Calendar

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ONGOING
Knox’s Headquarters State Historic Site in Vails Gate is open by appointment only and for special events by calling (845) 561-5498, 9-5, Monday through Friday. 
Sci-Fi meeting: The Latham-Albany-Schenectady-Troy Science Fiction Association meets at Borders on Wolf Road, Colonie, on the third Wednesday of every month. Attendance is free and everyone interested is invited to attend. For information: (518) 456-5242.
Musicians’ workshop: Every Thursday from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Firestation, Old Ladder No. 3, 103 Ontario St., Albany. For information: (518) 432-9968.
Forum: Capital Area Council of Churches sponsors a Peace with Justice Forum on the second Tuesday of each month from 12:15 - 1:30 p.m. at First Lutheran Church, 646 State St., Albany. Participants are asked to bring a bag lunch; beverages are provided. For information: (518) 462-5450.
Meeting: Multiple sclerosis self-help group meeting at Sunnyview Hospital, Schenectady, every Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. For information: (800) 922-9120.
Historic Cherry Hill Museum, 5231/2 South Pearl St., Albany, is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 to 3 and on Sunday from 1-3. For information: (518) 434-4791.
Rensselaer English country dances: Third Sunday of month, 2-5 p.m., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Old School 14 auditorium, 15th St., Troy. Admission: $5. RPI/Sage students free. For information: Don Bell at (518) 489-7720.
Chess: Residents and Capital District visitors are invited to play chess with the Albany Area Chess Club from 7:30 to 11 p.m. Wednesday in the northwest cafeteria of Albany High School, 700 Washington Ave. Visitors are asked to park in the lot accessed from South Main Avenue. For information: (518) 783-5373.
Red Cross blood drive, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday on Concourse, Empire State Plaza, near the Hallmark store. For an appointment: (800) 272-4543. Walk-ins are welcome.
Support group sponsored by Alzheimer’s Association in collaboration with Hispanic Outreach Services, 4:30 p.m. Thursdays at Catholic Charities, 1 Kimble St., Amsterdam.
Ongoing Albany Institute of History and Art displays include: 19th century sculpture; the landscape that defined America: the Hudson River School; traders and culture: colonial Albany and the formation of American identity; ancient Egypt; sense of place: 18th and 19th century paints and sculpture.
Artfull afternoons program Wednesdays for children at The Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls.
Bellevue Woman’s Hospital offers “without him,” a support group for widows 55 and younger, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month at the hospital’s Mansion Building, 2210 Troy Road, Niskayuna.
“Elegance and Utility: 300 years of furniture and decorative arts from the Capital District,” through April 14, Rathbone Gallery, The Sage Colleges, 140 New Scotland Ave., Albany.
“American Impressionists Abroad and at Home: Paintings from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” will be displayed at the New York State Museum through June 16. 
Annual Schoharie County High School art exhibit, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday through April 12, Schoharie County Arts Council, 54 Main St., Cobleskill.
Young America: treasures from the Smithsonian American Museum of Art, displayed at Albany Institute of History & Art, 125 Washington Ave., Albany, through May 19.
Picasso from the collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Hoopes Gallery, The Hyde Collection Art Museum, 161 Warren St., Glens Falls, through May 5.
Private Eye II, a display of unusual collections belonging to Capital Region residents will be displayed at Albany International Airport Art Gallery through Sept. 9.
Exhibition depicting the life of Leonore Schwarz Neumaier, a victim of the Nazi Holocaust, will be on display at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, through May 19. 
APRIL 29
7:30 p.m., special performance to mark the departure of Just Good Friends Improvisational Comedy co-director and troupe member Rich Moran, Hilton Art Center Theater, 40 Russell Road, Albany.
APRIL 30
Summit in Tech Valley II, Marriott Hotel, Albany.
MAY 1
10 a.m.-4 p.m., Albany County Bar Association and the Capital District Women’s Bar Association sponsor free legal consultations. To schedule an appointment, call 445-7691.
6:30 p.m., The College of Saint Rose hosts information session for adult students considering undergraduate or graduate studies.
7 p.m. lecture on carnivores in the Pine Bush, the New York State Museum Theater, Empire State Plaza, Albany.
MAY 2
5:30-6:30 p.m., registration for summer dance program at The Studio, 1626 Burden Lake Road, Averill Park.
6-9 p.m., Vanderheden Hall community appreciation dinner honors John Buono, president of Hudson Valley Community College, and the Pattison family, Franklin Plaza, Troy.
7 p.m., Fulvia Pizzitola will present a program on beautiful Italian language sponsored by the American Italian Heritage Association at Guilderland Public Library.
MAY 2-4
