This week’s calendar (6/16-6/22/25)
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Money, Finance, and Economic Strategies in Fractured Times
Monday, June 16, 2025 from 8:45am to 5:30pm
Cost of admission: $50-$150; keynote address is free
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
The 32nd Annual Levy Economics Institute Conference gathers top policymakers, economists, and analysts to discuss the most pressing issues of today’s economic landscape. The conference’s keynote speaker is US House Representative Ro Khanna, who represents California’s 17th Congressional District, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, and is serving his fifth term. Participants in the conference will engage in panels on Minskyan analyses of current sources of financial fragility; new directions in public finance; visions for the next progressive policy agenda; climate finance, balance-of-payments constraints, and the global economy; and more. Learn more and register.
Food Truck Fiesta
Tuesdays, June 17, July 15, August 19, and September 16, 2025 from 5-9pm
Cost of admission: Free
14 Taylor Street, Bloomington
Live music, beer, wine, water available, 50/50 raffle. Rain date is the following Tuesday. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2897145590419042
Hudson Valley Artificial Intelligence Summit
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from 9am to 1:30pm
Cost of admission: Free
Marist University Student Center, Poughkeepsie
Information session to help municipal leaders, school districts and higher education administrations, fire and police agencies, nonprofit organizations, local businesses and others learn about the potential benefits – as well as the ethical considerations – of using AI. Registration is required in advance by Monday, June 16 at DutchessNY.gov/AI-Summit.
Flavors of Change: Food Stories from the Mid-Hudson Valley, 1680-1800
On view beginning June 18, 2025; Wednesdays through Sunday from 10am to 4pm
DuBois Visitor Center, Historic Huguenot Street, 81 Huguenot Street, New Paltz
Selections from Historic Huguenot Street’s vast collection of food harvesting, processing, preserving, and cooking will be featured. Highlights include Indigenous-made wood and stone mortars and reproduction clay cooking pot, grain harvesting tools, butter making equipment, and a bread-baking and cast iron cooking display installed in the Dubois Fort’s fireplace and beehive oven. In conjunction with the exhibit, the newly planted “Ancestors’ Garden” (located next to the Daniel Hasbrouck House) will honor the three cultural groups. www.huguenotstreet.org.
Commemorating Juneteenth at Senate House
Thursday, June 19, 2025 from 2-4pm
Cost of admission: Free
Senate House, 296 Fair Street, Kingston
Stop by the Senate House grounds for a drop-in activity to try the site’s very own Juneteenth tea cakes! For this drop-in activity, site staff will be making tea cakes in honor of Juneteenth. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day enslaved people were officially freed under the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston, Texas, two years after the Proclamation was made. Tea cakes are a traditional pastry made on Juneteenth. Ingredients typically included molasses, lard, eggs, baking powder, and sometimes nutmeg or vanilla, depending on what was available. Juneteenth tea cakes offer a sweet way to honor this important day in American history. This family friendly drop-in activity is free, weather dependent and runs while supplies last. Website: http://www.facebook.com/share/1AffeMnysz/
Summer Solstice Spelling Bee
Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 6:30pm
Cost: $5 entrance fee
Morton Memorial Library Porch, Rhinecliff
A Juneteenth Themed Event for high schoolers and up. A $5 entrance fee for a 50/50 prize will be shared with the winner and to benefit the library. Space is limited, registration requested: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/summer-solstice-spelling-bee-tickets-1391463898979
Mountain Jam
June 20 - June 22, 2025
Cost of admission: $135 and up
Bellayre Mountain, Highmount
Headliners include Khruangbin, Mt. Joy, Goose, Michael Franti and Spearhead, and more. https://mountainjamfestival.com
2025 Powerhouse Theater
June 20- July 27, 2025
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie
https://www.vassar.edu/powerhouse
Bannerman Island Movie Night: “Hook”
Friday, June 20, 2025
Cost of admission: $45
Bannerman Island, Dock at 2 Red Flynn Drive, Beacon
Take a sunset cruise and tour the island before the screening . The movie series continues July 5 with Disney’s Coco, July 11 with Raiders of the Lost Ark, August 8 with Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, August 22 with Now Voyager starring Bette Davis, and October 3 with The Bride of Frankenstein. https://bannermancastle.org/tours-events/movie-nights/
Roosevelt Reading Festival
Saturday, June 21, 2025 beginning at 9:45am
Cost of admission: Free
Wallace Center, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park
The day-long program will highlight recently published work of 14 authors, including a special afternoon with Richard Breitman, author of “A Calculated Restraint: What Allied Leaders Said About the Holocaust.” Registration is not required to attend this event. https://www.fdrlibrary.org/events-calendar
Big Truck Day
Saturday, June 21, 2025 from 10am to noon
Cost of admission: Free
117 Harry Howard Ave., Hudson
Do you love BIG trucks like we do? Then this is the event for you! Learn all about big trucks and even sit in the truck cabs! Fire trucks, all types of utility trucks, a school bus, and many more vehicles will be visiting the Museum for the day, so come check out all the BIG truck action! When you complete your BIG truck tour, try your hand at the prize punch game and meet Otto, the incredible, talking robot car who has a lot to say about safety! All activities are free and will be outdoors (rain or shine: under tents in the event of rain). Free admission to the Museum will also be offered to all who attend this special event. http://fasnyfiremuseum.com/events/big-truck-day-2025/
Guided Hike: History Hidden in the Woods
Saturday, June 21 and June 28, 2025 at 10am
Cost of admission: Free
Staatsburgh State Historic Site, 75 Mills Mansion Dr., Road # 1, Staatsburg
Have you ever wondered what some of the ruins within Mills-Norrie State Park might be? The beautiful park land was once the setting for the grand Hudson River estates. This 2-hour guided hike will lead visitors through the park exploring the history of three historic estates: from Staatsbugh's founding as a gentleman's farm in the 1700s to the development of The Point and Stonehurst estates in the 19th century. This hike is approximately 1.5 miles of uneven terrain, requiring sturdy footwear.
