Autumn Stroll at the Environmental Cooperative & the Preserve

Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve

The walk will begin and end at the Environmental Cooperative barn on the Preserve at Vassar, located at 50 Vassar Farm Lane, Poughkeepsie, NY, 12603. Parking is available free-of-charge in the new lot at the front of the Preserve. The barn is a short walk along the paved road that runs next to the ponds

Free

Free Black Communities Along the Hudson

Adriance Memorial Library 93 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY

Attendees will examine the stages of securing freedom, defending it against constant incursion, and ultimately the flourishing of individual persons and dreams along Americaā€™s river of dreams. Presented by Bill Jeffway, Executive Director of the Dutchess County Historical Society.  

Free

First Friday at The Trolley Barn – exhibition tours

Poughkeepsie Trolley Barn 489 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY

The Trolley Barn Gallery offers guided group tours on the First Friday in November. Poughkeepsieā€™s First Friday is a city-wide celebration held monthly from 5:30ā€“8:30pm, when shops, galleries, and community spaces stay open late to engage with communities that may not have access during usual business hours. Groups can sign up ahead of time or

Free

Art Opening Receptions at Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center for Arlene Seymour, Lijah Friedman and Rachel Williams

Cunneen Hackett Arts Center 9 Vassar Street, Poughkeepsie, NY

Visit the Victorian Gallery of the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center at 9 Vassar Street for an art opening reception for Arlene Seymour, whose expressive semi-abstract watercolor, gouache, ink and acrylic pieces are based on her inner imagination and photographs of colorful landscapes and figures. Visit the Reception Gallery of the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center at 12 Vassar

Inner Beauty Wellness Panel

Trolley Barn Gallery 489 Main St, POUGHKEEPSIE, NY

As part of the quiet as itā€™s kept exhibition and as a method of sharing knowledge with our community, the Trolley Barn Gallery youth curators host a panel of local wellness organizations to speak on movement, food literacy, language justice, and mental wellness.

Free

Italian Movie Night at Gallery 40

Gallery 40 40 Cannon Street, Poughkeepsie, NY

Buongiorno, notteĀ (Good Morning, Night) is an Italian film released in 2003 and directed by Marco Bellocchio. The title of the feature film, Good Morning, Night, is taken from a poem by Emily Dickinson. The movie relates to an important fact in the modern Italian history: the 1978 kidnapping of Aldo Moro former prime minister of