Winter Falk as she introduces three Finger Lakes micro-wineries. Learn the stories behind these ultra-craft winemakers who are making stunning small-batch wines.
Discover:
Little Clover Wines by Erin McMurrough, Entelencheia Wine Cellars by Matt Denci, and Vagabond Wine by Alexandra Bond.
Laura will share two wines from each producer. While quantities of these wines are limited, their flavor intensity is abundant!
Wines will be paired with select Finger Lakes cheeses to showcase their food pairing magic.

Soap Making Class
2025-02-23 14:00 - 16:00 | 15 STEPS, 171 E. State Street, Ithaca, NY, 14850
In this class students will explore the cold process soap making technique incorporating a blend of oils, lye, fragrance, and other natural seasonal ingredients. All materials are provided for the class. Students will select the fragrance, color and add-ins of their choice and mix their own batch of soap. Each student will take home a wood and silicone soap mold filled with their own soap (approximately 10 bars) to be sliced, wrapped, and cured at home.
NOTE: Students will be working with powdered lye during the soap making process. Respirators will be provided.

So You Want To Write A...
2025-02-23 14:00 - 16:00 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca
Join Buffalo Street Books for a writing workshop with incredible local author, Elisabeth Nonas!
No matter where you are with your project—whether it’s a novel, short story, screenplay, or poetry collection—this practical workshop will help you map the path to completion of the ideas that keep you up at night.
We will discuss craft, theme, process, deadlines, then complete exercises designed to help you determine next steps toward your writing goals.
General registration is $35, workbook included.
Teachers – registration is $25 for Ithaca Loves Teachers week.

D&D 101: Ithaca Loves Teachers (Lesson, Q&A, and Play Session)
2025-02-23 14:00 - 17:00 | Riverwood, 116 E State St, ITHACA, N, 14850, United States
Calling all teachers and support staff to come join us on an adventure! 📣✨ Riverwood is hosting a lecture and Q&A session on all things Dungeons & Dragons for teachers! This event is free, but spots are limited. In addition, you will have the option to play a quick “one-shot” session of Dungeons & Dragons (Only 5 player slots)! Sign up for one or the other or both!
This awesome event will take place at Riverwood (116 E State St in the Ithaca Commons, right across from Autumn Leaves).

Benjamin Garcia & Matthew Morris – A Reading and Conversation
2025-02-28 16:30 - 19:00 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca
Buffalo Street Books is excited to host Benjamin Garcia and Matthew Morris for a reading from their books Thrown in the Throat and The Tilling.
About the Books:
With language that arrives equal parts regal and raucous, Thrown in the Throat shines brilliant with sweat and an iridescent voice. “Sometimes even a diamond was once alive” writes Garcia in a collection that National Poetry Series judge Kazim Ali says “has deadly superpowers.” And indeed these poems arrive to our hands through touch-me-nots and the slight cruelty of mothers, through closets both real and metaphorical. These are poems complex, unabashed, and needed as survival. Garcia’s debut is nothing less than exactly the ode our history and present and our future call for: brash and unmistakably alive.
“The tragic mulatto,” wrote the African American poet Sterling Allen Brown in a 1933 meditation on stereotype, “is a victim of a divided inheritance”: pulled this way and that, belonging nowhere. In 10 lyric essays shifting keys from Virginia, where he grew up, to Tucson, his first home as a young man, Matthew Morris sounds the depths of that embodied cliché: its fracturing simplifications, its (partial, mixed) truths. The light-skinned son of an African American father and a white mother, he asks after the skin-housed present by way of the rooted past, considering his late grandmother, a painter whose grandparents left Due West, South Carolina for Evanston, Illinois in the decades before her birth; the twice-made film Imitation of Life, which in its first iteration starred the light-skinned actor Fredi Washington; and the quiet gradations of color in an untitled Rothko print. Ever-searching, The Tilling is an excavation of identity and a reflection on the beginnings of life and love—a (sometimes soft, others chippy) biracial coming of age. The Tilling was chosen for the Seneca Review Books’ 2024 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize.
About the Authors:
Benjamin Garcia’s first collection of poems, Thrown in the Throat, was selected for the 2019 National Poetry Series by Kazim Ali. He is a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow, was the 2017 Latinx Scholar at the Frost Place, and was a 2018 CantoMundo Fellow at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets 2018, Crazyhorse, Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, and New England Review. Garcia received his MFA from Cornell University and currently works as a sexual health and harm reduction educator in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
Son of an African American father and a white mother, Matthew Morris writes through questions of race, identity, family history, and love. His nonfiction has been published in Seneca Review, Fourth Genre via the Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize, and Mid-American Review through the AWP Intro Journals Project, and he has received a scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. His essay “Tidal Wave,” published in apt, was cited as “notable” in Best American Essays 2020. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona MFA program and is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of Missouri –Columbia.

27th Annual Downtown Ithaca Chili Cook-Off
2025-03-01 12:00 - 16:00 | Downtown Ithaca, United States
Warm up your winter with the 27th Annual Downtown Ithaca Chili Cook-Off, a signature event in the heart of the Commons! Join us for a day filled with delicious chili creations, live entertainment, and community fun as chefs and restaurants from across the region compete for top honors.
Taste your way through a diverse selection of chili offerings, including savory meat options, bold vegan and vegetarian recipes, and unique chili-inspired dishes. Sample beverages from local craft breweries, cideries, and wineries that perfectly complement the flavors of the day. With options for every palate, this family-friendly event promises a fun and tasty experience for everyone.
Chefs will compete in several categories, including Best Meat Chili, Best Vegetarian/Vegan Chili, Best Chili-Inspired Dish, and the highly coveted People’s Choice Award, where you get to vote for your favorite creation! Entertainment will be provided throughout the event, featuring live music and performances that capture the energy and excitement of Ithaca’s winter season.
The Chili Cook-Off is a perfect way to celebrate the community, support local businesses, and enjoy the best comfort food Ithaca has to offer. Bring your friends, family, and appetite to this one-of-a-kind festival!

2nd Year of the Ithaca Experimental Film Festival
2025-03-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Cinemapolis, 120 W Green St, Ithaca, 14850
The Ithaca Experimental Film Festival (ITHEX) provides a platform for bold, unconventional films. From documentaries and animation to non-traditional narratives, we showcase work that pushes creative boundaries. Our mission is to create a space where filmmakers can screen their films, share ideas, and connect with a community that values diversity, experimentation, and DIY filmmaking.
Ithaca Experimental Film Festival presents, Short Block #1 In the Dark Corner of a Dream [80 minutes] Saturday, March 1st: 2pm – 4pm.
In the Dark Corner of a Dream — Lineup:
de julho — craig scheihing
Fainter Echoes — Brady Lewis
Echoes of Glass — Ezra Aydin, Robin Joyce, Anthony Zayneh
Incantation — Kalpana Subramanian
Another Sinking Sun — Tyler Rubenfield
Cricket Feet — Jake Nicastro
Vigile — Pierre Lefrançois Vérove
Small Vessels — Matt Feldman
Firestarter — Jacob Mark Shpall
Welcome to the Enclave — Sarah Lasley

2nd Year of the Ithaca Experimental Film Festival
2025-03-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Cinemapolis, 120 W Green St, Ithaca, 14850
The Ithaca Experimental Film Festival (ITHEX) provides a platform for bold, unconventional films. From documentaries and animation to non-traditional narratives, we showcase work that pushes creative boundaries. Our mission is to create a space where filmmakers can screen their films, share ideas, and connect with a community that values diversity, experimentation, and DIY filmmaking.
Ithaca Experimental Film Festival presents, Short Block #2 Love Letters [81 minutes] Saturday, March 1st: 6pm – 8pm
LOVE LETTERS — Lineup:
Tuesday Film — Kaylinn Duffy
Friends with Myself — Ella Freigang
The Year — Grace Mitchell
Forward Fast — Lorraine Sovern
Untitled, Jackson Heights — Armon Madhavi
Admissions of Desire — Becca Rieckmann
To Alexandra With Love — Deniz Berkin
Sometimes I Hear The Light Leak In Through The Corners of my Room — Jeremiah Carter
Trace on My Body — YUE Hua
Ceaseless Translation — Alejandra Saldivar
untld:fragmentsofableedingheart — G.D. Phoenix
Shapeless — Leonardo Severino
גִּלְגּוּל (Gilgul) — Gabi Rudin

FUNDAY!
2025-03-02 13:00 - 15:00 | Liquid State Brewery, 620 W. Green St., Ithaca
Family friendly music on vinyl spun by DJ Tuggle! Shake out the winter wiggles on Sunday March 2nd, from 1-3pm. Free and all ages welcome.

