Summer 2026
Stewart’s Signature Series is a line-up of premiere summer events offered at no charge to the local community and made possible through a generous grant from Stewart’s Shops and the Dake Family.
Hannah Lillith Assadi aand Honor Moore
Monday, June 29, 8:00 PM, Davis Auditorium
A New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College Reading
Hannah Assadi’s latest release, Paradiso 17, is inspired by the life of her late Palestinian father; read the March 18 review in The New York Times. Poet Honor Moore’s latest book, A Termination, was named one of the Best Books of 2024 by Publishers Weekly: “Marked by Moore’s stunning balance of compassion and rage, this is a triumph.”
Kenny Garrett and Sounds from the Ancestors
Tuesday, June 30, 7:30 PM, Arthur Zankel Music Center
This Skidmore Jazz Institute concert is free and open to the public, but reservations are required and information is available here. Doors open at 7 PM.
National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Kenny Garrett has a 30-year career that includes hallmark stints with Miles Davis, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw and the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
"Consciousness, Neurology, and Literature" with Rick Moody and Sean Pauzauskie
Saturday, July 11, 11:00 AM, Davis Auditorium
A New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College discussion.
A dialogue between Rick Moody and neurologist and fiction writer Sean Pauzauskie about the most recent medical understanding of where and if consciousness is located in the brain, differing ideas of “thinking,” and the implications of these ideas for how we represent the self in contemporary fiction writing. Pauzauskie will also discuss his pioneering work in “neurorights,” or the ownership of our own brain waves and brain-related health data, and new technological advances in neural imagery, up to and including how devices are at the threshold of monitoring what we think.
Billy Childs Trio
Tuesday, July 7, 7:30 PM, Arthur Zankel Music Center
This Skidmore Jazz Institute concert is free and open to the public, but reservations are required and information is available here. Doors open at 7 PM.
Grammy Award-winning composer and pianist Billy Childs, leads this trio with Matt Penman (bass) and Ari Hoenig (drums).
Tuesday, July 14, 8:00 PM, Davis Auditorium
A New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College Reading
Joshua Cohen won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel, The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family. Along with the Pulitzer, The Netanyahus is the winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and one of the 10 Best Books of 2021 (The Wall Street Journal), 100 Notable Books of 2021 (The New York Times), Best Fiction Books of the Year, (Kirkus), 15 Best Books of 2021 (The A.V. Club), 24 Best Fiction Books of 2021 (The Times), Best Fiction Books of 2021 (The Telegraph), and 20 Best Books of the Year (The New Statesman).
For information on other events offered this summer, consult the College’s Latest News and Calendar or these program websites: