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Now Playing
Sundays, 10am-2pm
Inside Proctors
Schenectady Greenmarket

Enjoy this festive marketplace with weekly entertainment and more than 70 regional vendors
Music & Entertainment
 
Music n Entertainment

Aperitivo Bistro
JECCO Duo
January 17, 7-10pm

Devils Ticket Drink-a-Thon
January 14, 6-9:30pm

Dan Singer
January 12, 6pm
Funk Soul Brother Live
January 13, 9pm
Good Time Charlies
January 14, 9pm

Katie O'Byrne's
The Pretty Reckless
January 13, 9pm
Up-Rooted
January 14, 9:30pm

Marotta's Bar-Risto
JECCO Duo
January 11 & 18, 6pm

Wide Awake
January 13, 9pm

The Stockade Inn
Joe Barna CD Release Party
January 12, 7-10pm
Ace & Luke
January 13, 7-10pm


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Downtown Schenectady's

The Downtown Dish
This week's recipe offers a hearty chowder to warm you up on these cold winter days.

Shrimp & Bacon
Corn Chowder

 
January 12-18, 2017
Something Rotten!
Through January 15
Mainstage at Proctors

Set in 1595, this hilarious smash tells the story of Nick and Nigel Bottom, two brothers who are desperate to write a hit play. When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world's very first MUSICAL!  More...
This Week at Proctors

On The Stage              
                                                                     
Hypnohype - January 14, 3:30 & 7:30pm 
GE Theatre - Master Hypnotist Asad Mecci puts audience volunteers into a trance and, through the power of suggestion, has them do all kinds of crazy and hilarious things! It's explosively entertaining because it's real people doing outrageous antics - without inhibition!
Special offer for Downtown Schenectady This Week readers! Get 2 tickets for the price of 1 for either show! Just use promo code SLEEPY when purchasing your tickets.

30th Anniversary Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration - 
Jan. 15, 2:30pm
GE Theatre - Featuring keynote speaker Dr. Steve Perry, nationally syndicated speaker, author and educator. Presented by the Schenectady County Human Rights Commission.

On The Screen

Puccini's TOSCA - January 12, 6:30pm  
GE Theatre - Zürich Opera House w/Jonas Kaufmann. Sung in Italian w/English titles. Giacomo Puccini's Tosca is melodrama at its purest, a festival of lush melodies and dramatic outbursts that remains one of this composer's most popular works to this day.

Arrival - January 13, 2:30, 5 & 7:30pm  
GE Theatre - Linguistics professor Louise Banks (Amy Adams) leads an elite team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touch down in 12 locations around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must find a way to communicate with the visitors.

Metropolis - January 16, 7pm    
Mainstage - Silent w/LIVE accompaniment by Avery Tunningley on "Goldie," Proctors' mighty Wurlitzer Organ. Fritz Lang directed this highly-influential science fiction film presenting a stylized futuristic city where a beautiful and cultured utopia exists above a bleak underworld populated by mistreated workers. 

2nd Annual Schenectady Soup Stroll
Save the Date!
January 28, 12-5pm

Starting at noon, restaurants in Downtown Schenectady will open their doors to serve a variety of hot soups to event attendees as they stroll around downtown.

To participate in the Schenectady Soup Stroll:
1) Visit a participating restaurant location and pick up a map.
2) Stroll around to other restaurant locations tasting fantastic soups for a $1 a cup (3 oz. serving).

We currently have 23 participating restaurants! Stay up to date on current information by visiting our Facebook Event.

miSci (museum of innovation and science)
http://www.schenectadymuseum.org/index.html

15 Nott Terrace Heights
Mon-Sat 9am-5pm, Sun 12-5pm


Final Week for the Trains!
Through January 16, 2017
Explore the intricate 19- x 27-foot display of running O Gauge (Lionel) model trains. Special thanks to Upstate Train Associates.

Challenger Learning Center  
Every Saturday, 2-3pm & 3:30-4:30pm. Join other museum visitors for an out-of-this-world experience! See what it's like to do experiments in space to accomplish your mission.
Etcetera...

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January 12, 5pm
Feigenbaum Center for the Visual Arts
Visual Union: The Decades Show. Showcases works of five alumni from 1973 to 2013. The exhibition opens with a reception and performance in the center's Crowell and West Galleries.

More Perreca's Italian Kitchen     
January 15, 5pm
31 N. Jay Street
Joe Tullio on the accordion. Call us at 518-377-9800 to reserve your table.

10 North Jay Street

Sing Along with Mark Merritt - Jan. 12, 7-9pm
Our musical director is behind the keys and taking requests! If you can sing it, he can play it!

Storytime with Ethan Ullman - Jan. 13, 8-10pm
This event is a hybrid of a comedy show and storytelling event. The best way to understand it is to just come to it!
 
Spontaneous Broadway! - Jan. 14, 8-10pm
Performers audition Broadway-style songs they have created on the spot.
Schenectady County Public Library Notes
Library Expansion
99 Clinton Street
Monday - Thursday: 9am - 8pm
Friday - Saturday: 9am - 5pm 
Sunday: 1 - 5pm
Library Calendar of Events


Beat The Snow Concert Series
McChesney Room, 2:30-3:30pm
January 15: Musicians of Ma'alwyck (Classy & professional!)

All Schenectady County public libraries will be closed
on January 16 for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Holiday

The Whitney Book Corner
600 Union Street
Store-wide clearance through January 14.
All proceeds support Schenectady County Public Library

Thank You to Our Generous Sponsors!

                   
          
                                              

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