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September Autumn Leaves Arts Festival celebrates fall
Jazz N’ Caz, Cazenovia Art Trail return By Kate Hill Staff Writer
C
azArts is welcoming the fall season this month with its September Autumn Leaves Arts
Festival. CazArts is an alliance of artists, cultural organizations, and supporters dedicated to nurturing a community that promotes the creation and appreciation of the arts. According to a press release from the organization, the Autumn Leaves Arts Festival is now in its fourth year. “[We invite] you, whether local or visiting for the weekend, to enjoy the beautiful historic Village of Cazenovia as the leaves are turning and summer breezes blow off the lake tinted with the breath of autumn air and the crispness of our fall evenings,” the press release states. “With historic restaurants and inns, outdoor dining, strollable pathways through the Willow Patch along the creekside, and sunsets over Cazenovia Lake, the Autumn Leaves Arts Festival invites you to take a moment, relax, and thoroughly enjoy art within nature’s art.”
Jazz N’ Caz
The monthlong event will kick off with the return of the popular Jazz N’ Caz.
Held from Sept. 11 to 14, the jazz festival will feature nine Submitted photos groups, 44 musicians, and six loCazArts presents its fourth annual September Autumn Leaves Arts Fescations. Colleen Prossner, who found- tival this month. Jazz N’ Caz will kick off the festival with nine free jazz ed Jazz N’ Caz over two decades concerts at six venues from Sept. 11 to 14. ago as an employee of the nowclosed Cazenovia College, is producing the music festival again this year. “We are thrilled to be able to present the 22nd annual Nascentia Health Jazz N’ Caz festival on the move throughout Cazenovia,” Prossner said. “. . . This event is free and open to the public thanks to our main sponsor, Nascentia Health, as well as funding from CNY Arts and the Music Performance Trust Fund. The festival is presented in conjunction with CazArts. We hope that you come and enjoy the sounds of the 10th Mountain Army Division Jazz Combo; Salt City Jazz Collective; Chuck Schiele’s Quatro; Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers with Wendy Sassafras Ramsay, Josh Dekaney, and John Dancks; MG3; Loren & LJ Barrigar; Dave Liddy & Steve Quenneville; BBQ Jazz Consort; and Ronnie France Bass on Top w/s/g Dave Donley.”
Library gallery exhibits
Throughout September, the Cazenovia Public Library & Museum will present “Our Art, Our Artists,” a gallery show of selected Festival l Page 12
Library to create community photo collage in celebration of fall By Kate Hill Staff Writer
The Cazenovia Public Library & Museum (CPL) invites the public to contribute to a community photo collage for Cazenovia’s Fall Fest the weekend of Oct. 18. Contributors are asked to drop off photos representing the theme “What Fall Means to Me.” “We were looking for a community project that we could do around the Caz Autumn Leaves Arts Festival that always happens [during] the month of September,” said CPL Adult Programming and Service Coordinator Renee Joseph. “Last year we did the community quilt banners. We
wanted the project to be something that we could create with community participation, could be visually appreciated, [and] celebrates fall.” According to Joseph, CPL decided to reveal the collaborative project during Fall Fest instead of the arts festival this year to give people time to take autumn photos. Photos should be no larger than 4 in. x 6 in. and cannot be in digital format. “Unfortunately, we also cannot use the library printer to print out the photos, so they have to be already printed out,” said Joseph. “Photos will not be returned. We also need the back labeled with the name of the photographer.”
The deadline to submit photos is Oct. 7.
Upcoming CPL events On Sept. 11, the 10th Mountain Division Jazz Combo will perform from 5 to 7 p.m. as part of JazzN-Caz. On Sept. 12, Krista Brown will present a Paint & Sip event from 6 to 7:30 p.m. On Sept. 13, at 1 p.m., Joseph will lead a Crafternoon Café focused on citrus printing on tea towels. The Salt City Jazz Collective will perform on Sept. 14 from 3:30 to 4:15 p.m. as part of Jazz-N-Caz. Frank T. Stritter, Ph.D., of the Cazenovia American Legion Post 88, will present his annual military history
lecture at CPL on Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. His presentation, titled “D-Day was 6 June 1944,” will explore the Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. The library will screen the 2024 film “The Fall Guy” on Sept. 18 at 1 p.m. Jennifer Hamlin-Navias will lead Learn to Knit programs on Sept. 19 and Sept. 26 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The film “The Boys in the Boat” will be shown at 2 p.m. on Sept. 26. On Sept. 28, CPL will host “Puzzles and Pizza Puzzle Derby” from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Teams of two to four people must sign up by Sept. 13 to participate. Each team will be given the same puzzle and have
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The Cazenovia library will host a number of events this fall including a photo collage to coincide with Fall Fest the weekend of Oct. 18. 90 minutes to complete it. The team with the most complete puzzle will be named the winner. There will be prizes and pizza to follow.
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CPL programs are free and open to the public. For more information on these and other events, call 315-655-9322 or visit cazenoviapubliclibrary.org.
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