Events
Crafty Hours
Friday, March 28, 5:30 to 7:30 pm.
We're doing happy hour a little different! Join us Friday March 28 from 530 to 7:30 for CRAFTY HOURS! Bring a project with you (or just tour the gallery's latest exhibit) and a drink to sip while you craft if you'd like. We will have limited beers and wine available too!
All are welcome. No registration required/
Fifth Sunday Open Mic
Sunday, March 30, 1 pm to 3 pm.
Upcoming Dates in 2025: June 29, August 31, November 30
On Sunday March 30, 2025 from 12:30 and until 3 pm the Dove Block will host an Open Microphone for performers of literary or musical work. All are welcome as performers or listeners. The program is free.
A special guest poet, Charles Martin will be giving a reading of his work in poetry and translations. Martin has been published in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Hudson Review and many other journals. He has also been published in The Norton Anthology of Poetry and Best American Poetry and has won numerous awards, such as a Pushcart Prize, for his work. Martin has published translations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the Poems of Catullus and the Medea of Euripides.
Martin will also present parts of his new book, The Khayyam Suite, recently published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, and copies will be available for sale.
As an Open Mic., performers in literature and music are invited to offer brief samples of their work to a friendly audience. A sign-up sheet for five-minute segments will be available from 12:30 until 1 when the performance begins. First come, first served. All welcome.
Come, perform, listen, enjoy light refreshments, have fun. Free.
For more information contact Steve at stachu14512@gmail.com or (585)554-4899.
No registration required, but performers should arrive at 12:30 to sign up for a time slot.
Annual Arthur Dove Celebration
Saturday, April 12, 7 pm
This year’s Arthur Dove Celebration offers something different: an introductory concert, a live auction, and a one act play featuring the letters between Arthur Dove and Alfred Stieglitz. Come and enjoy hors d’oeuvres, wine, beer, music, a lively auction of art items and events, and a dramatization of the relationship between modernist artist Arthur Dove and his mentor Alfred Stieglitz.
Doors will open at 6:30 pm with a concert by students at St. Peter’s Arts Academy, with Violinists Claire Crisanti and Lucy Crisanti and Guitarists Malcolm Rohn and Vivienne Piersol. At 7:15, we will have a live auction with Carrie Hessney-Doranis a full-time professional auctioneer and champion bid caller who works with her father, Joe at Hessney Auction Co. in Geneva. Among the items that will be auctioned are: art class or youth party for up to 10-12; artwork donated by local artists; private showing in our micro theater; a private paint and sip event; and a studio visit/art coaching session with Phyllis Bryce Ely. After the auction, the play will be performed.
Refreshments are supported by Billsboro Winery, Lake Drum Brewery, and 41 Lakefront Hotel.
Suggested donation of $25 per person.
Sunday Cinema: Kusama-Infinity
Sunday, April 13, 1 pm.
The film chronicles her tumultuous years in New York, struggling for success, a dream she all but abandoned when she returned to Japan. But her devotion to making art never faltered, and in 2014, based on museum attendance, she was declared the most popular artist in the world.
Seating limited to 27.
No registration required!
Crafty Hours
Friday, April 25, 5:30 to 7:30 pm.
We're doing happy hour a little different! Join us Friday April 25 from 530 to 7:30 for CRAFTY HOURS! Bring a project with you (or just tour the gallery's latest exhibit) and a drink to sip while you craft if you'd like. We will have limited beers and wine available too!
All are welcome. No registration required.
Playwrights Reading Plays
Sunday, April 27, 2 pm.
The Geneva Theatre Guild is excited to continue on with its annual Playwrights' Play Readings event!
GTG aims to bring ALL kinds of theatre to the Geneva area in the Finger Lakes Region of New York - including new, original works! Each year, we put out an "open call" for amateur playwrights to submit their unpublished works of short plays - all plays submitted should be timed at no more than 30 minutes (approximately 25-28 pages). The event has gained an international reputation and we have to cap our submissions at 150 short plays on a first-come-first-serve submission basis! When that cap is reached, the rigorous selection process of our volunteer readers and Play Selection Committee begins. During this review process, playwrights' names are removed from the scripts to avoid any bias and each script is read by at least 3 volunteer readers. When all scripts have been reviewed the required amount of times, 5 to 6 of the highest-rated entries are performed in a series of script-in-hand staged readings by local actors at venues all over the Geneva area!
In this grass-roots theatre project, you can be a featured playwright, one of our volunteer readers, an actor, a director, or part of our beloved audience - a true testament to the community theatre process!
Tickets will be for sale at the door.
Sunday Cinema: Museum Town
Sunday, May 11, 1 pm.
A documentary by Jennifer Trainer that premiered at SXSW 2019, reveals how art transformed the dying factory town of North Adams, Massachusetts into a refuge for contemporary art. The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, known affectionately as MASS MoCA, arose from the search to find space large enough to house monumental scale contemporary work that had outgrown a traditional museum setting. It opened in 1999 with nineteen galleries encompassing over 100,000 square feet of exhibition space. Now, it has expanded to over 250,000 square feet and is the largest site for showcasing contemporary art in the world.
Seating limited to 27.
No registration required!
Sunday Cinema: Art and Craft
Sunday, June 8, 1 pm.
