A Woolen Affair
Thu, Oct 15
|Hutton Brickyards Riverfront Hotel + Ven
A gathering stitched with wool, song and soul.
Time & Location
Oct 15, 2026, 10:00 AM – Oct 16, 2026, 6:00 PM
Hutton Brickyards Riverfront Hotel + Ven, 132 Lindsley Ave, Kingston, NY 12401, USA
About the event
Lean on me
Our theme for A Woolen Affair 2026
The classic words by Bill Withers have inspired this year's theme. While we are and always will be rooted in our original theme of Down by the Riverside (read about that here (https://www.woolenaffair.com/theme-2025)), this year we have chosen another anthem to inspire our gathering.
In a time marked by relentless pressure on the most vulnerable among us, the need for healing, resourcing, and strengthening has become urgent. So we lean on one another, turning toward community inspired by the ways of the river waters. Water that moves, that carries, that remembers. Water that does not resist change, but makes a path through it. Water that cleanses—not by erasing what has been, but by holding it, softening it, and letting it pass.
We gather by the river, on the ancestral lands of the Schaghticoke, Mohican, and Munsee Lenape Peoples. We…