Community Events
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Finger Lakes Sweet Treat Trail
The family-friendly Sweet Treat Trail is all about the unique sweets and treats that Cayuga County has to offer. Whether it's honey or jam or homemade cookies made with locally grown and produced products, the Trail has everything to satisfy your sweet tooth cravings. The 20 stops along the trail include farmers’ markets, bakeries, farm stands, stores, ice cream stands, u-picks and cafés, all featuring locally grown or produced sweet treats. From north to south in Cayuga […]
Fabrication: Telling Stories Through Clothing
Museum Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 11am - 4pm Clothing is much more intertwined with culture and communication than it may seem. The Jacquard machine, a loom invented in 1804 in order to speed up the process of producing complex textiles, became the foundation for modern day computers. The colloquialism “weaving a tale” is used when someone tells a long and intricate story. The act of creating textiles is both a metaphor for and an example […]
I Am A Friend of Dorothy
Museum hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 11am - 4pm Kevin Carr explores themes of self-discovery and LGBTQ acceptance through fabric based media. His exhibits at the Cayuga Museum and Schweinfurth Art Center will mirror one another while also playing with the dichotomy of the two distinct display spaces: works on display at the Cayuga Museum are predominantly black and white while works at the Schweinfurth use vibrant colors. Kevin Carr is the second of two artists […]
Case Research Laboratory Tours
Visit the Case Research Laboratory and learn all about the birthplace of commercially successful sound film. Theodore Case and his employees spent over a decade in a converted greenhouse, developing world changing technology such as the Movietone sound film system. Take a tour with us to learn more about the “talkies”, the people who made them possible, and how it all relates to Auburn, NY! Museum hours: 11am – 4pm, Wednesday – Saturday, Tours are […]
Exhibition: “The Palace at 3AM”
Buffalo-based artist Gary Sczerbaniewicz has been researching weird and eerie subjects for the past decade, including séance parlors, alien abductions, hypnogogic events, inter-dimensional ruptures, perceptual delusions, anomalous incursions, and imminent global perils. These anomalous phenomena are represented in the architectural models included in “The Palace at 3AM,” his solo exhibition at the Schweinfurth Art Center. Galleries open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays Admission is $10 per […]
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Potters Farm to Fork Music Mondays
Potters Farm to Fork Music Mondays
Each week live music from 6-8 PM plus $10 Burger & Beer special served all day! We have Cayuga Counties largest selection of NYS Craft Beer.
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Both Sides of the Wall: Auburn and Its Prison
The Auburn Prison, known today as the Auburn Correctional Facility, is one of the oldest prisons in the country. For just over 200 years the facility has housed incarcerated individuals and during that time many changes have been made. This exhibit is a midpoint between old and new as we endeavor to create a permanent exhibit about the Auburn Correctional Facility. As we work to include missing stories and improve the space we hope you will […]
Cayuga Museum: First Friday
Cayuga Museum: First Friday
Welcome to First Fridays at the Cayuga Museum! On the First Friday of each month, March-December, enjoy free admission to the Cayuga Museum from 5-7:30 PM. Have some complimentary refreshments, explore regularly changing exhibits, and see something new every time you visit us each month! Enjoy a one time only pop-up exhibit featuring the uniform of Civil War surgeon, Dr. Benjamin Fordyce. Our friends from the Frontenac Historical Society will be onsite to answer questions […]
First Friday Community Event
First Friday Community Event
Join us Friday, August 4th for the Seward House Museum's First Friday Event. We will be hosting an exhibit by Patrick Hanay-Zaia in our gift shop and the musical stylings of Colleen Kattau in our gardens. Complimentary refreshments will be provided and rooms in the Museum will be open for interpretation. This event is free and open to the public.
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Comedians Wayne Federman and Isabel Hagen
Comedians Wayne Federman and Isabel Hagen
Enjoy a wonderful evening of jokes, laughs and music, with decorated comedians such as Wayne Federman and Isabel Hagen.
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Discussion & Book Signing: God’s Free-Man
Discussion & Book Signing: God’s Free-Man
Join us as Ted Freeman discusses his book God’s Free-Man, a deeply personal narrative that combines family and history. Freeman’s work challenges past perceptions that his ancestors—Harry and Kate Freeman—were enslaved when they arrived to co-found modern-day Auburn with John Hardenbergh in 1793. What is certain, however, is their central place not only in establishing the African American community of the new settlement, but in building it from the ground-up. Freeman follows his family through the generations as they left their mark […]
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Lunchtime Lecture Series: An Auburn Founder: The Contradictory Life of Elijah Miller
Lunchtime Lecture Series: An Auburn Founder: The Contradictory Life of Elijah Miller
The lunchtime lecture series concludes its summer run as Auburn celebrates Founders Day. SHM Director of Education Jeff Ludwig will highlight the role of Elijah Miller - William Seward's father-in-law - in the early founding of Auburn. As Jeff will argue, Miller's is a story of contradictions: a man capable of equal parts great generosity and petty vindictiveness.
