Community Calendar

Join us each Saturday morning at High Rock Park from 9 AM to 1 PM!

Enjoy live music, restock your kitchen with fresh and local goods, or grab breakfast and lunch from our ready-to-eat vendors! Let’s make Saturdays local and lively - see you at the market!

The Norman Rockwell Museum is honored to present a rare series of early twentieth century lighting advertisements by Norman Rockwell and fellow Golden Age illustrators Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth, Dean Cornwell, Stanley Arthurs, Worth Brehm, and Charles Chambers created for Edison Mazda Lamps, a division of the General Electric Company. These luminous, richly painted works were widely circulated in published advertisements through the 1920s and are on loan to the Museum for the first time through the generosity of GE Aerospace.

“Once a Tree: Continuity, Creativity, and Connection” explores the deep-rooted significance of trees in Haudenosaunee culture, tradition, and creative expression. Featuring the work of 42 artists and more than 100 objects—including decorative and utilitarian baskets, cradleboards, snowshoes, ladles, lacrosse sticks, toys, instruments, carvings, and sleds—this exhibition highlights the important relationship between nature and artistry. Selected from the Museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition was created with guidance from curatorial consultants Terry Chrisjohn III (Oneida), Preston Jacobs (Mohawk), and Sheila Ransom (Mohawk).

"Separated but Unbroken: The Haudenosaunee Boarding School Experience" explores the lasting impact of the Thomas Indian School, once located on the Cattaraugus Reservation south of Buffalo, NY, and The Mohawk Institute near Branford, Ontario. These institutions, which enrolled a significant number of Haudenosaunee students, were part of a larger system that sought to erase Indigenous identities while deeply shaping the lives of those who endured them. Co-curated by Erin Keaton (Mohawk), the exhibition sheds light on Haudenosaunee resilience.

4 Saturdays
July 12, 19, 26, Aug 2
10 am - 1 pm

Ages 14+

For anyone missing hands-on photographic processes, cyanotypes are a fun, safe and easy way to print at home. This class will give you the knowledge and confidence to start making cyanotypes with minimal space and resources. Classes will start with a history and explanation of the process, followed by demonstrations and time to work. Finally, considerations are made for taking prints to the next level including layering, toning and alternate substrates. Students will leave with the ability to make beautiful prints whether in an at-home or studio environment.

All materials provided.

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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, or payment plan options, please contact chris@mkad.art

Let’s come together and care for the land! This month’s volunteer work party will take place at Greenport.

This work party will focus on making the pollinator patch shine! Projects will include clearing out non-native weeds around the fence, installing a pedestrian gate, and tagging native plants to keep in the pollinator patch. As part of the workshop, volunteers will learn to identify both native and non-native plants, as well as effective strategies for removing weeds.

All are welcome to lend a hand at this fun, friendly volunteer event.

What’s involved: This volunteer event is a choose-your-own-adventure experience! A variety of tasks will be available for people of all experience levels and abilities. To reach the work site, volunteers will travel approximately a quarter of a mile along the Access for All trail, which is ADA accessible and features gravel terrain.

JULY 12 & 13 Battle of Hubbardton Revolutionary War Encampment
10:00 to 5:00 Saturday, 7:45 to 2:00 Sunday
This living history weekend encampment honors the 248th anniversary of the July 7, 1777, Revolutionary War battle fought here. Scores of reenactors portray the American, British, and German soldiers. Tactical military and other special demonstrations, camp life activities, guided tours, and talks. Opportunities for all ages. Call (802) 273-2282 for details. Presented by the reenactors, the historic site, and many Hubbardton organizations. $8 adults, $1 children ages 6 – 14, under 6 free.

We are thrilled to bring back the Basilica Farm & Flea Summer Market July 12th & 13th, 10am – 5pm both days

Summer Market will be jam packed with community fun and local business shopping. We have new and returning participants you will be excited to see, including natural dye studio Hanoux with a fresh batch of locally dyed garments, Smugtown Mushrooms will be bringing their books, tinctures and DIY mushroom grow bags, we will have Cone Zero Ceramics onsite with their clay throwing wheel where you can try your hand at throwing pots and we are thrilled that ENOKI Catskill will again be curating the Back Gallery celebrating the Hudson Valley Asian Diasporic community with Reflections of Home exhibition, market and food pop up

3 sessions on Saturdays
July 12, 19, 26, 2025
10 – 11am

Grades 3-5

Students can explore various materials and concepts in small groups through hands-on art-making. By utilizing painting, drawing, and printmaking techniques, students will explore the creation of two-dimensional space, dynamic compositions, layered materials, images, and methods to express themselves and represent what they see in the world around them.

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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. 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" = $90
For 50% discount use code "50OFF" = $60
For 75% discount use code "75OFF" = $30

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

Music by Kamala Sankaram, Libretto by David Johnston
originally commissioned by Houston Grand Opera To Go in partnership with American Lyric Theatre
July 12 – 10:30 am – Boathouse Theater, Schroon Lake, NY*

Utilizing music from both Western and non-Western styles, Monkey and Francine in the City of Tigers is an action-packed tale of bravery, smarts, and family ties. Brave Monkey and clever Francine work together to escape the clutches of a dishonest Crocodile and the evil Lord and Lady Tiger to save their family and their kingdom. Their teamwork and bravery show them and their parents that when they work together, they can accomplish anything.

Also on tour across the North Country – see schedule below:

Tuesday, July 15 – 6:00 pm – Elizabethtown Social Center, Elizabethtown, NY
Wednesday, July 16 – 10:15 am – Knight of Columbus Pavilion, Ticonderoga, NY (presented by Ti Festival Guild)
Friday, July 25 – 10:00 am – Sembrich Opera Museum, Bolton Landing, NY
Tuesday, July 29 – 10:30 am – Tannery Pond Community Center, North Creek, NY
Wednesday, July 30 – 10:00 am – Lake George Senior High School, Lake George, NY (presented by Caldwell-Lake George Library)

The Yiddish Book Center is now offering masked tours of Yiddish: A Global Culture, our permanent exhibition. Visitors can experience the incredible story of Yiddish on this 45-minute tour.

Masked tours are scheduled for 11:00 a.m. on:

Monday, May 19
Monday, June 30
Monday, July 28

The tour guide as well as all guests on the tour will be masked. There is no additional charge for these tours and no advance registration required. If you have any questions about our Masked Tours, please email us at access@yiddishbookcenter.org.

Suggested donation: $12

We also offer tours that do not require masks on Sundays at 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. and Tuesdays at 1:00 p.m.

Learn more and plan your visit: https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/events-and-store/plan-your-visit-hours-and-directions

Yiddish Book Center hours:
Sunday–Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Address:
1021 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002

Phone number: 413.256.4900