Events
Fifth Sunday Open Mic
Sunday, June 29, 1 pm to 3 pm.
Upcoming Dates in 2025: August 31, November 30
Another in the series of literary arts happenings with space on the microphone for songs, music, short stories and poems. You are invited to show our audience what you’ve been working on.
Featuring readings by local poets Howard Nelson and David Michael Nixon.
Howard Nelson is retired after many years of teaching at the Cayuga County Community College. His latest collection of poems, That Was Really Something, was published by Groundhog Poetry Press. His previous books include All the Earthly Lovers: Selected and New Poems, The Nap by the Waterfall, Bone Music, Gorilla Blessing, Singing into the Belly, Earth My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman, and Robert Bly: An Introduction to the Poetry. William Heyen says of Singing into the Belly, ”These poems embody those fragile diaphanous moments when we know miracle….”
David Michael Nixon of Rochester, NY grew up in Lockport, NY and graduated from Hobart College. He has been the coordinator of several reading series in the Rochester area, has taught writing at Writers & Books and published in numerous magazines and anthologies. Cornelius Eady says of him, “David Nixon is a poet who refuses to forget that the best American poetry is concerned with the world, not the workshop.” His poetry publications include: You See Me in the Trees, Blue Water Line Blues, Venus in Retirement: New and Selected Poems, Stephen Forgives the Stones, and most recently A Wolf Comes to My Window from Mayapple Press of Woodstock, NY. Steve Lewandowski says of him, “David Nixon is an elder statesman from the stateless Realm of Poetry. He works long and hard for Poetry.”
Fifth Sunday Open Mic. appears each time a month has a fifth Sunday, four times in 2025.
It is funded by The Dove Block Project and curated by Stephen Lewandowski.
It is open to the public and free. Light refreshments will be served. Enjoy!
No registration required, but performers should arrive at 12:30 to sign up for a time slot.
Art Walk
Saturday, July 12, 11:00 AM to 3:00 pm.
Come on in! The Dove will participate in the Geneva BID’s Art Walk. Artist vendors and makers of all kinds will be selling their unique creations in locations throughout Downtown Geneva. Take an Art Walk and explore local talent, along with all that Geneva has to offer!
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!
Fifth Sunday Open Mic
Sunday, August 31, 1 pm to 3 pm.
Upcoming Date in 2025: November 30
On Sunday, August 31 from 1:30 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.
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.
Sunday Cinema: Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden
Sunday, September 14, 1 pm.
In 2007 there was a 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 traveled to London to lecture at the Royal Academy and revisited his exhibition there with Rosenthal. They discussed the work, paintings and sculptures, and the artist's beginnings and progress.
Seating limited to 27.
No registration required!
Crafty Hours
Friday, September 19, 5:30 to 7:30 pm.
We're doing happy hour a little different! Join us on the third Friday of each month, September through December, from 5:30 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!
Upcoming dates in 2025: September 19, October 17, November 21, December 18.
All are welcome. 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!
Fifth Sunday Open Mic
Sunday, November 30, 1 pm to 3 pm.
On Sunday, November 30 from 1:00 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.
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.
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.