Events

Workshop Description: This workshop will be a 2 hour, 2-part presentation (with Q&A); part 1 will be the “Save Energy, Save Dollars” workshop by Frankie, the Rockland County Energy Advisor with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Rockland County; part 2 will be the “Comfort Meets Conservation” workshop by Carmel, the executive director of New York Passive House and head of ZAZNRG (Nyack-based energy advising firm).During the workshop, attendees will learn about low to no-cost strategies, tools, and programs that New York state homeowners and renters can utilize to lower their energy usage and increase bill savings and indoor comfort. Each participant will receive a free kit of several accessible energy saving tools ($45 value total) and a set of easy-to-follow energy efficiency resource handouts (digital handouts and follow-ups for further free energy efficiency advising available upon attendee request).

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Daniella Toosie-Watson (she/they) is a writer, visual artist, and the author of What We Do with God (Haymarket Books, 2025). She has been published in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Oxford Poetry, Callaloo, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Her honors include the 2024 Oxford Poetry Prize Shortlist, the 2020 Discovery Poetry Contest, and a Graduate Hopwood Award & Zell Fellowship from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program where she received her MFA in poetry. Daniella lives in New York.

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The featured cookbook is Love and Lemons Every Day: More than 100 Bright, Plant-Forward Recipes for Every Meal: A Cookbook

Welcome spring with vibrant flavors and fresh inspiration! This month’s Cookbook Club celebrates the season with bright, colorful dishes that highlight fresh produce and simple, satisfying meals. Choose a recipe from the featured cookbook and bring your dish to share as we explore new flavors and cooking ideas together.
Spring is the perfect time to try lighter meals and experiment with seasonal ingredients like herbs, greens, citrus, and early vegetables. Whether you’re an experienced cook or just getting started, this relaxed and friendly gathering is a great way to discover new recipes and connect with fellow food lovers.
Participants are encouraged to bring a serving utensil and a copy of their recipe to share.

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Panel Discussion–“Public Sketching: Hopper’s Sketch Mob and Urban Sketchers – How Art Making Becomes Community Building,” Sunday, April 12, 2026  14, 2026, 2pm, Community Room, Nyack Library. RSVP via Nyack Library

Come learn about how Edward Hopper Museum sketched throughout Nyack, how  the Urban Sketchers meet up weekly  to sketch, and form Bill Batson on his first Nyack Sketch Mob of 2011 and how the tradition has spread.

Panelist; : Kathie iBennewitz, Executive Director, Edward Hopper House Museum, Bill Batson of Bill Batson Arts, Kay Copp of Nyack Urban Sketchers, Raylie Dunkel of NYC Urban Sketchers, Cathy Gutterman of Westchester Urban Sketchers, and Charles Cannizzaro

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Join Kristine for an Americana themed small canvas paint night. The art will be used in our collective canvas project that will be displayed during the June, July and August Community Art Exhibit. (This is an all ages event to help create one collective community project.)

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Join All Ways Writing and Big Red Books for an evening of poetry featuring renowned poets Valzhyna Mort and Samyak Shertok joined by community readers Kelly Jo Lillian, Conrad Lochner, Marjorie Tesser, Tedo Wyman, and Laura Zaino.

Valzhyna Mort is a poet and translator born in Minsk, Belarus. She is the author of Factory of Tears (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), Collected Body (Copper Canyon Press, 2011) and Music for the Dead and Resurrected (FSG, 2020), named one of the best poetry book of 2020 by The New York Times and The NPR, and the winner of the 2020 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. She teaches at Cornell University.

Samyak Shertok’s debut collection, No Rhododendron (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025), was selected by Kimiko Hahn for the 2024 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and longlisted for the 2026 PEN Open Book Award. Originally from Nepal, he is an Assistant Professor of English at Mississippi State University.

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