A transformative event designed for women entrepreneurs and creatives who are ready to step away from overwhelm and create a life and business that truly feel good.

You're invited to join an intimate gathering of 40 like-minded women for real conversations, powerful insights, and actionable strategies to bring more harmony and ease into your life and business.

Go from Balance to Harmony: Bringing More Joy Into Your Life
with Robin Fischman, Holistic Health Coach

Work-life balance? It’s a myth. But creating a life that actually feels good—one where your work, passions, and personal time flow together in a way that energizes you? That’s possible.

How You’re Sabotaging Yourself with Overwork—And How to Create More Ease Instead
with Hazel Sy, Business Strategy and Leadership Coach

You don’t have to hustle harder to create the life you want. You just need to rewire the mindset that’s been holding you back.

Limited to 40 spots—Reservations required!

Come for the insights, stay for the community.

In-person event | For entry price and more info visit the link below

Your invited to kick off GoCoCo with us!

GoCoCo is a brand-new website dedicated to helping people find their next favorite place in Columbia County. For the first time, users will be able to filter all the county’s outdoor spaces by their favorite activities like fishing, hiking, hunting, or swimming or by amenities like ADA-accessible trails, picnic tables, and bathrooms. In addition to the handy search features, the site also includes a blog with useful updates about outdoor recreation in every season, tips for enjoying nature safely and respectfully, and information about volunteering.

ArtEast May Open Studio Tour
Poughquaq, Pawling, and Millbrook, NY
Contact: Karen Madden at 845.206.3298 or dutchessarteast@gmail.com

“Creativity takes courage”……Henri Matisse The ArtEast May Studios Tour, formally known as ArtmostNY Open Studio Tour, is a group of working artists who will be opening their studio doors for two very busy days in May during which you can visit while they work. They want you to get a sense of their challenges in realizing their vision. It might be dirty, noisy, and chaotic but it will not be dull.
This event offers a rare opportunity to step inside the working studios of some of New York's most talented and innovative artists whose studios are right here in eastern Dutchess County. You'll have the opportunity to meet the artists, ask questions, and learn about their techniques and inspirations. Each artist will be working on a project that will show you what it’s like to work in that medium. Sculptors of stone, metal, fiber, clay and who knows what materials will be found in the studios of Brian Wohrman, Bob Madden, Karen Madden, and David Tumblety. All using varying and interesting techniques.

Bill Prickett does iphone art and is working with AI technology, a whole new world.
Donna Castelluccio is a mixed media artist, using upcycled materials, coming up with works you have not seen before.
Check the website link at the bottom for the most up-to-date list of artists, their art and their locations and contact information.

Whether you're an art enthusiast or simply looking for a fun and enriching way to spend an afternoon, you'll enjoy the ArtEast May Open Studio Tour. You can join the artists for a day of inspiration, creativity, and artistic exploration!
What a great way to kickoff upcoming ArtEast Open Tour events in the 2025 art season!

A Weekend of Music, Celebration, and Community
You are invited to join us for a vibrant celebration of spring at the Annual Spring Wassail Balkan Dance Party, hosted by Stone Ridge Orchard, on May 3rd and 4th, 2025, from 2 PM until the wee hours each day.
This unique event blends ancient tradition with joyous revelry, featuring live Balkan music, traditional dancing, hard cider tastings, Balkan cuisine, and a Celtic tree-blessing ritual honoring the changing season and the orchard’s bounty. Guests are invited to sing to the trees, dance, feast, and celebrate Djurdjevdan/Herdelezi (St. George’s Day) in true Balkan style.

Musical performances include:
Zlatne Uste – A thrilling 12-piece Balkan brass band
Romski Boji – Macedonian Romani music featuring Seido Salifoski
The Vanaver Caravan – Folk dance and music with Bill and Livia Vanaver
(Lineup subject to change)

Additionally this year: A community singing workshop, open to all voices and experience levels A Balkan Marketplace with local artisans, traditional goods, and regional vendors

ArtEast May Open Studio Tour
Poughquaq, Pawling, and Millbrook, NY
Contact: Karen Madden at 845.206.3298 or dutchessarteast@gmail.com

“Creativity takes courage”……Henri Matisse The ArtEast May Studios Tour, formally known as ArtmostNY Open Studio Tour, is a group of working artists who will be opening their studio doors for two very busy days in May during which you can visit while they work. They want you to get a sense of their challenges in realizing their vision. It might be dirty, noisy, and chaotic but it will not be dull.
This event offers a rare opportunity to step inside the working studios of some of New York's most talented and innovative artists whose studios are right here in eastern Dutchess County. You'll have the opportunity to meet the artists, ask questions, and learn about their techniques and inspirations. Each artist will be working on a project that will show you what it’s like to work in that medium. Sculptors of stone, metal, fiber, clay and who knows what materials will be found in the studios of Brian Wohrman, Bob Madden, Karen Madden, and David Tumblety. All using varying and interesting techniques.

Bill Prickett does iphone art and is working with AI technology, a whole new world.
Donna Castelluccio is a mixed media artist, using upcycled materials, coming up with works you have not seen before.
Check the website link at the bottom for the most up-to-date list of artists, their art and their locations and contact information.

Whether you're an art enthusiast or simply looking for a fun and enriching way to spend an afternoon, you'll enjoy the ArtEast May Open Studio Tour. You can join the artists for a day of inspiration, creativity, and artistic exploration!
What a great way to kickoff upcoming ArtEast Open Tour events in the 2025 art season!

