The Other Side

Drawn In Glass - Gallery Opening
2025-11-07 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | The Other Side, 2011 Genesee St, Utica, New York, 13501
Tina Betz – Glass Sculptures
November 7 to November 29
Opening Reception: Friday November 7 –5-7pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, November 29 — 1pm
Gallery Hours:
Thursdays and Saturdays 12-2pm

Drawn In Glass - Gallery Hours (click for all dates)
2025-11-08 12:00 - 14:00
Tina Betz – Glass Sculptures
November 7 to November 29
Opening Reception: Friday November 7 –5-7pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, November 29 — 1pm
Gallery Hours are Thursdays and Saturdays 12-2pm:
Saturday, November 8
Thursday, November 13
Saturday, November 15
Thursday, November 20
Saturday, November 22
Saturday, November 29

Private Event - Q Center
2025-11-09 08:00 - 20:00

Release Reading for Alphabet Noise by Tom Townsley
2025-11-13 19:00 - 20:30
“Exuberant, amphibian and phantasmagoric!”
The sixth full length collection of poems from Thomas Townsley is an imaginative tour de force. “Do you seek le mot au jus?” “Don’t read too much into the falling apple blossoms.” “They say a man who breaks forms is often broken by them.” “The instructions were never quite right never quite clear…” “(The narrator raises an eyebrow and offers the reader a spoon.)” “But enough mimesis.” The poems in Alphabet Noise push language to a breaking point, beyond which it is possible to glimpse…what exactly? “The radio hisses.” “The reader is reminded that ‘some slippage is inevitable.’”
Praise for Alphabet Noise:
Alphabet Noise is an immersive experience, a croquembouche of crunchy predicates and polysemous jouissance. A wang dang doodle. A dynamo of “mad sleeping alphabets” galvanized by the noise of construction. Sparks flying. The blinding light of a welder creating a chassis of vocable transport. This is the noise of the poet as maker, the poet as innovator and explorer. The language is exuberant, amphibian and phantasmagoric. Intellect is endowed with puckish autonomy, a verbal acrobatics and jubilant excess which functions as an antidote against the toxins of those who would try to control and undermine the true merit of words, which is yet to be fully realized. This is the factory. This is the place where things get made. Hyper-objects. Philosophies. Le paradoxe de Mallarmé. “In the lit Palace of Nothing there are only voices.”
-John Olson
Author of numerous books of poetry and prose poetry and recipient of The Stranger’s 2004 Literature Genius Award. His seventh novel, Unfinished World, is forthcoming from Quale Press
Open to the public
Donations welcome. Books will be available for sale.
This reading will be live streamed on YouTube @theothersideutica.
Order the book here:
https://doublymad.org/Alphabet-Noise

Ron Wilkins - Jazz at The Other Side
2025-11-15 19:30 - 22:00
Ron Wilkins – Trombonist and Singer

Featuring:
Bill Dobbins – piano
Peter Chwazik – bass
Mike Melito – drums
Mike Dubaniewicz – sax
Tickets are $20 or $10 for students with student ID
To reserve, call 315-735-4825 or email kodomenico@verizon.net
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS:
FlavoredLayers – sponsor for 2025-2026 headliners – https://www.flavoredlayers.com/
Bank of Utica
Green Onion Pub
and Three Anonymous Donors

