Name: Crazy Christine Balloons
Start: 2026-10-29T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Clutch & Throttle

Clutch & Throttle

Join us for Storytime with Balloons, a special event celebrating the legendary Harry Houdini. This magical afternoon is presented in collaboration with Magic On Main and hosted at Clutch &amp; Throttle, where you can enjoy coffee, cookies, and milkshakes during the performance.

Local Event: Crazy Christine Balloons

Greene County

Greene

Windham

New York

Crazy Christine Balloons

Join us for Storytime with Balloons, a special event celebrating the legendary Harry Houdini. This magical afternoon is...

Vassar College Taylor Hall, Main Campus Dr, Arlington, NY, 12603

Oct. 28, 2026, 5:30–7:00 p.m.Location: Taylor Hall, Room 102
Andrea Fraser is an artist and professor at the University of California Los Angeles. Her work investigates the social, financial, and affective economies of cultural institutions, fields, and groups. Identified with feminism, performance, and institutional critique, she combines the site-specific and research-based practices of conceptualism with feminist investigations of subjectivity and desire.
Sponsored by the Art Department.
The event is free and open to the public.

Local Event: Agnes Rindge Claflin Lecture: Andrea Fraser

Dutchess County

Mid Hudson Valley

Agnes Rindge Claflin Lecture: Andrea Fraser

Oct. 28, 2026, 5:30–7:00 p.m.Location: Taylor Hall, Room 102
Andrea Fraser is an artist and professor at the University of...

Vassar College

Oct. 28, 2026, 5:30–6:45 p.m.Location: Taylor Hall 203
Nicola Yoon is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Instructions for Dancing; Everything, Everything; The Sun Is Also a Star; and co-author of Blackout. She is a National Book Award finalist, Michael L. Printz Award recipient, and Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe New Talent Award winner, and the first Black woman to hit #1 on the New York Times Young Adult best-seller list. Two of her novels have been made into major motion pictures, and she’s the co-publisher of Joy Revolution, a Random House young adult imprint dedicated to love stories starring people of color. She grew up in Jamaica and Brooklyn, NY, and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, novelist David Yoon, and their daughter.
Sponsored by the <a href="https://www.vassar.edu/education" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Education Department</a>, the <a href="https://www.vassar.edu/africana-studies" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Africana Studies Program</a>, the <a href="https://www.vassar.edu/american-and-native-american-studies" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">American and Native American Studies Program</a>, the <a href="https://www.vassar.edu/english" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">English Department</a>, the <a href="https://www.vassar.edu/internationalstudies" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">International Studies Program</a>, the <a href="https://www.vassar.edu/asian-studies" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Asian Studies Program</a>, the <a href="https://www.vassar.edu/film" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Film Department</a>, and the <a href="https://www.vassar.edu/engaged-pluralism" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Engaged Pluralism Program</a>.
A Louise Seaman Bechtel (1915) Lecture.
This event is free and open to the public.

Local Event: An Engaging Conversation with New York Times best-selling author Nicola Yoon.

An Engaging Conversation with New York Times...

Oct. 28, 2026, 5:30–6:45 p.m.Location: Taylor Hall 203
Nicola Yoon is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Instructions...

An Engaging Conversation with New York Times best-selling author Nicola Yoon.

Hudson River Maritime Museum

Come to the Homeport Barn for this special screening of "The Keeper"! This screening will feature a talk with Jon Bowermaster and special guest John Lipscomb.
Like many rivers around the world – the Hudson, America's First River and the Birthplace of the American Environmental Movement – boomed as a growing human population used it for transportation, sustenance and, for many years, a dumping ground. The river paid a price for all this use and abuse, struggling against its share of contamination. For the past nearly three decades the river's poet laureate and literal "eyes on the river," Captain John, has been at the forefront of each of those fights, taking on industrial and human pollution, suffering the losses and celebrating victories.
While he has had successes on the Hudson, committing a life to protecting a river is a never-ending fight. Today, John Lipscomb is one of more than 300 “Keepers” around the globe, looking out for their respective rivers.

Local Event: The Keeper Screening and Talk with Jon Bowermaster and John Lipscomb

The Keeper Screening and Talk with Jon...

Come to the Homeport Barn for this special screening of "The Keeper"! This screening will feature a talk with Jon Bowermaster...