Reservations required: https//Bookeo.com/StaatsburghSHS
Winslow Homer
Saturday, June 21, 2025 at 10:30am
Orange County Historical Society Headquarters, 21 Clove Furnace Drive, Arden
Laura Nicolls will give a special presentation on the preeminent 19th/early 20th century artist. During the 1870s, Homer was an occasional visitor to Houghton Farm, the summer residence of Lawson Valentine, in Mountainville. Valentine, a longtime family friend and patron, was a prosperous manufacturer of varnish and paint and a business partner of Homer's older brother Charles. An extended stay during the summer of 1878 allowed Winslow Homer to produce numerous drawings and approximately thirty watercolor paintings of wholesome children and shepherdesses in the nearby meadows and orchards in Woodbury and Cornwall. https://orangecountyhistoricalsociety.org/News.html
Fragrant Native Plants
Saturday, June 21, 2025 at 11am
Beatrix Farrand Garden at Bellefield, Hyde Park
Join Ashley Gamell for a sensory-rich walk featuring fragrant foliage, ecological benefits, and native planting inspiration. Space is limited. Learn More & RSVP
Pride on the Green
Saturday, June 21 from noon to 5pm
Safe Harbors Green, Newburgh
Celebrate in solidarity with Newburgh’s LGBTQ+ community in Safe Harbors’ second annual Pride on the Green. Safe Harbors Green will host family-friendly live performances and music, DJs, dancing, a family tent with kids activities, and more. Hosted by Mistress of Ceremonies, Andramada, the mainstage will feature performances by Lisa Pellegrino, Ona Louise, Riley Maida, Francesca Hoffman, Sabrina Kee, Ivan Gorden-Romeo Lips, Kayden Campana, Ame, as well as a reading from the acclaimed Drag Story Hour. https://linktr.ee/newburghprideny
A Quaker Legacy in Stitches: Samplers From the Nine Partners Boarding School 1798-1846
Saturday, June 21, 2025 at 1:30pm
Clinton Historical Society, Creek Meeting House, 2433 Salt Point Turnpike, Clinton Corners
On display are 24 samplers, most from private collections, and this is a rare opportunity to see these pieces and learn more about the girls who made them. A recorded presentation about Nine Partners samplers and their influence on Dutchess County needlework is also available for viewing. On June 21 at 1:30pm, Stacy Whittaker will be giving a talk about Dutchess County samplers which includes many of the pieces in the exhibit. Stacy will also be on hand each day to give gallery talks and answer questions. On June 28 at 1:30pm, Kathy Moyer, who has been researching Nine Partners Boarding School for many years, will be giving a talk about the history of the school. https://clintonhistoricalsociety.org
Navigating Wealth & Poverty: The Varied Economies of the 19th Century Black Community
Saturday, June 21, 2025 at 2pm
Cost of admission: $5
Staatsburgh State Historic Site, 75 Mills Mansion Dr., Road # 1, Staatsburg
"From the inception, the Dutchess County economy has been at the crossroads of great economic currents. From the earliest Dutch settlement, it has operated in the economic realms of global trade right down to the smallest economic unit of the self-sufficient farm. We examine how the Black community, focusing on the 19th century, engaged in all those economic levels locally. We find extremes of wealth and poverty, and a growing middle class of professionals who often worked within, or intersected with, these various levels of economic activity. Likely because of the pervasiveness of slavery even in the most rural parts of the county until its abolition in New York State in 1827, communities of color were present in both built up and the most remote in-land rural areas. This presentation is led by Bill Jeffway, the executive Director of the Dutchess County Historical Society, where he serves on the research committee of Celebrating the African Spirit, and on the advisory committee to Vassar College's Inclusive History Initiative. Brief reception following presentation. Reservations required: https://SSHSWealthandPoverty.eventbrite.com
Concert: Hot Wrk Ensemble – Chamber Music Club
Saturday, June 21, 2025 at 2:30pm
Cost of admission: Free
Lateef Islam Auditorium at the Family Partnership Center, 29 North Hamilton Street, Poughkeepsie
Celebrate Juneteenth with Hot Wrk Ensemble, a saxophone/woodwind and percussion trio founded in 2020 by award-winning musicians J Brooks Marcus (J Why), Lois Hicks-Wozniak, and Brad Hubbard. The Hot Wrk Ensemble is performing free concerts during 2025 at libraries and community centers as part of the Statewide Community Re-grants Program through the NYS Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson. No registration required: https://poughkeepsie.librarycalendar.com/event/concert-hot-wrk-ensemble-chamber-music-club-3169
First Ever Mx. Bicep: Queer Arm Wrestling Tournament
Saturday, June 21, 2025 with doors at 6pm, wrestling at 6:30pm
Cost of admission: $10 advance, $15-$25 at the door
Unicorn Bar, 224 Foxhall Avenue, Kingston
https://unicornkingston.com
“Ocean of Pearls”
Saturday, June 21, 2025 at 7pm
Cost of admission: $10
Vivekananda Retreat, 101 Leggett Road, Stone Ridge
Part of the Movies with Spirit community film series. tinyurl.com/MoviesWithSpiritFacebookPage.
