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Apr 28 Sunday
In a fresh twist, area-renown poets take the stage to perform with interpretive musicians with “The Verb Takes a Walk: Poetry Meets Music,” on Sunday, July 23, at the Lansing Performance Hall from 3:00 to 5:00. Featuring Peaches Gillette, Brooke Lange, Daphne Sola, Adin Luca, and Mike Finn, it promises to deliver poetry and music interactions in a memorably unique way.
“During Beatnik times, poetry and music hooked up,” according to Mark Zuss, former poetry professor and organizer of this Savage Club sponsored event. “But since those Kerouac days, this whole genre has been largely lost.”
Each of the “mixed media” readings that afternoon involve readings of diverse original poetry that is matched with live musical or other artform accompaniments or interpretations of that poetry. One of the many highlights is a reading by the 95-year-old poet, Daphne Sola, who will be followed by a high school protégé.
May 05 Sunday
Buffalo Street Books will hold the third annual Ithaca Book and Zine Fair. This event celebrates the freedom of expression and publishing outside the mainstream. Independent publishers, zine-makers, artists, DIYers, and writers from around the region will show and sell their wares. Throughout the day there will be free workshops and demos on topics such as zine-making, bookbinding, and printing.
May 11 Saturday
On Saturday May 11 from 9:30-11AM to hear guitar maker and musician Bryon Rood give a talk about the process of designing and making guitars and ukeleles. Breakfast will be served at 9:30 AM and the artist talk begins at 10AM. Cost for this event is $10. To sign up please visit www.PinkArrowArts.org. Walk-ins are welcome but seating is limited, registering prior to event is recommended.
May 13 Monday
The free dramatic reading of “When the Clergy Went Underground” is rescheduled to Monday, May 13, 2024, at 7 p.m. at the First Unitarian Society of Ithaca (306 N. Aurora St., Ithaca).
The new play, by Carol Kammen, is based on a memoir of David Evans, the late minister of the First Baptist Church in Ithaca. It recounts his experiences in the 1960s working with those who desired safe abortions when it was illegal and starting the Upstate New York Clergy Consultation Service (CCS).
After the reading, Reverend Richard Gilbert, retired Unitarian Universalist minister in Ithaca, will talk about his work with the CCS. Play readers are Dave Dietrich, Sylvia Grosvold, Linda Hoffmann, Mike Hoffmann, and Carol Kammen. The play is directed by Sue Perlgut.
“When the Clergy Went Underground” highlights Reverend Evans’ experience as the founder of the Upstate New York Clergy Consultation Service in 1968. CCS provided counseling and information to over 8,000 women from Upstate New York who sought safe illegal medical abortions. The service was part of a nation-wide network of clergy of diverse faiths and medical doctors. The play also explains how Republican Assembly member Constance E. Cook from Ithaca led the legislative fight to decriminalize abortion in New York State in 1970, three years before the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.
Reverend Evans was also a founder of Planned Parenthood in Ithaca and a recipient of the local Planned Parenthood’s Connie Cook award that recognizes individuals who gave outstanding service to reproductive care.
Sponsors of the event include End Abortion Stigma (https://www.facebook.com/endingabortionstigma/), CNY-NOW (https://cny-now.com/), and the First Unitarian Society of Ithaca (https://unitarian.ithaca.ny.us).
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