Community Calendar

Time is the framework for my drawing and painting practice. In working with the figure, I seek to capture both a moment and the internal landscape of the sitter. Daily drawing sessions function as a meditation—repetition that sharpens vision, timing, and the choices I make with color, line, positive and negative space, and other principles of art-making.

Between looking and seeing, there is a fleeting gap: a split second where an image imprints itself on my mind before I translate it to canvas. This gap, described in Buddhism as a place of stillness and equilibrium, is central to my work. It is a space beyond words or thought—just presence.

Roses are also a recurring motif in my practice. For me, they serve as a metaphor for the human spirit. Through the use of multiple roses and mirrors, I explore light, reflection, and metaphor, creating spaces that attempt to hold and extend a moment.

Ultimately, my work is an inquiry into memory, perception, and the impossibility of holding on. To capture the fleeting is like trying to grasp smoke before it disappears into a black hole.

Opening Reception: Sept 20 - Oct 25, 2025
No On-Site Parking

Time is the framework for my drawing and painting practice. In working with the figure, I seek to capture both a moment and the internal landscape of the sitter. Daily drawing sessions function as a meditation—repetition that sharpens vision, timing, and the choices I make with color, line, positive and negative space, and other principles of art-making.

Between looking and seeing, there is a fleeting gap: a split second where an image imprints itself on my mind before I translate it to canvas. This gap, described in Buddhism as a place of stillness and equilibrium, is central to my work. It is a space beyond words or thought—just presence.

Roses are also a recurring motif in my practice. For me, they serve as a metaphor for the human spirit. Through the use of multiple roses and mirrors, I explore light, reflection, and metaphor, creating spaces that attempt to hold and extend a moment.

Ultimately, my work is an inquiry into memory, perception, and the impossibility of holding on. To capture the fleeting is like trying to grasp smoke before it disappears into a black hole.

Opening Reception: Sept 20 - Oct 25, 2025
No On-Site Parking

$25 a drop-in, $80 ($20 a class) for a 4 session punch card, Venmo, CC, check or cash.

Figure Drawing Long pose Open Studio Sessions for experienced adult artists with a live model in a supportive atmosphere. No instructor. Bring your own art supplies/drawing boards. There are a few easels and we also have tables and chairs. Poses for three 1 hour or one 3 hour. Limited to 15 people per session.

For more information, call or email us!

For updates on scheduling and closures, check out our website or social media.

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

Mendings of Time, a dynamic percussion duo formed by Jeff Tripoli and Sam Fishman, will be performing live at the Bridge Street Theatre on Saturday, October 17, 2025. Their debut release, “Wilburland Sessions” is a beautiful blend of improvisation, meditation, and minimalism—designed to transport listeners to a higher plane of existence through the power of rhythm and sound.

The connection between Jeff and Sam was nothing short of destiny, and together, they create a performance that is both transcendent and deeply immersive. The duo’s unique ability to blend deep listening and transformative percussion offers an unforgettable experience that your patrons will not want to miss!

Next up in the Berkshire Nature Talk Series:

Professor Brian Donahue presents a radical approach to healing the relationship between humans and forests through responsible, sustainable use of our local Berkshire woodlands.

Drawing from his acclaimed book Slow Wood and his personal experience building a timber frame home using trees from his own land, Professor Donahue will explore how we can address the modern housing crisis while protecting our region's diverse forests. Rather than relying on lumber from global extraction systems, he advocates for “worst first” forestry—a sustainable practice that allows us to have both healthy forests and the wood we need for building.

About the Speaker: Brian Donahue is professor emeritus of American Environmental Studies at Brandeis University, a farmer, historian, and conservationist, and author of prize-winning books about New England farms and forests.

Next up in the Berkshire Nature Talk Series:

Professor Brian Donahue presents a radical approach to healing the relationship between humans and forests through responsible, sustainable use of our local Berkshire woodlands.

Drawing from his acclaimed book Slow Wood and his personal experience building a timber frame home using trees from his own land, Professor Donahue will explore how we can address the modern housing crisis while protecting our region's diverse forests. Rather than relying on lumber from global extraction systems, he advocates for “worst first” forestry—a sustainable practice that allows us to have both healthy forests and the wood we need for building.

About the Speaker: Brian Donahue is professor emeritus of American Environmental Studies at Brandeis University, a farmer, historian, and conservationist, and author of prize-winning books about New England farms and forests.

The Mushroom Cure is the true story of how comedian Adam Strauss treated his debilitating OCD with psychedelics. The New York Times praised it for “mining a great deal of laughter from disabling pain.” The Chicago Tribune called it “arrestingly honest and howlingly funny.” Michael Pollan described it as “brilliant, hilarious, and moving.” And Time Out New York named it a Critics’ Pick, calling it “a true-life tour de force.”

About Adam Strauss:
Adam Strauss’s work has been called many things—mostly adjectives. He won the New York Fringe Festival’s Overall Excellence Award for Solo Performance, the Eddy Award for Best Solo Show in San Francisco, and the Leffe Beer Craft Your Character Storytelling Competition. He’s lost too many things to list here. Strauss performs nightly at many of New York City’s best comedy clubs—and most of its worst ones.

Bridge Street Theatre presents the U.S. Premiere of Red Like Fruit by award-winning playwright Hannah Moscovitch, October 2–12, 2025, on its “Priscilla” Mainstage in Catskill. Moscovitch, hailed as “the dark angel of Canadian theatre,” has earned international acclaim for her fearless works including East of Berlin and Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes. In Red Like Fruit, journalist Lauren (Elizabeth Narciso) investigates a domestic violence case but soon finds herself reckoning with her own long-suppressed past. Her narrative is voiced by an actor (Johnny Travers), forcing audiences to question whose stories are told and whose are silenced. Winner of a “Fringe First” Award at the Edinburgh Festival, the play is directed by Margo Whitcomb, who previously helmed BST’s Berkie Award-winning East of Berlin. Bold, intimate, and uncompromising, Red Like Fruit offers Hudson Valley audiences a chance to encounter one of today’s most daring playwrights up close. Tickets: bridgest.org/red-like-fruit.

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