A Weekend of Music, Celebration, and Community
You are invited to join us for a vibrant celebration of spring at the Annual Spring Wassail Balkan Dance Party, hosted by Stone Ridge Orchard, on May 3rd and 4th, 2025, from 2 PM until the wee hours each day.
This unique event blends ancient tradition with joyous revelry, featuring live Balkan music, traditional dancing, hard cider tastings, Balkan cuisine, and a Celtic tree-blessing ritual honoring the changing season and the orchard’s bounty. Guests are invited to sing to the trees, dance, feast, and celebrate Djurdjevdan/Herdelezi (St. George’s Day) in true Balkan style.

Musical performances include:
Zlatne Uste – A thrilling 12-piece Balkan brass band
Romski Boji – Macedonian Romani music featuring Seido Salifoski
The Vanaver Caravan – Folk dance and music with Bill and Livia Vanaver
(Lineup subject to change)

Additionally this year: A community singing workshop, open to all voices and experience levels A Balkan Marketplace with local artisans, traditional goods, and regional vendors

Funds from this event will support Columbia County Sanctuary Movement’s mission to empower, defend, and strengthen our immigrant communities.

In the face of the largest deportation campaign in US history, it is more critical than ever to support CCSM’s work, providing Know Your Rights Workshops, legal defense, and support for the whole immigration experience from food insecurity, to navigating American systems such as the DMV, and medical appointments.

Featuring the Film BORDERLAND | The Line Within (2024), the latest feature documentary from filmmaker Pamela Yates. Followed by a Discussion with Director, Pamela Yates and Producer, Paco de Onís.

Bobby Previte and Michael Kammers lead a new and exciting big band. From Strauss to Ellington to Johnny Winter via John Barry. Expect everything. First Sunday of every month, downstairs at the Avalon Lounge.

Conducted by Giulia Palladini, Wave Farm Community Engagement Radio Art Fellow

PLEASE NOTE: This workshop is now at capacity. Email info@wavefarm.org to be added to the waitlist.

Looking at and listening to historical audio fragments from an international group of leaders who used fascist tactics to forward their personal agendas, this workshop aims to collectively create a new radio archive of resistance, informed by and learning from the past, to establish a strategy and hope for the future.

Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s and Bertolt Brecht’s belief in the potential of radio as an instrument of political education and popular knowledge production, this workshop mobilizes the listeners as experts, not as a product of scholarly knowledge but through personal and common histories.

Conducted via Zoom, the workshop will take place in three sessions. Participants are strongly encouraged to attend all three.
 

May 7, 2025, 6 - 8:00 p.m. EST Collective Listening 
Participants will listen to submissions from an open call assembling audio excerpts from historical and contemporary speeches from leaders such as Benito Mussolini, Augusto Pinochet, Donald Trump, Giorgia Meloni, Javier Milei, Jair Bolsonaro, Elon Musk, but also acoustic traces from our everyday life, such as recordings from peers, events, news outlets, or even quotes from social media read out loud. As a group, listeners will point at and identify returning tropes, and make them available for critical recognition, deconstruction.

May 9, 2025, 6 - 8:00 p.m. EST Resistance Radio
Participants will propose and present materials from historical and contemporary antifascist resistance. These materials will be sourced from the Wave Farm archives as well as from personal and public sound archives: they may include historical speeches, partisan songs, poetry, manifestos, etc. The materials may be already available in audio form, or may be read out loud by participants and recorded during the workshop, in case the audio is not available and the proposed material exists only in textual form.

May 10, 2025, 6 - 8:00 p.m. EST Broadcast Preparation
Participants will draw from the workshop discussions to collectively identify vital nodes and produce an archive for contemporary antifascist resistance which will also inform facilitator Giulia Palladini's introduction to the episode of The Radio Art Hour produced in conjunction with her fellowship. The Radio Art Hour airs weekly on WGXC 90.7-FM and is syndicated to other stations through the Pacifica Network. 

Giulia Palladini is a writer, researcher and educator, working between different languages, fields of knowledge and practices of production and reproduction in art and social life. Her work strives for a situated and affective approach to writing, teaching and critical theory.

You're invited to join Stewardship Coordinator Garrett Chisholm every Thursday to help tackle the invasive species that threaten the health of the Preserve. Volunteers will learn how to identify and manage a different invasive species every week.
Taking place at the Lake Myosotis Boat Launch.

You are invited to join us for songs, stories, and fun moves led by local musician, Abby Lappen, as we continue this joyful storytime. All are welcome! Date/Time: Thursdays, through June 26, 4 – 5pm (except June 19) Location: In person, Hudson Area Library Community Room Registration: Registration is appreciated, but not required. Email youth@hudsonarealibrary.org or call 518-828-1792 x101.

Enjoy a mindful evening at Overmountain!

You are welcome to join Joy Solomon, certified mindfulness meditation teacher, for a guided thirty-minute meditation practice inspired by and overlooking stunning Catskill Mountain views. Drawing from over ten years of meditation teaching experience and countless hours exploring trails and trees, this accessible practice will be grounded in nature.

Whether new to meditation or seasoned with an established practice, this program offers a unique opportunity to experience stillness amid the wonder of nature. No prior experience is necessary!