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AFS: Blacksmithing 102C—Make Like a Tree
AFS: Blacksmithing 102C—Make Like a Tree
From the Adirondack Folk School's Website: Nature has been a source of artistic inspiration for thousands of years. Leaves have been a part of decorative blacksmithing for a long time, and there are many different types of leaves one can make. This class is intended for students who have taken a basic/beginner class and who...
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[OFFERING FULL] AFS: Goat Milk Soup Course
[OFFERING FULL] AFS: Goat Milk Soup Course
***THIS COURSE IS FULLY BOOKED — CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE ADIRONDACK FOLK SCHOOL'S WEBSITE TO SIGN UP FOR EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS IN THE EVENT SPOTS OPEN*** From the Adirondack Folk School's Website: Goat milk soap is excellent for people with dry, irritated or sensitive skin. It is loaded with nutrients, proteins, fat, calcium and...
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AFS: Intro. to Toolmaking Course
AFS: Intro. to Toolmaking Course
From the Adirondack Folk School's Website: Blacksmiths have always made their own tools and it’s a skill every smith should know. This class will work with carbon steel to make a punch and a chisel that will be hardened at the working end and soft at the striking end. Each student will leave with two...
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[OFFERING FULL] AFS: Summer Weaving—Place Mats Course
[OFFERING FULL] AFS: Summer Weaving—Place Mats Course
***THIS COURSE OFFERING IS FULL — CLICK HERE TO VISIT ADK FOLK SCHOOL'S WEBSITE TO SIGN UP FOR EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS IN THE EVENT OF SPOT OPENINGS*** Description from the Adirondack Folk School's Website: Want to try out weaving on a floor loom? This class starts with a loom all set up and ready to...
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3 events,
Hadley-Luzerne Historical Society’s Speaker Series: “How Did Lake Luzerne Earn Its Name?”
Hadley-Luzerne Historical Society’s Speaker Series: “How Did Lake Luzerne Earn Its Name?”
Dr. Richard Dressner, American History Professor, will be giving this addition to the Hadley-Luzerne Historical Society's Speaker Series at Lake Luzerne Town Hall: "'How Did Lake Luzerne Earn Its Name?' | Noted Historian and American History Professor Dr Richard Dressner has conducted extensive research on Diplomat Anne-Cesar de la Luzerne, our town’s namesake who is...
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[3 SPOTS LEFT] Senior Center: Great Camp Santanoni
Relax and Enjoy a 5 mile wagon ride on the carriage road that meanders through the Santa noni Preserve, located on State land. You may wander through the buildings and along the shores of Newcomb Lake. Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy on the decks of the Great Camp. The wagon will also stop at...
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Hudson Headwaters Mobile Health Unit Available
Hudson Headwaters Mobile Health Unit Available
Located at Lake Luzerne Town Hall (539 Lake Avenue, Lake Luzerne, NY). Offering the Following: Primary Care, Preventative Care, Screenings, Immunizations, Pediatric & Adolescence Medicine, & Women’s Health (Gynecology) Call (518) 623-0871 to Establish as a Patient/Make an Appointment.
AFS: Summer Weaving—Place Mats Course
AFS: Summer Weaving—Place Mats Course
From the Adirondack Folk School's Website: Want to try out weaving on a floor loom? This class starts with a loom all set up and ready to go – no prior weaving experience is needed! Brighten up your patio table with colorful placemats that shout “summer”. Each class will include an introduction to the loom...
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2 events,
AFS: Blacksmithing—Mortise & Tenon Construction with Dick Sargent
4 days. 9am-4pm. Tuition $560. Member Tuition $480. Materials fee $100. This class will focus on the proper making of mortise and tenon joinery for gate and railing construction. You'll make the tooling, punches, drifts, monkey tools, and more. Special tools used by professional smiths to increase consistency of dimension will be shown and made....
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AFS: Silver Metal Clay Exploration with Nancy Miller
AFS: Silver Metal Clay Exploration with Nancy Miller
1 day. 9am-5pm. Tuition: $125. Member Tuition: $100. Materials fee: $92. Explore the many ways that you can use silver in a metal clay formulation to create jewelry designs of your own. The newest way of working with silver is metal clay which can be shaped like clay to produce uniquely textured surfaces, resulting in...
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8 events,
Maxfield Community Food Pantry’s Drop in the Bucket Campaign
Maxfield Community Food Pantry announced it is kicking off its “Drop in the Bucket” pledge fund drive. Due to increasing food costs, an increasing number of clients, and a decrease in grant monies, the pantry needs the community’s help. 70 families from the Hadley-Luzerne Central School District communities are currently receiving supplies from the pantry...
