Summer 2026
Stewart鈥檚 Signature Series is a line-up of premiere summer events offered at no charge to the local community and made possible through a generous grant from Stewart鈥檚 Shops and the Dake Family.
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Monday, June 29, 8:00 PM, Davis Auditorium
A New York State Summer Writers Institute at 扣扣傳媒 Reading
Hannah Assadi鈥檚 latest release, Paradiso 17, is inspired by the life of her late Palestinian father; read the March 18 review in Poet Honor Moore鈥檚 latest book, A Termination, was named one of the Best Books of 2024 by Publishers Weekly: 鈥淢arked by Moore鈥檚 stunning balance of compassion and rage, this is a triumph.鈥�
and Sounds from the Ancestors
Tuesday, June 30, 7:30 PM, Arthur Zankel Music Center
This Skidmore Jazz Institute concert is free and open to the public, but reservations are required and information is available . Doors open at 7 PM.
National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Kenny Garrett has a 30-year career that includes hallmark stints with Miles Davis, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw and the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
"Consciousness, Neurology, and Literature" with and
Saturday, July 11, 11:00 AM, Davis Auditorium
A New York State Summer Writers Institute at 扣扣傳媒 discussion.
A dialogue between Rick Moody and neurologist and fiction writer Sean Pauzauskie about the most recent medical understanding of where and if consciousness is located in the brain, differing ideas of 鈥渢hinking,鈥� and the implications of these ideas for how we represent the self in contemporary fiction writing. Pauzauskie will also discuss his pioneering work in 鈥渘eurorights,鈥� or the ownership of our own brain waves and brain-related health data, and new technological advances in neural imagery, up to and including how devices are at the threshold of monitoring what we think.
Trio
Tuesday, July 7, 7:30 PM, Arthur Zankel Music Center
This Skidmore Jazz Institute concert is free and open to the public, but reservations are required and information is available . Doors open at 7 PM.
Grammy Award-winning composer and pianist , leads this trio with Matt Penman (bass) and Ari Hoenig (drums).
Joanna Scott and Jay Rogoff
Tuesday, July 14, 8:00 PM, Davis Auditorium
A New York State Summer Writers Institute at 扣扣傳媒 Reading
Joanna Scott won a MACARTHUR GENIUS AWARD in 1992 when she was 32, and has won many other awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, The Aga Khan Prize for fiction from THE PARIS REVIEW, The Ambassador Book Award of the English-speaking Union (for her novel 鈥淟iberation鈥� in 2006), and an American Academy of Arts & Sciences Award. She has been a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Jay Rogoff, the Poet Laureate of Saratoga Springs, is the author of six books of poetry, including The Art Of Gravity, Venera, The Long Fault and The Cutoff. He won the Lewis P. Simpson Award in Literary Criticism for his book Becoming Poetry. His recent poems appear in The Paris Review and other magazines.
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