"The Shah of Texas" - Charlie Green
2025-03-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca
Join Charlie Green as he launches his first novel! The Shah of Texas is a broad political satire of the Iraq War, the Abu Ghraib scandal, American propaganda, and even novels. Imagine George Orwell’s 1984 and Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove mashed together, with a little bit of Airplane! and Jonathan Swift.
About the Author: Charlie Green is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. His collection of poems, Feral Ornamentals, was published in 2021, and his writing has appeared in Image, The Southeast Review, and other venues.
Alex Gilvarry is the author of the novels From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant and Eastman Was Here. He is a visiting professor at Cornell University.

Kumiko Woodworking Exhibit at CSMA
2025-03-07 17:00 | Community School of Music and Arts, 330 East State Street, Ithaca
CSMA’s March gallery show is an exhibition of traditional Japanese woodworking by Hammerstone School founder, Maria Klemperer-Johnson! Known as “kumiko ( 組子),” this meticulous technique is used to create intricate patterns with small, interlocking pieces of wood. Join us for a hands-on demonstration of kumiko woodworking on opening night, March 7th, at 6:30pm.

In My Boots [Book Launch Party] – A Memoir of Five Million Steps Along the Appalachian Trail.
2025-03-07 17:00 - 20:00 | Library Place, 105 West Court St Ithaca, NY 14850, Ithaca, 14850
Join us in the community room at Library Place for a book launch party with author Amanda Jaros Champion, exhibiting Robert Champions artwork. Join us for a night to remember!
Reading starts at 5pm.

First Friday Gallery Night featuring URBAN CANVAS
2025-03-07 17:00 - 20:00 | CAP ArtSpace, 110 N Tioga st, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
Downtown Ithaca is alive with creativity—come experience it at CAP ArtSpace! This month’s featured exhibit, Urban Canvas, showcases the talented muralists and street artists who have transformed our city into a vibrant, open-air gallery. Curated by Ithaca Murals, this show brings their bold, dynamic work indoors for a limited time.
Kick off your weekend with art, community, and inspiration at First Friday Gallery Night! See the creativity that makes Ithaca unique and meet the artists shaping our city’s cultural landscape. 🎭🔥
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OPENING for 20 artist group show "March Mad Lust" at MIX Art Gallery on the Ithaca Commons, Friday March 7th 5-8 pm
2025-03-07 17:00 - 20:00 | MIX Art Gallery, 156 E. State Street, Ithaca, 14850
MIX Art Gallery is excited to host a very diverse and gorgeous group exhibition opening March 7th from 5-8 PM. “March Mad Lust!” This is a collection of 20, mostly local, artists showing a variety of media – and the art is for sale! We have sculptural art from John & Jif Dowd, Bella Sloan and Jill Ausfeld; photography from Joe Ziolkowski, Maxwell Harvey-Sampson, Jenna Petrone, Gloriana Allnatt, Noah Felix Klett and Wendy Gherity; paintings by Julie Waltz-Stalker, Rafe Harpending, Linda Fazzary, Josh Parrott, Nathan Dann, Basil Bakhshi, Ginny O’Brien; collage by Makayla Bunce; fiber art paintings by Sarah Lopez; and mixed media works from Aiden Paddlety, John & Jif Dowd, Amy Hauer and Ginny O’Brien. Wow! You don’t want to miss this one. It will be on view from March 7th-29th. We are open Thursdays and Fridays 3-7, Saturdays 12-6, and any other day by appointment.
You can also browse MIX Art Gallery’s online store if you please. View the works in the “March Mad Lust” web-store, www.mixartgallery.com/shop-march-mad-lust and dream big! These pieces may only be around for March, so don’t wait! The favorites go fast. Need more art than that? There are 15 additional talented and diverse artists represented in MIX Art Gallery’s online store at the moment, so we’ll bet you find something you like… and also, something you love… and possibly, something you “March Mad Lust” after!!!

Registration for spring classes opens at CSMA!
2025-03-08 | Community School of Music and Arts, 330 East State Street, Ithaca
Spring classes are blooming at CSMA! Registration for classes in art, music, theatre, and dance for all ages begins March 8th, with most classes beginning the week of April 8th. Visit us at www.csma-ithaca.org to view our course catalog and join our creative community! Be sure to check back often, as we’ll be adding even more classes as details are finalized.

