Free! Please call 518-746-2560 to register - last minute registrations are being accepted as are walk-ins.

Is your home Radon free? Radon exposure in the home is a dangerous and serious health issue affecting Washington County residents.   The Washington County Radon Program urges the community to learn about the risks of radon exposure and how easy it is to test your home.

Radon is a radioactive gas that is naturally released in rock, soil, and water from naturally decaying uranium.  It is invisible and an odorless, tasteless gas.  While levels of radon outside pose a low level threat to humans, radon inside a home or building is dangerous and deadly. Exposure to radon gas causes more than 20,000 deaths annually and is the leading cause of lung cancer among non-smokers and second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States.
 

In this FREE education program, you will learn about radon exposure, prevention, and how testing your home is not only essential, but easy to do.  For more information, contact the Washington County Cornell Cooperative Extension at 518-746-2560.  Please call by March 8 to pre-register.

Adirondack Pack Baskets
Adirondack Pack Basket Making
Saturday, March 13: 9am-4pm
Taught by Bliss McIntosh
Cost: 60.00 members / 70.00 nonmembers
Fee includes all materials, including straps.

Please bring with you a bag lunch, scissors, tape measure, pencil, a small screwdriver and spring-type clothespins. Register early, limited to 12 students! Call 518-677-2495 to register!

Creative Drawing
Creative Drawing
Taught by Gabi Moore
Wednesdays, 6-9pm
Six-week Term: March 17 - April 28
  No Class on April 7
195.00 members / 215.00 nonmembers (includes model fees)
Beacon Feed Visual Art Studio

Learn to draw still life and the human figure under the enthusiastic coaching of art teacher Gabi Moore. Combining classical techniques with exercises that unleash the creative process, each participant in this workshop gains essential tools for drawing while developing their unique artistic expression. Learn gesture and contour drawing, modeling, shading, proportion, short cuts to perspective and approaches to composition. Working in pencil and charcoal, the participant will alternately emphasize drawing expressively and with control, which will help them gain confidence and joy in drawing. The practical tools gained in this course will prepare you for a lifetime of making art.

Gabi Moore taught art at Fordham University in New York City for seven years. She is an MFA graduate of The New York Academy of Art in Manhattan and a resident of Cambridge. The workshop schedule includes set-up and clean up and a short discussion. Participants will bring their own art materials to class.

List of required materials:

• 3 small packs of vine charcoal, soft, medium, hard One sheet or booklet (found at art shops) of fine sandpaper 120 grit
• Pencil sharpener
• Graphite pencils 6B, 2B, B, H
• Kneaded eraser
• Art gum eraser (yellow block)
• Small white vinyl eraser (Staedtler Mars Plastic®)
• Medium size stump for blending
• 100 sheet 50lb all purpose sketch paper (or two pads of 50 sheets)
• 2-3 sheets Canson or other charcoal paper bought individually, or an inexpensive pad
• 2 large clips
• Pocket mirror (palm sized compact or other type)

On the anniversary of his family’s arrival in America, Kevin O'Hara, author of the recently released A Lucky Irish Lad and Last of the Donkey Pilgrims, will recount the his childhood in mid-20th-century Massachusetts, where he and his eight siblings grew up under the guidance of their Irish immigrant parents' faith, which also formed O'Hara's values throughout his service in Vietnam.

Curiosity Forum events are a collaboration between Hubbard Hall Projects, Battenkill Books, and the Open Studios of Washington County.

Cloud Walking
Cloud Walking
a dance piece for 12 movers
by Katy Schonbeck
Friday, March 19, 2010 at 8pm
Hubbard Hall Mainstage

Cloud Walking, a dance piece for 12 movers, by Katy Schonbeck, will be performed Friday, March 19, at 8 PM at Hubbard Hall, Cambridge, NY. Schonbeck creates a series of ever-shifting landscapes, intimate interior spaces and expansive exterior ones. Her dancers move through these hauntingly beautiful worlds as we all do in life, sometimes alone, sometimes with a partner, often as part of a larger community. Schonbeck categorizes her work as "elegant pedestrian," familiar movement and relationships that are slowed down enough to be seen and considered.

Schonbeck's intergenerational company is made up of local talent, and are more commonly thought of as teachers, woodworkers, mothers, fathers, grandparents, daughters, equestrians, social workers, musicians, sales clerks, fiances and tree surgeons. Their performance in Cloud Walking recreates the diverse, tightly woven tapestry of our families and our community.

Also included in the evenings performance will be a showing of a new ensemble work by performance artist Stefanie Weber.

Hypertufa Pot Making
Hypertufa Pot Workshop Saturday, March 20: 10am-12:30pm Taught by Caz Lewis Cost: members, / nonmembers materials fee Unleash artistic creativity in your garden with hypertufa.  Hypertufa is a lightweight concrete mixture that can be molded into many long-lasting forms. This workshop will introduce the basic mixing and molding techniques needed to make a small planting trough. Participants will need to come with sturdy rubber gloves, a dust mask and a plastic grocery or bread bag. All other materials provided. Limited to 10 participants.

Celtic Footprints
Celtic Footprints: A Journey of Story, Dance and Song
Ellen Sinapoli Dance Company
with storyteller Bairbre McCarthy

Saturday
March 20, 2010 at 7pm
(Snow Date: March 21 at 3pm) Hubbard Hall

Choreographer Ellen Sinopoli and storyteller Bairbre McCarthy take families on a fantastical journey weaving stories, song and movement to follow the footprints of the Celts from Central Europe to Scotland, Wales & Ireland and then across the Atlantic to Appalachia. See and hear the myth of the seal people; the legend of the swans; the adventures of Jack (beyond the beanstalk); the tale of Norouas, the Northwest wind; and, the story of Dagda’s magical harp!  Stories of a very special people that bring laughter, thrills, sadness and silliness to touch your hearts.
 

Please call 518-677-2495 for tickets!
15.00 nonmembers, 12.00 members, 5.00 children/students

This performance is supported by the New York State DanceForce with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts Dance Program.

Music from Salem
Music from Salem
Concert at Hubbard Hall
Sunday March 28th, 2pm

An extravaganza featuring Music from Salem artistic directors, students and colleagues

Schumann Pieces in Folk Style for Cello and Piano
Mozart Piano Quartet in E-flat Major
Brahms String Sextet in G Major

Faculty performers: Elizabeth Chang, violin (U-Mass Amherst), Lila Brown, viola (Boston Conservatory, MfS Director), Rhonda Rider, cello (Boston Conservatory, MfS Director) Judith Gordon, piano (Smith College, MfS Director)

Graduate student performers: Michelle Painter, violin (U-Mass Amherst), Brian Sherwood, viola (Boston Conservatory), Nora Karakousoglou, cello (Boston Conservatory)

Concert Admission: Pay what you can, so everyone can attend!
(Suggested amount: 20.00)

For reservations call Hubbard Hall: 518.677.2495
www.hubbardhall.org for more info on Music from Salem events visit: www.musicfromsalem.org

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