Community Calendar

Live Music by: TV Doctors BOTH DAYS 1pm-2pm AND 3pm-4pm
Indian Ladder Farms Cidery and Brewery OysterFEST
Saturday, October 24, 2026
12:00 pm to 5:00 pm
AND
Sunday, October, 25, 2026
12:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Indian Ladder Farms Cidery and Brewery OysterFEST
342 Altamont Avenue
Altamont, New York
FREE Admission
The Tall Mutha Shucka will be back at Indian Ladder Farms Cidery and Brewery on October 24 & 25 for OysterFEST!
What to expect: freshly shucked blue point oysters, specialty beverages, local vendors, wood-fired pizza by DeFazio's Pizzeria and more! The best part, admission is freeeeee!
TV Doctors (featuring: Evan Conway, Bob Morris, Josh Witmer) will be playing their music BOTH DAYS Saturday and Sunday from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm AND 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
“TV Doctors are an experimental instrumental trio from Upstate NY. Comprised of veteran musicians who’ve worked for years in the Capital District and beyond, they came together to form a new group dedicated to leaving convention behind and exploring new improvisational spaces. Veering between psychedelic rock, funk, soul, surf, jazz, prog, ambient, electronica, and film/tv music, the trio is on a mission to create new and exciting sounds and engage adventurous listeners.”
Specialty beers and cider brewed for this event:
TALL MUTHA SHUCKA
Oyster Stout at 6.6% ABV
Collaboration with the “Tall Mutha Shucka” aka Keenan Boyle who is an oyster farmer on Long Island. We used 6.5kgs of fresh oysters from Maris Stella Blue Points in this chocolaty earthy stout. Made with Pale, Munich & German dark malts. Hopped with our Centennial & Crystal hops & NYS Oysters.
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GOLDEN MOLLUSK
Mollusk IPA at 7.6% ABV
IPA made with Oyster shells from North Fork Oyster Co and hopped with Citra & Anchovy.
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COAST
Tart Cider at 7.2% ABV
A tart hard cider made with lemon zest, thyme and a hint of sea salt. The lemon aroma and light mineral character from the sea salt bring you right to the ocean. It pairs perfectly with oysters and seafood.
Are you ready for a shuckin' good time?!
https://www.indianladderfarms.com/oysterfest
https://tvdoctors.bandcamp.com

Asbury Shorts International Film Concert
with Guest Host Richard Lovrich
Special Guest Filmmaker: Sarah Bachinger
Sunday, October 25, 2026
2:00 pm
GE Theatre at Proctors
432 State Street
Schenectady, New York 12305
Tickets: $20 General Admission / $15 Students
https://secure.proctorscollaborative.org/.../asbury...
Information: atproctors.org
PROCTORS in Partnership with Film Schenectady presents
ASBURY SHORTS USA
“An Afternoon of the World’s Best Short Films”
CELEBRATING THEIR 45th ANNIVERSARY
An Asbury Short Film Concert is a fun fast-paced highly entertaining line up of films from the past and present, including international festival hits from around the world.
Enjoy an afternoon of the best in short film comedy, drama, documentary and animated shorts all in one sitting without awards, panel discussions or the dreaded Q&A’s!
Asbury Shorts Special Guest Filmmaker: Sarah Bachinger
Guest Host: Richard Lovrich
$20 – General Admission
$15 – Students
No Select Seating

A unique opportunity to enjoy a special performance by Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective in partnership with Clarion Concerts. The event takes place at Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House, New York State's oldest surviving theater built in 1855, and originally served as Hudson's City Hall.

Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective is known for imaginative programs that highlight celebrated chamber works alongside music by composers heard less often. Curated especially for the ensemble’s Hudson debut with Clarion Concerts, this program features two of Robert Schumann’s most beloved works: the lyrical Adagio and Allegro for horn and piano and the exuberant Piano Quintet in E-flat major.

Also featured is Ethel Smyth’s richly textured Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano and Eleanor Alberga’s dream-inspired Shining Gate of Morpheus, bringing distinctive voices and cultures to this program spanning the Romantic tradition to present day.

You don't want to miss this!

