Attend a Fair in the Square
On Saturday, June 5 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm attend the Olde Kinderhook Fair in the Kinderhook Village Square.  The day includes many events taking place such as:  Craft Vendors, Fyfe and Drum Muster, Ichabod Crane Art Department Exhibit, Children's Book Signing, Kinderhook Reformed Church Pancake Breakfast, Tours of the James Vanderpoel House, Book Sale, Live Music, a Militia Parade and a Bouncy Ride for the kids. Bring the whole family for activities, foods and fun.

Clermont State Historic Site will feature the annual Hudson Bush Plant Sale & Exchange on Saturday, June 5 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.  Eary Buyers Breakfast at 9:00 am - tickets are $20.  $5 fee per vehicle after 10:00 am.  The event attracts 30 vendors and 2,000 garden enthusiasts a year.  In keeping with the style of the Garden Sale Founders the vendors offer a wide selection of heritage and contemporary plant material, much of it locally grown.  For more information about Clermont State Historic Site call (518) 537-4240 or visit their website at www.friendsofclermont.org.

Enjoy a Show

Mac-Haydn Theatre presents "Anything Goes" from June 10 through June 20.  Shipboard romance with gangsters, tap dancing, loads of laughs, and a great Cole Porter score thrown in. "You're The Tops, It's DeLovely, I Get A Kick Out Of You, Blow Gabriel Blow."  For tickets, dates and times call Mac-Haydn Theatre at 518-392-9292 or visit their website at www.machaydntheatre.org.

Have Your Dogs Photo Taken

Photographics Solution will be having a Dog Days of Hudson photo special on June 12th coinciding with the Flag Day Parade. The studio will be open from 10:00 until 5:00 welcoming pet owners to bring their dogs in for a special portrait. $49.95 will get them a few shots and an instant 8x10 of their choice. The remaining photos will be uploaded to an online gallery with the opportunity to get any print sizes and new media such as keychains, mugs, mouse pads and more...  For more information about Photographics Solution call 518-929-7378 or visit their website at www.photographicssolution.com.

Attend a Flag Day Parade

On Saturday, June 12 attend the Flag Day Parade.  Starting at 10:00 am in the 7th Street Park and surrounding area will be exhibits and entertainment.  11:30 am will be the Flag Day ceremony.  At 2:00 pm the Hudson Elks Flag Day Parade steps off.  Following the parade there will be vendors, food and entertainment at the waterfront park.  From the waterfront you will be able to enjoy the Iron Eagles Air Show and fireworks at dusk.

See a Show

Beginning June 16 through July 4 see "OR," by Liz Duffy Adams at Stageworks/Hudson.  Will onetime spy, Aphra Behn, finally see her name in lights? She has until morning to finish writing the first play ever penned by a woman . . . but with so many lovers clamoring for attention — suave King Charles II, celebrated actress Nell Gywnne and vengeful double agent William Scott — time is running out!

OR, is a bodice ripping mash up — a 1660’s cross dressing, free love comedy electrified by the freedom and adventure of the 1960’s — delivered with bawdy wit and punctuated with kisses.  Shows run Wednesday through Sunday.  Call Stageworks/Hudson at 518-828-7843 or visit their website at www.stageworkshudson.org for tickets, times and more.

Attend a Benefit

Benefit Event for Haiti on Saturday, June 19 at 7:00 PM at Solaqua Power & Art. Join us for a fun and rockin’ evening of entertainment and live music at Solaqua. Headliners: Mother Fletcher. Many performing artists and musicians will share the stage. Suggested donation of $10 at the door. All proceeds go to the Haitian Community Development Project (Earthquake Relief Fund). Silent auction. Donations of tents, sleeping bags, and toiletries will be accepted. For event information or to make a donation call 518-392-4000 x102.  Visit Solaqua Power & Art on Facebook for event updates. Their website is www.sundogsolar.net. 

See Some Photographs
On June 19 from 4:00 - 6:00 pm at the Spencertown Academy Arts Center is the Opening Reception:  "Peonies" by Michel Arnaud.  Large format photographs on display which coincides with the Spencertown Academy's sixth annual Hidden Gardens Tour. This display will run through July 3. For more information about Spencertown Academy call 518-392-3693 or visit their website at www.spencertownacademy.org.

Learn to Swing Dance

PS/21 offers Swing dance on Friday, June 25 at 7:30 pm with the Berkshire Bop Society
Lincoln Mayorga, Otto Gardner, Sheri Bauer-Mayorga, Sam Zucchini.  From 7:30 - 8:00 pm their will be professional instruction to live music.  Individual admission: $10 / $8 members - Includes snacks & NA refreshments.  Series: $50 / $40 members (Get two sessions free!).  For more information about Performance Spaces for the 21st Century call 518-392-6121 or visit their website at www.ps21chatham.org.

Enjoy a Cirkus Cabaret
On June 25 at Club Helsinki in Hudson enjoy The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Cabaret.  Cabaret features new, phenomenal acts each show from the world's best artists in the disciplines of Circus, Variety, Burlesque, Sideshow, and Physical Comedy. Live, original Cirkus tunes by our Maestro of Musical Mystery. Expect jugglers, clowns, acrobats, and trapeze artists to share the stage with musicians, magicians, dancers, daredevils, and more. Each show features a unique combination of acts, but all promise a legendary lineup of circus feats, sideshow marvels, and world-class entertainers.  Door open at 8:00 pm and the Show begins at 9:00 pm.  Cost is $20 ($5 discount for clowns in make-up).  For more information about Bindlestiff Family Cirkus call 828-7470 or visit their website at www.bindlestiff.org. For more information about Club Helsinki Hudson call 518-828-4800 or visit their website at www.helsinkihudson.com.

If you would like to submit information for July's ten things to do in Columbia County, please email akneller@columbiachamber-ny.com