Watercolor Spring Flowers Workshop
2025-03-08 10:30 - 13:30 | Community School of Music and Arts, 330 East State Street, Ithaca
Watercolor Spring Flowers Workshop – Instructed by Jennifer Gibson
Saturday, March 8 from 10:30 am-1:30 pm at CSMA
Ages: Teens & Adults
Celebrate the beauty of spring by painting spring floral arrangements in watercolor! This workshop introduces essential watercolor techniques such as wet-on-wet, dry brush, layering, and color blending. We will work from life, using fresh spring flowers as our inspiration, while exploring composition, light, and texture.
All levels of experience are welcome! Just bring your creativity and a willingness to explore! More advanced students are also welcome to refine their skills and experiment with new approaches. The instructor will provide you with a materials list.

The Power of Birds to Transform Conservation with Amanda Rodewald
2025-03-20 19:00 - 20:00 | Cinemapolis, 120 W Green St, Ithaca, 14850
Friends of Stewart Park invites you to
The Power of Birds to Transform Conservation with Amanda Rodewald
Thursday March 20, 7:00 PM, Cinemapolis
$20 Suggested Donation
$15-$50 Sliding Scale per Ticket
Proceeds Benefit an Interpretive Sign for the Fuertes Bird Sanctuary Overlook in Stewart Park.
This event kicks of the Ithaca Native Landscape Symposium.
In her talk, Amanda will discuss how birds give us a powerful lens through which we identify and implement strategies to conserve biodiversity and address global challenges facing people and the planet. She illustrates how eBird, a global participatory science project run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, can facilitate the development of flexible, adaptable, creative, and economical approaches to conservation. More information and tickets at www.stewartpark.org/events

The Octogenarian Tour - Ketu Oladuwa
2025-03-22 12:00 - 14:30 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca
The OctoGenarian Tour: Celebrating Poetry that Liberates Community-Building Dialogue.
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Nia Nunn, Lushima Lumumba, and Ketu Oladuwa.
From Ketu Oladuwa:
“Join the celebration of 80 cycles around the sun by getting back to our human rootz with poetry, music, and engagement with artists and their communities.
Poetry is more than words on a page; it’s a catalyst for transformation, a bridge between personal healing and collective liberation. I’m Omowalé-Kétu Oladuwa, a Poet, cultural worker, and lifelong learner. My OctoGenarian Tour celebrates Connection, employing poetry, storytelling, and communal gathering.
Emerging from a journey of survival, resistance, and self-discovery—including five years on death row for a murder I did not commit—I found liberation through poetry in death’s house. My work testifies to the resilience of the hueman spirit, and the power of art to heal and lift consciousness to face our inhibiting traumas, and confront the institutions that threaten to erase us.”

“Baking with Baddies” Zine Launch Party
2025-03-28 17:00 - 19:30 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca
Join us to celebrate the launch of Via Carpenter’s zine – Baking with Baddies: How to Succeed in Business, from a Multidimensional Cookie Creative. There’ll be cookies, of course!
About the Author: Via Carpenter is an activist, baker, public speaker, entrepreneur, and artist. She founded her company, Via’s Cookies, from the ground up in college and has grown it into a smooth Ithaca NY based operation that gives to struggling university students across the U.S. She stresses honoring your passions, fighting for the collective, and taking advantage of life’s pleasures- such as cookies and dismantling capitalism.
About the Zine:
For bakers, business owners, and budding entrepreneurs, this zine gives you a step-by-step guide to small business success. Based on the author’s experience starting her own cookie company and giving back to her community, this zine is full of sound advice that can be applied to all kinds of small business and start-up situations. From refining your mission to networking, getting tax help to dealing with burnout and discrimination, this zine is jam-packed with tools, examples, suggestions, and strategies for building a true-to-you business that thrives.

Fairy Fest
2025-03-29 10:00 - 15:00 | Downtown Ithaca, United States
For the fourth time, fairy magic is coming to Downtown Ithaca! Dress as your favorite fairy, elf, imp or magical creature and come enjoy a day of crafts and family fun inside your favorite downtown businesses. All ages welcome!

