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Summer 2009
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Dancing in the Streets. Tuesdays
7:00 to 10:00 PM
Now Finished!
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THE ITHACA FESTIVAL PREVIEW SHOW
MAY 30, 5-9pm & MAY 31, 12n-9pm
ITHACA COMMONS
FREE
MUSIC, DANCE, STREET PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL INFORMATION
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UP TO VOLUNTEER
BE THE FIRST TO GET YOUR 2008 “I AM ITHACA” BUTTON AND T-SHIRT
Friday, May 30
10am-9pm
Salmon Nation: 25 foot fiberglass salmon “FIN” - An educational booth about the plight of wild salmon. Come tell
your greatest fish story.
5-6 Sugar in the Raw
6-8
The Yardvarks
8-9 Jeanie Burns & the Jukebox Raiders
Saturday, May 31
12-1 Vitamin L
1-2 Alan Rose Band
2-4
Radio London
4-5:30 Zydeco Trail Riders
5:30-6:30
Nate & Kate
6:30-7:30 Black Eyed Susies
7:30-9
Judy Hyman & Richie Stearns of The Horse Flies
Also great Ithaca Street Performers,
Nate the Great, Chandani belly dance, Community Sing (1-2 amphitheatre) and More.
Brought to you by the Downtown Ithaca Alliance www.downtownithaca.com 607-277-8679 email vickit@downtownithaca.com and the Ithaca Festival www.ithacafestival.org 607-273-3646 email info@ithacafestival.org
Ithaca Downtown Partnership Thursday Concerts Series.
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The M and T Bank Downtown Ithaca Summer Concert Series has grown in popularity over the years and has become one of the
premiere summer concert events in the Finger Lakes region, attracting thousands of people to downtown and the Ithaca Commons.
June
18 Ithaca Concert Band
Bank Alley
June 25 Jimkata
Bernie Milton Pavilion
July 2 The
Common Railers Bernie Milton Pavilion
July 9
GoGone
Bernie Milton Pavilion
July 10 Dan Pelletier
Aurora St. Pavilion 6:30 p.m. (Friday Concert)
July 15
Grassroots Kick Off Concert (Wednesday Concert, Bands TBA)
July 16
Ithaca Concert Band Bank Alley
July 23
Radio London
Bernie Milton Pavilion
July 30 Johnny Russo
Bernie Milton Pavilion
August 6 Evil City String Band
Bernie Milton Pavilion
August 13 The Burns Sisters
Bernie Milton Pavilion
August 20 Caribe Jazz All Stars
Bernie Milton Pavilion
August 27 Mutron Warriors
Bernie Milton Pavilion
September 3 Hubcap
Bernie Milton Pavilion
The DIA is currently finalizing the plans and dates for at least two more concerts and will
announce the details of them in the near future. They encourage residents and visitors to arrive early or stay late
every Thursday, and take advantage of downtown Ithaca’s many restaurants, bistros, galleries and gift shops, which stay
open late on Thursday nights and will be open before and after each concert.
Downtown Ithaca’s new Thursday Farmer’s
Market will be held every Thursday from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Dewitt Park. The History Center in Tompkins County will host
Living History Tour “Ghost Walks” in July and August, every Thursday night, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Each tour lasts
45 minutes. For more information, contact the History Center in Tompkins County at 273-8284
Read more:
What is now happening at Cornell University
From the Twin Houses of Academia: Concerts.
Auditions for Dance Bands and Dsic Jockeys
Belief in yourself is the key requirement in producing your own sound and then taking the next step in forming your own
band.
What this audition process allows you to try out both your new sound, or traditional dance music and have your band have
a place in which it can likewise reherse - but with a very active groups of dancers interacting with you at the sametime.
Here on on the Ithaca Commons is the focus in which you can explore, while giving your fellow bands members the additional
public opennings to get known necessary for their musical development. It all goes on every Tuesdays - when the weather permits
- from 7:00 to 10:00 PM and the time in which it starts May 14th, 2008 and goes on till the end of October, 2008.
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You do not have to be from around the Ithaca area. All you need is willingness.
or call 607 - 279 - 9945 [ If you have a caller id block then please leave a voice mail message.]
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What is now happening at Cornell University.
Note: This is a sample of how one press release once published can be transmitted over my wide range network.
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April/May 2009
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The Kitchen Sink Series provides a venue for emerging regional theater artists to develop work through staged readings
and informal performances of works-in-progress.
