Month: February 2020

Date and Time: Saturday March 28th , 2pm – 3:30pm  EVENT POSTPONED

Cost: $10 suggested admission.  Please use the form below to register online.

Food and Drink: There will be some foodstuff and/or drink for people to try.  

Event Description:  

Join Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano from Hortus Arboretum & Botanical Gardens for a class devoted to surrounding your home and garden with the great native edible plants of North America such as Paw Paws, Beach Plums, Aronia, and Spikenard.

Hortus is now being run as a non-profit organization whose mission is to sustain the native, unusual and historic plant life of our area and serve as a vital educational resource for the public. One of ours goals is to create a ‘Living Textbook’ of plants that can be grown in the Hudson Valley.

Located in the lower Hudson Valley in New York, we welcome garden groups and individuals to come visit our arboretum-botanical garden. It is 19 years in the making, with several specific collections like the nut grove, Chinese garden, Japanese garden, and American garden, in addition to a diverse collection of unusual edibles, and hardy cactus…to name a few.

If you ever wanted to see how a botanical garden begins, this is a good place to visit. We are a small operation with many areas under development, but we have the most diverse selection of plants to be found in Ulster County.

For more information about Hortus Arboretum & Botanical Gardens:  www.hortusgardens.org

Register for the Class:

Date and Time: Friday March 26 @ 7pm

Location: Livestream
The performance will be streaming via Youtube to this page and the locations listed below:
Nia & Ness on Facebook
Radio Kingston on Facebook
Please use the comments section to add your questions for the Q & A.

Cost: Free / Donations Accepted

Facebook Event Reminder

Event Description:

Nia & Ness will be performing one of many short combinations of their two evening length pieces ‘run.’ and ‘home.’,
followed by a Q & A.

Set to music by Garrett Miller, the work makes visible the impacts of “microaggressions” on Black lesbian bodies,
with Nia showing the couple’s everyday trauma through movement and Ness voicing it with words, while also offering a
glimpse into the couple’s healing.

“Our work is the story of our love and our resistance as a Black out-lesbian couple, and our reality is not one that is often highlighted or even recognized in the mainstream society. Still, we are here. Still, we fight to be seen. Still, we love in hopes
that our love can help empower people the way it empowers us.” – Nia & Ness

About Nia & Ness:

Nia & Ness are currently based in Rosendale, New York. Follow their journey on social media @niaandness and visit their website at niaandness.com

Full bio:
https://www.niaandness.com/bio

Trigger warnings: While we do not go into graphic details, we do touch on the topics of physical assault, sexual assault, bullying and self harm.

Part of Women’s History Month Kingston (whmk.org for the full list of events).

Date and Time: Friday, May 22nd, 6:30-8:30pm EVENT POSTPONED

Cost: The registration fee* is on a sliding scale (see form below to register)

Standard Fee: $50.00
Community Rate: $35.00

* The registration fee covers all materials, sampling of various mushroom extracts, and participants leave with their own tincture. If your financial situation allows, please consider paying the standard fee to help support others attending who may currently be in a different situation.  No one will be turned away, please contact John at Catskill Fungi for special circumstances.

Event Description:

*Make your own chaga tincture with John Michelotti*

People have been pairing with fungi for centuries to improve their immune systems, to survive on the land, and change their realities.

Learn how to utilize mushrooms to benefit your body and the planet. Sample mushroom extracts and make your own tincture to take home during this hands-on workshop.

John Michelotti is the founder of Catskill Fungi which empowers people with fungi through outdoor educational classes, cultivation courses, mushroom art, and mushroom health extracts. John is a former President of the Mid-Hudson Mycological Association (MHMA) where he co-founded the Catskill Region Mycoflora Project. He was chosen by the Catskill Center as a “Steward of the Catskills” for his contribution to the environment. His goal is to educate and inspire people to pair with fungi to improve health, communities, and the environment.

