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posticon Aviation Photography at CAP ArtSpace

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Local photographer Jon Reis is curating 'Aviation', a collection of spectacular photographs of airports and airplanes. The exhibit features Reis's photos of aircraft hangars where aviators live and work with their airplanes.

Also on exhibit is the work of three other photographers: Joe Pries, who has traveled the world photographing airliners landing and taking off with intriguing backgrounds, Jim Thrash, who is documenting the tails of Frontier Airlines at Will Rodgers airport in Oklahoma City, andJeffrey Milstein who examines 'The Jet as Art'. Local artist Barbara Page is also exhibiting paintings of landforms as seen from above.

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posticon Cornell Music Inaugurates Center for Historical Keyboards

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The Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards offers a new hub for historical keyboard studies at Cornell. With professor emeritus Malcolm Bilson's fortepianos at its core, the collection encompasses a wide range of 19th- and early 20th-century pianos, as well as Cornell's outstanding organs, harpsichords, clavichords, and other keyed instruments into the 21st century. The Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards' new space at 726 University Avenue provides a rotating home for parts of this superb collection of concert-ready keyboard instruments; a collaborative space for researchers, performers, and students; and an array of programming and resources of interest to specialists and the public.

Through artist and scholar residencies, festivals, workshops, concerts, and masterclasses—at "726," across Cornell, and beyond—the Center's programs explore the history and technology of keyboard instruments from the earliest organs to the MOOG synthesizer, their influence in music and the arts, and the larger impact on global social history. The Center also supports Cornell Music Department's long-standing relationship with the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies, with which collaborations continue.

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posticon Tony-Nominated Play 'The Children' At The Kitchen

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The Kitchen Theatre Company is set to begin its 2019-2020 season with The Children by Lucy Kirkwood, a thought-provoking play that tackles the themes of mortality, consequence, and environmental legacy. Performances of The Children begin at the Kitchen Theatre Company in the Percy Browning Performance Space on September 8 and will run through September 29.

The Children centers around Hazel and Robin, two retired nuclear scientists who have retreated to a peaceful and secluded life of daily yoga exercises and ritual farming on the British Coast following a nuclear disaster. The unexpected arrival of a former colleague disrupts their isolation and forces them to reexamine the decisions of their past and the direction of their future. The Children is an astonishing and thrilling new play about the messes we make of our lives and our planet, and how we try to clean them up.

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posticon Atlantic Crossing at The Canaan Institute

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Brooktondale - Atlantic Crossing will present a house concert at The Canaan Institute on Fri Sept 6th 2019 beginning at 7:00 pm followed by a jam session. The musicians from Atlantic Crossing play New England Roots music from Vermont and the USA. 

Viveka Fox (fiddle, percussion), Rick Klein (guitar, vocals), Peter Macfarlane (fiddle, low whistles, mandolin, foot percussion, vocals) make up the band.

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posticon Artistic Director/Co-founder Leaves Civic Ensemble

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civic Simmons as Mr. Myalatya My Children My Africa 2016Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr. as Mr. Myalatya My Children My Africa 2016
Civic Ensemble Artistic Director and co-founder Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr. has announced that he will be stepping down from his position at Civic Ensemble, an ensemble-based, community driven theater company founded in 2012. After seven years with Civic Ensemble, Simmons will depart in December to become Artistic Director of HartBeat Ensemble in Hartford, CT. HartBeat is one of Hartford’s most important cultural institutions, dedicated to creating provocative theater that connects to the community beyond the traditional barriers of class, race, geography and gender.

During his tenure at Civic Ensemble, Simmons shepherded new plays by and about women and people of color, and leveraged his relationships with nationally recognized playwrights to bring excellent new plays to Ithaca. In 2018, Simmons launched a new play festival, Civic Acts: New Plays Toward the Beloved Community. Civic Acts featured the first full production of Judy Tate’s Fast Blood as well as commissioning internationally renowned playwright Saviana Stanescu to expand a monologue she had written into a full play, Bee Trapped Inside the Window, which Simmons also produced.

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posticon Cornell Music Department Announces Fall Semester Events

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The Cornell Department of Music announces its fall semester slate of concerts, and opportunities are plentiful to hear a variety of musical styles performed by guest artists, faculty, and students. Highlights include the following:

The beginning of the semester will see the opening of the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards, where the University's historical keyboard instruments will be kept in concert-ready condition for historically-informed study, performance, and recording of classic and romantic repertoire. A two-day event on September 6-7 will feature several concert performances and lecture-demonstrations of Cornell's variety of keyboards, including organs, fortepianos, harpsichords, and more.

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posticon The Big Play Festival at The Hangar

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hangar bpf Photo by Rachel PhilipsonThe Hangar Theatre's Big Play Festival! Directors- front row, left to right: Godfrey Simmons, Jr., Beth Milles, Bob Moss. Photo by Rachel Philipson
The Hangar Theatre Company wraps up its 45th summer season with the Big Play Festival! (BPF!), featuring lightly staged readings of three big plays, all featuring the theme of the American family. The festival includes: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorrainne Hansberry; August: Osage County by Tracy Letts; and You Can't Take It with You by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The casts and directors consist primarily of artists who live in the Ithaca area or who have appeared in a Hangar Mainstage production this season. The BPF! runs August 22-31, and one ticket will grant access to all three plays.

