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Last Updated: 5/2/2025
Lit Lit at the Howland Cultural Center
Day: Every 1st Friday, May 2nd, 2025
Time: 7pm
Location: 477 Main St, Beacon, NY 12508
A monthly literary open mic series. Hosted by Donna Minkowitz. Donna says: “Folks are welcome to read their own writing of any genre, of up to five minutes in length. If you’d like to read, please arrive by 6:30 to sign up at the Howland Cultural Center. Or just, and listen :-) The Howland asks that everyone donate $5 to help keep the lights on, more if you can, less if you can’t. Soft drinks, beer and wine, and snacks are also available. It’s a hard time for most of us, no question about it. Come hang out and be with your Lit Lit family!”
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Cirque Due Creep Alternative Night Market @ The Yard
Day: Friday, May 2, 2025
Time: 5pm-11pm
Price: $10 Advanced Tickets, $15 at the door - KIDS FREE!
Location: The Yard, 4 Hanna Lane, Beacon, NY
🪦🎪NIGHT OF THE LIVING CREEPS🎪🪦
Shop from an array of Local Dark Artists and Vendors, Get some Flash Tattoos, Indulge in some Delicious Food & Drinks and Enjoy incredible Live Bands & Sideshow Performances by the Bonfire!
(all ages welcome but 18+ material/performances maybe be displayed)
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Outdoor Movie Night @ Beacon High School (BHS)
Day: Friday, May 2, 2025
Time: 8pm (movie starts at 8:30pm)
Price: $5/person
Location: Beacon High School Turf (behind the school by the bleachers) Beacon, NY
This outdoor movie night is happening at BHS for the Class of 2027. The funds that are raised help support class events such as proms and senior trip in an effort to bring down the overall cost of these events for each student. This is event is open to the public.
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Niche Modern's Spring Factory Sale
Days:
May 3, 2025 • 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
May 4, 2025 • 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: 310 Fishkill Ave. Unit 11, Beacon, NY 12508
If you're in Beacon visiting, you came the right weekend to get a huge discount on the original design of glass blown pendaant lighting. Niche Modern's worldwide headquarters is in Beacon, NY. Take 70% OFF handmade glass pendant lighting, vases, and more. Watch live glass-blowing demonstrations.
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a.flowerz project Presents: Comedy Game Night: An Improv Show @ The Yard
Day: Saturday, May 3, 2025
Time: 7pm-10pm
Price: $11.64
Location: The Yard, 4 Hanna Lane, Beacon, NY
back by popular demand, get ready for another action-packed comedy gameshow. dare to compete for prizes. relax with a drink. revel in the uproarious improv brought to you by the Darling Misfits of the Hudson Valley. rambunctious audience members welcome, so get ready to hoot & holler or boo & hiss. dealer's choice. a cash bar and a space to play games are available before and after the show.
warning: this show sold out last time. get your tickets early.
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Riversweep Cleanup at Pete & Toshi Seeger Park
Day: Saturday, May 3, 2025
Time: 9:30am-1:30pm
Location: 2 Flynn Drive, Beacon, NY 12508
Meet at the outside the Beacon Sloop Club at 9:30am. Clean up the riverfront (harbor area and Riverfront Park). Some may also assist at the sloop pollinator garden by the sloop club.
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Pete Seeger’s Birthday Party
Day: Saturday, May 3, 2025
Time: 1-3pm
Location: 2 Flynn Drive, Beacon, NY 12508
Stay at the Sloop Club for our celebration of Pete Seeger’s birthday!
Beacon Record & CD Fest
Day: Saturday, May 3, 2025
Time: 8am Early Admission; 9am - 5pm
Price: $5 Early Admission 8am; $3 Regular Admission; Kids 12 and Under Free
Location: VFW Memorial Building, 413 Main Street, Beacon, NY
The BEACON RECORD & CD FEST RETURNS to the VFW !
20+ great vendors from the Tri-State area and beyond - 30+ tables with vinyl LPs, 45s, CDs, DVDs, cassettes, concert posters, music magazines and books!!
Vendors bringing the best of psych, punk, post punk, hardcore, metal, power pop, prog, garage, funk, soul, jazz, reggae, world, blues, folk, country, bluegrass, rockabilly, hot rod, surf, lounge, electronic, industrial, goth and new wave!!! Records from the 50's to the present!!!!
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Opera For Kids: Featuring The Met Chorus Artists
Day: Sunday, May 4, 2025
Time: 1pm
Price: Free for Kids, $15 adults
Location: Howland Cultural Center, 477 Main Street Beacon, NY
Come experience the magic of opera— for all ages! Geared toward kids, this program will explore opera, voice types, and story through an interactive experience of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”. Learn how to listen to opera, what the different voice types are, and experience the power of classical music up close and personal. Fun for the whole family!
All ages are welcome, but it might be most appropriate for ages 6 and up.
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Beacon's Big Button Game Show: DAYTIME FAMILY EDITION @ The Yard
Day: Sunday, May 3, 2025
Time: 3pm-5pm
Price: $5 (Kids Under 13 yo Free)
Location: The Yard, 4 Hanna Lane, Beacon, NY
IMAGINE...
Teams of up to five, armed with only ONE BUTTON, battling through a gauntlet of brain-busting challenges. We're talking five rounds of unique games designed to test your knowledge, reflexes, and ability to work together under pressure. Win a round, and you'll unlock a bonus round where you can gamble for even more points... or lose it all! The final round? A showdown for the ages, with the winning team earning bragging rights, free drinks, and the title of Big Button Champions!
