Walkway Talks Lecture Series: Where The Waters Are Never Still
Walkway Over the Hudson Ulster Welcome Center 87 Haviland Road, Highland, NYJoin Eddie Moran and Lindsay Dalton of Historic Huguenot Street for “Where the Waters are Never Still”, a presentation on the relationship between people and local rivers in the late 17th century. Attendees will learn how Native people, European settlers, and enslaved and free Africans interacted with the Hudson River and its estuaries in the …
Italian Movie Night at Gallery 40
Gallery 40 40 Cannon Street, Poughkeepsie, NYIl Gattopardo (1963) In the 1860s, a dying aristocracy struggles to maintain itself against a harsh Sicilian landscape. The film traces with a slow and deliberate rhythm the waning of the noble home of Fabrizio Corbero, Prince of Salina (the Leopard) and the corresponding rise to eminence of the enormously wealthy ex-peasant Don Calogero Sedara. …
Town of Poughkeepsie Town Board Workshop Meeting
Town of Poughkeepsie Town Hall 1 Overocker Road, Poughkeepsie, NYTOWN OF POUGHKEEPSIE WORKSHOP MEETING SEPTEMBER 11, 2024 A public workshop meeting of the Town of Poughkeepsie Town Board, will be held on Wednesday September 11, 2024 at 7:00 PM, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard. Zoom information found below. https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88219166088 Via the Zoom website or application (“app”): Meeting ID: 882 …
Art Opening Receptions at Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center
Cunneen Hackett Arts Center 9 Vassar Street, Poughkeepsie, NYThe Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center will hold free public art opening receptions in its visual art galleries for Emily Marchesiello, J.J. Kathe and Carol Loizides. Emily Marchesiello, who will exhibit her work in the Victorian Gallery at 9 Vassar Street, specializes in fine point line drawing, oil painting and watercolor painting. At 12 Vassar Street, J.J. …
5th Attica Community Remembrance Day
Waryas Park Waryas Park Promenade, Poughkeepsie, NYAs we assemble, we will pay homage to the indomitable spirit of the Attica uprising, a watershed moment in the fight for justice, while simultaneously confronting the enduring injustices that afflict communities worldwide. Our gathering is not merely an act of passive remembrance but a defiant stance against the relentless grip of oppressive forces that continue to …
Rosa Clemente Can’t Stop Our Blackness: Black Latinx Narratives and Resisting Erasure
A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Community Center 43 Gill Street, KingstonRosa Alicia Clemente (born April 18, 1972) is an American community organizer, independent journalist, and hip-hop activist. She was the vice presidential running mate of Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Clemente is also one of her generation’s leading scholars on the issues of Afro/Black-Latina/Latino/Latinx identity. In 2020, she …
Estamos Aquí: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: Opening Reception
Arts Mid-Hudson 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Suite F, Poughkeepsie, New YorkThis exhibition celebrates and highlights the diversity and richness of Hispanic culture through art and illuminates the cultural contributions of Hispanic, Latinx, and Afro-Latino artists and creatives in the Hudson Valley. Exhibition Dates: Thursday, September 12th - Sunday, October 2oth Location: Arts Mid-Hudson's Gallery, 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Ste F, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 Participating Artists: Kimm …
Notes on Nature – Naturalist Book Club
Vassar Farm and Ecological PreserveTown of Poughkeepsie Planning Board Meeting
Town of Poughkeepsie Town Hall 1 Overocker Road, Poughkeepsie, NYView the agenda here
Potting Up Day at the Collins Field Station!
Vassar Farm and Ecological PreserveOur Native Plant Propagation Program needs your help upgrading some of our baby plants into bigger pot sizes! Come out to the Collins Field Station to learn more about our native plant program, and also get your hands dirty and help move up some of our larger plant babies into bigger pots! These plants are …