Fall 2011

Merry-Go-Round Playhouse Presents: The Marvelous Wonderettes

Follow the girls from their Senior Prom to their Ten Year Reunion and enjoy songs like "Lollipop," "Lipstick on Your Collar," and "Leader of the Pack" along the way. Audiences are sure to recognize most of the 30 songs of this amazing show.

The Merry-Go-Round Playhouse is Upstate New York’s most popular professional theater performing five Broadway musicals each season. Experience Broadway in the Finger Lakes!

Location: Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, Emerson Park, Auburn, NY 
Time: Daily evening performances as well as varied matinees 
Admission: Varied

 
For more information, visit the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse website.

Finger Lakes Cork & Fork

If you love the food, produce and wines of the Finger Lakes Region of New York State, this is your can’t-miss event of the year! The Finger Lakes Cork & Fork® is the premier field to feast event in the Finger Lakes Region, celebrating and showcasing the region’s agriculture, viticulture, and culinary best.

Sip local wines and beverages. Sample locally grown produce and locally produced foods. Taste dishes prepared by the area’s finest restaurants and chefs, and that feature these local products. Learn how to use our local bounty to prepare masterful dishes. Discover how to pair your foods with the right wines to bring out all the best flavors. And best of all, you can buy everything you need to create a locally produced feast all in one spot!

Location: Lottman Farms, Seneca Falls, NY

Time: varies
Admission: varies
For more information, visit the Finger Lakes Cork & Fork website.

Someone Like You: Starring Leslie Goddard and her friends from Broadway

Aurora-born Leslie Goddard (Jersey Boys, Hairspray), performs with talented friends Lauren Kling (Hairspray) and Gretchen Bieber (Hairspray), featuring Jasper Grant (Musical Director of The Color Purple on tour) on piano with a special appearance by David Baum (Mary Poppins, A Chorus Line). Using musical theater, pop/rock songs, and dance, the performers will create characters similar to themselves that reveal their journeys to fulfilling their Broadway dreams. Funded in part by NYSCA.

Location: Morgan Opera House, 370 Main Street, Aurora

Time: 8:00pm
Admission: Adults $12, Seniors/Students $10, Children $8
 

For more information, visit the Morgan Opera House website.

Farm Dinner

Our Farm Dinner celebrates our relationship with Rose Ryan of Harvest Home Organics, who provides the majority of our seasonal organic produce. In addition to our selection of local vegetables we will craft the menu to use entirely all local ingredients—no exceptions—from the basic mirepoix in the stocks and sauces to local pastured chicken, eggs, dairy and grains. Look for wine choices to represent all-stars of the Finger Lakes region.

Location: Aurora Inn Dining Room
Time: 6:30 reception, 7 pm Dinner
Admission: $75 per person plus tax & gratuity
For more information or to make a reservation, please call the Aurora Inn at 315.364.8888

Jay Rogoff, Visiting Writers Series

Jay Rogoff’s fourth book of poetry, The Art of Gravity, has just appeared from Louisiana State University Press. “In a great variety of forms, both traditional and experimental, the book explores the interactions between dance and our lives. Rogoff’s previous books include The Long Fault (LSU, 2008), How We Came to Stand on That Shore (River City, 2003), and The Cutoff (Word Works, 1995), which appeared as winner of the Washington Prize for Poetry. Rogoff’s poetry and criticism have appeared in many journals, including Agni, Field, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, Ploughshares, Salmagundi, and The Southern Review, and he won a 2010 Pushcart Prize. He serves as dance critic for The Hopkins Review and also writes about dance for Ballet Review and The Saratogian.

Location: Art Exhibit Room, Macmillan Hall, Wells College
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Admission: Free

Our Beds are Crowded: Seven Short Plays about Love, Fear and Sex

The Wells College Theatre Department presents the regional premier performance of Our Beds are Crowded: Seven Short Plays about Love, Fear and Sex, an original play by award-winning writer and Wells alumna Christie Perfetti. The performance will take place at 7:30 p.m. October 27, 28 and 29 in the auditorium of Barler Hall on the Wells College campus. Our Beds are Crowded will be directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Siouxsie Easter as the Performing Arts Department Faculty Production for this semester.

