Apr 27 Saturday
The McNulty Veteran Business Center, the area’s preeminent Veteran entrepreneurship resource is partnering with the Rensselaer County Veterans Resource & Outreach Center at HVCC, Albany County, and Schenectady County Veterans Peer to Peer Program to offer the Veterans’ Service2Success Resource and Job Fair.
Veterans' Service2Success provides FREE access to entrepreneurship, employment, education and benefits information for veterans and their families. Veteran services providers, employers, academic institutions, and public/private entities will exhibit for this day-long event. Featured will be informational sessions for entrepreneurial resources, Veterans’ benefits assistance, a job fair, and networking opportunities with dozens of exhibitors, and includes lunch.
The Elder & Disability Law Pro Bono Society at Albany Law School presents Senior Citizens Law Day, to take place on Saturday, April 27, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. This is a free event for seniors, soon-to-be-seniors, their loved ones, and caregivers. Participants can attend workshops on pressing legal, financial, and health issues facing older adults; schedule an appointment for a free one-on-one consultation with an attorney on Elder Law and Estate Planning issues; and hear from local advocates and attorneys.
Doors open at 8:30 a.m. Free parking will be available on campus.
Please register at https://alumni.albanylaw.edu/scld For assistance with registration, please call the Edward P. Swyer Justice Center at 518-445-2328.
We need you to help us plant the next generation of large-growing shade trees in Saratoga Springs! We are adding a number of large-growing shade trees to the urban forest on April 27.
Here’s how you can support our efforts:
VOLUNTEER to PLANT a tree with us on Saturday, April 27 (a family-friendly activity)
VOLUNTEER to SET UP and help with registration check-in on the day of the event
VOLUNTEER to WATER TREES during the summerDONATE to support our work
HOST A TREE — Request one for your property (taking requests for our 2024 planting)
Volunteer today and give a gift to the next generation!
Volunteer at https://sustainablesaratoga.org/tree-toga/Questions? Email trees@sustainablesaratoga.org
Dates: Dec. 2, 2023, through May 11, 2024. Free and open to the public during library regular hours.
Opening Reception: Friday, Dec. 1, at 6-7:30 pm. View the pieces in “Extra/Ordinary” along with the new installation by Victoria van der Laan. The evening includes light refreshments and music by the Albany High School Jazz Band. Free and open to the public.
Location: Pine Hills Branch of Albany Public Library, 517 Western Ave., Albany
Artists: Cyndy Barbone, John DeSousa, Kathy Greenwood, Lori Lawrence, Joy Muller-McCoola, Mark Olshansky, Jess Stapf, Barbara Todd
Special Installation Artist: Victoria van der Laan
November 18, 2023 to May 27, 2024
Between Worlds: The Art and Design of Leo Lionni is the first major American retrospective dedicated to the art and design work of groundbreaking modernist designer and children’s book illustrator Leo Lionni (1910-1999). “Design is form,” the artist said, “Sometimes it is decorative form, and has no other function that to give pleasure to the eye. Often it is expressive form, related to conceptual content, to meaning. It is always abstract; but like a gesture or a a tone of voice it has the power to command and hold attention, to create symbols, to clarify ideas.” Together with Chief Curator Stephanie Haboush Plunkett, the exhibition is co-curated by author and children’s book historian Leonard Marcus and illustration and design historian Steven Heller. The Museum is also working closely with Annie Lionni, the artist’s granddaughter.
https://www.nrm.org/2021/10/lionni/
Join us for our annual Spring Used Book Sale.
Friday April 26 - Saturday April 27: 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Sunday April 28: 12:00 - 3:00 pm. Sunday only:Fill a bag for $1.00 with selected books
Books available: cookbooks, children’s picture and chapter books, adult and young adult fiction, adult large print, nature, science, health, gardening, biographies, history, spiritual DVDs and CDs, pets, art, crafts, travel, premium coffee table books, and much more!
*Note: Saturday 4/27 Arkellebration 12:00pm - 5:00 pm with free Arkell Museum admission, games, art making and more.
