Lake Placid Film Festival 2025

Thursday, October 30, 2025 – Sunday, November 2, 2025

The Lake Placid Film Festival features award winning international and independent films, as well as short film showcases and networking opportunities. The festival also hosts a series of panels and discussions from award-winning film industry experts on varied aspects of filmmaking from screenwriting and development to distribution and editing.

Full details including the schedule are HERE.

Palace Theatre, 2430 Main Street Lake Placid

The Grange Lyceum Series presents

The Unlikely Thru-Hiker: An Appalachian Trail Journey

Tuesday, October 28, 7 pm

A young black man from New York City, Derick Lugo hit the Appalachian trail with an overweight backpack, a can-do attitude, and very little hiking experience. What followed were lessons on preparation, humility, race relations, and nature’s wild unpredictability. Known on the trail as Mr. Fabulous, Lugo refused to let anything squash his inner Pollyanna, persevering with humor, tenacity and an unshakable commitment to grooming that sees him from Georgia to Maine.

Derick Lugo is an adventurer, a storyteller, and author of The Unlikely Thru-Hiker, a humorous memoir of his six-month thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. A popular speaker, Lugo has written pieces for outdoor magazines and short stories for anthologies. He will be Writer-in-Residence at Snowfort Books & Friends in Westport this fall. In addition to his work as a writer, Derick is host of the popular podcast, Unlikely Stories.

Whallonsburg Grange, 1610 NYS Route 22, Whallonsburg

NewVida Preserve presents

Café Murder, A Murder Mystery Dinner

Starring the Ausable Valley Central School Drama Club

Sunday, October 26, 5 – 7 pm

Rosemary Saint-John is a loud, over-the-top hypochondriac who insists she’s allergic to water. While celebrating her birthday at a restaurant with her four eccentric sisters—a hippie, a valley girl, a trucker, and a banker—she manages to irritate just about everyone. When Rosemary suddenly vanishes and is presumed murdered, the audience becomes the jury.

Was it one of her sisters? The self-proclaimed detective? The fiery French chef? The polished maître d’? The wise-cracking waiter? No one is safe from suspicion in this laugh-out-loud dinner theatre experience.

Packed with improv, audience interaction, and plenty of comedy, Café Murder is a night of fun for all ages!

Join us for a three-course meal and classic whodunnit mystery dinner show. Drinks will be available for purchase at the bar.

Seating is limited, so get your tickets HERE before it’s too late!

NewVida Restaurant and Craft Bar, 6394 NYS Route 86, Jay

Adirondack Center for Writing (ACW) presents

‘Poetry on Broadway’  

Featuring three nationally acclaimed writers

Thursday, October 30, 7 pm

Join us for an evening of electrifying spoken word poetry by three nationally acclaimed NYC writers and educators: Mahogany L. Browne, Noah Arhm Choi and Jive Poetic.

“This annual event is always a highlight of our year, but this time it is going to be an especially amazing performance,” said Nathalie Thill, ACW’s executive director. “All three poets have been exploring poetry, performance, and music – all such incredibly creative people. We are so proud to bring them to Saranac Lake.”

This event is free and open to all; anyone interested in attending can learn more and register HERE.

Adirondack Center for Writing, 15 Broadway, Saranac Lake

Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council (LARAC)’s Lapham Gallery hosts

Artist Talk with Rena Bernstein

Thursday, October 30, 5 pm

Lapham Gallery hosts a pop up exhibition of selected works by artist Rena Bernstein.

Rena’s expressive paintings and drawings demonstrate strong composition and emotive qualities. A Holocaust survivor, Rena came to the US in 1947 at 9 years old. Unable to create her own work for years due to the effects of war in her childhood, in recent years the artist has freed herself enough from the past to be able to draw and paint again. Her body of work on display for this event is touched by her life experiences.

This event is FREE and open to all. RSVP is requested: gallery@larac.org.

Lapham Gallery, 7 Lapham Place, Glens Falls

SLC Arts presents

The Final 2025 Creative Spirit Community Arts Exhibition

Submission Deadline: Wednesday, October 29th by 11:59 pm

Notice of Acceptance:Monday, November 3

Drop off Artwork:Tuesday, November 11 by 4 pm

Gallery Opening Event:Saturday, November 15, 2025, 5 pm

Last Day on Display: January 9, 2026

An exhibition exploring the pieces that make a whole. This exhibition invites artists to reflect on what is broken, gathered, remembered, or rearranged. Whether literal or metaphorical, fragments can be physical materials, fractured memories, cultural inheritances, or personal moments revisited.

Artists working in all mediums—collage, sculpture, painting, photography, digital, fiber, mixed media, and more—are encouraged to submit works that explore the beauty, tension, and meaning found in pieces, remnants, and reassemblies.

This exhibition is part of the Creative Spirit Community Art Center Exhibition Series.

Submit HERE.

SLC Arts Creative Community Arts Center, 6 – 8 Raymond St, Potsdam