La Leche League is hosting meet-ups and support for nursing families at the Hudson Area Library. Whether you are pregnant, caring for a newborn, nursing, pumping, supplementing, weaning, or beyond – all are welcome!

Dates/Times: Wednesdays, February 12, March 12, and April 9, 4 – 5:30pm

Location: Upstairs from the library in the Senior Center, 2nd floor

Registration: Visit “La Leche League Columbia Greene NY” on Facebook or contact a leader to confirm meeting times.

A monthly open jazz jam hosted by local musician Luke Franco, featuring a house band with a trio or quartet. March's edition will highlight Wanda Houston. This event brings together jazz lovers, musicians, instrumentalists, and vocalists of all skill levels to foster new connections and creativity. Inspired by the historic jam sessions that fueled jazz innovations like Bebop, these jams offer a space for both seasoned professionals and budding talent to collaborate. Musicians can bring their instruments or voice to join the jam, while jazz lovers can enjoy an evening of live, improvisational performances.

Starting Thursday, February 13th, we will be holding our six-week Dragon's Way Qigong class for Spring in Chatham, NY.

Over our six classes, you will learn and practice 10 ancient movements with a certified instructor in the lineage of Grand Master Nan Lu. Qi is your life-force, your energy, and these 10 movements will help improve Qi flow, balance, flexibility, and overall wellness. What makes our classes different from most is that you also will learn about the Five Element Framework, how you can add to your Qi, and how you can stop draining your Qi on your journey to self-healing. This work can help address chronic pain and joint stiffness, poor digestion, weight loss, headaches, stress and anxiety, sleep disorders, arthritis, and overall fatigue.

This Spring, you can choose to attend the classes on Thursday mornings at The Morris Memorial @ 9:15 am to 10:30 am. or on Thursday evenings at St. James Church Hall @ 6:15 pm to 7: 30 pm, both in Chatham.

Dr. Tara Rodgers (Analog Tara) is a multi-instrumentalist composer, sound engineer, and historian of electronic music. She is the author of Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound (2010) and numerous essays on the history of sound and synthesizers.

Premiere performance of “life of the mother,” a new ambient electronic music album imagining the depth, expansiveness, complexity, and power that this phrase holds. From the sounds of a vintage ARP 2500 and modern noise synths run through a DJ mixer, to algorithmic percolations of analog synths, the music blends emergent systems, improvisation, and intention into a complex and dynamic whole. With discussion of studio techniques in making the album.

Sponsored by Experimental Humanities & the Electronic Music Program

Starting Thursday, February 13th, we will be holding our six-week Dragon's Way Qigong class for Spring in Chatham, NY.

Over our six classes, you will learn and practice 10 ancient movements with a certified instructor in the lineage of Grand Master Nan Lu. Qi is your life-force, your energy, and these 10 movements will help improve Qi flow, balance, flexibility, and overall wellness. What makes our classes different from most is that you also will learn about the Five Element Framework, how you can add to your Qi, and how you can stop draining your Qi on your journey to self-healing. This work can help address chronic pain and joint stiffness, poor digestion, weight loss, headaches, stress and anxiety, sleep disorders, arthritis, and overall fatigue.

This Spring, you can choose to attend the classes on Thursday mornings at The Morris Memorial @ 9:15 am to 10:30 am. or on Thursday evenings at St. James Church Hall @ 6:15 pm to 7: 30 pm, both in Chatham.

CREATE's 42nd annual "Outside The Lines" youth showcase is putting the spotlight on artwork by K-12th grade students & instructors from a dozen Greene, Columbia and Schoharie county schools.

Opening Reception Sat, Mar 15 2-5pm, Closing Reception Sun, Mar 30 11am-1pm
Gallery hours Fri 4-7pm. Sat & Sun 11am-6pm

The fourth annual sourdough bread-baking competition at Dewey Hall on Friday, March 14th! Local home bakers will showcase their skills, offering a fun culinary experience for all. Sourdough bread, dating back 14,000 years, is made with a traditional starter, making a comeback in home baking. Bakers will submit two full loaves: one for tasting and one for raffle. Attendees can sample the loaves and enjoy cheese boards, wine, beer, and non-alcoholic drinks. Raffle tickets (cash only) will offer chances to win loaves and other prizes. Judges include experts from Bizalion's Fine Foods, Berkshire Mountain Bakery, and Found Bread, while live music by the Michael Junkins Duo adds to the atmosphere. This event, supported by local businesses, is organized by Evelyn Battaglia and Sherri Gorelick. All proceeds benefit Dewey Hall, a historic venue founded in 1887 by The Sheffield Friendly Union.

Multi-instrumentalist composer and electronic music historian Tara Rodgers produces a retrospective concert of selected works from the past 20 years, diffused in an immersive 4.1 sound system.

This event requires everyone to wear a mask in the venue.⁣ Masks will be available on entry.⁣

Rodgers’s research and music explore electronic sound as material and metaphor, with studio practice as a hands-on parallel to study of the long history of electronic music and sound.

