The View Arts Center presents

The Beauty of Bad Luck: How an Adirondack hurricane destroyed a forest and launched a career

Adirondack Author and Adventurer Tim Rowland

Tuesday, July 22, 2025, 5 – 6 pm

Join New York Times Bestselling author, hiker, and historian Tim Rowland for a free author talk and book signing.  Well known for his engaging wit and humorous storytelling, Tim will share his story about the wild hiking disaster that launched his writing career. Come early to enjoy the final day of View’s collection of exhibitions themed around The Book as Art, and stay for an informal reception and to meet the author immediately following his talk.

More info HERE.

Photo by Mike Lynch.

The View, 3273 State Route 28, Old Forge

Tupper Arts presents

Shapeshifters, Annoel Krider and Judy Scammell

Wednesday, July 23 – Saturday, August 18

Reception Wednesday, July 23, 5 pm

Annoel Krider was born into an artistic family with a mother who was an Arts & Humanities Professor and a Painter and a father who was an Architect, Historian and Pianist. She is a tapestry weaver, stick sculptor turned painter.

Judy Scammell is a native of the Adirondacks who makes frequent visits to Montana and Wyoming. Her work is deeply influenced by the natural landscapes and the wild animals that inhabit them. Her art focuses on these animals, birds, and mountain places, all of which play an integral role in her life and thoughts, serving as her primary inspiration.

More info on both artists HERE. 

Tupper Arts, 106 Park Street Tupper Lake

The Bookstore Plus Presents

More info HERE.

Bookstore Plus, 2491 Main Street, Lake Placid

The Mill Presents

Camila Meza: Portal

Thursday, July 17, 7:30 pm

Overwhelming voice control and free-flowing guitar playing. Chilean singer/guitarist/composer Camila Meza returns to The Mill with Portal. The new album is an ambitious work in which she stands at the entrance (Portal) to a new world after experiencing the pandemic and childbirth.

Joe Fiedler: Big Sackbut

Saturday, July 19, 7:30 pm

Trombonist Joe Fiedler has been the musical director and composer for ‘Sesame Street’ for the past 15 years.

A low-brass quartet, ‘Big Sackbut’ celebrates the long history of brass bands in a most unique way.

More info HERE.

The Mill, 6679 Main Street, Westport

Fort Ticonderoga Presents the Virtual Author Series

Quebec during the American Invasion, 1775-1776: The Journal of François Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, & Jenkin Williams

Sunday, July 20, 2 pm

Online pre-registration is required. Register by 5 pm this Friday, July 18.

Join author Michael P. Gabriel as he talks about his book Quebec during the American Invasion, 1775-1776: The Journal of François Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, & Jenkin Williams during a new Virtual Author Series!

Available for the first time in English, Quebec during the American Invasion, 1775-1776: The Journal of François Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, & Jenkin Williams provides an insight into the failure to incite rebellion in Quebec by American revolutionaries. While other sources have shown how British soldiers and civilians and the French-Canadian gentry (the seigneurs) responded to the American invasion of 1775–1776, this journal focuses on French-Canadian peasants (les habitants) who made up the vast majority of the population; in other words, the journal helps explain why Quebec did not become the “fourteenth colony.”

Additional details and register HERE.

Elizabethtown Social Center Presents Lawn Concerts

Rockin’ Ron the Friendly Pirate and Giovanina Bucci

Tuesday, July 22, 2025, 6 – 8:30 pm, free

Get ready for an unforgettable night on the lawn with pirate singalongs and soulful acoustic music—a perfect mix of fun for the whole family!
The evening kicks off  with Rockin’ Ron the Friendly Pirate, delivering interactive and entertaining pirate tunes for kids and kids at heart!. His newest album, Everyone on Board, is packed with sing-alongs, life lessons, and catchy tunes that are as clever as they are fun. It’s music that makes you smile and think—don’t miss it!

Then settle in for the rich, heartfelt voice of Giovanina Bucci. This Vermont-based singer/songwriter brings a soulful blend of blues, folk, and roots music. Her acoustic set is filled with powerful lyrics and laid-back grooves—the perfect way to wind down a summer evening.

Bring a picnic, a blanket or folding chairs, and enjoy a night of great music, community, and summer vibes. The concert will move indoors if the weather’s rough.

Additional info HERE.

Elizabethtown Social Center, 7626 US Route 9, Elizabethtown

Ti Arts Presents

Adirondack Center for Writing presents

Memoirama: Everything You Need To Write Memoir (2-part online class)

July 24, 2025 and  July 31, 2025, 7 – 8 pm

Taught in two 90-minute classes with Marion Roach Smith, this interactive event will give you the tools to get writing immediately. This is for those who want to learn the basics, ask some questions, and get right to work, perhaps then moving on to one of Marion’s other classes that feature in-depth critiques and peer review.

Full details including cost HERE.

Special Movie Screening in Newcomb

Lumberjack Sky Pilot

 Wednesday, July 24, 6 pm, free

Join us for a free community screening of Lumberjack Sky Pilot–a Mountain Lakes PBS documentary telling the story of Rev. Frank Reed, a traveling preacher who ministered to Adirondack lumber camps in the early 1900s.

 Newcomb Community Center, 5005 NY-28N, Newcomb

Presented by the Tannery Pond Center Summer Concert Series

Lake Placid Sinfonietta

Thursday, July 24, 2025, 7:30 – 9:30 pm

The Lake Placid Sinfonietta is a professional summer chamber orchestra of twenty top orchestral musicians from across the country under the direction of Tony Award winning conductor Stuart Malina.  The 20 musicians who comprise the orchestra come from top orchestras across the country with many holding leadership or principal roles in those ensembles.

More info and tickets HERE.

Tannery Pond Community Center, 228 Main Street, North Creek

Wells Memorial Library presents

By Hand, By Heart, paintings of Beatrice Schachenmayr

Saturday, July 19 – Saturday, August 29

Bea’s paintings explore the quiet courage of beginning —where meaning emerges not from planning, but from presence, from trusting the hands. Rooted in the rhythms of the Adirondacks, her paintings evolve gradually through intuitive mark-making and quiet self-study. Each piece reflects a search for balance between the inner world and the outer landscape, tracing cycles of growth, decay, and renewal.

Wells Memorial Library, 12230 State Hwy 9N, Upper Jay

Essex Community Church Summer Concert Series

The After Five Brass Quintet

Friday, July 18, 2025, 7 pm

For over 30 years, the After Five Brass have performed throughout the region in countless Venues. They play a wide variety of musical styles, suitable for all ages.

Additional details HERE.

Essex Community Church, corner of Main Street and Route 22, Essex