New York City based musician Ron Wilkins has been performing on tenor and bass trombones, euphonium, tuba, bass trumpet and vocals for over forty years. He has performed at the highest levels touring around the world with his own groups as well as premiere artists. Ron is a member of the Birdland Big Band, Dizzy Gillespie All Star Big Band, and runs his own New York City big band alongside trombonist Rebecca Patterson which features their writing and includes some of New York City’s premiere musicians.
Ron has performed with many top-tier artists and musicians, including Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Rosemary Clooney, Lena Horne, Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, Dizzy Gilespie, Johnny Mathis, Jimmy Heath, Jon Faddis, Eddie Daniels, Randy Brecker, Wycliffe Gordon, The Count Basie Orchestra, Mingus Big Band, The 8-bit Big Band, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Jimmy Heath Big Band, Arturo O’ Farrill and his Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, The Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band and Afro-Cuban Band, Chris Potter Big Band, Ed Palermo Big Band, Affinity Brass Quintet, Uptown Brass Quintet, Livio Almeida Brazilian Dectet, Memo Acevedo’s Building Bridges Band, San Antonio Brass, Capitol of Texas Brass Quintet, San Antonio Symphony and Festival Orchestra, Austin Symphony and Austin Pops, Mid-Texas Symphony, Victoria Symphony, Temple Symphony, and the Flint Symphony where he was twice guest artist for their summer pops concert series in summer 2003.
He also has extensive Broadway experience and most recently was bass trombonist on the Broadway revival of Gypsy starring 6X Tony Award winning actress Audra McDonald. Ron was also trombonist for the Broadway revival of Funny Girl ( starring Lea Michele ), and subbing on the Broadway shows Wicked, Motown, Shuffle Along, Frozen, and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. He has also played with The Big Apple Circus, Ringling Brothers, and numerous touring Broadway shows including West Side Story, The Lion King, Showboat, The Producers, Kinky Boots, Book Of Mormon, and others.
He was a featured artist at the 2025 American Trombone Workshop in Ft. Meyer, VA, performing the world premiere on The Roncerto ( written for bass trombone, voice, piano, and concert band ) by Ethan Gurwitz ( https://www.ethangurwitz.com ). In 2018, Ron performed at the Bass Trombone Open in Rotterdam, NL, and in 2002 was a guest artist at the International Trombone Festival held at the University of North Texas.
Ron also has an extensive background as an educator. He has performed as a guest artist at from the elementary to university levels, jazz festivals, and has maintained his own private studio for decades. He has held positions at several colleges including the University of Texas at San Antonio, University of Incarnate Ward, Texas State University, Texas Lutheran University, Northwest Vista College, St. Mary’s University, teaching low brass, jazz studies, and vocals.
Ron has four cds as a leader, including the The Roncerto ( 2024 ), Trombocalist (2021), A Tribute To The Masters (2000), and The Bundee Brothers Bone Band”(2005) with former Ringling Brothers lead trombonist, Bill Gibson. Ron currently maintains his own private teaching studio and remains a sought after clinician. He is a veteran of the USAF Band of the West at Lackland AFB in San Antonio.
Ron is an S. E. Shires trombone artist and plays Greg Black Mouthpieces.

The People's Classroom
2025-11-17 18:00 - 19:30
THE US CIVIL WAR & THE FAILURES OF RECONSTRUCTION: The Peoples’ Classroom returns to The Other Side in Utica with an critical presentation on the US Civil War and the ramifications for the failures of the Reconstruction Era with a keen focus on the all important connections to today. We will take a deep look into the root causes of the Civil War, the reasons why Reconstruction failed and an analysis of the monumental impacts of that failure which reverberate in our nation today. It is a presentation that is designed to help you better grapple with the present by more deeply understanding the past. And as always, we will be examining everything through the lens of the working class and oppressed people’s perspective. It’s one you do not want to miss.

Free to Attend – Donations Welcome!

Medicine Hunters - Hamilton at The Other Side
2025-11-19 19:30 - 21:00
Dr. Francisco Hernandez was the physician sent by Spain in 1570 to lead the first explicitly scientific expedition. Following his trail in Mexico this summer, Prof. Cooley uncovered how Indigenous knowledge and European ambition collided in the search for cures. In a preview of her upcoming book, she will tell us this story of drug discovery as a tale of wonder, extraction, and possibility. This lecture invites you to see the early Americas as a living laboratory where the dream of universal remedies was born.
with Mackenzie Cooley – Associate Professor of History Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Hamilton College
Free and Open to the Public — Donations Welcome!

Cheese Man
2025-11-22 08:00 - 17:00

Drawn In Glass - Artist Talk
2025-11-29 13:00 - 15:00

Legacy - Betty Murtagh - Opening Reception
2025-12-05 17:00 - 19:00
Legacy – Betty Murtagh
Paintings / Serigraphs

Opening Reception: Friday, December 5 from 5-7pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, December 27 at 1pm
Gallery Hours: Thursdays and Saturdays from 12-2pm

Legacy - Betty Murtagh - Gallery Hours (click for all upcoming dates)
2025-12-06 12:00 - 14:00
Legacy – Betty Murtagh
Paintings / Serigraphs

Opening Reception: Friday, December 5 from 5-7pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, December 27 at 1pm
Gallery Hours are Thursdays and Saturdays from 12-2pm:
Saturday, December 6
Thursday, December 11
Saturday, December 13
Thursday, December 18
Saturday, December 20
Saturday, December 27

Imperialism and Us - A presentation of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL)
2025-12-12 18:00 - 20:00
An opportunity to hear from the Socialist Perspective, this program is presented by the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), a group familiar to people who have attended Gianni Notaro’s popular Peoples’ Classrooms.
PSL, based in the U.S., works in solidarity with working class and oppressed peoples around the world, and is dedicated to re-organizing society upon principles of collective well-being, equality, and cooperation.
From the PSL: Join us for a discussion about imperialism, what it is, why Americans know so little about it, and why our working-class movements cannot afford to either ignore or tolerate the imperialist orientation of the US ruling class. Imperialism is a project that takes at least half of our nation’s GDP and funnels it back into the projects of the wealthiest fraction of Americans – projects that invariably result in wars that working class people and our families fight and die in, and which depend upon our labor for their funding.

Dance In The Dirthouse - Patrick Lawler Book Release Reading
2025-12-18 19:30 - 21:00
Patrick Lawler is the author of Conversations With Extinct Animals (University of Alabama Press, 2025), The Exhalation Therapist/Breathe a Wor(l)d (Tiger Bark Press, 2022) as well as six other books of poetry and fiction.
“Lawler has been one of CNY’s most acclaimed poets for nearly four decades…His poetry blends autobiography and social commentary with philosophical and theoretical concepts in innovative ways, yet his work remains
accessible and often downright funny. Over the years, it has become common knowledge that no poet should dare to follow a Patrick Lawler reading, and now we in Utica have an opportunity to see why! This will be a premier poetry event—DON’T MISS IT!”
~ Thomas Townsley
Open to the Public!
Donations Welcome
Books available for sale

This reading will be live streamed on YouTube @ TheOtherSideUtica

A Joyful Jazz-ful Holiday Concert
2025-12-19 19:30 - 22:00
Featuring:
Alexandra Dubaniewicz – vocals
Dan Pugh – piano
Darryl Pugh – bass
Jimmy Johns – drums
Mike Dubaniewicz – sax

Tickets are $20 for students or $10 for students with student ID
To reserve call 315-735-4825 or email kodomenico@verizon.net

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS:
FlavoredLayers – sponsor for 2025-2026 headliners – https://www.flavoredlayers.com/
Bank of Utica
Green Onion Pub
and Three Anonymous Donors

Legacy - Betty Murtagh - Artist Talk
2025-12-27 13:00 - 14:30

Cool Yule '25 with Jerry Dee and the DoveTones
2025-12-27 19:30 - 21:30

Watershed - Opening Reception
2026-01-09 17:00 - 19:00
Leigh Yardley Paintings
Opening Reception: Friday, January 9 from 5-7pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, January 31 at 1pm
Gallery Hours: Thursdays and Saturdays from 12-2pm

Watershed - Gallery Hours (click for all dates)
2026-01-10 12:00 - 14:00
Leigh Yardley Paintings
Opening Reception: Friday, January 9 from 5-7pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, January 31 at 1pm
Gallery Hours: Thursdays and Saturdays from 12-2pm
Saturday, January 10
Thursday, January 15
Saturday, January 17
Thursday, January 22
Saturday, January 24
Thursday, January 29
Saturday, January 31

Monday Night Jams
2026-01-12 19:00 - 21:00
contact Sherman at thesteins3@outlook.com for more info.