Catskill Fungi produces high integrity, triple-extracted health tinctures from mushrooms that are wild-crafted or grown near our family farm in the Catskill Mountains. We enjoy sharing our love of mushrooms on our guided mushroom walks, medicinal and cultivation workshops, and our fungi retreats. Catskill Fungi has a foundation of permaculture principles. This means the core of our business is about helping people and improving the planet through our work with mushrooms. We practice sustainable harvesting, leave-no-trace principles, and compassion for the environment. We aim to empower people to grow edible mushrooms as a fun source of fresh food, to heal themselves through utilizing health properties of fungi, and to explore the historical uses and present day innovations of this exceptional kingdom.

Date and Time: Thursday, March 26th, 7-9pm  EVENT POSTPONED

Cost: Free, Registration Required

Event Description:

The apology/”I’m sorry”: a writing- and discussion-based workshop for survivors

Organized by Stephanie Alinsug/Radical Liberation Project, Onnesha Roychoudhuri & Frances Cathryn

One in three women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime. This stat is staggering, and yet so many of us silently carry our lived experiences within us. We hope to draw out the discussion of violence by offering participants a space to explore via writing what we would need to continue the ongoing process of healing, and to add nuance to our relationship to harm/harm doers. This workshop will also teach participants how to work to regain control of their personal narratives in a society that traditionally marginalizes the histories of those not in positions of power.

Inspired by Eve Ensler’s The Apology and a growing need for anti-carceral transformative justice/community accountability responses to harm, this creative workshop is designed to give self-identified survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and coercive control the opportunity to write themselves a version of an apology from the responsible party. We will begin with a group discussion of how we define “an apology” and what we need in order to continue the ongoing process of healing. We will then provide space to free write, and time for an optional share out.

Stephanie, Onnesha, and Frances are not trained therapists, but much of their organizing work revolves around facilitating conversations to create new models of justice in marginalized communities. This workshop is for people who have had the opportunity to process their lived experience(s), and is intended to provide an additional layer of processing and creative healing. It is not meant to be participants’ first or primary engagement with healing. Preference will be given to folx who identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color and/or LGBTQIA. We request participants be at least 18 years of age due to the sensitive content. We also intend to cap participation at 10 people.

Free to attend; please register at http://bit.ly/whmkapology

Part of Women’s History Month Kingston (whmk.org for the full list of events).

Date and Time: Saturday, February 29th 1-4pm

Event Description:

A Workshop and Performance exploring the voices of Shakespeare’s women as empowerment for a new age.  Brought to you by New Genesis Productions, a non-profit, youth theater company

For courageous and curious young women ages 11-18

We will create a unique collage of voice and moment using the words from Shakespeare and fusing them with issues that concern women today. (Knowledge of Shakespeare not required)

Performance: March 8th at ASK in Kingston as a Part of Women’s History Month Kingston Celebration

Participation: FREE! Contact Lesley A. Sawhill to sign up ngpshakespeare@gmail.com

Sponsored by Hudson Valley Foundation for Youth Health!

When:

Wed, Feb 12th(6-7:30p)(PROGRAMMING & DESIGN)
Sun, Feb 16th  (5-6:30p)(FOOD JUSTICE & SOCIAL JUSTICE)
Wed, Feb 19th (6-7:30p)(MEMBER ENGAGEMENT)
Thurs, Feb 20th (6-7:30p)(ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY)
Tues, Mar 10th (6-7:30p) (MEMBER ENGAGEMENT)
Sun, Mar 15th (6-7:30p) (FOOD JUSTICE & SOCIAL JUSTICE)
Thurs, Mar 19th (7:30-9p) (CORE VALUES)

What:

Get involved in the future of Kingston’s Food Co-op! All Co-op members are welcome and encouraged to get involved with any working groups that they’d like to.

Kingston Food Coop will be a member-owned, cooperative market committed to providing fresh, local, nutritious, and affordable food to the Kingston community. Together, we work to support the changing needs of our members and to promote the well-being of our city and our planet.

