Community Calendar

Check out our windows where Joanne Pagano Weber "Portraits of Saugerties” will be on display for the month of April for Poetry Month. Joanne started this project a few years ago and wanted to let each portrait spring from her desire to communicate through the heart of each person, so they tell their stories visually.

Will Nixon is a local poet who wrote “If Not in Heaven, Then in Saugerties” which came out in late 2024. Will’s poetry book has acrostic poems, when the first letter of each new line spells out the word, in this case the businesses in Saugerties. On the cover of Will’s poetry book you will find Joanne’s portraits because they wanted to celebrate the people and places of Saugerties.

You will be able to purchase “If Not in Heaven, Then in Saugerties” by Will Nixon in the front of Newberry Artisan Market and when you check out the windows to see if you know the locals that Joanne painted!

GREEN DRINKS APRIL 9!
Green Drinks! A "green gathering" for those who work, volunteer, or have a passion for promoting the environment, conservation, and sustainability.
WHEN: April 9, from 5:00 - 7:00 pm
WHERE: Whitman Brewing Company, 20 Lake Ave, Saratoga Springs
DETAILS: Food, alcoholic, and non-alcoholic drinks are available for purchase.
Green Drinks - Saratoga Springs is held monthly.
https://sustainablesaratoga.org/event/green-drinks-18/

Have fun and Learn to draw and paint. You will be taught the basics of traditional figure, portrait, and still-life drawing.

These sessions are designed for everybody, from curious hobbyists trying it out for the first time to those wanting to practice some serious illustration skills for art school or work. You will explore charcoal, pencil, pastels, pen and ink, and paint.

All materials are provided. Ages 14 and up.

We believe in access to art education for all. Please pay what you can to support this access for all of our community. If you would like to use a scholarship code, they are listed on the website.

6 Wednesdays
Feb 26, Mar 5, 12, 19, Apr 2, 9 (snow day Apr 16)
6 - 8:30 pm

Ages 16 and Up

Join us in this 6-week course where students will learn to combine monotype and relief printing techniques to build a narrative artist book. Students will be guided on incorporating monotype techniques of stenciling, gradients, textures, plate tracing, and color layering onto accordion artist books. Artist Dilara Miller will guide students on carving their relief blocks in conversation with the monotype layers beneath and begin exploring the possibilities that artist books grant within printmaking. Students will have the opportunity to experiment with these two mediums to build a unique artist book. This course invites intermediate levels of experience. If you’ve been meaning to experiment with multiple printmaking methods, this course is for you!

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Please register at least a week in advance to guarantee your spot.

The Dutchess County Historic Tavern Trail brings history and local cuisine together while introducing the community to iconic locales. This collaborative program, organized by the Dutchess County Department of History, local historical societies, and food and beverage partners, highlights the county’s rich past through engaging presentations at historic sites.
This month’s program features "Anna Sang For Red Hook:" The Story of 19th-Century Opera Star Madam Anna Bishop" presented by author and Historic Red Hook researcher Sarah K. Hermans. Herman’s presents the story of how a world famous opera singer came to be buried in St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery. Nineteenth-century soprano Madame Anna Bishop’s voice was never recorded, but you'll hear some of the songs she was famous for as we weave the tale of her life. Born in England in 1810, Anna traveled the world and was as famous at the time as Jenny Lind. Anna lived large, sang beautifully, loved fiercely, and was buried without a tombstone here in Red Hook in 1884.

This event is free and open to the public. RSVP is required.

Images Cinema presents the 2025 Earth Month Film Festival, a celebration of our home, the Earth. 2025’s theme is “Animals & Us”, thinking about how people care for animals and animals care for us, from both an agricultural standpoint as well as from a therapeutic standpoint, as well as how caring for and protecting key species allows animals to care for the planet. The festival consists of four documentaries and two feature films shown between March 25 and April 22: "Nocturnes," "Every Little Thing," "The Last of the Sea Women," "Holy Cow," "Flow," and "Singing Back the Buffalo."

Todd Haynes, 2h 1m

There’s a good reason nobody made a Velvet Underground documentary before Todd Haynes came along and did it in 2021: Archival footage of the group is extremely minimal, especially from the period after 1968 when they stopped working with Andy Warhol and the attention he brought to their work largely vanished. But Haynes wasn’t interested in preparing a Behind the Music-style documentary that traced their saga in a traditional fashion. Instead, he wanted to immerse viewers in the New York avant-garde scene that made the band possible, and create an impressionistic portrait of their art. The voices of Lou Reed and Sterling Campbell are present via old footage; surviving members John Cale and Maureen Tucker are the primary narrators. They bring a different perspective to the story since Reed’s version of V.U. history was dominant for so long, even if it means the brilliant post-Cale albums don’t get nearly enough screen time. But the overall effect is mesmerizing, giving you an incredible sense of where this band came from, why they mattered and why they were destined to inevitably, gloriously flame out. - Rolling Stone

Co-presented with Next Chapter Records

Lan Samantha Chang is a prize-winning fiction writer and director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her most recent novel is The Family Chao (2022), about a noisy, bickering Chinese-American family, the owners of a restaurant in a fictional Wisconsin town.

7 p.m. Wednesday, April 9
Reading and McKinney Writing Contest Awards,
The Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS),
Rensselaer (RPI), 110 8th St, Troy NY 12180
Free and open to the public.

When patriarch Leo Chao is found dead― presumably murdered― the family attracts a great deal of unwanted attention. Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the novel was named a “Best Book of the Year” by Vogue and NPR.

The Guardian said, "One of the many pleasures of The Family Chao is the way the novel dramatises the gap between how a family wants to be seen, and its messier inner realities.”

Sponsored by Rensselaer’s Annual McKinney Writing Contest and Reading in partnership with the NYS Writers Institute.
For more information, contact McKinney@rpi.edu

The 2025 documentary about the legendary British rock band that mixed blues, rock, and heavy metal. Explores the origins of this iconic group. Powered by awe-inspiring, psychedelic, never-before-seen footage, performances and music. Film runs 121 minutes. Rated PG-13. $10 general/$6 members. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main Street, Rosendale, NY. Tickets on sale in advance at www.rosendaletheatre.org/ Presented by the Music Fan Series.

The Norman Rockwell Museum is honored to present a rare series of early twentieth century lighting advertisements by Norman Rockwell and fellow Golden Age illustrators Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth, Dean Cornwell, Stanley Arthurs, Worth Brehm, and Charles Chambers created for Edison Mazda Lamps, a division of the General Electric Company. These luminous, richly painted works were widely circulated in published advertisements through the 1920s and are on loan to the Museum for the first time through the generosity of GE Aerospace.