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May 12, 2011

What's Happening: May 12, 2011

NON   COMMERCIAL EVENTS only. Readers who wish to list an event in What’s Happening should e-mail information to crier@csdsl.net, mail to the Cooperstown Crier, 21 Railroad Ave., Cooperstown, NY, 13326, or fax to 547-1109 at least 10 days before the event. More information may be obtained by calling 547-9493.

THURSDAY, MAY 12

CLASS: Community Art Night, 6 to 8 p.m., Smith Pottery Studio. For information,call 547-8671 or e-mail smithypioneer@gmail.com.

CLASS: Drawing the Head with Doug Jamieson (part 2), 10 a.m. to noon, Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St. $100 for members/$ 105 for nonmembers. For info: 547-9777.

FRIDAY, MAY 13

MUSIC: Dana Marcine and Jazzified, 9 p.m., Templeton Lounge at the Otesaga Resort Hotel.

DANCE: Doubleday Dancers Wester Square Dance Club, 7:30 to 10 p.m., Cooperstown Elementary School.

BENEFIT CONCERT: Levon Helm Band and Arlo Guthrie anti-hydrofracking benefit concert, Brewery Ommegang. For information, visit www.ommegang.com/events.

SATURDAY, MAY 14

WORKSHOP: In the Medicine Cabinet, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., The Farmers’ Museum. Fee: $40 nonmembers; $35 members. To register, call 547-1461.

MARKET: Cooperstown Farmers Market featuring fresh vegetables and fruits, plants, baked goods, meats, cheese, local crafts and more from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The market is behind Key Bank, at 101 Main St. in, Cooperstown. For information, call 547-6195. Sponsored by Otsego 2000.

WORKSHOP: Caring for the Vegetable Garden, 10 a.m. to noon, Cornell Cooperative Extension, 123 lake St. in Cooperstown. Cost is $5. For information or to register, call 547-2536, ext. 0.

MARKET: Glimmerglass Marketplace, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., beach of Otsego Lake in Glimmerglass Park. For information, call 547-8662, POETRY EVENT: The War Between The Poets Civil War Poetry Slam, 5 p.m., New York State Historical Association Library. For information, call jbroadbe@gmail.com.

DOG WASH: Susquehanna SPCA, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. $15 donation will get a dog wash and toe nail trimming. Appointments accepted, 547-8111.

MUSIC: Teresa Broadwell and her jazz quartet, 9 p.m., Templeton Lounge at the Otesaga Resort Hotel.

EVENT: Brookwood Garden cleanup day, volunteers needed, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. FILM: ‘Three Farms,’ Food and Farm Film Series, 6:30 p.m., Fenimore Art Museum, part of the Food and Farm Film Series.

SUNDAY, MAY 15

MEETING: The Smithy Writers Circle, 4 to 6 p.m., Smithy Pioneer Gallery. For information, call 547-8671 or e-mail smithypioneer@gmail. com.

BREAKFAST: Pancake breakfast, 8 a.m. to noon, Grange Hall, 208 Cemetery Road, Fly Creek. sponsored by the Fly Creek Area Historical Society.

EVENT: Bird walk sponsored by the Delaware- Otsego Audubon Society, 8 a.m., South Hill State Forest in Davenport, meet at DEC tractor barn on Kelly Corners Road in Milford. For information, call 435-2054.

EVENT: 4-H Calf sale, 2 p.m., county fairgrounds, Morris. For more information, call Patti Zellmer at 547- 2536, ext. 225.

MONDAY, MAY 16

CLASS: Open drawing group with live model, 7 to 9 p.m., Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St. $10  fee. Subject to weather andmodel availability. For info: 547-9777.

PROGRAM: Talking Opera, 7 p.m., Christ Episcopal Church, 69 Fair St. Presentation: In-depth look at ‘Medea.’

TUESDAY, MAY 17

EXHIBIT: ‘A Splash of Color,’ the kindergarten through 12th grade student art show, 6 to 8 p.m., Lower Elementary Wing, Main Office Windows and Atrium at Cherry Valley- Sprinfield Central School.

DISPLAY: Safe Kids of Otsego County, 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Bassett Medical Center Clinic Library, featuring spring and summer safety. For info: 547-5256 or richard. mccaffery@bassett.org.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 18

CLASS: Watercolor Still Life with David Kiehm (part 7), 12:30 to 3:30 p.m., Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St. $110 for members/$ 115 for nonmembers. For info: 547-9777.

CLASS: Watercolor Landscape with David Kiehm (part 7), 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Cooperstown Art Association,  22 Main St. $110 for members/$ 115 for nonmembers. For info: 547-9777.

CLASS: Plein Air Oil Painting with Mary Nolan (part 5), 10 a.m. to noon, Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St. $160 for members/$ 165 for nonmembers. For info: 547-9777.

CLASS: Diabetes selfmanagment training, 2 to 4 p.m., Bassett Medical Center Clinic Building, 1 Atwell Road. To register 547-3649.

CLASS: Breastfeeding, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., third-floor inpatient conference room at the Bassett medical Center. To register, 547-4593 or (800) BASSETT.

MEETING: Lake and Valley Garden Club, 11:30 a.m., auditorium at Fenimore Art Museum. Program by author, lecturer and flower arranger Nancy D’Oench. Cost $25.

DEDICATION: Greater Milford Historical Association dedication of exhibibition gallery to Niles Eggleston, 7 p.m., Upper Susquehanna Cultureal Center on North Main Street in Milford. Followed by talk on Prehistoric Susquehanna Life. For info: 286-9038.

MEETING: Cooperstown Lions Club, 6:30 p.m., Tunicliff Inn.

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