Schenectady Today In & Around the Capital Region

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Guest Line Up for the next four weeks of filming. (May be subject to change)

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Below you will find listings for our interesting on-air guests for the next four weeks.  Check out the lists below for our great variety of topics.  We start filming at 10 am in THE ADDY THEATRE on Tuesday. A live audience is always welcome and there are plenty of seats. You can meet the guests in person and learn more about their projects or even get involved yourself.

February 5, 2019 – Show #1070

Segment ONE

The Girl Scout Cookies are Coming!

Mary Buszuwski, Director

Girl Scouts: Gabbi Caisse, Shelby McNamara, Juliann Vadney

      The Girl Scout Cookie Program prepares girls to be future business leaders. By creating a plan, interacting with customers, and working as part of a team, girls learn 5 Skills–goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills, and business ethics–to help them succeed in everyday life.  Girl Scouts will take pre-orders for cookies beginning February 8 with delivery in late March. Booth sales will be March 29 – April 28. New this year! Our council will participate in National Cookie Weekend, Feb. 22-23. Girls will be at booths taking pre-orders around the region. 2019 marks the fifth year that Girl Scout Cookies can be purchased online via Digital Cookie. This part of the Girl Scout Cookie Program combines the values and lessons of door-to-door and booth sales with 21st century business and entrepreneurial skills. Digital Cookie lets girls sell cookies from protected, personalized websites. For the safety of Girl Scouts, customers can access the link through an email sent by the Girl Scout or parent. Digital Cookie sales continue through April 28. Girl Scouts of Northeastern New York sell eight varieties of cookies: Thin Mints, Samoas, Tagalongs, Do-si-dos, Trefoils, Savannah Smiles, gluten free Toffeetastics and Girl Scout S’mores™. You may have heard about a new cookie this year. That cookie is only available in select areas, we have offered a gluten free option for 5 years in our region!

      All of the revenue earned from cookie sales – every penny after paying the baker – stays with the local troops and council. Girls decide how to spend their troop cookie money and reinvest it in their neighborhoods through service projects and learning experiences, including travel.

      The Girl Scout Cookie Program is the largest girl-led business in the world. Across the country, Girl Scouts sell about 200 million boxes of cookies—nearly $800 million worth—during each cookie season. Girl Scouts of Northeastern New York sells nearly 1 million boxes in our region. Girl Scouts is the best leadership experience for girls. Girls gain important skills in four foundational areas that prepare her for a lifetime of leadership: STEM; Outdoors ; Life Skills ; and Entrepreneurship

• Organization: Girl Scots of NENY
• Mission: Girl Scouts of Northeastern New York unleashes the G.I.R.L. (Go-getter, Innovator, Risk-taker, Leader) ™ in every girl, preparing her for a lifetime of leadership. We are committed to providing girls an inclusive, all-female environment that creates a safe space where they can try new things, develop a range of skills, take on leadership roles, and be themselves. Representing almost 10,000 girls of courage, confidence, and character across 15 counties in New York State, we are the preeminent girl leadership development organization in northeastern New York.
• Event: Girl Scout cookie sale season kicks off February 8 in Northeastern New York
• Location of event: areawide
• Facebook: Yes. Girl Scouts NENY
• Twitter: @GirlScoutsNENY
• Instagram: @GirlScoutsNENY
• Website: www.GirlScoutsNENY.org

Segment TWO

Boston Marriage at Civic Players’ Staged Reading

Evan Jones, Director & Laura Graver, Actor

            Schenectady Civic Players will be presenting David Mamet’s Boston Marriage as a part of their Staged Reading series. The Production, directed by Evan Jones, features Jennifer Lefsyk, Laura Graver, and Angelique Powell.This hysterical play concerns two women at the turn of the 20th century who are in a Boston marriage, a relationship between two women that may involve both physical and emotional intimacy.

• Organization: Schenectady Civic Players
• Event: Staged Reading: Boston Marriage
• Location of event: Schenectady Civic Playhouse
• Date/Time: Sunday, Feb 10 at 2:30 pm
• Cost: Pay What You Will – donations accepted
• Facebook: Yes
• Website: www.CivicPlayers.org

Segment THREE

Creative Life Series: Susan Orlean Presents

Kim Engel, Assoc. Dir. U Albany Performing Arts Center

Paul Grondahl, Director, NYS Writers Institute

            Created and produced by the University Art Museum, NYS Writers Institute and UAlbany Performing Arts Center in collaboration with WAMC Public Radio, this original series features leading figures from a variety of artistic disciplines in conversation about their creative inspirations, their craft and their careers. “Roundtable” host Joe Donahue conducts live on-stage interviews followed by a Q&A with the audience.

          The series was collaboratively created and is produced by three UAlbany entities: University Art Museum, NYS Writers Institute and UAlbany Performing Arts Center.  A representative from the Art Museum was unable to join us on the show this week.

• Organization: The Writers Institute
• Event: The Creative Life Series (Featuring Susan Orlean on Mar 1)
• Location of event: University at Albany
• Date/Time: Friday, March 1, 2019 at 8 pm (Ongoing Events)
• Cost: Free
• Website: www.albany.edu/arts/creative-life

Segment Four

Butterflies and Blooms & Zoom into NANO

Chris Hunter, VP of Collections and Exhibitions

Butterflies & Blooms

Butterflies are back at miSci! Escape winter’s chill and discover brilliantly colored native butterflies at miSci’s indoor butterfly house. Watch Butterflies at every stage of life – from egg to the Chrysalis chamber to adulthood. Learn about different species of butterflies from the area, what butterflies eat, and how scientists use butterflies as examples for new technology.

