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SUMMARY:"On Strike Against God" with Alec Pollak
DESCRIPTION:Join preeminent Joanna Russ scholar Alec Pollak in celebrating the publication of a new critical edition of ON STRIKE AGAINST GOD\, out now from Feminist Press. Pollak will be joined in conversation by Jeffry Iovannone to discuss Russ’s legacy and delve into her experience in republishing this “curious and powerful revolutionary work.” (—Alison Bechdel) \nALEC POLLAK is a writer\, academic\, and organizer. She is the winner of the 2023 Hazel Rowley Prize and the 2018 Ursula Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship for her work on a biography of Joanna Russ. Her writing appears in the LA Review of Books\, the Yale Review\, and various academic publications. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. \nJOANNA RUSS (1937–2011) was a Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of feminist science fiction\, fantasy\, and literary criticism. Born in New York City\, Russ graduated from Cornell University in 1957 and held teaching appointments in English and creative writing across the country until settling at the University of Washington in 1977. A historic\, groundbreaking writer of feminist science fiction\, she is best known for her novel The Female Man and now for her darkly funny survey of literary sexism\, How to Suppress Women’s Writing.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/on-strike-against-god-with-alec-pollak/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Jamaica Baldwin and Nancy Miller Gomez in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Jamaica Baldwin and Nancy Miller Gomez will read poems from their newest collections followed by a conversation and a Q&A. \nAbout the Authors \nJamaica (she/her) is a poet and educator originally from Santa Cruz\, CA. Her first book\, Bone Language\, was published by YesYes Books in June 2023. Her work has appeared in Guernica\, World Literature Today\, The Adroit Journal\, Prairie Schooner\, Poetry Northwest\, and The Missouri Review\, among others. Her accolades include a 2023 Pushcart Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, a RHINO Poetry editor’s prize\, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award\, as well as the San Miguel de Allende Writer’s Conference Contest Poetry Award. Her writing has been supported by Aspen Words\, Storyknife\, Hedgebrook\, Furious Flower\, and the Jack Straw Writers program. Jamaica has a PhD from the University of Nebraska -Lincoln in English with a focus on poetry and Women’s and Gender Studies and she is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing at Ithaca College in New York. \nNancy Miller Gomez’s is the author of Inconsolable Objects (YesYes Books) and the chapbook\, Punishment (Rattle chapbook series)\, a collection of poems and essays about her experience teaching in prisons and jails. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry\, Best New Poets\, Prairie Schooner\, The Adroit Journal\, TriQuarterly\, New Ohio Review\, Shenandoah\, River Styx\, Waxwing\, Plume\, The Rumpus\, Rattle\, Massachusetts Review\, American Life in Poetry\, Verse Daily\, and elsewhere. She received a special mention in the 2023 Pushcart Prize Anthology. She co-founded with Ellen Bass an organization that provides writing workshops to incarcerated women and men and has taught poetry in Salinas Valley State Prison\, the Santa Cruz County Jails\, and Juvenile Hall. She lives with her family in Santa Cruz\, California. More at: nancymillergomez.com.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/jamaica-baldwin-and-nancy-miller-gomez-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240828T180000
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SUMMARY:Beyond Policing - Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Philip V. McHarris invites us to critically examine the role of policing within society and explore transformative alternatives. Drawing from his book\, “Beyond Policing\,” McHarris delves into community-based safety models that challenge traditional policing methods and offer sustainable\, inclusive approaches to public safety. Through a combination of rigorous research and compelling narratives\, the talk will explore how we can foster a society where safety is a collective\, community-driven responsibility. \nPhilip V. McHarris is an assistant professor in the Frederick Douglass Institute and Department of Black Studies at the University of Rochester. He earned his PhD in sociology and African American studies at Yale University. He was named one of the Root 100s Most Influential African Americans in 2020\, and has appeared on MSNBC\, CNN\, and PBS and in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, and more. \nSadé Lindsay is a sociologist by training whose research interests lie at the intersection of criminal justice\, punishment\, racial inequality\, and public policy. Professor Lindsay’s work examines racism and the criminalization of deviance\, incarceration\, prison reentry\, collateral consequences of criminal justice contact\, and drug policy and use. Professor Lindsay’s scholarship has been published in outlets such as Criminology and Social Problems and received numerous awards from the American Society of Criminology\, the American Sociological Association\, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Professor Lindsay’s work has been funded and supported by the National Science Foundation\, the National Institute of Justice\, and the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy\, among other organizations. Professor Lindsay received her undergraduate and master’s degrees and her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/beyond-policing-book-talk/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Book Signing with Carol Van Den Hende
DESCRIPTION:Come on down to BSB to chat with this award-winning author and get a signed copy of her books! \nCarol Van Den Hende is the of the Goodbye\, Orchid series which won 20+ literary awards including the American Fiction Award\, Pinnacle Achievement Award\, IAN for Best First Novel\, two Royal Dragonfly’s\, and Kops-Fetherling Award. When she’s not penning stories of resilience and hope\, Carol applies her MBA to global marketing and digital strategy (in chocolate\, sweet!).
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/book-signing-with-carol-van-den-hende/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Reading Widely Book Club: Quicksand
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly book club led by community members and local literati. This month we’ll be reading Quicksand\, by Nella Larsen. \nNella Larsen (1891-1964) is one of the most well-known names in the Harlem Renaissance canon\, though much of her personal history remains elusive. The author of two novels\, Quicksand and Passing\, and several short stories\, she received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1930 and later worked as a nurse. Larsen died in New York City in 1964. \nBook club books are 10% off when purchased instore and online. \nAbout the Book \nBorn to a white Danish mother and a Black American father\, Helga Crane has long struggled to carve a path for herself amid the racial segregation of the early twentieth century. As a teacher at an all-Black boarding school in the South\, Helga quickly becomes unsettled by the way the school measures excellence based on proximity to whiteness. Journeying to Chicago\, Harlem\, and Copenhagen\, she attempts to thrive free from the constraints of category–mother or wife\, promiscuous or chaste\, white or Black\, American or Danish. But these categories\, though slippery and unstable\, are constantly reinforced. \nHelga finally settles into a life that feels secure yet completely at odds with her previous ambitions–married to a preacher in the Deep South\, hoping to find peace under the wings of the Church. Landing back where she started\, in social and existential oblivion\, Helga forces us to consider: In a society marred by injustice\, is it even possible to find a true\, authentic self? With intriguing parallels to Larsen’s own life\, Quicksand is an engrossing page-turner that is as relevant now as ever before.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reading-widely-book-club-quicksand/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240809T170000
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SUMMARY:Game Night with Buffalo Street Books
DESCRIPTION:Swing on by for a chill game night. We have a wide variety of board games you can choose from to help you decompress after the week. \n$5 suggested donation.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/game-night-with-buffalo-street-books/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240803T140000
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SUMMARY:Leaves Falling Backwards
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nOn December 28\, 2017 I was having a holiday drink with my partner and her friend. Around 6pm\, I got up\, went into the bathroom\, and when I came out I told them “something’s not right” pointing to my upper chest. Shortly thereafter\, I fell back in my chair. My eyes were rolling and I lost consciousness. My partner called 911. \nI had a massive heart attack at age 64. \nMy family was told that I probably would not survive this event. I was in the hospital for over two weeks. I was mentally out of it much of that time. When I went home\, I was in a fog for several months: felt like people were coming at me and the walls were closing in. Was paranoid\, and my memory had vanished. It took many\, many months for me to begin to feel normal. \nAbout the Author \nTish Pearlman is a poet\, writer\, broadcast journalist and community and political activist originally from Manhattan Beach\, California. For 15 years she was host of the award-winning arts/public affairs public radio interview show “Out of Bounds\,” which suspended production in December 2019. www.outofboundsradioshow.com \nIn the 1970’s and 80’s Pearlman was actively writing and gave many readings at political and literary events on the central California coast. Her work also appeared in many literary journals and magazines including Street Cries\, Adventures in Poetry Anthology\, Carousel Quarterly\, and Latitude/20. She began to write poetry again in 2009. Her current work has appeared in The Healing Muse Literary Journal (2010-2022)\, The Ithaca Times\, The Syracuse Post-Dispatch Healthy CNY Magazine\, Conversations Across Borders Literary Magazine\, Earth’s Daughters and The Iconoclast Literary Journal. One of her poems was accepted for publication in an anthology titled The Art of Medicine in Metaphors\, published in January 2013. \nHer collection\, re-telling her near-death heart surgery experience\, is a chapbook entitled “The\nFix Is In” and was published by Finishing Line Press in January 2012. \nHer full-length collection “Afterlife” was published by Foothills Publishers in May 2014. \nHer new collection is Leaves Falling Backwards. \nShe was the 2013 & 2014 Poet Laureate of Tompkins County\, NY. \nPearlman has given many solo and group readings/ classes throughout the region\, including\, Elmira College\, Buffalo Street Books\, TCPL. GIAC. She has also been part of The Healing Muse Literary Journal annual tours/readings from 2010-present. She has also organized several group readings at the annual Spring Writes Literary Festival in Ithaca NY.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/leaves-falling-backwards/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:The Raging Erie: Life and Labor Along the Erie Canal
DESCRIPTION:Join professors Mark Ferrara and Roger Hecht for a conversation on the stories of the ordinary people who lived\, worked\, and died along the banks of the Erie Canal\, emphasizing the forgotten role of the poor and working class in this epochal transformation. \nAbout the Book \nThe completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 was a monumental achievement. Linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean\, it transformed New York City into a hub of international trade\, drove the rise of industrial cities in once sparsely populated areas\, and accelerated the westward expansion of the United States. Yet few of the laborers who toiled along the canal shared in the prosperity it brought. \nMark S. Ferrara tells the stories of the ordinary people who lived\, worked\, and died along the banks of the canal\, emphasizing the forgotten role of the poor and working class in this epochal transformation. The Raging Erie chronicles the fates of the Native Americans whose land was appropriated for the canal\, the European immigrants who bored its route through the wilderness\, and the orphan children who drove draft animals that pulled boats around the clock. Ferrara also shows how the canal served as a conduit for the movement of new ideas and religions\, a corridor for enslaved people seeking freedom via the Underground Railroad\, and a spur for social reform movements that emerged in response to the poverty and suffering along its path. \nBrimming with vivid characters drawn from the underbelly of antebellum life\, The Raging Erie explores the social dislocation and untold hardships at the heart of a major engineering feat\, shedding light on the lives of the canallers who toiled on behalf of American expansion. \nAbout the Author \nMark S. Ferrara is professor of English at the State University of New York. His recent books include American Community: Radical Experiments in Intentional Living (2020) and Living the Food Allergic Life (2023).
