Community Calendar

Explore all things apples this October during the 28th Annual Apple Tasting Tour in Wayne County! The Signature Tasting Weekend will take place from October 10 to 13, 2025, featuring apple-themed tastings, family-friendly activities, and fun across each of the 11 stops. Play the Apple Jumble for a chance to win prizes as you “U Pick the stops, U Pick the way!”

Learn how to sculpt organic forms with wool during this 2-day, wet felting intensive with fiber artist Mallory Zondag. Students will learn a variety of wet felting techniques for creating flowers, leaves, stems, stamens, and how to connect all of these elements to form realistic floral forms. We will also cover how to bring needle felting, stitching, and beading into your felting work. Day one will cover techniques and processes for making a variety of organic forms. Day two will be an open studio format where students design their own unique floral arrangement.

The Ballad of Human Movement is an exhibit that will fill your heart with pride for our little city. People have come from all over the world to make Utica their homes. Stories like The New York Times article "How Refugees Transformed a Dying Rust Belt Town" brought Utica into the spotlight, and the Gannett Gallery is thrilled to present a celebration of what makes our city so special. There will also be a free film screening of "Utica: The Last Refuge" on Saturday, October 25, at 2:00 p.m. in the Kunsela Hall Auditorium on the SUNY Poly campus.

Opening Reception: Friday, 10/10/2025 5:00-7:00
Event website: https//balladofhumanmovement.net

Lacuna presents new works from Alison Altafi that explore the space between presence and absence, form and dissolution, memory and dream. Inspired by the cosmos, fairytale, myth and the endless cycles of time, Lacuna invites viewers to consider the space not as emptiness, but as a site of possibility, memory and soft transformation.

Reception Date: October 3, 5-7 p.m.

Experience nature in a unique way on a guided Forest Therapy Walk throughout Baltimore Woods! Forest Therapy, also known as “forest bathing,” stems from a Japanese practice known as Shinrin Yoku. Led by June Leo-Randazzo, a Certified ANFT Forest Therapy Guide, this program invites participants to immerse themselves in nature and open their senses to the surroundings of the forest.

Registration for this program closes at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, October 22.

More details: This walk is designed for adults. Space is limited. Pre-registration is required. You will be notified ahead of the program on where to park and meet on the day of the walk. The walk will take place rain or shine. In case cancellation is necessary due to dangerous conditions, you will be notified by email the morning of the walk. Dress for the weather; this program will be entirely outdoors. Insect repellent and a hat are recommended.

Dive into a rich, layered world of encaustic painting, an ancient painting technique invented by the Greeks, in this two-day weekend workshop focused on collage and mixed media techniques. Students will create an encaustic collage painting with molten pigmented wax, which is applied on a substrate surface, such as wood panels, and fused with a heat source. They will explore how to incorporate paper, photographs, and drawing materials to create dynamic, dimensional compositions. While a basic understanding of encaustic painting is helpful, it is not required; beginners are welcome.

This year, the Victorian Lady antique shop in Oneida is on a mission to collect and distribute warm winter coats and accessories to help neighbors facing hardship during these difficult times.

“If you would like to help make someone's winter a little warmer, we would be most grateful!” says Ms. Gerri Gray, the shop’s proprietor. “We are holding the coat drive throughout the fall and winter.” She added, “We also plan to host a few food giveaways, so if anyone wishes to donate any canned food (including pet food) and/or other non-perishable items, they can bring them to the shop during our regular business hours or simply leave them on our front porch.”

Donations of new and gently-used coats, scarves, and gloves are being accepted every Monday and Saturday from noon until 5 p.m. and on all other days by appointment only. The shop, which was featured on Lite 98.7, is located at 302 Main Street, Oneida, NY (at the corner of Stone).

"i solemnly swear” is an exhibition about the consequences of conscription and deployment into combat. Syracuse artist Paul Pearce was drafted into the US Army in 1967 and deployed to Vietnam in 1968. “I should never have been a soldier, and yet I was a good soldier,” Pearce says. “For this reason, I am haunted by what I did and what I witnessed. When people say, ‘Thank you for your service,’ my reply is, ‘Don’t thank me for my service; you don’t know what I did. My country made me do it and I was just a kid.’”

Schweinfurth Art Center is holding its fifth Member Show this fall, which features 127 works by talented artists who are members of the art center. The exhibition includes oil, acrylic and watercolor paintings, photography, ceramics, sculptures, fiber art, and more.

“Symphony Spectaculars” by the Auburn Chamber Orchestra (ACO) will be presented on Sunday, October 26 at 2:00 p.m. at The Rev Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 East Lake Road, Auburn, NY 13021.

This concert, conducted by Dr. Victor Vallo, Jr., will feature movements of famous symphonies such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 25 in G-minor, Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, Johan De Meij’s Symphony No. 1 (Lord of the Rings Symphony), Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 (New World Symphony), Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 1, Franz Josef Haydn’s Symphony No. 94 (Surprise Symphony), and Ludwig von Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral Symphony) and Symphony No. 9 (Choral Symphony).

Auburn Chamber Orchestra is in its 39th concert season. The orchestra musicians come from a wide range of age groups, communities and professions.

This family-friendly event, which is open to the general public, is free, although donations are greatly appreciated. For further information about Auburn Chamber Orchestra, go to www.auburnchamberorchestra.com or visit us on Facebook.

You won’t want to miss this!