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Friday, September 1, 3:00-8:00pm Saturday September 2, 10:00am-5:00pm Sunday, September 3, 10:00am-4:00pm Monday, September 4, 10:00am-2:00pm The Spencertown Academy Arts Center is ramping up for its signature celebration of all things literary. The 2023 Festival of Books will take place Friday, September 1 through Monday, September 4. The Festival opens Friday with a Members Only […]
To register please contact the instructor Fran Snyder by email at uws.upstate.taichi@gmail.com Tai Chi practice helps us achieve balance. It stabilizes our feet on the ground and contributes to proper body alignment from foot to crown of the head. It teaches us how to be simultaneously upright and relaxed, and how to move through our […]
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. The Toronto-based jazz vocalist, Laura Anglade, has been charming audiences by bringing a fresh face to the vintage sound of classic jazz numbers in both French and English. The Laura Anglade Quartet will perform their own arrangements drawing from the Great American Songbook,Vintage Jazz from Broadway, the Great American Songbook […]
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Roots & Shoots Concerts Series is pleased to present “writer song-singer” Heather Maloney. Maloney has toured nationally as a headliner, as well as in support of acts like Lake Street Dive, Shakey Graves, Gary Clark Jr., Colin Hay, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and many more. The New York Times called her music “utterly gorgeous, visceral” and […]
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 […]
September 30-October 29, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 30, 4:00-6:00pm This year’s show features 76 works by 53 artists in a range of media, including oils, watercolors, gouache, acrylic, graphite, ink, colored pencil, photography, stoneware, and mixed media, the exhibit was juried in a blind process by three guest jurors Carrie Chen (Carrie Chen Gallery, […]
Free: please register. Indigenous people have lived on the land that is the United States well before colonization. Through forced removal, land loss and boarding schools, Indigenous people have survived and continue to pass down traditional knowledge. Learn about the people who loved the land you now live upon and hear that through many forms […]
All Write Columbia, now in its second year, is a four-day intensive writing conference focused on the craft and the business of writing fiction. The conference is open to all levels of fiction writers, from beginners who are just starting to write short stories to more advanced writers with a novel manuscript. Open to writers […]
“This year’s Members’ Show is outstanding in so many ways. The artists present an amazing array of media that will keep the audience on their toes,” says Norma Cohen, chair of the Spencertown Academy Curatorial Committee. “Themes offered are light and joyful, as well as serious and moody. And the various uses of color can […]
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 […]
Roots & Shoots Concerts Series presents “Blues Women of the Capital Region ll in association with the Capital Region Blues Network (CRBN), featuring Gina Coleman, Leslie Barkman, and Robin O'Herin. Gina Coleman is the leader, singer, and founder of Misty Blues—a Berkshire County, Massachusetts-based band that plays original and traditional blues with hints of jazz, […]