Past Calendar Events

Wednesday, May 20, 2026 @ 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm / Reception Gallery – 12 Vassar Street / Free Admission / Donations Welcome 

Saturday, May 16 @ 8:00 pm / 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

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

Friday, May 8, 2026 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm / Free Admission / Refreshments will be served

• Victorian Gallery @ 9 Vassar Street – Joel Mason, Photography
• Reception Gallery @ 12 Vassar Street – Julian Allen, Acrylics and Watercolor Paintings 
• Hancock Gallery @ 12 Vassar Street – Monika Kalra, Giclee Prints 

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

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.

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, April 25, 2026 and Sunday, April 26, 2026 / VBI Theatre – 12 Vassar Street / Performance Times and Ticket Information: From Stage To Screen Acting Studio

Junie B.’s Essential Survival Guide to School, Jr. is a heartwarming musical based on the bestselling books and continues the saga of the wisecracking first-grader who is a self-appointed expert on all things first grade.  Determined to write the ultimate guide, Junie B. deals with writer’s block, constantly gets into trouble and quickly realizes that she still has a lot to learn.

Saturday, April 18, 2026 / 11:00 am – 2:00 pm / 9 and 12 Vassar Street, Poughkeepsie, NY / $75 per person or $140 per couple / Click HERE To Purchase Online Tickets through Eventbrite / Click HERE to Make A Donation / To Pay by Check, call the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center Administrative Office at 845-486-4571 / NOTE: Limited Capacity and No Door Sales / Ticket Price includes entry in Door Prize Raffle Drawings / Ticket Purchase Deadline is April 10, 2026

Celebrate the arts at the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center’s fun-filled 2026 Annual Magnolia Party Brunch!

The event will be held in our two beautiful historic Victorian-age Italianate buildings beginning at 11:00 am with a music concert in the VBI Theater at 12 Vassar Street. Brunch will be served following the performance in the Grand Parlor at 9 Vassar Street. This year’s honorees are Community Leaders Maung Htoo, President of Vassar Brothers Institute and Ray Watkins, Musician and Vocalist.

This popular fundraising event includes:

• “Live” Music performances by Hudson Valley Gospel Festival Choir and Sisters in Spirit in the VBI Theater at 12 Vassar Street
• A scrumptious Hot and Cold Brunch Buffet served in the Grand Parlor at 9 Vassar Street provided by Mahoney’s Irish Pub & Steakhouse and The Bagel Shoppe
• Complimentary Bar Service of Wine, Beer, Mimosas and Soft Drinks
• Chances to win Door Prizes donated by Shadows on the Hudson, Savona’s Trattoria & Bar, Scott R. Halma Way Reiki & Reflexology, Mark Pukmel Massage Therapy, Carolyn Schlam (artwork), County Players at the Falls Theatre, CHAC Board of Directors (Basket of Assorted Wines), Jackie and Glenn Peterson (Lowes Garden Gift Bag and Gift Card), Nora and Charles Porter (Magnolia Tree)

The Annual Magnolia Party Brunch marks the memorable occasion in April of 1865 when Matthew Vassar cut a flowering branch of the Magnolia Tree at 9 Vassar Street and laid it atop President Abraham Lincoln’s coffin as his funeral train stopped at the Poughkeepsie Train Station. A descendant of that Magnolia Tree still graces the grounds of the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center and blooms every spring just in time for the Magnolia Party.

EVENT SPONSORS

Gold Level

Vassar Brothers Institute

Bronze Level

Central Hudson

A. Page & Associates

Marshall & Sterling

NBT Bank

The Bagel Shoppe

Renaissance Kids, Inc. 

Jackie and Glenn Peterson

Wine Provided By

 Millbrook Vineyards & Winery

Saturday, April 11, 2026 @ 8:00 pm / VBI Theater – 12 Vassar Street / Tickets: $30 / Advance Online Ticket Purchases: “Strings & Things” Eventbrite Tickets    

Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Mary Halvorson

Harmolodic bass legend Jamaaladeen Tacuma (Ornette Coleman) is joined by yet another MacArthur “genius” grantee this season, guitarist Mary Halvorson in “Strings & Things”.  Elysium Furnace Works

Thursday, April 2, 2026 @ 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm / VBI Theater – 12 Vassar Street / NOTE: RSVP Only – No Walk Ins / Click HERE to RSVP to this event and for more information 

Saturday, March 14, 2026 @ 8:00 pm / VBI Theater – 12 Vassar Street / Ticket Price: $30 / Advance Online Tickets: Tyshawn Sorey and Cooper-Moore Eventbrite Tickets

Tyshawn Sorey and Cooper-Moore

Friday, March 6, 2026 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm / Free Admission / Refreshments will be served

• Victorian Gallery @ 9 Vassar Street – Ivars Sprogis, Oil and Watercolor Paintings
• Reception Gallery @ 12 Vassar Street – Kevin Sterne, Abstract Art 
• Hancock Gallery @ 12 Vassar Street – Shirley Tuttle, Acrylic Paintings 

Saturday, February 28, 2026 and Sunday, March 1, 2026 / VBI Theatre – 12 Vassar Street / Performance Times and Ticket Information: Standing Room Only Theater Company

Saturday, February 27, 2026 from 6:oo pm to 7:00 pm / 2nd Floor Dance Studio (Note: No Black Bottom Sneakers allowed on dance floor) / 12 Vassar Street / Information and Registration: 845-625-3611 or Kishmode Fitness

Friday, February 13, 2026, Saturday, February 14, 2026 and Sunday, February 15, 2026 / VBI Theatre – 12 Vassar Street / Performance Times and Ticket Information: Rent Tickets

Saturday, January 24, 2026 and Sunday, February 1, 2026 (NOTE: February Performance is the postponed January 25, 2026 date due to inclement weather) / VBI Theatre – 12 Vassar Street / Performance Times and Ticket Information: Standing Room Only Theater Company

Saturday, January 17, 2026 and Sunday, January 18, 2026 / VBI Theatre – 12 Vassar Street / Performance Times and Ticket Information: From Stage To Screen Acting Studio

Jeremy Heere is just an average teenager. That is, until he finds out about “The Squip,” a tiny supercomputer that promises to bring him everything he desires most: a date with Christine, an invite to the raddest party of the year and a chance to survive life in his suburban New Jersey high school. But is being the most popular guy in school worth the risk? A hit on Broadway and in the West End, Be More Chill is a musical based on the novel by Ned Vizzini.

Saturday, January 10, 2026 and Sunday, January 11, 2026 / VBI Theatre – 12 Vassar Street / Performance Times and Ticket Information: From Stage To Screen Acting Studio

Saturday, January 3, 2026 @ 7:00 pm (SNOW DATE: Sunday, January 4, 2026 @ 2:00 pm) / VBI Theater – 12 Vassar Street / Ticket Information: $20 per person – Cash Only at the Door or In Advance at West Side Theatrix Spotlight Cabaret Tickets