Science, Art, and Music Festival in Paul Smiths:
The Art and Science of Time
Saturday, 16 April 2016
10:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Paul Smith's College will hold a day-long festival at the VIC celebrating Science, Art, and Music in Paul Smiths on 16 April. This year's festival focuses on "The Art and Science of Time" and features:
- Musical performances by North Country musicians Peggy Lynn, Dan Berggren, Celia Evans, Jamie Savage and others.
- Presentations by students, researchers, and educators on topics related to the art and science of time, including the geological stories of local pebbles, envisioning deep time, and exploring the long history of aboriginal peoples in the Adirondacks.
- A wide range of displays and activities by painters and other folk and visual artists from the North Country, focusing on the art and science of time.
- Demonstrations by Paul Smith's College faculty and students of traditions from the deep and recent past, including stone-boiling as an ancient Adirondack cooking method, the preparation and use of locally harvested paleolithic-style pigments, and traditional fiddling.
- Maple syrup and refreshments.
- A 15-minute dance performance on the theme of time by Russian modern dancer Ekaterina Zharinova.
- Screening of Chasing Ice – an award-winning documentary about the retreat of ice from the Arctic and how it was filmed by planting time-lapse cameras near vanishing glaciers to capture long-term change
Admission is $5 per person. Friends of the VIC and the Paul Smith's College community are admitted free.
| SAM Fest 2016 Schedule |
| 10:30 - 11:00 AM |
| Curt Stager: Introduction |
| Tim Blackburn (PSC student): Long-term Change in the Oceans |
| 11:00 AM - Noon |
| Celia Evans (PSC faculty): Adirondack music |
| PSC Geology students: Stories from the Stones |
| Jamie Savage (PSC alum, SUNY-ESF Ranger School): Adirondack music |
| Ekaterina Zharinova (Modern dancer, Russia): The Dance of Time (video) |
| Noon - 12:30 PM |
| Tim Messner (SUNY Potsdam faculty): Adirondackers through the Ages |
| Dan Berggren (ADK Folk Musician): Adirondack music |
| 12:30 - 1:30 PM |
| Lunch break, gallery & demos |
| 1:30 - 2:30 PM |
| Peggy Lynn (PSC alum): Adirondack music |
| Leanne Ketner (PSC Climate Communication student): Grasping Deep Time |
| Glenn McClure (SUNY Geneseo, composer): The Music of Adirondack Climate Change |
| Rob Carr (The Wild Center): Stories of Time |
| 2:30 - 3:30 PM |
| Larry "Fluent" Montague (PSC alum): Hip-Hop on the Theme of Time |
| Lee Ann Sporn (PSC faculty): The Art of Time |
| Henry Birk Albert (Lake Placid High School Student): Impacts on Time Immemorial Lifeways |
| Mel Johnson (PSC faculty) and students: Visualizing Change Through GIS |
| 3:30 - 4:00 PM |
| PSC Student Musicians (TBA) |
| Craig Milewski (PSC faculty) and students: The Stirring of Ecological Conscience |
| 4:00 - 5:30 PM |
| PSC student Jhanelle Rahim introduces Chasing Ice |
| Ongoing |
| Gallery: SAMFest 2016 Art Show (7 April - 19 April 2016). Regional artists explore the art and science of time. |
| Demonstrations of traditions from the deep and recent past |
| Maple syrup and refreshments |
SAMFest 2016 Sponsors |
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Paul Smith's College |
Paul Smith's College VIC |
North Country Public Radio |
 The Wild Center |
 National Science Foundation |
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