BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Downtown Ithaca - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Downtown Ithaca REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T180000 DTSTAMP:20260424T071935 CREATED:20260327T151238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T151238Z UID:10006974-1777050000-1777053600@www.downtownithaca.com SUMMARY:Author Reading: Fugitive Tilts DESCRIPTION:A reading from – and discussion of – Fugitive Tilts with author Ishion Hutchinson who is joined in conversation with Dante Micheaux! URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/author-reading-fugitive-tilts/ LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca CATEGORIES:Featured ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.downtownithaca.com/wp-content/uploads/Fugitive-Tilts.png ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T170000 DTSTAMP:20260424T071935 CREATED:20260421T185419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260421T185419Z UID:10007086-1777114800-1777136400@www.downtownithaca.com SUMMARY:Show Pony Studio + Friends: Indie Bookstore Day! DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Indie Bookstore Day with Buffalo Street Books and Show Pony Studio + Friends! Join us for flash tattoos\, ceramics\, prints\, zines\, paper cut art\, stone carvings\, and more. We’ll have book bedazzling at 12pm and a book swap at 3pm! \nMembers – as a thank you for all that you do to support us\, take 15% off your purchase on Indie Bookstore Day! URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/show-pony-studio-friends-indie-bookstore-day/ LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.downtownithaca.com/wp-content/uploads/ibd-2026.png ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260426T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260426T150000 DTSTAMP:20260424T071935 CREATED:20260327T151333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T151333Z UID:10006975-1777212000-1777215600@www.downtownithaca.com SUMMARY:Book Launch: Alice McDowell DESCRIPTION:Book Title: Your Royal Nature\nBook Subtitle: Spiritual Essays to Find Your Way Home\nAuthor Name: Alice McDowell\, PhD \nSynopsis:\nThis new collection of essays serves readers who want to grow spiritually and experience the oneness and liberation that is their true royal nature. Those who lead busy and complicated lives will find the short chapters offer a meditative reading experience with guidance\, support\, and spiritual sustenance. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking\, the essays will help you find your life purpose\, cope with a world in crises\, recognize true guidance\, break negative habits\, face the unknown\, grow spiritually in later life\, and find deep abiding love. Alice McDowell draws from spiritual wisdom traditions and personal experiences to take you beyond everyday challenges\, give you a larger perspective on life\, deepen your spiritual connection\, and cultivate your essential nature. \nAuthor Bio:\nAlice McDowell\, Ph.D.\, is an author\, spiritual director\, workshop leader\, and retreat guide. She co-founded Light on the Hill Retreat Center in 1991 where she continues to guide individuals and groups on their spiritual journeys. She is author of Hidden Treasure: How to Break Free of Five Patterns that Hide Your True Self (She Writes Press\, 2017) and Dance of Light: Christian\, Sufi and Zen Wisdom for Today’s Spiritual Seeker. As a professor of religious studies at Ithaca College for eighteen years\, she taught courses in mysticism\, world religions\, depth psychology\, and women’s studies. McDowell has a Ph.D. in theology from Fordham University and has trained with Sufi and Buddhist teachers\, Christian contemplatives\, and humanistic and transpersonal psychologists.\nVisit her at: www.alicemcdowellauthor.com \n“If you are looking for a book to take you into your deeper\, wiser\, calmer self\, you have found it!” \n“This is a book to be savored\, chock-full of spiritual practices and suggestions to return to\, and chapters to revisit again and again.” URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/book-launch-alice-mcdowell/ LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca CATEGORIES:Featured ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.downtownithaca.com/wp-content/uploads/Alice-McDowell.png ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260429T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260429T180000 DTSTAMP:20260424T071935 CREATED:20260416T204520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T204659Z UID:10007081-1777482000-1777485600@www.downtownithaca.com SUMMARY:BIPOC Voices In Romance & Fantasy ✨💖 DESCRIPTION:Join us at Buffalo Street Books to discuss I Accidentally Summoned a Demon Boyfriend joined virtually by author Jessica Cage ˚˖𓍢ִ໋❀ URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/bipoc-voices-in-romance-fantasy-%e2%9c%a8%f0%9f%92%96/ LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca CATEGORIES:Featured ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.downtownithaca.com/wp-content/uploads/Demon-Boyfriend-by-Jessica-Cage-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260429T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260429T190000 DTSTAMP:20260424T071935 CREATED:20260417T144302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260417T144302Z UID:10007082-1777485600-1777489200@www.downtownithaca.com SUMMARY:Queer Horror Book Club - Grey Dog DESCRIPTION:A fan of queer horror? Looking to get into the genre? Join us for a discussion on Grey Dog\, led by BSB staff member Anamarie. \nBook club attendees get 10% one (1) purchase in-store! URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/queer-horror-book-club-grey-dog/ LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca CATEGORIES:Featured ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.downtownithaca.com/wp-content/uploads/moonflow-325-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260430T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260430T190000 DTSTAMP:20260424T071935 CREATED:20260421T185313Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260421T185313Z UID:10007087-1777570200-1777575600@www.downtownithaca.com SUMMARY:Book Launch: Why Our Moral Views Keep Changing with Audun Dahl DESCRIPTION:Join Professor of Psychology\, Audun Dahl in conversation with colleague David Pizarro\, to celebrate the launch of his new book! URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/book-launch-why-our-moral-views-keep-changing-with-audun-dahl/ LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca CATEGORIES:Featured ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.downtownithaca.com/wp-content/uploads/Audun-Dahl.png ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T180000 DTSTAMP:20260424T071935 CREATED:20260327T151324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T151324Z UID:10006976-1777654800-1777658400@www.downtownithaca.com SUMMARY:My Father and the Silver King Launch: Gail Holst-Warhaft DESCRIPTION:My Father and the Silver King…………… Gail Holst-Warhaft \nHe ran away from home in the East End of London when he was seven years old. He lived on the streets\, joining a gang of child pickpockets and at nine went to sea as a ‘ship’s boy.’ After a grueling trip around Cape Horn\, he returned to London and found a job in a bicycle shop. When one of the first motor cars in London was brought in for repair\, he fell in love with it. By the time he was a teenager\, he had become a chauffeur and driving instructor for coachmen and butlers whose employers wanted to own a car\, often driving customers to the Music Halls and theaters. A favorite melodrama of his day was The Silver King\, a play in which the wronged hero is redeemed after he makes a fortune in a silver mine in South America. When he saw it\, my father made up his mind to become ‘The Silver King.’\nOne of my father’s regular customers was a doctor who took him to Australia as his chauffeur. The doctor\, who had relatives in Australia\, traveled there to bet on the 1905 Melbourne Cup. My father saw there were only three cars at the race-course. He realized that if he could buy a car he could make money from it. He told the doctor that if he stayed in Australia he thought he could become “a gentleman.” His employer released him and he looked for a way to make money quickly. He was told that cutting sugar cane in Queensland was dangerous and dirty work\, but paid well. After a season cutting cane my father returned to Melbourne and borrowed enough money to buy a car. A year later he had set up a successful hire-car business.\nMy father and his friends had learned to skate in London\, tying iron blades on their shoes. In Melbourne he went skating at the brand-new ice rink where he soon became a champion figure-skater. It was there\, at the ‘Glaciarium’\, that he met his future wife\, Gretchen. They soon married and had two children.\nOne day my father saw a sign on a small shed advertising a business for sale for fifty pounds. The owner\, a Frenchwoman called Madame Gouge\, told my father that her late husband had started something new in Australia called “dry cleaning.” My father bought the business and traveled to Europe to learn all he could about dry cleaning. He decided to keep the name of the owner and called his company Gouge Dry Cleaning. It became a great success\, expanding throughout the state until there were over a hundred branches in Victorian towns. Over the next decades he realized his dream of being ‘The Silver King.’ He built a mansion in a fashionable suburb of Melbourne\, and his children went to private schools. Later they became prominent members of Melbourne’s social scene. While my father was away on a business trip to Europe\, my father’s first wife\, Gretchen\, died. Soon afterwards\, he began courting his wife’s niece\, Marion\, seventeen years his junior\, who would become my mother. They married in 1937 and had a son\, Antony. When the Americans entered the Pacific Theatre in World War II\, officers sent their uniforms to be cleaned there. I was born during the war.\nWhen my father retired\, he bought a poultry farm in Eltham. He made no money from it but we enjoyed living in the country and becoming part of an unusual community of artists. My father had dreamed of showing me the London he had told me so much about\, and when I graduated from the university we traveled to Europe. He was disappointed in London and complained that there was nothing left of his colorful East End. Only at Billingsgate fish market did he catch a glimpse of the cockney world that had formed him and which he had raised his children on.\nI was living in Greece when my father died. He had visited me there and impressed the Greeks by dancing in a taverna. I often wonder how much of my interest in the Greek music of the 1920s and 30s I owed to my father and to the Music Hall songs he sang to me as a child. His life was\, of course\, a rags-to-riches story not so uncommon in his day\, but writing his story I came to see what an unusual and daring man he had been. One of the most intelligent things he did\, perhaps\, was to marry my studious\, bookish mother\, a marriage that turned out to be as successful as any of his other ventures. URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/my-father-and-the-silver-king-launch-gail-holst-warhaft/ LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca CATEGORIES:Featured ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.downtownithaca.com/wp-content/uploads/My-Father-and-the-Silver-King.png ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T113000 DTSTAMP:20260424T071935 CREATED:20260415T132723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260415T132723Z UID:10007079-1777719600-1777721400@www.downtownithaca.com SUMMARY:Mr. Chow's Night Market Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Join us at Buffalo Street Books\, to celebrate the launch of Mr. Chow’s Night Market written by Emily Sun Li and illustrated by Yu Ting Cheng! \nThere will be crafts\, goodies\, story time & the opportunity to meet the author! URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/mr-chows-night-market-book-launch/ LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca CATEGORIES:Featured ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.downtownithaca.com/wp-content/uploads/Emily-Sun-Li-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T153000 DTSTAMP:20260424T071935 CREATED:20260415T132633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260415T132633Z UID:10007078-1777730400-1777735800@www.downtownithaca.com SUMMARY:Poetry Reading + Conversation with Susan Michele Coronel & Dawn Leas DESCRIPTION:Join authors Susan Michele Coronel & Dawn Leas at Buffalo Street Books for a poetry reading\, followed by a conversation about their writing process and the opportunity to participate in a Q&A.  URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/poetry-reading-conversation-with-susan-michele-coronel-dawn-leas/ LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca CATEGORIES:Featured ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.downtownithaca.com/wp-content/uploads/Susan-Michele-Coronel-and-Dawn-Leas.png ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260510T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260510T130000 DTSTAMP:20260424T071935 CREATED:20260422T191745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260422T191745Z UID:10007147-1778414400-1778418000@www.downtownithaca.com SUMMARY:Trans Center Book Club DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg! A book club hosted by the Ithaca Trans Center. \nAll book club attendees will receive a 10% coupon for one in-store purchase. Mention the Ithaca Trans Center gift card to get your copy for free! URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/trans-center-book-club/ LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca CATEGORIES:Featured ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.downtownithaca.com/wp-content/uploads/MAY-Ithaca-Trans-Center-Book-Club-.png ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR