Please join the HeatSmart Tompkins team and HeatSmart home-owners Karen Edelstein and Joe Wetmore for an Open House in Lansing.

Karen and Joe will share their story detailing how they renovated their lovely old farm house and installed ground-source (geothermal) heat pumps.

*Experience for yourself the quiet, even heat provided by the heat pump system.

*Get a close up look at the state-of-the-art equipment.

*Learn about state and federal incentives for heat pumps and EXTRA incentives for Lansing residents in the moratorium area.

*Ask questions.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Ground-source heat pumps combined with home weatherization are highly efficient are the cost effective, climate-friendly home energy solutions of today. There's a heat pump solution for every home. Let HeatSmart be your guide!

On Sunday, October 6^th from 3 to 5, the Ithaca Area United Jewish Community will host a fall holiday festival for young families. The event will take place at the large pavilion in Stewart Park. October 6^th falls in between the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah (the beginning of the year), and Yom Kippur (the day of repentance). It is also very close to the favorite harvest holiday of Sukkot, which begins on the evening of October 13^th. Children and parents will enjoy holiday activities such as learning to blow the traditional ram’s horn or shofar, making decorations for Sukkot, tasting apples and honey and celebrating the “birthday of the world.” In honor of Yom Kippur, there will be a puppet show by Lily Silly, about “saying sorry.” The event is free and open to the public. For more information go to info@iaujc.org.

The Cherry’s season kicks off with The Shoe, an emotionally profound and wildly funny new play about an unusual young boy named Benoît and the adults who care for him. Québec playwright David Paquet is a recipient of the Governor General’s Award for Drama and the Prix Michel Tremblay, and The Shoe is his newest play, produced at the Cherry for the first time in English. Canadian press called the French première “a Kinder Surprise: you come for the comedy, but stay for the lucid observations.” Don’t miss this sweet, strange and soulful delight of a play!

Show Times
Thursday, September 26th – 7:30pm (pay what you will preview)
Friday, September 27th – 7:30pm
Saturday, September 28th – 7:30pm
Sunday, September 29th – 3:30pm
Thursday, October 3rd – 7:30 pm
Friday, October 4th – 7:30pm
Saturday, October 5th – 7:30pm
Sunday, October 6th – 3:30pm

On October 5, 6 and 12, 13, forty-one artist studios all across Tompkins County will open to the public from 11am to 5pm each day. Now in its 21^st season, and with over 5,000 studio visits each year, the Art Trail continues to grow and gain visitor anticipation. 

Imagine two beautiful fall foliage weekends. You pile your friends into a car to visit the artists of your choosing. Some studios are in downtown Ithaca, while others are along rural roads with hayfields as neighbors. Some are in cozy living rooms and some spaces are as interesting as the work itself. Chat with the artists, see their work, their materials, and their inspirations. Use this opportunity for your holiday shopping! Connecting with the artists and buying their work is a fun and exhilarating experience.   

Explorers will find painters, photographers, sculptors, printmakers, fiber artists, potters, makers of fine furniture, mixed media, digital artists, and a blacksmith. From scraps of paper and shards of glass to an unfinished canvas or the smell of wet clay, an artist’s studio contains countless clues as to what lies beneath an artist’s work. 

Visit ArtTrail.com for more information and print out the map/brochure! Or e-mail programs@artspartner.org to get one mailed to you, or find out where you can pick one up. Note: Studios are open year round by appointment and on most First Saturdays of each month.

Congregation Tikkun v'Or (Ithaca Reform Temple) will be holding High Holy Day services this year at the First Congregational Church, 309 Highland Rd.  Services are led by Rabbi Brian Walt.

Membership and tickets are not required. All are welcome.

Childcare will be available during the evening and morning services.

For complete information, see www.tikkunvor.org or email info@tikkunvor.org

Congregation Tikkun v'Or (Ithaca Reform Temple) will be holding High Holy Day services this year at the First Congregational Church, 309 Highland Rd.  Services are led by Rabbi Brian Walt.

Membership and tickets are not required. All are welcome.

Childcare will be available during the evening and morning services.

