IT'S TIME IT'S TIME! If you want to come hang at the Rêve this weekend, get your hands in the dirt, meet fun comrades, and receive a delicious lunch, the time to RSVP is now! 🥳
🌈 RÊVE SEASON OPEN WORK PARTY 💕
Sunday, May 25, 1-5 pm (including social time)
RSVP for address! hourly sched in reg form!
We figured out late that our link tree site isn't working for many people, so you can find the RSVP form directly in our bio now too. 💜
We're hoping to have enough hands to put up the pool, do a little weeding, set up the picnic tables, AND do a round of painting prep inside the newly drywalled CASITA! 🏡
Forecast is looking a little rainy, but these tasks are not weather dependent, so wear your boots and you will be rewarded for your troubles with @eyeandy 's legendarily dank grilled cheese. 🥪
Love you appreciate you see you soon!!
- Cal
The sun is back and so are we! We’re so happy to launch the beginning of this summer’s season of sun, solidarity, and swimmy!
The first work day, as always, is about getting everything ready for the season – murdering invasive vines, tending to the trails and the fire pit, the FIRST PEEK at the inside of the Casita, and of course, putting up the pool. Come spend the day sweating it out with your beautiful queer community, get a grilled cheese the likes of which you’ve never seen – and then jam session to follow with our Little Reve Songbook.
RSVP with the link in our bio - we can’t wait to see you!
And mark your calendars now for our Death To Empire Summer Camp on July 3-5, and keep an eye out for the remainder of the season’s events to be announced about a month in advance. We kicked our own butts last year and we’re experimenting with more flexibility 😅 -- Andy
Workin hard planning out our 2026 summer season! We put a lot of thought and care into every event that we run, and this year we are especially trying our best to match our enthusiasm to our capacity. 🤔🤔🤔 Living collectively while bringing free programming to our community requires having tough conversations and being brave with our feelings and trust in each other. Here’s a tiny glimpse into our process. Special thanks to our good friends and comrades @greatembraceacupuncture for letting us meet in your beautiful home. So looking forward to seeing everyone’s gorgeous faces this summer!
-Charlie
Spring 2026 flower report!
After the snow melts and the ground thaws, spring bursts through. First blooms this year are yellow forward, our precious trout lilies, daffodils, mini daffodils, and forsythia. But the white, purple, and blues were close behind with squill, periwinkle vine, and anemone.
With each slightly warmer day, we are dreaming about the upcoming summer. We are talking through how to sustain the land, ourselves, and all our communities, and we plan to have our event schedule by the end of the month.
You may see only see a single trout lily flower, but it isn't alone. It is just a single beautiful expression of a much larger underground rhizomatic colony. Right now we are like the trout lilies, sustaining our strong connections, popping up occasionally, so we hope to see you when we do.
- Roo
Hi we're excited about flowers. 🌷 Join us on Saturday, April 18 from 1-3 pm at Willow Kiln Park in Rosendale, just behind the theater parking lot, for an outdoor spring gathering of the Hudson Valley Sorcerous Arts Society! 🌸
By popular vote, we will be discussing SPRING RITUALS, as well as having a SEED SWAP! 🫘 Consider bringing small jars, baggies, or pill bottles for ease of seed transport, if you want to participate in the swap. 🌱
We'll bring a few camp chairs and blankets in case picnic tables are not available - bring your own if you like! Masks will not be required outdoors but we support and encourage their use. 😷 As always, please feel free to bring show and tell if you wish! 🪄
Some of us may retire to the porch of Garden House for snacks and hot beverages after the meetup. ☕ You are welcome to join for that as well. The restaurant's grape leaves are transcendent, we are salivating just thinking about them. 🤤
See you soon,
Cal & Andy
Greetings, comrades, and best WITCHES for the new year as we head into 2026. ✨
You are hereby invited to join the Hudson Valley Sorcerous Arts Society at the Kingston Public Library from 1-3 pm on Saturday, January 31, for the first convening of our third (!) year of meet-ups. 😲
In lieu of a discussion this month, we will be repeating our extremely popular activity from last January: a giant fortune-telling session for the coming year. 🔮
Bring a divination tool for a big, participatory group reading on how we can prepare individually and as a community for the year ahead of us. Tarot decks are welcome as are any other library-friendly methods you prefer. 🃏
Please plan to wear a facemask for the duration of the gathering. 😷
The Kingston Public Library meeting room has a capacity of 15, and last year we had over 20 attendees, so we encourage folks to arrive on time in order to ensure there is still space. We do not want to turn anyone away but it is possible we will have to! 😓
We are also in search of a new home for our meetups - Blackbird has closed to the public, and the Library cannot accommodate recurring meetings, and so we are without a venue for our February convening. Please let us know if you have a space we can use! ☕
See you soon,
Cal & Andy 👯
Warm greetings, friends, as we attempt to ease into 2026 after an intense previous year. In the midst of the freezing rain currently coating our houses, let us look back on the beautiful summer we all shared in 2025. (I suck at sentimentality but I'm giving it a shot.)
