Community Calendar

This March, every purchase of a $2.50 reusable Community Bag at the Big Y in Torrington, CT, supports the Housatonic Valley Association!

For every bag purchased, $1 will go toward HVA’s work to protect the natural resources and environmental health of the entire region, from the Berkshires, through western CT and eastern NY, to Long Island Sound. This supports river restoration projects that protect towns from extensive flooding, habitat protection for wildlife, and paid internship opportunities for the next generation of environmentalists.

Thank you for your support! Learn more at hvatoday.org.

Continuing our celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Ars Choralis will present A Tapestry of Cultures honoring the diversity of the American experience with music by composers from many of the same lands as those who fought for and supported the American cause.

Improvising Quartet with Keith Pray-Saxophones/John Esposito-piano/Otto Gardner-bass/Bobby Previte-drums

Upstairs at Avalon.

Pay what you wish

In person at the Yiddish Book Center | Sunday, March 22, 2026, 7 p.m. ET

One of the most unusual and artistic films in American indie history, The Man Without a World is credited to Soviet director Yevgeny Antinov . . . but that is far from the whole truth. Antinov is a persona created by contemporary filmmaker Eleanor Antin, a renowned artist, author, and performer. The film is a quirky, comic portrait of a Polish shtetl whose residents must survive both crushing poverty and their own internal political, cultural, and religious divisions. An amazing cast and crew includes Pier Marton, Christine Berry, Anna Henriques, Marcia Goodman, Don Sommese, and more.

Restoration funding was provided by the Sunrise Foundation for Education and the Arts, and a new score was composed and recorded by Alicia Svigals (violin) and Donald Sosin (piano).

Sosin and Svigals will perform live with the film. Since 2018 they have been delighting audiences throughout the United States and Europe with their stirring violin and piano scores for Jewish-themed silent films.
Silent Film, 98 minutes, English Intertitles, 1991

Sosin is one of the world’s top silent film musicians, and Svigals is the world’s leading klezmer violinist and a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics.

This March, every purchase of a $2.50 reusable Community Bag at the Big Y in Torrington, CT, supports the Housatonic Valley Association!

For every bag purchased, $1 will go toward HVA’s work to protect the natural resources and environmental health of the entire region, from the Berkshires, through western CT and eastern NY, to Long Island Sound. This supports river restoration projects that protect towns from extensive flooding, habitat protection for wildlife, and paid internship opportunities for the next generation of environmentalists.

Thank you for your support! Learn more at hvatoday.org.

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

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.

Walk With Us is a community action calling attention to transportation inequities impacting youth in the Capital Region. Students living within 1.5 miles of school are denied bus access, forcing many to walk regardless of weather, safety concerns, or after-school commitments, while fare enforcement continues to disproportionately impact working-class riders. Hosted by We Are Revolutionary and the Capital Region Fare-Free Transit Coalition, this walk demands fare-free transit across the Capital District. Transportation is access to education, employment, safety, and opportunity—because freedom requires mobility.

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.

Smith College banjo instructor Max Wareham, who tours nationally with Grammy-winning bluegrass musician Peter Rowan, traces the history of the banjo in America through the use of period-correct instruments.