Events

The Ithaca Children & Youth Chorus will be holding placement auditions for Fall 2019 at CSMA (330 E. State St, Ithaca) on August 29th and September 3rd from 3:00-6:00 pm. Children that participated this year do NOT need to re-audition, but if you have younger or older siblings, friends from school or other activities you participate in, we would LOVE to have them join us this fall. New faces are ALWAYS welcome! Children interested in joining the newly formed Dolce Choir (ages 5 and 6) and Ancora (intergenerational choir) also need not audition.

Auditions are brief (approximately 10 minutes) and consist of a little vocalizing, some pitch memory exercises, and some basic harmony exercises. We aim to make auditioning a very low-key and comfortable experience for all singers.

Minimum age for participation is 5, but our ensembles go right up through middle and high school and beyond. The rehearsal schedule can be found on the Ithaca Children & Youth Chorus section of our website.

*We hope to ADD a young men’s ensemble this year for boys with changed voices. We would especially like to encourage them to audition!!

To schedule an audition time, call CSMA at 607-272-1474.

CSMA Faculty Show
September, July 6, 5-8 PM
On view August 2nd – September 27

All are invited to the annual Faculty Show, a group exhibition of works by CSMA’s visual arts faculty, with live music on Gallery Night performed by members of our music faculty.

We are excited to feature visual artists Ryan Abb, Storn Cook, Jennifer Gibson, Joe Granski, Rob Licht, Kevin Mayer, and Jessica Warner. Music performed by John Bunge and Dave Streater will begin at 6:00 PM on September 6 in the gallery. Get a glimpse of the creative styles of CSMA’s talented teaching artists, and get inspired to take a class or lessons this fall!

CSMA Gallery Night
Friday, October 4th 5-8 PM
On view October 4th – October 25th

Hilando Fino / Finespun

José Buenaventura González and Paulina Velázquez Solís

A dialogue between traditional and contemporary textile art 

Un diálogo entre obras de arte textil tradicional y contemporáneo 

One medium and two very different artists, both stemming from the deep, complex roots of Latin American culture. Hilando Fino / Finespun brings together the textile works of master weaver and organic dyer José Buenaventura González, an indigenous Zapotec artist from Oaxaca, Mexico, and Mexican-Costa Rican visual artist Paulina Velázquez Solís. Their work engages us in a conversation that explores the human relationship with nature and history, and the interplay of permanence and change in the lived experiences of the artists as individuals and as members of the larger indigenous and mestizo, Mexican and Central American, Latin American and American, globalized communities of which they are part.

Please join us for the opening reception from 5-8 PM, presented by the Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County and ¡Cultura! The exhibition is supported by the Latino Studies Program of Cornell University, and made possible in part by funds from the Tompkins County Tourism Program, and the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.

CSMA Gallery Exhibition
On view October 4th – October 25th

Hilando Fino / Finespun

José Buenaventura González and Paulina Velázquez Solís

A dialogue between traditional and contemporary textile art 

Un diálogo entre obras de arte textil tradicional y contemporáneo 

One medium and two very different artists, both stemming from the deep, complex roots of Latin American culture. Hilando Fino / Finespun brings together the textile works of master weaver and organic dyer José Buenaventura González, an indigenous Zapotec artist from Oaxaca, Mexico, and Mexican-Costa Rican visual artist Paulina Velázquez Solís. Their work engages us in a conversation that explores the human relationship with nature and history, and the interplay of permanence and change in the lived experiences of the artists as individuals and as members of the larger indigenous and mestizo, Mexican and Central American, Latin American and American, globalized communities of which they are part.

Please join us for the opening reception from 5-8 PM, presented by the Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County and ¡Cultura! The exhibition is supported by the Latino Studies Program of Cornell University, and made possible in part by funds from the Tompkins County Tourism Program, and the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.

The public is invited to Voices of Freedom 2019, Ithaca City of Asylum’s annual celebration of free expression. The event will feature a presentation by new ICOA artist-in-residence Pedro X. Molina, an internationally acclaimed political cartoonist who fled Nicaragua with his family during a violent crackdown on dissent last December. A party will follow. The free event is cosponsored by the Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County, Group 73 of Amnesty International, Buffalo Street Books, Cornell Latin American Studies Program, and PEN America’s Artists at Risk Connection.

Qinfolk and Ithaca Underground present: Queer Vibes Only, the official After Party of the Qinfolk Festival! Bring your queer vibes and kick it with us! Sounds by: DJ RAEN. FREE for folks with a Qinfolk Festival Ticket!! Otherwise tickets are available here ($10):

CSMA Gallery Exhibition
On view November 1 – November 25th

Hilando Fino / Finespun

José Buenaventura González and Paulina Velázquez Solís

A dialogue between traditional and contemporary textile art 

Un diálogo entre obras de arte textil tradicional y contemporáneo 

One medium and two very different artists, both stemming from the deep, complex roots of Latin American culture. Hilando Fino / Finespun brings together the textile works of master weaver and organic dyer José Buenaventura González, an indigenous Zapotec artist from Oaxaca, Mexico, and Mexican-Costa Rican visual artist Paulina Velázquez Solís. Their work engages us in a conversation that explores the human relationship with nature and history, and the interplay of permanence and change in the lived experiences of the artists as individuals and as members of the larger indigenous and mestizo, Mexican and Central American, Latin American and American, globalized communities of which they are part.

Please join us on Gallery Night at 6:00 PM for a guided tour of the exhibition led by the artists, and at 7:00 PM for a special presentation in celebration of the Day of the Dead / Día de Muertos. Hosted by the Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County and ¡Cultura! The exhibition is supported by the Latino Studies Program of Cornell University, and made possible in part by funds from the Tompkins County Tourism Program, and the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and
administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.

The show will remain on view through November 25.

Come sign up and join Joe Crookston for this 3-hour printmaking
workshop at CSMA. The Saturday after Thanksgiving. Create handmade prints
for yourself and to give as gifts. Think you are not creative? Think
again. Printmaking is fun, full of surprises, and is guaranteed to bring
out the artist within you. This workshop will be fun, meaningful, and we
will explore the external world of inks, paper and stencils, as well as
the internal world of creativity and fear of not being good enough. Snacks
provided. Joe will play and sing. And we will get down and dirty and
surprise ourselves with what we can make in 3 hours. Sign up now. This
workshop is limited to only 20 participants.

THE PRICE FOR THIS WORKSHOP is $60    All materials are included. You will
leave with at least 2-3 images matted in sleeves ready for gift giving!
Wear appropriate messy clothes!

For questions & TO REGISTER FOR THIS WORKSHOP Please email:
eharrod@fleetfingered.com  or VISIT: joecrookston.com

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