Drawing From the Beginning: Portraiture
with Maj Kalfus

A basic drawing class with artist Maj Kalfus for those who have little or no drawing experience or those who want to improve their skills. This workshop will focus on learning to draw the face and creating a likeness, using photographs, each other and images from famous artists. $80 ($70 for HOH members) for six sessions. Registration required.

Life Drawing

The workshop allows artists to work independently in a disciplined environment; No instructor or specific method is followed. $10 per session.

Painting Studio: with Yura Adams

Artist Yura Adams will lead participants to study the ways to interpret a subject with paint. The emphasis will be on how the painter uses paint rather than what the painter decides to put onto canvas. Soft and hard edges, gestural and smooth brush strokes, intense and desaturated color and focus on shape or line as strategies for interpretation will be investigated. For all levels, beginners and more advanced students. $120 for six sessions, $100 HOH members. Registration required.

Figure Drawing:
From the Beginning
with Maj Kalfus

No drawing experience necessary! A basic drawing class with artist Maj Kalfus for those who have little or no drawing experience or those who want to improve their skills. The class focuses on drawing a model from life. Instruction includes gesture, stance, shape and elements of anatomy. $80 ($70 for HOH members) for six sessions. Pre-pay and receive 2 free passes to HOH's Life Drawing sessions. Registration required.

Family African Dance

In collaboration with Kuumba Dance and Drum and Operation Unite. Ages 7 to adult, under 7 parent participation required. Call 828-3612 for more information. Adults $5, youth free.

Adult & Teen African Drumming

In collaboration with Kuumba Dance and Drum and Operation Unite. Adults $5, youth ages 12 and up free.

Expressive Collage:
with Yura Adams

Artist Yura Adams will guide participants as they make expressive collages. Narratives and poetry will also be integrated into the collages. Basic techniques will be taught and materials will be provided. $10 suggested donation per session.

Painting Studio: with Yura Adams

Loosen up and paint with Yura Adams in a course that will focus on gestural painting and gaining the confidence to leave brush strokes on the painted canvas. For all levels and oil, acrylic or water-soluble oil paints can be used. $120 for six sessions, $100 HOH members. Registration required.

Jazz Workshop
Armen Donelian Jazz Trio

Join master Jazz pianist Armen Donelian and his trio for a three-hour, hands-on workshop on jazz improvisation, rhythmic and aural training, composition and repertoire. Bring your instruments. Bring your instruments! Made possible by a Decentralization Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, administered through the Twin Counties Cultural Fund in Columbia County by the Columbia County Council on the Arts, and by support from The Abode of the Message and The Hudson Opera House. $10, adults, free for youth ages 14 and up. Registration requested, walk-ins welcome too.

IntegrARTE on the Hudson River

In a tribute to the Hudson River's Quadricentennial, artist Bruno Pasquier-Desvignes, offers free IntegrARTE workshops for participants to make art from recycled materials on the Lehigh Valley Railroad Barge #79 while it is docked in Hudson and Kingston. Contact HOH for more information.

IntegrARTE

Integrarte returns to HOH! The series of workshops will be held throughout August with artist Bruno Pasquier-Desvignes. All work is crafted from found materials including newspapers, cardboard, plastic bottles, grocery bags, fabric, corks, wire and more! Free!

Found Fashion
with Perri Katzman

Design and construct your own outfit to show off while strutting down the runway. The only rule: no fabric allowed! Artists can build their creations using found objects, such as feathers, gum boxes, or board game parts, just to name a few. The possibilities are endless. Photo courtesty Zoe Cohen, Anna Baryshnikov and Dinah Decker. Free!

Painting Studio: with Yura Adams

This course teaches an integrated blend of traditional and contemporary practices in painting the human body. Working from a live model and photographs, the course will explore different ways to use the figure in painting: in studio, abstracted, and in narrative. Open to beginning experienced painters. Oil, acrylic or water soluble oil paints can be used in class. $20 per workshop for six sessions, $16 per workshop for HOH members. Registration required. Scholarships are available.

Creative Drawing: with Maj Kalfus

No drawing experience necessary, just an interest in learning. The class will explore line, shape, composition, format, contour drawing and creative, fun techniques. Bring a newsprint pad, soft charcoal, graphite and an eraser to first class. $16 per workshop for four sessions, $13 per workshop for HOH members. Registration required.

Family African Dance

In collaboration with Kuumba Dance and Drum and Operation Unite. Ages 7 to adult, under 7 parent participation required. Call 828-3612 for more information. Adults $5, youth free.

Adult & Teen African Drumming

IIn collaboration with Kuumba Dance and Drum and Operation Unite. Adults $5, youth ages 12 and up free.

In Edition:
An Artist’s Book Workshop

In this eight-week intensive, participants will be introduced to the world of limited-edition artist’s books, through lectures, discussions, and handling of books from the instructor’s personal collection. Participants will also be guided through the process of conceptualizing and producing a small edition of artist’s books. Taught by Maureen Cummins. Open to both experienced and beginner students. $200, $175 for HOH members.

