Community Calendar

📣 Attention alt milk & Matcha lovers! MALK is teaming up with Cha Cha Matcha to bring their latest innovation, coconut-based creamers, to life with a Banana Cream Iced Matcha Latte! 🍵 🍌 🪩

🍌 From April 2 - 5, experience a custom Banana Cream Iced Matcha Latte featuring MALK’s new and already beloved Coconut Creamer, curated giveaways, surprises and more!

⏰ DAILY HOURS ⏰
Thursday: 7 AM–6 PM
Friday: 7 AM–6 PM
Saturday: 8 AM–6 PM
Sunday: 8 AM–6 PM

Leadership, Discovery and Global Impact: A Community Conversation

University at Albany President Havidán Rodríguez invites you to a special community conversation with Dr. Omar M. Yaghi '85, recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

The conversation will feature Dr. Yaghi, President Rodríguez and Dr. Michael Brophy, president of Hudson Valley Community College. The event will conclude with an audience Q&A session.

Join us for a film screening followed by a conversation with exhibiting artist Noel W Anderson and a collective of Youth FX filmmakers as they discuss their collaborative new film IYKYK (2026) premiering at the University Art Museum. Breaking boundaries in documentary filmmaking, the experimental work includes archival footage remixed with original scripted scenes filmed in the UAM during the exhibition Noel W Anderson: Black Excellence.

Youth FX worked with Anderson for two semesters, leaning into an emergent, trust-based, creative process to explore new cinematic language. The film reflects their personal and shared experiences, reimagining how cinema and visual art can coexist as tools for expression, resistance, and transformation.

Noel W Anderson is an internationally recognized artist whose media include Jacquard tapestries, printmaking, and video. Based in Albany’s South End, Youth FX provides film and digital media opportunities for young people ages 10-25 from across the capital region and around the world.

Free parking will be available during the event in the State Quad Student Parking lot.

The Fourth Annual Robert J. Doherty Memorial Lecture with

Douglas A. Blackmon:

What Comes Next?

Redefining Police Power, Restoring Personal Freedom, Rebuilding Faith in American Democracy

Presented by the Justice Center of Rensselaer County

Thursday, April 2, 2026

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

30 Second Street, Troy, NY

Our speaker is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Slavery by Another Name, an acclaimed filmmaker, scholar, and former Wall Street Journal senior national correspondent.

The Topic

“WHAT COMES NEXT? Redefining Police Power, Restoring Personal Freedom, Rebuilding Faith in American Democracy”

Our society has dramatically reshaped and repaired itself four times in history: after the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Depression, and the Civil Rights Era of the 1960s. In each era, we transformed the role of law enforcement. Now we stand at the threshold of the Next American Reconstruction – and Douglas A. Blackmon will help us understand what comes next.

Admission is FREE– please RSVP today so we can plan for you!

📣 Attention alt milk & Matcha lovers! MALK is teaming up with Cha Cha Matcha to bring their latest innovation, coconut-based creamers, to life with a Banana Cream Iced Matcha Latte! 🍵 🍌 🪩

🍌 From April 2 - 5, experience a custom Banana Cream Iced Matcha Latte featuring MALK’s new and already beloved Coconut Creamer, curated giveaways, surprises and more!

⏰ DAILY HOURS ⏰
Thursday: 7 AM–6 PM
Friday: 7 AM–6 PM
Saturday: 8 AM–6 PM
Sunday: 8 AM–6 PM

We're collecting personal care items through April 9th to support families in need served by The Institute for Family Health. If you're able to contribute, we'd be so grateful for your help!

We’re accepting new, unopened items, including:
*Menstrual products
*Toothbrushes, toothpaste, and floss
*Diapers and baby wipes
*Deodorant
*Soap and body wash
*Shampoo and conditioner
*Hand and body lotion
*Hair brushes
*Shaving cream and razors
*Socks (all sizes)
*Shower shoes

Make drop-offs at our Kingston office!
721 Broadway, Suite 150
Kingston, NY 12401
Open: Mon-Fri, 9 AM - 5 PM

Material Shift showcases work by 13 Haudenosaunee artists who employ found objects and other unconventional materials to create or illustrate traditional cultural objects or concepts and those who, conversely, explore traditional materials in unexpected ways. Works range from playful to provocative. These events are made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute of Museum & Library Services, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and friends and members of the Iroquois Museum. For more information contact: info@iroquoismuseum.org

Step back into the vibrant world of the 1920s and 1930s with Jazz Age Illustration, a major exhibition exploring the art of popular illustration during this transformative era. Featuring over 100 works by renowned artists such as Aaron Douglas, John Held Jr., and Frank E. Schoonover, the exhibition delves into the cultural impact of illustration during a time of dramatic social change.

Organized by the Delaware Art Museum, Jazz Age Illustration is the first major exhibition to survey the art of popular illustration in the United States between 1919 and 1942—a vibrant and transformative era of innovation, evolving styles, social change, and expanding popular media.

School’s out and not sure what to do with the kids? Bring them to Shaker Heritage Society for this FREE Museum activity. Move and Shake in this 45 minute class. Taught by Rachelle Smith-Stallman.
Inspired by the joyful rhythm of the Shakers, kids jump in, shake it out, and explore funky movement—growing confidence, creativity, and community.

March 17 - April 18 Plastique
An exhibition of artists from Project Vortex, an international collective of artists, designers, and architects actively focusing on the global problem of plastic pollution, curated by Aurora Robson. Free and open to the public.