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/the-raging-erie-life-and-labor-along-the-erie-canal/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Menstrual Self-Care and Empowerment Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Guided by: Cody C.\, M.Ed! \nCome reconnect with your menstrual cycle! We’ll learn about the different menstrual phases and how to care for ourselves during each phase\, how to track our cycles\, options for self-care during our periods\, and ways to celebrate our bleed! We’ll understand more about how the menstrual cycle works through lessons\, discussion\, and art! \nSliding scale: $20-45 (come even if you don’t have the money) \nAnyone that experiences a menstrual cycle or that’s interested in learning more is invited to come. \nFill out the form here or scan the QR code to sign up!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/menstrual-self-care-and-empowerment-workshop/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Madcap Serenade - Book Launch with Dan Kopcow
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nEli\, a precocious 16-year-old social misfit living on Long Island in August 1979\, cons his way into a professional boys’ choir’s Italian and Vatican tour so he can discover his missing father’s legacy. But when he meets his dream girl\, Jane\, and finds himself connected to an intricate murder plot involving a legendary drug\, he must decide if singing for the Pope is worth losing his family and first love. \nJane\, a rebellious 16-year-old American girl\, is desperate to get back in favor with her school friends after accidentally calling a narc on them. When she is sent to a Roman convent for smuggling erotic novels\, she realizes she must grow up fast if she’s going to escape the nuns\, solve her family’s mystery involving a mythical drug\, keep clear of the authorities\, and declare her love for Eli. \nAbout the Author \nDan Kopcow’s sci-fi noir detective novel\, Prior Futures\, published in December 2021 by Black Rose Writing\, won a 2022 Independent Press Award for Science Fiction Distinguished Favorite and was a Science Fiction Best Thriller of 2021 Finalist at BestThriller.com. Kopcow’s fiction short story collection\, Worst. Date. Ever.\, was published by Regal House Publishing in March 2020 and was named one of 2020’s top 100 novels by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). The anthology\, Thank You\, Death Robot\, which included his short story\, The Cobbler Cherry\, won an Independent Publishing Award for best sciencefiction and fantasy and was voted a Chicago Tribune Top Ten Fiction book. Kopcow has had dozens of other short stories published in several magazines and anthologies.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/madcap-serenade-book-launch-with-dan-kopcow/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240707T150000
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SUMMARY:Ghosts of Glencoe - Book Reading with Chuck Schwerin
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nGhosts of Glencoe is a riveting multi-generational adventure of self-discovery. The novel spans a mere four months\, set at a unique junior boarding school\, and played out in the rugged Adirondack mountains of New York. \nThis is a Hero’s Journey for two flawed protagonists\, one fifteen\, the other sixty-three. Both struggle to be accountable to themselves and to those who love them\, for their hubris\, betrayals\, for the shadows they created and still carry. In their tortuous path to absolution\, both discover one is never too young to teach\, nor too old to learn. \nIn the fall of 2002\, dramatic events engulf three ninth graders (not the best of friends)\, their passionate Scottish headmaster\, and an unlikely pair of escapees from a nearby prison. The inevitable collision of these forces demonstrates that age and experience have no monopoly on bravery or vulnerability. Only after superficial differences are peeled away can the teens summon the strength to find common ground to confront their frailties under the most trying conditions—lost in the snowy mountains with rescuers urgently trying to find them and the convicts desperately plotting to eliminate them. \nGhosts of Glencoe is a page-turning adventure\, set in wilderness that is as much a factor as the characters themselves. The story entertains\, educates\, and illustrates how the mountaineering mantra—Fellowship of the Rope—embodies the imperative that if we don’t hang together\, we will surely hang alone. \nAbout the Author \nChuck Schwerin is a serial entrepreneur\, having co-founded several medical device and biotech startups\, holds three patents on geographic information technology\, and taught entrepreneurship at Binghamton University. As a committed environmentalist\, Chuck’s volunteer work reflects those passions. Through his editorship\, he transformed Adirondack PEEKS magazine for the Adirondack 46ers and produced a quarterly online newsletter for the Edward L. Rose Land Conservancy. \nHe is also on the Advisory Board of the World Trails Network-Hub for the Americas that supports field schools and an expedition program\, promoting trail conservation\, sustainability\, and stewardship. His passion for mountains is not only reflected as a central theme in The Ghosts of Glencoe\, but has been the impetus for climbing trips on his own\, as well as guiding children\, to mountain ranges in many parts of the world.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/ghosts-of-glencoe-book-reading-with-chuck-schwerin/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240702T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240702T140000
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SUMMARY:https://www.buffalostreetbooks.com/event/crossing-line-finding-america-borderlands
