Pop Up Events
Contact Melissa to discuss a farm bar (sober/boozy) for your event!
2nd Annual (Goodbye) Winter Dance Party
featuring DJ Lina Luv, DJ Dou, and DJ ha-MEEN
bar curated by Open Spaces Cider
6pm into the dark night
@ Stonebend Farm
Asempe Kitchen final Afrobeats Brunch
Our last day of service will be Sunday, February 1, 2026. We will go out in traditional Asempe style with our final Afrobeats in our Press Bay space from 11am-3pm.
Tickets are $20 or $25 at the door for a combo meal purchased ahead via venmo (@asempe kitchen). Sobolo drink as well as other drinks via Open Spaces Cider extra.
Women's Wellness Extravaganza
All are welcome at the 3rd annual Women's Wellness Extravaganza!
Sunday January 18, 2026
4:00-7:00pm at Mama Said Cafe (between Ithaca & Trumansburg @ 1710 Trumansburg Rd.)
This event is free to attend, but there will be many vendors selling goods & services, so attendees are encouraged to bring $ they may wish to spend.
Featuring female vendors, artists, makers, healers, practitioners, activists and musicians too.
~ Amy Puryear & Evie Bellinger
Open Spaces popping up with sober & boozy farm bar goodies for your shopping pleasure!
CELEBREMOS No Mas Lagrimas
DJ & Dancing
Sober-Boozy Bar
Puerto Rican Pasteles
JokeS & Goofyness from our MVP!
Bar proceeds PLUS your donation keep us Alive & Thriviing: https://nomaslagrimasithaca.org/donate/
Crankie Cabaret! with Lilypad Puppet Theatre
Crankie Cabaret
Nov 14-16 & 21 2025
The Cherry (102 Cherry Street, Ithaca)
SOLD OUT, NEW DATE 11/21 -> TICKETS HERE!
Crankie Cabaret! with Lilypad Puppet Theatre
Crankie Cabaret
Nov 14-16 & 21 2025
The Cherry (102 Cherry Street, Ithaca)
SOLD OUT, NEW DATE 11/21 -> TICKETS HERE!
Crankie Cabaret! with Lilypad Puppet Theatre
Crankie Cabaret
Nov 14-16 & 21 2025
The Cherry (102 Cherry Street, Ithaca)
SOLD OUT, NEW DATE 11/21 -> TICKETS HERE!
private event for Southern Tier Land Conservancy, Broome County
Conserving natural areas and working lands in Broome & Tioga counties
Farm to Food Truck Fundraiser
Farm to Food Truck Fundraiser
from 4-7 PM at STICK AND STONE FARM
with seasonal menus of food and drinks
All are welcome to attend! A portion of the night’s sales will support our Subsidized CSA program, supporting sustained access to fresh, local, organic produce for low income households in our community.
Farm to Food Truck Fundraiser
Farm to Food Truck Fundraiser
WEDNESDAY JUNE 25th
from 4-7 PM at STICK AND STONE FARM
with seasonal menus of food and drinks from:
Silver Spoon & Open Spaces
All are welcome to attend! A portion of the night’s sales will support our Subsidized CSA program, supporting sustained access to fresh, local, organic produce for low income households in our community.
Cider Bubbles of the FLX
Join us on 8/9/2025 from 4pm-7pm at Lake Drum Brewing in Geneva, NY.
Experience unique ciders from Lake Drum Brewing, Eve's Cidery, Aaron Roisen and Open Spaces
Asempe Kitchen Anniversary Afrobeats Brunch
Anniversary Brunch
Sunday, August 3rd, 2025
Brunch Seatings are 11:00 AM-12:30 PM and 1:30-3:00 PM
Join us for our Afrobeats Brunch with an anniversary twist, where you can sip, savor, and dance your way into our second year!
Asempe Kitchen Dinner Under the Stars
Anniversary Dinner
Saturday, August 2nd, 2025
Dinner Seatings are 5:00-6:30 PM and 7:30-9:00 PM
Kick off our Anniversary Weekend with Dinner Under The Stars, bursting with bold tastes, handcrafted cocktails, good eats, and Afrobeats.
