Patrick Harbron

Columbia-Greene Community College will showcase 20 years of famous rock & roll photography in a lecture-presentation by Patrick Harbron titled The Photographs of Patrick Harbron. He has photographed musical artists such as Stevie Ray Vaughn, Bruce Springsteen (pictured), Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Chrissie Hynde, Prince, Bon Jovi, Kiss and Queen. While working with these artists, Harbron has shot for magazines, album covers, publicity shots, portraits and performances. Harbron is a faculty member at the International Center for Photography in New York City and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colo. He has also published three internationally distributed books of his work. The Photographs of Patrick Harbron will be held Saturday (Feb. 19) at 7 PM at the Columbia-Greene Community College’s Professional Academic Center (4400 Route 23, Hudson). Admission is $5 and tickets are available at CGCC, the Chatham Bookstore, or the Greene County Council on the Arts. For further information call 828-4181 ext. 3342.

Discussions/Speakers

Albany Institute of History & Art, 125 Washington Ave., Albany. 2/17, 2 PM: Artist Walter Launt Palmer will leacture on “Snow Scenes.” 463-4478.

Aperture Media, 1019 Keyes Ave., 2nd Floor, Schenectady. 2/18, 6 PM: The Way We Were historian lecture on Upper Union Street. Free. 377-1115.

Clark Art Institute, 225 South St., Williamstown, Mass. 2/17, 5:30 PM: Susan M. Dackerman and Keith Moxey will discuss Albrecht Dürer. 2/20, 3 PM: Curators Kathleen Morris and Richard Rand will deliver the lecture “Eye to Eye: European Portraits 1450-1850. (413) 458-2303.

College of Saint Rose, 432 Western Ave., Albany. 2/23, 7:30 PM: Life is What You Make of It: A Concert and Conversation with Peter Buffett. $25. 458-5325.

Columbia-Greene Community College, Room 202, Main Building, 4400 Route 23, Hudson. 2/19, 7 PM: Rock photographer Patrick Harbron will speak on his work. 828-4181 ext. 3342.

Empire State College, 1 Union Ave., Saratoga Springs. 2/22, 7 PM: Ecologist Jerry Jenkins will speak on climate change in the Adirondacks. 587-2100 ext. 250.

Hudson Valley Community College, 80 Vandenburgh Ave., Troy. Bulmer Telecommunications Auditorium. 2/23, 1 PM: Economist Khalid R. Mehtabdin will speak on Reaganomics. 629-7336.

Schenectady County Community College, 78 Washington Ave., Schenectady. 2/17, 7 PM: Chuck D will lecture on Rap, Race and Reality. $5. 381-1365.

Williams College, Bernhard Music Center, Williamstown, Mass. 2/17, 4:15 PM: Douglas Boyce will speak on “Memory and Imagination: Music Before and After Composers.” (413) 597-2736.

Workshops

Albany Public Library, Main Branch, 161 Washington Ave., Albany. 2/19, 12:15 PM: Save energy, save dollars. 427-4303.

Altamont Free Library, 105 Park St., Altamont. 2/17, 6 PM: Save energy, save dollars workshop. 861-7239.

Battenkill Conservancy, PO Box 327, Cambridge. 2/19, 1 PM: Natural history walk. 677-2545.

Grafton Lakes State Park, 61 N. Long Pond Road, Grafton. 2/19, 11 AM: Backyard birding. 2/23, 10 AM: Animal tracks and traces. 279-1155

National Museum of Dance & Hall of Fame, 99 S. Broadway, Saratoga Springs. 2/21-25: Young playwrights workshop. 584-2225.

Peace Village Learning and Retreat Center, 54 O’Hara Road, Haines Falls. 2/17, 6:30 PM: The Three Faces of Happiness meditation program. 589-5000.

Troy Public Library, 100 2nd St., Troy. 2/17, 11 AM: Email workshop. 2/19, noon: Tips on buying a computer. 274-7071.

West Kortright Centre, 49 W. Kortright Road, East Meredith. 2/22-24, 6 PM: Winter bookbinding workshop. (607) 278-5454.