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Exciting announcement from Basha Ruth Nelson, one of our Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory artists, at the Hammond Museum in North Salem, NY.

Be sure to register for this event, sponsored by the Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State! Visit our website or see the flyer to register for next Wednesday's event !!

We are pleased to have the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center host exhibits and artists for the 7th annual Poughkeepsie Open Studios as we gently re-open the arts in 2...021 on Saturday, June 19 and Sunday June 20 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm. Photographer Barbara Todd will be displaying her work in the Hallway Gallery and Shirley Parker-Benjamin will be in her studio in Suite 26 at 9 Vassar Street, Location #1 on our map. The VBI Theatre Building at 12 Vassar Street, Location #2, will host Andres San Millan in the Hancock Gallery Parlor to the right of the entrance doors and to the left of the doors in the Reception Gallery Parlor will be Onage Benjamin, Suzanne Rees, and Erin Sullivan. #pokopenstudios #pkgoarts #openstudios #cityofpoughkeepsie #poughtential #hvartsandculture #barrettartcenter #dcaa #cunneenhackett #nyart

Have you registered for the PPSF 1st Annual Gala? Click on this link to register: https://ppsfonline.org/gala-registration-form/ Need another incentive? Meet ou...r 3rd PHS alum performer for this virtual event! Lillia Keyes, born in Poughkeepsie, NY, began playing cello at the age of six and soon after embarked on her cello studies with Nanette Koch. At age sixteen, she had her solo debut with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic as the winner of Virtuoso-in-Progress competition. Lillia is a proud graduate of Poughkeepsie High School Class of 2004. A graduate of The Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division, under the tutelage of Ardyth Alton and Fred Sherry, Lillia went on to study with Stephen Geber at the Cleveland Institute of Music. There she completed her Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance, graduating with Academic Honors. Shortly after she was accepted into the Orchestral Academy of the Staatskapelle Berlin (Berlin, Germany) under the direction of Daniel Barenboim. She then went on to finish a Master of Music in Orchestral Performance at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Lillia Keyes has attended numerous music festivals in the United States and Europe such as The Aspen Music Festival, The Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, The Zermatt Festival, The Encore School for Strings and The Casals Festival. As a chamber musician she has taken part in many Masterclasses by renowned ensembles such as The Scharoun Ensemble, The Artemis String Quartet, The Tackas Quartet, The Tokyo String Quartet, The Miró String Quartet and The Cavani String Quartet. Solo Masterclasses by Wolfgang Boettcher, Elena Cheah, Gloria dePasquale, Gary Hoffman, Markus Nyikos and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt have inspired the development of her character as a cellist, musician and performer. Lillia lives and works in Berlin as a cellist, teacher and arranger. You can hear her collaborating with numerous of the city’s orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Staatskapelle Berlin. An avid contemporary musician she is soloist with Ensemble United Berlin. Lillia is a founding member of both the innovative cello trio she plays cello (sheplayscello.com) and Duo Nuage (duo-nuage.com) with pianist, Andrea Marie Baiocchi. Depending on the season, when she isn’t making music you can find her walking her dog, biking, running, rowing, knitting or daydreaming about her next trip.

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What to do on a rainy Saturday? How about lunch and an art crawl? There's a lot of art to see in Poughkeepsie! Start at Queen City 15, then move on to Dutchess ...County Art Association / Barrett Art Center , Gallery 40, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center , and womenswork.art Just one of the great works you'll see at Queen City 15 this month: Memory Palace by Tom Ellman #poughkeepsieartscene Dutchess Tourism, Inc. See more

It's a Live... Online Silent Auction! Are you looking for another way to support the Poughkeepsie Public Schools Foundation? Check out the PPSF online silent au...ction: www.BiddingOwl.com/PPSF There is something for everyone - artwork, activities, dining, gift certificates, household items, etc. The auction will end on Sunday, May 23, 2021 at 11:59PM. AND, if you have not yet registered for the Gala itself, please do so that you can receive the link to attend this exciting virtual event on Thursday, May 20th at 7:00 pm (EST): https://ppsfonline.org/gala-registration-form/ See more