From our four annual festivals to monthly art gallery nights, to free live music & public performances, there’s always something going on Downtown!

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Interested in performing at a downtown event? Artist selection is determined by a jury process. If you have been booked in the past, you will still need to submit a sound bite or link to your website along with your application. Music submitted must directly reflect the performance and style you would perform.

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Event Equipment Rental Requests or Event Technical Assistance

Are you planning an event yourself and looking for local resources from speaking with expert event planners in Ithaca to borrowing equipment from the Tompkins Festivals Equipment lending program? Downtown Ithaca can help advise and program support to help make your event a success. Click on the link to submit your request.

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Have an event coming up that you want featured on our site? Simply click the button below and follow the steps for submitting. Once you have submitted your event, it will then be listed on our calendar below (pending review).

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Downtown Ithaca Events Calendar

The Ultimate Last Word: Write Your Own Obituary

The Ultimate Last Word: Write Your Own Obituary - Class w/ Roger Segelken WHEN: Thursdays 2-4pm, 10/19, 10/26, 11/2, and 11/9 WHERE: Joe Mareane Conference Room (Second Floor) in the Tompkins Center for History & Culture on the Ithaca Commons - 110 North Tioga St. Ithaca NY 14850. PRESENTERS: Roger Segelken Do you trust your next-of-kin to get your story ... Read More

Free

Haunted History Tour (Ithaca)

Tours begin at 6pm and 7:30pm on each date. Saturday 10/21 and 10/28 have a late night tour beginning at 9:00pm! All tours meet on the Ithaca Commons. Tickets are $15/person. Pre-registration required. REGISTER HERE Although Ithaca might be better known for its gorges, vibrant community, and colleges, it also holds a macabre past. Find yourself face to face with ... Read More

$15

Haunted History Tour (Ithaca)

Tours begin at 6pm and 7:30pm on each date. Saturday 10/21 and 10/28 have a late night tour beginning at 9:00pm! All tours meet on the Ithaca Commons. Tickets are $15/person. Pre-registration required. REGISTER HERE Although Ithaca might be better known for its gorges, vibrant community, and colleges, it also holds a macabre past. Find yourself face to face with ... Read More

$15

Board Game Night

Buffalo Street Books 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca

Bring your friends down to BSB for board game night! We have a wide selection of games we sell in store from Catan to Concept. Here's your chance to test out our games and browse our selection after hours! Leave your donations here!

Opera Ithaca Presents The Turn of the Screw

Hangar Theatre 801 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca

Opera Ithaca to end season in April with a unique horror-opera! Opera Ithaca continues to be a space for interesting and daring opera with its final show of the season, The Turn of the Screw. This exciting piece has a unique place in opera history as one of very few in the horror genre. The opera, adapted from a novella ... Read More

$20 – $50

Reading: Grace Period with Elisabeth Nonas

Buffalo Street Books 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca

Join Elisabeth Nonas for a reading from her new novel Grace Period. About the Book: Just as 70-year-old writing professor Hannah Greene walks into her retirement party, she's called to the ER because Grace, her wife of 25 years, has been in what turns out to be a fatal car accident. This was definitely not part of the plan the ... Read More

Makers Market @ Liquid State Brewing Company

Liquid State Brewery 620 W. Green St., Ithaca

Get ready for an epic day of local talent and good vibes at Liquid State Brewing! Join us on Sunday, April 21st, from 2-6pm for a Makers Market presented by @orozcogalleryithaca. Swing by 620 W Green St to peruse unique finds from 10 amazing local vendors while grooving to the beats of DJ Fox West. And of course, indulge in ... Read More

Free

Reclaim Earth Day

Bernie Milton Pavilion 100 N. Tioga Street, Ithaca, NY

Students and community members will be staging direct actions around Ithaca, after which we will all converge on the Commons to Reclaim Earth Day! This is not about learning not to feed the wildlife or making a virtuous consumer choice to buy a recycled plastic beer cozy; it's about changing the whole filthy rotten system! We are calling on every ... Read More

Free
Event Series Trivia!

Trivia!

Liquid State Brewery 620 W. Green St., Ithaca

Grow your brain or just show it off to a loveable bunch of Trivia-lovers. Hosted by Ithaca's Trivia legend, Bob Proehl. Get there early as seats fill up fast!

Free

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