Drop Forge & Tool + SVB present the second annual ALL WOMEN'S EVE in solidarity with International Women's Day ART at Drop Forge & Tool @ 5pm Kat Howard, Phoebe Grip, Emily Ritz, Caitlin Parker and more. FREE PERFORMANCES at Spotty Dog @ 7pm $7 all proceeds to artists: Amelia Moon Bonnie Kane Ifetayo Cobbins Jen Kutler Mistresses Solo Perfect Ten After School Shanekia McIntosh Visual works by Bibbe Hansen and RRB * Amelia Moon is a trans and queer multidisciplinary artist, performer, and writer based in Kingston. Lately she explores themes of vulnerability, madness, magic, and feral delight through experimental music, performance art, and storytelling. christinaamelia.bandcamp.com Bibbe Hansen is a visual and performance artist currently residing in Hudson. Bibbe.com Integrating saxophone, flute, feedback and electronics, electro acoustic pioneer and dedicated improvisor, Bonnie Kane, terms her work as avant-core: an extreme energy mix of pyschedelic rock, hard core, and avant garde jazz. Her bands have been known for "scalp shearing shows", "feats of bravery", and for music that is "...the algebra of heart, brain, and soul." A conductor of energy, her music is not for the timid. Bonniekane.com Ifetayo Cobbins lives in Hudson, and is a spoken word artist and poet. @ifetayo5123 Jen Kutler is a sound based performer, sculptor and maker. She modifies found objects that are cultural signifiers of power, gender and intimacy to create atypical instruments. Her performances feature many of her instruments incorporated with immersive field recordings to explore common and discrepant experiences of familiar sound environments. soundcloud.com/jenkutler Mistresses is the side boob of Arone Dyer (Buke and Gase, Dronechoir) while the drummer, Ryan Oslance (Ahleuchatistas), is on a backpacking trip in sucka New Zealand. She pops, they bam bam. missarone.com Perfect Ten After School was founded in 2010 by Paula Forman who saw that there was a need in Hudson for a place where girls might gather, support one another, and develop the skills and courage required for making their own dreams come true. With enormous support from the community, the Hudson City School District, the women of Hudson, and the girls and their moms who committed to Perfect Ten, this adventure became a reality. Each year we grow and change to suit our expanding vision. Perfect Ten is about self-discovery, with the aim to build character through community engagement, skill development, academic support, and cultural exploration. We empower girls to become confident, independent women. perfecttenhudson.org RRB Rebecca Becker is a multimedia artist, composer and writer. Her work focuses on liminal spaces that exist between definitions and are therefore undefined. She currently lives in Hudson, NY. liminalspacecadet.com Shanekia McIntosh is a writer, poet, programmer, and educator born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. McIntosh has performed her writing at the New Museum, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, September Gallery, Powrplnt, and Basilica Hudson, among other places. Her writing has been exhibited in shows at the 511 Gallery in Portland, Basilica Hudson, and the New Museum. McIntosh has programmed for a variety of art spaces and educational institutions. She is based in Hudson, NY. shanekiamcintosh.com

Volume is a FREE reading & music series featuring prose, poetry and a short DJ set. Every second Saturday at 7:00 pm at The Spotty. Books are available for purchase and signing. This month's writers include: CELIA BLAND is the author of Madonna Comix, a poetry/visual art book with artist Dianne Kornberg, and the collections Soft Box: Poems, and Cherokee Road Kill (2018). Her nonfiction has recently appeared in the “Second Thoughts” series for the National Book Critics Circle website. WILLIAM LESSARD’s writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, FANZINE, Prelude, Hyperallergic, PANK, Brooklyn Rail, and Heavy Feather Review, and been featured at MoMA PS1. He co-curates the Cool As F**K Reading Series at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn, and is the poetry editor of Boog City. KEM JOY UKWU’s fiction has appeared in PANK, Brooklyn Quarterly, Jabberwock Review, and elsewhere. Her short story collection, Locked Gray / Linked Blue (Brain Mill Press, 2018), was a finalist for the New American Fiction Prize. Followed by a special guest DJ.

Katie Heaney: I'm a writer from Minnesota, living in Brooklyn. I am the author of the memoirs Never Have I Ever and the forthcoming Would You Rather?, as well as the novels Dear Emma and Public Relations (co-authored with Arianna Rebolini). I have written for Cosmopolitan, New York magazine online, The Atlantic, Racked, and The Hairpin, and others. Before working as a full-time freelance writer, I worked at BuzzFeed for four years as both a writer and editor. Chloe Caldwell is a nonfiction writer living in upstate New York. Her essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Chronogram, The Frisky, The Sun Magazine, SMITH Magazine, Jewcy, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, Vol 1. Brooklyn and Freerange Nonfiction. She writes a column for The Faster Times called "Love & Music.

Please join our students and faculty for a reading at The Spotty Dog. The Hudson Valley branch, the newest addition to The Writers Studio branches, operates like the flagship New York City school — with the same workshop model designed to help students discover and nurture their own voices by “trying on” many approaches to fiction and poetry. The Writers Studio Hudson Valley welcomes students at all stages, from those who have only dreamed of writing fiction or poetry to those with MFAs hungry for additional serious, ongoing instruction. Students provide the desire to write and the willingness to learn, and we provide the structure, the technical know-how, the professional feedback and the nurturing community to enable them to reach their full potential. Hudson Valley currently offers two levels of workshops, as well as readings and other public events. Teachers receive the same rigorous training as our New York City and online faculty. Students who travel frequently or have irregular work schedules are welcome to move back and forth among any of the on-site branches and the online workshops. For more information, contact Therese Eiben: 917-733-7770 or theresee@writerstudio.com.