Events
Sunday Cinema: Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
Sunday, March 9, 1 pm.
Peggy Guggenheim’s eventful life is a roll call of some of the most famous artists of the 20th century, reflecting her status as a patron of the arts extraordinaire. Using audio interviews with the woman herself, as well interviews with art critics and historians, this documentary does justice to a colorful character who was not only ahead of her time but helped to define it.
Seating limited to 27.
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
The Dove is happy to announce an Open Microphone will be held on each fifth Sunday at 1-3 pm. Participants can read a poem, a short story, an excerpt from a longer work, perform music, sing a song. Each performer will be given a seven minute slot. 12 performers will be accepted. There is no entry fee.
The special guest reader for the March 30 event is Charles Martin, a poet, translator of poetry, and essayist. The Khayyam Suite is the fifth of his eight books of poetry to appear in the Fiction and Poetry Series of the Johns Hopkins University Press. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, Literary Matters, The Hopkins Review and, in numerous anthologies, including Best American Poetry, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, and War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing. He has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Ingram Merrill Grant, a Bess Hokin Award from Poetry magazine, and a Pushcart Prize. His translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses received the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Award from the Academy of American Poets, and he has also translated The Poems of Catullus and the Medea of Euripides. With his wife, Johanna Keller, he has co-taught a very popular course on “The Sentence” for the Downtown Writers’ Voice.
Listeners are also very, very welcome. Anyone interested in hearing what local talent can do should attend!
Some refreshments will be available. Again, all are welcome. Admission is free. Come and listen, or bring your words and/or music and perform for a friendly audience. Check it out!
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: a one act play featuring the letters between Arthur Dove and Alfred Stieglitz. Come and enjoy hors d’oeuvres, wine, and a dramatization of the relationship between modernist Arthur Dove and his mentor Alfred Stieglitz. Presented with The Geneva Theatre Guild.
Registration will open in March.
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!
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.
Todos sois bienvenidos. No es necesario registrarse.
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.