Music Under the Stars
Saturday, June 21, 2025 at 7:30pm
Trophy Point, West Point
The West Point Band’s 2025 summer concert series continues July 4 at West Point, July 16 at Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park, July 19 at West Point, July 26 at West Point, August 1 at the Seeger Riverfront Park in Beacon, August 8 at the Kensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla, August 9, August 16 and August 31 at West Point. https://westpointband.com/calendar.html
Singer-Songwriter Tim Moore
Saturday, June 21, 2025 at 7:30pm
Kleinert-James Center for the Arts, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock
Woodstock’s master singer-songwriter will play the Guild’s vintage Steinway piano and be joined by a line-up of longtime musical friends. https://woodstockguild.org
BeckHook Pride Parade and Festival
Sunday, June 22, 2025 from 10am to 5pm
Village of Red Hook
Free raffles, demonstrations, workshops and performances by local artists. https://beckhookpride.com
The Arrested Image: Identity through the Lens of Law Enforcement Coffee Reception
Sunday, June 22, 2025 from 11am to 1pm
On view June 21-November 2, 2025
The Dorsky, SUNY New Paltz
photographs, installations, videos, prints, and sculptures by contemporary artists who explore what it means to be distorted or fixed in the eyes of the law. With an emphasis on technical processes, several works expose the prejudicial engineering behind machine vision and algorithmic analysis. Others point to racial and class biases, faulty scientific reasoning, or debunked gender assumptions within profiling systems. A selection focuses on the targeted surveillance of certain groups and the increasingly pervasive presence of surveillance in civil society. https://www.newpaltz.edu/museum/exhibitions/TheArrestedImage
Celebrate with "LOVE: The Heroic Stories of Marriage Equality" Book Launch Event at Hudson Home
Sunday, June 22, 2025 from noon - 3pm
Cost of admission: Free
66 Warren St, Hudson
Hudson Home and Talbott & Arding celebrate the launch of the new Rizzoli coffee table book "LOVE: The Heroic Stories of Marriage Equality", during Hudson’s Pride weekend. Catered by Talbott & Arding, with a signature cocktail by Klocke Estate and Whitecliff Winery, guests will have the opportunity to meet Frankie Frankeny and explore the stories within LOVE. Hudson Home will donate all profits from the sale of the book to the JustMarried Project Free Book Program — sending LOVE to hands and hearts ready to be empowered. http://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/baebmga/lp/effe5260-78bb-4e66-a2e8-0848c67c30d6
Ashley Poston “Sounds Like Love” in conversation with Patti Murin
Sunday, June 22, 2025 at 2pm
Cost of admission: $20.55 includes a paperback copy of the book
Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff
A hitmaking songwriter and a bitter musician share a startling and inexplicable connection that they’ll do anything to shake. When she returns to her hometown of Vienna Shores, North Carolina, Joni Lark hopes that the sand, the surf, and the concerts at The Revelry, her family’s music venue, will spark inspiration. But when she gets there, nothing is how she left it. Author Ashley Poston is the New York Times bestselling author of A Novel Love Story, The Seven Year Slip, and The Dead Romantics. A native of South Carolina, she lives in a small gray house with her sassy cat and too many books. Patti Murin starred as Anna in Disney’s Frozen on Broadway, earning her an award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical from the Drama League. On television, Patti plays Dr. Nina Shore on both Chicago Med and Chicago Fire, and starred in the Hallmark movies Holiday for Heroes and Love on Iceland. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ashley-poston-sounds-like-love-tickets-1278385979879
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Free First Fridays at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
The first Friday of the month from noon to 5pm
Cost of admission: Free
Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, 46 Deer Hill Road, Wappinger
Free self-guided tours of CoSM and Entheon on the first Friday of the month. Also free on May 23. Tickets: https://www.universe.com/events/entheon-at-cosm-2025-day-pass-tickets-6XKPF7
Olana Third Thursdays
Continues the third Thursday of the month, from 11am to 3:15pm
Olana State Historic Site, Hudson
Free monthly tours and programs. Artmaking in the Afternoon, a hands-on, drop-in event will take place from 1-5pm in the Wagon House Education Center. olana.org/thirdthursdays/
The Capricorn Dream Sound Machine 2025 Dance Parties
Select Saturdays through August 23, 2025 from 8pm to midnight
Luther Barn, 17 Furnace Bank Road, Wassaic
https://wassaicproject.org/events
Sunday Acoustic Concert Series
Sundays through June
Beatrix Farrand Garden, Hyde Park
Performances take place under the canopy of our big Zelkova Tree. Bring a blanket and a picnic and enjoy a relaxed afternoon of live music in the garden. In case of rain, the event will move under the portico. https://www.beatrixfarrandgardenhydepark.org/calendar
Hudson Valley Free Day
Continues on the last Sunday of the month from 10am - 4pm
Dia Beacon
Hudson Valley residents living in Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Sullivan, Ulster, Washington and Westchester counties are invited to explore the contemporary art collection at Dia Beacon on the last Sunday of each month. diaart.org/visit/visit-our-locations-sites/dia-beacon-beacon-united-states
Lucio Pozzi: qui dentro / in here
On view through June 23, 2025
Magazzino Italian Art, 2700 Route 9, Cold Spring
An exhibition featuring a selection of vibrant and innovative abstract works the Italian-born artist produced over the course of his 60-year career. https://magazzino.art
I’m Not Rappaport
Ongoing through June 29, 2025
Shadowland Stages, Ellenville
Shadowland Stages kicks off its 40th Anniversary Season with Herb Gardner’s classic comedy starring Tony Award-winner Judd Hirsch, directed by Tony nominee Neil Pepe. Two octogenarians, Nat and Midge, meet regularly on a bench in Central Park. Nat’s a cantankerous communist whose daughter wants to put him in a home for seniors; Midge is an apartment building superintendent hiding out from disgruntled tenants. Together, they’ll do what it takes to avoid being put out to pasture. https://shadowlandstages.org/
Landmines: Dawoud Bey, Christina Fernandez, Richard Moose, Rick Silva
On view through July 13, 2025
The Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz
An exhibition of camera-based work by artists exploring the role landscape plays in burying or exhuming social history. Landmines coincides with the bicentennial of Hudson River School founder Thomas Cole’s first trip up the Hudson River. The trip is often recounted as the origination of an art movement lauded for pastorals that were inflected with Protestant ideals. Yet what this exhibition commemorates is a confluence of events that give broader significance to the year 1825 and that compel us to think critically about the relationship between land, representation, and history. https://newpaltz.edu/dorskymuseum
Daniel Michalik: Forest for the Trees
On view through July 13, 2025
Cost of admission: Free
64 Broadway, Tivoli
Solo exhibition with designer and cork maestro Daniel Michalik. For the past two decades, Daniel has explored the deepest potentials of the material through his furniture and product studio (earning him the moniker "king of cork"). The exhibition will serve as an immersive love letter to cork in the form of furniture, small objects, material stories, and other forms of material-focused research. https://availableitems.com/
From Haverstraw to Beacon: Inside The Brickyards that Built New York City
On view through July 19, 2025
Beacon Historical Society, 61 Leonard Street, Beacon
“From Haverstraw to Beacon: Inside the Brickyards that Built New York City” focuses on the rich history of the numerous brickyards that once lined the Hudson River. Presented through a partnership with the Haverstraw Brick Museum. Hours are Thursdays from 10am to noon and Saturdays, from 1-3pm. https://www.beaconhistorical.org/calendar
Destination Earth at Ligenza Moore Gallery
On view through Sunday, July 27, 2025
Ligenza Moore Gallery, 78 Trout Brook Rd, Cold Spring
Tony Moore and Cynthia Ligenza are pleased to announce the seasonal opening of Ligenza Moore Gallery and Sculpture Gardens, a beautifully situated 1,200 sq. ft. contemporary gallery with 17 ft. ceilings and landscaped grounds for sculpture near Cold Spring, NY. The gallery hosts curated exhibitions of museum-quality art, featuring fine and applied arts, the spoken word and music events. Artworks by Tony Moore and guest artists are available for viewing. The forthcoming exhibition in the gallery and sculpture gardens is “Destination Earth,” featuring the artworks of Katherine Bradford, Marieken Cochius, Meg Hitchcock, Simeon Lagodich, Cal Lane, Chris Martin, Tony Moore, Garry Nichols, Helen O’Leary, Judy Pfaff, David Provan, Jeff Shapiro, Greg Slick, Kurt Steger and Don Voisine. http://www.ligenzamooregallery.com/
Maria Lai: A Journey to America
On view through July 28, 2025
Magazzino Italian Art, Robert Olnick Pavilion, 2700 Route 9, Cold Spring
The first retrospective in the United States dedicated to one of the most important Italian artists of the 20th century. The exhibition will feature approximately 100 works by Maria Lai (Sardinia, Ulassai 1919–Cardedu 2013), including numerous works that will be presented to the public for the first time. Most of the pieces on display have never been exhibited in the United States. This exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of Maria Lai’s work, from her beginnings in the 1950s to the 2000s, with a focus on her innovative approaches to collective and relational art. magazzino.art
Great Green Hope for the Urban Blues
On view through August 2025
Cost of admission: Free
Vassar College, 124 Raymond Ave., Poughkeepsie
An exhibition which explores the connections between art and mythology of the Hudson Valley two hundred years after the origins of the so-called “Hudson River School” movement. https://www.vassar.edu/theloeb/exhibitions/great-green-hope-urban-blues.
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
Boscobel, Garrison
https://hvshakespeare.org/whats-playing/
So It Goes
On view through September 13, 2025
Wassaic
The Wassaic Project’s summer exhibition featuring 43 artists. https://www.wassaicproject.org/events/2025-summer-exhibition-opening
You Deserve Your Flowers: A Group Ceramics Exhibition
On view through September 19, 2025
Women’s Studio Workshop, 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston
Through the lens of contemporary ceramics, You Deserve Your Flowers features emerging artists of color exploring themes of identity and healing. Acknowledging the labor that goes into healing; confronting hardship, uncertainty and melancholy is only an aspect of their journey. While working in their studios, these artists – including Laura Casas, Isissa Komada-John, S.Lantz, Vanna Ramirez, Sam Shamard, Viv Siqueiros, and Alexis Tellefsen – are embracing their authenticity and honoring their communities. This exhibition is meant to celebrate the catalyzing nature of these artists whose works deserve “flowers” for their vulnerability and bravery.
Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Airshows
Saturdays and Sundays, weather permitting, through October 19, 2025
Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, 9 Norton Road, Red Hook
Special season events include Wednesday night Flight Nights, Time Warp Weekend from July 19-20, a vintage 1918-style baseball game on August 22, haunted history ghost tours in October. For more information, visit https://oldrhinebeck.org
What’s Missing? Artworks in the Olana Landscape
Olana State Historic Site, Hudson
Site-specific installations that respond to missing structures in Olana’s historic landscape. Artist Ellen Harvey will respond to Olana’s mysterious Summer House with an interactive installation titled Winter in the Summer House, and artist Gabriela Salazar will highlight Olana’s icehouse and woodshed with two interrelated pieces titled, A Measure of Comfort (Cake and Cord). The event also marks the completion of the Frederic Church Center for Art & Landscape. OLANA.org/artandlandscape.
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American250 Film Series: 1776
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 2pm
Cost of admission: Free
Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home, Hyde Park
Films in the series will explore the American Revolution and broader themes relating to American civics. Screenings will include films such as Gabriel Over the White House (1933) and Drums Along the Mohawk (1939). Register
Friday Festivities: What is it?
Friday, June 27, 2025 from 2-4pm
Cost of admission: Free
Senate House, 296 Fair Street, Kingston
Stop by the Senate House grounds to see a variety of period accurate objects to try and guess what is it! Site staff will showcase a number of 18th century reproduction objects that visitors will get the opportunity to handle to try and guess what they are and what they might have been used for. This family friendly drop-in activity is free and is weather dependent. Website: http://www.facebook.com/share/16aoS7jBRj/
the CONCEPT series: Hudson Valley Edition 2025
June 27-28, 2025; June 27 at 7:30pm, June 28 3pm & 7:30pm
Cost of admission: $10
4 N Front Street, Kingston
RAWdance's CONCEPT series salon, an institution of the San Francisco dance scene, serves a fresh dose of contemporary dance at the Senate Garage in Uptown Kingston on June 27-28. The pay-what-you-can series features local dance powerhouses including Adam Weinert, inkBoat, Carlye Eckert, Ouro and Boros Dance, and Meg Fry / De Facto Dance, alongside RAWdance. http://rawdance.org/events/the-concept-series-hudson-valley-edition-2025/
Pam Tanowitz’s Pastoral
June 27–29, 2025
Marking the opening of SummerScape 2025, taking place June 27 – August 17, 2025. Pastoral is the latest world premiere from Fisher Center LAB Choreographer in Residence Pam Tanowitz at Bard SummerScape, in a major new collaboration with composer Caroline Shaw and visual artist Sarah Crowner. Following the success of Four Quartets, named “the greatest creation of dance theater so far this century” by The New York Times, and Song of Songs, regarded as “a thing of beauty” by The Guardian, Tanowitz continues her series of major performances that respond to masterworks of the past. Setting the dance to Beethoven’s beloved Symphony No. 6 in F Major, the “Pastoral,” Tanowitz then removes the music, replacing it in part with silence, in part with a specially commissioned score by her long-time collaborator, renowned composer Caroline Shaw, which itself responds to and transforms the Beethoven score. The décor for the production will be created by Brooklyn-based painter Sarah Crowner, well-known for her “cut & stitch” abstract canvases, which evoke pastoral landscapes in magnificent jewel colors. The resulting performance will be a gorgeous palimpsest of many artistic layers, with Beethoven’s evocation of the natural world as a guiding spirit. https://fishercenter.bard.edu
Spiegeltent at Bard SummerScape 2025
June 27 - August 16, 2025
Cost of admission: $20 and up
Fisher Center at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
The season will be emceed by world-renowned live artist Adrienne Truscott, with highlights including Third Reprise, electro-pop duo Ringdown, Martha Redbone, comic Tina Friml, the reunion of Olatuja, Meshell Ndegeocello, “Queen of New York nightlife” featuring Murray Hill, “Queen Bitch” with legendary “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” writer John Cameron Mitchell. https://fishercenter.bard.edu
Signature Moments: Letters from the Famous, the Infamous, and Everyday Americans
On view Saturday, June 28, 2025 through July 7, 2026
William J. vanden Heuvel Gallery of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park
Albert Einstein, Amelia Earhart, Walt Disney, Abraham Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth II, Benjamin Franklin, Joe Louis, Thomas Edison, Frank Sinatra, Dalai Lama, Shirley Temple, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Mao Tse-Tung, Harpo Marx, and General George S. Patton … What do each of these famous figures have in common? They, among many others, wrote to Franklin or Eleanor Roosevelt, sent a special gift, or FDR himself collected their documents as historic treasures. During their extraordinary public careers, the Roosevelts interacted with a “who’s who” of the 20th century. Signature Moments opens the FDR Library’s archives and museum for an insider’s view of the remarkable -- and sometimes surprising – variety of personal exchanges with an amazing array of famous (and a few infamous) people. This fascinating group includes over 100 golden age movie stars, queens and kings, scientists, and legendary military heroes. Visitors will see signatures of literary giants, celebrated artists, world leaders, and, of course, prominent politicians and political activists – including seven American presidents. Some letters are even paired with unique gifts from the sender. fdrlibrary.org.
