The week ahead
Designer Chip Kidd will be Skidmore this week. (You probably have a Chip Kidd work in your home.)
Here are a few things to keep in mind, look forward to, or keep busy with this week, from the weather (it is November), to Veterans Day, to stories, to film, to authors, to music...
Weather
Here's the paraphrased forecast for this week:Monday: Cloudy and 55.
Tuesday: Sunny, almost 60.
Wednesday: Some sun, maybe some rain. Mid 50s.
Thursday: Sunny and 42.
Friday: Sunny and 39.
Weekend: And so on.
Well, it is November.
Veterans Day
It's Tuesday, and it's federal holiday so some things will be closed. The roots of Veterans Day are in Armistice Day, which was declared to commemorate the end of WWI. The holiday was officially changed to Veterans Day in the 1950s. Veterans Day is intended to honor all veterans of the armed forces. (Memorial Day honors those who died while serving.)
There's a Veterans Day Parade in Albany. It starts at Central Ave and Partridge Street at 11 am and proceeds down Central to Washington Ave to Hawk Street by the Capitol.
Stories
Front Parlor
Tuesday: The Front Parlor storytelling series returns to The Ale House in Troy. This month's theme: "scars." Monday 7:30 pm - free admission
Storytime time
Wednesday: The Storytime Time series returns with a new a location: Cafe NOLA in Schenectady. The series features people telling true, funny stories. Wednesday's lineup includes the one and only Mary Darcy. Wednesday 7 pm - $5
Film
Goonies
Monday: The Palace's movie series indulges in some 80s nostalgia with a screening The Goonies. 7 pm - $5 / $3 kids
Sensory ethnography
Thursday: EMPAC will be screening Leviathan, "an immersive portrait of the contemporary commercial fishing industry, Leviathan was filmed off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts." Blurbage:
...Instead of romanticizing the labor or attempting to turn fisherfolk into mythic caricatures of themselves, Castiang-Taylor (Sweetgrass) and Paravel (Foreign Parts) present a vivid, kaleidoscopic representation of the sea, the work, the machinery, and the players, both human and marine.
Employing an arsenal of cameras that passed freely from film crew to ship crew, swooping from below sea level to astonishing bird's-eye views, the film is unlike anything seen before. Entirely dialogue-free, but mesmerizing and dramatic throughout, Leviathan presents a cosmic portrait of one of mankind's oldest endeavors.
A panel discussion with the filmmakers follows the screening. Thursday 7 pm - $6
Arts and sciences
Electric City
Monday: Novelist Elizabeth Rosner will be at Union College to talk about her new novel Electric City. Blurbage: "It's a coming-of-age love story set against the historical backdrop of a company town in upstate New York that once called itself 'the city that lights the world.'" That would be Schenectady, and the story also includes Charles Steinmetz. Monday 7 pm, Nott Memorial - free
Pneuman and Biancolli
Tuesday: The NYS Writers Institute visiting writers series has two writers lined up for an event at UAlbany:
+ Novelist Angela Pneuman, "widely hailed as an exciting new voice in Southern literature." will be there to talk about her new book Lay It On My Heart.
+ Amy Biancolli, a journalist with the Times Uinion, will be there to talk about her new memoir Figuring Sh!t Out. (Earlier: Figuring Sh!t Out with Amy Biancolli.)
Tuesday 7:30 pm, UAlbany Art Museum - free
Dear Climate
Tuesday: Artists Marina Zurkow and Oliver Kellhammer will be at the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy talking about climate change. Blurbage: "Learn strategies to "Befriend Climate Change," from international environmental crises to hyper-local challenges such as brownfields, decaying urban neighborhoods, and toxic blight right here in North Troy and the Capital Region!" Tuesday 7 pm - $10 / $5 students
The Waterford Flight
Wednesday: State Museum historian Brad Utter will be at the museum for a talk about the "Waterford Flight" of locks and how its construction changed Waterford. Wednesday 7 pm, Huxley Theater - free
Laurie Anderson
Wednesday: Laurie Anderson continues her residence at EMPAC with "an exploration of how tai chi and meditation can shape the music and art we make." Wednesday 6:30 pm and 8:30 pm - $18
Chip Kidd
Thursday: Designer/author Chip Kidd will be at Skidmore November 13 for a talk titled ""! or ?: Let me be perfectly clear. Or mysterious" and a Q&A.
Class and place
Thursday: Author/Saint Rose professor Daniel Nester will be at the college giving a talk titled "Shader: Notes on Class and Place in Blue-Collar Memoir." Nester is working on an essay-memoir collection center around the topic. Thursday 6:30 pm, Saint Rose Events and Athletics Center - free
Music
Tuesday: Glen David Andrews at Parish Public House
"[J]azzy, horn-laced New Orleans funk and soul." 8 pm - $15 ahead / $20 day of
Thursday: Arlo Guthrie at Troy Music Hall
Folk royalty. 7:30 pm - $25 and up
Thursday: Happy Traum + Jim Kweskin at Caffe Lena
Folk. 7 pm - $22
Thursday: Emblem3 at Upstate Concert Hall
Pop rock. With: Spencer Sutherland, The Hapless Romantic. 7 pm - $25 ahead / $28 day of
Friday: The Weight + Sean Rowe at The Massry Center
Playing the music of The Band. 7:30 pm - $25 / $15 students
Friday: Gov't Mule at The Palace
Southern rock. 8 pm - $30 and up
Friday: Hiromi - The Trio Project at The Egg
Multi genre jazz pianist.
Friday: Chris Smither at Helsinki Hudson
Folk/blues. 9 pm - $30
Friday: Mallet Brothers Band at Putnam Den
Alt-country rock. With: The Hollows. 9:30 pm - $10
Friday: Maria Zemantauski's Alegria Quartet at Caffe Lena
Classical guitar. 8 pm - $18
Friday: Homeless and Hunger Outreach Show at The Low Beat and Pauly's
Long lineup of locals. 7 pm - $10 and a can of food
Saturday: Dark Star Orchestra at The Palace
Grateful Dead tribute. 7:30 pm - $33.50
Saturday: St. Lucia at The Hollow
The musician, not the island. 8 pm - $10.27 ahead / $12 day of
Saturday: Yarn/Wire at EMPAC
"Centered around two pianists and percussionists, Yarn/Wire uses a combination of thundering rhythms, unconventional sounds, and precision execution." 8 pm - $18
Sunday: Steve Miller Band at Proctors
Band is now 48 years old. 8 pm - $20 and up
To do list
1. If you haven't raked the leaves yet, now's the time. The snow could be start soon.
2. Start nailing down Thanksgiving-related details.
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These are a just a few things for this week, not a comprehensive list. Know of something people should be looking forward to this week? Please share!
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Don't forget the Capital Region Creative Economy Regional Summit on Nov. 13. At the summit, leaders from the Center for Economic Growth, the Community Foundation and many other groups will discuss the results of a 6-month-long research study on the region's creative assets, and give recommendations on how to leverage our abundant creative assets as economic drivers.
The summit is at Proctors, it's free, and almost 300 people are registered. Info and registration link at http://upstatecreative.org/regional-summit/
... said SGK on Nov 10, 2014 at 3:49 PM | link