HV Improv: September Musical Improv
2026-09-02 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston, NY, 12401, United States
ADVANCED ELECTIVE – LIMITED SPACE

COMPLETION OF LEVEL 3 REQUIRED

FINAL PERFORMANCE/ REQUIRED

4 Sessions

Think you can’t sing? Perfect. Most people who take their first musical improv class are convinced they “can’t sing.” The good news is that you don’t have to. Musical improv isn’t about having a beautiful voice: it’s about committing to a character, making bold choices, and discovering that you can create a song out of absolutely nothing. It’s surprising, joyful, and ridiculously fun.

In this beginner-friendly class you’ll learn simple, repeatable techniques for improvising songs, transitioning scenes into music, and singing out your character’s emotions with confidence (even if you’ve never sung in front of another human being).

If you’ve ever watched a musical improv show and thought, “I wish I could do that… but I definitely can’t,” this class is for you! . Taught by guest instructor Susan Gray (Hudson Valley Improv Touring Company), this class meets you exactly where you are and builds from the ground up. And yes — it all leads to a final performance where you take everything you’ve found and bring it to the stage. Your voice is already in there. Let’s find it.

Wednesdays, September 2, 9,16, 23

6-9pm

Final Show – 7pm, Saturday September 26th

(call time 6pm)

Class take place @ASK in Kingston

Participants must be over 18+

ARTIST TALK: Natalya Khorover
2026-08-30 15:00 - 17:00 | Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston, NY, 12401, United States
In her talk, “Reclaimed Light, Mended Worlds: Transforming Waste into Wonder,” Artist, Natalya Khorover, will share how discarded materials — single-use plastics, vintage linens, and urban debris — become installations that reveal beauty in the overlooked. Through the lens of her four series — Inner Work, Urban Perspective, Forever Ephemeral, and Phantom Blooms — Khorover will explore themes of healing, mending, and the alchemy of turning waste into art. The discussion will invite reflection on what we discard, what we grow, and how transformation can reshape our relationship with the world. There will be time for Q&A after the talk.

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August: Front Gallery
2026-08-30 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-29 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-28 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-27 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-23 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-22 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-21 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-20 12:00 - 17:00 | NY
Reclaimed Light, Mended Worlds

Natalya Khorover

In Reclaimed Light, Mended Worlds, Natalya Khorover transforms discarded materials—including single-use plastics, vintage linens, and urban debris—into installations and sculptural objects that reveal beauty within the overlooked.

Drawing upon community-collected waste, Khorover explores themes of healing, repair, and renewal. Her work reflects the poetic light filtering through city structures, weathered surfaces, and grime-streaked windows while celebrating the intuitive act of mending broken fragments into new forms.

The exhibition brings together four interconnected series:

Inner Work, a meditation on personal and planetary healing.

Urban Perspective, celebrating the layered, luminous chaos of the city.

Forever Ephemeral, where bottles filled with shredded plastic waste become glowing relics of contemporary consumption.

Phantom Blooms, an imagined garden in which discarded plastics are transformed into strange seedlings and shimmering flowers.

Together, these works invite viewers to reconsider what we throw away, what we choose to preserve, and how acts of transformation can turn waste into wonder.

For more than twenty years, Khorover has reclaimed and repurposed discarded materials, inspired by a thrifty upbringing in Leningrad, USSR, and New York City. She has created numerous site-specific installations, including Arcadia Lost (ArtsWestchester), Hothouse, and Speaking of Birds (Tilly Foster Farm Museum).

A graduate of Pratt Institute with a BFA, Khorover transitioned from careers in fashion and film to a full-time studio practice. Her work has been featured in Quilt National, Quilts=Art=Quilts, Surface Design Magazine, Fiber Art Now, and SAQA Journal. She is also an educator, lecturer, and founder of REPURPOSER COLLECTIVE, a community for artists working with sustainable materials, and host of the podcast SALVAGE, which explores repurposed art practices. She is a member of Project Vortex, ecoartspace, and the Silvermine Guild of Artists.

The opening reception is free and open to the public on Friday, July 31, from 6:00–8:00 PM. On view through August 30.

August: Members Gallery
2026-08-30 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-29 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-28 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-27 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-23 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-22 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-21 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-20 12:00 - 17:00 | NY
ESSENCE OF ABSTRACTION

Essence of Abstraction explores the expressive power, emotional depth, and limitless possibilities of abstract art.

Moving beyond literal representation, abstraction invites artists to communicate through color, form, texture, movement, composition, and gesture. Whether bold and expressive, quiet and contemplative, geometric or organic, minimalist or richly layered, this exhibition celebrates contemporary approaches to abstraction across all media. Member artists’ work experiment with process, push creative boundaries, and reveal new ways of seeing the world.

Artists: Stuart Bigley, Mary Lynne Bonforte, John Dinkey, PJ Flanagan, Patti Gibbons, Terry Haas, David Held, Laura Helfant, Deborah Hitz, Carrie Hotz-Barth, Maxine Kamin, Virginia Kaufmann, Jennifer Leighton, Yvette Lewis, Hadass Melamed, Stephen Olivier, Tonia Papke Waterbury, Carol Pepper-Cooper, Tracy Phillips, Hugh Sansom, Karen Schaffel, Carolyn Winters.

The opening reception is free and open to the public on Friday, July 31, from 6:00–8:00 PM. On view through August 30.

August: Spotlight Gallery
2026-08-30 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-29 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-28 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-27 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-23 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-22 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-21 12:00 - 17:00 | Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston, NY, 12401, United States
The Space Between Seeing and Feeling

Ken Wenger

The Space Between Seeing and Feeling showcases the work of Ken Wenger, whose artistic practice is driven by an intrinsic need to express the profound emotions that arise from close observation of the world. Working across a range of media, with a particular emphasis on pastel, Wenger reveals the beauty and emotional depth found within portraiture.

His process begins with a black-and-white photograph enlarged and printed on textured paper, creating a foundation for richly layered pastel applications. Sometimes working delicately with his fingertips and other times using the full force of his hand, Wenger transforms photographic images into deeply tactile works that blur the boundary between documentation and emotional interpretation.

His subjects range from intimate studies of flowers to dramatic nudes and emotionally charged figurative scenes. Across these varied themes, Wenger is consistently drawn to moments of vulnerability and intensity. The photographic image captures a fleeting moment in reality, while the hand-applied pastel reshapes it through memory, imagination, and touch.

By combining photography and pastel, Wenger explores how images evolve when they are physically engaged and emotionally reimagined, inviting viewers to slow down, look closely, and discover the emotional landscape beneath the surface.

The opening reception is free and open to the public on Friday, July 31, from 6:00–8:00 PM. On view through August 30.

Got2Lindy Swing Dance Classes
2026-08-25 18:00 - 21:00 | NY
Got2Lindy Swing Dance Lessons

Beginner to Advance

Every Tuesday Night @ ASK6pm-9pm

4-week sessions:6:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Beginner Swing7:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Intermediate Swing8:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Advanced Swing

Register Here!

Visual Arts Workshop!
2026-08-23 14:00 - 16:00 | Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston, NY, 12401, United States
Practicing and exploring the difference between Western brushes and Eastern calligraphy brush techniques. Artists will learn how to create meaningful painting strokes employing Chinese and Western brush techniques. How to load a brush, why they’re different shapes, sizes and have different bristles. Bring all the brushes you have. Bamboo brushes, traditional ink and rice paper will be provided. Workshop will take place on August 23 from 2 PM – 4 PM. This is a donated workshop by master teacher Fran Sutherland. Enrollment by donation to ASK.

Fran Sutherland, a native New Yorker, is a painter, teacher, and restorer of historic homes. Strongly influenced by Eastern aesthetics, Fran’s creative paintings synthesize both Eastern and Western formats in multi-media works. The chosen media and techniques express personal ideas, which is especially evident in her textural compositions emphasizing oil and acrylic resist techniques. Fran’s most recent and unique works reflect the geophysical world, which we all experience in different ways. For this artist, walking, hiking, and motorless boating are meditative and energizing at the same time. To begin looking out or forward is the way Fran Sutherland psychologically and physically approaches the day and life. The Meditative Series depict the top piece that shows an Asian-styled, vertical composition, and the second bottom piece that recognizes what is at one’s feet and depicts the subject in a Western, rectangular format. The two paintings are then presented and suspended as one work of art. This new series of paintings explores and attempts to share the act of looking forward and where one is at the moment, or what is below as well as ahead.

Donate here to enroll!

U.S. Man: A Play About Now
2026-08-22 19:30 | Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston, NY, 12401, United States
U.S. Man

Written by Ryan Skinner

Performed by Brett Owen

It’s the week after Christmas, a man walks through a small suburban neighborhood looking at the Christmas trees that have been discarded by most of the houses. He ponders his life, his country, the state of things and wonders what will become of him, his daughter, his town and anything and everything else.

U.S. Man is a one person show that uses humor, dark humor and a lot of drama to get into very relevant and pressing issues but more than anything…the feeling of people living in a world that they don’t see a future in and a crumbling, decaying landscape of Uber drivers, Amazon workers and OnlyFans models.

The play will jump through time, strange events and ultimately this wandering person must decide what his place is in this world and if there is any way to fix it.

Ryan Skinner

Ryan is an award winning screenwriter, TV writer and playwright. Studio Nowhere, a half hour comedy series he created, was optioned by 24 FPS Pictures which led Ryan to sign with his first agent. He sold a one hour drama entitled The Four Mothers to Hirsch Pictures. The pilot is shot and currently the package for the series is being shopped. His screenplay Carnegie’s Call won him Best Screenwriter at the 2024 Paramount Film Festival. His one hour drama script Gallatin won Best Pilot Script at the 2024 Atlanta Film Festival. Ryan is also a playwright. His play Under The Lake has been produced across the country, including Michigan, New Jersey, Manhattan and Oregon. Other plays of his, including 246 Conrad and Red Light White Light, have been selected for workshops and readings as well. He is currently repped by Gloria Soto of the Max Steiner Agency.

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Brett OwenBrett Owen is a Hudson Valley native who received his training in New York under Gregory Abels, and back home with Rodney Douglass, Roger Hendricks Simon and Carol Fox Prescott. Recent performances include An Enemy of the People, The Fateful Hour, Dystopia 5, The Clan of the MacQuillins, The Tax Man – Part Three of Ryan Skinner’s McShay Incorporated, and Poe’s Basement. Thanks to Ryan for another opportunity to work together.

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Sketch Group Monthly
2026-08-21 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
Monthly Drop-In Drawing @ ASK

Drop-In Drawing is part of ASK Friday Nights, when Arts Society of Kingston stays open late and admission is free. ASK Sketch Group invites community members to explore sketching in a relaxed, welcoming drop-in session. These gatherings are about observation, curiosity, and creativity, not perfection.

Starting FRIDAY, April 17, 20267pm-9pmAnd every third Friday following.

Sessions are facilitated by ASK Gallery Committee members and guest artists and take place monthly in the ASK classroom and gallery. All skill levels are encouraged, from first-time doodlers to experienced artists.

Participants bring own art materials.

Drop ins & Sign ups welcome.

Sign Up Here

New Work Lab
2026-08-20 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
Monthly Lab for Developing Original Theatrical Material @ ASK

Arts Society of Kingston’s MONTHLY New Work Lab is a supportive, artist-centered space for developing original theatrical material at any stage. Open to playwrights, actors, directors, and theater-makers from across the Hudson Valley and beyond. Sign up below.

Starting THURSDAY, April 16, 20267pm-9pmAnd every third Thursday following.

Playwrights are invited to bring in pages, scenes, or full drafts to be read aloud by fellow artists, followed by thoughtful, facilitated conversation. Rooted in ASK’s commitment to creative process, equity, and community care, will use writer-driven (Liz Lehrman) feedback approach. There is no pressure to perform or produce—only the opportunity to hear work out loud, ask questions, and explore what the play wants to become.

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