Save the date for an event honoring the life and legacy of Richard Rifkin, a career public servant and former Legal Director of the Government Law Center at Albany Law School. The event will include remarks from former New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams. Additional information to be announced.

ON TUESDAY'S HARLEM SWINGS and HOPS!

FREE Beginner/Intermediate Lindy Hop Dance Class -1 hour. 7pm - 8pm

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A GREAT Taste and Experience of Harlem Culture! Harlem's signature cultural dance is the world famous Lindy Hop. While nearly a 100 year old dance it is still enjoyed enormously today worldwide - as far as China, Spain and even parts of Africa!

Come on and join us on Tuesday eves so you can experience and learn this exciting cultural dance art form. You'll hear some swinging jazz classics and how to do this swinging dance to some music of today too. No partner necessary, wear comfy shoes. All ages welcome!

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Schedule subject to change; donations accepted. Please check our Facebook page day of for last minute updates The Harlem Swing Dance Society | Facebook

Move with mindfulness and find balance in nature with Katherine Henderson. Offered on alternating Thursdays from May to September, Tai Chi is a gentle practice that promotes relaxation, reduces stress, and improves strength and stability. Set against the serene backdrop of LongHouse, this class welcomes all ages and experience levels to slow down, breathe deeply, and connect with the beauty around you. Also offered on Saturdays.

Join the NYS Writers Institute for a conversation with Loubna Mrie, Syrian Arab journalist and author of Defiance: A Memoir of Awakening, Rebellion, and Survival in Syria (2026), an astonishing true story of revolt and non-conformity from a young woman raised to be loyal to a brutal regime, at unimaginable cost.

As a journalist, photographer, and frequent commentator on Syrian and Middle Eastern affairs, Mrie has published in The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, The Nation, The New Arab, and elsewhere.

4:30 p.m. Thursday, October 29
University at Albany
Recital Hall, UAlbany Performing Arts Center
1400 Washington Avenue, Albany NY 12222

Free and open to the public.
Books will be available for sale. A signing will follow the conversation.

Cosponsored by the Journalism Program of the University at Albany Department of Communication.

FRI Oct. 30, 6:30 snacks, 7:00pm talks
PechaKucha Night. Sponsored by Druthers Brewing

Join Mohawk storyteller Mandy Tarbell for spine-tingling tales perfect for the Halloween season. These traditional stories will keep you on the edge of your seat, with Mandy skillfully tailoring each tale to suit the age of her audience. Included in Museum admission.

These events are made possible by 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 Museum Director Steph Shultes at info@iroquoismuseum.org.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Active and embodied, “carry” implies weight, effort, and choice, tying together the wood-panel drawings (history living inside present bodies) and Interactive Erasure (visitors physically carrying out the labor of revealing what’s underneath). The collective “we” pulls the viewer into implication rather than distance, and the title bridges past and present without needing to spell out “history” or “memory” outright — giving both bodies of work a shared through-line.

ARTIST STATEMENT
I make art for people who avoid talking about race, so they can open up and have honest, productive conversations.

Around 2020, my practice underwent a significant shift, moving from searching for meaning to investigating it. That change was shaped by the murder of George Floyd, an event that forced me to confront my own relationship to race, injustice, and silence. Since then, my work has centered on social justice, racial inequality, and the historical systems of oppression embedded in American culture. I believe America is trapped in a cycle of perpetual inequity. My work seeks to slow that cycle down, to examine and expose the structures that sustain it. Drawing has become a way of peeling back the anxiety surrounding race and exploring where honest conversation might lead.

I am currently investigating historical truths related to slavery through objects of oppression. I work on wood panels, where the natural grain functions as a surface already marked by time. Objects are drawn in pen and ink with figures layered over them in ink and coffee washes, creating a dialogue between object, figure, and surface that suggests history living inside the present bodies. These works are intentionally small in scale, creating deliberate intimacy. Each piece functions as a drawing and as a study for something larger — an ongoing investigation into acknowledgment, reflection, and what art can open that ordinary conversation cannot.

Exhibition Dates: Oct 31 - Dec 6, 2026