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!

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

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.

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.

Dress for the dance party you're dreaming of!

Door $5-10 No one turned away for lack of funds. 100% of the door goes to support the music.

* this party is almost all weather permitting. We will heat the space! But extreme (re: unsafe driving) weather will cause a reschedule and we'll let ya know.

Bar Take Over by the cider nerds and wine peeps at:

• Open Spaces Cider

• Sylvan Farm & Cidery

• Usonia Wine

• Behemoth Farm Wine

Come to hang with us, partake of the bar and pizza slinging, take home a bottle or 2 and dance, dance, dance!

DJ Dou will be spinning old school, new pop and dance music all night!

DJ Dou- Amadou- is a mobile DJ based in Ithaca and enjoys bringing community together through music and dance. A past Salsa and Bachata instructor and educator who loves to create good vibes, share good music and may join you in the dance floor.

Drop in at Danby Food and Drink to taste and chat with Melissa!

We'll be pouring tastings (free) and by the glass in conversation with the new and beloved Danby Food and Drink.

Buy a bottle from the shelf! Selections from both Eve's Cidery and Open Spaces Cider are (and will continue to be) available.

Ask all your questions about the 2024 harvest, Traditional Method, Pet Nat, Perry and foraging!

Thank you Kartik for your incredible commitment to small orchards and our cider.

More info about Danby Food and Drink HERE

Join me in for deliveries next THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12th!

To these sites... (I'll send/reshare directions upon ordering)

• Danby Food and Drink 3-7pm

• Enfield/Tburg (Podunk Rd). 4- 7pm

• Freeville (Groton Ave) 4-7pm

• Ithaca (Belle Sherman and Fall Creek) 3-7pm

• Ulysses @ Stick & Stone Farm. 4 - 7 pm

Orders are due WEDNESDAY by 5pm (12/11)

1. Mixed 5# Apple Bag ($17). SOLD OUT

• Includes Hudson's Golden Gem, Melrose, Mutsu, Jonagold, Baldwin, Ida Red, Enterprise

2. Redbyrd Orchard Kombucha.  (Apple Cider 750mL $12, Ginger 16 oz $9)

3. Open Spaces Cider ($17)

   Late Harvest Pet Nat ‘23
   pet nat style, natural bubbles. dry
   wild ~ sparkly ~ funky ~ balanced
   
   Proper Perry ‘24
   pet nat style perry, natural bubbles, dry
   grapefruit pith ~ summer rain ~ hazy

(through this very cheap and low tech form, paying as you choose from the options at the end. Payment is requested up front to ensure delivery!)

Annual Pop-Up Market returns! Full of farmers, local food producers, warming drinks, hot food, & live music, plus the Press Bay shops & restaurants you love. Enjoy the twinkling lights of this evening market in a walkable downtown environment!

Come wander through the Press Bay Backlot (corner of Geneva & Green St), the Alley and the Court to enjoy the festive atmosphere and pick up the delicious, local necessities for your holiday table.

Live music, warming stations with fire pits, and a hot tea & cider table!

Email events@urbancoreithaca.com for more info

Tunes by Shaka, FLX farm bar curated by Open Spaces Cider (featuring Eve's Cidery, Redbyrd Orchard Cider, Usonia Wine and Liquid State Brewing Co.
Join us!

Audrey Cooper Legacy Celebration with Ultimate Re-Entry Opportunities

Join us for a special afternoon celebrating the legacy of one of our URO founders, Audrey Cooper, featuring a keynote address on communities supporting reentry housing; our inaugural Audrey Cooper Award, with complimentary nibbles and a pop-up cider cocktail & mocktail cash bar.

• 3pm: Cocktails and Nibbles

• 4pm: Keynote Address

• 4:45pm: Audrey Cooper Legacy Award

• 5pm: Mingle, Cocktails & Nibbles