Hudson Mohawk Magazine

On Saturday November 12th, the Radix Center will be having a volunteer food tree planting event to plant 50 mature apples, pears, cherries, persimmons, hickories, oaks, and more on the sidewalks along Warren Street, Grand Street, Trinity Place, and the surrounding blocks in the south end of Albany. The food grown on these public trees will be available for free to local residents. Scott Kellogg of the Radix Center talks with Mark Dunlea of Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

Historian Simon Lee joins Andrea Cunliffe on Hudson Mohawk Magazine to talk about this interdisciplinary presentation by Salon Séance "The End of Time," a production of live classical music with visual and theatrical storytelling. The co-creators of Salon Séance, Simon Lee and his sister Mari Lee, developed this unique concert piece of piano, violin, cello, and clarinet together with a mystic play inspired by Olivier Messiaen's chamber music masterpiece "The Quartet of The End Of Time." This is the regional premiere of "The End of Time."

This event is co-sponsored by the Friends of Chamber Music.

Salon Séance "The End of Time" will be performed at the Sanctuary for Independent Media on November 19, 2022 at 7pm.

Whispering Bones: An Evening of Ghost Stories at the 8th Step Coffee House at Proctor's in Schenectady. Includes interviews with 8th Step Director Margie Rosenkranz and Whispering Bones Producer Kelvin Keraga. Produced by Marsha Lazarus

The Town of Bethlehem's proposal to preserve historic farmland has turned into a hotly contested question that will be decided in a public referendum on the ballot November 8. Moses Nagel spoke to resident Paul Tick from Save Bethlehem's Farmland and Open Space about Proposition 2.

In the year 2021-2022 the Capital Region welcomed 650 newly resettled refugees and immigrants. Daniel Butterworth, executive director of Refugee & Immigrant Support Services of Emmaus (RISSE), notes that this number is 50% higher than the largest annual count in the last 20 years. He explains how RISSE has expanded staff, increased services, and even added two satellite locations in response to the demand. Hear how RISSE collaborates with the U.S. Committee on Refugees & Immigrants (USCRI), Hudson Valley Community College, HVCC's Educational Opportunity Center, Albany School's International Center, and numerous volunteers. Produced by Brea Barthel for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine:

We begin with Ron Deutsch of Saratoga's the Giving Circle talking with Mark Dunlea about the organization’s work in Uganda.

Then, our roaming labor respondent Wilie Terry reports on the November third Get Out the Vote rally at the Labor Temple in Albany.

Later on, Ama Kwakye is interviewed by H Bosh Jr for a Triple Es segment on her design business, Ama Kwakye Co..

After that, Rensselaer County District Attorney Mary Pat Donnelly speaks with Andrea Cunliffe about her reasons for pursuing a second term. They talk of justice, crime, process and solutions.

Finally, our poetry correspondent Thom Francis talks with local poet Elizabeth Gordon about poetry slams, sharpening metaphors, and how an open mic event in 2011 changed her writing forever.

On Election Watch 2022 Rensselaer County District Attorney Mary Pat Donnelly speaks with Hudson Mohawk Magazine's Andrea Cunliffe about her reasons for pursuing a second term. They talk of justice, crime, process and solutions.

Elizabeth Gordon is a poet, artist, educator, and now an organizer and host of a monthly poetry slam series at Cafe Euphoria in Troy.

In September 2011, she came across an event listed on the Albany Poets website that looked interesting that was taking place at Valentines - a gritty rock and roll club in Albany - and she decided to check it out. What she didn't know was that open mic and poetry slam would change her writing forever.

At that open mic, she read two poems composed from the text on the back of an aspirin bottle & Murphy's Oil Soap. And the rest, as they say, is history.

The Giving Circle is a charitable organization based in Saratoga that helps individuals. Originally started to provide assistance to those harmed by Hurricane Katrina, it also assists families in Uganda. Ron Deutsch talks to Mark Dunlea of Hudson Mohawk Magazine about their recent trip to Uganda to visit the local orphanages, schools and birthing centers they support. TheGivingCircle.org

Hear from speakers at the November 3rd Get Out the Vote rally sponsored by the Labor Temple in Albany, NY. Our Roaming Labor correspondent Willie Terry produced this report for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.