Capital Region Social Happenings

05/19/2026

Order of appearance
Guests on this week’s show
>>> Sizzle & Steak Productions “Love Letters”
Love Letters by A.R. Gurney Jul 24 – Aug 2 with guests Kimberly Collins, Co-Founder, Managing Member
Jackie Amilivia, Co-Founder, Managing Member
Mike Collins, Co-Founder, Managing Member
>>> Chinese Community Center & Myanmar
Highlights 2nd Cap Reg AAPI Youth Summit with guests Yunxiao Zhang, President, Chinese Community Center of Capital District of NY
Dr. Hnin Wai Lwin Myo, President, Myanmar Multiethnic Sociocultural Association
>>> Soroptimists of Schenectady Garden Tour – Jun 13 with guests Mary Mortka, Garden Tour Committee
Donna Gilgore, member
>>> Veterans Service Agency (Sch’dy County)
Memorial Day Events with guests George Sykala, Polish American Veterans
Steve McCutcheon, Director

Guests on this week’s showSizzle & Steak Productions “Love Letters”Love Letters by A.R. Gurney Jul 24 – Aug 2 with guests Kimberly Collins, Co-Founder, ...

05/12/2026

Sizzle & Steak Productions
Love Letters by A.R. Gurney
Kimberly Collins, Co-Founder, Managing Member
Jackie Amilivia, Co-Founder, Managing Member
Mike Collins, Co-Founder, Managing Member
July 24-31 & Aug 1-2 – Ticketed Event
Our inaugural production will be A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters at the beautifully renovated 181-seat Rao Theater on the Fulton-Montgomery Community College campus.
Love Letters is a tender, tragi-comic, and nuanced examination of the shared nostalgia, missed opportunities, and deep closeness of two lifelong, complicated friends.
Sizzle & Steak Productions was founded on the premise that area audiences are looking to see shows that will excite and emotionally connect with them and feature compelling storylines, believable performances and artistic proficiency.
Beyond artistic expression, community theater is important for a variety of reasons, perhaps none more so than that it teaches folks about the importance of team building and working well with others. It also helps give all people access to arts in the Capitol Region.
It is our sincerest hope that, in our own small way, what we have created will help keep the local theater scene vibrant and thriving.
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Sizzle & Steak Productions “Love Letters”Love Letters by A.R. Gurney -- Jul 24 – Aug 2Kimberly Collins, Co-Founder, Managing MemberJackie Amilivia, Co-Foun...

05/12/2026

Chinese & Myanmar
2026 AAPI Youth Summit
(American & Pacific Islander)
Yunxiao Zhang, President, Chinese Community Center of Capital District of NYDr. Hnin Wai Lwin Myo, President, Myanmar Multiethnic Sociocultural Association
The Capital Region AAPI Youth Summit is a collaborative, youth-centered initiative that brings together Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) youth, community organizations, and advocates across the region. The summit creates a dynamic platform to uplift youth voices, foster leadership, and address key issues impacting AAPI communities, including identity, wellbeing, and civic engagement. Rooted in cross-organizational partnership, the summit reflects a growing effort to support youth through culturally responsive, community-driven approaches.
Guided by a mission to empower the next generation of AAPI leaders, the summit emphasizes the values of advocacy, resilience, and innovation, encouraging youth to engage with AAPI community, navigate challenges with strength, and contribute creative solutions that advance social change and collective wellbeing.
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Chinese Community CenterHighlights 2nd Cap Reg AAPI Youth SummitYunxiao Zhang, President, Chinese Community Center of Capital District of NY.Dr. Hnin Wai Lwi...

05/08/2026

Drive to Live in Albany
Performance
Carol Durant, Playwright, Producer
Sheilah London Miller, Co-Director
Amelia Paul, Stage Manager
Hasson Harris Wilcher, Co-Director
Location: Interfaith Sanctuary 959 Madison Ave Albany NY 12203
The Interfaith Sanctuary is located on the former College of St Rose Campus Funding generously provided by Daniel P. McCoy Albany County Executive and Advance Albany County Alliance We appreciate the opportunity to deliver our talents to the community.
Dates: Friday May 29 (7 pm) Saturday May 30 (2 shows -- 4 pm & 7 pm)
This play is set in 1952, a Black family with 2 members who live in Albany are strongly encouraging the 4 family members that live in Harlem to visit and want to move to Albany
Ticketed event: $10 adults & $5 students

