Fairs & Festivals Albany Institute of History & Art 125 Washington Ave., Albany albanyinstitute.org (518) 463-4478 Saturday, April 20: Hudson Valley Hops. 4 p.m. Celebrate the history of brewing in the Hudson Valley and sample the finest local craft brews.
Michael J. Quill Irish Cultural and Sports Centre 2267 Route 145, Durham mjqirishcentre.com (518) 634-2286 Saturday, May 25 - Sunday, May 26: East Durham Irish Festival. Two days of Ireland in America with musical entertainment, dancing, food and activities for all ages. Children have their own entertainment area featuring singalongs and a professional storyteller.
Village of Lake George Canada Street, Lake George lgcraftshows.vpweb.com Saturday, May 18 - Sunday, May 19: Lake George’s Italian Festival. Food, crafts, artisans and more.
Washington County Fairgrounds 392 Old Schuylerville Road, Greenwich washingtoncountyfair.com (518) 692-2464 Saturday, May 4 - Sunday, May 5: Washington County Antique Fair. More than 200 vendors from around the USA and Canada. Dealers bring their treasured antiques, collectibles, and crafts.
Washington Park Madison Ave., Albany (518) 428-0056 Saturday, May 11 - Sunday, May 12: The 65th-annual Tulip Festival. Historic events take place annually, including the scrubbing of State Street, the tradition of the Tulip Queen Coronation, Tulip Queen and Court Luncheon and Royal Tulip Ball. As always, Saturday and Sunday include the added excitement of children’s activities, craft vendors, delicious food and multiple stages with nationally acclaimed musical performances. Sunday’s events
include the 14th Annual Mother of the Year Award.
Words & Ideas Albany Institute of History & Art 125 Washington Ave., Albany albanyinstitute.org (518) 463-4478 Sunday, April 7: Making the Circus American. 2 p.m. In this series, invited scholars analyze American values and ideals to enhance our experience and understanding of our world. Matthew Wittmann, curatorial fellow, Bard Graduate Center, will show how Americans took a European cultural art and transformed it into the iconic railroad circuses that grew into one of our most popular entertainment forms.
Albany Law School
80 New Scotland Ave., Albany Wednesday, April 10: 19th Annual Kate Stoneman Day. 5:30 p.m. Patricia J. Williams, the James L. Dohr professor of Law at Columbia Law School and author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor, will deliver the keynote speech at the 19th Annual Kate Stoneman Day. Stoneman was the first woman admitted to practice law in New York state and the first female graduate of Albany Law School in 1898.
College of Saint Rose
will receive an introduction to an agent or publisher appropriate for his or her book. Thursday, April 11: Frequency North: Meg Kearney and M. Bartley “Matt” Seigel. 7:30 p.m. Kearney’s most recent collection of poems, Home By Now, was winner of the 2010 PEN New England LL Winship Award. Seigel is founder of [PANK] a nonprofit literary arts collective that includes PANK Magazine, the Little Book Series and the Invasion Readings across the country.
Saint Joseph Hall Auditorium 985 Madison Ave., Albany Monday, April 15: William Randolph Hearst Symposium on Innovations in Communications. 4 p.m. Scott M. Sassa, president of Hearst Entertainment and Syndication, will address the revolution in communication and culture driven by emerging media.
EMPAC 110 Eighth St., Troy empac.rpi.edu (518) 276-3921 Wednesday, April 17: N. Katherine Hayles: Performing Technogenesis: The Affective Power of Digital Media. 6 p.m. In this lecture, N. Katherine Hayles will explore the co-evolution of technical objects and contemporary humans. Wednesday, May 1: David Link: Software Archaeology. 6 p.m. Media archaeologist and artist David Link will discuss software archaeology through historic examples, such as the early computer, Ferranti Mark 1.
Hubbard Interfaith Sanctuary
Hudson Valley Community College
959 Madison Ave., Albany strose.edu Thursday, April 11: Sidney and Beatrice Albert Interfaith Lectureship. 7:30 p.m. Daisy Kahn from the American Society of Muslim Advancement will present the annual lecture.
Bulmer Telecommunications Center Auditorium
Events and Athletics Center 420 Western Ave., Albany Sunday, April 7: Frequency North: Pitchapalooza! 2 p.m. Local authors will have a chance to land a book deal when Pitchapalooza! returns to The College of Saint Rose. Twenty writers will be selected at random to pitch their book ideas. Each will have one minute to make the best pitch possible to Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry, authors and Pitchapalooza creators, along with guest judges. The judges will pick a winner, who
19th-century engineer who created Manhattan’s street grid (and who was born and raised in Albany). Sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute, Friends of the NYS Library and N.Y. Council for the Humanities.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Biotech Auditorium 110 Eighth St., Troy rpi.edu Wednesday, April 17: Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist. 8 p.m. Marilynne Robinson, celebrated fiction writer who received the Pulitzer for Gilead (2004), is the author most recently of When I Was a Child I Read Books (2012), reflections on disquieting cultural trends. Booklist called it, “intellectually sophisticated, beautifully reasoned with gravitas and grace.” Robinson’s first novel, Housekeeping, was named one
of the 100 best novels (19232005) by Time magazine.
University at Albany Campus Center/ Assembly Hall
1400 Washington Ave., Albany Friday, April 19: Manil Suri, fiction writer and mathematician. 8 p.m. Suri, Indian-American novelist, is the author of The City of Devi (2013), set in the author’s native Mumbai after it has been abandoned under threat of nuclear attack. Suri’s The Death of Vishnu (2001), received the Barnes & Noble Discover Award. Mathematics professor at U Maryland, Suri specializes in partial differential equations. Friday, May 3: Russell Shorto. 3:15 p.m. Journalist and historian Russell Shorto is renowned for his bestselling history of life in Dutch colonial New York, He presents the Fossieck Lecture. Monday, May 6: K. Eric Drexler, Founding Father of Nanotechnology. 8 p.m. The
world’s first molecular engineer, established principles of molecular design with his 1981 paper “Molecular engineering.” In 1986, he published the extremely influential book, Engines of Creation. His new book, his first in 20 years, is Radical Abundance (2013).
Campus Center/Ballroom Thursday, April 25: Chris Bohjalian. 8 p.m. Bohjalian is the author of 15 novels, most recently of the N.Y. Times bestseller, The Sandcastle Girls (2012), an epic tale of the Armenian Genocide that mines Bohjalian’s own Armenian heritage (his grandparents survived the tragedy).
Page Hall, downtown campus 135 Western Ave., Albany Tuesday, April 30: Gail Collins, New York Times Columnist. 8 p.m. One of the most recognizable names in American journalism, Collins served as the first female editor of the New York Times Editorial Page (2001-7)
AN WE TALK HERE? Joan Rivers, comedy legend, performs at the The Colonial Theatre C in Pittsfield on May 10. — PHOTO COURTESY JOAN RIVERS
80 Vandenburgh Ave., Troy hvcc.edu (518) 629-7180 Friday, April 12: An Afternoon with Author Anne Lamott. 11 a.m. The best-selling author most recently published Help,Thanks,Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.
New York State Museum Huxley Theater, Cultural Education Center 222 Madison Ave., Albany (518) 442-5620 Thursday, April 11: Marguerite Holloway. 8 p.m. Holloway, science journalist, is the author of The Measure of Manhattan, a biography of John Randel, Jr., the eccentric
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