Hangar's Artistic Director, Michael Barakiva, conceived the BPF! with the community in mind. "I was so impressed with the amount of talent in this area that I wanted to create programming that would feature it on our stage." He was also excited to share the form of the staged reading with the Hangar audiences. "The spoken word is the fundamental building block of our theatrical tradition," states Barakiva. "It's drama, boiled down to its most essential elements."

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posticon Serotsky Joins the Hangar Theatre

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The Hangar Theatre announced Thursday that Shirley Serotsky has been named Associate Artistic Director and Education Director, effective August 21.

Serotsky is a theatre director, dramaturg, educator, and producer who has held leadership and educational positions while conducting an active freelance directing career in Washington, DC. She has most recently served as staff dramaturg and public programmer for Mosaic Theater Company, and as a co-director of the Director's Intensive for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.

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posticon Botanical Mosaics at Museum of the Earth

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For the months of August and September, Marjorie Hoffman is displaying her most recent mosaics, at the gift shop gallery of the Museum of the Earth. The museum is located at 1259 Trumansburg Rd., open daily from 10 AM to 5 PM.

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posticon Moving Landscapes 2019: Innovative Dance from Triphammer Arts

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Triphammer Arts Inc. will present its annual choreographers' showcase, Moving Landscapes 2019: An Evening of Dance and Music on Sunday, August 25, 2019 at 7:30 pm. Audiences will enjoy original dance works in a spectacular setting at the CRS Barn Studio, 2622 North Triphammer Road in Ithaca. The performance will take place rain or shine, and a reception will follow the performance.

Moving Landscapes continues the Triphammer Arts/CRS Barn Studio tradition of bringing innovative dance and music partnerships to Ithaca audiences. We are delighted to announce that the outdoor prologue in the garden will feature, for the first time, the dancers' interaction with Rob Licht's newly installed paired large-scale sculptures, "Glimmerglass Landforms," set against the panoramic backdrop of Cayuga Lake.

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posticon Little Women At The Hangar

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hangar Little WomenFrom left: Rosie Yates (Meg March) Catherine Weidner (Hannah) Sarina Freda (Beth March) Michael Patrick Trimm (Laurie) Sarah Chalmers (Marmie) Sideeq Heard (John Brooks) Gilbert Cruz (Robert March) Ashley Bufkin (Jo March) Sandrinne Edström (Amy March) Photo by Rachel Philipson
The Hangar Theatre Company continues its 45th season with a reimagined take on the classic story, Little Women. This adaptation by Kate Hamill runs August 8-17 with matinee and evening performances. Kate Hamill, a Lansing native and Ithaca College alumna, is currently one of the top five most-produced playwrights in the nation.

After premiering in fall 2018 at the Jungle Theatre in Minneapolis, and fresh from an off-Broadway run this past May, Hamill's Little Women makes its regional premiere at the Hangar. Raised in Lansing, NY, and an alumna of the Hangar's Next Generation School of Theatre and Ithaca College's Department of Theatre Arts, Hamill has crafted several adaptations of classic works for the stage including Sense and Sensibility, Vanity Fair, and Pride & Prejudice, the latter of which was presented at the Hangar last year. This spring, the Hangar Theatre Company hosted "An Evening With Kate Hamill," celebrating Kate's extraordinary artistic accomplishments through intimate conversations and an inside look at her series of work. Hamill has become known for her lively and spirited stage productions, and in the words of the Hangar Artistic Director Michael Barakiva, "with each new work she gets closer to the heart of the piece with fewer and fewer words from the source material."

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posticon Mary Poppins Jr. At The Hangar

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hangar 2013The Hangar Theatre Company caps its KIDDSTUFF summer season with the musical, Mary Poppins Jr., with music and lyrics by Richard and Robert Sherman and book by Julian Fellowes. Directed by Margaux Deverin, the show will run from Thursday, August 1, through Saturday, August 3, with 10 am and 12 noon performances at the Hangar Theatre.

Using a combination of magic and common sense, Mary Poppins must teach the troubled Banks family members how to value each other again. She takes the children on many magical and memorable adventures, but Jane and Michael aren't the only ones whose perspective she changes. Everyone can learn a lesson or two from this practically perfect nanny. Themes explored include: Fantasy, Values, and Family.

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posticon Confluence at The Canaan Institute

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Confluence will present a house concert at The Canaan Institute on Sat Aug 10th, 2019 beginning at 7:00 pm followed by a jam session. This delightful, energetic mother-daughter duo performs traditional New England dance music along with modern variations with world influences.

CONFLUENCE, consisting of Nadine Dyskant-Miller (flute, foot percussion) and Barbara Dyskant (Piano/Keyboard), features creative high-energy arrangements of music of Quebec, Ireland, England, New England and beyond, both traditional and very contemporary, plus a wide selection of originals. Moods range from fiery reels to silky lyrical airs; twists and surprise abound. Touches of blues, Latin, and groove music are included. From large festivals to intimate living-room performances, their love for the music and appreciation of their audiences permeates each performance. Confluence enjoys playing for both concerts and contra dances.

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