Community Calendar

Please join the staff, volunteers, and the Schoharie County Animal Shelter to celebrate our Museum Cat’s 15th birthday. It’s a party you won’t want to miss with children’s activities, adoptable kittens, raffles, and homemade birthday cupcakes. Watch for the Museum’s GoFundMe campaign to benefit the Museum and the Animal Shelter. Admission to the Museum will be free for this event.

Trash Chic!, at The Sketchbook Gallery, is a celebration of creativity that transforms the often discarded, overlooked, and thrown away. This diverse group of artists challenge the ideas of value, beauty, and permanence while highlighting the potential within what we throw away. We invite viewers to reconsider what “trash”is and discover how imagination can turn trash into something striking, meaningful, and new.

This exhibition is in conjunction with Matter Out of Place at Jane St. Art.

This exhibition brings together six invited artists who work with found objects, transforming overlooked materials into works of new meaning and possibility. Through the process of reimagining, these artists advocate for environmental concerns, drawing attention to using discarded materials while approaching their own creative practices with intentionality and care.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with Trash Chic! at The Sketchbook Gallery.

“Bite the Bullet,” Washington’s Headquarters’ Program on Revolutionary era medicine, is designed to acquaint audiences with the state of medical knowledge and some of the practices of medicine in the time of George Washington. Physicians were frequently confounded by the causes of illness, treated symptoms, and relied heavily on the healing powers of nature. Many remedies stocked by apothecaries were herbal in nature, and the best doctors of the time still healed with herbs. In 1775, the US had 3,500 doctors, but only 300 had medical degrees. The profession of physician / surgeon was open only to men, but the system relied heavily on women who could be and were midwives. The lecture quotes from the diary of traveling midwife, Martha Ballard, of northern Massachusetts who kept a record of her work as a healer and a midwife, which provides an unparalleled window into practical medicine in the quarter century straddling 1800.

Celebrate the opening of Vulnerable Earth at an Artist Reception on Saturday, April 25 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, 11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT. Curated by Greg Lock, the exhibition brings together video, photographic, and digital media by artists who have participated in The Arctic Circle, reflecting on the rapidly changing Arctic landscape and the broader ecological questions surrounding climate change. The reception offers an opportunity to view the exhibition and engage with its themes of environmental transformation, observation, and responsibility.

A thrift-store painting. A possible masterpiece. A battle over who gets to decide what’s real.

Bridge Street Theatre opens its 2026 MainStage Season with "Bakersfield Mist" by Stephen Sachs, directed by Mark Perry.

When Maude, an unemployed bartender, believes she’s discovered a long-lost Jackson Pollock, a New York art expert arrives to prove her wrong. What follows is a sharp, funny, and increasingly personal battle over art, authority, and who gets to decide what something is worth.

As the stakes rise, the question shifts from the painting itself to something deeper: who gets believed — and why.

April 16–26, 2026. Thursdays–Saturdays at 7:00pm, Sundays at 2:00pm.
Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. Tickets at BridgeSt.org.

Bridge Street Theatre is a professional theatre in Catskill, NY, creating bold, intimate live performance in the Hudson Valley.

The Misa a Buenos Aires (Misatango) is a groundbreaking work by Argentine composer Martín Palmeri that blends the dramatic rhythm of tango with the powerful expression of choral music. It is a setting of the mass in Latin, and the music uses the style of the nuevo tango, following the model of Astor Piazzolla, and includes elements from the history of church music, such as extended fugues in the opening and closing movements. In similar style is Palmeri’s Jüdische Kantate, composed in 2022: variations on Yiddish and Hebrew songs on texts from the Old Testament in the original language and in Latin.
Crescendo Chorus; soprano Nadia Aguilar; Rodolfo Marcelo Zanetti, bandoneón; and an instrumental ensemble with clarinet, piano, and strings, directed by Martín Palmeri and Christine Gevert.

Berkshires Jazz is hosting the twentieth annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, which runs from April 17-25 in venues throughout the City’s Upstreet Cultural District. Presenting the gamut of artists, from prodigies and local musicians to rising stars and top names, headline concerts feature Grace Kelly, Veronica Swift, and Georgia Heers. Most of the events are free, including an open jam session, the annual jazz crawl, and a jazz prodigy concert.

Trash Chic!, at The Sketchbook Gallery, is a celebration of creativity that transforms the often discarded, overlooked, and thrown away. This diverse group of artists challenge the ideas of value, beauty, and permanence while highlighting the potential within what we throw away. We invite viewers to reconsider what “trash”is and discover how imagination can turn trash into something striking, meaningful, and new.

This exhibition is in conjunction with Matter Out of Place at Jane St. Art.

This exhibition brings together six invited artists who work with found objects, transforming overlooked materials into works of new meaning and possibility. Through the process of reimagining, these artists advocate for environmental concerns, drawing attention to using discarded materials while approaching their own creative practices with intentionality and care.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with Trash Chic! at The Sketchbook Gallery.