Sky High Farm Biennial Exhibition: Trees Never End and Houses Never End
Saturday, June 28, 2025 through October 2025
11 Main Street, Germantown
A site-specific exhibition featuring more than 50 artists from around the world exploring the relationship between local ecology, history, and industry in the Hudson River Valley and its connection to New York City. On view in a historic apple cold storage warehouse along the Hudson River, the exhibition also marks the beginning of a new chapter for Sky High Farm as it expands onto a new 560-acre farm. https://www.skyhighfarm.org/events/sky-high-farm-biennial-exhibition
Opening of the Kingston Point Beach
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 and open Wednesday through Sunday, from 10am to 4:45pm. https://kingston.recdesk.com
Wild Edible & Medicinal Plant Walk
Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 11am
Beatrix Farrand Garden at Bellefield, Hyde Park
Explore edible and medicinal plants around the garden with herbalist Dina Falconi and learn practical uses for them. Space is limited. Learn More & RSVP
4th Annual New Netherland Marketplace: Living History Event
June 28-29, 2025; Saturday from 10am to 5pm, Sunday from 10am to 4pm
Cost of admission: Free with advanced registration highly encouraged
Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz
Members of the federally recognized Lenape Delaware communities, which currently reside in Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Ontario, will be returning to their sacred homelands to portray the life of their ancestors and their economic relationship with the European settlers. Their camp will have ongoing open-fire cooking, cordage making, bow shooting, flintknapping, arrow making, and hide tanning demonstrations throughout the weekend. Each day, representatives will offer a cultural stomp dance demonstration, in which visitor participation is encouraged. North American Dingos, also known as the Carolina dog, will be present and used to discuss Eastern Woodland hunting traditions and more. https://www.huguenotstreet.org/new-netherland-marketplace-a-living-history-event-2025
Millerton Street Fair
Saturday, June 28, 2025 from 10am to 2pm
Main Street, Millerton
Live music, entertainment, exhibits from area non-profits, special promotions from local shops and more. https://millertonnews.com/street-fair
Let Freedom Ring
Saturday, June 28, 2025 from 11am to 4pm
Cost of admission: Free
296 Fair Street, 296 Fair Street, Kingston
Participate onsite in commemorating American Independence at Senate House! There will famous American music and an independence ceremony featuring readings of important speeches on American independence. This family friendly event is free and open to the public. http://www.facebook.com/share/1AMqZ9Aoga/
Harold Stevenson: Less Real Than My Routine Fantasy Opening Reception
Saturday, June 28, 2025 from 2-5pm
Cost of admission: Free
Newmark Gallery, Art Omi, 1405 Route 22, Ghent
Stevenson’s first institutional solo exhibition explores his unflinching commitment to the sensual for more than five decades, and insistence on placing his paintings in the public sphere in a pre-Stonewall era. https://artomi.org/exhibition/harold-stevenson-less-real-than-my-routine-fantasy/
Follow the Arrow Festival
Saturday, June 28, 2025 from 2-11pm
Cost of admission: $65 and up
Griffin House, Palenville
Family-friendly event featuring Marco Benevento, Azymuth, Say She She, and more. https://marcobenevento.com/followthearrow/
Putnam History Museum’s Annual Lawn Party
June 28, 2025 from 4-7pm
Cost of admission: $75
Highlands Country Club, 955 NY-9D, Garrison
Join PHM for cool drinks and canapés at the scenic Highlands County Club. The evening program will include a light discussion of the Club’s history and historically significant buildings on and around the Country Club, an 18th-century hat competition, viewing of select artworks from the PHM collection and print raffle, and jazz music from the Todd Londagin Quintet. For this Lawn Party, join a 18th-century hat competition by donning a men’s Tricorn or ladies’ Bergere hat! The Lawn Party is an essential PHM Annual Fundraiser, with all proceeds benefiting the museum. Registration: https://www.putnamhistorymuseum.org/events/annual-lawn-party-2/
Drawing from the Landscape: A Great Estates Garden & Lanscape Event
Sunday, June 29, 2025 at 10am
Cost of admission: $8
Staatsburgh State Historic Site, 75 Mills Mansion Dr., Road # 1, Staatsburg
Learn from experienced Hudson Valley artist and teacher, Mira Fink. Take a short walk around the grounds of Staatsburgh State Historic Site and by the Hudson River to take in the beauty of the landscape. Explore composition and the effects of light and shadow. Learn how to break down the landscape into simple shapes with areas of different values; (lights, mid-tones and darks). Then try your hand at creating "thumbnail sketches". All materials will be provided. Appropriate for teens and adults. No previous drawing experience is needed. This workshop is weather permitting, with a rain date of August 3. Reservations required: https://FOMAS.eventbrite.com
Paddle To Help Monitor Hudson River SAV
Monday, June 30, 2025 at 10am, weather permitting
Norrie Point Marina, Staatsburg
Volunteers who are interested in combining their recreational boating interests with a very real contribution to tracking the status of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) in the Hudson River, join the DEC for an on-the-water training session at the Norrie Point Marina. Anyone interested is welcome to attend. Volunteers must provide their own kayak/canoe and safety gear. Learn more about this project by visiting the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies website. For more information about volunteering, please contact David Fischer, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, fischerd@caryinstitute.org, (845) 677 5343 at fischerd@caryinstitute.org.
First Friday Free Admission Day at Storm King
Continues Friday, July 4, Friday, August 1 from 10am to 8pm
Cost of admission: Free
20 Old Pleasant Hill Rd., New Windsor
At First Fridays enjoy free admission, extended hours, special programming, and more at Storm King Art Center. Free shuttle service will run between the City of Newburgh and Storm King. Storm King is a 500-acre outdoor museum located in New York’s Hudson Valley, where visitors experience large-scale sculpture and site-specific commissions under open sky. Website
Mekeel’s Corners Chapel Independence Day Celebration
Friday, July 4, 2025 from 10am to noon
321 Route 301, Cold Spring
The program will include musicians leading attendees in the singing of patriotic songs and hymns. There will also be a reading of select passages from the United State’s most important founding documents. https://www.putnamhistorymuseum.org/events/mekeels-corners-chapel-independence-day-celebration-3/
Walkway July 4th Fireworks Spectacular
Friday, July 4, 2025 at 6pm
Cost of admission: $25, $20 Walkway members, seniors and veterans, Free for children under 12
Walkway Over the Hudson, Poughkeepsie
Enjoy an unobstructed view of the City of Poughkeepsie fireworks display, taking in amazing twilight views 212 feet above the Hudson River before seeing the fireworks launch at eye level. https://walkway.org/fireworks
City of Kingston Fourth of July Celebration
Friday, July 4, 2025 starting at 6:30pm
Rondout, Kingston
Live music and entertainment before fireworks are set off from a barge in the Rondout Creek just after dark. Free shuttles from the Kingston Plaza, Cornell Street parking lot and Broadway near the Andy Murphy Center. Severe weather date: July 5.
