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O+ Festival 2026 Submissions are OPEN NOW for Artists’ Clinic Providers and ExplO+re Wellness Workshop Instructors/Facilitators❤️‍🩹🅾️➕ The O+ Festival will return to Kingston, NY for the 16th annual exchange of art, music, and wellness October 9-11, 2026. The O+ Festival Artists’ Clinic welcomes ALL health and wellness providers/practitioners from all schools of thought, areas of medicine, and all alternative and complimentary care practices. The Artists’ Clinic is the heartbeat of what we do at O+, and the providers make it possible. Consider joining us to exchange the art of medicine for the medicine of art! ExplO+re Wellness is the public facing wellness programming at O+ Festival. ExplO+re offers a chance for our community to experience different modalities, meet new teachers, explore what type of wellness practices work for them and get inspired. ExplO+re offerings include movement, mindfulness, nutrition and any other approach that supports health and wellbeing. For example, we have held sessions ranging from a gong bath to medical marijuana 101, a somatic movement workshop or even a class based on financial health for creative professionals.  ❤️‍🩹TO volunteer your services in the Artists’ Clinic and/or to propose an ExplO+re workshop for O+ Festival 2026 tap the link in our bio for details, or visit: opositive.submittable.com/submit Thank you for helping O+ keep the art(ist)s alive in the Hudson Valley and beyond! #opositivefestival #opositiveclinic #opositive2026 #explorewellness #kingstonny #opositivefestivalkingston #clinicprovider #healthandwellness #submissionsopen   #exchangingartformedicine

@davidwimbishandthecollection & @thepinkertonraid @ the O+ Exchange for a night of storytelling, singing, hope and healing🙌🎶❤️‍🩹 🗓️ SAT MAY 16 📍O+ Exchange | 334 Wall St. Kingston, NY 🚪7pm | 🎶7:30pm 🎟️ $20 adv | $25 @ door 🔗🎟️LINK IN BIO🎟️🔗

We’ll be at the YMCA of Kingston’s Health➕Wellness Jam TODAY until 2pm! Come by and say “Hi!”👋❤️

🔥Wildfires🔥Currently on view as part of my exhibition titled “Landfall”, at the O+ Exchange Gallery in Kingston, NY. FINAL WEEK TO SEE THE SHOW! Last day is 5/16 Open Thursday-Saturday noon-6pm or by appt. 334 Wall St, Kingston, NY 🔗in bio for details

PAPI. One of many new paintings and drawings that I will be showing at my next solo exhibit “Somos” (We are) that will be opening Saturday, May 23 from 5 to 8 PM at @opositivefest exchange space. I’ve been working very hard on these paintings and drawings and I hope you can all join me in Kingston, New York, Saturday, May 23! . Many of the works are inspired from photographs of various news articles, family portraits and historical photography catalogs. The work contains immigrant families, laborers, and American born workers in the same series bridging the groups and showcasing the many commonalities that they share. The protagonists are painted with happy and hopeful demeanors in an illustrative style that creates accessibility to a wide range of audiences and invites them to rethink the family, the immigrant and the American worker narrative. . . . #painting #immigrant #american #exhibit #upstateny

David Wimbish is one of the most underrated songwriters in underground music. His music threads the needle between anthemic pop-rock and intimate folk, and every song has a hook that’s bound to get stuck in your head. On May 16, he’s headed to O+ Exchange in Kingston as part of his current tour. TJ Foster caught up with him ahead of the show for an insightful chat, which you can check out over on our website now. You can also read the full Q&A via his column “Confessions From the Underground” in our latest print issue, available now! **For a more indepth conversation with David Wimbish, check out this month’s Confessions From the Underground column in our May print issue!**

2 DAYS UNTIL WE START TALKING TO STRANGERS AGAIN 🖤 Unhinged Speed Dating x O+ Festival is happening THIS WEEK in Kingston and honestly? it’s time to get off the apps for a night. We’re doing a sober-ish singles mixer + speed dating night with real conversations, flirtation, NA drinks, and just enough chaos to keep it interesting. 🖤 Mixer + rotating speed dating rounds @opositivefest 🖤 Mural walk after 🖤 After hang at @stockadetavern 🖤 Limited spots because curated chaos > overcrowded chaos 🎟️ $20 | 21+ (recommended 25–45) Come outside. Your next bad decision could be waiting 🖤