Painting Studio: with Yura Adams

This course teaches an integrated blend of traditional and contemporary practices in painting the human body. Working from a live model and photographs, the course will explore different ways to use the figure in painting: in studio, abstracted, and in narrative. Open to beginning experienced painters. Oil, acrylic or water soluble oil paints can be used in class. $120 for six sessions, $100 HOH members. Registration required. Scholarships are available.

Creative Drawing: with Maj Kalfus

No drawing experience necessary, just an interest in learning. The class will explore line, shape, composition, format, contour drawing and creative, fun techniques. Bring a newsprint pad, soft charcoal, graphite and an eraser to first class. $65 ($55 for HOH members) for all sessions. Registration required.

Life Drawing

No instructor or specific method is followed; the workshop allows artists to work independently in a disciplined environment. $10 per session.

Family African Dance

In collaboration with Kuumba Dance and Drum and Operation Unite. Ages 7 to adult, under 7 parent participation required. Call 828-3612 for more information. Adults $5, youth free.

Adult & Teen African Drumming

IIn collaboration with Kuumba Dance and Drum and Operation Unite. Adults $5, youth ages 12 and up free.

Time to Tell
A Life Story Workshop

Join writer Martha Holmes in a workshop for writers of all levels interested in publication, keepsake, family memoir, or just for fun. Bring a composition book, personal photos and mementos. Martha is a published essayist and short story writer, a writer/director of films for television, a published songwriter and children's book writer. $10 suggested donation per session.

Drawing is Seeing with Maj Kalfus

A basic drawing class for those who have little or no drawing experience or want to improve their skills. Using figurative drawing, participants will explore line, technique, shapes and composition. Just bring a drawing pad and graphite, charcoal and pastels. $95 ($85 for HOH members) for all sessions. Registration required.

Painting Studio: The Study of Color with Yura Adams

Learning about color is key to becoming a better painter and this hands-on course will get you started. Basic color principles will be addressed along with color interaction, color value, color and light, and color mixing. The final project will investigate how to create meaning with color symbolism. $120 for six sessions, $100 HOH members. Registration required. Scholarships are available.

Dialoguing with the Body
A Writer's Workshop in Motion

A new workshop with author Dara Lurie for writers wishing to deepen their relationship to language and expand their range of creative expression. $195 or $175 for HOH members for all eight sessions.

Painting Studio: The Study of Color with Yura Adams

Learning about color is key to becoming a better painter and this hands-on course will get you started. Basic color principles will be addressed along with color interaction, color value, color and light, and color mixing. The final project will investigate how to create meaning with color symbolism. $120 for six sessions, $100 HOH members. Registration required. Scholarships are available.

Creative Writing for Narrative Prose

A three-day workshop with author Laurie Stone to help accomplished and aspiring writers move a piece toward publication. Concludes with a public reading on Saturday afternoon. $175, $150,HOH members. Space is limited, early registration is encouraged.

An Open Mic for Songwriters

Songwriters and musicians are invited to share original songs and meet other songwriters. Listeners welcome too. For more info. contact Craig Hancock at hancock@albany.edu. Free.

Basic Drawing with Maj Kalfus

A basic drawing class for those who have little or no drawing experience or want to improve their skills. Line, technique, shapes and composition will be explored. Just bring a drawing pad and graphite, charcoal and pastels. $95 ($85 for HOH members) for all six sessions. Registration required.

Painting Studio with Yura Adams

A course for all levels; beginners can discover oil or acrylics for the first time, and more advanced students can develop their skills. Original exercises and projects are tailored to each student. $120 for six sessions, $100 HOH members. Registration required. Scholarships are available.

DanceFIT

Instructor Krisna Creque Dodig guides participants in a class suitable for all levels of fitness using basic core-strengthening principles and adding some fun dance moves. A great way to kick off your New Years' fitness goals. $75 for all six session. Pre-registration is required.

Svaroopa Yoga

Release core tension to improve flexibility, balance, and stamina with certified instructor Melissa Parsons. Leave with a more peaceful mind and a refreshed body. Suitable for beginners as well as continuing students. $15 single class, $70 for 5 classes, $130 for 10. HOH members receive a 10% discount. Call 518-697-0200 or visit www.theotheryoga.net for more information.

Laurie Stone: Finding Stakes in a Creative Piece of Writing
A Creative Writing Workshop for Narrative Prose (fiction, memoir, travel writing, performance texts)

This workshop is structured around a premise: There is no such thing as an intrinsically interesting subject, and there is no such thing as an intrinsically uninteresting subject, either. A story isn't compelling because it happened in real life or might happen to fictional characters. Readers become engaged by the narrator's response to events-the thoughts and feelings that are kicked up during the telling. We get hooked on the speaker's way of looking at cause and effect and on the speaker's assessment of the relative size of things.

Where are there stakes for you? This is something the individual writer needs to discover, and that desire for self-understanding is part of the pleasure and passion driving creative writing. To find stakes in a story, a writer needs to become destabilized, moving away from comfort zones and pursuing an investigation that will lead to questions more than resolution.

We will meet for 3 afternoon sessions, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday from noon until 3pm in an atmosphere of experiment and trust. Writers will generate new texts from prompt exercises. You will finish with a new piece of high-stakes writing! This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.