All events are still on hold.
Virtual hours available by appointment.
Category: Event
Group Crit
Date and Time: Thursday, June 18th , 5pm – 7pm – EVENT CANCELLED
Cost: $10 – Please visit the Facebook Event to register.
Event Description:
Group Crits are monthly gatherings bringing together creatives hosted by Stella Yoon of Hudson River Exchange. Join us to discuss the things you’re thinking about creatively or about your small business. Not the traditional art school style critique, it’s a structured discussion in small groups that sparks a lot of ideas and conversation. Think of it as quick fire round table and a great way to meet fellow creatives. We start with introductions and review the format of the discussion. Come and see what it’s all about! We invite you to bring a question or something you’re working on that you’d like group feedback on. It’s not required to present a question but we do ask that you be open to jumping into the conversation, contributing support or sharing thoughts!
We’ll take some time to let people settle in and the group sessions start at 5:30pm.
Manifest Your Dreams: A Vision Board Workshop
Date and Time: Friday March 20th , 6:30pm – 8:30pm – EVENT POSTPONED
Cost: Free / Donations Accepted
Event Description:
Visualization is one of the most powerful tools in manifesting our wants, thoughts & desires into real life; it helps us to achieve our goals.
Did you know that Olympic athletes have been using it for decade to improve performance, and Psychology Today reports that the brain patterns activated when a weightlifter lifts heavy weights are also similarly activated when the lifter just imagined lifting weights. When we bring our imagination into the tangible realm it creates a powerful energy around it that helps strengthen the path to our goals. But also It inspires & reminds us when we forget or loose track.
Come & create a Vision Board & manifest your dreams.
We will be providing a safe, supportive & non judgemental space to all Womxn to create, craft & share , no prior art experience necessary.
This is zero waste event & we will have as much recycled as possible supplies by donation but you are welcomed to bring your own 🙂
if you can’t join in person we invite you to create a vision board at home before you begin take a moment to pause, feel & set an intention, then draw, paint, write cut & paste away. there is no right or wrong way to create a Vision Board. its about You. what makes you feel good, what uplifts you, what do you want more of in your life what bring you Joy
Happy Manifesting
March Gallery Hours
Saturday, 3/7 : 4-7pm (1st Saturday reception)
Saturday, 3/14 : 4-7pm (Gallery Open! Thank you Freedom Walker) – Event Cancelled.
Friday, 3/20 : 6:30-8:30pm (Event: Manifest Your Dreams) – Event Postponed
Saturday, 3/21 : 4-7pm (HOMe Project & Closing reception) – Event Postponed
Thursday, 3/26 : 7-9pm (Event: The Apology) – Event Postponed
Saturday, 3/28 : 2-3:30pm (Event: Native Edibles) Event Postponed
Tuesday, 3/31 : 7-8:30pm (Event: Nia & Ness)
Hours also available by appointment.
Source of Self-Regard Closing Reception/HOMe Project
Date: Saturday March 21st, 4pm – 7pm EVENT POSTPONED
Event Description:
Be a living participant in a “homey” art event installation & social experiment.
Participate in a choice variety of simple creating & sharing opportunities. A unique experience in celebration of all women while appreciating the art of black women displayed in the gallery space as a part of the “Source of Self Regard” exhibit.
We are having a dinner party, (among other things) and you’re invited!
It’s a no-stress, “we got the entree” dinner, with an optional, personally nostalgic potluck dessert, provided by you. . .
“Other things” may require a creative spirit, business cards, an idea of a Kingston woman you want to acknowledge, reflection, artwork 8” x 10” or smaller — focusing on a woman’s perspective, attention for a brief poetry reading related to the exhibit, and an opened heart ! Thank you much. Look forward to seeing you at HOMe.
For more information and to RSVP please contact Dahlia by March 18th at:
dahlia.lucky.arts1968@gmail.com
Please mention if you’ll be bringing the optional dessert.
Related Events:
Native Edibles for the Backyard Gardener
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:
Nia & Ness: run-home.
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
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 a Black, out-lesbian couple and performance-art duo, whose work serves as a visual-auditory diary of their daily lives. They believe that it’s necessary for their specific stories, as Black lesbian women, to be shared, and it is their responsibility to share them. Since officially starting their company in 2016, their work and love have transformed into something greater than the art and lives they initially dreamed of. They’ve toured two evening-length works, given speeches about their activism and shared their love at universities, colleges, conferences, festivals, churches, parks, bars and homes nationwide, and have been featured on multiple radio, tv and written news outlets. Taking their work beyond performances, they’ve recently launched their podcast, Reclaiming Love with Nia & Ness on Spotify, iTunes and iHeartRadio.
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).
Medicinal Mushroom Tincture Making Workshop
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.
The apology/”I’m sorry”: a workshop for survivors
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).
Riot of the Heart! Development Workshop
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!