Friday, September 11, 2026 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm / Free Admission / Refreshments will be served
Saturday, September 12, 2026 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Sunday, September 13, 2026 from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm /Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center – 9 & 12 Vassar Street, Poughkeepsie, NY / Free Admission / Click HERE for more information and for Additional Participating Locations and Artists
9 Vassar Street: Featured Resident Artists’ Studios – Onaje Benjamin, Shirley Parker-Benjamin, Laura Polirer, Lauren Hollick and Carolyn Schlam
12 Vassar Street: Featured Resident Artists’ Studios – WomensWork.Art / Nikki Hung and Elinor Levy
September/October 2026 Art Exhibitions: 9 Vassar Street – Liliana Washburn in the Victorian Gallery / 12 Vassar Street – Group Exhibition What Comes Back: Renewal and Resilience curated by Barbara Todd in the Reception and Hancock Galleries
Saturday, September 19, 2026 @ 8:00 pm / VBI Theater – 12 Vassar Street / Tickets: $20 Advance and $30 Door / Advance Online Ticket Purchases: Judi Silvano’s Garden Winds
The gifted vocalist and composer Silvano leads a new trio – Garden Winds – with Haruna Fukazawa on flutes and Claire de Brunner on bassoon. The gifted vocalist and composer Silvano leads a new, thoroughly unique trio featuring Haruna Fukazawa on flutes and Claire de Brunner on bassoon, celebrating their upcoming first recording of their chamber sensibility deeply informed by poetry and improvisation. Elysium Furnace Works
Sunday, September 27, 2026 @ 3:00 pm / VBI Theater – 12 Vassar Street / Tickets: Adults $75; Seniors $70; Students $15 / Open Seating / Ticket Purchase Information: HVSO
Celebrate the musical arc of America with chamber ensembles of the HVSO. Journey with us through folk-inspired works by Florence Price to the jazzy themes of George Gershwin, from introspection and nostalgia of Samuel Barber’s Summer Music and Charles Ives’ Unanswered Question to the rollicking Hoe Down by Aaron Copland!
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 Theater – 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 Theater – 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