Location: Barler Hall Auditorium, Wells College
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Admission: $7 general public, $5 seniors and Wells community, free for Wells College staff, faculty, and students

Healing Muse Issue #11, Visiting Writers' Series

Two or three Editors and several writers whose work appears in the current issue of THE HEALING MUSE will read from and discuss their contributions to the magazine. THE HEALING MUSE is the annual journal of literary and visual art published by SUNY Upstate Medical University’s Center for Bioethics & Humanities. The magazine publishes fiction, poetry, narratives, essays, memoirs and visual art, particularly but not exclusively focusing on themes of medicine, illness, disability and healing. Because of the college’s close association with the magazine and its founder, Dr. Bonnie A. St. Andrews, Wells has held a Healing Muse reading every fall for the past several years.

Location: Art Exhibit Room, Macmillan Hall, Wells College
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Admission: Free

Holiday Cooking 101

Just in time for the holidays, Farm Table helps make the season’s cooking more pleasure than stress. This course will cover many staple foods of traditional Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations, including roast turkey, prime rib, gravy, horseradish sauce, and scalloped potatoes. We’ll offer tips for planning and executing the perfect meal. You’ll gain hands-on experience, and benefit from demonstrations by our renowned chefs. Best of all, you’ll sit down at the class’s end with your fellow participants to enjoy the feast you’ve prepared together—complete with a glass of wine. Dinner at 8:30, 12 person maximum

Location: The Aurora Inn
Time: 6-8:30 p.m. 
Admission: $115/person

George Drew, Visiting Writers Series

George Drew is the author of four books of poems, most recently The View From Jackass Hill, which won the 2010
X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize and was published this fall by Texas Review Press. Mississippi born, Mr. Drew currently lives in New York State. He has published widely, with poems appearing recently or upcoming in journals around the country. His work has been frequently anthologized, and he has been the recipient of a number of literary awards and prizes.

Location: Art Exhibit Room, Macmillan Hall, Wells College
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Admission:  Free

Dickens' Christmas in Skaneateles

Step back in time and enjoy the holidays the old-fashioned way with Dickens' Christmas. The celebration begins the day after Thanksgiving and runs every Saturday and Sunday through December 18th, and a limited show on Dec 24th. Charles Dickens and his cast of characters, directed by Jim Greene of Scarlett Rat Entertainment, will interact with residents and visitors in the streets, stores and restaurants. More information can be found here.

Location: Skaneateles, N.Y.
Time: Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 4 p.m. 
Admission: Free

Bet the Farm Wine Lunch

It doesn’t get any fresher than this: savor the region’s finest as two neighboring establishments. Bet the Farm and the Aurora Inn Dining Room converge to offer autumnal harvest favorites from local farms. The afternoon promises to stimulate the palate with a selection of paired local boutique wines. 4 paired courses.

Location: Aurora Inn Dining Room
Time: 12:00 noon reception, 12:30 Lunch
Admission: $55 per person plus tax and gratuity

Syracuse Symphony Holiday Concert

The Wells College Arts and Lecture Series presents a concert by Symphony Syracuse at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, December 1 in Phipps Auditorium of Macmillan Hall on the Wells College campus. This special “Holiday Pops” program will bring the spirit of the season to attendees; Wells is one of nine planned stops on the symphony’s tour. The festive holiday performance is offered free of charge, and the public is cordially invited to this memorable concert.

Location: Phipps Auditorium, Macmillan Hall, Wells College
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Admission:  Free

Hors D'oeuvres & Cocktails

Master the art of the cocktail party! This class will teach you six to eight simple, crowd-pleasing recipes that can be prepared in advance. Additionally, we’ll learn how to make classic cocktails while enjoying lessons in the history of these drinks. You will enjoy the hors d’oeuvres and cocktails throughout the evening, as well as the company of your classmates and our chefs. 20 person maximum

Location: the Aurora Inn
Time: 7-9:30 p.m.
Admission: $65/person