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Six consecutive Thursdays, October 17-November 21, 1:00pm-2:00pm Class Fee: $120, Academy members $110 To register, please contact Fran Snyder by email at uws.upstate.taichi@gmail.com. This class, taught by Fran Snyder, uses Tai Chi movements and postures as practical tools for building leg strength and cultivating balance. Strength and balance together increase our sense of being connected […]
January 16-April 10, twelve week course: Thursdays, 12:30-1:30pm (no class on February 6) Fee: $240, Academy Members: $220 Taught by: Fran Snyder, New York School of Tai Chi Chuan To register, please contact Fran: uws.upstate.taichi@gmail.com Tai chi is a Chinese martial art now recognized for its benefits to physical and mental health. With regular practice, […]
Reservations are at capacity for this event! This year The Millay Society celebrates the centennial of Millay and her husband Eugen Boissevain’s purchase of Steepletop, Millay’s home for the second half of her life. As part of the celebration of this milestone, Millay Society literary officer and secretary Krystyna Poray Goddu will present a look […]
At this 30th edition of the Uel Wade Music Scholarship Concert, nine high school students will each perform solo for up to 15 minutes. Due to the generosity of donations from individuals and local businesses (seeded by the Wades), at least $10,000 will be awarded to the winners, to be used to further their musical […]
Enjoy Shakespeare’s classic tale of magic, transformation, and mischief in the Rooted Voyageur’s 2025 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream! While four lovers find themselves caught in a mystery of love and desire, the world of the fairies is thrown into chaos by rivalry and sparking passion. Meanwhile, an ensemble of workers from Athens comes […]
Performance artist and filmmaker (and occasional amateur microbiologist) Sister Sylvester works with new technologies to make cross-species collaborations, essay films, and lecture performances. Using DNA extracted from a hat worn by actors in Bertolt Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble, Drinking Brecht is a live, illustrated essay that explores the past and present of genetics, synthetic biology, economics […]
Across his genre-defying work, Julian Brave NoiseCat often turns to the narrative arts of his people who tell stories about mythic ancestors like the trickster Coyote to make sense of the world and themselves, cutting through colonial fictions while pushing the boundaries of nonfiction to illuminate vital truths. The “Coyote Story,” an artform once practiced […]
Tai Chi movements & postures teach us to listen to our feet, to be secured to the ground and simultaneously aligned upwards to the crown of the head. Being upright […]
Join us for Spencertown Academy’s first Seedling Swap & Sale, a welcoming celebration of gardening, generosity, and growing together. Local gardeners and plant enthusiasts of all experience levels are invited to share seedlings, swap favorites, or purchase plants to take home for the season ahead — vegetables, herbs, flowers, and more… all plants are welcome!
Tai Chi is a Chinese martial art recognized for its benefits to strength, endurance, and balance. Professor Cheng Man-Ch’ing, who brought the tai chi form to the US in the early 1960s, described its fluid and controlled movements as “swimming in air” and its emphasis on relaxation as inspiring meditative calm in body and mind. […]
Shakespeare in the Park with the Rooted Voyageurs is back for the 4th year with As You Like It. Join us in the idyllic Forest of Arden, where an unexpected exile transforms into adventure and blossoming love. Filled with disguises, wit, and warmth, the beauty of nature and the power of words reign supreme in […]
As part of the Town of Austerlitz 250th Anniversary of the USA celebration, Spencertown Academy presents a free concert by the Dusty Wright Four under a big tent located in a field a quarter mile south of the Village Green next to 5100 South Street in Spencertown, NY (GPS may say Chatham) on Friday, July […]