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nIt was family separation and “kids in cages” that drove Sarah Towle to the U.S. southern border. On discovering the many-headed hydra that is the U.S. immigration system–and the heroic determination of those caught under its knee–she could never look away again. Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands charts Sarah’s journey from outrage to activism to abolition as she exposes\, layer by “broken” layer\, the global deterrence to detention to deportation complex that is failing everyone–save the profiteers and demagogues who benefit from it. \nDeftly weaving together oral storytelling\, history\, and memoir\, Sarah illustrates how the U.S. has led the retreat from post-WWII commitments to protecting human rights. Yet within the web of normalized cruelty\, she finds hope and inspiration in the extraordinary acts of ordinary people who prove\, every day\, there is a better way. By amplifying their voices and celebrating their efforts\, Sarah reveals that we can welcome with dignity those most in need of safety and compassion. In unmasking the real root causes of the so-called “crisis” in human migration\, she urges us to act before we travel much farther down our current course–one which history will not soon forgive\, or forget. \nAbout the Author \nSarah Towle is an educator\, researcher\, and writer; a human rights defender\, nature lover\, and vocalist. She resides in an ephemeral borderlands\, buffeted and buoyed by a diversity of languages\, cultures\, landscapes\, and creeds. She has taught English language literacy\, cross-cultural communication and conflict resolution skills\, and the writing craft for three decades across four continents in myriad classroom contexts\, including under the trees in refugee settings. \nAn award-winning children’s author\, Sarah has earned accolades for her interactive tales for educational tourism. Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands is her debut full-length book.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/https-www-buffalostreetbooks-com-event-crossing-line-finding-america-borderlands/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240701T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240701T150000
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SUMMARY:Sleep Like Death with Kalynn Bayron
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nPrincess Eve was raised with one purpose: to destroy the Knight. Far too many of subjects of Queen’s Bridge have been devastated by this evil sorcerer’s trickery. Eve’s own unique magic–the ability to conjure weapons from nature–makes her a worthy adversary. \nAs she approaches her seventeenth birthday\, Eve is ready to battle. But her mother\, Queen Regina\, has been acting bizarrely\, talking to a strange mirror alone every night. Then a young man claiming to be the Knight’s messenger appears and shares a shocking truth about Eve’s past. Unsure of who to trust\, Eve must find the courage to do what she’s always done: fight. But will it be enough to save her family and her queendom? \nAbout the Author \nKalynn Bayron is the New York Times and Indie bestselling author of the YA fantasy novels Cinderella Is Dead and This Poison Heart. Her latest works include the YA horror novel You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight and the middle grade paranormal adventure The Vanquishers. She is a CILIP Carnegie Medal Nominee\, a Bram Stoker Award nominee\, a LOCUS Award finalist\, and the recipient of the 2022 Randall Kenan Award for Black LGBTQ fiction. She is a classically trained vocalist and musical theater enthusiast. When she’s not writing you can find her watching scary movies and spending time with her family.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/sleep-like-death-with-kalynn-bayron/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T003058
CREATED:20240530T141739Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240530T141739Z
UID:10003949-1718902800-1718906400@www.downtownithaca.com
SUMMARY:Reading Widely Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join historian Jeff Iovannone for a conversation about The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions\, a novel about queer communal living in the heart of Ithaca\, NY. \nBook club books are 10% off when purchased in store and online at Buffalo Street Books. \nAbout the Book \nThe Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry Mitchell with lush illustrations by Ned Asta\, published by Calamus Press in 1977. Part-fable\, part-manifesto\, the book takes place in Ramrod\, an empire in decline\, and introduces us to the communities of the faggots\, the women\, the queens\, the queer men\, and the women who love women who are surviving the ways and world of men. Cherished by many over the four decades since its publication\, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions offers a trenchant critique of capitalism\, assimilation\, and patriarchy that is deeply relevant today. This new edition will feature essays from performance artist Morgan Bassichis\, who adapted the book to music with TM Davy in 2017 for a performance at the New Museum\, and activist filmmaker Tourmaline.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reading-widely-book-club/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240614T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240614T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T003058
CREATED:20240528T051551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T051551Z
UID:10003945-1718380800-1718384400@www.downtownithaca.com
SUMMARY:Liberated to the Bone: Book Talk with Susan Raffo