CAP Cayuga/Seneca 3rd Annual Golf Tournament
CAP Cayuga/Seneca 3rd Annual Golf Tournament
Community Action Programs Cayuga/Seneca is hosting our 3rd Annual Golf Tournament on Friday, August 11, 2023 at Meadowbrook Golf Club. All funds raised support Agency programs and services that empower thousands of individuals and families to transition from poverty to economic security. Foursome and sponsorship opportunities still available.
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Cayuga County Habitat for Humanity
Cayuga County Habitat for Humanity
Tee off with Cayuga County Habitat for Humanity! We are excited to have Meadowbrook Golf County Club hosting our annual Golf Tournament Meadowbrook Golf Club, 8702 Ball Road, Weedsport, NY 13166 8:30 AM Registration - 9:00 AM Shotgun Start - 3-4 PM Dinner Event Website: https://www.cayugahabitat.org 4-Person Scramble - 18 Holes with Cart Italian Buffet Dinner with Caesar Salad, Chicken, Meatballs & Sausage 4 Tickets per Golfer: Hotdogs, Hamburgers & Drinks Raffles, 50/50 Raffle Contests […]
SHP Community Build Day
SHP Community Build Day
Come on out to Fingerlakes Mall and help us with a bed build to provide beds for kids in the area. No experience required other than a willingness to help! All tools provided, just wear old comfortable clothing and closed toe shoes. ( We are an active woodshop after all :) ) more info ? email Drew at drew.scharoun@shpbeds.org. Sign up at http://bit.ly/shpevent
Founders Day Celebration
Founders Day Celebration
Celebrate the annual Founder's Day Summer Arts Festival with the Finger Lakes Art Council and Willard Chapel! Learn about the Founders of Willard Chapel: Georgiana and Caroline Willard. Enjoy live music like Flock of Free Range Children, Nuclear Ukelele, and DYNAMIX. There will be food vendors, dozens of artisans, and free tours of the chapel! The Finger Lakes Art Council's full-size historic figures will guide you through the festivities. Don't forget to pose for […]
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Book Talk: Walter Kinsella Long, Renaissance Man and Citizen of Auburn
Book Talk: Walter Kinsella Long, Renaissance Man and Citizen of Auburn
Everyone who grew up in Auburn likely has a memory of Professor Walter Long, the founding director of the Cayuga Museum of History and Art. Come share your favorite memories at the Carriage House Theater on Thursday, August 17, as Tim Long discusses his book, Walter Kinsella Long, Renaissance Man and Citizen of Auburn. The newly published biography of his father is an accounting of the life and artistic endeavors of Walter Long, and why he is […]
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The Oswego Valley Snowbelters Barbershop Chorus
The Oswego Valley Snowbelters Barbershop Chorus
The Oswego Valley Snowbelters Chorus will perform classic barbershop songs with several modern barbershop arrangements for your listening pleasures. The barbershop will also feature Classic Touch Quartet. This concert is directed by Barney Johnson. Concert tickets are $10 per person. The Chapel is handicap accessible through its north entrance off Seymour Street. Tickets are available at Willard Chapel, 17 Nelson Street, Auburn, NY during our regular hours Wednesday-Friday 11 AM – 4 PM or call […]
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Documentary Screening: Deciding Vote
Documentary Screening: Deciding Vote
Join us for a screening of the new documentary from Wheelhouse Creative, Deciding Vote which explores the story of former New York State assemblyman, George Michaels. George Michaels was a prominent member of Auburn’s Jewish community and a veteran of World War II. He entered politics in the tumultuous era of the 1960s, and became a central figure in paving the way for abortion rights in the US when his switched vote barely passed New York’s law […]
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Piano Recital with Dr. Thomas Donahue
Piano Recital with Dr. Thomas Donahue
On Sunday August 27th, Dr. Donahue will present a recital of classical and popular music performed on piano. Born and raised in Auburn, Donahue has played the keyboard since he was 7. Donahue describes himself as self-taught, though he's also taken master classes with teachers like Anthony Newman, a renowned musician well-known for his recordings of the work of J.S. Bach on harpsichord and pipe organ. The dentist counts Newman among his biggest musical influences. […]