For three Mondays in a row, beginning tonight, the Sink series will
feature new plays: by IC students Britain Valenti and Mike Poe and local actress Camilla Schade (OLD TIMES). Don't miss
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Inc. and Toner TONIGHT April 20th at 7:30PM | |
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by Britain Valenti; directed by Dustin D. Bell
Inc.
and Toner is a dramedy about relationships and the many trials and triumphs they bring into our lives. Set in the neutral
environment of an everyday office, Inc. and Toner follows a few diverse characters through a not so normal day at work. Trevor
is trying to find his place in a relationship, which has seemed to give up on him. Gina, everyone's favorite gossip, tries
to reminisce about her 3 or 4 or 5 tries at marriage only to find love where she was least expecting it. Even the office's
security guard and CEO are given a chance to experience love's ups and downs. A series of hilarity and heartfelt moments come
together to create this fun and meaningful piece.
Inc. and Toner was written by Britain
Valenti and will be directed by Dustin D. Bell. The cast and production team are composed of Ithaca College Theatre
students and will feature actors Nicole Intravia, Melissa Gordon, and more. Inc and Toner is a one night event.
One night only - Monday, April 20th at 7:30pm
Tickets are $10 and are available at the Ticket Center at Clinton
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by Michael V. Poe 
"It's ice. Slippery, daunting ice, and I'm stuck on it." Oslo and Ricardo are
awaiting the birth of their daughter, when things finally start moving. When the climate starts overeating the north, life
begins moving south and invading the peace the couple had. Forced out of their home by the Olympics, they are left with no
choice but to quest to Copenhagen to reclaim what was stolen. A play of epic proportions that pushes the boundaries of myth
and fairy tale to explore the limits we allow ourselves to go to in order to change our fate. A journey through the unknown
begins without your permission.
Written and directed by Michael V. Poe, the cast features Ryan DeNardo, Daniel Kopystanski, Emma Poole, Amberlee
Weber, and Michael Wessells. This original work takes you to the bottom of the world where anything can happen.
One night only - Monday, April 27th at 7:30pm
Tickets are $10 and are available at the Ticket Center at Clinton
House,
by calling 273-4497 or online.
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by Camilla Schade and Kira Lallas 
PERFORMING THERAPY is a wacky romp through depression, loss, displacement,
dementia, and the surprise healing nature of Schuyler County written by Camilla Schade and Kira Lallas. A "depressively experienced"
actress turned therapist (Camilla Schade) leads group therapy in an attempt to provide helpful advice and therapeutic modalities
in PERFORMING THERAPY. Art Therapy with Balloon Animals, Affirmations on Post-it notes and Primal Humming are some
of the hopeful remedies. But in her attempt to proffer relief, she gets wildly off-track relating her own poignant story of
life after loss in Schuyler County. PERFORMING THERAPY confronts the value of memory through an engaging recognition
of the art of letting go.
Camilla Schade is an actor/director/teacher/playwright transplanted 4 years ago to beautiful Schuyler County from
PA. She has performed for Ithaca's Hangar Theatre and was last seen on the Kitchen Theatre stage in OLD TIMES. Her acting
and improvisation classes and workshops for all ages can be found at 171 Cedar Arts Center in Corning, through the Family
Service Society and Pathways in Corning, Ithaca Youth Bureau, and as a Teaching Artist for the Hangar Theatre. Camilla met
Kira Lallas through Kira's class on Solo Performance offered by the Kitchen.
Kira Lallas, currently earning
her Masters in Social Work, grew up in Ithaca theatres and co- founded the Orange Tree Theatre Company. While at Boston University
her studies focused on solo autobiographical writing and performance. She toured her award-winning one-woman show, TRANSLATIONS
OF XHOSA, about her time spent in South Africa, until she lived as a resident at Wisdom's Goldenrod Center for Philosophic
Study in Hector. The creation of PERFORMING THERAPY was made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State
Council on the Arts' Decentralization Program administered locally by The ARTS of the Southern Finger Lakes.
One
performance only - Monday, May 4 at 7:30PM
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Summer
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Directed
by Sara Lampert Hoover
If "music is the food of love," then Florence Foster Jenkins is the surprise
dessert. SOUVENIR, a Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins by Stephen Temperley, is an enormously funny and
moving tribute to a woman who followed her dreams - no matter how misguided.
Stephen Temperley's delightful
memoir of another time is told through the biting wit of Ms. Jenkins' talented accompanist Cosme McMoon. Sitting at the piano
late one night, he remembers how his life was changed by an amazing friendship with an unlikely partner. From Gershwin to
Mozart, it was the love of music that carried the two of them on a crazy, not-so-melodic ride.