The People's Classroom - The U.S. Empire and Regime Change
2026-01-13 18:00 - 20:00
The Peoples’ Classroom returns with a special “extra” presentation covering the history of U.S. Empire and its imperialist efforts to enact regime change around the globe. This is a crucial presentation with direct connections to today’s world and recent events in Venezuela. We will take a deep look into the root causes of US imperialism, examples of regime change the US has engaged in post WWII and modern day events in Venezuela and other ares of Latin America and the world at large.
It is a presentation designed to help you better grapple with the present by more deeply understanding the past. As always, we ill be examining everything through the lens of the working class and oppressed people’s perspective.
Free and open to the public, donations welcome.

The People's Classroom - The Civil Rights Era part 1
2026-01-20 18:00 - 19:30

The People's Classroom - The Civil Rights Era part 2
2026-01-27 18:00 - 19:30

Watershed - Artist Talk
2026-01-31 13:00 - 14:30

Sophomores - Opening Reception
2026-02-06 17:00 - 19:00
Art by Pratt/Munson students in the College of Art and Design

The Cheese Man
2026-02-07 08:00 - 17:00

Sophomores - Gallery Hours (click for all dates)
2026-02-07 12:00 - 14:00
Art by Pratt/Munson students in the College of Art and Design
Gallery hours are every Thursday and Saturday from 12-2pm between 2/7/26 and 2/28/26.

Big and Glassy Book Club
2026-02-10 18:30 - 21:00
contact Sherman at thesteins3@outlook.com for more info

Earth's Worst Enemy - a film by Abby Martin
2026-02-12 18:00 - 20:00
A foreign policy reporter and her Iraq War veteran husband turn their sights on the hidden impact the US military has on the planet, after the birth of their first child creates anxiety about the climate crisis. Their investigation exposes a secretive and constantly-expanding web of pollution, cover-ups and unaccountability by the world’s biggest polluter.
After the screening we will have a Q&A with director Abby Martin.
– Free to the Public – Donations Welcome –

Temenos
2026-02-15 09:00 - 11:00
I will be continuing themes from my last Counterpunch essay, posted over last weekend. I’m getting much reinforcement reading The Brothers Karamazov for this preoccupation of my adult years with what Dostoyevsky calls “the accursed questions,’ ie., “God vs. reason, human destiny, the future of [America]” (his concern was Russia, of course). Being a great novelist, he writes about all this entertainingly, his novels populated with the most vivid and realized characters imaginable, whereas I must take a different tack! I hope you will join me in that bracing air of “the accursed questions,” all of which are rooted in the in-common human soul.

The Oneida Community: Free Lovers or Public Menace?
2026-02-18 19:00 - 21:00
The Carl A. Rubino Hamilton at The Other Side Series presents:
The Oneida Community: Free Lovers or Public Menace?
with Christian Goodwillie – Director and Curator of Special Collections and Archives
From 1848-1880, the Oneida Community (OC), 20 miles west of Utica, practiced a unique system of complex marriage,
that eventually included a planned breeding process. Their practices drew outrage from a Hamilton College professor, who
began a campaign to shut OC down. The OC’s public image was further tarnished by the assassination of president James
Garfield in 1881 by former OC member Charles Guiteau, events depicted in the 2025 Netflix series Death by Lightning. Goodwillie will talk about the origins, history, social and sexual practices of this famous experiment and make some corrections to the Netflix depiction!
Free and Open to the Public — Donations Welcome
