Nerd Nite Hudson Valley: Taxidermy! Surgical Catastrophes! Squirrel Invasions!

Nerd Nite is back in 2026! Three fun-yet-informative visual presentations with music, prizes, libations & guaranteed good company at The Howland Cultural Center. We hear from Dr. Hannah Brooks, board-certified General Surgeon and proud recipient of the American Cancer Society’s Lane Adams award for Compassionate Care with "When Food Fights back: Gut Wrenching Tales of General Surgery," Telly and Webby award-winner Trace Dominguez from PBS’s astronomy show Star Gazers presenting Invading New Jersey with Squirrels: A Proposal," and Mike Price, an Artist, a Taxidermist and a Story Teller with "Meddling With Nature: Taxidermy and the Beauty of Going Skin Deep."