Stormville Airport Flea Markets
Continues July 5, August 30-31, October 11-12 and November 1, 2025
Stormville Airport, Route 216, Stormville
https://www.stormvilleairportfleamarkets.com
Town of Germantown Independence Day Fireworks
Saturday, July 5, 2025 from 4-11pm (rain date July 12)
Cost of admission: $15 per car, $5 per person for walk-ins, free for kids under 5
50 Palatine Park Road, Germantown
Live music, food, vendors, beer, wine and more
Oblong Books presents Gary Shteyngart, Vera or Faith
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 at 6:30pm
Cost of admission: $10, $31 includes one hardcover copy of the book
Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff
From the bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and Our Country Friends comes a poignant, sharp-eyed, and bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart, told through the eyes of their wondrous ten-year-old daughter. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gary-shteyngart-vera-or-faith-tickets-1399794867129
Older Adults Skills Fair
Thursday, July 10, 2025 from 2-4pm
Cost of admission: Free
Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park
For older adults who are interested in exploring part-time employment or volunteer opportunities. No RSVP is required. dutchessny.gov/aging
Jubilee at Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
July 11-13, 2025; July 11 and July 12 at 7pm, July 13 at 2pm
Cost of admission: $25
Manor Avenue, Red Hook
Join the LAB for a special first glimpse of a musical in the making, the first of Fisher Center LAB’s Civis Hope Commissions. Replete with dancing bears and bags of luck, and set on the day after the Emancipation Proclamation, Jubilee joyfully asks what the world might become when all people are truly free. Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks (Topdog/Underdog) has drawn inspiration from Scott Joplin’s 1910 ragtime opera Treemonisha to create a magical, hilarious, and timely fable about a young woman who leads her community out of adversity and into a new way of being. This staged reading of Suzan-Lori’s libretto for Jubilee, commissioned by Fisher Center LAB, offers audiences a rare opportunity to engage directly with the development of a major new musical, which the Fisher Center will premiere as a full production in the near future. http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/jubilee-reading/
Supporting At-Risk Pollinators with Local Ecotype Plants
Thursday, July 10, 2025 from 4:30-6pm
Hudson Valley Seed Company, Accord
Join Pollinate HV for a presentation on supporting at-risk pollinators with local ecotype plants, followed by a walking tour of the gardens at the Hudson Valley Seed Company to see local ecotypes being grown for seed. Light rain or shine, dress to be outdoors. https://hudsonvalleyseed.com/products/at-risk-pollinators-presentation-with-pollinate-hv-7-10-25?pb=0
Full Moon Hike + Music
Thursday, July 10, 2025 with gates at 7pm
Cost of admission: $10 per person, $25 per family, $40 per full car
Drayton Grant Park at Burger Hill, 3158 Route 9G, Rhinebeck
Music by Beercaps and Quarters. Bring a picnic and drinks, light snacks will be provided. RSVP
40th New York Stage and Film Summer Season
July 11-August 3, 2025
Marist College
Over 200 artists will perform in 12 public performances, including one full production, 10 residencies, eight television pilots and screenplays, two panel discussions and more. https://www.newyorkstageandfilm.org
Friday Festivities: Rock Painting
Friday, July 11, 2025 from 2-4pm
Cost of admission: Free
Senate House, 296 Fair Street, Kingston
Stop by the Senate House grounds to paint your own rock! Rock painting is a fun and creative activity that’s perfect for families! Kids and adults alike can transform ordinary rocks into colorful works of art. Whether your painting simple designs, animals or inspirational messages, this craft is a great way to spend quality time together while expressing your creativity. Site staff will host a craft table on our grounds, providing rocks, brushes and paint. This family friendly drop-in activity is free, weather dependent and runs while supplies last. http://www.facebook.com/share/1GLijsJn16/
Graham Nash
July 13, 2025
Bearsville Theater, Woodstock
https://bearsvilletheater.com
Friday Festivities: Spies and Enoch Crosby
Friday, July 18, 2025 from 2-4pm
Cost of admission: Free
Senate House, 296 Fair Street, Kingston
Stop by the Senate House grounds to learn all about spies! Spies were very important during the Revolutionary War as they kept armies informed about the plans of the enemy. Site staff will host a craft table on our grounds where visitors will get a chance to learn a bit about spies and write a message in sympathetic stain (known today as invisible ink). Writing messages this way allowed rebel spies to communicate with each other without fear of sensitive information being intercepted. This family friendly drop-in activity is free and weather dependent. http://www.facebook.com/share/19WLsvX8qs/
Bard SummerScape: Bedřich Smetana’s Dalibor
July 25 - August 3, 2025
Cost of admission: $25 and up
Fisher Center at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
Experience the gripping drama of Bedřich Smetana’s Dalibor, a powerful Czech opera that weaves themes of revenge, love, and fate. Set against a backdrop of medieval intrigue, Dalibor follows its titular tragic hero as he faces a desperate struggle for redemption. With sweeping orchestral music and unforgettable arias, Dalibor captivates with its emotional depth and stirring melodies. Director Jean-Romain Vesperini (Henri VIII) returns to Bard SummerScape to helm this first fully staged American production of a rarely heard masterpiece. https://fishercenter.bard.edu