At the beginning of the year, The Rêve held our strategic planning retreat to figure out our summer plans, and things were looking bleak. This was just after the inauguration, and our trans, queer, Black, brown, disabled, immigrant, and overlapping communities were looking around and ahead with dread and fear, as well as determination for the year ahead. As Margaret Killjoy reminds us, morale is a front in the struggle. So as we planned out our year, we had a choice to make: should we tone it down, be a little quiet, stick close to home, avoid drawing attention to ourselves and try to ride out whatever was coming? Or should we kick it into high gear, lean into the headwinds, plan a summer with as many opportunities as possible for us to offer a little sanctuary and joy to the folks doing the hard work of improving and just existing in this world?
We chose door number 2. We planned a dozen onsite and nearly 30 total events over a seven-month period, expecting (as usual) that we would have to cancel some for weather or illness. And then all the stars aligned for a season with zero event cancellations. And we did them all.
(Could we have cancelled the July camping weekend when our power went out the night before everybody was supposed to arrive? Well, sure. But you brought us ice and batteries, you let us come over and use your stove. You took care of us. So we were able to open our doors to you.)
By the turn into fall, you may have noticed us flagging. August in particular kicked our asses, and we limped through September and into the season close of October. We're taking some hard-learned lessons from this ass-kicking into our planning for 2026. But we also received a whole lot of support from all of you.
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Join us for our 11th annual Halal Jewmas feast!
Every Christmas day for the last ELEVEN years, Roo and I have opened our doors to share an at-home celebration of the traditional Jewish-American Chinese-food-and-a-movie observance. The last few years have been hard because of COVID, but we’ve finally got a reliable enough practice for hosting that we can confidently open our doors again for the traditional Halal Witchy Jewmas!
If you’re in a reasonable travel radius of Kingston, New York, and you don’t have somewhere to go, or you have somewhere to go but you'd rather be with queer and trans fam, or if you need somewhere to psych yourself up or be taken care of before or after wherever else you have to go, or you think Christmas is nonsense and you just want to hang out, come over.
We'll be cooking a bunch of weird Pan-Asian-Jewish fusion food (past highlights have been lo mein kugel, pad thai kasha varnishkes, and lychee sufganiyot), drinking hot drinks with or without booze in them, playing shenanagrams, and watching movies on the projector all day, and ALL are welcome. DM to RSVP so we know how much kugel to make!
Travel
• If you are not local, you can take the Kingston Trailways bus to Rosendale or the Metronorth to Poughkeepsie. Let us know your travel plans so we can get you a pickup from the station! We also have a travel fund to help cover people’s tickets, so reach out if you need that or want to contribute to it!
Access and COVID
• There are two steps up to get into the house.
• There is 1 dog. He is both friendly and stinky. We will be running the air filter to minimize allergens but please expect allergens.
• We will be running multiple HEPA filters, and we have a CO2 monitor and can cycle the air if the buildup gets too high.
• Please take a rapid test 48 hours before the event, and another before traveling! If you don’t have tests, we have a few extras here and are happy to share, or can send you money from our testing fund to get them.
-Andy and Roo
Greetings, dear ones, and a heartfelt invitation to the December convening of the Hudson Valley Sorcerous Arts Society. This Saturday, December 6th, from 1-3 pm, we are trying out meeting at the Kingston Public Library! Come have a chat and check out a book. This month we are talking about moving harmoniously into the dark and the cold, and thinking about the tarot card The Hermit. 🕯️
The library is not a masks-required space but we do ask that all attendees please wear a mask for the duration of the meetup. 💛 Winter plagues begone!
Feel free to bring show-and-tell or divination supplies. Let us know whether to expect you! See you soon. ✨
Cal & Andy
