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View, the arts center in Old Forge, has announced its annual gala, Forest View, a fund-raising event that celebrates the future of arts programming on Friday, July 15. Forest View offers guests the opportunity to support View’s future programming, while enjoying the elegant simplicity of nature.
The evening will begin at 5:30 pm with signature cocktails and a silent auction featuring donations from local artists and businesses. This will be followed by a live auction and dinner by The Horned Dorset Inn of Leonardsville. Dessert will be donated by the Great Pines Lodge on Fourth Lake.
Music and entertainment will be ongoing throughout the night, and Forest View organizers guarantee that guests will be in for a few surprises when it comes to performances and décor. » Continue Reading.
The Depot Theatre, a not-for-profit organization committed to providing professional theatrical arts in the Adirondacks, has received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Charles R. Wood Foundation to improve infrastructure to enhance the patron and artist experience.
A highlight of The Sembrich schedule each summer are the season previews featuring selections from upcoming productions by Opera Saratoga and the Seagle Music Colony.
The Adirondack Center for Writing hosted the annual Adirondack Literary Awards at the Blue Mountain Center on Sunday, June 5, to celebrate another year of publications for regional authors and presses, and to announce this year’s winners. Following the ceremony Joe Bruchac gave a tribute to poet Maurice Kenny that concluded with a moving rendition of a Seneca song.
The Our Town Theatre Group will hold their fourth annual summer Children’s Musical Theatre Workshops, starting Monday, July 18, and concluding with a short performance for family and friends on Saturday July 23.
The Lake Placid Film Forum – now marking its fifteenth anniversary – returns to The Lake Placid Center for the Arts (LPCA) and the Palace Theatre with a lineup of new, recent and classic film screenings from Thursday, June 9, through Sunday, June 12. Tickets are $10 per screening and will be available at the LPCA Box Office.
A new permanent exhibit sped into the Lake Placid Olympic Museum on May 23rd that celebrates one of the original Lake Placid winter sports — speed skating.
View, the multi-arts center located in Old Forge, has announced the Adirondack Authors Evening on June 25th from 7-9:30 pm in View’s Gould Hall. This is a free event that is open to the public.
On June 24th, from 5 to 7 pm, owners of The Adirondack Cheese Company, are welcoming View arts center members and the public to a cocktail reception, open house, and wine tasting event at their great camp on Fourth Lake, the Albedor, to benefit the Old Forge-based View arts center.
A newly formed statewide network of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming advocates is facilitating Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Town Hall meetings across New York State. A meeting is scheduled for Wednesday June 1, 2016, at 4 Palmer Street in Plattsburgh.
Adirondack Foundation and the Community Fund for the Gore Mountain Region are partnering to share tools for both board development and nonprofit marketing at a workshop, “Building Your Board and Telling Your Story,” on Sunday, June 12, from 12:30 to 5 pm at the Seagle Music Colony in Schroon Lake. Reception, with refreshments and music will immediately follow.
Mountain Air Painters have announced the beginning of their 2016 plein air season. Each year the group paints together outdoors from May through October, building a list of locations they’d like to paint. Mountain Air Paitners celebrated the end of the 2015 season with a show of their works at 5 Corners Café in Old Forge.
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