DESCRIPTION:Susan Raffo is the author of Liberated to the Bone\, part of adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy Series from AK Press. She is also currently spending a year walking from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and will be in Ithaca as part of that walk. This event is going to be a mix of conversation and practice\, all of it sitting around the question guiding her walk: what does it mean to live on this land in a good way – together. This is not an idealistic question\, but a deeply practical one embedded with 500+ years of colonial and racial violence and so much resistance\, reclamation and remembering. This question holds in its heart the fact of genocide\, of climate destruction\, and of increasing surveillance technologies that depend on eugenic profiling to determine who fits and who doesn’t and also the fact that within a week of closing down capitalism in light of COVID\, wolves were spotted walking through Minnesota cities. Raffo’s work is grounded in healing justice and her work in Minneapolis has included being part of healing justice and abolition strategies.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/liberated-to-the-bone-book-talk-with-susan-raffo/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240607T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240607T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T003058
CREATED:20240528T051514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T051514Z
UID:10003944-1717781400-1717786800@www.downtownithaca.com
SUMMARY:Queer Salon: Pride Edition
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Pride Month at your favorite co-op indie bookstore with Queer Salon\, our bi-monthly open mic event. Bring your writing and a few friends\, and enjoy treats from Oracle Chocolates and Finger Lakes Cider House. \n$5 suggested donation. Leave donations and sign up to read on our Eventbrite.\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-salon-pride-edition-tickets-908392946757
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/queer-salon-pride-edition/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240605T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240605T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T003058
CREATED:20240528T051447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T051447Z
UID:10003943-1717610400-1717617600@www.downtownithaca.com
SUMMARY:We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters\, Angels & Other Creatures
DESCRIPTION:Join NYT bestselling author\, Kalynn Bayron and debut anthologist\, Rob Costello in conversation with NYT bestselling author Amber Smith about their new YA anthology WE MOSTLY COME OUT AT NIGHT: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters\, Angels & Other Creatures. They’ll discuss their mutual love of horror fiction and short stories\, and why monsters are such empowering avatars for young queer readers!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/we-mostly-come-out-at-night-15-queer-tales-of-monsters-angels-other-creatures/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240601T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240601T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T003058
CREATED:20240528T051359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T051359Z
UID:10003942-1717257600-1717263000@www.downtownithaca.com
SUMMARY:Reproductive Rights Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a reproductive rights showcase on Saturday\, June 1\, from 4 – 5:30 at Buffalo Street Books. This teen-led event will combine poetry and music while raising awareness about reproductive justice. In addition\, there will be art and concessions you can purchase to support the cause\, though the event itself is free. Buffalo Street Books will also have a collection of books related to reproductive justice for to peruse and purchase.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reproductive-rights-showcase/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240601T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240601T150000
DTSTAMP:20260429T003058
CREATED:20240528T051314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T051314Z
UID:10003941-1717250400-1717254000@www.downtownithaca.com
SUMMARY:The Eighth Moon: A Memoir of Belonging and Rebellion
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Kabat and Adrian Shrink will be in conversation discussing this poignant memoir about the world around us. \n“The Eighth Moon moves with time-skipping logic\, ‘where the yet is always now\,’ and where life is not a march of progress\, but rather a circadian unfurling\, dying back\, going underground\, and coming up again\, slightly different. Kabat is both a stylist and a temporal magician. She cultivates a perspective that is as ethical as it is aesthetic because it provides a way of understanding ourselves not as main characters\, but as dynamic collaborators with all that has happened\, is happening\, and will happen.” – Adrian Shirk\, author of Heaven Is a Place on Earth \nAbout the Book \n“1845. The sky is blue\, yet all is brown. I picture the scene from overhead: a silvered steel of violence\, blood\, beer\, whiskey\, and mutton. High\, skidding clouds skip with excitement\, eager to see what unfolds below. They cheer on the scene where men in dresses march.” \nA rebellion\, guns\, and murder. When Jennifer Kabat moves to the Catskills in 2005\, she has no idea it was the site of the Anti-Rent War\, an early episode of American rural populism. Prompted to leave London following a mysterious illness that seems to be caused by life in the city itself\, she finds in these ancient mountains—at once the northernmost part of Appalachia and a longtime refuge for New Yorkers—a place “where the land itself holds time.” \nShe forges friendships with her new neighbors and explores the countryside on logging roads and rutted lanes\, finding meadows dotted with milkweed in bloom\, saffron salamanders\, a blood moon rising over Munsee\, Oneida\, and Mohawk land. As the Great Recession sets in and a housing crisis looms\, she supports herself with freelance work and adjunct teaching\, slowly learning of the 1840s uprising\, when poor tenant farmers fought to redistribute their landlords’ vast estates. In the farmers’ socialist dreams\, she discovers connections to her parents’ collectivist values\, as well as to our current moment. Threaded with historical documents\, the natural world\, and the work of writers like Adrienne Rich and Elizabeth Hardwick\, Kabat weaves a capacious memoir\, where the past comes alive in the present. \nRich with unexpected correspondences and discoveries\, this visionary and deeply compassionate debut gives us a new way of seeing and being in place—one in which everything is intertwined and all at once.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/the-eighth-moon-a-memoir-of-belonging-and-rebellion/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240525T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240525T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T003058
CREATED:20240430T161546Z
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UID:10003846-1716638400-1716660000@www.downtownithaca.com
SUMMARY:Book Signing: The Will 2 Live Children's Sheet Music
DESCRIPTION:Buffalo Street Books is thrilled to welcome local author Moalt D. Love El for a special book signing event featuring “The Will 2 Live Children’s Sheet Music”! \nAbout the Book: \nDive into a world of melody and rhythm with “The Will 2 Live Children’s Sheet Music”! This vibrant collection is designed to ignite the musical spark in young learners\, featuring a diverse range of compositions tailored specifically for children. From catchy tunes that encourage movement and dance to soothing melodies perfect for bedtime\, each piece is crafted to engage young listeners and inspire budding musicians. With easy-to-follow notation and playful illustrations\, this book promises to be an essential resource for music teachers\, parents\, and young learners alike\, fostering a lifelong love of music and creativity. \nMeet the author\, and get your copy of “The Will 2 Live Children’s Sheet Music” signed! Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to celebrate the joy of music and support a local author. \nMark your calendars and join us for an unforgettable musical experience!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/book-signing-the-will-2-live-childrens-sheet-music/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240523T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240523T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T003058
CREATED:20240426T130038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T130038Z
UID:10003832-1716483600-1716487200@www.downtownithaca.com
SUMMARY:Book Launch: A Myth in Reverse
DESCRIPTION:Join Daphne Solá for the launch of her poetry book A Myth in Reverse. \nAbout the Author \nSolá aside from writing poetry is a printmaker and owned an art gallery. She has been a participant in the Murphy Poetry Workshop\, at Stockton University\, NJ\, in their Florida meetings\, and in Barcelona. She has been a reader at these meetings and in Library Events in Ithaca\, Trumansburg Lansing and Skaneateles\, NY. She has studied poetry and book-making at Wells College Summer Book Arts Institute and produced artist-books as well as several examples of her chapbooks. Her work has been published in The Healing Muse\, Poetry of the Ithaca Times\, in Vol.5\, 6\, of The Finger Lakes Anthology\, in Bluff and Vine and Avocet. A volume of her poetry is now available\, A MYTH IN REVERSE\, published by Kelsay Books. Solá has visited Japan many times and in1983 attended a Papermakers Conference in Kyoto. An exhibit of her paperwork was presented in Nara in 2000. Her prints and paper artwork have been shown in New York\, Copenhagen\, Kyoto\, and Lima\, Peru. When asked about the moves from one art form to another\, she says\, “It’s really all the same thing.”
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/book-launch-a-myth-in-reverse/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240518T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240518T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T003058
CREATED:20240426T130116Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T130116Z
UID:10003830-1716048000-1716051600@www.downtownithaca.com
SUMMARY:Book Launch - ODAR Book One: Jido
DESCRIPTION:Denice Peter Karamardian grew up in Ithaca\, New York\, thinking she was Syrian – part of the small Syrian community that co-mingled with Greek\, Italian\, and other 20th century immigrant communities that helped to build the little city from the turn of the 20th century. Although both of her paternal grandparents came from Syria and spoke in Syrian\, she was only half right. At the age of 12\, she learned that her grandfather was actually Armenian and certain mysteries and stories emerged upon his death. Denice spent a lifetime searching for answers and details. \nThe result is a trilogy\, presented as historic fiction but based entirely upon the true story of the Karamardian family across continents\, wars\, and generations. The series is called Odar\, which means “other” in Armenian; sometimes it can mean “stranger” or “foreigner”. The author tracks a parallel narration of her own coming of age as it relates to the discoveries she makes in her search for identity. \nAbout the Book \nHovsep Karamardian is on the precipice of adulthood. Finishing his education\, he awaits a life in the family business that seems to him like a prison. On an errand to market\, an unexpected confrontation forever changes him. After living a life surrounded by family and friends in Kessab\, he is abruptly forced to travel with his brother to start again in the Americas. \nHovsep is odar or other in this new world. Relying on nothing but his own intrepid nature and ability to adapt\, he finds work\, love\, and friendships that will last a lifetime. \nThus begins a story that will span generations and trace the unfolding of improbably linked fates. Denice Peter Karamardian’s Jido explores the honoring of family\, memory\, and legacy even in the midst of new beginnings and evolving identities. \nAbout the Author \nDenice Peter Karamardian owns and operates a regional publication for Finger Lakes wine visitors and is at work on several books. She is retired from a rich tapestry of overlapping careers that spanned over forty plus years and included instructing voice\, host/producer of radio concert broadcast series\, fifty years of music and theater performance\, columnist and reviewer. She currently lives in her hometown of Ithaca\, New York (where she operated a bed and breakfast for two decades) near/with her family.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/book-launch-odar-book-one-jido/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240516T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240516T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T003058
