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.
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.
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).
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.
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
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!
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
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
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
Opera Ithaca to end season in April with a unique horror-opera! Opera Ithaca continues to be a space for interesting and daring opera with its final show of the season, The Turn of the Screw. This exciting piece has a unique place in opera history as one of very few in the horror genre. The opera, adapted from a novella ... Read More
Students and community members will be staging direct actions around Ithaca, after which we will all converge on the Commons to Reclaim Earth Day! This is not about learning not to feed the wildlife or making a virtuous consumer choice to buy a recycled plastic beer cozy; it's about changing the whole filthy rotten system! We are calling on every ... Read More
Ithaca’s Annual Take Back the Night (TBTN) March and Rally are back! This year’s TBTN will take place on April 26th, 2024 with marches from GIAC, Ithaca College, and Cornell, and a rally and candlelit vigil at the Bernie Milton Pavillion on the Ithaca Commons. Join us as a survivor or as an ally. Take Back the Night began as ... Read More
Independent Bookstore Day is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April. This year, we have a handful of things going on from specific Indie Bookstore Day merch, to freebies, to special events going on!
Join our mailing list to receive the latest news and updates from downtown Ithaca.
