HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
Community Art Exhibit
OPENING RECEPTION – 5:30 p.m. Celebrate opening of Community Exhibition by Pathfinder Village. Free, open to public. On view through 10/6. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400 or visit www.fenimoreartmuseum.org
DISCUSSION – 6 p.m. “Ready Player 2! Women & Video Game Culture” with Emily Phelps on the inclusion of Women in Video games. Butternut Valley Room, Hunt Union, SUNY Oneonta. Visit oneonta.campuslabs.com/engage/event/4620196
MUSIC AT THE MANSION – 6:30 p.m. Open mic for all musicians followed by performance by singer/songwriter/guitarist Mark VanLaeys who has performed at open mics across NYS, elsewhere. Community Arts Network of Oneonta, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. 607-432-2070 or visit www.canoneonta.org/event/music-at-the-mansion-mark-vanlaeys-3/?instance_id=1083
WORD THURSDAY – 7 p.m. Reading by featured author Linda Lowen (Syracuse, NY) who has presented at many conferences including Chautauqua Writers’ Festival, HippoCamp 2019, Hobart Festival of Women Writers, others. Bright Hill Press & Literary Center, 94 Church St., Treadwell. 607-829-5055 or visit www.facebook.com/brighthp/
BOOK DISCUSSION – 7 – 8 p.m. Discuss this years Common Read, “Disgraced” portraying successful Pakistani-American as his dinner party spins out of control in discussion of identity, religion. Led by SUNY Oneonta’s Dr. Thor Gibbons. Continues 9/17. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. 607-432-1980 or visit hmloneonta.org/adult-programs/