Lake Flower Landing Presents

Syd Straw & Chris Kowanko

Saturday, October 12, 8 pm

Chris Kowanko will open for indie-rock legend Syd Straw.  Scott Renderer will sit in on drums. On Syd’s first visit to the Adirondacks from southern Vermont, she will be accompanied by guitarist Don Piper, her accompanist for more than two decades.

Syd Straw began singing backup for Pat Benatar, then took her distinctive and powerful voice to the indie/alternative scene. 

Chris’s second album, Spell, was produced by Steve Fisk, who produced many prominent Northwest bands, like Nirvana, and Soundgarden. Spell features pop songs that balance heart, humor, and delicious stick-in-the-ear melodies. Chris moved to Upper Jay, NY, in the early 2000’s, and formed Monsterbuck, an electric trio with the Renderer brothers, Scott and Byron.  Scott will join Chris at Lake Flower Landing on drums.
The appeal of seeing Syd Straw in person includes her quick wit, warmth and ability to connect with audiences. She’ll be performing a catalog of original songs and covers. There’s real potential for collaboration with these charismatic performers. 

Learn more HERE.

$15 Advance, $20 at-the-door. For tickets email seward.peter@gmail.com.

Champlain Valley Film Series

The Saranac Lake Free Library Presents

FIBRARY 

Thru Saturday, November 30 

Monday – Friday: 10 – 6, 
Saturday: 10 – 2

Our annual Fiber Art Show features a showcase of our local talents in the large department of Fibers including knits, crocheted animals, hand hooked rugs, quilts, art made of felt, wool, cotton, osier and more!

Cantwell Room, Saranac Lake Free Library, 109 Main St, Saranac Lake

The Sembrich Receives Award for Excellence

The Greater Hudson Heritage Network (GHHN) has awarded The Sembrich a 2024 Award for Excellence for our recent efforts to preserve Marcella Sembrich’s “Queen of the Night” costume!

This Project Award is in recognition of the successful preservation of Marcella Sembrich’s “Queen of the Night” costume. The gown, currently the centerpiece of The Sembrich’s 2024 studio centennial exhibition, “Mastering Mozart,” was worn by Sembrich in her role for the Metropolitan Opera’s 1900 premiere production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute). It is the single largest conservation project for a collection item completed in the organization’s history. Gwen Spicer, of Spicer Art Conservation, completed conservation activities, and the extensive treatments included encapsulation of the majority of the costume in fine, custom-dyed netting, stabilization of different components of the couture gown, train, and veil, recreation of one shoulder element based on historical photos, and the re-attachment of hundreds of sequins.

Learn more HERE.

The Sembrich, 4800 Lake Shore Drive, Bolton Landing

The Adirondack Center for Writing Presents

Lady in the Lake, with Sophie Morelli
+ Open Mic

Wednesday, October 16, 7 pm 

Join us for the first reading of Lake Placid native Sophie Morelli’s debut collection of poems, and an open mic where anyone can share up to five minutes of their own writing (bonus points if you make it spooky!). 

In 1933 Mabel Smith Douglass took a row boat across Lake Placid and never returned. You’ve probably heard her referred to as “The Lady in the Lake”, but in Fathom (Bottlecap Press, 2024), Sophie Morelli asks: who was Mabel Smith Douglass, and what can we learn from her story about family, grief, and home?

Sophie Morelli is an Adirondacks-based poet holding a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Writing, as well as a Master’s Degree in English Education, both from SUNY Potsdam. She was an Anne Labastille Memorial Writing resident in the fall of 2023 and has work featured with Querencia Press and Illuminated Press. Her poem “When They Turn The Sun On Again” was part of ACW’s Postcard Poems broadside series.

Register HERE. (Free)

ACW, 15 Broadway, Saranac Lake

The View Presents

Sumi-e Japanese Brush Painting 

Virtual Live Zoom

Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 10 am – 1 pm

Join Janet Nye Vedder on an artistic journey through art and culture. Sumi-e Japanese Brush Painting is a beautiful and unique style of artwork.  In this class, we will have fun learning about and creating in this beautiful ancient style. Using only three simple tools, ink, brush, and paper, you will learn to create captivating artwork using the beauty and freedom of the Sumi-e brush line, and the values created by the ink.  In this class, we will learn and practice brushstrokes that will take us through all of ‘The Four Gentlemen.”

More info and register HERE.

Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council Presents

Monotype Printing with Joan Reid

October 16th | 10 am – 12 pm

Learn the art of printing monotypes with artist Joan Reid. For all abilities and supplies are provided, but participants are welcome to bring their own watermedia and paper.

Register HERE.

LARAC, 7 Lapham Place, Glens Falls

Friday, October 18, 7 pm

Note: the Friday, October 11 tour sold out—don’t miss this one!

Join us for a walking tour around downtown Glens Falls to hear spooky stories and tales of possible hauntings!

This tour will take approximately 45 minutes and will be followed by refreshments around a firepit back at the Chapman.

Tours are $15/person or $10 for Chapman members.

Payment is required at the time of registration. A minimum of four participants are required for tours to run and no more than 15 participants per tour.

To register, please call (518)793-2826.

Participants can park at the Chapman Museum in the lot behind the Museum off Bacon Street.

Chapman Museum, 348 Glen Street, Glens Falls

Flaming Leaves Festival 

Saturday & Sunday, October 12 & 13, 2024

Named to the list of “13 Best Festivals in Ski Country,” as featured in Ski Magazine.

With a variety of local color, live music, crafts, food and beer vendors and activities for the whole family, all with one of the premier ski jumping events of the season, the USA Nordic National Championships. Fall celebrations don’t get better than this! 

Dance to live music while elite ski jumpers soar overhead with the beautiful high peaks in the background. Flaming Leaves combines live entertainment, thrilling competition, captivating vendor booths, and good old family fun. Don’t miss this fan-favorite festival in Lake Placid.

Watch a video HERE.

Find out more, see the full schedule and get tickets HERE.

Olympic Jumping Complex, 52 Ski Jump Lane, Lake Placid