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SUMMARY:Silent Reading Party III
DESCRIPTION:A Fundraiser in Support of Tompkins County Public Library. The fundraiser gives people a space to enjoy quiet reading time\, delicious drinks and snacks\, and the opportunity to mingle with other booklovers while also supporting the right to read!\nEach ticket costs $35\, with proceeds benefiting the TCPL Foundation. Each ticket holder receives:\n•	1 seat at the party\n•	1 Beverage (alcoholic or non-alcoholic)\n•	Silo Food Truck’s famous fries and dipping sauces\n•	Snacks and desserts from Kiely’s Cooking\n•	A book to borrow from a curated selection of TCPL’s collection (or bring your own book!)\nTickets are available at https://tinyurl.com/srpiii\nEvent sponsored by Carol Bushberg at Warren Real Estate
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/silent-reading-party-iii/
LOCATION:Liquid State Brewery\, 620 W. Green St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Tompkins County Public Library Foundation":MAILTO:foundationinfo@tcplfoundation.org
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SUMMARY:WenDo Women's Self Defense: 5 Week Series!
DESCRIPTION:WenDo Women NY is thrilled to offer an amazing and empowering 5 week series of self defense for those who live and identify as women/girls (trans and cis) or AFAB Enby (10+). We’ll be creating space to connect with others and celebrate our power through a WenDo Women’s Self Defense Basic Course over 5 sessions. \nThis is a 5 week series being held on Tuesday’s from 5:30-8pm beginning April 8th and ending May 6th. Registrants must attend all sessions! \nWen-Do Women’s Self Defense is Canada‘s oldest women’s self-defense program designed and taught by women for women/girls 10+ and I’m thrilled to be bringing it to our community! WenDo Programs are presented from a feminist\, anti-oppression and empowerment framework. Techniques are designed for women of all ages\, fitness levels\, body types\, and abilities including women or girls who use assistive devices. Courses offer a combination of discussion\, with practical physical skills resulting in an integration of mental and physical preparedness while expressly rejecting victim blaming or “rule setting”. \nThis Comprehensive Self Defense Series and will include:\n*Verbal Self Defense & Yells\n*Strikes with hands\, feet\, & elbows\n*Blocks and releases from body holds\n*Defense when on the ground or in bed\n*Defense against multiple attackers and those with weapons\n*Discussions on: Awareness and avoidance\, relationship abuse\, sexual assault\, and harassment
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/wendo-womens-self-defense-5-week-series/
LOCATION:Henry St. John Building\, 301 S. Geneva Street\, Ithaca\, 14850
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="WenDo Women NY%2C LLC":MAILTO:kristiwendony@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Wednesday Open Mic Night at The Nocturnal Café
DESCRIPTION:The Nocturnal Café (formerly Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar) welcomes you to experience our weekly Open Mic Night hosted by a rotating cast of talented local artists. Come on down to share your song or story! Let’s cultivate shared creativity! Showcase your talents and enjoy the experience of creative connection with a welcoming and supportive audience at Ithaca’s only alcohol-free nightlife destination.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/wednesday-open-mic-night-at-the-nocturnal-cafe/2025-04-09/
LOCATION:The Nocturnal Café\, 103 S. Geneva St.\, Ithaca\, 14850
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Nocturnal Caf%C3%A9":MAILTO:nocturnalcafeny@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:State of the Free Press - Mickey Huff
DESCRIPTION:Join Mickey Huff for a conversation on State of the Free Press 2025 with Carolina Cedraschi and Elle Wilcox. \nAbout the Book: In their new book\, Project Censored highlights the vital stories that corporate media underreported\, exposes rampant news abuse\, and tracks emerging threats against the press from financial and political powers. \nEvery year\, Project Censored publishes its State of the Free Press\, which takes the pulse of the media and shares the 25 most important but underreported stories of the past year. In STATE OF THE FREE PRESS 2025 (The Censored Press & Seven Stories Press\, December 3\, 2024\, paperback)\, editors Mickey Huff\, Shealeigh Voitl\, and Andy Lee Roth look back on a year in which significant news stories lost out to coverage of celebrities and non-events. Tragically\, 2024 also stands out as the year that the corporate media failed to adequately cover Israel’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people and the threat it poses to the whole world. With their gaze trained elsewhere\, the powerful got a pass from the very institution that should hold them to account. \nState of the Free Press 2025 comes at a time when trust in the media is at an all-time low. A 2024 Pew Research Poll found that a remarkable 73 percent of adult Americans believe a free press is either extremely or very important to the well-being of society—though only a third of those polled believe that US media are completely free to report news. Half of those surveyed believe that US news organizations are influenced a great deal by corporate/financial or government/political interests. Reporters Without Borders gave the US a score of 66.59 out of a possible 100 points in their 2024 World Press Freedom Index—a drop of nearly five points from 2023. Last year\, the organization labeled US press freedom “satisfactory;” in 2024\, they called it “problematic.” \nMICKEY HUFF is director of Project Censored and president of the Media Freedom Foundation. To date\, he has coedited sixteen volumes of Project Censored’s annual book and contributed numerous chapters to these works dating back to 2008. He is coauthor with Nolan Higdon of United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It) [City Lights Books\, 2019]; and Let’s Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication\, Conflict Management\, and Critical Media Literacy (Routledge\, 2022). He has taught social science\, history\, and journalism at Diablo Valley College since 2000. In 2019\, Huff received the Beverly Kees Educator Award as part of the James Madison Freedom of Information Award from the Society for Professional Journalists\, Northern California. He is also the executive producer and host of The Project Censored Show\, the weekly syndicated public affairs program that airs on more than 50 stations around the U.S. and originates from KPFA Pacifica Radio in Berkeley\, CA. Along with his work with Project Censored\, Huff is the new Distinguished Director of the Park Center of Independent Media at Ithaca College and Professor of Journalism at the college’s Roy H. Park School of Communication
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/state-of-the-free-press-mickey-huff/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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SUMMARY:Figure Drawing Fridays at CSMA
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/figure-drawing-fridays-at-csma-6/2025-04-11/
LOCATION:Community School of Music and Arts\, 330 East State Street\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Community School of Music &amp%3B Arts":MAILTO:info@csma-ithaca.org
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SUMMARY:Poems by QWERTY - A Reading and Workshop with Carolyn Clark
DESCRIPTION:Poems by QWERTY\, Carolyn Clark’s latest book\, expands on her passion of composing lyric poems on an antique typewriter. The reading followed by a small workshop wherein anyone who would like to try their hand at spontaneous poem composition can have the opportunity. Bring your own typewriter if you wish\, but another one or two will be available. The goal is to familiarize the local community of Ithaca with the merits of typewriter poetry. Each poem in this delightful new book is from a carbon copy – an artifact of something composed primarily at Ithaca Farmers Markets between in 2023 and 2024. Locally minted at our amazing resource\, WordPro of Ithaca.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/poems-by-qwerty-a-reading-and-workshop-with-carolyn-clark/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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SUMMARY:Dungeons & Dragons 101 (Lesson\, Q&A\, and Character Creation)
DESCRIPTION:An awesome FREE opportunity (limited spots) to get into the world of Dungeons and Dragons for folks ages 16+! Have you watched so many live plays but never played yourself? Come on down to Riverwood to learn what the excitement is all about!  \nPlease sign up at the link provided!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/dungeons-dragons-101-lesson-qa-and-character-creation/
LOCATION:Riverwood\, 116 E State St\, ITHACA\, N\, 14850\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Riverwood":MAILTO:marking@theriverwoodotter.com
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