Faerie Market!
2025-03-29 11:00 - 17:00 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca
Happy Faerie Fest, Ithaca! Join us for a day of crafts, festivities, and goods from your favorite local makers!
With: Julian Plum Illustration, The Mushroom Circle, Snail Boat Studio, Mycelia Herbals, Guppy Moss, Priscilla Dahl Pottery, Pam’s Arts and Crafts, Fleece & Thank Ewe Fiber Worx, John Vorstadt Ceramics, Heath & Hollow, Viva Acres, Lunaria, The Grey Moon, Kosha Studio, Gorges Wire Design, & Sheepy Hollow.

MIX Art Gallery Closing Reception for March Mad Lust with music by Johnny Dowd ~ Saturday March 29th 4-6PM
2025-03-29 16:00 - 18:00 | MIX Art Gallery, 156 E. State Street, Ithaca, 14850
Join us for the 20-artist, mixed media Group Show “March Mad Lust” Closing Reception with music by Johnny Dowd on Saturday, March 29th, from 4-6 pm at MIX Art Gallery, Ithaca. There will be live music, libations, and nosh… and of course, art, art, and more art!
“The work is not complete until you are here to experience it ~ we’ll see you soon at MIX!”
MIX Art Gallery is located on the Ithaca Commons (next to American Crafts by Robbie Dein) at 156 E. State Street, a 2nd-floor walkup.
MIX Contemporary Art Gallery featuring urban to upscale, thoughtful to cool, art for you. Artists, both local and beyond showing mixed media. All artwork is for sale. Visit www.mixartgallery.com for more details.
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WHAT: MIX Art Gallery presents: Closing Reception for March Mad Lust Group Show with music by Johnny Dowd
WHEN: Saturday, March 29th, 2025 4-6 PM
WHERE: MIX Art Gallery, 156 State St. (2nd Floor) “On the Commons” Ithaca, NY 14850

Drag Story Hour
2025-03-30 12:00 - 14:00 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca
Parents and kiddos – our queens Ms. Cordata and Ms. Chardonay are back for Drag Story Hour! Sit in our beautiful butterfly room and enjoy a reading from two of Ithaca’s very best storytellers.

"In My Boots" - Amanda K. Jaros
2025-03-30 14:00 - 16:30 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca
Join us for a reading from In My Boots: A Memoir of Five Million Steps Along the Appalachian Trail with local author Amanda K. Jaros.
About the Book: When Amanda K. Jaros learns about the 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail after college, she walks away from a sheltered life dominated by an angry and volatile father and does something unexpected: spends six months backpacking. Alone. She expects to pass the time in the solitary and peaceful wilderness, reflecting on her life’s direction. Instead, she finds herself part of a community ripe with stinky socks, buckets of ice cream, and trail magic. What matters on the trail is not a hiker’s past or parents, her fears or failures, but rather, what matters is the connections we make with each other.
In My Boots recounts a challenging physical journey following the trail over the windy balds of the South, through snowstorms in the Smoky Mountain National Park, and above the tree line to the alpine zones of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The journey is also emotionally transformative as this twenty-three-year-old leaves behind the compliant and scared girl she once was. With each step away from her damaged childhood, each new friend, each stop in another rural trail town, she comes to understand that to succeed on the trail, and in life, it turns out, the path she walks must be her own.
About the Author: Amanda K. Jaros is the editor of Labor of Love: A Literary Mama Staff Anthology and author of 100 Things to Do in Ithaca Before You Die. Her essays on nature and family have appeared in Flyway, Appalachia, Terrain.org, Stone Canoe, and elsewhere. When not writing, she can be found on a trail somewhere, and has hiked the Inca Trail in Peru, several trails in Australia, and is currently working toward completing hikes of the 46 High Peaks in the Adirondacks. She lives in Ithaca, New York, with her husband and son, where she recently took up kayaking and serves her community as a county legislator. Learn more at amandakjaros.com and Instagram @amandajaroschampion.

First Friday Gallery Night at CAP ArtSpace
2025-04-04 17:00 - 20:00 | CAP ArtSpace, 110 N Tioga st, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
Join the Community Arts Partnership for First Friday Gallery Night and experience Threads That Bind, a powerful solo exhibition by local artist L.A. Amira. This vibrant collection of acrylic paintings and mixed media explores themes of identity, resilience, cultural representation, and digital influence through bold color, intricate African patterns, and layered textures.
Blending traditional artistry with contemporary themes, Amira invites viewers to reflect on marginalized voices and to engage in conversations that challenge perceptions and celebrate unity.
Come meet the artist, enjoy the artwork, and take part in Downtown Ithaca’s monthly celebration of creativity.
