Upcoming Events @ The Yard

Beacon Family Pride @ The Yard
Day: Sunday, June 15, 2025
Time: 1pm-5pm
Price: Free Food. Sober-Friendly
Location: The Yard, 4 Hanna Lane, Beacon, NY
Fun for the whole family! Bring everybody. Free Food. Games and Activities all day! This event is outdoors and bathrooms at The Yard are gender neutral.
COVID: Masks are available for those who want.

Call For Artists: ROLL OUT @ The Yard
Fledgling Press has announced a Call for Artists for the 3rd Annual ROLL OUT from The Yard Beacon. Several spots are open for new artists! Says Fledgling Press: “This event is about celebration of community and diversity, cooperation, making art, learning, teamwork and HAVING FUN. I feel so honored and fortunate to host ROLL OUT BEACON with Lauren Adelman, Serfio Alexis and @carindaswann; they inspire me everyday and lead by example! Let’s make some sick prints this year kids!”

ROLL OUT is a collective of printmakers, educators and community activists based in the Hudson Valley. This is the 3rd annual ROLL OUT event and is open to application from relief print artists who would like to create a large-scale wood block to print by steamroller, followed by an exhibition and celebration in The Yard Galleries.
Submission Details: Email Application Inquires to rolloutbeacon@gmail.com

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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Ella’s Bella’s Oyster Night Fundraiser For Beacon’s Backyard Free Breakfast Program @ The Yard
Day: Thursday, August 14, 2025
Time: TBD
Price: TBD
Location: The Yard, 4 Hanna Lane, Beacon, NY
Ella’s Bella’s is back and teaming up with The Yard Beacon to host an Oyster Night Fundraiser on Thursday, August 14th for Beacon’s Backyard. Mark your calendars! More information coming soon!
📸: Meghan Spiro