Friday Festivities: 18th Century Toys and Games
Friday, July 25, 2025 from 2-4pm
Cost of admission: Free
Senate House, 296 Fair Street, Kingston
Stop by the Senate House grounds to see and experience some 18th century toys and games! Site staff will host a table outside on our grounds with some reproduction toys and games from the 1700s. Visitors can try their hand at some popular 18th century toys and games such as hoops and sticks, nine pins, Jacob’s ladder, ball and cup, buzz saws and more! This family friendly drop-in activity is free and weather dependent. http://www.facebook.com/share/1CNqzBsTTQ/
Cyndi Lauper
July 25, 2025
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
https://bethelwoodscenter.org
Revolution: Rumblings on the Rondout
Saturday, July 26, 2025 from 4-7pm
Cost of admission: Free
Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston
Historical lecture with re-enactors, live music, Solaris boat tours of strategic military points of interest, a chicken BBQ dinner and more. https://www.hrmm.org
Godzilla Double Feature
Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 7pm
Cost of admission: $14 non-members, $10 members and those in costume
Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main Street, Rosendale
”Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II” (1993) and "Godzilla vs. Destoroyah" (1995). Both Japanese versions with English subtitles. https://www.rosendaletheatre.org/series/saturday-creature-features/
Barenaked Ladies with Sugar Ray and Fastball
July 27, 2025
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
https://bethelwoodscenter.org
Damian “Jr Gong” Marley and Stephen Marley
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Hutton Brickyards, Kingston
https://radiowoodstock.com
The Offspring
August 1, 2025
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
https://bethelwoodscenter.org
Mid-Hudson Comic Con
August 2-3, 2025
MJN Convention Center, 14 Civic Center Plaza, Poughkeepsie
Over 100 exhibitors, cosplay contests, gaming, panel discussions and more! https://mhcomiccon.com
3rd Annual Hudson Film Festival
August 7-10, 2025
Hudson
https://hudsonfilmfestival.org
Bard Music Festival: “Martinů and His World”
August 8-17, 2025
Fisher Center at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
In eleven themed concerts featuring its boldest and most adventurous programming to date, the festival’s 35th season examines the life and times of Bohuslav Martinů, the 20th century’s foremost Czech composer, whose music is nonetheless largely unfamiliar to U.S. audiences today. Weekend One considers Martinů as A Musical Mirror of the 20th Century (August 8–10), and Weekend Two investigates the stand he took Against Uncertainty, Uniformity, Mechanization (August 14–17). https://fishercenter.bard.edu
Lights Across the Hudson
Friday, August 8, 2025 from 7-9:30pm
Cost of admission: Free
Walkway Over the Hudson
Hudson Valley Hospice Foundation invites the community to join a luminary event celebrating those we have lost. https://www.hvhospice.org/lights/
The Bagel Festival
Sunday, August 10, 2025 from 9am to 4pm
Broadway, Monticello
Two stages of music, vendors, car show, and of course, bagels and bagel-themed contests. https://thebagelfestival.org
Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts
August 24, 2025
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
https://bethelwoodscenter.org
Poughkeepsieans: Artists, Eccentrics and Weirdos!
Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 6pm
Boardman Road Branch Library, Poughkeepsie
Poughkeepsie has had some interesting characters over the years, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Join Historian Shannon Butler and Librarian Bill Kleppel as they tell the stories of the odd, the strange, the creative, and all the amazing people of Poughkeepsie's unique past. https://poughkeepsie.librarycalendar.com/events/list
Hudson Valley Hot-Air Balloon Festival
August 29-31, 2025
Tymor Park, Union Vale
https://balloonfesthv.com
Boscobel Chamber Music Festival
September 5-14, 2025
Boscobel House and Gardens, Garrison
This year’s artist roster — one of the largest in the festival’s history — features a blend of returning favorites and notable newcomers. Alongside Sussmann, returning artists include pianist Michael Stephen Brown, cellist Nicholas Canellakis, clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester, and violinists Amy Schwartz-Moretti and Benjamin Beilman. Making their Festival debuts are violinist Karen Gomyo, cellist Estelle Choi, violists Beth Guterman and Teng Li, and pianist Orion Weiss. https://boscobel.org
Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Annual Folk Picnic
Saturday, September 6, 2025
Cost of admission: Free
The Theatre at USC Park, Beacon
Live music, children’s activities, food for purchase and more. https://www.clearwater.org/folkpicnic/
2025 Woodsist Festival
September 20-21, 2025
Arrowood Farms, Accord
Featuring Panda Bear, Built to Spill, Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500, Sebadoh, Medeski Martin Duo, Woods, White Fence, W.I.T.C.H. and more. https://woodsistfestival.com
Napoleon Dynamite Live! 20th Anniversary Celebration
Sunday, September 21, 2025 at 7pm
Cost of admission: $35-$45, $75 pre-show meet-and-greet
UPAC, Kingston
A full screening of “Napoleon Dynamite” followed by a lively discussion with fan-favorite cast members; Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), Jon Gries (Uncle Rico) and Efren Ramirez (Pedro). https://www.bardavon.org/show/napoleon-dynamite-live-20th-anniversary-celebration/
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