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Directed
by Margarett Perry
THE SOUP COMES LAST is writer/performer Rachel Lampert's hilarious
and heart warming memoir of her 1997 trip to China to stage a production of WEST SIDE STORY with an all Chinese speaking cast.
Her one-woman play is filled with tales of cross-cultural missteps, lost translations, and life changing events all driven
by the dictum "the show must go on!" Love, humor, backstage dramas and the universal desire to reach one's dream are the ingredients
of Lampert's Soup.
TWO WEEKS ONLY
Thursday July 3, 7:30
Friday July 4, 8:00
Saturday July 5, 8:00
Sunday July 6, 4:00
Wednesday
July 9, 7:30
Thursday July 10, 7:30
Friday July 11, 8:00
Saturday July 12, 8:00
Sunday July 13, 4:00
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Guarantee
the seats you want
before single tickets go on sale August 1st!
Our 6-Play Main Stage Season will run from mid-August 2008 to mid-July
2009. We are thrilled to note that four of the plays will be receiving their first full stagings. There are two additional
productions happening during the 2008-09 season. First is a limited two-week run of THE SOUP COMES LAST in July 2008
before our official season starts. The second is an encore performance of the popular musical TONY & THE SOPRANO,
just in time for the Thanksgiving and December holiday season. Don't forget we are year-round with 170 performances on the
Main Stage!
For more information about the season and a subscription form, follow the link below. We hope you'll join
us again for more important conversations in our 18th Season.
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The Kitchen Theatre Company has a Facebook
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DOWNTOWN ITHACA SUMMER CONCERT
SERIES KICKS OFF THIS THURSDAY!
Thursday, June 7th…..Tarbox Ramblers…..Bernie Milton Pavilion.....7pm-9pm
Contact:
Katie Clapp, Ithaca Downtown Partnership, 607-277-8679,
katie@downtownithaca.com
The annual Downtown Ithaca Summer Concert Series,
a staple seasonal event on Thursday evenings in downtown Ithaca, kicks off this Thursday, June 7th at the Bernie
Milton Pavilion with the Tarbox Ramblers performing their signature alternative primal swamp blues.
This Boston-based band is a staple of Rounder
Records, and their 2004 release, A Fix Back East, has been critically acclaimed
by Rolling Stone Magazine. In 2001 the band toured with legendary Led Zeppelin front-man, Robert Plant, and in 2002 their
self-titled debut CD was featured on the BBC’s list of the year’s top ten albums. Expressing the need to
follow the musical traditions of hillbilly music and Delta blues reinterpreted towards the modern world, they have been compared
to alt-country favorite Wilco, and are a great match for Ithaca’s music loving crowd.
The Downtown Summer Concert Series, which runs
through August 30th, has evolved into an Ithaca summertime tradition. This year’s series, presented
by M & T Bank and Performance Systems Contracting, features a diverse selection of artist from Latin Jazz to Swamp Blues.
Bill Kirchen, the Grammy nominated rockabilly
legend behind the hit “Hot Rod Lincoln” will be another Series highlight on June 21st. Ménage, who graces the stage on July 5th, hails from Asheville, North Carolina and has been
praised by critics as a mix of Patsy Cline and Neil Young. Local favorites The Horse Flies will perform their own brand of
science fiction bluegrass funk on August 16th, and the “End of the Summer Blow-Out” featuring the Dave Matthews
Tribute Band on August 30th will bring the Summer Concert Series to a close.
All concerts are free and take place on the Commons
from 7pm to 9pm Thursday nights except for a few which occur on Wednesday nights. A complete schedule is available at www.downtownithaca.com or by calling the Ithaca Downtown Partnership’s office at 607-277-8679. Series brochures
are also available at all downtown hotspots.
Parking in downtown is free evenings and weekends
at the City garages and at the meters. Many shops on the Commons maintain later hours on Thursdays as well, so people can
come early to shop, dine, and enjoy the music.
For more information, contact Katie Clapp at the
Ithaca Downtown Partnership, 607-277-8679 or email Katie@downtownithaca.com.
Stephanie Winston Vann
Marketing Director
Ithaca Downtown Partnership
171 E. State St.
Center Ithaca PMB# 136
Ithaca, NY 14850
Phone: 607-277-8679
Fax: 607-277-8691
Cell: 607-279-3984
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