Arts and Entertainment
September 11, 2024
From: Ithaca is Books FestivalSchedule:
Thursday, September 12, 2024
3:00 p.m. - Storytellers Bag Workshop with Yvonne Wakim Dennis at Buffalo Street Books
5:00 p.m. Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit with author Robin Bernstein and Karen Jaime at Buffalo Street Books
6:00 p.m. A People’s Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice with author Katie Tastrom at Autumn Leaves Bookstore
Friday, September 13, 2024
10:30 a.m. - TCPL Baby and Toddler Story Time Outside at Marc Leathers Park (301 S Geneva St)
4:30 p.m. - Booksellers on Bookselling with Danny Caine, Rachel Crawford, and Lisa Swayze at Buffalo Street Books
6:00 p.m. - Jonathan Lethem in Coversation with Eleanor Henderson at Buffalo Street Books
7:00 p.m. - Poetry Slam with Nia Nunn and Gladira Velazquez + DJ ha-MEEN at The Downstairs
8:00 p.m. - From Sun to Sun with author Kenneth Wishnia at Autumn Leaves Bookstore
8:30 p.m. - The Godfather: The Movie is Better Than the Book at Cinemapolis
Saturday, September 14, 2024
11:00 a.m. - The Editor is IN Workshop with Leslie Daniels at Buffalo Street Books
12:00 p.m. - Drop In Journal Making with Ithaca Print Commons at Ithaca Print Commons
12:00 p.m. - 100 Things to Do in Ithaca Before You Die with author Amanda Jaros Champion at Buffalo Street Books Book Fair Table
1:00 p.m. - After World with author Debbi Urbanski and Aaron Arm at Buffalo Street Books
2:30 p.m. - Something New Under the Sun with author Alexandra Kleeman and Chris Holmes at Buffalo Street Books
2:30 p.m. - Karl Marx, Private Eye with author Jim Feast and Jonathan Lethem at Autumn Leaves Bookstore
3:30 p.m. - Storytelling with Jaime Warburton at Bernie Milton Pavilion, The Commons
4:00 p.m. - What’s the Deal with Queer Romance with Susi Dumond, Timothy Janovsky, and Steven Salvatore in conversation with John Jacobson at Buffalo Street Books
4:30 p.m. - Jonathan Lethem in conversation with Jim Feast at Bernie Milton Pavilion, The Commons
5:00 p.m. - The Sapling Cage with author Margaret Killjoy and Elizabeth Sandifer at Buffalo Street Books
6:00 p.m. - Book Talk and Ithaca Queer Lit Walking Tour with Dr. Jeffry Iavannone at Buffalo Street Books
6:30 p.m. - An Evening With Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovitch From Cornell Class of 1991 to Award Winning Children’s Author at Tompkins Ctr History and Culture
7:00 p.m. - Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An-Other World with author Antonia Carcelén-Estrada at Autumn Leaves Bookstore
8:30 p.m - Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Movie is Better Than the Book at Cinemapolis
Sunday, September 15, 2024
11:00 a.m. - Drag Story Hour with Tilia Cordata and Coraline Chardonnay at Bernie Milton Pavilion, The Commons
11:00 a.m. - YA Authors Tell All with authors Kalynn Bayron, Gray Bulla, and Steven Salvatore at Buffalo Street Books
12:00 p.m. - Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich Read Aloud for Early Readers at Bernie Milton Pavilion, The Commons
1:00 p.m. - Sing Me a Story! Read Me a Song! with John Simon and Cal Walker at Bernie Milton Pavilion, The Commons
2:00 p.m. - GW Carver Gardens Project at Bernie Milton Pavilion, The Commons
3:00 p.m. - A Panel of Poets with Jamaica Baldwin, Nicole Basta, and Dan Rosenberg at Buffalo Street Books
4:00 p.m. - Mayor and Friends Read Aloud with Mayor Robert Cantelmo and friends at Bernie Milton Pavilion, The Commons
5:00 p.m. - Read Aloud for Grownups with Jennifer Savran-Kelly and friends at The Downstairs
5:00 p.m. - Playwrights’ Jam with Lesley Greene and AJ Sage at Kitchen Theatre Company
5:00 p.m. - Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements That Won with author Kevin A. Young at Autumn Leaves Bookstore
8:30 p.m. - The Shining: The Movie is Better Than the Book at Cinemapolis
Date: September 12-15, 2024
Location: various Venues in Ithaca, NY 14850
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