• Conversations with Neighbors

    Talkin' Trees: A Conversation between an Arborist and a Landscape Architect Tom Ingersoll, a certified arborist from Berkshire County, will present an illustrated talk about tree selection, pruning, and planting techniques and share his holistic approach to tree care from an arborist’s perspective. Following the presentation, landscape architect David Dew Bruner will moderate a discussion […]

    $10 – $20
  • SOLD OUT: Judy White Staber: Book Release Celebration – Session 1

    This 1:30 event is sold out, but there are plenty of spots available for the 3:30 session. Celebrate the publication of a biographical-memoir by our former executive director, Judy White Staber. "Rise About It, Darling: The Story of Joan White" Actor, Director, Teacher, Producer and (Sometimes) Mother (The Troy Book Makers, January 2022), is about […]

    Free

    Judy White Staber: Book Release Celebration – Session 2

    Celebrate the publication of a biographical-memoir by our former executive director, Judy White Staber. "Rise About It, Darling: The Story of Joan White" Actor, Director, Teacher, Producer and (Sometimes) Mother (The Troy Book Makers, January 2022), is about Staber’s mother, who was a well-known actress and teacher in the 20th century theatre world. The event […]

    Free
  • Hudson, America: Free Screening

    Conversations with Neighbors presents the documentary film, “Hudson, America,” followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Zuzka Kurtz. No charge, reservations requested. “Hudson, America” (2022, 101 minutes), Co-directed by Zuzka Kurtz and Geoffrey Hug, follows six Gen-Z Bangladeshi American immigrants living in Hudson, NY. The unexpected political events of 2016 to 2022 derailed the joyous college […]

  • Climate Change:
    The Activists Among Us

    It’s not too late to save the planet! “Throughout the Hudson Valley, and right here in Spencertown, people are working hard to slow the advance of climate change,” says Lisa […]

    Free
  • Book Release Celebration for Peter Biskind

    We are pleased to present, in collaboration with The Chatham Bookstore, bestselling author Peter Biskind in an event celebrating his new book, Pandora’s Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV (William Morrow, 2023) He will be joined in conversation with acclaimed historian David Nasaw. The book will be for sale and the author will […]

    Free
  • Let’s Chat about AI

    Admission is free, registration is requested. As part of our Conversation with Neighbors series, a panel led by AI guru James Hendler will consider this ubiquitous phenomenon and its effect […]

    Free
  • Medical Cannabis: Weeding out Fact from Fiction

    Free. Registration requested. Online registration is closed, but plenty of room, please join us! Dr. Kenneth R. Weinberg, founder and chief medical officer of Cannabis Doctors of New York, will […]

  • Cellblock Visions: Set Free in the Penitentiary

    Free. Registration requested. Conversations with Neighbors presents “Cellblock Visions: Set Free in the Penitentiary” with internationally known prison art expert Phyllis Kornfeld. An artist, author, and educator, Kornfeld had led […]

    Free
  • From Mirette to Einstein

    Free: Reservations requested Children’s book author/illustrator Emily Arnold McCully and playwright Elizabeth Diggs have lived and worked in Spencertown for more than 40 years. They will discuss McCully’s 60 year […]

    Free