When July ends, Find Waldo Hudson also, unfortunately, must come to an end (until next year!). But - fear not! - we have a closing party where we snack, drink, and award prizes. Slinky Armadillo will be there providing the music. Hudson City Councilman Rich Volo will be there as an impartial prize-picker (and he MIGHT be able to persuade alter-ego Trixie Star to bring us some cookies). Crafts and chill company also included. Thanks to The Bee's Knees, Flowerkraut, LICK, Vasilow's and Candlewick Press for prizes. You guys rule. Didn't do the whole Find Waldo thing? Who cares?! Come party with us anyway! It's all free, so what have you got to lose?

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: Andrea Kleine is a novelist, choreographer, performance artist, and essayist. She is a five-time MacDowell Colony fellow and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow. Her debut novel, CALF, was named a Publishers Weekly Best Fiction Book of 2015. Her new novel, EDEN, has been recommended by BBC Culture, Nylon, Bitch, Book Riot, Library Journal, Powell’s Books, The Millions, and more. Anna Moschovakis is the author of the novel Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love. Her books of poetry include the James Laughlin Award-winning You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake and They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This, named “best of 2016” by BOMB, Entropy, and The New Yorker. A longtime member of the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, she is co-founder of Bushel, an art and community space, in Delhi, NY. Claire Luchette is a writer from Chicago. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Granta, Iowa Review, Glimmer Train, and O, the Oprah Magazine. She is a MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Millay Colony for the Arts, Lighthouse Works and Elizabeth George Foundation fellow. She’s working on a novel, Superfluity, about a group of Midwestern nuns. Followed by a DJ set from a special guest

Minibeast (Providence, mem. of Mission of Burma, ex-Volcano Suns/Kustomized) http://www.minibeast.net/ https://www.facebook.com/minibeaste/ Minibeast is the musical creation of Peter Prescott (Mission Of Burma, Volcano Suns, Kustomized, Peer Group). Minibeast combines surf, psych, punk, easy listening, '60s children’s music, and soundtrack influences to create instrumental soundscapes. Live, Minibeast is a 3-piece band with Keith Seidel, Eric Baylies, and Peter Prescott. Here's an informative interview with Peter by current bandmate Eric Baylies: http://thenoise-boston.com/2014/01/minibeast/ Insect Factory (MD/Philly, mem. of Mock Identity/Kohoutek) http://www.insectfields.org/ http://insectfactory.bandcamp.com/ "...a warped psychedelic collage, muted percussive loops, all woozy and warbly, wheezing melodies, layered textures, softly distorted and dreamily chaotic." - Aquarius Records “Music that evokes the feel of a plane ride through the clouds and the surreal world of dreams…Insect Factory's music grows with repeated listens” - The Wire "a beautiful aural “rainbow in curved air” that reminds me of some of the finest minimalists and static drone-drifters” -Terrascope Local sonic architects Slow Jr will open (members of the Hudson Valley all star group Slow Collins)

Hosted by Burt Murder, HOT DOG BOAT is a delicious event in which YOU get to be in the band. All instruments provided, occasional prizes, and even the POTENTIAL PROMISE of HOT DOGS! (Cannot guarantee Hot Dogs at this time) Come and get rowdy, sail away on the singing ship of hot dogs, float into the magical abyss of tubed meat. Roll up on shore or cast away with a microphone in hand. Previous songs created at Hot Dog Boat have been: Hot Dog Hero Hot Dog Man I Wanna be Frank with You Don't Touch my Dog Dog on a Log Hot Dog Drum and Bass Salami Mami

First a live set from RRB at 8PM Then DJ sets from 9 til LATE by: DJ FULATHELA: Mike/FULATHELA is a multidisciplinary artist currently located in Hudson, NY. He has DJ'ed some of the most prominent events of Hudson, NY and beyond. He is a treasure and (in my opinion) is set to be the future mayor of our great city. Always a proponent of direct and positive action, Mike/FULATHELA is an inspiration and a kick-ass DJ. SVB: Sarah Van Buren is a DJ, event producer and musician residing in the Hudson Valley. She began DJing 15 years ago in Boston at WECB, Emerson College’s freeform campus radio station. Later, living in NYC, she co-founded art + party collective CHERYL, and DJed large-scale events around the city and abroad. She is an incredible person, one of the world wonders.