For those of us who find the world of art alienating and highbrow in ways, there's something satisfying about a story of someone expertly duping it. Art and Craft is a documentary about Mark Landis, one of the world's most prolific art forgers. But instead of forging masterpieces for financial gain, Landis donates his fakes to museums and galleries. The engrossing film captures a real-life character and story that's truly stranger than fiction.
Seating limited to 27.
No registration required!
Sunday Cinema: The Art of the Steal
Sunday, July 13, 1 pm.
Plays like a thrilling whodunit as it seeks to solve what happened to the world-renowned Barnes art collection, valued in the "billions and billions."
Seating limited to 27.
No registration required!
The Illustrations of Arthur Dove: Dr. Melanie Kirschner-Perlstein
Saturday, August 2, 2 pm
This event is sponsored by the Geneva Historical Society.
Dr. Kirschner-Perlstein will speak on the illustrations of Arthur Dove in the years 1903-1933. Arthur G. Dove, America’s first abstract artist, also created close to one thousand wholly representational illustrations for books and magazines between 1903 and 1930. He drew teachers and cowboys, flappers and shop-clerks, city streets, swamps and courtrooms. His illustrations were published in Collier’s, Life, The American Boy and over two dozen other periodicals. They were in tens of thousands of American homes. Come celebrate the anniversary of Arthur Dove’s birthday with us!
To be held in the Jim Spates Dove Block Theater; limited to 27 seats. Registration required.
Registration will open in July.
Sunday Cinema: Alice Neel
Sunday, August 10, 1 pm.
Director Andrew Neel looks at the life and work of his grandmother, Alice Neel, one of the 20th century's best portrait artists, in this intimate documentary that uses interviews, photos and art to detail her struggles as a painter and single mother.
Seating limited to 27.
No registration required!
Sunday Cinema: Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden
Sunday, September 14, 1 pm.
In 2007 there is a serious retrospective exhibition of the work of Georg Baselitz at the Royal Academy of Arts, curated by Norman Rosenthal, who first exhibited paintings by Baselitz in the early 70s. Baselitz travels to London to lecture at the RA and revisits his exhibition together with Rosenthal. They discuss the work, paintings and sculptures, and the artist's beginnings and progress.
Seating limited to 27.
No registration required!
Viva Geneva: 3rd Annual Celebration of Hispanic Culture
Viva Geneva: 3ra Celebración Annual de la Cultura Hispana
Saturday, September 27, 12 to 4 pm / Sábado septiembre 27, 12 to 4 pm
A celebration of Hispanic Culture in the Finger Lakes. Featuring a dance demo, live music, tables by Geneva Reads, Historic Geneva, The Geneva Public Library. Geneva Agribusiness Child Developments Center with books, crafts and more. There will be art workshops, arts and crafts for children, food trucks, traditional Hispanic food, and much more…
Una celebración de la cultura Hispana en Finger Lakes. Con una demostración de baile, música en vivo, mesas de Geneva Reads, Geneva histórica, Biblioteca pública de Geneva. Centro de Desarrollo infantile de agronegocios de Finebra con libros, manualidades y más, Habrá talleres de arete, manualidades para niños, food trucks, comida tradicional Hispana y mucho más…
All are welcome. No registration necessary.
Viva Geneva is sponsored by Wegmans
Short Film Festival
Sunday, October 12, 12 to 4 pm
The 2025 Dove Block Project Short Film Festival will be the 2nd annual celebration of short films held in the beautiful Finger lakes city of Geneva New York. The festival will showcase short films from local and national film makers, focusing on the film makers in the Finger Lakes region and upstate New York. The festival will take place in The Dove Block Project’s very own James Spates Micro Theater, a state of the art 27 seat theater. The Festival will be hosted by The Dove Block Project’s volunteer Harold Copp. It will also offer film makers a chance to introduce their film and participate in a Q&A following the screenings
The festival will be free to the public and for all ages. Registration required.
Limited to 27 seats in the Jim Spates Dove Block Micro-Theater!
Registration will open in September.
Sunday Cinema: Don’t Blink: Robert Frank
Sunday, November 9, 1 pm.
Robert Frank revolutionized photography and independent film. He documented the Beats, Welsh coal miners, Peruvian Indians, The Stones, London bankers, and the Americans. This is the bumpy ride, revealed with unblinking honesty by the reclusive artist himself.
Seating limited to 27.
No registration required!
Sunday Cinema: The Muppet Christmas Carol
Sunday, December 14, 1 pm.
The Muppet's rendition of Charles Dickens' classic tale puts a unique twist on a favorite holiday story.
Seating limited to 27.
No registration required!
The Arc Ontario: Creative Expressions
The first Monday of each month, the Creative Expressions Team from The Arc Ontario visits the Dove Block. Creative Expressions is a comprehensive service/therapeutic experience that fosters creativity through visual arts, music, and horticulture, encouraging individual to expand upon traditional methods of communication and interaction in an educational environment.
Creative Expressions is designed for people seeking to improve their physical, emotional, cognitive, and social skills by expressing themselves in a variety of creative ways, while getting involved in their community.
They offer an Art Program that gives individuals access to a variety of mediums including drawing, painting, sculpture, book arts and digital animation by guided by our art specialist.
The Music program offers a wide range of musical experiences to promote the health and well-being of individuals by enhancing and transforming their lives.
Our Horticulturist provides experience using the senses to experience various aspects of gardening.