SARATOGA SPRINGS — Nancy Muldoon will present “The Saratoga Experience” from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 12.
The photography exhibit will take place at the Roosevelt II Building in the Saratoga Spa State Park. It is free and open to the public. The program was made possible through Saratoga Arts’ Community Arts Regrant Program.
SCHUYLERVILLE — Saratoga Clay Arts Center’s Schacht Gallery presents CLAYFEST, a national invitational exhibition celebrating the holiday season with a compilation of functional pots and decorative works by 21 established clay artists from across the country.
The exhibition opens with a public opening from 5-7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18 and runs through Dec. 30.
The diverse exhibition of functional and decorative pottery includes cups, mugs, bowls, teapots, pitchers, vases and more.
Participating artists include Sarah Anderson, Johnny Arvizu, Sara Ballek, Milo Berezin, Ashley Bevington, Yael Braha, Sam Briegel, Adam Chau, Celia Feldburg, Bianka Groves, Brian R. Jones, Savanna LaBauve, Didem Mert, Marret Metzger, Samantha Oliver, Doug Peltzman, Ian M. Petrie, Zoey Pinnell, Mary Rhein, Keith Simpson, Taylor Whyte and Meghan Yarnell.
Founded in 2011 by clay artist and educator Jill Kovachick, Saratoga Clay Arts Center is a ceramic art center located in Schuylerville, offering wheel throwing and handbuilding clay classes for youth and adults, studio space and residencies for artists, and exhibitions featuring emerging, mid-career and established clay artists.
The Schacht Gallery is open 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday – Saturday and by appointment, and is located at 167 Hayes Road, Schuylerville. Visit www.saratogaclayarts.org, call 518-581-2529 or email info@saratogaclayarts.org for more information.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Boston-based quartet Darlingside will be staging a show at Spa Little Theatre on Sunday, Dec. 3. The intimate, 500-seat theater is located across from the Hall of Springs.
The group are on tour in support of their recent album “Everything Is Alive.”
Comprised of Don Mitchell, Auyon Mukharji, Harris Paseltiner and David Senft, the four likeminded multi-instrumentalists first met at Williams College in 2009.
The show is billed as a Caffe Lena at SPAC performance. Caffè Lena has been part of Darlingside’s growth ever since 2013, when they first played the Saratoga venue as part of a mid-week Emerging Artist Breakout series.
For tickets and more information, go to: SPAC.org.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — An afternoon of conversation and fun centered around the painting of Fred Tusubira is slated to take place 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 11 at Saratoga Arts Center on Broadway.
Tusubira – or Tsubi, as he is known to his Giving Circle family – grew up in a broken home with a violent and abusive father. Without adequate food, he was always hungry. When his mother was unable to care for him any longer, Tsubi and a younger sister were abandoned before they reached school-age.
Tsubi and his sister were embraced by The Giving Circle – a Saratoga-based charity – which provided housing and meals at its orphanage in Jinja. The organization also linked him with a sponsor family from Saratoga Springs, which offered support while he attended The Giving Circle’s Busoga School, setting the foundation for his academic and artistic journey.
With support from The Giving Circle, Tsubi enrolled in the Michelangelo College of Creative Arts, where he honed his talent. Through his painting and drawing, Tusbi, now 24, aspires to create more opportunities for himself and his little sister and dreams of making a positive impact in the lives of others, especially those in need, by using his artistic abilities to communicate powerful messages of hope, love and resilience.
Saturday’s exhibition at Saratoga Arts will also include 16 photos by Giving Circle leader Carl Korn. Admission is free, and light snacks will be served.
For more information about the organization and the art show, go to: www.thegivingcircle.org.
ALBANY — Proctors Collaborative is kicking off 2024 with two alums from “RuPaul’s Drag Race” franchises. Opal Essence from season four of “Camp Wannakiki” will be hosting a New Year’s Eve dragtacular event at Capital Repertory Theatre in December. Then, a few months later, in March, season nine winner of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Sasha Velour will be in the GE Theatre at Proctors.
Opal Essence along with Violencia Exclamation Point and Onyx Ondyx with appearances by Paris LuRux, Lexxi Pro and London Jae Precise will kick off the new year at Capital Repertory Theatre Sunday, Dec. 31 for a Dragtacular New Year’s Eve experience.
Tickets are available through the Box Office at Proctors in-person, via phone at 518-346-6204 Monday-Saturday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. or online at capitalrep.org.
Internationally renowned drag queen, visual artist, television host and author Sasha Velour has announced “The Big Reveal Live Show!,” a brand-new, 90-minute show created by and starring Velour. The Big Reveal Live Show! will run for 90 minutes with no intermission in the GE Theatre at Proctors Saturday, March 2, 2024.
