Friday, May 1, 2026 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm / VBI Theater – 12 Vassar Street / Click HERE to Sign Up To Attend
It is May Day—a national day of action—to push back as workers, soldiers and we will also protest the inhumane treatment of our immigrant neighbors. – For The Many
Saturday, May 2, 2026 @ 7:00 pm / VBI Theater – 12 Vassar Street / Tickets: Isadora at Flora’s Feast
Rosemary Cooper, Assistant Director of Isadora Duncan International Dance Institute, Inc.
Isadora at Flora’s Feast: Heaven in a Wildflower invites audiences into a realm between gravity and grace, where earth’s energies rise, dance becomes landscape, and spring’s promise—petal by petal—is fulfilled. The evening burgeons onstage through original and new choreography and videography shaped by garden paths, mythic winds, impassioned ardor, and the cyclical flowering of life itself. Music by Gluck, Grieg, Mozart, Brahms, Borodin, Bruch, and Strauss accompanies a sweeping arc of human experience—from budding innocence to the tempest-tossed, from athletic, radiant youth to communion with the infinite. Isadora Duncan International Institute, Inc.
Sunday, May 3, 2026 / Workshops at 12 Vassar Street: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Bad Ass Veil Belly Dance Class in the Dance Studio (2nd Floor) and 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Instrumental Instruction of Belly Dance Rhythms in the Reception Art Gallery (1st Foor); Belly Dance Performance from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm in the VBI Theater – 12 Vassar Street / Tickets Information: Hips of the Hudson 2
Friday, May 8, 2026 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm / Free Admission / Refreshments will be served
Friday, May 8, 2026 @ 7:00 pm and Saturday, May 9, 2026 @ 2:00 pm / VBI Theatre – 12 Vassar Street / Ticket Information: SRO and In Flight, Inc. The Wizard of Oz Tickets
Saturday, May 16 @ 10:00 am / VBI Theatre – 12 Vassar Street / Tickets: $20 Advance and $30 Door / Advance Online Ticket Purchases: gabby fluke-mogul and Charles Burnham Eventbrite Tickets
gabby fluke-mogul and Charles Burnham
String duos remain the Elysium Furnace Works thing with this incendiary gathering of two contemporary violin virtuosi: educator and Creative Music Studio executive director gabby fluke-mogul joining forces with veteran Downtown musician Charles Burnham. Elysium Furnace Works
Wednesday, May 20, 2026 @ 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm / Reception Gallery – 12 Vassar Street / Free Admission / Donations Welcome
Friday, May 23, 2026 / 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm / VBI Theater – 12 Vassar Street / Tickets: Free/Pay What You Can ($10 suggested donation)
“Jordan Taylor went missing January 6th, 2023. This documentary follows the search party and the impacts of loss—including interviews with his Poughkeepsie community. Several interviews were held at the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, and this venue is especially appropriate for the Film Premiere.” – Alex Levy and Jesse Ginsburg
Click HERE to see a short clip of the film
Saturday, May 30, 2026 / 7:00 pm / VBI Theatre – 12 Vassar Street / $40 per person / To purchase Tickets Click HERE / A Limited Number of Tickets will be Available at the Door to Purchase by Cash Only / Open Seating
For over 25 years, The Chain Gang Band has been entertaining audiences with a 250-song repertoire of timeless tunes and genres from the 1960’s to the 1980’s as well as with critically acclaimed tribute concerts. Their Billy Joel Tribute Concert at the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center covers the span of Billy Joel’s career that includes iconic hits such as “Just The Way You Are”, “Allentown”, “Piano Man” and “Movin’ Out”. All of the songs are performed in their original arrangements and fans of this talented five-piece band remark that “if you close your eyes, you will think you’re at Billy’s (Joel) concert!” The Chain Gang Band is comprised of Sam Costanzo on lead vocals, Doug Abramson on bass, Dan Kalbfus on keyboards, Tom Nastasi on guitar, and Rich Iula on drums.
Saturday, June 6, 2026 and Sunday, June 7, 2026 / VBI Theatre – 12 Vassar Street / Performance Times and Ticket Information: From Stage To Screen Acting Studio
Saturday, June 13, 2026 and Sunday, June 14, 2026 / VBI Theatre – 12 Vassar Street / Performance Times and Ticket Information: From Stage To Screen Acting Studio
Saturday, June 27, 2026 @ 8:00 pm / VBI Theatre – 12 Vassar Street / Tickets: $30 Advance and $40 Door / Advance Online Ticket Purchases: For Living Lovers Eventbrite Tickets
Brandon Ross and Stomu Takeishi
String duos continue into the summer for Elysium Furnace Works with this celebrated, long-running, unplugged project featuring acoustic guitarist/banjoist/vocalist Ross and acoustic bass guitarist Takeishi, building upon their initial association in the ensembles of Henry Threadgill to craft an innovative, distinctively chamber-like approach to modern string music. Elysium Furnace Works
Friday, July 10, 2026 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm / Free Admission / Refreshments will be served
Saturday, July 18, 2026 @ 8:00 pm / VBI Theatre – 12 Vassar Street / Tickets: $20 Advance and $30 Door / Advance Online Ticket Purchases: Ingrid Laubrock and Cecilia Lopez Eventbrite Tickets
Ingrid Laubrock and Cecilia Lopez
A duo of very different sort, composer/saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and multimedia artist Cecelia Lopez sculpt otherworldly soundscapes rich with electro-acoustic invention in this startling collaboration. Elysium Furnace Works
Friday, September 11, 2026 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm / Free Admission / Refreshments will be served
Friday, October 22, 2026 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm / Free Admission / Refreshments will be served
Saturday, October 24, 2026 @ 8:00 pm / VBI Theatre – 12 Vassar Street / Tickets: $20 Advance and $30 Door / Advance Online Ticket Purchases: sinonó Eventbrite Tickets
This singular trio, sinonó, highlights three prodigiously talented up-and-coming artists — vocalist/composer isabel crespo-pardo, cellist Lester St. Louis and bassist Henry Fraser — who weave together Latin American folk, chamber music, and free improvisation to create a space of inimitable, crackling vitality. Elysium Furnace Works
Friday, November 6, 2026 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm / Free Admission / Refreshments will be served
Saturday, December 12, 2026 @ 8:00 pm / VBI Theatre – 12 Vassar Street / Tickets: $30 Advance and $40 Door / Advance Online Ticket Purchases: PAKT Eventbrite Tickets
The members of PAKT
This prog-prov supergroup closes out our 2026 season in soaring fashion when these four enormously accomplished musicians — guitarists Alex Skolnick, Tim Motzer, fretless bass guitarist Percy Jones, and drummer Kenny Grohowski — perform a completely improvised set of music notable for its peerless, expressive intensity and imagination. Elysium Furnace Works