Improv Show with Joe Conto

Thursday, March 6, 7 pm

Lake Placid Center for the Arts, and Improv with JoeConto, present an evening of improv comedy. 

Improviser, teacher, and performer Joe Conto will direct his students through a series of improvised scenes and games, all made up on the spot from suggestions provided by the audience. Don’t miss this free event for a chance to laugh away the winter blues.

The Garagery (rear entrance), 53 Main Street, Saranac Lake

Grange Lyceum series presents

Finding True North, with author Fran Yardley

Tuesday, March 4, 7 pm

The Grange Lyceum series continues  with author Fran Yardley. This talk and Fran’s book, Finding True North, tell the story of the remarkable adventure to revive the revive the long-abandoned but historic Bartlett Carry Club on Upper Saranac Lake, with its one thousand acres and thirty-seven buildings. Fran and her husband, Jay, came to the Adirondacks as a young couple in 1968 with the dream to restore the property that had been in Jay’s family for generations.

The Whallonsburg Grange, 1610 NYS Rt. 22, Essex

North Country Public Radio and Adirondack Center for Writing present

The Howl Story Slam

Season 9 begins!

Tuesday, March 4, 7 pm

The theme is “Kitchen Confidential”—we’re talking culinary catastrophes, the questionable things you’ve seen in a restaurant kitchen, the joy of a perfectly cooked meal, a secret family recipe, or anything else cooking and kitchen related.

Think you’ve got a story to share? Sign up at the beginning of the night and take the stage. Stories must be told in five minutes or less, with no notes or props. Don’t want to tell a story? No problem! Come be part of the audience, volunteer to judge (we pick from the crowd!), and cheer on your favorite storytellers.

The night’s winner will earn a spot in the Howl Grand Slam at the end of the year!

Olive Ridley’s Taphouse & Grill, 37 Court Street, Plattsburgh

Jay Entertainment & Music Society presents

Words, Music and Dance

Jeffrey Wanzer Dupra and Marissa Hernandez  

Saturday, March 1, 7 pm

Immerse yourself in an evening of dynamic storytelling for the ear, the eye, the mind, and the curious. Jeffrey and Marissa are each seasoned performers who use original songs, words and choreography to tell stories that engage their audience to see, to hear, to think and experience the world and themselves differently.

Amos & Julia Ward Theater, 15 Parkside Rd., Jay

Lake Placid Center for the Arts presents

Great Art On Screen – Florence and the Uffizi Gallery

Saturday, March 1, 2025, 1 pm

A multidimensional journey into timeless beauty.

Explore the Italian Renaissance through the most beautiful, representative works of the period. This documentary film is a totally immersive and unique experience allowing the audience to see, listen, feel and savor the most outstanding and celebrated breeding ground of creativity in the history of art.
 

The film follows a trail of over 10 museums and 150 artworks amongst the most well-known in the world. It is an artistic foray into Florence taking in everything from the Brancacci Chapel to the Bargello National Museum, from Palazzo Medici, to the narrow city streets and Brunelleschi’s Dome, from Palazzo Vecchio to the Uffizi Gallery and the Accademia Gallery, without neglecting picture postcard places such as the Ponte Vecchio and Piazza della Signoria.

Savor Florence, the most outstanding and celebrated breeding ground of creativity in the history of art; the artistic home to legendary figures like Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, Raphael, Leonardo and Botticelli.

Purchase tickets HERE.

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

Tannery Pond Center Winter Coffeehouse Concert

The Bluebillies

Sunday, March 2, 2025, 3 pm

The Bluebillies don’t just sing Country songs; they embody them, performing their unique blend of country, bluegrass and folk music with traditional style, sound and spirit. 

Husband and wife team Mark and Melody Guarino have been singing together since 1984 when they first made it their mission to help revive and preserve the rich heritage of this great and uniquely American art form. With the addition of Tucker Callander on fiddle and guitarist Greg Bucking, the Bluebillies were complete and perform together with all the joy and simpatico that only a “family” band can produce. 

The Bluebillies produce a series of traveling Old-time Gospel Music Revues each season, and also host their own gospel music open mic each summer, and have released three Cd’s; Adirondack Angels in 2016, Gal From Ioway in 2014, and Train to Paradise in 2013.

More info and tickets HERE.

Tannery Pond Community Center, 228 Main Street, North Creek

Green Goat Maps, with Ezra Schwartzberg

Monday, March 3, 2025, 7 – 8 pm, free, virtual

Discover how Green Goat’s high-quality cartography products support invasive species research, and enhance outdoor recreation and education. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the intersection of mapping, nature, and community.

Ezra is excited to share how Green Goat Maps came to be what it is today. He’ll cover how and why Green Goat Maps came to be as well as how his team is influencing recreation and policy decisions across the state. He’ll also share the progress they have made in supporting accessibility efforts of land trusts and in welcoming a more diverse group of recreationists.

He’ll share examples of maps and interpretive kiosks that are scattered around the state while explaining how and why they were designed in the way they are.

More info and register for virtual link HERE.