For questions, please call 518-673-2314 ext. 106 or email info@arkellmuseum.org
Free - Thurman Maple Days will be held 10am-4pm March 9-10, 16-17 & 23-24 at several sites within a small radius in the small town of Thurman, just minutes from downtown Lake George. Maple Days showcases some of Warren County’s largest maple operations, along with a “sapling” new operation that sprouts new growth each year. These maple farms initiate visitors from near and far to the Adirondacks heritage art of turning sap into outstanding maple confections, from the traditional pancake syrup and maple sugar candies to newer delicacies like maple cotton candy, maple glazed nuts, cinnamon infused and bourbon maple syrups and much more.
Visitors can self-guide with a passport and map to all 5 maple farms as well as to open houses to 4 neighboring farms. Visit the producer of internationally-awarded goat and sheep cheese, a certified tree farm that offers an artisan market with ongoing interactive demonstration and a 3rd farm that produces organic foods. Guests may experience wagon rides to the sugar bush, see traditional sap collection contrasted with technologically advanced procedures for reducing sap into syrup in the most-efficient way. Talk to the farm hosts about the passion that drives them to pursue their age-old arts. Each farm offers shopping so guests can take home some of the products made.
More information: Contact Robin Mahler (518)683-1508 or mudstmaple269@gmail.com. This event is made possible, in part, by Warren County occupancy tax dollars grated by the Town of Thurman.
Participating Farms: Toad Hill Maple, Valley Road Maple, Hidden Hollow Maple, Mud St. Maple, Candy Mountain, Martin’s Lumber and Artisans, Nettle Meadow Farm, TEF Braids, Maple Craft Show at Thurman Town Hall.
This event is made possible, in part, by Warren County occupancy tax dollars grated by the Town of Thurman. For more information and directory visit www.VisitThurman.com
Explore the captivating worlds of mystery and wonder in this exhibition featuring highlights from the Norman Rockwell Museum’s Permanent Collection, which now holds almost 25,000 illustrations by prominent artists working across genres and time periods.
Specific selections include Teresa Fasolino’s colorful, clue-filled mystery novel cover illustrations; Thomas Woodruff’s ethereal book jacket art for best-selling novels by Anne Tyler and Gabriel García Márquez; lighthearted visual puns for Stewart Edelstein’s Dubious Doublets by James Grashow; luminous watercolors for The Wizard of Oz and other stories by Thea Kliros; steamy pulp illustrations by Everett Raymond Kinstler and Mort Kunstler; mystical three-dimensional illustrations for books and magazines by Joan Hall; fictional American histories by Julian Allen; a fun and engaging Rockwell Who-Dun-It; and a brand new Rockwell acquisition that offers mysteries of its own.
On March 9 from 5:00-7:00pm, join us for a Members Reception for the new spring exhibition, Mystery and Wonder: Highlights from the Illustration Collection. Enjoy light refreshments, meet some of the artists featured in the exhibition, and view a newly acquired Rockwell work depicting the Election of 1800.
Reception Link: https://www.nrm.org/events/members-meet-the-artists-reception-mystery-and-wonder-highlights-from-the-illustration-collection/
RSVP: https://tickets.nrm.org/
Ready, set, BLOOM! Historic Huguenot Street is hosting a day full of flowers and fun on Saturday, April 27th. Kids can learn all about Dutch tulip-mania, make floral crafts, and learn how they can help local pollinators. There will be snacks, face-painting, and even more fun surprises, so come get your Spring on!
This is not a drop-off event; parents must stay with their children. Rain date is Sunday, April 28th.
The Tremaine Art Gallery at The Hotchkiss School at 11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville CT is pleased to present Dialogue: Art in Conversation, featuring works by Valerie Hammond and Nathaniel (Tate) Klacsmann, from April 2 through June 2, 2024, with an opening reception on Saturday, April 6 from 4 to 6 p.m. This exhibition explores the creative processes of two artists whose work reverberates around questions of social inequity, magic, myth, and the environment. Together, their pieces begin a conversation filled with reflective echoes, offering opportunity for intersection around creativity and process. Curated by Joan Baldwin and Terri Moore, Dialogue also includes video and photography by Colleen Macmillan, Ann Villano, and Hotchkiss film students. The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.