The University at Albany’s Libraries hosts the Africana Librarians Council of the African Studies Association annual meeting.
MAY 4
9 a.m., the Troy Waterfront Farmers’ Market, opens its third season north of the Green Island Bridge on River Street.
10:30 a.m.-noon, adios, Picasso, a Saturday morning workshop at the Louis P. Brown art studio, the Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls.
7:30-11 p.m., night on the town to benefit Bethlehem Children’s School, 252 Washington Ave., Albany.
8 p.m., Isaac Hayes and jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut perform at Proctor’s Theatre, 432 State St., Schenectady.
8 p.m., Opera Pops concert, preview of the Glimmerglass Opera 2002 season, Rensselaerville Institute, Rensselaerville, NY.
MAY 4-5
1-4 p.m., focus on nature activities at the New York State Museum, Empire State Plaza, Albany.
MAY 5
10 a.m., WalkAmerica 2002 to benefit March of Dimes, walk begins at Sage Colleges on New Scotland Avenue.
Noon to 5 p.m., third annual Albany history fair, Albany Heritage Area Visitors Center.
2 p.m., The Monday Musical Club of Albany performs at the Helen Froehlich Auditorium, the Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls.
MAY 6
7:30-9 p.m., new support group “after the tears” for those who are pregnant or parenting following a pregnancy loss, Bellevue Woman’s Hospital, 2210 Troy Road, Niskayuna.
MAY 7
1 p.m., lecture on water ways west: the antecedents and origins of the Erie Canal, the New York State Museum Theater, Empire State Plaza, Albany.
7 p.m., Opera Pops concert, preview of the Glimmerglass Opera 2002 season, Bethlehem Public Library, Delmar, NY.
MAY 8
12:30 p.m., Jack Reilly, deputy director of the Capital District Transportation Authority, will discuss the Albany Rensselaer train station at the Albany Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce roundtable luncheon at the Old Federal Building at the foot of State Street, Albany.
7 p.m., lecture on rooting out black locust: the consequences of an alien tree invasion, the New York State Museum Theater, Empire State Plaza, Albany.
7:30 p.m., Roanoke College choir of Salem, Va., will perform at First Lutheran Church, 181 Western Ave., Albany.
MAY 9
12:30-2 p.m., Joan Jacobs Brumberg lecture “from corset to body piercing: the changing experience of female adolescence,” Albany Room, Empire State Plaza, Albany.
MAY 11
10:30 a.m.-noon, what’s up in the wood gallery?, Saturday morning workshop at the Louis P. Brown art studio, the Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls.
8 p.m., Debbie Reynolds performs at Proctor’s Theatre, 432 State St., Schenectady.
MAY 12
2-4 p.m. create May flowers for mom family activity, Louis P. Brown art studio, the Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls.
MAY 13
2-5 p.m., free hearing screening at Wilton Medical Arts, 3040 Route 50N, Saratoga Springs.
8 p.m., the Finckel cello ensemble will perform in the Helen Froehlich Auditorium, the Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls.
MAY 14
Noon, lecture on the Erie Canal in Saratoga County, the New York State Museum Theater, Empire State Plaza, Albany.
7:45-9 a.m., Downtown Albany Business Improvement District annual meeting, Capital Repertory Theater.
11:15 a.m., Friends of the Libraries sponsors trip to the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall.
7 p.m., “Blues Clues Live - Blues Birthday Party,” Proctor’s Theatre, 432 State St., Schenectady. Other shows at 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. May 15.
MAY 15
7 p.m., lecture on restoring Albany’s inland pine barren, the New York State Museum Theater, Empire State Plaza, Albany.
MAY 17-18
Fourth annual Columbia heritage tour.
MAY 18
9 a.m.-4 p.m., Liberty and New Wave Cruisers Car Club open house and car show, Liberty Enterprises Route 5S, Amsterdam.
7:30 p.m., Capital Community Voices will present “a tapestry of American song,” at the Genet Middle School, Route 4, East Greenbush.
MAY 19
1-4 p.m., familiarity tour, Paul Smiths Visitor Interpretive Center, Route 30, Paul Smiths.
MAY 21
Noon, lecture on the Erie Canal’s most important vessel - the Day Peckinpaugh, the New York State Museum Theater, Empire State Plaza, Albany.
MAY 20-22
“9/11: looking back and moving forward” is the theme of the ninth annual Long Island/New York City Emergency Management Conference, Sheraton New York Hotel, 811 7th Ave. at 52nd Street.
MAY 22
7 p.m., lecture on a century of change in the Pine Bush insect community, the New York State Museum Theater, Empire State Plaza, Albany.

MAY 29
7 p.m., lecture on the Albany Pine Bush as a model for the 21st century biological conservation, the New York State Museum Theater, Empire State Plaza, Albany.

MAY 23
8 a.m., American Red Cross salute to hometown heroes awards breakfast, Albany Marriott, 189 Wolf Road.

MAY 28
Noon, lecture on the stand at the lock, Fort Plain, the New York State Museum Theater, Empire State Plaza, Albany.

MAY 29-31
14th Annual Pollution Prevention Conference, a forum focusing on strategies to reduce the generation of pollutants, Crowne Plaza Hotel in Albany

JUNE 8
8 p.m., Limon Dance Co. will perform at The Egg, Empire State Plaza, Albany.