Community Calendar

Come get your tickets for our non-profit baskets. All proceeds benefit the basket identified. All tickets are $1 a piece and winners will be drawn on December 19 at 3 p.m.

Schweinfurth Art Center is holding its fifth Member Show this fall, which features 127 works by talented artists who are members of the art center. The exhibition includes oil, acrylic and watercolor paintings, photography, ceramics, sculptures, fiber art, and more.

"i solemnly swear” is an exhibition about the consequences of conscription and deployment into combat. Syracuse artist Paul Pearce was drafted into the US Army in 1967 and deployed to Vietnam in 1968. “I should never have been a soldier, and yet I was a good soldier,” Pearce says. “For this reason, I am haunted by what I did and what I witnessed. When people say, ‘Thank you for your service,’ my reply is, ‘Don’t thank me for my service; you don’t know what I did. My country made me do it and I was just a kid.’”

Once again, Local Fiber members are working together to host a holiday pop-up shop with Events and Classes open to all! The 2025 Local Fiber Holiday Popup store will be open from November 1 to December 28 at 115 South Cayuga Street in Ithaca, NY, right off of the Commons, staffed by Local Fiber members, many of whom raise fiber animals on farms in the area. You'll find an array of items from local wool, alpaca, angora and other animal fibers, and products ranging from millspun and handspun yarns, mittens, hats, socks and gloves, to shawls, scarves and beautiful fiber art, home decor and more! Workshops, demonstrations and social hours will include Thursday evenings from 6 to 8, open fiber arts evenings and How to Wash Locks on 12/11. Our listing of special Events and Classes, some of which are free to the public and others that require sign-up and a fee, can be found at https://drive.google.com/file/d/17osvPOLhsCMp4JI5UdlQMGZt-9utGvbF/view?usp=sharing or check our Facebook page (facebook.com/localfiber.ny) for details about the workshops and other events.

This year, the Victorian Lady antique shop in Oneida is on a mission to collect and distribute warm winter coats and accessories to help neighbors facing hardship during these difficult times.

“If you would like to help make someone's winter a little warmer, we would be most grateful!” says Ms. Gerri Gray, the shop’s proprietor. “We are holding the coat drive throughout the fall and winter.” She added, “We also plan to host a few food giveaways, so if anyone wishes to donate any canned food (including pet food) and/or other non-perishable items, they can bring them to the shop during our regular business hours or simply leave them on our front porch.”

Donations of new and gently-used coats, scarves, and gloves are being accepted every Monday and Saturday from noon until 5 p.m. and on all other days by appointment only. The shop, which was featured on Lite 98.7, is located at 302 Main Street, Oneida, NY (at the corner of Stone).

See the critically-acclaimed one-man telling of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"!

Armed only with a bare stage, a few props, and Dickens’ glorious words, McGarry delivers the perennial holiday classic in a tour de force that has left audiences riveted from Boston to Prague. Joyous, captivating, and witty, A Christmas Carol is a fully staged, full-throated leap into Dickens’ most famous story, delivered with a simplicity that disarms and touches the heart.

For the last twelve years, December has found McGarry, lugging his trunk, on the road with "A Christmas Carol." He began by touring the Cape and South Shore. By 2018 and 2019, "A Christmas Carol" was being seen on stages across the European continent, as well as Ireland, and the UK with performances in Innsbruck, Dublin, London, Bath, Basel, Brunico, Dusseldorf, Geneva, Co. Leitrim, and Prague. In 2021, 2022, and 2023, McGarry brought "A Christmas Carol" home to the U.S. for three sold-out seasons.

Join us for a “frightfully” fun Art After School that explores clay, pastels, and paint! Students will create fall and Halloween-themed crafts to get in the spirit of all things spooky. Join us for this six-week program if you’re interested in getting into the spooky spirit!

Let’s have some fun with a needle and thread! This class will be an introduction to hand sewing (a necessary skill) and basic sewing machine skills. Students will have the opportunity to let their creativity shine while designing and sewing embellished bookmarks, postcards, and journal covers. We will end the session with a personalized apron. So, are you ready to go on a sewing adventure?

This season, starting November 20, we’re ditching the bright and merry for something a little more nostalgic and a whole lot more emo. Welcome to Emo Christmas, the pop-up where jingle bells get replaced with sad songs and scream-along anthems. Update your MySpace profile pic, refresh that AOL away message, and relive the days when the only thing that mattered was whether Fall Out Boy or Taking Back Sunday would headline Warped Tour.

For one month only, Arlo Williamsburg x Bucket Listers are transforming the holidays into a full-blown emo and pop-punk wonderland, complete with throwback-themed late-night parties every Friday, celebrating everything from From Under The Cork Tree to Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. And of course, the bar is serving a lineup of perfectly emotional holiday cocktails, including Welcome to The Black Parade, Snow-Hio Is For Lovers, St. Nick's Cold Brew, I’m Not Okay, Mezcal Confessional, and Ocean Ave Punch. Tickets start at $17.80 per person for general admission, which includes a 90-minute experience plus a welcome cocktail served in an ornament!