• Twilight in the Garden Party

    Online ticket sales are closed. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door. The Academy’s traditional kick-off to the start of summer will feature pre-packed baskets filled with wrapped homemade and locally sourced hors d’oeuvres and a sweet treat, as well as festive beverages, a silent auction, and live music by Rob […]

    $100 – $250

    Market on the Green

    The market will take place, as always, on The Green in the center of Spencertown. It will showcase vendors offering plants, vintage and new home and garden furnishings, pottery, birdhouses, crafts, and garden books. Shoppers will find bargains on choice garden items and accessories at the Academy’s White Elephant Booth. The Spencertown Volunteer Firemen will […]

    18th Annual Hidden Garden Tour

    Online sales have closed. Tickets will be available at the Spencertown Academy and at the Market on the Green from 9am-2:30pm. The glory of spring and promise of summer beauty will be on full display at the host properties in Columbia County, NY. There is a wide range of landscape styles and many delightful surprises […]

    $35 – $40

    Maximizing Space in the Garden: Creating More of a Good Thing

    An illustrated lecture/garden talk with Tovah Martin Purchase tickets now. Tovah Martin is the author of 16 books on gardening, and a writer, producer, and stylist for many garden stories featured in many prominent national and regional publications and on television. She lectures throughout the country to botanical gardens, garden clubs and industry conferences. Day of […]

    $15 – $20

    Jay Ungar & Molly Mason

    Purchase tickets now. Online ticket sales close at midnight on Friday, June 17. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door, depending on availability. Based in New York’s Catskill Mountains, Ungar and Mason are best known for their work on the soundtrack of Ken Burns’s PBS documentary series, The Civil War. Ungar’s […]

    $20 – $25

    35 Days to Baltimore

    Online ticket sales have closed.  Tickets will be available at the  door. The Spencertown Academy in collaboration with The Chatham Bookstore presents Jana Laiz and Alex Portillo for a reading […]

    Kids Need Music Benefit Concert

    Purchase tickets now. ONLINE TICKET SALES HAVE CLOSED. TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR BEGINNING AT 2:30 “A Kaleidoscope of Hope” will feature pianist Gili Melamed-Lev and violinist Emmanuel […]

    $30

    Kids Need Music Benefit Concert

    Purchase tickets now. ONLINE TICKET SALES HAVE CLOSED. TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR BEGINNING AT 1:30 “A Kaleidoscope of Hope” will feature pianist Gili Melamed-Lev and violinist Emmanuel Vukovich performing pieces by Piazzolla, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Paganini, and Sarasate. All proceeds will be used to purchase band instruments to be donated to the […]

    $30
  • Community Day

    Help us celebrate the 175th anniversary of our historic home and the 50th anniversary of the Academy as an arts center. Free entertainment for all! For Kids: 10:00am-Noon on the Village Green Balloon artists Mortal Beasts and Deities Stilt Dancers will roam the Green 10:30-11:00am: Columbia County Youth Theater will perform 11:30-Noon: Tom Hooker Hanford: […]

    Opening Reception: Seventh Annual Members’ Show

    “This exhibition is an appreciation of the visual artists in our community and neighboring communities who are involved with the universal process of creating. This year, the largest number of members ever are participating in the event,” says Norma Cohen, who serves on the Spencertown Academy Curatorial Committee. “We believe this to be a reflection […]

    Free
  • Twelfth Night

    Zoe Wohlfeld, Managing Producer The Spencertown Academy is pleased to sponsor this production of Twelfth Night at the Spencertown Town Park. The Rooted Voyageurs is a theater company, founded by Devante Owens (Artistic Director) and Zoe Wohlfeld (Managing Producer), whose mission is to celebrate community through live performance. Their company members are primarily from Columbia […]

    Free