Community Calendar

The Pathway of Resistance walking tours examine the African-American experience on and along the banks of the Erie Canal, from the waterway's beginnings to contemporary times. We will present this in-person program on alternating Thursdays and Saturdays at 1 p.m. starting on August 26 through September 23. Space is limited, so please try to reserve a space in advance by calling the Museum at (315) 471-0593 or emailing educator@eriecanalmuseum.org. Walk-ins are welcome as well!

The Fall 2021 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series premieres with a reading by poet & National Book Critics Circle Award winner Ada Limón. <br/><br/> <b>Ada Limón</b> is the author of six books of poetry, including <em>The Carrying</em>, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her book <em>Bright Dead Things</em> was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her work has been supported most recently by a Guggenheim Fellowship. She grew up in Sonoma, California and now lives in Lexington, Kentucky where she writes, teaches remotely, and hosts the critically-acclaimed poetry podcast, <em>The Slowdown</em>. Her new book of poetry, <em>The Hurting Kind</em>, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in May 2022. <br/><br/> Book signing to follow — Books by Ada Limón will be available for purchase at the reading courtesy of Ithaca's local cooperative, Buffalo Street Books. <br/><br/> <em>The Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Reading is a biennial event, featuring a public reading by a distinguished poet. It was established in 1980 by Margaret Rosenzweig, 32, in memory of Robert Chasen.</em> <br/><br/> <b>Free and open to the public — Masks and adherence to university public health guidelines required. For the latest information visit covid.cornell.edu.</b> <br/><br/> <b>For more information</b> about the Zalaznick Reading Series, visit english.cornell.edu/zalaznick, email creativewriting@cornell.edu or call 607.255.7847. <br/><br/> <em>This event is presented by the Department of Literatures in English / Creative Writing Program at Cornell University</em>

Side effects of prostate cancer treatment can impact a patient's quality of life. Learn how physical therapy can help manage the pain and leakage associated with prostate cancer treatment. Pre- and post-prostatectomy rehabilitation will be discussed. Includes question and answer session. In collaboration with Upstate Men to Men prostate cancer support group.

Everyone talks about saving the earth, but Dr. Adam Frank thinks we have it wrong. “It’s not the earth, that needs saving, it’s us,” he writes. Frank will talk about this and other ideas Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. in a virtual presentation by The Cazenovia Forum. <br/><br/> Frank, an astrophysicist and a leading expert on the final stages of evolution for stars, will speak on “The Future of Life on Earth and Everywhere Else.” <br/><br/> In his 2018 book, Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth, Frank writes that we are not necessarily the collective villains in the story of climate change, “but we may collectively become losers.” <br/><br/> His current work focuses on life in the universe, the search for “technosignatures” of other exo-civilizations along with climate change and the “Astrobiology of the Anthropocene”. <br/><br/> He suggests that it is logical to believe that there have been countless civilizations similar to ours throughout the universe and throughout time. They, too, must have confronted challenges to their existence. Whatever we can learn about these exo-civilizations and their survival (or demise), even if it is only theoretical, may be able to help us cope with our own climate crisis here on Earth <br/><br/>A self-described “evangelist of science,” he is committed to showing others the beauty and power of science, and exploring the proper context of science in culture. Light of the Stars received praise from the New York Times, NPR and Scientific American. He has written two other books, The Constant Fire: Beyond the Religion and Science Debate, and About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang. <br/><br/> Frank is a regular on-air commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered and was co-founder of National Public Radio 13.7: Cosmos and Culture blog which ran for seven years and garnered millions of distinct views. He is also a contributor to the New York Times, The Atlantic and other media outlets. He currently runs the 13.8 blog on BigThink.com. He was also the science consultant for Marvel's 2016 movie, Doctor Strange starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Tilda Swinton. <br/><br/> Frank has received a number of awards for his scientific and outreach work. Light of the Stars won the 2019 National Honors Society Best Book in Science. In 2020 he was given the American Physical Society’s Joseph A. Burton Forum Award. In 2021 he was granted the Carl Sagan Medal for excellence in public communication by the American Astronomical Society. You can find out more about his work at his website, https://www.adamfrankscience.com/

Join Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Joy Pople as she discusses how to prepare your garden, plants and tools for the winter ahead. This program is part of the Erie Canal Museum's effort to revitalize its Locktender's Garden area and encourage people along the Canal to take up gardening in order to create a more beautiful and sustainable Canal Corridor.

Clinton Symphony of the Mohawk Valley<br/><br/> A Celebration of Strings<br/><br/> -dedicated to Joanna Moore-<br/><br/> The Clinton Symphony of the Mohawk Valley has come out from under the cloud of COVID and is ready to shine! We are delighted to announce our next concert, Sunday, October 3, 2021, at 2:30 p.m. at the Clinton Schools Performing Arts Complex. <br/><br/> Our new music director, Maestro Octavio Más-Arocas, will conduct the performance and will present a pre-concert lecture at 1:30. <br/><br/> The program will open with Gustav Holst’s delightful St. Paul’s Suite, followed by Benjamin Britten’s charming Simple Symphony, and the rousing Romanian Dances by Béla Bartók. Following intermission, the evocative Serenade for Strings, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, will close the concert. <br/><br/> Open-seating tickets are $35 for adults and FREE for all students (college students need ID). Tickets are available at the door, by phone: 315-404-2016, or mail your order, along with your tax-deductible donation, to Clinton Symphony Orchestra, PO Box 270, Clinton, NY 13323. COVID-19 protocols will be followed.

In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business. Catering to divers, it attracted guests from around the world. Little did the vacationers know that the staff were undercover spies working for the Mossad – Israel’s intelligence agency. Red Sea Spies, written by longtime BBC Middle East Editor Raffi Berg, tells the true story of what began with one cryptic message pleading for help and turned into a secret evacuation of thousands of Ethiopian Jews in refugee camps, spiriting them to Israel. These events inspired the recent Netflix drama The Red Sea Diving Resort. Join author Raffi Berg for this special virtual speaker event. <br/><br/> All fall speakers are $8 members / $10 non-members. <br/><br/> For more information, please email kstrauss@commonpointqueens.org.