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Discover Local Events: Launching Our New Community Calendar
Community Calendar | Pride Month | Memorial Revived
Jack Caseo
May 30, 2024
Good afternoon, Poughkeepsie.
In today’s Poughkeepsie Weekly:
📆 Community Calendar
Pride Month 🏳️🌈
Town Memorial Revived 🇺🇸
Let’s get to it.
- Jack Caseo, Anna Conway, & Trevor Redl
THE DIGEST
The New Community Calendar 🗓️
Explore our Community Calendar by clicking “Community Calendar” in the header navigation bar on our website.
As part of our mission to bring the community together, we aim to create the most comprehensive calendar for all Poughkeepsie events and activities.
To add an event to the calendar, please email [email protected] with the event address, a brief description, and any relevant links.
Small Business Spotlight
 | Local Vassar College student and member of the Vassar Men’s Soccer Team, Jacob Raphan, has launched a new soccer training business called Total Soccer Development. The business offers small group sessions, individual field player training, and collegiate-style goalkeeper training. To learn more, contact Jacob Raphan at (516) 260-1118 or [email protected]. |
Town of Poughkeepsie War Memorial Revitalized
The town laid wreaths and six banners were placed to honor the six branches of the military. To learn more about the memorial and those honored, click here.
📸 Chuck Calio 📍 Poughkeepsie Waterfront
WHAT’S HAPPENING
Pride Month 🏳️🌈
Celebrate Pride with these events:
 | 🎉 Poughkeepsie Pride Parade and Festival. The parade will line up on Market Street and Main Street and march down Main Street to the family-friendly Festival in Waryas Park. The parade lineup starts at 11 a.m. and steps off at 12 p.m. The Festival is from 12 – 5 p.m. Click here for more info. |
⚾️ Pride Baseball Game at the Hudson Valley Renegades. June 11th from 6:35 - 9:05 PM. A portion of all tickets sold will benefit the Dutchess County Pride Center! Tickets.
To learn about more events visit the Dutchess County Pride Center or Big Gay Hudson Valley.
Two great author events are coming up at the Library! 📖
This Weekend
🎪 Do Portugal Circus. Bringing a fun-filled, action-packed show for the entire family to enjoy including death-defying stunts, beautiful aerial acrobatics, jugglers, dancers, and the funniest clowns around! Tickets.
🏃♂️ 🏃♀️ Peach Hill Park 5k. Saturday, June 1st at 8:00 AM. Kick off Pride Month with a dash of community spirit at Peach Hill Park's much-anticipated annual 5K run/walk event! For more information and to register, visit here.
 | Hudson Valley Community Dances 💃 Saturday, June 1st. Free beginners swing dance lesson: 3:00 - 3:30 PM and the band plays from 3:30 - 6:00 PM. $20 admission. Located at New Beginnings CMA Church. |
🖼️ New Exhibit Opens at Gallery 40. Saturday, June 1st from 5:00 - 7:00 PM Opening Reception. “This Is Us” is a reflection of the work of the two Gallery 40 curators, Paola Bari and Mary Ann Glass, and their invited guests, Leslie Bender and Nansi Lent. With this show, Gallery 40 celebrates these four artists working in different mediums and different interpretations, from realism to abstract, from patterns to whimsical. The exhibition will be on display June 1 – 30. Be sure to attend the opening reception on June 1 from 5 – 7 p.m. More details.
Wakway Talks: Navigating The Underground Railroad in the Hudson Valley. Sunday, June 2nd from 2:30 - 3:30 PM. Presented by Peter Bunten at the East Gate Plaza in Poughkeepsie from 2:30 - 3:30 PM This event is free to attend and open to all. In the 18th and 19th centuries, African American people in the Mid-Hudson Valley faced enslavement, racism, and other barriers to full participation in the social and political milieus of New York. The Hudson River – both actual and as a metaphor – offers a centerpiece for understanding those barriers and the fight for freedom. More details.
CIVIL NEWS ⚖️
City of Poughkeepsie Common Council Meeting - June 4th.
Town of Poughkeepsie Town Board Meeting - June 5th.
WEATHER
Thursday
72 🌡️ 51 | 🌤️
Friday
74 🌡️ 50 | ☀️
Saturday
79 🌡️ 48 | ☀️
Sunday
76 🌡️ 54 | 🌧️
LIVE MUSIC & COMEDY LOWDOWN 🎤
*Know of a live music event we missed? Let us know!
Friday
Pizza E Birra | Devin Daversa | 6-9 PM
Joseph’s Italian Steakhouse | Kevin Kennedy | 6:30 PM
Noochs | James Patrick 7-10 PM
Performing Arts at Rhinebeck | The Little Tragedies | 8-10 PM
Towne Crier Cafe | The Slambovian Circus of Dreams | 8:30 PM
Daryls House | A Celebration of the Allman Brothers | 8 PM
Saturday
Jason Patrick’s | Losing Our Faculties
Daryls House | Brunch: Michael Bram & Chris Vitarello | 12 PM
Daryls House | Matt Jacob | 3 PM
Barton Orchards | Skin & Bones | 5:30 - 8:30 PM
Juan Murphys | Bianca Carano & Heather Colvin + DJ Jay Beats | 7:30 PM
Darby O’Gill’s | Charlene & The Atomic Cowboyz | 8 PM
Laugh it up Comedy Club | Jordan Jensen | 8 PM
Daryls House | Rush Tribute Project | 8 PM
Towne Crier Cafe | Back to the Garden 1969 | 8:30 PM
Refinery 51 | 25 Years Farewell Party - DJ | 9 PM
Performing Arts at Rhinebeck | The Little Tragedies | 8-10 PM
1915 Wine Cellar | Myles Mancuso | 8-10 PM
Sunday
Daryls House | Brunch: The Ken Morr Duo | 12 PM
Daryls House | George Mallas & Louise Mosrie | 3 PM
Performing Arts at Rhinebeck | The Little Tragedies | 3 PM
Joseph’s Italian Steakhouse | Kristen & Nick Bukuvalas | 4:30 - 7:30 PM
Daryls House | A tribute to Sheryl Crow and the Pretenders | 7 PM
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