ZOOM INTO NANO

Advances in nanotechnology are likely to change the way we design and fabricate almost everything – from faster computers, to stain repellent clothes, to new medicines to treat diseases, and technologies that are beyond our imagination. Explore the shapes and structures of things in our world–at the nanoscale!

ZOOM INTO NANO presents a variety of large-scale, immersive experiences in the world of nanotechnology.

• Zoom into tiny structures and devices to see the amazing beauty of natural and man-made objects at very high magnification. 
• Immerse yourself in models of atoms and molecules that are enlarged to 100 million times their actual size. 
• Check out the full body interactive, where you use your hands to grab and pull apart the ends of a virtual RNA molecule. When you let go, the molecule folds back up into its natural shape. 
• Try dissolving a virtual salt crystal by using your body’s movement to generate heat.
• Use your senses on a nano journey from small (sand), to smaller (dust), to nano (smell). 

Experience the constant motion of atoms and molecules in the “Atom Transporter.”

• Organization:  miSci: The Museum of Innovation and Science
• Mission:  To inspire people to celebrate and explore science and technology, past, present and future at miSci, all of our exhibits, programs, and events are designed with our mission in mind.
  miSci is a dynamic science center that explores the area’s rich technological heritage while celebrating and fostering a regional spirit of invention and imagination. Vision: A scientifically literate community sparking innovation.
• Event: Butterflies and Blooms – Opens Feb 16 through April 14
• Event: Zoom into NANO on exhibit through May 11
• Event: April Break STEM Classes
• Location of events: Nott Terrace Heights in Sch’dy
• Date/Time: Mon: CLOSED/ Tu-We: 10 AM – 5 PM/ Th: 10 AM – 8 PM/ Fr-Sa: 10 AM – 5 PM/ Su: 12 – 5 P
• Cost: Adults: $12, Seniors: $10, Children: $8  — Children under the age of 3 are Free to enter
• Contact Information: 518-382-7890 or [email protected]
• Facebook: Yes. misci
• Twitter: @miSciNY
• Instagram: @misci_ny/
• Website: www.misci.org

Segment FIVE

Black History Month

Arriama Matlock, Board President

(Information below was provided in a promotional email)           

            With Black History Month approaching, we are excited about offering some unique programming for you and our community. Do you have a creative side? If so, our latest artist call is for you!

          The Hamilton Hill Arts Center is accepting art submissions to be displayed in our newly renovated gallery space. The exhibit will be celebrating poet and playwright Ntozake Shange and the beauty and power of Black women. Pieces must be inspired by any of Ntozake Shange’s written works, or a visual interpretation of an appreciation of Black women. The artwork will debut during our special event on Friday, February 15th, being displayed until March 2019. All mediums are welcome and artists at all levels are invited to submit their work. The call for art is open until Friday, February 8th. Submit photos and videos of your work to [email protected]

            We hope to reach a variety new artists, so please forward/share this message within your networks.

Organization: Hamilton Hill Arts Center

Event: Black History Month

Location of event: Schenectady St. Schenectady

Website: www.HamiltonHillArts.org

Segment SIX

Jan’s Wanderings

Janice Walz

Jan’s Wanderings – Topic To Be Determined

=== Upcoming Shows ===          

February 12, 2019 Show #1071

(Topics listed alphabetically – subject to change)

CA$H Coalition

            Richard Zazycki, Circles of Mercy

            Tracey Randell, United Way of the GCR

Conversation with

            Ron Suriano

Electric City Barn

            Kristen Holler, Director

Electric City Chorus – Valentine’s Day Special

            Dave Iovinello, Performer

            Churck Farone, Performer

            Scott Rigney, Performer

            Don Cortugna, Performer

New Russia Winter Festival (Event Feb 16)

            Tanya Deptola, Director

            Timur Yusupov, Artist

St Clare Pensioners Update

            Peter Jones, Pensioner

            Angela Stewart RN, Pensioner

February 19, 2019 Show #1072

(Topics listed alphabetically – subject to change)

Climate Change

            Dennis Karius

Friends of the Library

            Chris Witkowski

Irish American Heritage Museum – Soda Bread Competition

            Elizabeth Stack, Executive Director

            Chef Qualters (to be confirmed)

miSci (Museum of Innovation and Science) – Global Foundries

            Guests TBA

Other Segments in process

February 26, 2019 Show #1073

(Topics listed alphabetically – subject to change)

Callaloo Theater Company’s Milk Like Sugar (Event – Dates to be announced)

            Karen Christina Jones

Circle Theater Players’s Becky’s New Car  (Event —  Mar 15 -24)

            Joan Fuess, Director  

            Guests TBA

Hubbard Hall’s The Velocity of Autumn (to be verified) (Event Feb 23 – Mar 11)

            David Andrew Snider, Director

Schenectady Job Fair – (Event  March 6)

            Peter Jones

Schenectady Light Opera Company ‘s 1776 (Event – Mar 8 to 17)

            Liz Coops, Director

            Guests TBA

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