What’s happening

• Coach House Players, 12 Augusta St., Kingston, will present performances of “Murder Once Removed” on Friday and Saturday, April 21 and 22, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 23, at 2 p.m. Ticket reservations can be made at www.coachhouseplayers.org. Tickets are $20, with $18 for seniors 62 and over and $10 for youngsters 18and under. Note that a credit card processing fee will be added to all ticket prices. The theater is handicapped-accessible with assistance.

• The Women Photographers Collective of the Hudson Valley’s exhibit “Beneath the Surface” will take place at the Olive Free Library, 4033 state Route 28A, West Shokan from May 13-July 8. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, May 20, from 3to 5p.m. Participating artists include Gail Albert, Ana Bergen, Shari Diamond, Jill Enfield, Lori Grinker, Maria Fernanda Hubeaut, Kay Kenny, Dorethea Marcus, Meryl Meisler, Charley Mitcherson, Susan Phillips, Carla Shapiro and Ruth Wetzel. Gallery hours are Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday from noon to 7p.m. and Saturday from 10a.m. to 4p.m.

• Kaatsabaan Cultural Park, 120 Broadway, Tivoli, will present a live storytelling experience, titled “The Porch,” on Saturday, April 29, at 7 p.m. The event will feature spoken word stories as a change of pace from screen entertainment. The series features local characters telling local stories to audiences in the area. The speakers include actors, thespians, playwrights, radio presenters and artists in the area. Tickets are $25. To purchase tickets and for more information, visit https://kaatsbaan.org/calendar/2023/4/29/ storytelling-the-porch.

• The Committee for Equity in Education, Citizen Action and Rise up Kingston will host “Solutions not Suspensions” a “teach-in” on Saturday, May 6, from 1 to 3p.m. at the Kingston Library at 55Franklin St., Kingston. The organizers will focus on solutions for reducing school suspensions in the Kingston City School District, examine local data showing the disproportionate suspension rates for marginalized and vulnerable students, and hear stories about the effects of these suspensions. Childcare, light refreshments and Spanish interpretation will be provided. The event is open to the public. Mask-wearing is strongly encouraged out of respect for the health of all participants. For more information, send an email to info@kingstoncee.org.

• Radio Kingston, the Ashokan Center and MyKingstonKids present Celebrar a La Niñez, “the Celebration of our Children,” on Saturday, April 22, from 2to 6p.m. at the Clinton Avenue United Methodist Church, 122 Clinton Ave., Kingston. The event will feature performances by Hudson River Playback Theater and La Banda Noche Buena, storytellers, live music, dance, singing, food, information and activities.

• The Department of Regional Art Workers in Kingston is hosting the second annual Eco Art Week through April 23. It will recognize Earth Day on April 22. Workshops will take place at the D.R.A.W studio, located on the ground floor of the Energy Square building at 20 Cedar St. All events are free. For more information and to register, visit www.drawkingston.org.

• A program on learning how to help in an emergency will take place Tuesday, April 25, from 5to 6p.m. at the Catskill High School cafeteria, 341W. Main St., Catskill. Trained staff will teach/ refresh CPR skills, provide Narcan training and awareness, and provide essential mental health awareness and strategies. This event is free and open to all ages (elementary age children should be accompanied by an adult due to mature content). No registration is necessary.

• Emerge Gallery, 228Main St, Saugerties, is celebrating National Poetry Month in April with “Art and Words.” The exhibition centers the intersection of power of words and their connection to the visual arts. A poetry reading is planned for Saturday, April 29, from 5to 7 p.m. Works of art and poetry, curated from 13invited poets and artwork from 15artists throughout the Hudson Valley and New York Metro Area, will be exhibited side by side. Visitors will be challenged to determine which came first, the poem or the artwork. For more information visit www. emergegalleryny.com.

• The West Point Choir will perform a concert at the St. James United Methodist Church, 35Pearl St., Kingston, on Saturday, April 22, at 7:30p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10for students. Children ages 11and under are free.

• The 20th Anniversary Earth Day Fair will take place Saturday, April 22, from 11a.m. to 4p.m. at the Reformed Church of New Paltz, 92 Huguenot St., New Paltz. This is a free, familyfriendly event, with children’s activities, healthy food and live music. It will take place rain or shine. The theme is “The Ten Commitments: A Pathway to Sustainability.” Energy experts will be on hand with information about insulation, solar electricity without panels, heat pumps, composting, plastic problems, electric vehicles and more. There will also be selected breakout speaker sessions. Take a tour of the church, which moved from a steam-driven oil furnace to an electric heat pump system. Come early at 10a.m. for an hour-long nature/tree walk, and a shorter walk later in the afternoon. Call Jim O’Dowd at (845) 416-4185 for more information.

• Bike Friendly Kingston and the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County will host a free bicycle repair clinic Saturday, April 22 from 1-4 p.m. in the YMCA Parking lot on Pine Grove Avenue in Midtown. Bells, lights and bike helmets will be available. Bells are required by New York state law, front and rear lights are needed for riding in the dark and helmets are required for cyclists under 14. For more information, call (845) 338-3810, ext 102, or email tpolk@ymcaulster.org.

• Composer and pianist Matt Nokoa, of “Brit Pack” fame, will be performing a recital of original work in addition to pieces written by Mozart, Chopin and others at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills in Kingston at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 23. Suggested donations for the show are $25 and to reserve a seat or find more information, visit firstacoustics.org, email coco@firstacoustics.org or call (718)-288-5994.

• Composer-pianist Matt Nakoa will perform in a recital on Sunday, April 23, at 3 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, 320 Sawkill Road, town of Ulster. Nakoa is nationally known as a rock musician as leader of the “Brit Pack” band and as a folk music singer-songwriter. At this event, he will show his talents as a classical pianist, performing his own works from his new CD, “Antique Dances,” as well as the music of Mozart, Chopin and others. The suggested donation is $25. To reserve or for more information, visit www.firstacoustics.org, send an email coco@ firstacoustics.org or call (718) 288-5994.

• The Highland Rotary Club’s Comedy Night, featuring comedians Billy Garan and Highland native Ralph Anthony, takes place Friday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. at Casa Milanese at 693 U.S. Route 44, Highland. The Crazy Gene Trifilo returns as emcee. Proceeds from the event support various projects at the Highland Rail Trail and pavilion. Tickets are $60 per person and include a buffet dinner and priority seating. Dinner seating starts and a cash bar opens at 6 p.m. A show-only ticket is available for $30 per person with show seating starting at 7:30p.m.

• The Rhinebeck Garden Club will have its monthly meeting on Wednesday, April 26, at 10 a.m. in the Community Room at Starr Library, 68E. Market St., Rhinebeck. The program is titled “What’s the Buzz?’ Native Plants/Cultivars/ Pollinators: Planning Your Garden.” The presenter will be Joyce Tomaselli of Duchess County Cooperative Extension. Refreshments will be served and visitors are welcome. For the meeting, call (914) 263-5298 or log onto Facebook

• The Rhinebeck Garden Club Monthly Meeting takes place on April 26 at 10 a.m. at the Starr Library, 68 East Market St., in the Community Room. The program is “What’s the Buzz?’ Native Plants/Cultivars/Pollinators: Planning Your Garden.” The presenter is Joyce Tomaselli, Dutchess County Cooperative Extension. (914) 263-5298.

• Vermont-based American Roots band Low Lily will perform at the Ashokan Center at 477 Beaverkill Road, Olivebridge Thursday, April 27, at 7p.m. The band is touring for the first time ever as a five-piece with drums and bass in celebration of their new album “Angels in the Wreckage.” Hazel Royer on double bass, and Stefan Amidon (of the Sweetback Sisters) on drums join the band’s core members, married couple Liz Simmons and Flynn Cohen, of Brattleboro, Vermont, and fiddler and vocalist Natalie Padilla who sing in three-part harmony. For more information and tickets visit https://ashokancenter.org/events/.

• Comedian Jim Breuer will perform at the Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601Broadway, Kingston, on Friday, April 28, at 8p.m. Tickets start at $31. They are available at the UPAC box office and at the Bardavon box office, 35Market St., Poughkeepsie, from Tuesdays through Fridays from 11 a.m. to 5p.m or by phone by calling UPAC at (845) 3396088 or the Bardavon at (845) 473-5288. Purchasers can also send an email to boxoffice@bardavon.org, or by visiting www.ticketmaster.com. Fees will apply for tickets brought through Ticketmaster.

• Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking will host a conference on Friday, April 28, from 9:30a.m. to 4:30p.m. Titled “Crafting, Composing, Conversing:

The Writer’s Voice Reconsidered,” the conference will help educators show students how to find and develop their writing voices. The conference is available virtually and costs $575for standard tuition, $500for early-bird tuition, and earlybird group tuition, for three people from the same institution, is $450. Scholarships are also available. Discounted rates are available until March 28. Registration and additional information are available at iwt.bard.edu.

• The Ulster County SPCA will be collecting food, supplies or monetary support at Kingston Plaza in Kingston during a Fill the Van event Saturday, April 29, from 11 a.m. to 4p.m. For more information on the SPCA’s most needed items visit https://www.ucspca.org/wishlist. Supplies for kittens, cats, puppies, dogs, and pocket pets (mice, guinea pigs and rats) are welcome.

• Rehabilitation Through the Arts’s “Fork in the Road” exhibition featuring artwork by incarcerated individuals from correctional facilities in New York State continues at the Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St., Stone Ridge, through April 29, 2023.

• The Town of Hurley’s Memorial Day Parade will be held on Monday, May 29 with the staging ground at the THkit print shop at 185 Zandhoek Road opening at 9 a.m. with the parade leaving at 10a.m. The route will head north on Zandhoek Road before making a right at the end of the Hurley Cemetery. The parade will then cross Hurley Avenue, go the length of Main Street, cross Hurley Mountain Road, make a left on Wamsley Place and end in front of Town Hall where a ceremony will take place with food available. The map for the 1.5-mile route is available at tinyurl.com/5n6n8ud2. Applications to be in the parade are available at tinyurl.com/ysdeh6k2and must be mailed to Memorial Day Parade 2023, Supervisor’s Office, Hurley Town Hall, P.O. Box 569, Hurley, NY 12443or emailed to supervisorsec@townofhurley.org by May 1.

• The United Reformed Church, 11Church St., Bloomington, will have a rummage sale Wednesday to Friday, May 3to 5, from noon to 6p.m., and Saturday, May 6, from 10a.m. to 4p.m. Call (845) 331-7099 for more information.

• Immanuel Lutheran Church, 22 Livingston St., Kingston, will have a rummage sale on Friday and Saturday, May 5 and 6, from 9a.m. to 3p.m. There will be household items, clothing (many designer labels and unused), books, toys, CDs, DVDs, albums, jewelry, decorative and collectible items, garden décor, statuary, bird feeders, birdbaths, seasonal decorations, frames, lamps, giftware and yarns (unused and huge variety). The entrance is at the Fellowship Hall at the lower parking area behind the church. Masks will be required while indoors. Call (845) 331-3090for more information.

• Trinity Lutheran Church, 72 Spring St., Kingston, will be offering a ham dinner on Saturday, May 6. Take-out orders will be from 3:30to 4:30p.m., followed by a sit-down dinner at 5:30p.m. Meals will include sliced Ham, potatoes, carrots, cole slaw, rolls, dessert, and hot and cold beverages. The cost is $15for those ages 12 and older, $10for children ages 6to 11. Children ages 5 and under eat free. The deadline to RSVP is Sunday, April 30, and can be done by calling (845) 309-2400 or (845) 706-4624.

• The Friends of the Hurley Library presents the “Mystery at the Tavern” fundraiser Saturday, April 29, at 7p.m. at the Venue at the Best Western at 503Washington Ave, Kingston. Participants will enter the Half Moon Tavern and socialize with owner John Elemendorf, his wife Ellen, Gov. Levi Morton and his daughter Mary and a college law professor. They will also meet a loyal butler and fortune-hunting maid and a Kingston Freeman reporter who witnesses a murder. Tickets are $75 per person and include a three-course dinner, show, prizes and raffle. For tickets and more information visit hurleylibrary.org or call (845) 338-2092.