Welcome our new year-round O+ Clinic Admin & Outreach team member, Veronika D’Aragona❤️‍🩹🎉 She’s a health professional who recently received her Master of Science in Applied Nutrition from the University of New England, and is currently pursuing her license to become a Registered Dietitian. Veronika is also a certified yoga instructor with a particular interest in restorative yoga and breathwork. As a Hudson Valley native, she has an immense desire to give back to the community that helped shape her. Through Veronika’s previous role as a community health worker at a rural hospital in Ulster County, she quickly learned about the disparities community members faced in terms of lack of access to healthcare and food. This experience motivated her to continue to pursue work that promotes health equity and helps create systemic change that better serves the community❤️‍🩹 If you’re an O+ Alumni looking to book a medical, dental, or wellness appointment, please visit the link in our bio or: opositivefestival.org/alumni-care-request/

Going West. This is one of the paintings that I will have in my next solo exhibition called “Somos” that will be opening on Saturday, May 23 from 5 to 8 PM at the @opositivefest exchange space in Kingston NY. I will have 10 new paintings, around 20 new drawings and an installation of a traveling Casita. . Many of the works are inspired from photographs of various news articles, family portraits and historical photography catalogs. The work contains immigrant families, laborers, and American born workers in the same series bridging the groups and showcasing the many commonalities that they share. The protagonists are painted with happy and hopeful demeanors in an illustrative style that creates accessibility to a wide range of audiences and invites them to rethink the family, the immigrant and the American worker narrative. . This particular painting was influenced by the amazing photo from Dorothea Lange. . . . #painting #ny #kingston #upstateny #gallery

Okay, it's here, it's here! They're having a talk tomorrow with the artists, and you can get a little zine about the current show on view and/or some mini prints! 334 wall street kingston :) Thank you so much for indulging in my efforts! Xoxoxo

Exciting announcement 📸🎉!!! O+PEN Portrait Studio photo session kicks-off THIS SUNDAY for Mother’s Day at the O+ Exchange - first of forthcoming monthly sessions throughout the summer💐!! Drop in for professional color and b&w portraits with beautiful, affordable prints made on site! Learn more about photographer @kristopherjohnsonphotography , or visit: See you May 10th @ 334 Wall St. Kingston, NY, and stay tuned for upcoming summer dates😎☀️

JOIN US this Saturday for our ‘In CO+nversation’ event + Q&A with artists @casey_inch_studio and @sarahebrookart 🗣️🖼️ 🗓️SAT MAY 9 ⌚️1-3pm 📍334 Wall St. Kingston, NY 🎟️Free event - all are welcome! ABOUT THE ARTISTS ⬇️ CASEY INCH (b. 1982) is a New York based painter and educator. His journey as an artist began at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, studying under a landscape painter. This exposure to the vastness and grandeur of the American West, bookended by life in a dense urban environment, has pushed his landscapes away from a focus on observations of the natural world toward a critical view of mankind’s collective relationship to it. Inch exhibits his work nationally, with numerous exhibitions in NYC and throughout the Hudson Valley. 🔗Visit the link in our bio to continue reading and learn more about Casey🖼️ 👉caseyinchstudio.com 👉@casey_inch_studio SARAH E. BROOK (b. 1981, Reno, NV) builds public artworks, sculptures and installations as both perceptual explorations and abstract narratives of identity. They have exhibited at the Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York: Lesley Heller, NY; Field Projects, NY; NARS, NY; Ground Floor Gallery, NY and the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, among others. New York solo exhibitions include Open Source Gallery, Turley Gallery, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, The Vanderbilt Republic and Greenpoint Gallery. Brook was also included in the 2019 BRIC Biennial in Brooklyn, curated by Elizabeth Ferrer and Jennifer Gerow. They were awarded the Leslie-Lohman Museum Fellowship, the Media Arts Fellowship from BRIC, and residencies from Montello Foundation, Stove Works, Marble House Projects, I-Park, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Jentel Foundation, Playa and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. 🔗Visit the link in our bio to continue reading and learn more about Sarah🖼️ 👉/
👉@sarahebrookart