Working groups:
PROGRAMMING & DESIGN
FOOD JUSTICE & SOCIAL JUSTICE
DEVELOPMENT
MEMBER ENGAGEMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
CORE VALUES**
** This group needs members! Please get in touch if you’re interested in helping to create the Co-op’s first draft of core values and principles.

To join a working group, come to a group meeting
or sign up here for email updates: https://www.kingstonfoodcoop.com/workinggroups

Come check out the art on exhibit for our First Saturday opening reception and bring an item (or two!) with you to donate to the Family of Woodstock. This is also a great opportunity to make sure items you no longer need (that are clean and in good condition) can be put to use and kept out of the landfill.

According to the shelter, the items most in need right now are:
– baby clothes
– women’s clothes
– feminine products (tampons, sanitary pads)

Learn more about how Family of Woodstock serves our community by visiting familyofwoodstockinc.org, and more about the amazing artists on exhibit at (https://www.facebook.com/events/451811638829257/).

Date and Time: Monday, April 13th @ 6pm Monday, April 13th @ 1pm (ZOOM MEETING)

Cost:

Tickets are $15 / $20 at the door
*FREE* for “In It Together” members!

Event Description:

Join your favorite business friends to discuss RESILIENCE and be inspired by one powerhouse’s story.

We’re joined by the Queen of being scared & doing it anyway, Kathleen Bennett of Floor 13 Textiles llc, who will share how she built her business while raising three children, and how in the midst of a toxic business partnership rather than retreating she decided to expand. We’ll discuss focus, drive, finding opportunities, getting back on your feet, and handling the tough moments.

** There will also be small group networking as if we were in the room together and you’ll be able to ask for referrals from other attendees and promote your business. **

It’s a special meeting during special times.

Special thanks to our April Sponsor — Kathryn Andren, The Love Astrologer!

Tickets are $10 / FREE for “In It Together” members!
—> RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hvwib-april-meeting-tickets-101249309410

To attend for FREE, become an “In It Together” member at the monthly or annual levels. Info: hvwib.com/membership

See you soon!

Date and Time: Saturday, May 2nd, 4-7pm EVENT POSTPONED

Cost: Free

Event Description:

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, three Hudson Valley artists (Rita Bolla, Benny Benard, and Kat Howard) will display their work in conversation with each other, as it relates to their experiences as survivors of sexual abuse and assault. Through the different mediums of paint, photography and fiber, each artist is able to process trauma while reclaiming their voice and identity. In addition to the exhibition, a series of programs and workshops will be held at the idea garden (free of charge to the public) centered around the theme of healing through creative dialogue and self-expression.

Date: Saturday March 7th, 4pm – 7pm

Event Description:

If you missed the opening reception or really enjoyed it, here’s a another chance to celebrate the show and its artists.

“The Source of Self-Regard” is a multi-disciplinary arts exhibition hosted by FreedomWalker Dickerson, and the idea garden. Named after a collection of essays, speeches, and meditations by the late Toni Morrison, the show’s intention is to hold space for and highlight the voices of women, femme, and nonbinary people of color. The show will feature both visual and performing artists and will run for 2 months at the idea garden in Kingston NY to coincide with both Black History Month Kingston and Women’s History Month Kingston.

Artists exhibiting include: AJ Aremu, Sadee Brathwaite, Dorothy Brodhead, Cassandra D. Clarke, K.C. Clarke, Nile ‘River’ Clarke, Andie Clarkson, Freedom Walker, Courtney Haeick, IONE, Dahlia Jarrett, Naira Luke-Aleman, Mumba, Yvonne Rojas-Cowan, Toni Thomas, and Cynthia Timms 

If you or someone you know might still be interested in creatively being a part of the 2 month show, through an event or performance, please let us know.  Thanks.

Related Events:

The Fabric of Life

Black Culture in American Cinema

Donation Drive for Darmstadt Shelter / Family of Woodstock

The Source of Self-Regard Closing Reception / HOMe Project

Nia & Ness: Our Home is Worth Fighting For