ALBANY — The UAlbany Performing Arts Center presents a free screening of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari featuring an original score composed and conducted by Brett L. Wery. Played live by Quintocracy, the event takes place 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 12 on the uptown University at Albany campus located at 1400 Washington Ave.
Arguably the first true horror film and one considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, this silent film from 1920 was directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer.
Brett L. Wery is an active area composer/arranger and former conductor of UAlbany’s Symphony Orchestra. He is the Music Director/Conductor of the Capital Region Wind Ensemble in Schenectady and composer/editor for Sonata Grendel Publishing in Scotia. Quintocracy is a wind ensemble based in the Capital Region.
With funding from Saratoga Arts through their Community Arts Regrant Program, Quintocracy commissioned Wery to compose the score for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Admission to the event is free. No reservations or tickets are required. For further information, contact the UAlbany Performing Arts Center’s main office at 518-442-3995 or pac@albany.edu.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — New Orleans’ two-time Grammy Award nominees Tank and the Bangas bring their eclectic mix of spoken word, R&B, soul, hip-hop, and jazz to Zankel on Friday, Nov. 10.
Frontwoman Tarriona “Tank” Ball came up in the strong local slam poetry scene before meeting her bandmates at a NOLA open mic night in 2011. The group went on to win NPR’s 2017 Tiny Desk Concert by unanimous acclaim, standing out among 6,000 entrants.
Their latest album, “Red Balloon,” is heralded as a celebration of Black life and a reckoning with America’s ills.
This Nov. 10 concert at Zankel Music Center, located on the Skidmore college campus, is the venue’s first in a new series called “Mosaic,” curating events and related networking opportunities that cater to the unique perspectives and needs of Black artists, musicians, and creators.
One day prior to the band’s appearance on the performance stage, the Tang Museum hosts frontwoman Tarriona “Tank” Ball in a free event at 6 p.m. on Nov. 9, when Ball will read from her debut book of poetry, and be in discussion with Njeri Jennings, Tisch Educator at the Tang. For more information about the reading and the Tang Museum, go to: tang.skidmore.edu.
For more information and tickets about Tank and the Bangas at the Zankel Music Center, go to: https://www.skidmore.edu/zankel/index.php. With a special reading by frontwoman and poet Tarriona “Tank” Ball at the Tang Teaching Museum on Thursday, November 9.
SARATOGA SPRINGS —Kanatsiohareke celebrates its 30th anniversary at the Zankel Music Center on the campus of Skidmore College Saturday, Nov. 4.
A variety of performances will commence on the Zankel stage starting around 5:30/6 p.m., performers include: storytelling by Kay “Ionataiewas” Olan, music by Daygot Leeyos Edwards, Eric Marczek (flute), Jimmy Wolf Band, and a performance from the Haudenosaunee Dancers with Sherri Hopper. This event is organized by the Indigenization and Decolonization Collaborative.
The anniversary marks three decades since the founding of its sustainable culture in Fonda, N.Y. The community, founded in 1993, was the first return of the Rotinonhsionni people to the Mohawk Valley, their original homeland, and has since become a gathering place for the community to reground itself in its culture, teachings, and language.
Programming is part of the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative (MDOCS) at Skidmore College.
Events will kick off at 2 p.m. with the Opening Address delivered by Mohawk elder Tom “Sakokwenionkwas” Porter, founder of Kanatsiohareke, followed by a work-in-progress screening of Kanatsiohareke’s film project with media-maker Raienkonnis Edwards (funded by MDOCS Co-Creation Initiative and Creatives Rebuild NY) and film shorts by Kahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore of The Aunties Dandelion.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Creed have announced the dates of their Summer 2024 – titled “Summer of ‘99 Tour” will include a stop in Saratoga Springs at Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Aug. 24.
Produced by Live Nation, the 40-city tour kicks off on July 17 in Wisconsin. Special guests 3 Doors Down and Finger Eleven will open at the Saratoga date. A limited number of lawn seats at select venues will be available for $19.99 to commemorate the Summer Of ’99 Tour. Go to: www.livenation.com.
SARATOGA SPRINGS —New Kids on the Block have announced The Magic Summer 2024 Tour will reimagine the smash 1990 tour of the same name. The tour, produced by Live Nation, will kick off on June 14 and hit over 40 cities including a date at Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Aug. 11.
“Feeling all the nostalgic feels of the original Magic Summer, with the bond that we’ve shared throughout the years, will make for a most magical time indeed” said New Kids’ Donnie Wahlberg, in a statement.
Paula Abdul and DJ Jazzy Jeff will also appear on the tour. Go to: www.livenation.com.