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Live @ The Yard: Gwen Laster New Muse 4tet Album Release
Day: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Time: 7pm-10pm
Price: $22, $25 at the Door
Location: The Yard, 4 Hanna Lane, Beacon, NY
The jazz strings super group, New Muse 4tet, featuring Gwen Laster (Violin), Teddy Rankin-Parker (Cello), Melanie Dyer (Viola), and Andrew Dury (Drums) hit The Yard stage, presenting their new album "Keepers of the Flame"
Check out more on Gwen Laster’s Projects HERE
Check out more on Keepers of the Flame HERE
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Live @ The Yard: Advance Base, Kristin Daelyn, and BODEGA DOG
Day: Monday, May 12, 2025
Time: 7pm-10:30pm
Price: $22, $25 at the Door
Location: The Yard, 4 Hanna Lane, Beacon, NY
Advance Base is the melancholic soft rock recording project of Chicago, IL singer/songwriter Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). Using a two-handed arsenal of electric piano, Omnichord, samplers, effect pedals & drum machines, Ashworth builds minimalist, heavy-hearted, & nostalgia-obsessed ballads around his conversational baritone. The warm, electronic sound of Advance Base has been described as "lo-fi," "depressed" & "weirdly uplifting."
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APPRECIATION: A Survivor’s Story of Hiroshima
Day: Thursday, May 15, 2025
Time: 6-7pm
Price: Free. Registration encouraged.
Location: Howland Public Library, 313 Main Street, Beacon, NY
Directed by Michael Dwyer and Chuck Gomez
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Death Is Not Real: A Conscious Exploration of What Lies Beyond the Veil @ The Yard
Day: Sunday, May 18, 2025
Time: 12pm-4pm
Price: $22, $25 at the Door
Location: The Yard, 4 Hanna Lane, Beacon, NY
This workshop explores ancient spiritual teachings, firsthand Near-Death Experience (NDE) accounts, and immersive practices such as guided meditations, sound journeys, and heart-brain coherence techniques. Participants will deepen their awareness and begin to cultivate an inner gnosis of what lies beyond.
More than a discussion, this is an opportunity to transcend fear and glimpse the profound truth that death is not the end, but a doorway to deeper consciousness.
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Five Points Festival Presented by Clutter @ The Yard
Day: Saturday-Sunday, June 7-8, 2025
Time: 11am-6pm
Price: Price Ranges Available
Location: The Yard, 4 Hanna Lane, Beacon, NY
Established in 2017, and brought to you by industry cornerstone Clutter Magazine, Five Points Fest is America’s preeminent, Designer Toy & underground art festival!
Bringing together the shining stars of Designer Toys, Street Art, and Indie Comics, from all over the world in the best spot in the world… NEW YORK!
The antidote to the average con, Five Points Fest is a curated celebration of tastemakers, misfits, and rebels in a one-of-a-kind gathering designed with community and collecting at its core!
Featuring crazy monsters, bizarre creatures, awesome robots, weird aliens, and pop culture perversions, we bring together like-minded tribes for a massive party, unlike any con you’ve ever attended!
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Toy Pizza Expo & Five Points Fest Present: WFYM WORLD TOUR @ The Yard
Day: Saturday, June 7-8, 2025
Time: 4pm-7pm
Price: $40 ($5 of every ticket goes to support Beacon's Backyard Community Kitchen, a mutual aid project providing free meals to the local area.)
Location: The Yard, 4 Hanna Lane, Beacon, NY
Toy Pizza Expo is proud to welcome back the hit podcast & twitch stream- WFYM.
Returning champions Chet (@GirlfriendHaver), Mike (@mhud), Tom (@tom_on_here), and Alex (@Lowenaffchen), mark their second live show ever with more freaks, more disgusting food reviews and more creatures from the depths of the internet.
$5 of every ticket goes to support Beacon's Backyard Community Kitchen, a mutual aid project providing free meals to the local area. Ticket price includes access to Five Points Festival Exhibit Area (A $40+ value).
NOTE: This event is up two flights of stairs, with a small flight of stairs at the front door. This show is recommended for ages 18 & up.
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City of Beacon’s City-Wide Yard Sale
Days: Saturday, June 14, 2025
Time: 9am-3pm
Location: Beacon, NY 12508
Shop Beacon’s yards! If you want to be on the City’s map, you’ll need to register here and pay a fee. But you don’t need to register to have a yard sale on this day or any day.
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Live @ The Yard: Bells Larsen
Day: Thursday, June 19, 2025
Time: 7pm-10pm
Price: $22 ($25 at the Door)
Location: The Yard, 4 Hanna Lane, Beacon, NY
How can we forge new forms of coming home to ourselves? On his sophomore album Blurring Time (2025), Bells Larsen collapses time into a series of patient ceremonies. Guided by the satisfaction of simply “being” as a political act, the record explores the ways we write the ever-arriving self into existence. Oscillating between lo-fi 90s indie and searing folk ballads, Larsen’s project features the haunting accompaniment of voices frozen in time.
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Live @ The Yard: Samantha Crain
Day: Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Time: 7pm-10pm
Price: $22 ($25 at the Door)
Location: The Yard, 4 Hanna Lane, Beacon, NY
Samantha Crain is a Choctaw-American singer, songwriter, film composer, and producer from Oklahoma. A two-time winner of the Native American Music Award, Samantha defies categorisation, marrying folk music with the sounds of country rock and college indie. Samantha's latest album, A Small Death (2020), was released on Communion's Real Kind Records. The album received universal acclaim with tracks finding themselves in constant rotation on 6music.
Samantha has toured extensively over the past decade nationally and internationally, presenting ambitious orchestrated shows with her band as well as intimate folk leaning solo performances. She has toured with First Aid Kit, Neutral Milk Hotel, Lucy Rose, The Avett Brothers, The Mountain Goats, and many others.
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