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Adirondack Folk School’s Sandy Hill Arts Exhibit
Adirondack Folk School 51 Main Street Lake Luzerne, NY 12846 (518) 696-2400 www.adirondackfolkschool.org Sandy Hill Arts Exhibit This summer, Lake Luzerne' s Adirondack Folk School will present an exhibit of artisan-made crafts in the third-floor gallery of Hudson Falls Sandy Hill Arts Center. Through the artistry of local woodworkers, fiber artists, basket makers, blacksmiths,...
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AFS: Rustic End Tables w/ Jim Schreiner
2 days. 9am-4pm. Tuition $210. Member Tuition $170. Materials fee $70. The Adirondack Style is unique. It combines traditional furniture making with the materials found in this region: birch bark, twigs, logs and more. Found in the earliest Great Camps of our region, the skilled craftsmen who made this unique furniture were inspired by the...
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AFS: Birch Bark Bowls Course
AFS: Birch Bark Bowls Course
Description from Adirondack Folk School's Website: Learn how to cut, fold and shape from a rigid sheet of birch bark. Add pine needles or a tree branch for the rim and stitch with waxed linen. Students will make one bowl in class and leave with material to make another at home. This is a nice...
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AFS: Perfect Pictures Every Time with Carl Heilman II
AFS: Perfect Pictures Every Time with Carl Heilman II
1 day. 10am-6pm. Tuition $205. Member Tuition $195. Materials fee $0. Understanding photography basics is the key to taking control of your camera and knowing you got the shot when you were taking it. If you would like to take your skill level from shooting in Auto to having full control over your camera, this...
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AFS: Paper Birch Basket Course
AFS: Paper Birch Basket Course
Description from the Adirondack Folk School's Website: The colors of the bark used along with pine needles and the applied rim accent show nature’s beauty at work in this project. There’s no limit to what you can use this basket for! This basket is woven with birch bark harvested from Dona’s trees in Vermont and...
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5 events,
AFS: Fancy Field Basket
AFS: Fancy Field Basket
Description from Adirondack Folk School's Website: Using natural and dyed reed the 2/2 twill makes the continuous weave fast going as you shape this square basket. When you get to the rim, the braided design in natural reed adds a fancy touch. You’ll find many uses for this basket! Color may vary slightly. 8.5″ x...
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8 events,
3 events,
Senior Center: Movie & A Meal (“Joyful Noise”)
Senior Center: Movie & A Meal (“Joyful Noise”)
Oscar nominees Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton star in this funny and inspirational story of music, hope and love. Their small Georgia town has fallen on hard times and is counting on the church choir to lift everyone’s spirits by winning the national Joyful Noise Competition. But discord between the two leading ladies threatens to...
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5 events,
AFS: Adirondack Dulcimer Making w/ Martin Macica
3+1/2 days. 8/10-8/12 9am- 4pm. 8/13 9am-12pm. Tuition $445. Member Tuition $355. Materials fee $150. Drawing from over 30 years of fine instrument making, Martin Macica will share his knowledge of the principles and practice of dulcimer making, leading participants through the process of making their own dulcimer from scratch using hand tools. This intensive...
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7 events,
AFS: Sewing Circle
AFS: Sewing Circle
1/2 day. 10am-2pm. Tuition $0. Member Tuition $0. Materials fee $0. Calling all fiber artists! Do you have a project you're in the middle of? Want some company while you work? Sounds like AFS Sewing Circle is the place for you! Quilters, knitters, and fiber artists alike are welcome to join us every month for...
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Music in the Park: The Country Jamboree
Music in the Park: The Country Jamboree
Featuring the music of Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, & more! Bring your lawn chair and enjoy toe-tapping good music at Benjamin C. Butler Pavilion Park. Sponsored by the Lake Luzerne Senior Center. ***IN THE EVENT OF RAIN, THIS EVENT WILL BE HELD AT THE LAKE...
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5 events,
AFS: Intro. to Traditional Joinery w/ Ron Nichols
3 days. 9am-4pm. Tuition $420. Member Tuition $360. Materials fee $75. Take that next step in your blacksmithing journey by learning traditional joinery work. The project is a fun, simple forgiving project where students will learn several processes: traditional corners, collars, tenons, rivets, slitting/drifting, beveled scrolls, fish-tail scrolls and regular scrolls where you will also...
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AFS: Build the Sagamore Chair w/ Larry Benjamin
4 days. 9am-4pm. Tuition $500. Member Tuition $400. Materials fee $320. Over 100 years ago, the famous Sagamore Hotel was built as an exclusive resort on Lake George in the Adirondacks. Its luxurious and spacious accommodations attracted the millionaires of the day, and the hotel continues to bring people from around the world to its...