The Keeper Screening and Talk with Jon Bowermaster and John Lipscomb

City Winery Hudson Valley

City Winery Hudson Valley presents Hocus Pocus Drag Dinner on Wednesday, October 28th, at 7:00 PM.
It’s time to put a little magic on the menu. Join us for a spellbinding Hocus Pocus Drag Dinner hosted by Lady Celestina, featuring fabulous drag performances, delicious food, and plenty of Halloween fun. Inspired by the cult-classic film, this spirited evening brings together dinner, dazzling performances, and a little bit of mischief for a night you won’t soon forget.
Gather your coven, come in costume, and get ready for an evening of drag, dinner, and Hocus Pocus magic at City Winery Hudson Valley.
Doors open: 6:00 PM<a href="https://eventvesta.com/events/164180/t/tickets" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View Tickets &amp; More Info</a>

Local Event: Hocus Pocus Drag Dinner

Hocus Pocus Drag Dinner

City Winery Hudson Valley presents Hocus Pocus Drag Dinner on Wednesday, October 28th, at 7:00 PM.
It’s time to put a little...

Olmsted Greenhouse

Oct. 30, 2026, 2:00–5:00 p.m.Location: Olmsted Greenhouse
Trick or treat at the Greenhouse! Celebrate Halloween with a hands-on activity and seasonal treats while exploring some of the greenhouse’s strange and unusual plants. Vassar’s Artifacts Project (VCAP) will also share items from its taxidermy collection. Come in costume to enter the costume contest, with prizes for the best costumes.
<img src="https://www.vassar.edu/sites/default/files/2026-09/IMG_2650.jpg" alt="Potted plants, miniature pumpkins, and a bat decoration surround a “Happy Halloween” sign on a greenhouse table.">
Drop by anytime between 2:00 and 5:00 p.m. The greenhouse is on the lower level behind Olmsted Hall, facing Skinner Music Hall. Visitors can park in the South Lot and take the stairs by Skinner. Accessible parking is available next to the greenhouse: Turn onto Chapel Gate from Raymond Avenue, then take the first right down the hill.
Sponsored by the <a href="https://www.vassar.edu/greenhouse" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Olmsted Greenhouse</a>.
This event is free and open to the public.

Local Event: Boos and Blooms at the Greenhouse

Boos and Blooms at the Greenhouse

Oct. 30, 2026, 2:00–5:00 p.m.Location: Olmsted Greenhouse
Trick or treat at the Greenhouse! Celebrate Halloween with a hands-on...

Vassar College Music Department - Skinner Hall

Oct. 30, 2026, 7:30 p.m.Location: Skinner Hall of Music
Six-time Grammy-nominated Skylark vocal ensemble presents Sleepy Hollow, a haunting musical retelling of Washington Irving’s beloved Hudson Valley ghost story. Conceived by Artistic Director Matthew Guard, the program blends narration, folk song, shape-note singing, part-song, and instrumental improvisation to evoke the world of Ichabod Crane, Brom Bones, and the legendary Headless Horseman.
Featuring narration by actor, singer, and educator Tynan Davis and atmospheric cello improvisations by Thomas Barth, Sleepy Hollow transforms Irving’s classic tale into an immersive journey through the folklore, music, and imagination of early America. By turns humorous, mysterious, and haunting, the performance brings one of the Hudson Valley’s most enduring legends vividly to life.
Matthew Guard, Artistic Director
Sponsored by the <a href="https://www.vassar.edu/music" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Music Department</a>. This event is free and open to the public.

Local Event: Skylark

Skylark

Oct. 30, 2026, 7:30 p.m.Location: Skinner Hall of Music
Six-time Grammy-nominated Skylark vocal ensemble presents Sleepy...

Nov. 1, 2026, 3:00 p.m.Location: Skinner Hall of Music
The Play of Opposites: The music of Beethoven foreshadows the later 19th-century obsession with the depiction of character in music. This program features works from Beethoven through the Romantics that explore oppositions in character. A piece from the French modernist Dutilleux turns musical material against itself, in a different sort of opposition. Thomas Sauer, piano.
Sponsored by the <a href="https://www.vassar.edu/music" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Music Department</a>.
This event is free and open to the public.

Local Event: The Play of Opposites: Thomas Sauer, piano

The Play of Opposites: Thomas Sauer, piano

Nov. 1, 2026, 3:00 p.m.Location: Skinner Hall of Music
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