Tompkins Learning Partners

The Tompkins County Public Library is hosting a discussion about immigration law and policy in these polarized times on Thursday November 20 from 6-8 pm in the BorgWarner Community Room at the Library’s location at 101 East Green Street in Ithaca. The discussion will also be streamed live on the Tompkins County Public Library YouTube Channel. Steve Yale-Loehr, a retired immigration law professor at Cornell, will lead the discussion. Tania Penafort, a law clerk for Journey’s End Refugee Services, will also speak.

Join MCOSH and TCPL Tuesday November 11th 6pm-7pm.🤩

Thank you Tompkins Community Bank for treating your customers so well!

🎤 We’re so proud of our amazing tutor Candace Collmer for presenting her talent by singing with a professional group, Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers! Keep shining and inspiring us all👏👏👏👏👏.

Join us on October 26th in Ford Hall at 4:00 p.m. for our Fall Concert!
Filled with a mix of emotionally moving pieces as well as uplifting and energetic repertoire, this concert is sure to fill your soul with the spirit! See you there!

TLP thanks members of Cornell Alpha Phi Omega for helping to make TLP's 13th Annual Finger Lakes Crossword Competition a huge success!

TLP board members, Gail and Gary, spread the word about our programs at GreenStar on Sunday. TLP is one of this quarter’s Partners for Change. Bring your own bags when you shop & put a token in TLP’s bin!

It is National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week!

Tompkins County Whole Health invites the community to join us for an educational event in partnership with Eco-Testing and the Ithaca ReUse Center. The event will take place on Tuesday, October 22, from 2:30 pm-5:00 pm at the ReUse Center’s downtown location (214 Elmira Road, Ithaca). This event is free and open to the public.

¿Are We There Yet?: A Compassionate Exploration of Contemporary Immigration, A new documentary film by Ithaca area Producer/Director Thomas Hoebbel will hold a premiere event on October 23rd at 6PM at Cinemapolis in downtown Ithaca, NY.

The documentary first emerged through a collaboration between Jennifer Majka on behalf of Cornell University’s Just Futures Initiative and Kenneth Clarke, director of the Tompkins County Office of Human Rights who are co-producers of the film. Clarke and Majka tapped Thomas Hoebbel, a local photographer and filmmaker, to take on the task of producing a film about immigration.

The film, which originally focused on Ithaca area immigrants and experts, contains multiple interviews conducted with Tompkins County residents who are featured in the film. The project quickly expanded and filming took Hoebbel to Orlando, FL, Boston, MA, as well as Tijuana, Mexico for further interviews with migrants and immigrants to the United States. A final interview was held in August with Orlando Nodarse Hernández, a recent Cuban refugee who was jailed while painting a protest piece in a public square in his town of Viñales Cuba in 2021. Orlando’s immigration application to the US was sponsored by an Ithaca resident and business owner who has also taken an interest in supporting the film.

COMING THIS WEEKEND: SEPTEMBER 28!

Another Ithaca tradition that the pandemic couldn’t kill, or even slow down: Our Annual Finger Lakes Crossword Competition is back again, and, as with last’s year’s event and before the pandemic, the FLCC will be held solely in person. From 1-4 PM, on Saturday, September 28th, 2024, we will again meet in the Boynton Middle School Cafeteria to compete with our friends, neighbors and other crossword enthusiasts in support of Tompkins Learning Partners.

We are very proud to dedicate this year’s event to Dave Smith, who is retiring after 25 years as TLP’s Executive Director. This is a much earned recognition and appreciation of his leadership, guidance, and friendship.

If you’ve played with us before, you’ve been notified by email that the website is live and registration is open. If you are not already on the crossword mailing list and would like more information or to register, go to CrosswordCompetition.com.