Bell Fire Arts Collective Presents

Story Circle

with SpeakEazy host Alex Clark

Wednesday, January 22, 7-9

The Story Circle is an opportunity for a group of Storytellers to share their stories.

Here’s how the story circle works:

Everyone gets 15 minutes (more depending on attendance) to

tell any story you want. It can be something you’re working on for an open mic, or just something you want to develop for yourself. Limited to 8 tellers.

After we tell, we open it up to the group for whatever feedback you’d like.

Read some storytelling ideas and tips HERE.

Email Alex at home.aclark@gmail.com if you are interested in attending to get all the details including directions.

The Oval, Plattsburgh

Champlain Valley Film Series Presents

Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts Presents

Back in Blue: The Online Series

H.M.S. Pinafore

Available Saturday, January 18 on our YouTube Channel HERE.

Join us as our Back in Blue: The Online Series brings back concerts and theatre performances from our fantastic 2024 season! These free-to-watch videos will begin appearing on our  YouTube Channel in January and run through February and March, in preparation for the Arts Center’s 2025 season in our new home.

First up will be H.M.S. Pinafore, from August 2024.

The View Arts Center Presents Artist Talk

Alan Friedman: Starlight

Wednesday, January 22, 2025, 7 – 8 pm, Virtual

Alan Friedman will present his photography techniques and processes on Zoom. He will speak about varying filters that reaveal different aspects of solar energy, to create the beautiful varied colors seen in the exhibition Starlight. 

This talk is for all, from Photographers to Artists to Astrofanatics  to those who always want to learn more!

Register in advance for this webinar HERE.

Adirondack Folk School Presents

2025 Course Catalog now online

The full AFS Course Catalog is now available digitally! With each class being linked directly to online enrollment, signing up for AFS courses has never been easier. 

View the catalog HERE.

Adirondack Center for Writing Presents

Poem Village 2025: open for submissions

Now through March 17, 2025

Since 2016, ACW has invited writers of all ages, experience levels, and locations within the North Country to send poems to be published and installed in windows in Saranac Lake during National Poetry Month.

In 2025, a second copy of each poem we publish will appear in shop windows in Plattsburgh in collaboration with Outside Art: Plattsburgh Public Art Project, in Malone in collaboration with Downtown Artists Cellar, and in St Lawrence County in collaboration with SLC Arts.

Learn more including how to submit HERE.

The Wild Center Nomination for Best Science Museum 

For the third year in a row, The Wild Center is honored to be nominated as “Best Science Museum” in USA TODAY‘s 2025 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards. But The Wild Center isn’t just a nominee; it’s defending its title. Last year, the Center was named the best science museum in the country among institutions like Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute and Detroit’s Michigan Science Center. Friends and fans of The Wild Center are encouraged to vote online now until Feb. 10.

Selected by a panel of travel experts, the list of 20 nominees highlights museums nationwide where the wonders of science and natural history spring to life. Voting for the awards is open to the public, and votes are tallied daily. Readers are allowed one online vote per day.

“To be nominated for this award for three consecutive years is an incredible honor,” said The Wild Center’s Marketing Director, Nick Gunn. “To win last year is a testament to our community and shows the world what the Adirondacks are made of. We encourage everyone to show that small-town spirit by voting early, voting often, and helping us put our corner of the world on the map once again.” 

To vote for The Wild Center, fans can visit HERE and cast their ballot once per day until polls close at 12 p.m. EST on Feb. 10. Winners will be announced on Wed., Feb. 19.

The Wild Center, 45 Museum Dr, Tupper Lake

North Country Children’s Museum Presents

Frosty Fest! Community Snowman Competition

Saturday, January 25th (no snow date Feb 1st), 11 am – 1 pm

Come build a snowman, snow woman, snow animal, or snow sculpture with your family and friends. Register in the gazebo and build from 11 am to 12:30 pm, judging at 12:30, award ceremony at 1 pm. Free s’mores, hot cocoa, cookies, and coffee in the gazebo. Winter story walk with the Potsdam Public Library. 

Event held in partnership with SLC Arts & the Potsdam Chamber of Commerce. There will be 5 awards with prizes for each of the two age groups, Family/Kid and Adult:

People’s Choice

Best In Snow

Most Artistic

Most Comedic

Most “North Country”

Ives Park, 3 Riverview Dr, Potsdam