Geneva YMCA announces Annual Comedy Night

(Geneva, N.Y.) The Geneva YMCA will host its 20th annual Comedy Night on March 4, at Club 86 with proceeds benefiting the Y’s programs and financial aid program.  The forty-five dollar ticket price includes: cash bar, hors d’oeuvers, full course dinner, two comics, giant balloon raffle and free babysitting at the Y.

Geneva Y Program Director, Mary Bakogiannis said, “This is one of our signature events and the reason why Comedy Night usually sells out is the great value it is. The comics are very funny and have entertained on late night television shows and the bigger comedy clubs. The food at the Club is excellent, there is free babysitting for parents with young children and after twenty years, most people know what a great time they will have.”

A limited amount of corporate sponsorships are available which include tickets, program display ads and mentions throughout the evening.

For tickets and for more information contact the Y, 399 William Street, or call 315.789.1616.

Featuring refreshments, plant tours, company overview & presentation, special offers from the Company Store, and an in-depth look behind the scenes at how this famed and historic local industry functions.

*Please Note:  Due to space restrictions and specific safety mandates, RSVPs are required to attend this BAH event.  Please contact the Chamber by Friday, March 3 to confirm your reservation and tour time.

If you would like to join one of the plant tours please keep in mind “What to Wear at Zotos”:

-Closed toe/closed heel shoes

-Leather or Leather like shoes.

-No high heeled shoes, no heel greater than 1 inch

-Long Pants (no skirts for ladies).

Please RSVP by emailing info@genevany.com or calling 315-789-1776.

The day will include food and wine, bonfires and live music. FREE Admission! Bring chairs and blankets, please no coolers. Friendly dogs on leashes welcome.

Each year after harvest, grape vines are pruned to ensure a good crop of grapes the following season. Drawn from the old tradition in winemaking regions of France, The Burning of the Canes will celebrate the previous year's work and prepare for the upcoming season by hosting an outdoor feast and burning the cuttings (canes). Live music by the Meg Gehman & The Influence. Join us for food, wine, fire and fun! Free admission!

Food, wine, and tastings extra. Traditional fare includes Wine Barrel Smoked Sausage served with local syrup, Griddle Fried Potatoes, and Homemade Apple Sauce. Also available is Reed Road Corn Chowder, Chocolate Chip Cookie S'mores, Mulled Wine & Hot Chocolate, and Fox Run wines by the glass and bottle.

Hobart and William Smith Professor Christine Woodworth kicks off our Spring Lecture Series with “‘Equal Rights by all means!’: Geneva's Role in Suffrage Drama."

On the afternoon of March 31, 1910, hundreds of people filled the Maxine Elliott Theatre in New York City for an afternoon of variety entertainment organized by actress Beatrice Forbes-Robertson in support of suffrage. The U.K. and U.S. suffrage movements converged onstage as British and American actresses performed three short suffrage plays interspersed by rousing speeches and satirical poems delivered by figures such as Maxine Elliott herself and Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The matinee generated over $1000 in donations and led the New York Times reviewer to assert, “If Equal Rights will result in many more entertainments as pleasant as the one arranged…at the Maxine Elliott Theatre yesterday, then Equal Rights by all means!” Much of the archival evidence of the 1910 suffrage matinee survives in scrapbooks compiled by Genevans Elizabeth Smith Miller and her daughter Anne Fitzhugh Miller. Woodworth will explore the Geneva connections to the suffrage matinee and reveal how the performance laid the foundation for future U.S. performances of British pro-suffrage propaganda plays. The lecture will conclude with a staged reading of one of the pieces included in the matinee. Performers will include HWS students and members of the Geneva community.

Chris Woodworth is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, where she primarily teaches courses in theatre history and directs. Chris is currently an HWS Fisher Center Fellow, exploring the 2016-2017 theme: “No Place Like Home.”

Chris is originally from Geneva and has directed local productions for HWS Theatre, Geneva Theatre Guild, and Headless Sullivan Theater, as well as the Geneva Historical Society's 2014 program From Beyond: Washington St. Cemetery Stories.

This program is supported in part by the Samuel B. Williams fund for programs in the Humanities. For more information about this program call the Geneva Historical Society at 315-789-5151.