A vintage book with an image of an anatomical head with mushrooms growing outside of it and a prison cell with red curtains inside it. A satellite hovers above. Text reads: Nerd Nite Hudson Valley, three talks on psychedelics remote sensing & rehabilitation through the arts.

Three fun-yet-informative visual presentations at The Howland Cultural Center! We hear from Jermaine Archer of RTA, Rehabilitation Through the Arts, a program made famous in the Oscar nominated film Sing Sing, Julia Janson, former conservation biologist and interpretive naturalist with The Association of Zoos & Aquariums and the U.S. Forest Service, giving a talk on remote sensing for wildlife conservation and Galen Ballentine, researcher of psychedelics and neuroscience who did one of the largest studies ever on hallucinogenics and psychedelics. Special guest Andrea Talarico joins us representing Stanza Books, a participant in the Beacon Prison Books Project, a program started by Binnacle Books which now includes a number of Hudson Valley bookstores including Stanza. Buy a book or donate to the project! Friday September 19th at 7:30pm at The Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY. With fun music, prizes, libations and guaranteed good company: Doors at 7pm. Be there and be square! Tickets: bit.ly/nnhv-sept19