family fun

Albany Gems Dance Team

Do you love to dance? Are you interested in joining an awesome team? The Albany Gems Dance Team, a program offered through Albany Parks and Recreation, provides great opportunities to develop skills and the attitude youth need to be successful! Dancers learn fitness, nutrition, teamwork, and valuable life skills all while being part of a team. This team is a competitive performance team, but also has positions available for dancers that aren’t quite ready to get in front of a crowd or are new to the program.

Beginners Yoga (Ages 6-11)

Yoga is a great way for little ones to learn how to calm their minds, improve concentration, and move their bodies! Participants will learn stretches and yoga poses that develop balance and strength, while having fun with their peers. Kids in this class will release tension as they stretch, bend, and twist. They will learn child's poses, breathwork, lunges, and more.

Camp Albany

Make every day an exciting adventure!

Fairytale Dance

There’s nothing more imaginative than fairytales! Experience the magic of ballet as your child stretches, leaps, and dances across the floor. Using props and interactive songs, this class will help improve balance and coordination while introducing your child to the fundamentals of ballet.

Fun in the Park

Join us in a different neighborhood for games and fun for kids of all ages!

Homeschool Gathering (All Ages)

Meet other parents and kids at this FREE weekly hangout for homeschooling and unschooling families. Activities for kids & teens will be provided at this casual social gathering, and families of all backgrounds are welcome!

Intro to Yoga (Ages 3-11)

Yoga is a great way for little ones to learn how to calm their minds, improve concentration, and move their bodies! Participants will learn stretches and yoga poses that develop balance and strength, while having fun with their peers. This class will include a few minutes of meditation and story time.

Just Dance

A combo jazz and lyrical dance class that is fun and energetic. This dance style is often associated with Broadway musicals. Dancers will learn turns, leaps, and jumps as well as building flexibility, strength, techniques and coordination as they move to inspiring music.

community events

BINGO & Ice Cream

Join the fun - win some great prizes and enjoy some yummy ice cream!

Fun in the Park

Join us in a different neighborhood for games and fun for kids of all ages!

aquatics

Aqua Jog

Aqua jogging is a group fitness class with a trained professional teaching for about an hour. The classes focus on aerobic endurance, resistance training, and creating an enjoyable atmosphere sometimes with music.

Household Recreation Swim

Gather up the entire family for some fun in the pool! Members of the same household are invited to come and swim together. Adults are required with anyone under age 16.

Lap Swim

Lap Swim is exactly what it sounds like - swimming laps! Do your own personal training routine. When the shallow end is available, walking is permitted.

Personal Exercise

Aqua jogging is so fun & popular. This is not an instructor led session and participants must remain socially distanced from other participants. Flotation devices are available.

Senior Fitness

Senior Fitness is a group fitness class with a trained professional teaching for 45 minutes. The classes focus on aerobic endurance, resistance training, and creating an enjoyable social atmosphere sometimes with music.

Water Aerobics

Water Aerobics is a group fitness class with a trained professional instuctor. The classes focus on aerobic endurance, resistance training, and creating an enjoyable atmosphere sometimes with music.

Youth Swim Lessons

Make a splash with swim lessons at Albany Community Pool! Learning to swim teaches skills to be safe in the water and so much more. Swimming builds self confidence, develops self-esteem and makes water a safe, fun environment for a lifetime. We are focused on developing strong swimmers and confident kids.

active adults

EXPRESS YOUR CREATIVITY

Acrylic Painting for Fun

This course is designed for all skill levels, no experience required, and you can use whatever acrylic paints and brushes you have already. We will be painting on wood, glass, cloth, canvas, canvas boards, and anything else that sounds like fun. The goal of the class is to have fun and explore the versatility of the medium of acrylics.

Advanced & Intermediate Watercolor Painting

Delight in the color, brilliance, and challenge of watercolor painting. Learn composition, perspective, reflections, shadows, and color theory with new and challenging techniques. This class is for those who are already knowledgeable of the basics of watercolor.

Basic and Creative Calligraphy

Practice letter forms and handwriting in this class that will help you fine-tune your artistic talents. This class also covers calligraphy related art and crafts including bookbinding, basic watercolor, and more.

