What’s happening

• The next Esopus Repair Cafe will be held on Saturday, June

25, from 10a.m. to 2p.m. at the Ascension Church at 1585 U.S. Route 9W, West Park. Participants can bring their beloved but broken items for volunteer coaches to repair for free while they watch. Attendees are welcome to bring a nonperishable item for the church pantry. Please no gas-powered items. This is not a drop-off service, those who bring an item must stay with it. Volunteers are welcome. Call (845) 340-1293 or email esopusrepaircafe@gmail.com.

• The Olana Partnership and Sustain Music & Nature will host Trail Sessions, a hike and concert at Olana State Historic Site Saturday, June 25, from 1p.m. to 4p.m. After the hike, there will be an outdoor concert on Olana’s Ridge Road overlooking the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains featuring Hudson-based Murmur and Naomi Westwater, a queer Black multiracial singersongwriter from Boston. Tickets can be purchased at sustainmusicandnature.org, on a sliding donation scale from $5to $75. Children 12and under are free.

• The Good Work institute is hosting “Resisting Erasure,” an exhibition featuring Poughkeepsie-based artist Shirley ParkerBenjamin and photographer Onaje Benjamin through Oct.

8. Featured events interactive art-making workshop on July

9, a closing event on Oct. 8and chances to engage with the work on the second Saturday of each month. The Good Work Institute Greenhouse is located at, 65

St. James Street, Kingston. For more information visit https:// goodworkinstitute.org/resistingerasure/

• The Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle series at Bard College’s Olin Hall in Annandale-onHudson closes out with “Beloved Piano Quartets” Saturday, June 25, at 7p.m. Individual tickets are $35; $5for students. (845) 758-7900; fishercenter.bard. edu.

• The Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner, will have a Repair Café on Sunday, June 26, from 1to 4p.m. Repair Café is a free event where community members bring their broken items, and together with volunteer Repair Coaches, fix them. Broken items include small

appliances, lamps, frames, chairs and more. Visit www.repaircafehv.org for more information.

• The Stewart House and The Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society will have a fundraiser on Sunday, June 26, from 3to 5p.m. at the River Grill at The Stewart House, 1N. Water St., Athens. Tickets are available at The Stewart House, by visiting halps.org/fundraiser.html or by calling (518) 828-5294.

• Vassar College’s Music Department and the Hudson Valley Society for Musicians host a chorus and orchestra Sunday as part of the college’s Bach Fest, June 26, at 2p.m. at the college’s Skinner Hall of Music, 100Raymond Avenue, Arlington.

Directed by Christine Howlett the concern Der Herr Denket an uns BWV 196, ‘Brandenburg’ Concerto No. 5BWV 1050and Christ Lag in Todes Banden BWV 4S. For tickets visit vassar.edu/music/concerts. For a full list of Vassar’s BachFest event visit www.hvsocietyformusic.org. • Holy Cross/Santa Cruz Church’s exhibition “Celebrate Holy Cross/Santa Cruz … Its Artists, Its Mission, Its Preservation” Saturday, June 25, from 1 p.m. to 4p.m. features works by talented artisan parishioners.

See paintings, jewelry, quilts, needlework, and fabric artists on display in the church and parish hall at 30Pine Grove Ave., Kingston and meet a recently published children’s book author.

Tours of the church and the history of the carvings in the sanctuary will be available,

The Ulster Immigrant Defense Network will have an information table and the thrift shop will be open. For further information call the church office at (845) 331-6796.

• The Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase arrives at Bearsville Center, 277— 297Tinker Street, Woodstock, from Oct. 21-23. View fine, contemporary, handmade acoustic guitars and stringed musical instruments, exhibited by their creators in an intimate gathering of stringedinstrument builders, players, collectors and aficionados and enjoy continuous live music, from 11a.m. to 6p.m. each day of the

event in The Bearsville Theater Lounge. Additional seminars, workshops and concerts by separate admission. General Admission is $25per day. A threeday pass is $60. Advance tickets through the Bearsville Theater box office go on sale in June. • The United Methodist Church, 12Lafayette Ave., Coxsackie, will sponsor a take-out only chicken barbecue on Thursday, June 30, from 4to 6p.m. Tickets, which must be purchased by Thursday, June 23, are $15per person. Dinners will include a half-chicken, a baked potato, corn, coleslaw, a roll, butter and cookies. Orders can be picked up at the Lafayette Avenue parking lot. Tickets are available from any church member or by calling (518) 4289600or

(518) 731-8072. Call (518) 428-9600for delivery. • Cyclists can celebrate summer at the Kingston Food

Coop’s Summer Party and get their bicycle checked over by volunteers from Bike Friendly Kingston Saturday, July 9, from 11a.m. to 2p.m. in the Big Bubble Laundromat parking lot at 718 Broadway in Midtown Kingston. No advance registration required, but participants must sign in by 1:30p.m.. Bells, lights and bike helmets will be available at the event. The event is free, but donations are welcome. For more information, contact YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County Bicycle Educator, Tom Polk by calling (845-338-3810, Ext 102 Email: tpolk@ymcaulster.org