CREATED:20240426T132424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T132424Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Widely Book Club - The Golem of Brooklyn
DESCRIPTION:For this month’s Reading Widely Book Club\, Buffalo Street Books’ Events Coordinator Nora will be leading conversation alongside Khiya Connolly-Sisk on Adam Mansbach’s most recent novel\, The Golem of Brooklyn. \nBook club titles are 10% off when purchased in-store and online. \nAbout the Book \nIn Ashkenazi Jewish folklore\, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated through secret prayers. Its sole purpose is to defend the Jewish people against the immediate threat of violence. It is always a rabbi who makes a golem\, and always in a time of crisis. But Len Bronstein is no rabbi–he’s a Brooklyn art teacher who steals a large quantity of clay from his school\, gets extremely stoned\, and manages to bring his creation to life despite knowing little about Judaism and even less about golems. Unable to communicate with his nine-foot-six\, four hundred-pound\, Yiddish-speaking guest\, Len enlists a bodega clerk and ex-Hasid named Miri Apfelbaum to translate. Eventually\, The Golem learns English by binging Curb Your Enthusiasm after ingesting a massive amount of LSD and reveals that he is a creature with an ancestral memory; he recalls every previous iteration of himself\, making The Golem a repository of Jewish history and trauma. He demands to know what crisis has prompted his re-creation\, and whom must he destroy. When Miri shows him a video of white nationalists marching and chanting “Jews will not replace us\,” the answer becomes clear. \nAbout the Author \nAdam Mansbach is a novelist\, screenwriter\, cultural critic and humorist. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F*** to Sleep\, which has been translated into forty languages\, named Time Magazine’s 2011 “Thing of the Year\,” and sold over two million copies worldwide. The 2014 sequel\, “You Have to F****** Eat\,” is also a New York Times bestseller. \nMansbach is the recipient of a Reed Award\, a Webby Award\, and a Gold Pollie from the American Association of Political Consultants for his 2012 campaign video “Wake The F*** Up\,” starring Samuel L. Jackson. He was the 2009-11 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University\, a 2012 Sundance Screenwriting Lab Fellow\, and a 2013 Berkeley Repertory Theatre Writing Fellow. His work has appeared in The New Yorker\, New York Times Book Review\, Esquire\, The Believer\, The Guardian\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Boston Globe\, and on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered\, The Moth Storytelling Hour\, and This American Life. Mansbach lives in Berkeley\, California\, and is a frequent lecturer on college campuses.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reading-widely-book-club-the-golem-of-brooklyn/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240511T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240511T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T003058
CREATED:20240426T132320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T132320Z
UID:10003827-1715425200-1715446800@www.downtownithaca.com
SUMMARY:Beltane Market
DESCRIPTION:Our Maker’s Market is back! Join us for a full day of browsing products made by local artists and celebrate springtime with our BSB community.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/beltane-market/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240508T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240508T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T003058
CREATED:20240426T130320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240501T181010Z
UID:10003833-1715191200-1715198400@www.downtownithaca.com
SUMMARY:Bye Bye Tiberias Screening at Cinemapolis
DESCRIPTION:About the Event \nBuffalo Street Books and Cinemapolis are partnering for another film screening and book sale double feature. Get some popcorn\, check out some books\, and enjoy the screening of Bye Bye Tiberius. \nAbout the Film \nIn her early twenties\, Hiam Abbass left her native Palestinian village to follow her dream of becoming an actress in Europe\, leaving behind her mother\, grandmother\, and seven sisters. Thirty years later\, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to the village and questions for the first time her mother’s bold choices\, her chosen exile and the way the women in their family influenced both their lives. Set between past and present\, Bye Bye Tiberias pieces together images of today\, family footage from the nineties and historical archives to portray four generations of daring Palestinian women who keep their story and legacy alive through the strength of their bonds\, despite exile\, dispossession\, and heartbreak.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/bye-bye-tiberias-screening-at-cinemapolis/
LOCATION:Cinemapolis\, 120 W Green St\, Ithaca\, 14850
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T153000
DTSTAMP:20260429T003058
CREATED:20240426T132006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T132006Z
UID:10003826-1714831200-1714836600@www.downtownithaca.com
SUMMARY:Blood City Rollers