The concert juxtaposes her wide-ranging work across styles and methods, from generative computer music written in SuperCollider, to electroacoustic compositions featuring piano improvisation, to pulsing ambient and techno tracks.

As a historian and multidisciplinary scholar, Rodgers has also published essays in foundational volumes in contemporary studies of music, sound, technology, and culture. Her book Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound (Duke University Press, 2010) brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures who expand notions of who and what counts in matters of invention, production, and noise-making.

After the concert, Rodgers is joined by Rensselaer Arts graduate student and renowned DJ Rekha Malhotra, along with Director of the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Stephanie Loveless for an onstage conversation and Q&A.

A raucous, romantic treat! Kate is a magnificent, late-middle-aged Broadway actor, alone in the world after losing the husband who was her true soul mate. At age 70, she finds herself reluctantly dipping her toe into the murky waters of the online dating pool. At once wickedly funny and delightfully disturbing, her efforts to find life after love wind up being relatable, heroic, and uniquely touching. Show #2 in Bridge Street Theatre’s SoloFest 2025 is written by Mark Hampton, lived and performed by Kate Skinner, and directed by Michael Edwards. March 14-16 at 44 West Bridge Street in Catkill, NY. More details and ticketing information available at the link below.

In a Race Brook first, we are proud to announce a three concert residency featuring The Bobby Previte Pocket Orchestra’s re-alchemizing of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew. In each of these nights of music, Mr. Previte and his ensemble will use Miles’ album as a jumping off place to explore a large-scale sonic conversation, equal parts arranged and improvised with the fattest funkiest freest rhythm pocket around - echoing Miles’ fusionary vision fifty-five years after it's industry-changing recording sessions.

CREATE's 42nd annual "Outside The Lines" youth showcase is putting the spotlight on artwork by K-12th grade students & instructors from a dozen Greene, Columbia and Schoharie county schools.

Opening Reception Sat, Mar 15 2-5pm, Closing Reception Sun, Mar 30 11am-1pm
Gallery hours Fri 4-7pm. Sat & Sun 11am-6pm

At the Newmark Gallery at Art Omi for Raising Supper- an afternoon of gathering, making, and conversation as we celebrate the opening of Staging Area: A Barn Raising in Two Parts by designer Erin Besler. Inspired by the communal spirit of a barn raising, this “raising supper” marks the beginning of an exhibition that explores construction, collaboration, and transformation. Echoing this spirit, Enoki, an Asian pantry in Saugerties, NY, will offer bowls of warm congee and other communal dishes steeped in Chinese tradition, bringing a taste of heritage and togetherness to this gathering. Raising Supper is open to all ages. Advanced registration appreciated.

A raucous, romantic treat! Kate is a magnificent, late-middle-aged Broadway actor, alone in the world after losing the husband who was her true soul mate. At age 70, she finds herself reluctantly dipping her toe into the murky waters of the online dating pool. At once wickedly funny and delightfully disturbing, her efforts to find life after love wind up being relatable, heroic, and uniquely touching. Show #2 in Bridge Street Theatre’s SoloFest 2025 is written by Mark Hampton, lived and performed by Kate Skinner, and directed by Michael Edwards. March 14-16 at 44 West Bridge Street in Catkill, NY. More details and ticketing information available at the link below.

CREATE's 42nd annual "Outside The Lines" youth showcase is putting the spotlight on artwork by K-12th grade students & instructors from a dozen Greene, Columbia and Schoharie county schools.

Opening Reception Sat, Mar 15 2-5pm, Closing Reception Sun, Mar 30 11am-1pm
Gallery hours Fri 4-7pm. Sat & Sun 11am-6pm

A raucous, romantic treat! Kate is a magnificent, late-middle-aged Broadway actor, alone in the world after losing the husband who was her true soul mate. At age 70, she finds herself reluctantly dipping her toe into the murky waters of the online dating pool. At once wickedly funny and delightfully disturbing, her efforts to find life after love wind up being relatable, heroic, and uniquely touching. Show #2 in Bridge Street Theatre’s Solo-Fest 2025 is written by Mark Hampton, lived and performed by Kate Skinner, and directed by Michael Edwards. March 14-16 at 44 West Bridge Street in Catskill, NY. More details and ticketing information available at the link below.

Bobby Previte leads a quartet exploring free improvisation.

Keith Pray - Saxophones
John Esposito - Piano
Otto Gardner - Acoustic Bass
Boby Previte - Drums

Every 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Sunday at 6 p.m. upstair at the Avalon Lounge!

The Friends of the Hudson Area Library & Hudson Area Library bring you drop-in game nights!
You can join in on board games, cards, and more. Meet old friends and new for light refreshments, fun and games. All ages and skill levels welcome!

Dates/Times: Tuesdays, March 11 – 25, 4 – 6pm

Location: In person, Hudson Area Library Community Room

No registration required.