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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New Roots Charter School is opening its doors to you! Meet their growing team, learn about their award-winning curriculum, and experience how it empowers students to be critical thinkers and solutionaries for a just and sustainable future.
Join us for the Ithaca YEStival, the ultimate community gathering for teens! On March 17th, we're transforming Press Bay Alley & Court into a teen-friendly oasis with teen-centered activities, music, community building and discounts for teens from a variety of local businesses. We're also bringing the YEStival across the street to the Teen Center at Tompkins County Public Library for ... Read More
Michael Gray Bulla is a graduate of Wells College, where he majored in Creative Writing. He was named the 2017 Nashville Youth Poet Laureate with Southern Word, and his first poetry collection, "Letters to the Home," was published in 2019. His debut YA novel, "If I Can Give You That" (Quill Tree), comes out February 28th, 2023. Although originally from ... Read More
ITHACA—Outdoors enthusiasts, fans of healthy rivers and streams, and those who fish and boat are invited to the 29th Annual Ithaca Fishing and Conservation Day on Saturday, March 18, 2023 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Boynton Middle School in Ithaca, N.Y. Come and experience a day of fun family-friendly activities, exhibits, and education focused on fishing and environmental ... Read More
Dress up as your favorite fairy, elf or woodland creature and join us in Downtown Ithaca for a day of crafts and family fun! All activities are indoors from story time at the library to making flower crowns at Alphabet Soup. Most activities are free, some may require a small fee. Please bring a mask as some locations may require ... Read More
Make a Fairy Quilt! - Spring Fairy Festival Event WHEN: Saturday March 18th - 12-3pm WHERE: CAP ArtSpace Gallery (First Floor) in the Tompkins Center for History & Culture on the Ithaca Commons - 110 North Tioga St. Ithaca NY 14850. All ages (yes kids AND adults!) are invited to create their own 12"x12" fleece fairy or doll quilt at ... Read More
'SPEAKING DANCE WISE' is a new series of three roundtable discussions providing opportunities for seasoned Tompkins County movement artists, ‘elders’, to share their knowledge and experience through conversations and presentations rooted in 20th and 21st century practices, expressions, and aesthetic shifts over multiple decades. This project responds to and engages with some of the many accomplished movement artists who have ... Read More
The Reading Widely Book Club chooses books to expand our reading as widely as possible. Each month a knowledgeable community member will join us for our book club conversations. Book club books are always 10% off. About the book: Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn’t have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents’ sacrifices. She can’t persuade her husband, ... Read More
CHAT: Women of Newfield w/ Rosemary Rowland WHEN: Saturday March 25th - 2-3pm WHERE: CAP ArtSpace Gallery (First Floor) in the Tompkins Center for History & Culture on the Ithaca Commons - 110 North Tioga St. Ithaca NY 14850. PRESENTER: Rosemary Rowland Join us for our first 2023 CHAT (Community History Across Tompkins) round-table presentation and discussion with local historian ... Read More
'SPEAKING DANCE WISE' #2 is part of a series of roundtable discussions providing opportunities for seasoned Tompkins County movement artists, ‘elders’, to share their knowledge and experience through conversations and presentations rooted in 20th and 21st century practices, expressions, and aesthetic shifts over multiple decades. This project responds to and engages with some of the many accomplished movement artists who ... Read More
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