Drive to Live in AlbanyCarol Durant, Playwright, ProducerSheilah London Miller, Co-DirectorAmelia Paul, Stage Manager

05/08/2026

Albany Symphony
Water Music: More Voices
Lily Whiteman, Program Manager
In partnership with NYSCC, these festivals celebrate the bicentennial of the completion of the Erie Canal with music and community along the historic waterway and bringing to life new commissions by renowned composers. Free community festivals return this summer to conclude the Erie Canal Bicentennial Season and launch the third century of New York's magnificent canal system.
Locations: Waterford, Rome and The Tonowanda NY
Dates: July 10, 11 & Aug 15 3 pm activities and concert at 8 pm and drone show
The Albany Symphony celebrates our living musical heritage. Through brilliant live performances, innovative educational programming, and engaging cultural events, the Albany Symphony enriches a broad & diverse regional community. By creating, recording, and disseminating the music of our time, the Albany Symphony is establishing an enduring artistic legacy that is reshaping the nation’s musical future.
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Albany Symphony – Summer ConcertsLily Whiteman, Program Manager

05/07/2026

Capital Region Today’s show on May 6 with the topics:
Drive to Live in Albany -May 29 & 30
Carol Durant, Playwright, Producer
Sheilah London Miller, Co-Director
Amelia Paul, Stage Manager
Albany Symphony – Summer Concerts
Lily Whiteman, Program Manager (contact)
Gift of Life – Central New York
Tom Burdick , President Gift of Life CNY
Saratoga Voices
Alexander’s Feast – May 9
Noah Palmer, Artist Director
Spina Bifida Assoc. of New York State
Sch’dy Walk-N-Roll – May 17
Julia Duff, Exec. Dir.

Capital Region Today’s show on May 6 with the topics:Drive to Live in Albany -May 29 & 30 Carol Durant, Playwright, ProducerSheilah London Miller, Co-Directo...

05/07/2026

Saratoga Voices presents
Alexander’s Feast
Noah Palmr, Artistic Director
May 9 at 7 pm at Zankel Music Center at Skidmore College.
Experience the power and brilliance of Handal’s Alexander’s Feast as Saratoga Voices brings this dramatic choral masterwork to life. With all of the beauty, power and grace of the messiah, this colorful oratorio, by turn secular and sacred, features virtuosic operatic singer alongside rousing choruses and brilliant orchestral writing.
Mission: Saratoga Voices embraces the choral arts within a vibrant collaborative and skill-nurturing environment; striving for excellence in choral performances, including diverse music, artists and audiences to share the joy and power of singing.

05/05/2026

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04/21/2026

On Capital RegionToday
Octavo Singers of Sch’dy
Spring Concert – April 26
Diane Deacon, President,
Andrew Burger, Artistic Director
Location: St. John the Evangelist Church (Sch’dy)
3 pm – ticketed event
The program features The Cloud Messenger, a sweeping and rarely performed masterpiece by Gustav Holst. This performance is a rare opportunity to encounter a richly textured work that few audiences have the chance to hear live. Paired with Schicksalslied, Johannes Brahms’s luminous meditation on fate and transcendence, the program offers a compelling exploration of human longing across cultures and centuries. Plenty of parking at rear of church.
Mission: Sharing the best of choral music with the Capital region.
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Octavo Singers – Concert April 26

02/06/2026

Home Made Theater
The Crucible – Feb 20 – Mar 1
Emily Bryan “Mary Warren”
Paul Angelo “Rev. Parris”
Diane O’Neill “Rebecca Nurse”
Location: Saratoga Music Hall (3rd Floor City Hall)
Widely considered a masterpiece, this timeless classic challenges American ideas of power, intolerance, and justice. In the Puritan community of Salem, Massachusetts, a servant girl accuses a farmer’s wife of witchcraft. One accusation spirals into many uncovering a web of bigotry and deceit that changes their lives forever.
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Home Made Theater – The Crucible – Feb 20 to Mar 1 – (Saratoga)Emily Bryan “Mary Warren”Paul Angelo ‘Reverand Parris”Dianne O’Neill “Rebecca Nurse”