Farm to Food Truck Fundraiser
Farm to Food Truck Fundraiser
WEDNESDAY JUNE 25th
from 4-7 PM at STICK AND STONE FARM
with seasonal menus of food and drinks from:
Silver Spoon & Open Spaces
All are welcome to attend! A portion of the night’s sales will support our Subsidized CSA program, supporting sustained access to fresh, local, organic produce for low income households in our community.
CrunkWitch HXNCLB with Joyous Shrub and The Brat Dondada
CrunkWitch presents: HXNCLB with Joyous Shrub and The Brat Dondada, drinks by Open Spaces!
Farm to Food Truck Fundraiser
Farm to Food Truck Fundraiser
WEDNESDAY JUNE 25th
from 4-7 PM at STICK AND STONE FARM
with seasonal menus of food and drinks from:
Silver Spoon & Open Spaces
All are welcome to attend! A portion of the night’s sales will support our Subsidized CSA program, supporting sustained access to fresh, local, organic produce for low income households in our community.
Lights Out Art Show
Opening Reception and Party for Seth Gregory’s hand crafted lamps. Drew Kiddoo and the the Blackouts for the musak, Open Spaces for the drinks (sober/boozy).
Closing Reception: We Are La Voz, Resilience Through Art Group Exhition (Copy)
We Are La Voz: Resilience Through Art Group Exhibition
Showing May 2 - 30, 2025
115 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca 14850
Opening May 2, 5 - 9 pm // Closing May 30, 5 - 9pm
Sober Bar curated by Melissa of Open Spaces
Lively Run Spring Shearing Day & Pop Up Bar with Open Spaces!
Featuring farmed fruit sober options and well produced booze from small Finger Lakes cideries and wineries.
Curated by Open Spaces’ Melissa Madden.
Focusing on Eve’s Cidery, Redbyrd Cider, Usonia Wine, Liquid State Beer and adding a few collaborators as we go
Paired with Lively Run cheeses at the bar!
Opening Reception: We Are La Voz, Resilience Through Art Group Exhition
We Are La Voz: Resilience Through Art Group Exhibition
Showing May 2 - 30, 2025
115 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca 14850
Opening May 2, 5 - 9 pm // Closing May 30, 5 - 9pm
Sober Bar curated by Melissa of Open Spaces
Sharing the Gift of Seeds: Fruition Seeds at Stone Bend Farm
5 - 5:30 arrival
5:30 - 6:30 SEED SHARING & PROGRAM
6:30 - close: eating, hanging
Cash Bar & Food
Bring home seeds to sow resilience in your community as we cultivate gift culture together! After 12 years of growing regionally adapted seeds for sale, Fruition now grows hundreds of vegetable, flower and herb seeds to share as gifts. Like these seeds, we trust generosity amplifies abundance in the world. In this spirit, we invite you to practice giving and receiving seeds differently than you’ve ever experienced before. As we (un)learn mindsets of scarcity and receive the extraordinary abundance of seeds, we invite you to join our beautiful, reflective, joyful and transformative ~1 hour experience where we will laugh, play, practice the hard work of receiving beyond transaction and perhaps even shed a tear or two.
Gift (Free) Event!
Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us?
Take a peek at Fruition's website!
Curious about attending or participating?
Contact Melissa openspacescider@gmail.com
Lyon’s Puppet Mixtape show!
Side B for mature audiences: April 4 & 5, 7:30pm
Moving wire sculptures, intricate marionettes, and shifting shadows bring life cautionary tales and
hopeful stories.
1. Rime of the Ancient Mariner – With an albatross around his neck, puppeteer/ performer Lyon Hill enacts
the harrowing journey of the Ancient Mariner; lost at sea on a cursed ship piloted by the undead.
2. Goddess of Spring Revisited: A playful look at the myth in a cartoon style with marionettes, rod puppets, and a crankie.