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7 events,
AFS: Double-Bottomed Bushel Basket Course
Description from Adirondack Folk School's Website: This is a great class for a first-time weaver, as well as for those who would like to learn some new weave patterns to create a unique piece. A variety of techniques will be discussed, including arrow weave and four-rod wale, as well as the use of color to...
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AFS: The Art of Cheesemaking 101 w/ Sheila Flanagan & Sal Speights
AFS: The Art of Cheesemaking 101 w/ Sheila Flanagan & Sal Speights
1/2 day. 10am-2pm. Tuition $70. Member Tuition $55. Materials fee $10. The Art of Cheesemaking:101 is being taught by Sheila Flanagan and Sal Speight, both internationally awarded cheesemakers, known for creative semi-aged cheeses. This course will focus on all of the simplest aspects of cheesemaking and the vast variety of cheeses that can be made...
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6 events,
AFS: Rugs from Rags w/ Caroline Dvorak
AFS: Rugs from Rags w/ Caroline Dvorak
1/2 day. 12pm-4pm. Tuition $85. Member Tuition $65. Materials fee $10. No weaving experience is necessary! The looms are dressed and ready to go, all you need to do is bring your creative spirit and to leave with a finished one-of-a-kind rug. Students will have a choice of making a traditional Rag Rug using recycled...
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9 events,
AFS: Intermediate Blacksmithing—Forging Transitions & Set-Ups for Various Shapes w/ Bob Valentine
5 days. 9am-4pm. Tuition $700. Member Tuition $600. Materials fee $125. To master traditional forging techniques, it’s helpful to understand how to set-up material before it is forged out (the mass necessary to form a shape) and the transitions that are necessary (cross sections to cross section), in order to maintain the structural integrity and...
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5 events,
AFS: Weaving 101—Intro. to Weaving on a Floor Loom w/ Teri Dvorak
Tuition $250. Member Tuition $200. Materials fee $15. Students will learn, through instruction and hands on experience, how to set up a loom and weave fabric. The four basic steps covered are Design and Planning, Winding a Warp, Dressing a Loom and Weaving. Students will leave with a sampler of basic plain weave and twill...
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[FULLY BOOKED] Senior Center: Painting with Patrice
[FULLY BOOKED] Senior Center: Painting with Patrice
Please call (518) 696-6451 if you are interested in participating in this class in the event of any cancellations.
8 events,
AFS: Open Forge Night w/ Steve Gurzler
AFS: Open Forge Night w/ Steve Gurzler
1+1/2 hours. 6:30pm-8pm. Tuition $0. Member Tuition $0. Materials fee $20. Interested in blacksmithing but unsure how to start? Open Forge Night is the place for you! Every third Wednesday of the month during our blacksmithing season, come see demonstrations by expert blacksmith Steve Gurzler. Observing the demonstration is free and open to the public....
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6 events,
AFS: Large Copper Embossing w/ Mark Swanberry
AFS: Large Copper Embossing w/ Mark Swanberry
1 day. 9am-4pm. Tuition $125. Member Tuition $100. Materials fee $65. Learn the discipline of Metal Working known as Embossing. Students will transfer an image of their choosing from a paper template to a sheet of copper by using various sizes of stylus and other hand tools to create a textured picture. Students will find...
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Hudson Headwaters Mobile Health Unit Available
Hudson Headwaters Mobile Health Unit Available
Located at Lake Luzerne Town Hall (539 Lake Avenue, Lake Luzerne, NY). Offering the Following: Primary Care, Preventative Care, Screenings, Immunizations, Pediatric & Adolescence Medicine, & Women’s Health (Gynecology) Call (518) 623-0871 to Establish as a Patient/Make an Appointment.
5 events,
Adirondack Folk School’s 2022 Hearts for the Arts Festival
Adirondack Folk School’s 2022 Hearts for the Arts Festival
Adirondack Folk School 51 Main Street Lake Luzerne, NY 12846 (518) 696-2400 www.adirondackfolkschool.org 2022 AFS HEARTS FOR THE ARTS FESTIVAL Following a two-year hiatus, the Adirondack Folk School Hearts for the Arts Gala is back! Friends and supporters of the school will gather for hors d'oeuvres, dinner, our ever-popular Silent Auction, and our annual Patron...
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3 events,
AFS: Mountain Gathering Basket Course
Description from the Adirondack Folk School's Website: This basket is based on a forerunner of the Nantucket Lightship basket, c. 1850. Woven on a round oak base, the spokes are inserted into a groove which holds them firmly in place. This basket employs a continuous chase weave to build the sides, using two weavers at...
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