May 21 Thursday
We’ll be belting on the bar and chugging between arias!
Opera & Beer has been a fan-favorite for years! This event will have you singing along and smiling from ear to ear. Tri-Cities Opera is bringing out high-class talent with a twist! This May, we’re once again taking the show to Factory by Beer Tree Brew in Johnson City—and as always, your first drink is on us!
This event is always a sell-out, so we’ve added a second date to make sure you don’t miss a moment! Both evenings will have the same program. Doors open at 6pm for you to grab your seats and order dinner and drinks!
May 22 Friday
Expansion Pack performs the premier long-form comedy show in the Greater Binghamton area. Zany, interactive and fun! It's not stand-up comedy but unscripted, ensemble, comedy creations magically crafted from audience suggestions and no two shows are exactly the same! Act One, Welcome to the Cinema Saver is a unique long form originated here and created as a nod to the former occupants of the building. After a short intermission, Act Two features an interview with a volunteer audience member(s). The Expansion Pack players then incorporate details of that interview into a zany series of scenes that consume the entire second act!
Located in the former Cinema Saver/Burts building at 19 Madison Avenue in Endicott. Free large and lighted parking lot. Cheap snacks. Free door prizes. About half the ticket price of most area theaters and twice the laughs. Presale tickets available on Eventbrite and at the door starting at 7:30 pm.
EILEEN IVERS & THE BRIGIDEENS is the fiery new acoustic powerhouse female band formed and led by Grammy awarded, Emmy-nominated, 9-time All-Ireland Fiddle Champion, Eileen Ivers. The group features critically acclaimed musicians and vocalists from the Celtic and Americana traditions.
With The Brigideens, Ivers continues to produce her signature musical sound that led the L.A. Times to proclaim, “Ivers’ presentation was music with the kind of life and spirit that come together when talented artists from different backgrounds find the linkages that connect all forms of music.” Native New Yorkers, Caitlin Maloney is on lead vocals and Hilary Hawke on 5-string banjo, upright bass, clarinet, spoons, and vocals. Anna Colliton, a Chicago native, is a master of the Irish bodhran and adds cajon/percussion. From Maryland, guitarist and vocalist Colin Forhan plays tenor banjo and concertina.
"My audience was blown away by their live show and I truly appreciated the incredible playing of Hilary Hawke on 5-string and upright bass as well as Anna Colliton, a master of the bodhran. Singer Caitlin Maloney along with guitar/vocalist Colin Forhan add a dynamic new element to Eileen’s sound as well with the Brigideens adding bluegrass, Americana, and other traditions to the Irish music Eileen is so well known for. Above all, you can tell they are having FUN together…” – Russell Gusetti, Blackstone River Theatre
"Where else could you hear an Irish ballad from the 1600s featuring three banjos–count ‘em, three–and then an encore with a Fleetwood Mac tune, Brigideen style…At the core is Eileen Ivers with her as always stunning and athletic Irish fiddle playing and virtuosic genre bending renditions of world music. Now add these ladies with soaring vehicles and equally stellar playing and you have a gal power band you don’t wanna miss! It is only human to want to put them in that Celtic box of tricks, but that would be keeping them confined…" – Carol Noonan, Stone Mountain Arts Center
Night Eagle Productions is proud to present Eileen Ivers and the Brigideens at The Hangar Theatre in Ithaca.
May 23 Saturday
Please join us for a FREE symposium on ticks and tick-borne diseases at Binghamton University. Patients, advocates, students, practitioners, scientists and the community are welcome.
We are so excited to share that—just in time for Easter—we’ll be launching Saturday services! Twice a month, we’ll gather for worship with those whose work schedules make Sunday mornings difficult.
Our heart is to allow for everyone to worship, grow, and stay connected to the body of Christ—no matter their schedule. We can’t wait to gather together and see what God will do through this new opportunity!
May 24 Sunday
Geometric Abstraction Mauro Marinelli, Michael George and co-creator Laura Dale George.
Mauro Marinelli became a Photographer because he couldn’t draw, not a lick. The camera allowed him access to a life in art. But he still had this undeniable urge to paint.While living in NYC he frequented MOMA almost weekly.There was one grand room or space with pale grey walls that he had often rushed through. On one occasion, on one fated day, he paused, and stopped in the THAT room. And was granted his wish to paint. The room of Malevich, Mondrian & Theo Von Doesburg. They spoke to him. They touched him with the awakening stick of enlightenment.
Ceramic artists Michael and Laura Dale George are thrilled to announce their work will be exhibited in "Geometric Abstractions" at the Gallery at South Hill. Together for eight years, this is their first collaboration on a full series of pieces, which explores the interplay of mathematical precision and the organic implications of clay worked by human hands. The work invites you to search for symmetries and emergent patterns in the handmade interlocking geometrics. Pieces on display explore the themes of vulnerability and guardedness, and draw inspiration from kusudama, platonic solids, Celtic knotwork and ancient armor.
Come see Rachael Kilgour on Sunday, May 24, 2026, at 2:00 pm at the Lansing Area Performance Hall (1004 Auburn Road, North Lansing, NY)! as part of WVBR's Bound for Glory's Live monthly concert series.
“...a heartfelt slice of master crafted indie folk brimming with the battle-tested capacity to endure the worst in others.”—Billboard
Canadian-American songwriter Rachael Kilgour is a 2025 Mcknight Music Fellow, a winner of the NewSong Music Competition (2015) and Kerrville New Folk Contest (2017), and has been featured at NYC’s Lincoln Center and The Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
Her oft-noted “unapologetic lyrics” (Rolling Stone) and “master crafted indie folk” sensibilities (Billboard) are on full display in her heartfelt release, My Father Loved Me, a collection of her delicately woven songs. The album was recorded in her late father’s native Ontario and was produced by JUNO-award winning and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Rose Cousins.
In the spare and often gutting language for which she is known, Kilgour gives us a complex portrait of a man seen through his daughter’s eyes. The record poses questions about belonging, inheritance, and grief and triumphantly affirms the value of one ordinary working man’s life.
On stage Kilgour expertly balances her poignant, literate songs with her quick wit, landing somewhere between a comedy special and a funeral. Listeners can expect to laugh, weep, and reflect on their own relationships with fatherhood, mortality, and grief.
Come join us for Bound for Glory’s monthly live shows on the fourth Sunday of each month at 2 pm in the Lansing Area Performance Hall at 1004 Auburn Road (Route 34), North Lansing, NY.
May 25 Monday
The Mentor-Student Program seeks volunteer mentors to work one on one with school-age students of various ages who benefit from having a positive adult role model in their lives. This opportunity involves training, support, and meeting with your student twice a week after school. This is a win/win experience for both the student and the mentor as you learn and grow with each other. Students are waiting and your support is needed now. Please contact Susie Kossack, Program Coordinator at 607-275-6250 mskossack@yahoo.com for info or to set up your training.
Take your ideas and successfully turn them into a simple, focused start-up plan for your small business.
Growing a successful business is our goal - create your business plan today! You will be guided through the process of harnessing the myriad of small business ideas and thoughts, and focus upon building and executing your simple, focused start-up plan.
Cost: $149. (US Veterans with DD214 ID proof provided, pay only $25)
Students that successful complete the program, including a completing a business model canvas and pitch presentation, will be eligible for the Entrepreneurship Assistance Program Microcredential.
This program is designed to assist women, minorities, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and dislocated workers in Broome, Chenango, Delaware and Tioga counties.
The SUNY Broome Entrepreneurship Assistance Center is made possible by a grant from Empire State Development and facilitated by the City of Binghamton’s Local Development Corporation.