DESCRIPTION:Join V Park Anderson (she/they)\, the creator/writer of debut horror/comedy graphic novel series BLOOD CITY ROLLERS\, and their Alternate Universe (AU) City Podcast co-host Rey Noble (they/he) as they discuss collaborative storytelling\, the graphic novel creation process\, roller derby\, and teamwork as world-saving praxis. Bonus: get your book signed\, win a signed hardcover copy\, and/or learn more about local derby! \nAbout the Book \nAfter ice skater and Olympic hopeful Mina wipes out at her biggest competition\, she gets recruited by a squad of vampires who need a human player to complete their Paranormal Roller Derby team. \nAbout the Author and Illustrator \nVeronica Park (VP) Anderson (she/they) is a neurodivergent\, queer\, feminist millennial writer with a resume that Victor Frankenstein would disown for being “a bit much.” V’s previous job titles include: award-winning community theater actor\, professional lecturer on cruise ships\, indie film producer\, literary agent\, and creative project manager; however\, “writer” is the title that always fits. V plays competitive flat track roller derby as “Scarlet Five” #55 and prefers the pivot role\, aka “surprise jamming.” Born in Alaska and raised in Oregon\, she currently lives with her partner in Upstate NY and has two cats named Skeletor and Bo-Catan. \nTatiana Hill (she/her) is a Black and Latina illustrator by day and roller skater by night. Her art journey began alongside her love for anime in the early 2000s and culminated with a BA in Animation. Receiving awards for Best Art Direction\, she would later apply her skill set in color and design to illustration. Born in Los Angeles and a member of the roller skate community there\, Tatiana enjoys participating in a space that celebrates diversity\, identity\, and found family. She illustrated The Roller World Tarot deck and Blood City Rollers\, her debut graphic novel as an illustrator.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/blood-city-rollers/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240428T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240428T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T003058
CREATED:20240329T203515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240329T203515Z
UID:10003760-1714309200-1714323600@www.downtownithaca.com
SUMMARY:Zine-Making Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to design\, print\, and bind zines for your DIY publishing toolkit. Students will be introduced to bookbinding that is ideal for zines and explore ways to write and illustrate their own content. Next\, students will learn how to layout and design their zine and inkjet print 15 copies of their project. Participants will have options to display or sell copies at the Ithaca Book & Zine Fair. Materials will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring any art making supplies they want to use. \nThis class will be facilitated by Adam Bryant and Laura Rowley\, who are both local book artists. Adam Bryant earned his MFA from the University of Iowa Center for the Book in 2021. At UICB\, his areas of study were bookbinding\, book history\, letterpress printing and papermaking. Since 2022\, he has worked as a Senior Conservation Technician in the Cornell University Library Conservation Lab. Laura Rowley earned her MFA from the University of Alabama in 2014. Laura operates Illuminated Press\, a micro press that publishes handmade books. She is also a Library Assistant at the Odessa Library bringing programs to all ages. \nPurchase your tickets here!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/zine-making-workshop/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240427T110000
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SUMMARY:Indie Bookstore Day at Buffalo Street Books
DESCRIPTION: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!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/indie-bookstore-day-at-buffalo-street-books/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240420T140000
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SUMMARY:Reading: Grace Period with Elisabeth Nonas
DESCRIPTION:Join Elisabeth Nonas for a reading from her new novel Grace Period. \nAbout the Book: \nJust 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 two had for their lives\, especially since Grace was ten years younger than Hannah. The plan had been for Hannah to join her art history professor wife on a sabbatical trip to Europe. Grace would do research\, and Hannah would figure out what she wanted to do in her retirement. How does an independent\, feisty lesbian adjust to both her suddenly widowed and newly retired life? How can she survive the loss of the spouse who statistically should have survived her? Grace Period tackles these questions head-on in an intimate\, witty portrayal of a woman grappling with the new and unexpected turn her life has taken. It is a tale of love\, loss\, and survival. \nAbout the Author: \nElisabeth Nonas\, the author of three published novels\, has written several screenplays as well as short stories\, magazine articles\, and essays. She coauthored with Simon LeVay the nonfiction City of Friends: A Portrait of the Gay and Lesbian Community in America. The author taught screenwriting and writing for emerging media at Ithaca College for twenty-five years. Nonas’s three novels focused on how lesbians form community and create family. Given that her first book appeared forty years ago when she was in her mid-30s\, she clearly has different concerns now as she ages and her life continues to unfold. These were what sparked “Grace Period.”Originally from New York City\, she lives in Ithaca\, NY\, with her spouse\, founding publisher and editor of Firebrand Books\, Nancy K. Bereano.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reading-grace-period-with-elisabeth-nonas/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T170000
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SUMMARY:Board Game Night
DESCRIPTION: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! \nLeave your donations here!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/board-game-night/
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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