Come experience Auburn’s First Friday event on June 1st

Published: 05/29/2018 @ 08:00 am

Each venue offers their own spin on entertainment with free admission & refreshments, food & beverage specials and discounted merchandise to contribute to this monthly community celebration. Activities include exhibit receptions, art making & live music. First Friday is organized by Downtown Auburn BID & Auburn’s Historic & Cultural Sites Commission. Try the Y for FREE Time: 5AM – 9:30PM... more

Seneca Falls 3rd annual Canal Festival

Published: 05/31/2018 @ 08:00 am

The Seneca Falls Business Association (SFBA) is inviting all groups, organizations, businesses, wineries, breweries, cideries, distilleries, restaurants, arts & craft vendors, food vendors, boaters, and watercraft of any kind to participate at this year’s Canal Fest. Last year’s Canal Fest drew an estimated 18,000 visitors over the 3-day event and anticipates that the amount of visitors will grow. SFBA is... more

Create the Hops Splash Community Mural at Good Shepherds Brewing Co.

Published: 06/07/2018 @ 08:00 am

“Art for Auburn” artists are invited to help create a painted mural of hops & wheat, the ingredients used in brewing the craft beer made inside at 132 Genesee Street. The design was conceived by Kendall Doub, a professional artist and graphic designer based in Winston-Salem, NC. Doub connected with Art for Auburn Project Manager Jesse Kline through mutual friend... more

Zajac brings Genesee Symphony Orchestra to Ovid to perform Elgar’s Concerto for Cello and Hanson’s Symphony No. 2

Published: 05/16/2018 @ 08:00 am

South Seneca Central School graduate and Music Director S. Shade Zajac will bring his Genesee Symphony Orchestra to his home town for a concert at the South Seneca High School Auditorium on at 5:00 pm on Sunday May 20th that will include Elgar’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, featuring Mimi Hwang on Cello, Howard Hanson’s Symphony No. 2 “Romantic” and other works. The... more

“Explore the Color Around You” with Kari Ganoung Ruiz

Published: 05/16/2018 @ 08:00 am

Join The Finger Lakes Museum & Aquarium (FLM&A) in Branchport on June 2nd, 9:30am-noon, for a family-friendly presentation and color observation called “Explore the Color Around You” led by artist Kari Ganoung Ruiz! Kari’s presentation will cover historic and current artists who work and live in the Finger Lakes Region, and will explain why this area inspires her paintings. Kari... more

Charlotte’s Web comes to the Smith Opera House Stage

Published: 05/09/2018 @ 08:00 am

The Smith Center for the Arts will present Charlotte’s Web at 10 a.m. and noon on Monday, May 21st, performed by Theatreworks USA. Charlotte’s Web is part of The Smith’s ArtSmart Educational Theatre Program. While the 10 a.m. performance is sold out, tickets still remain for the noon show. Both performances take place at the Smith Opera House at 82... more

Living History to show Civil War Engineering

Published: 05/09/2018 @ 08:00 am

History comes alive on Oak Island when area reenactors set up their tents at Celebrate Commemorate on Friday-Sunday, May 25th-28th. “We are excited that this year, the encampment will focus on the engineering that developed during the Civil War,” said Living History chair Marty Hillman. “ The encampment will attract reenactors from around the region and across the country, “... more

Auditions announced for Seneca Community Players’ production Are You Being Served?

Published: 05/14/2018 @ 08:00 am

Lovers of innuendo and British humor, Flying Circus fans and seekers of laughs – look no further than Seneca Community Player’s uproarious next production Are You Being Served?. To the delight of fans everywhere, the popular British television comedy by the same name, and seen on PBS, has been adapted for the stage. Double entendres are non-stop as the well-loved... more

Jazz, Rock concert at Cayuga Community College

Published: 05/01/2018 @ 08:00 am

The Cayuga Community College Jazz Combo and Rock Ensemble Spring Concerts on May 8th will feature students performing songs from legendary performers and songwriters. Professor Michael Cortese, who is also music coordinator for Cayuga’s School of Music and the Arts, said the Jazz Combo will perform compositions by Herbie Mann, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis and Eddie Harris. The songs will... more

South Seneca Chorus visits Roberts Wesleyan

Published: 05/01/2018 @ 08:00 am

The South Seneca High School Chorus visited choral conductor Dr. Adam Potter and other faculty on Thursday, April 5th at Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, New York. Dr. Potter was a classmate of Mrs. Kyla Perry, 6-12 Choral Director at South Seneca Middle High School, when they were undergraduate students at Houghton College. Dr. Potter holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees... more

Vendors wanted for Celebrate-Commemorate Juried Arts & Craft Show

Published: 04/17/2018 @ 08:00 am

Calling all artisans!! We are eager to invite you to our Arts & Crafts Show during our nationally recognized Celebrate Commemorate Memorial Festival in the birthplace of Memorial Day, Waterloo, NY. We always have a huge crowd estimated in the 10 thousands. If you or anyone you know is interested, please don’t hesitate to join us! Applications can be downloaded... more

Grants will help multiple projects get off the ground in Newark

Published: 03/22/2018 @ 08:00 am

Seven education and recreation projects will get off the ground this year with funding support from the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor. The grants are aimed at inspiring people to learn more about New York’s legendary canals and further explore the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor.   The grants range from $2,000 to $7,000 and are leveraging an additional $77,231 in... more

Taking the stage: Students demand change to IHS show casting

Published: 02/12/2018 @ 10:00 am

Back in September, Ithaca High School announced that the performing arts program would be putting on the musical “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” based on the original book by Victor Hugo with music from the Disney movie. But after the announcement of the chosen cast, the show was thrown into the spotlight for what has become the controversial casting choice... more

Smith Center for the Arts looks to upgrade in 2018

Published: 12/27/2017 @ 05:00 am

It’s going to be a busy year at the venerable Smith Center for the Arts — and not all for the music, theatre and dance performances for which the opera house is known. 2018 will bring in what new Executive Director Susie Monagan and its board leader call a host of much-needed renovations. Armed with $719,500 in state grants, the... more

Environmental tests, concept designs unveiled for 1-7 State St. lot

Published: 11/28/2017 @ 05:00 am

Preliminary soil and ground water tests for the future community park space at 1-7 State St. — the site of the former Kalet building — came back “non-detect” for contamination, Ted Liddell, a landscape architect with Bergmann Associates, said during a public meeting Monday night at the Hilton Garden Inn. Given the site’s history of lawsuits based the environmental testing,... more

Environmental tests, concept designs unveiled for 1-7 State St. lot

Published: 11/28/2017 @ 05:00 am

Environmental tests, concept designs unveiled for 1-7 State St. lot

Published: 11/28/2017 @ 05:00 am

Ithaca College student and production partner win prestigious award

Published: 11/16/2017 @ 05:00 am

Kyle Arnold, a senior in the Journalism Department at Ithaca College, developed, along with Ismael Byers from Hope College in Holland, Michigan, a short film called, “Solitude: A Companion Abroad,” documenting the four months the two men spent studying in Chile at the renowned Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Santiago. Although the weather was always hot while there from February... more

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