Community Calendar

Innovation is a significant part of RPI's storied past. The William F. Glaser ’53 Rensselaer Entrepreneur of the Year Award recognizes successful entrepreneurs whose vision, commitment, and creativity embody the entrepreneurial spirit that is the past, present, and future of RPI. This year, the winners of the award are Eben Bayer ’07 and Gavin McIntyre ’07, founders of Troy-based Ecovative. Join us for an awards ceremony, fireside chat with President Schmidt, and an RPI startup pitch competition.

Saturday, November 22

1 – 3 pm

Join us for a fun afternoon of raffles to win beautifully arranged and wrapped baskets and gifts!

Purchase tickets and put them towards the basket that catches your eye. Whether you’re looking for a gift or something for yourself, there’s something here for you!

Tricky Tray baskets on display November 1 – 22, 2025.

Raffle tickets – available at the gallery – are 1 for $5, 3 for $10 or 15 for $20.

Winning tickets will be drawn November 22nd starting at 2:30pm.

Bon chance!

Proceeds from this fundraising event helps support Wallkill River Center for the Arts’ free community programs.

Join Rosanne Hargrave soprano and Michael Clement piano in a journey to Belong with music of the incomparable Maestro Leonard Bernstein! Includes highlights from West Side Story, Peter Pan, Mass, Candide, On the Town, Wonderful Town and Broadway for Peace.

Admission: $5 at door/ Friends of Pruyn House : Free
Reservations suggested: 518-783-1435 or pruynhouse@colonie.org
Join us for refreshments following the concert!

The Vermont Circus Festival brings people together to celebrate the joy of circus through workshops, performances, and community events. Highlights include guest company Parallel Exit's new show from New York City, Alumni Cabaret and Beta Night open stage, 60+ workshops for recreational through advanced students of circus, seminars on circus in art, literature and politics, and lots of clowning around town! Produced by the New England Center for Circus Arts - by sharing the magic of this art form, we strengthen community connections, inspire creativity, and bring cultural and economic vibrancy to the region. www.circusschool.org

2 Thursdays
November 6th & 13th
6 - 8:30 pm

Ages 16+

Join us for this hands-on T-shirt printing workshop! Artist Rakel Stammer will guide students on developing hand drawn or digital transparencies to expose onto their screens and screen print on T-shirts. Students will gain foundational knowledge for screen printing, learn about how to print on fabric, and use the heat press to cure their designs for professional production. If you have been interested in T-shirt printing to create merchandise or are interested in revamping old clothes, then this is the workshop for you!

All materials are provided, 2 Unisex T-shirts included. Feel free to bring in any additional T-shirts you would like to print on. (Note: The T-shirts fabric should be at least 80% cotton content)

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Please register at least a week in advance to guarantee your spot. Scholarship availability closes 2 weeks prior to the start of class.

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We believe in access to art education for all. It takes the whole community to generate the equity our pay-what-you-can tuition generates. Behind the scenes, we work to bridge the financial gap between what our students can pay and what we need to sustain our programs. Please consider carefully before you use our discount codes.

Scholarship Codes:
For 25% discount use code "25OFF"
For 50% discount use code "50OFF"
For 75% discount use code "75OFF"

This economic justice map from The Sliding Scale: A Tool of Economic Justice by Alexis J. Cunningfolk is useful to assess where you may fall on the financial spectrum of pay what you can.

To request 100% off tuition, please contact chris@mkad.art

6 Thursdays, 6 - 8:30 pm
November 6, 13, 20, December 4, 11, 18

No Class November 27

(Make-up day Dec 19, 2025)

Ages 16+

This watercolor course is designed for intermediate and advanced artists looking to refine their technique and deepen their creative practice. Through structured exercises, students will enhance their observational skills, master controlled lighting, and explore advanced color mixing. Tailored assignments ensure a personalized learning experience, helping you achieve greater precision, expression, and confidence in watercolor painting.

All tools and materials will be provided.

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Please register at least a week in advance to guarantee your spot.

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We believe in access to art education for all. Please pay what you can to support this access for all of our community.

If you would like to use a scholarship code, they are listed below. If you require a full scholarship, please contact Chris@mkad.art

Scholarship Codes:
For 25% discount use code "25OFF"
For 50% discount use code "50OFF"
For 75% discount use code "75OFF"

T.J. MILLER is a comedian. He has been diligently working to make people laugh for over two and a half years because life is tragic and the best thing he can do is make you giggle and perhaps pee. He is famous in Norway. A skilled improviser, no show is ever the same. Let me repeat that- no show you ever see will be the same. Dare you? See them all?

Credits:
Deadpool 1 & 2
How to Train Your Dragon
Silicon Valley

The Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to the David H. Koch Theater November 4–23, 2025, with World Premieres by Resident Choreographers Lauren Lovette and Robert Battle, and the New York Premiere of Hope Boykin’s How Love Sounds. The soundscape is as bold as the dancing — from jazz icons Ella Fitzgerald, Wycliffe Gordon, and Mahalia Jackson, to the orchestral sweep of Antonín Dvořák and John Adams, to pop classics by Patsy Cline, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, and Donna Summer. Alongside Taylor favorites Esplanade and Company B, the repertory features treasures including Speaking in Tongues, the Whitman-inspired Beloved Renegade, Offenbach Overtures, Scudorama, Troilus and Cressida (reduced), and Concertiana, Taylor’s final dance. Select performances feature live music performed by the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Tickets start at $10 at boxoffice.dance.

Glam Rock Band​s Bella's Bartok ​& Dust Bowl Faeries to Lark Hall​ on ​Thursday, November ​6th. Doors 7pm/Show 8pm
Live your fantasy and embrace the stranger side of life with Bella’s Bartok. A Glam Rock band known for raucous theatrical performances and an outspoken political message of finding hope in a world beset by cruel uncertainty.
DUST BOWL FAERIES, Accordion-Driven Dark Carnival Music
Dust Bowl Faeries perform a faerie-tale of dark cabaret and gothic polka music, infused with a dose of witchcraft and a dusting of woodland magic. The accordion driven freak-folk ensemble hails from the New York Hudson Valley and draws inspiration from sinister circus songs, murder ballads and Eastern European folk music.

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