ALCA announces new home at 

Potters Resort in Blue Mountain Lake

The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts (ALCA) is thrilled to announce the purchase of Potters Resort on Blue Mountain Lake as the new home for ALCA. 

Potters Resort is an inviting, updated, renovated property with a historic event hall, which will serve as ALCA’s new performance space–enhanced by a spectacular lake view.  Potters Resort will not only host ALCA’s performances, but also will provide housing for visiting creatives, gallery exhibits, and offer space for art classes, and an artisan gift shop.

“This is a transformative and sustainable move for ALCA that serves both the local and regional Adirondack community.  We thank our generous supporters who led and helped in this grassroots fundraising effort to purchase this property.  We are so grateful to everyone for their financial support–as well as for their vision for ALCA in our new home on Blue Mountain Lake.” says Jean-Marie Donohue, Development General Director. 

This purchase was made possible with the generous support of The West Bay Fund, Stewart’s Shops and The Dake Family Foundation, Cloudsplitter Foundation, a NY Department of Environmental Conservation Smart Growth Grant, Charles R. Wood Foundation, The Bicknell Fund, and the Price Chopper Golub Foundation.

Learn more HERE.

BluSeed Studios Presents

Hiroya Tsukamoto

Saturday, November 2, 6:30 pm

Hiroyais a one-of-a-kind composer, guitarist and singer-songwriter from Kyoto, Japan. He began playing the five-string banjo when he was thirteen, and took up the guitar shortly after.

In 2000, Hiroya received a scholarship to Berklee College of Music and came to the United States. He formed his own group in Boston “INTEROCEANICO (inter-oceanic)” which consists of unique musicians from different continents including Latin Grammy Colombian singer Marta Gomez. The group released three acclaimed records (“The Other Side of the World”, “Confluencia” and “Where the River Shines”). Hiroya has released three solo albums (“Solo,” “Heartland” and “Places”).

Hiroya has been leading concerts internationally including several appearances at Blue Note (NYC), United Nations and Japanese National Television (NHK).  Hiroya won 2nd place in International Finger Style Guitar Championship both in 2018 and 2022.

“The fingerpicking is delicate, fluid, and beautifully detailed” -Acoustic Guitar Magazine

Get tickets HERE.

BluSeed Studios, 24 Cedar Street, Saranac Lake

Red Carpet Cocktail

Friday, November 8, 2024, 5;30- 8:30

Join us for Q&A and Cocktails with Lake Placid Film Festival Artists in Residence Jacob Krueger and Jonathan Burkhart and acclaimed MGM+ Producer Jill Burkhart. 

Come find out the inside of the business from a filmmakers point of view: Bring your questions to learn about the insights from those who negotiate from concept all the way to the first day of filming. Prepare to dig deep into the mechanics of the filmmaking process!

Find out more and get tickets HERE.

Note: This event sold out the last three years—Don’t delay!

High Peaks Resort, 2384 Saranac Ave, Lake Placid

The Lake Placid Film Festival Presents

Double Feature: Descendance & In the Dirt

2023, Sports Documentary
Friday, November 8, 7 pm
In Partnership with Barkeater Trails Alliance (BETA)

In the Dirt: Through a grassroots native-led effort, this group of dedicated cyclists and their families have overcome countless odds to build a cycling culture that today has become the fastest-growing recreational sport on the Navajo Nation.

Descendance: In a sport known for its lack of diversity, Dennis Ranalter has defied the odds and risen to become an exceptional freeride skier recognized and respected around the world. Growing up Black, deep in the Austrian Tyrol, he encountered a lifetime of overt and covert racism of which he has rarely spoken until now.

Learn more and purchase tickets HERE.

Lake Placid Center for the Arts, 17 Algonquin Dr, Lake Placid

The Adirondack Center for Writing Presents

The Art of Adaptation

Friday, November 8,  12:30 – 1:30 pm

As part of the Lake Placid Film Festival, the Adirondack Center for Writing (ACW) will present a discussion led by ACW director Nathalie Thill and WGA award winning screenwriter Jacob Krueger and will cover: the similarities and differences between book writing and writing for TV or film, how to know if a book can be translated into a movie or TV show, how to decide to write the screenplay or turn it over to a screenwriter and how to best make the transition to the business of screenwriting.

“We’re so excited to be a part of the Lake Placid Film Festival again this year,” said Nathalie Thill, executive director of ACW. “Whether you’re writing a novel, memoir, short story or creative nonfiction, this conversation will give you a new perspective on the art of adaptation.”

This event is free and does not require a festival pass. See the full festival schedule and register for this event and others HERE.

Armstrong Room, High Peaks Resort, 2384 Saranac Ave, Lake Placid

Fort Ticonderoga Living History Event 

“The Enemy Are Refortifying Ticonderoga”

Saturday, November 9, 2024, 10 – 4

This living history event explores British and American loyalist soldiers launching one last campaign to Ticonderoga in the fall of 1781. Highlighted programming throughout the day features the encampment of soldiers, sailors, and their eventual departure back north. Discover the network of scouts and spies through which the British government, the independent state of Vermont, and the Continental Congress, negotiated their borders.

Fort Ticonderoga, 102 Fort Ti Road, Ticonderoga