Piano by Nature and Champlain Area Trails Present

Piano Concert at the Essex Quarry Nature Preserve

Saturday, October 19, 2024, 2 – 3 pm (rescheduled from last summer)

More info HERE.

Essex Quarry Nature Preserve, 2215 Lake Shore Rd, Essex (1/2 mile south of the blinking light in Essex, NY)

BluSeed Studios Presents

Sober Open Minded Mic 

Friday, October 18, 2024, 7 – 9 pm. In person sign up starts at 6:30 pm

BluSeed Studios has a long tradition of providing alternate entertainment. The Open Minded Mic Nights are local favorite and for years was the only local open mic. It’s now the Sober Open Minded Mic. It is inclusive to all—children and teens, families and people in recovery.  

Open Minded Mic Nights are held the third Friday of the Month, September through June.

September’s Spotlight Artist is Wayne Failing. Wayne is a NYS licensed guide and musician. Although he writes songs, he also plays fresh interpretations of well known songs. 

More info HERE.

BluSeed Studios, 24 Cedar Street, Saranac Lake

The Westport Library Presents

The Crisis of the Union, Then and Now

by Connor Williams, American Historian

October 15, 2024, 6 pm, Free. $20 suggested donation to support 

In the third and final yalk of a three-part series held this summer and fall, Williams will present The Crisis of the Union, Then and Now. Using a historical perspective, Williams will illuminate the many factors from approximately 1848 to 1861 that started a conflict that (between those fighting for the United States and those fighting against them) killed more Americans than all our other wars from 1775 onward, combined.    

Following the presentation, Williams will guide a respectful discussion about the current politics of our present, and how they both resonate and differ with the passions of the past. For these conversations he will keep the focus more on trends and ideologies than party affiliation; Williams only plans on using “Republican” and “Democrat” in their historical, 1850s sense.  

Westport Library, 6 Harris Lane, Westport

The Grange Fall 2024 Lyceum Series

For the Love of Peat: The Hidden World of Northern Peatlands

Tuesday, October 15, 2024, 7 – 8:30 pm

Nestled in the heart of the Adirondack Park there are vast swaths of sphagnum moss stretching across the horizon. Ancient black spruce trees and fields of sedges pepper a dense blanket of green, red, and gold moss. This spongy riot of color and texture conceals another world beneath the surface. What looks like a wide and flat valley is actually a floating raft of vegetation submerged in water. These expansive, floating mats are called peatlands, and their future is in our hands.

Join Charlie Reinertsen to hear about his investigations into Northern Peatlands in Adirondack Park. Learn how these ecosystems can support biodiversity and address climate change. Charlie will share aerial footage and photography from The Northern Peatlands Project, a visual journey through one of Earth’s rarest ecosystems. Visit HERE to learn more about The Northern Peatlands Project and to subscribe to monthly news, delivered straight from our peatlands. 

Learn more HERE.

Whallonburg Grange, 1610 NYS Route 22, Whallonsburg

North Country Community College Presents

The Pathless Woods 

By  Karen Lewis

Tuesday, October 15, 1 pm, Mills Mezzanine on the Malone campus

Tuesday, October 22, 1 pm, Mulholland Hall S-19 on the Saranac Lake campus. Both are free of charge and open to the public.

North Country Community College will host two readings of the play The Pathless Woods by renowned playwright Karen Lewis.

Directed by Beth Glover, The Pathless Woods features Laura Farrell as Sarah and Tekonwenaharake (Ronni) Sunday, who graduated from the college in May, as Jess.

The play is an exploration of life, death, loss, and moving on. Two strangers with seemingly different agendas meet on a mountain in the Adirondacks.  Sarah is distraught and looking for answers. Will Jess keep her from taking the wrong path?

More info HERE.

Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council Presents

Feltmaking with Joy Muller-McCoola

October 17, 1 1am – 1 pm

Learn to wet felt a small vessel or pouch using a resist and wool roving. We will layout wool around a flat plastic sheet and create surface and three dimensional form simultaneously with only soap, water, and our hands. All materials supplied. For all artistic abilities.

Additional details and register HERE.

LARAC’s Lapham Gallery,  7 Lapham Place, Glens Falls

Lake Placid Center for the Arts Presents

Ghost Light: Between Fall and Flight

Saturday, October 19, 2024, 7:30 pm

A Quebec City-based circus company that creates moments of emotion and escape.

The curtain falls. The theatre is plunged into darkness. Only a single light watches guard: the “Ghost Light.”

The ghosts that inhabit the space are drawn toward the ghost light. As they recall the energy of a past life, they push each other around, push each other away, enjoy themselves, tear each other apart, only to fall into an embrace once again.

Ghost Light: Between Fall and Flight makes visible what is invisible. The two beings lead us into a captivating performance that features a blend of stunning acrobatic feats, choreography, ghostly lights and upbeat music.

Let yourself be moved by this story that touches the spirit beyond mere mortal words.

Additional details—including an exciting trailer— and tickets HERE.

LPCA, 17 Algonquin Drive, Lake Placid

Cowboy Poetry

Saranac Village at Will Rogers