Beginning Watercolor Painting

Learn traditional techniques including wet-into-wet, dry brush, lifting, glazing, color mixing, and much more.

Fused Glass Garden Art

Join us to create a beautiful fused glass spring garden art piece, even if you’ve never worked with glass before! Students will have access to a variety of beautiful glass. You’ll make something fun, exciting, and unique!

Mosaic Flower Pot

Create your own mosaic flower pot! Students will have access to a variety of beautiful tiles. Let your imagination come to life and you will go home with beautiful pieces to put on display.

HEALTHY, ACTIVE, AND FIT!

Arthritis Foundation Exercise Program

This program offers gentle, joint-safe exercises developed specifically for people with arthritis to help relieve stiffness, decrease arthritis pain, and improve balance. The low-impact exercises can be done while sitting, standing, or on the floor.

Better Bones & Balance

OSU Bone Research Labs have shown this exercise program will significantly slow the rate of bone loss in adults of all ages. Improve your balance, flexibility, coordination, and see an increase in muscle tone and overall body fitness.

Better Bones & Balance - First Steps

Exercises are adapted for individuals needing improvement in balance and strength, who may have limited mobility, and/or difficulty standing for long periods of time. Balance aids will be used. Focus on lower and upper body strength, improving balance, and strengthening your core. The benefits? Reduce your risk of falls, increase your strength, and improve overall mobility and fitness.

Gentle Yoga

This class will offer a slower paced yoga practice what will encourage moving the body within a pain free range of motion. Cues for safe alignment and a chair can be used throughout class.

Tai Chi

Tai Chi is a form of movement, meditation, and martial art that originated in China. Promotes relaxation, relief from stress, and improved general well-being by practicing mind/body harmony and cultivating internal energy or 'chi”.

Zumba Gold

Zumba® is a dynamic, exciting, and effective fitness program featuring easy to follow, low-impact aerobic/fitness interval training with a combination of fast and slow rhythms. Latin and international dance music create fun and even party-like classes. Achieve long term goals and benefits of improved agility, flexibility, cardio, and muscular strength. Join the fun and feel the beat!

TRIPS & TOURS

Alsea Thyme Garden Luncheon

The Thyme Garden is a family-owned farm hidden in the beautiful coast range mountains between Philomath and Alsea. Owners Janet and Rolfe Hagen offer the Northwest’s largest selection of herbs and useful plants. A special treat will be the creating your own hanging basket filled with your selection of the herbs and flowers they offer at the nursery.

“A MID SUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM”

Join us for one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies as it takes you on a beguiling odyssey full of mistaken identities, misguided passions, love potions, and magic spells. Kings, queens, fairies, lovers, and spirits all collide in an enchanted forest one midsummer night proving that “the course of true love never did run smooth.” Fall in love all over again-but watch your step!

“RENT” at Actore Cabaret

La Vie Boheme! Jonathan Larson’s iconic Pulitzer prize winning musical that shaped a generation of audiences and taught us all to measure our life in love. Set in the East Village of New York City, Rent is about falling in love, finding your voice, and living for today.

Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

This colorful retelling of the story of Joseph, his coat of many colors, and his amazing ability to interpret dreams is a blockbuster of biblical proportions! This is a one-of-a-kind show that you won’t want to miss! Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a sung-through musical with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Portland Spirit Independence Day Fireworks Cruise

Join us for a relaxing dinner cruise followed by the annual downtown Portland fireworks display viewed from the best possible location… on the river just a couple hundred yards from the firework barges! Enjoy live piano music, dinner, and fireworks while you cruise on the Willamette River.

Rose Festival Parade and Breakfast

You won’t want to miss the Rose Festival parade which features all-floral floats, marching bands, equestrian units, and many other special entries. Vintage vehicles, flag-festooned marching groups, and colorful dancers are icing on the cake. Your assigned seat awaits you, with all the amenities of being indoors (comfortable seats, no ‘weather worries’, restrooms, and concessions).

volunteer opportunities

Adopt-a-Park Program

Albany Parks & Recreation’s Adopt-A-Park program is a way for individuals, groups, or businesses to show their pride and commitment to the city's parks and green spaces. With your help, we can keep our city parks beautiful, clean, and safe.