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Summer 2026

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Stewart’s 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’s 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 Reading 

 Hannah Assadi’s latest release, Paradiso 17,  is inspired by the life of her late Palestinian father; read the March 18 review in   Poet Honor Moore’s latest book, A Termination, was named one of the Best Books of 2024 by Publishers Weekly: “Marked by Moore’s stunning balance of compassion and rage, this is a triumph.”

 

Kenny Garrett  and Sounds from the Ancestors 

Tuesday, June 30, 7:30 PM, Arthur Zankel Music Center

This 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.

 

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 "Consciousness, Neurology, and Literature" with  and  

 Saturday, July 11, 11:00 AM, Davis Auditorium

 A New York State Summer Writers Institute at    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 “thinking,” and the implications of these ideas for how we represent the self in contemporary fiction writing. Pauzauskie will also discuss his pioneering work in “neurorights,” 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.

 

Billy Childs

 Trio

Tuesday, July 7, 7:30 PM, Arthur Zankel Music Center

This 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

Jay  Joanna Scott and Jay Rogoff

  Tuesday, July 14, 8:00 PM, Davis Auditorium

  A New York State Summer Writers Institute at        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 “Liberation” 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.


 

For information on other events offered this summer, consult the College’s Latest News and Calendar or these program websites: 

Jazz Institute

New York State Summer Writers Institute