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This powerful documentary tells the story of Heinz Geiringer’s hidden artwork and his sister Eva’s vow to recover it—revealing a legacy overshadowed by the better-known story of Anne Frank, who posthumously became Eva’s stepsister.

Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death by Susana Monso

Come and discuss themes of ecology and humanity’s relationship with nature with other book and nature lovers in our reading and hiking club! Each month we will go on a leisurely hike with stopping points for book discussion. Some months will have guest lecturers.

Registration is encouraged.

Mark St. Germain’s play is filled with the humor, honesty, and life-affirming spirit of Karola Ruth Siegel, the girl who became “Dr. Ruth,” America’s most famous sex therapist.
Everyone knows Dr. Ruth Westheimer from her career as a pioneering radio and television sex therapist. Few, however, know the incredible journey that preceded it. From fleeing the Nazis in the Kindertransport and joining the Haganah in Jerusalem as a sniper, to her struggle to succeed as a single mother newly-arrived in America, her’s is a stunning tale of becoming Dr. Ruth.

“An illuminating portrait…her story is certainly a stirring one.” - NY Times

90 min | Written by Mark St. Germain | Directed by Stephen Nachamie

On a train to Auschwitz, 17-year-old Heinz Geiringer told his sister Eva that he hid the paintings and poetry he had created beneath the floorboards of their attic hiding place. Heinz made Eva promise that if he should die in the camps, she would retrieve the artwork. Today, his story lives in the shadow of the Diary of Anne Frank—and in a twist of fate, Eva became Anne’s posthumous stepsister when after the war her mother married Anne’s father. While the world knows Anne’s story, this film introduces Heinz, his artistry, and his sister’s efforts to find and share his remarkable legacy.

Documentary, 2022, run time 60 minutes

Steve McCarthy is an Emmy Award–winning TV news producer and documentary filmmaker. A former staff producer for 60 Minutes, Dateline, and CNN, he founded McCarthy Productions in 2001, producing work for major networks, including PBS, BBC America, and HBO. His films include Finding Paddy (2006), The One That Got Away (2016, PBS), Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (2019, HBO, Emmy winner), and Life with Layla (2019), about a family affected by the opioid crisis. McCarthy teaches documentary film and journalism at Montclair State University.

As Albany Pro Musica celebrates its 45th year of inspired choral singing, we present Hear my Heart Sing, an intimate program of works that delight in the power of the human voice and capture our shared human experience. With music by Rutter, Hughes, Whitacre, Fauré, Hagenberg, and others.

As Albany Pro Musica celebrates its 45th year of inspired choral singing, we present Hear My Heart Sing, an intimate program of works that delight in the power of the human voice and capture our shared human experience. With music by Rutter, Whitacre, Fauré, Hagenberg, and others.

We welcome back the stellar brass ensemble of principal players from London’s top orchestras to open our Schenectady season with a program highlighting the profound connection between French Impressionism and George Gershwin.

Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
Debussy: Préludes (selections)
Gershwin: Three Piano Preludes
Joplin: Treemonisha Suite
Gershwin: An American in Paris

Crescendo's award-winning Andean Instrumentalists Carlos Boltes, charango and viola, and Gonzalo Cortés, quena, zampoña, and flute, are joined by Artistic Director Christine Gevert, virginal and percussion, in a unique chamber music concert of Latin American Music. Explore South America’s music through a blend of indigenous, European, and African musical elements. The ensemble presents transcriptions and arrangements of early compositions and folk themes, alongside contemporary fusion pieces by composers and artists such as Manuel de Zumaya, Antonio Sarrier, Illapu, Los Kjarkas, and others. More information at: crescendomusic.org

250 years ago, eight Shakers fled England, bound for New York in hopes of finding religious freedom. Named for their trembling “religious ecstasies,” the Shakers received gifts of revelation; communications from the spirit world. Led by a woman whom they called, “Mother Ann”, they were subject to bloody persecution. Shakers were beaten, imprisoned, abducted, and chased out of town on both sides of the Atlantic. Undeterred, they persevered to build their vision of Heaven-on-Earth right here, in Albany. We invite you to join us as we pull back the veil separating this world from the next at America’s First Shaker Settlement.

Tours are on Oct. 15, 16, 17, 24, & 25 at 5:30pm.

*This ghost tour touches on sensitive topics including sickness, mental illness, suicide, physical abuse, religious persecution, and death, both of children and of adults. If these topics hit too close to home, we hope that you will take good care and join us for a regular tour another time

Humanist A.W. Bartczak will compare and contrast the actions of President Donald Trump, General Secretary Xi Jinping of China, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un of North Korea, Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary and President Vladimir Putin of Russia. The hybrid meeting will take place on Sunday, October 19, 2025 at 6pm in the New Paltz Community Center on 3 Veterans Way in New Paltz. This meeting is free and open to the public. All are welcome. Any changes in date (weather problem) or time will be on MeetUp. For more information, email auer1@att.net .