Kiddie Pool
is a project space
for living with constant change
Welcome to Kiddie Pool, a residential project space for art & literature in downtown Albany, New York. Join us for occasional readings, screenings and exhibitions as Karley Sullivan and a dynamic group of guest curators tap fellow creators to share their work in an intimate yet remarkably grand setting.
Monuments
Walking tour
w/ Alexis Bhagat
Together we will walk and think about monuments; why we make them, and what we make them about. As the capital city of New York, Albany contains a concentration of memorials, mostly to wars and conquest. These war names, and names of the fallen, are recorded on the plaques and granite bases of monuments in and around the Empire State Plaza complex.
We will ask, what monuments are here, and what is missing?
Meet at Kiddie Pool, 128 Grand St. in Albany
Ending at West Capitol Park, 7:30 or 8pm
Thursday
May 7, 6pm
IMG: Kara Walker, Fons americanus (Tate Museum 2020)
Belonging to
the Air
Avery Irons:
Join us as writer Avery Irons returns to Kiddie Pool to share her debut novel, Belonging to the Air, just released this year. Open your heart with the story of honest "Bird" Bennett, a young, Black girl with a hunger to learn what lies beyond the walls she shares with her family in an Illinois freedman's town. As Bird comes of age, she reckons with domestic turbulence and what it means to fall in love. Rejecting a life of self-denial, she grows into herself in Harlem, before being called home again.
Sunday
May 17
Americana/ble
This grand old house is opening its doors again for a lively pop-up salon featuring artwork and performances from 20+ artists, musicians, and community organizers with strong ties to the Capital Region. Think of it as a melting pot of contemporary art & thought, right here in our our corner of Upstate New York. Join us for the May Day event or during open hours on Sundays in May.