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Step Into Hope: NAMI Mid-Hudson Walk for Mental Health 2025
Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
Time: 11am-1pm
Location: Walkway Over The Hudson, Poughkeepsie, NY
Join NAMI from the Dutchess or Ulster side of the Walkway Over The Hudson Bridge, and meet at the flagpole at 12pm for a powerful gathering of community, connection, and hope.
Field + Supply :: A Modern Makers Market
Day: Friday May 30 - Sunday June 1 2025
Time: 10am-6pm
Location: Hutton Brickyards, 132 Lindsley Ave. Kingston, NY 12401
Shop hundreds of vendors, enjoy live music, local eats, and activities for the entire family. This is like going into a high-end boutique, but outside, at an incredibly gorgeous venue that is the Hutton Brickyards.
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Beacon Repair Cafe @ Beacon Recreation Center
Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
Time: 1pm-4pm
Location: Beacon Recreation Center, 23 West Center Street, Beacon, NY
Before you throw it away, let's try to fix it! Bring your favorite items that need some love: clocks, lamps, clothing, soft toys ... even furniture, appliances, bikes, and welding. Together we're keeping useful things out of the landfill and building a culture of care and repair. Reach out to volunteer your fixer skills: beaconfishkillrepaircafe@gmail.com
Poppies Picnic :: Potluck and Mutual Aid Fundraiser for Gaza
Day: Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Time: 6pm-8pm
Price: Free. Donation opportunities for raffle.
Location: Long Dock Park, Beacon, NY (along the River Muhheakantuck, known for now as the Hudson River)
Want to break bread with neighbors and learn how you can join the fight for a free Palestine? Join this community picnic on Tuesday, June 3rd at Long Dock Park in Beacon for free food, solidarity, and info on the Break the Bonds campaign. Bring a dish to share, and some cash to enter a raffle for great prizes—proceeds will go to support families in Gaza. Hope to see you there!
Lit Lit at the Howland Cultural Center
Day: Every 1st Friday, June 6th, 2025
Time: 7pm
Location: 477 Main St, Beacon, NY 12508
A monthly literary open mic series. Hosted by Donna Minkowitz. Donna says: “Folks are welcome to read their own writing of any genre, of up to five minutes in length. If you’d like to read, please arrive by 6:30 to sign up at the Howland Cultural Center. Or just, and listen :-) The Howland asks that everyone donate $5 to help keep the lights on, more if you can, less if you can’t. Soft drinks, beer and wine, and snacks are also available. It’s a hard time for most of us, no question about it. Come hang out and be with your Lit Lit family!”
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Beacon's Big Button Game Show
Day: TBD
Time: 7pm-8pm
Price: $5
Location: The Yard, 4 Hanna Lane, Beacon, NY 12508
IMAGINE... Teams of up to five, armed with only ONE BUTTON, battling through a gauntlet of brain-busting challenges. We're talking five rounds of unique games designed to test your knowledge, reflexes, and ability to work together under pressure. Win a round, and you'll unlock a bonus round where you can gamble for even more points... or lose it all! The final round? A showdown for the ages, with the winning team earning bragging rights, free drinks, and the title of Big Button Champions!
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Five Points Festival Presented by Clutter @ The Yard
Day: Saturday-Sunday, June 7-8, 2025
Time: 11am-6pm
Price: Price Ranges Available
Location: The Yard, 4 Hanna Lane, Beacon, NY
Established in 2017, and brought to you by industry cornerstone Clutter Magazine, Five Points Fest is America’s preeminent, Designer Toy & underground art festival!
Bringing together the shining stars of Designer Toys, Street Art, and Indie Comics, from all over the world in the best spot in the world… NEW YORK!
The antidote to the average con, Five Points Fest is a curated celebration of tastemakers, misfits, and rebels in a one-of-a-kind gathering designed with community and collecting at its core!
Featuring crazy monsters, bizarre creatures, awesome robots, weird aliens, and pop culture perversions, we bring together like-minded tribes for a massive party, unlike any con you’ve ever attended!
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Toy Pizza Expo & Five Points Fest Present: WFYM WORLD TOUR @ The Yard
Day: Saturday, June 7-8, 2025
Time: 4pm-7pm
Price: $40 ($5 of every ticket goes to support Beacon's Backyard Community Kitchen, a mutual aid project providing free meals to the local area.)
Location: The Yard, 4 Hanna Lane, Beacon, NY
Toy Pizza Expo is proud to welcome back the hit podcast & twitch stream- WFYM.
Returning champions Chet (@GirlfriendHaver), Mike (@mhud), Tom (@tom_on_here), and Alex (@Lowenaffchen), mark their second live show ever with more freaks, more disgusting food reviews and more creatures from the depths of the internet.
$5 of every ticket goes to support Beacon's Backyard Community Kitchen, a mutual aid project providing free meals to the local area. Ticket price includes access to Five Points Festival Exhibit Area (A $40+ value).
NOTE: This event is up two flights of stairs, with a small flight of stairs at the front door. This show is recommended for ages 18 & up.
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Peekskill Open Studios
Date: June 07, 2025
Location: 1 North Division Street, Peekskill
The Peekskill Arts Alliance's Open Studios will feature visual 2D, 3D, multimedia pieces and films. Over 100 Peekskill artists will open up their studios to the public, show their work at the Tent Site Gallery, and exhibit at SUNY Westchester Community College-Peekskill (Off the Beaten Track).
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Stand Up For Palestine: A Benefit for The Horse of Jenin + The Freedom Theatre
Day: Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Price: Prices start at $33.85
Location: The Yard, 4 Hanna Lane, Beacon, NY 12508
Stand-Up For Palestine is a benefit for the U.S. tour of Alaa Shehada's The Horse of Jenin and The Freedom Theatre of Jenin. Join us for an evening of comedy, food, and discussion at The Yard in Beacon.
Featuring Palestinian and Palestinian-American comedians Alaa Shehada, Marena Riyad, Fouad Dakwar, and MC Lena Rizkallah. Light refreshments will be provided by local Palestinian restaurant Ziatün, and beverages will be available for purchase.
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APPRECIATION: A Survivor’s Story of Hiroshima
Day: Thursday, June 12, 2025
Time: 6-7pm
Price: Free. Registration encouraged.
Location: Howland Public Library, 313 Main Street, Beacon, NY
Directed by Michael Dwyer and Chuck Gomez
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Women in Noir of Beacon LitFest
Day: Friday, June 13, 2025
Time: 8pm-10pm
Price: $20
Location: Howland Cultural Center, 477 Main Street, Beacon NY 12508
An Immersive Noir Literary Experience, perfect for Friday the 13th. Featuring writers Jode Millman, Julia Dahl, Margot Douaihy, and moderators Cynthia Weiner and Jackie Corley.
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Beacon LitFest
Days:
Thursday, June 12: Kickoff Party
(Readings, Storytelling, Cocktails and more)
Friday, June 13: 8pm-10pm
(an Immersive Literary Experience)
Saturday, June 14: The Main Event (Literature, Poetry, Theater, and More)
Price: Varied prices
Location: Beahive and Howland Cultural Center
The Beacon Litfest has expanded! Find All-Star poets at Beahive; Drama at Howland Cultural Center; and Icons of Fiction and Nonfiction at VFW. Day followed by a cocktail party and book-signings. A not-to-be-missed Beacon event.
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City of Beacon’s City-Wide Yard Sale
Days: Saturday, June 14, 2025
Time: 9am-3pm
Location: Beacon, NY 12508
Shop Beacon’s yards! If you want to be on the City’s map, you’ll need to register here and pay a fee. But you don’t need to register to have a yard sale on this day or any day.
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"Pink Unicorn’s Magical Day" – Book Launch Celebration!
Days: Saturday, June 14, 2025
Time: 10am-12pm
Location: Kitchen & Coffee, 420 Main Street, Beacon, NY
🎉 Join us in Beacon, NY for a joyful, family-friendly celebration of Pink Unicorn’s Magical Day — a new children's book written by Nicole Hughes and illustrated by Chris Ams, inspired by the beloved Dave Shelly, the real Pink Unicorn of Beacon. 🦄 🖌️ Original watercolors from the book available for purchase. 📚 Books available on-site — $25 each (all proceeds go to the Beacon Unicorn Fund!). Pink Unicorn’s Magical Day is a heartwarming story about joy, kindness, and community — created by Beacon locals and inspired by the unforgettable pink unicorn who brought smiles to Main Street. All proceeds from the book benefit the Beacon Unicorn Fund, which supports arts and community initiatives in Beacon and honors the legacy of Dave Shelly.
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2025 Student Exhibition : Dia Beacon, Riggio Arts Education Program
Date: June 14-15, 2025
Time: 10am–5pm; Reception held on Saturday, June 14, 1–3 pm
Price: Admission to Dia Beacon is complimentary for Arts Education Program guests.
Location: Dia Beacon Learning Lab, 3 Beekman Street Beacon, New York
Featuring artworks made by the 2025 Riggio Arts Education Program participants, students from Glenham, J. V. Forrestal, Sargent, and South Avenue elementary schools, as well as Rombout middle school.
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Beacon Litworks: Writing Workshops
Day: Sunday, June 15
Time: 10am-8pm
Where: Salon Room at Dutchess Inn and Spa
Price: $30/workshop
Two hour, professionally led writing intensives. Limited size. Multiple Genres, including poetry, memoir, essay, fiction and story in song. Sign up for one, two, or all!
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3rd Annual Juneteenth In Beacon
Day: Saturday, June 19, 2025
Time: 11am-5pm
Price: Free (vendors offer food and shopping for purchase)
Location: Pete and Toshi Seeger Riverfront Park
Celebrate Black culture and community with Beacon4BlackLives and Bosco and the Storm at our FREE Third Annual Juneteenth Riverfront Festival! We'll have music, food, vendors, merch, marching bands, prizes, and more!
If you're interested in becoming a vendor, performer, or getting more involved, click here: linktr.ee/beacon4blacklives more details coming soon for questions, email beaconjuneteenth.info@gmail.com
PS: A Little Beacon Blog will be there with face painting!!
Live @ The Yard: Bells Larsen
Day: Thursday, June 19, 2025
Time: 7pm-10pm
Price: $22 ($25 at the Door)
Location: The Yard, 4 Hanna Lane, Beacon, NY
How can we forge new forms of coming home to ourselves? On his sophomore album Blurring Time (2025), Bells Larsen collapses time into a series of patient ceremonies. Guided by the satisfaction of simply “being” as a political act, the record explores the ways we write the ever-arriving self into existence. Oscillating between lo-fi 90s indie and searing folk ballads, Larsen’s project features the haunting accompaniment of voices frozen in time.
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3rd Annual Patriot Golf Classic with Colewell Law
Day: Monday, June 23, 2025
Time: 9am-5pm
Location: 924 Main Street, Clifton Park, NY 12065
The Colwell Law Group, LLC is proud to sponsor the 3rd Annual Folds of Honor New York Patriot Golf Classic. This impactful event supports educational scholarships for the spouses and children of America’s fallen or disabled military members and first responders. In the past year, Folds of Honor NY awarded 125 scholarships, directly supporting families in our local community. We invite you to stand with us in supporting these families and making a lasting impact.
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Live @ The Yard: Samantha Crain
Day: Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Time: 7pm-10pm
Price: $22 ($25 at the Door)
Location: The Yard, 4 Hanna Lane, Beacon, NY
Samantha Crain is a Choctaw-American singer, songwriter, film composer, and producer from Oklahoma. A two-time winner of the Native American Music Award, Samantha defies categorisation, marrying folk music with the sounds of country rock and college indie. Samantha's latest album, A Small Death (2020), was released on Communion's Real Kind Records. The album received universal acclaim with tracks finding themselves in constant rotation on 6music.
Samantha has toured extensively over the past decade nationally and internationally, presenting ambitious orchestrated shows with her band as well as intimate folk leaning solo performances. She has toured with First Aid Kit, Neutral Milk Hotel, Lucy Rose, The Avett Brothers, The Mountain Goats, and many others.
Kalyn Fay (Cherokee Nation, Muscogee descent) is a songwriter and musician from Oklahoma, who fosters an additional interdisciplinary practice that interweaves visual arts, curation, and education. Born and raised in rural Oklahoma between Cherokee, Muscogee, and Osage territories, they are deeply rooted in their nuanced relationship to Oklahoma, and their musical practice is a reflection of that influence. Focusing on self-location, community, collaboration, and empathy, Kalyn sees their music as a way to lean into personal and shared narratives. Their songs embed Indigenous understandings associated with community and environment, navigatings the ways in which we all intersect with the hopes of building bridges of understanding between. Kalyn Fay’s music is “for you, for me, for us, for we.”
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