For complete information, see www.tikkunvor.org or email info@tikkunvor.org

MOVING: The next luncheon of the Lansing Seniors (October 9th) will be in our new meeting place, Lansing Community Center, 25 Auburn Road. The group will be entertained by members of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Broom, and the meeting will conclude with the drawing of the raffle quilt, "Sea and Sky in CNY." Below is information about the group, and remember all are welcome just bring a dish-to-pass and table setting.

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Broom is a nonprofit performance group based in
Auburn, NY established in October 2018. Our group was inspired by Wolfshagen
Hexenbrut, the German Dancing Witches! We are a group of nonjudgmental,
energetic and creative women who love to make people smile!
We are theatrical dancing ‘witches’. Our group has members from many different
backgrounds and belief systems. We welcome new members who want to have
fun, make friends, network with their peers and express their creativity. Our goal
is to empower women of all abilities, sizes and ages (21+), NO EXPERIENCE
NECESSARY! There is NO cost to members! New members are ALWAYS
welcome!
Darlene Morabito, our Director/Choreographer has decades of experience
in professional dance study, performance, and teaching. Darlene believes that
anyone and everyone can learn to dance with just a little instruction and
encouragement. Our dance performance pieces are her original choreo. Our
version of Schuttel deinen Speck while close to the Wolfshagen Hexenburt
version, adds our own Sisterhood twist to the original.
Our group loves to participate in community events! We aim to make people
smile, dance along and have fun with us! If you need some whitchiness at your
next event, please contact us! We are happy to provide entertainment for
charitable causes! All inquiries welcome!

Get into the Halloween spirit at our first Cinema in the Cemetery!

Come out to the Ithaca City Cemetery on Friday, October 11, 2019, at 6:00 p.m. for a viewing of the family-friendly classic, Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas. A silent film short compliments of Wharton Studio Museum precedes the main feature.

Bring a blanket or stadium chair (no lawn chairs, please) for seating on the lawn.

Concessions will be available beginning at 6:00 p.m.; no alcohol allowed. Movie begins at approximately 6:15.

A $5 suggested donation supports the Friends of Ithaca City Cemetery and Historic Ithaca.

Cemetery entrances are across from 200 University Avenue and 600 Stewart Avenue. Look for event signs.

Rain date is Saturday, October 12, 2019, at 6:00 p.m.

Presented by Historic Ithaca, Friends of the Ithaca City Cemetery, and Wharton Studio Museum.

Sponsored by Purity Ice Cream.

Our annual family-centered Fossil Mania event will celebrate our local Devonian and Ice Age fossils found in Central New York. National Fossil Day is an annual celebration held to highlight the scientific and educational value of paleontology and the importance of preserving fossils for future generations. The Museum of the Earth's Fossil Mania! is held at the same time in the year as the National Park Service’s National Fossil Day. This year, the National Park Service is celebrating the Grand Canyon, which has fossils from almost every age on Earth contained in its exposed rock. We are celebrating the rich fossil diversity of New York State with our own poster design challenge. You can download a template and instructions for your own design at: https://www.priweb.org/downloads/events/NYSFossils2019-DrawingContest.pdf

On October 5, 6 and 12, 13, forty-one artist studios all across Tompkins County will open to the public from 11am to 5pm each day. Now in its 21^st season, and with over 5,000 studio visits each year, the Art Trail continues to grow and gain visitor anticipation. 

Imagine two beautiful fall foliage weekends. You pile your friends into a car to visit the artists of your choosing. Some studios are in downtown Ithaca, while others are along rural roads with hayfields as neighbors. Some are in cozy living rooms and some spaces are as interesting as the work itself. Chat with the artists, see their work, their materials, and their inspirations. Use this opportunity for your holiday shopping! Connecting with the artists and buying their work is a fun and exhilarating experience.   

Explorers will find painters, photographers, sculptors, printmakers, fiber artists, potters, makers of fine furniture, mixed media, digital artists, and a blacksmith. From scraps of paper and shards of glass to an unfinished canvas or the smell of wet clay, an artist’s studio contains countless clues as to what lies beneath an artist’s work. 

Visit ArtTrail.com for more information and print out the map/brochure! Or e-mail programs@artspartner.org to get one mailed to you, or find out where you can pick one up. Note: Studios are open year round by appointment and on most First Saturdays of each month.