Live opera
ONEONTA — “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” will be screened live in high definition by the Metropolitan Opera beginning at 12:55 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 18, in The Loft at Foothills Performing Arts and Civic Center at 24 Market St. in Oneonta.
Tickets are $22 for adults, $20 seniors, $15 for Glimmerglass Guild members, and $12 for students.
The doors will open at noon.
Call 607-431-2080, email [email protected], or visit Foothills on Facebook for more information about Saturday’s screening and season tickets.
Monthly presentations are scheduled through May. “Florencia en al Amazonas” will be presented on Dec. 9.
Visit www.metopera.org/season/in-cinemas/ for more information on the Met’s live theater transmissions.
Outdoor art installation
BLOOMVILLE — A reception to mark the opening of an outdoor participatory art installation called “Waking Song” is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 25. It will take place at the site of the former train turntable, not far from the trailhead of the Catskill Scenic Trail in Bloomville.
According to a media release from West Kortright Centre, the work is the result of a collaboration between artist Jesse Lee Wilson and elementary school students who attend South Kortright Central School.
Keeping the historic significance of the site in mind, Wilson and the students discussed the tradition of using symbols to communicate with travelers along the railroad. Each student created a pictograph which has been engraved in the installation for passersby to see.
The project was funded by a Challenge America award from the National Endowment for the Arts, along with the New York State Council on the Arts, Robinson Broadhurst Foundation and A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’Connor Foundation.
Sunday concert
MIDDLEBURGH — The Not so Quiet Concert Series will feature the return of Reggie Harris to Middleburgh Library at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 19.
The required reservations may be made by calling 518-827-4953. Tickets are $15 per person and may be purchased at the door.
According to a media release, performances by Harris showcase a fluid vocalist, arranger, guitarist whose open spirit and wide angle smile, creates an atmosphere that rewards the ears,
opens the heart and consistently earns trust and joyful admiration from audiences of all ages and backgrounds.
Harris, a singer-songwriter, storyteller and world-renowned song leader, has developed into a powerful interpreter of the global music narrative. The passionate, engaging inspirational entertainer and concert artist is recognized for focusing energy on the role of music in the discourse for inclusion and the struggle for human rights using the lessons of history as a base. Knowledgeable in the music of the Underground Railroad and the Modern Civil Rights Movement, he is at home on stage as performer, lecturer or leading discussion in seminars or in the classroom.
The library is at 322 Main St. in Middleburgh.
Music at the B
An After Thanksgiving Party will feature The B Siders at 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 24, at B Side Ballroom and Supper Club at 1 Clinton Plaza in Oneonta.
The B Siders include Carrington and Johnson family members Jim, James, Andrew, Aben, Wayne and Rebecca. They will play favorite, fun, nostalgic covers and sing-along tunes.
The Jeremy Wall Trio will play avant-funk at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29, in a pass-the-hat performance of funk jams and jazz-funk classics.
The group includes Jeremy Wall of Spyro Gyra fame and Joe Pignato and Tyreek Jackson of Bright Dog Red and Infinite Ethos.
November will end with pass-the-hat sets by three bands beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30.
Scheduled to play are Blake Fleming’s Funkadelic band, the AJ Jackson band featuring Andrew Carrington and the Lily Soleil band.