Building Community Through the Arts
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An Afternoon of Film & Discussion. Join us for a very special Conversation with Neighbors. This event will feature a panel composed of three local advocates: Tina Dipper (program director of Perfect 10), Caroline Wheeler (founder and executive director of Sisters for Peace), and Christina Lowery (CEO of Girl Rising), who will serve as moderator.
Come and meet your favorite local media personalities! With digital press taking over, news about our community is delivered in an instant. How has that changed how we communicate and interact? This is an opportunity to find out from the folks on the front lines.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Bouchard Hoe, chair of the Spencertown Academy’s Conversations with Neighbors program. At this "Conversations with Neighbors" event, a panel of local luminaries will talk about […]
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 […]
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. 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 discuss the fascinating history of cannabis, his personal perspective about the plant, and the results he’s seen for his patients and their families. Dr. Weinberg […]
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: 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 career, her Caldecott Medal for Mirette on the High Wire, mission to tell stories with wit and flair about brave girls and extraordinary but overlooked […]
This panel discussion will feature Shaker Museum’s newly appointed Executive Director Claudia Gould, Director of Library & Collections Jerry Grant, and Collections Manager Sharon Duane Koomler. Topics will include the museum’s now 18,000 object-strong collection, history of the Shakers at Mount Lebanon’s thriving garden seed industry, and plans on the horizon for the museum, including […]