DEC Announces 21st Annual Middle School Student Poster Contest Theme: “Water Connects Us All”

Poster Contest Submissions Accepted Through Jan. 2, 2025

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Amanda Lefton and the New York Water Environment Association (NYWEA) today announced the theme for the annual water conservation poster contest for middle school students: “Water Connects Us All.” The 2026 poster theme challenges middle school students to learn about their role in the watershed where they live and the positive actions they can take to conserve, protect, and celebrate our water resources, now and for future generations.  

Fourteen winners will have the honor of having their artwork in the 2027 calendar distributed across New York State.

Get the full details HERE.

Image: 2025 Top Winner Anna Tiudic, The SEEALL Academy, Grade 8

Ti Arts Presents

Thru Saturday, November 15

Glens Falls Symphony presents

Sound Canvases

Sunday, November 9, 3pm, Pre-Concert Talk: Music Director Charles Peltz discusses the concert, the music, and the guest artists in a free talk.

Sunday, November 9, 4 pm,Sound Canvases concert

This performance will feature Modest Mussorgsky’s beloved Pictures at an Exhibition, arranged from the original piano for orchestra by composer Maurice Ravel. Ravel’s orchestral imagination dynamically expands the colorful vignettes of each movement- sound images based on artworks (the “Pictures” of the title) of Mussorgsky’s artist friend. 

Also on the program, an innovative choice of music, also insured by great art, the Glens Falls Symphony presents Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Gunther Schuller’s Seven Studies of Themes of Paul Klee, one of his most popular pieces that fuses jazz and classical music, performed with projection of Paul Klee’s artworks. 

Please bring a household item to donate to the South Glens Falls Kindness Closet.

Purchase tickets HERE.

South Glens Falls High School Auditorium, 42 Merritt Road, South Glens Falls

Tannery Pond Center presents

Veterans Day Concert. with Dan Berggren & Cedar Stanistreet

Sunday, November 9, 2025, 3 pm

Cedar Stanistreet and Dan Berggren first performed together over 30 years ago, and recorded together for the North River North Woods album. They are overjoyed to bring their music back to Tannery Pond Center where they last performed in 2009.

Purchase tickets HERE.

Tannery Pond Community Center228 Main Street, North Creek

Community Free Day at The Wild Center

Saturday, Nov 8, 2025, 10 am – 5 pm

In honor of Veteran’s Day, The Wild Center will open our doors to our community, free of charge, on November 8. Reservations recommended.  Make yours today HERE!

Now is the perfect time to experience The Wild Center. All visitors are welcome to curate their Wild Center experience by exploring Wild Walk, Stickwork, Raquette River Roll, Forest Music and the Pines Play Area.; heading inside to relax with the River Otters; seeing a featured film in the Flammer Theater; or strapping on a VR headset and experiencing flight on Birdly VR.

The Wild Center, 45 Museum Drive Tupper Lake

Cello-Palooza

Adirondack Pub & Brewery presents

Pumpkin Chunkin’

Saturday, November 8, 2025, 12 – 4 pm

The event has something for the entire family: apple slingshots, pumpkin catapults (B.Y.O.P.), giant slide, bounce house, bonfires, food & beer truck, Potions bar, Storytelling Fairy, medieval battle demos, dancing witches, Fire Dancer, music, The Great Pumpkin Drop, and much more!

More info HERE.

Events Field Behind High Peaks Distlling, 1 Canada Street, Lake George