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Welcome to AVA’s monthly calendar of events. Take a peek and plan your stay-cation or your next visit to our region. The city’s most notable annual events include historic home tours, outdoor summer concerts and movies under the stars, and the Northwest Art and Air Festival.
*Note for event organizers: If you’d like to have your event listed on the AVA calendar, head over to our contact page and submit your event to us.
Hear ye, hear ye – The Albany Carousel cordially invites all princesses, princes, kings, and queens, to a Little Royalty Tea Party. Party Perfection Princesses will attend, along with their face painters. A professional photographer on hand so you can get your photo taken with a princess and tea (or apple juice) will be served along with light refreshments. You will also get to make your own crown to take home! Tickets go on sale on Eventbrite on 1/23/23 and are $15.00 per person attending. Please be advised that all minors attending must be accompanied by at least one adult.
This true story about 19th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, explores a woman’s place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries when women’s ideas were dismissed until men claimed credit for them. Social progress, like scientific progress, can be hard to see when one is trapped among earthly complications; Henrietta Leavitt and her female peers believed in both, and their dedication changed the way we understand both the heavens and Earth.
This true story about 19th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, explores a woman’s place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries when women’s ideas were dismissed until men claimed credit for them. Social progress, like scientific progress, can be hard to see when one is trapped among earthly complications; Henrietta Leavitt and her female peers believed in both, and their dedication changed the way we understand both the heavens and Earth.