Presented by the Athens Cultural Center and Oldtone Music Festival: monthly gathering on the second Sunday (2-4) of acoustic and stringed instrumentalists of all levels to enjoy playing bluegrass together! A slow jam is a welcoming and supportive, easy-tempo jam session aimed at beginning and intermediate players, but with plenty of room for relaxed experts. The group leader, mandolist Peter Paden of the Wickers Creek Band, will distribute basic chord charts for well-known tunes and songs before the session, and guide all players, no matter their instrument.

Those interested in joining can email lbowenjr@gmail.com.

You are invited to dance and romp to our area's Grateful Dead cover band in the natural air conditioning of the Widow Jane Mine in Rosendale, NY!

For more information on Gratefully Yours: https://gratefullyyours.net/

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!

Local artist Becca Van K hosts an afternoon of making at the Hudson Area Library. Each week, she will teach you a different craft, such as needlepoint keychains, perler beads, macramé and fabric collage. Ages 8-12.

Dates/Times: Mondays, July 14, 21, 28 and August 4, 12:30 – 2:30pm

Location: Hudson Area Library Community Room

Registration encouraged so we can prepare enough supplies. You may email youth@hudsonarealibrary.org or call 518-828-1792 x101

All are welcome to join and learn various Qigong sets and then work on a traditional Tai Chi Form – a set series of movements and postures – with instructor Curt Anthon, a member of the Yang Family Tai Chi Association.

Date/Time: Tuesdays, June 24 through August 26, 10 – 11am

Location: In person, Hudson Area Library Community Room and virtual via Zoom!

Registration: No registration required for the in-person sessions. To access the Zoom stream, email programs@hudsonarealibrary.org

All are welcome to join us this summer for fun and friendly in-person Spanish language sessions! These casual monthly meet-ups will provide you with an opportunity to practice speaking conversational Spanish, facilitated by our instructor Sonia Cintron. All skill levels are welcome.

Dates/Times: Wednesday, June 18, 5 – 6pm

Then we’ll meet on Tuesdays: July 15 and August 19, 5 – 6pm

Location: In person, Hudson Area Library Community Room

Registration: No registration required.

Yoga for Gardening with Pamela Martin at the Mountain Top Arboretum.

Sessions run Wednesdays from June 11- October 8; Class is from 3:15-4:15 (feel free to join us beforehand for volunteer gardening!)

You're welcome to join us for outdoor* yoga classes led by Pamela Martin and other local yoga teachers. Learn tips and tricks to avoid injury, and to help support the body during gardening and yard work. A stretch and strength class appropriate for multiple levels. Please bring a mat, water, sunscreen and bug spray. Wear comfortable clothing you can move in.

* in case of inclement weather, sessions will take place indoors in the Education Center.

This program starts just after our garden volunteering ends. Please feel free to join us for volunteer gardening.

Just signed up to volunteer? Been volunteering for a while, but want to say hello to some new faces? You're invited to join the Columbia Land Conservancy for volunteer orientation!

At this virtual meeting, you’ll have the opportunity to meet volunteer coordinators, ask questions, and get to know your fellow volunteers.

Back by popular demand, Sarah Van Buren (SVB), Hudson Area Library's new Youth Services Manager, facilitates a third round of Youth DJ Workshops, for ages 9-18. This will include a series of studio days with a final performance when our newly trained DJs take the stage for the whole community to enjoy. Participants will gain knowledge and skills related to analog music-playing, a collection of their own vinyl records, and a chance to take home their own record player (based on workshop attendance). All are welcome to join us for the Hey DJ! Final performance and community dance party!

Dates/Times: Tuesdays & Thursdays in July & August, 12:30 – 2:30 pm

Workshop dates: 7/17, 7/22, 7/24, 7/29, 7/31, 8/5, 8/7

Performance and dance party: Tuesday, August 12, 5-7pm

Location: Hudson Area Library Community Room

Registration required and space is limited. You may email youth@hudsonarealibrary.org or call 518-828-1792 x101.

Supported by the Fund for Columbia County of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation and the Alexander & Marjorie Hover Foundation.

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.

The Olana Partnership will hold its monthly Third Thursdays event on July 17 from 1:00 - 7:00 P.M. at Olana State Historic Site, capped off with a special outdoor concert with Hudson Valley views. Olana Third Thursdays are free monthly community days of tours and programs for all ages. All are welcome to celebrate summer with free tours, nature, art, music and history while participating in engaging experiences for the whole family!

This month, visitors can enjoy “Tunes with a View featuring Mariachi Citlalli” from 6:00 – 7:00 P.M. as part of Olana’s summer outdoor concert series, and experience vibrant mariachi music and the sounds of Mexico, one of the countries frequently visited by artist Frederic Church, all set against the backdrop of Olana’s stunning views. Family, friends, and a picnic are welcome for this lively outdoor celebration. The performance takes place outside the historic house; visitors can check in at the Visitor Center the day of the event for details. All Third Thursday programs are open to the public.

Additionally, visitors are invited to enjoy free guided landscape tours and self-guided historic house access from 1:00 - 6:30 P.M. No tickets required! For further information and inquiries, please call ticketing at (518) 751-0344, email tickets@olana.org, or visit OLANA.org/ThirdThursdays

Generous support for Olana Third Thursdays is provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.

The Huyck Preserve presents an engaging scientific lecture series on Thursday nights, following a communal, pot-luck meal. Guests are encouraged to bring a dish to share.

6:00 PM Potluck, 7:00 PM Lecture

The popular series is back for its second year!

Land camp invites participants to learn about and try land management techniques in a supportive environment so that they can feel comfortable implementing them at home.

CLC hosts a second town hall to inform the Countywide Conservation Plan at Columbia-Greene Community College!

This in-person meeting at Columbia-Greene Community College will provide the opportunity to learn about the initial findings related to the Countywide Conservation Plan, including early survey results and drafted strategies, actions, and priorities for conserving land in Columbia County. Following this overview, there will be time to give feedback and further shape the Plan.

What to expect:  This event will occur in person on the Columbia-Greene Community College campus at the Main Building, in Lecture Hall 206. Participants are encouraged to use Parking Lot F.

Marc Delgado comes to the widow Jane Mine (Rosendale, NY)

“Delgado is a bardic, gritty songwriter blending noirish folk songcraft with spoken word elements & a narrative sensibility as indebted to novelists like Denis Johnson & Cormac McCarthy as to any fellow songwriters.” - John Burdick - HV1 

https://marcxdelgado.com

Senior Curator Sara O’Keeffe provides a special tour of the exhibition Harold Stevenson: Less Real Than My Routine Fantasy, the first institutional solo exhibition in New York of Harold Stevenson (1929–2018).

A one-night-only solo performance by renowned multidisciplinary artist Rahill. A founding member of the seminal NYC psych-rock outfit, Habibi, and a monthly resident on NTS radio, Rahill has garnered a reputation for alchemizing an eclectic range of influences, distilling them into captivating and heavy pop songs that gesture towards the modes and melodies of the Iranian/American household in which she was raised—a heritage she has continued to nurture via successive trips to Iran. Informed by her lifelong, genre-spanning musical explorations, Rahill’s songs occupy a familiar, contemplative mode—blending jazz, trip/hip-hop, and folk traditions spanning east and west.

Craig L. Frank, Ph.D., a longtime researcher at the Huyck Preserve, presents a unique experience with the bats that live at the Preserve. This event will start with a brief presentation on bat ultrasonic biology and, as the sun sets, you will observe acoustic monitoring of the bats flying over Lincoln Pond. Dr. Frank will show participants how the data collected is used to identify the bats as they visit the pond to feed.