Open 7 days a week!
Get $1 off beer, wine, and hard cider every Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m.
Come join us for some great local music and grab a beer while you’re at it!
Come join us for this month’s read, Winners Take All. New members welcome!
The monthly book club meeting will discuss THE ARCHIVE OF ALTERNATE ENDINGS book by Lindsey Drager.
Play in teams of up to six, and win cash to spend at the bar!
We’re thrilled to welcome back repeat visitors Charming Disaster (as heard on Welcome to Night Vale!) for another evening of playfully dark storytelling music. Free with food or drink purchase.
Join Jon Bowermaster, noted oceans expert, award-winning artist, author, filmmaker, and adventurer, as he speaks about using cinematography to promote conservation of nature
Play in teams of up to six, and win cash to spend at the bar!
Come enjoy an evening at Rough Draft and a thoughtful chat about doing good for the planet. The first 20 attendees to arrive* will receive a FREE Rough Draft reusable coffee tumbler from KeepCup (like SunCommon, also a B Corporation!), so arrive early to make sure you're one of the first!
Please join us for an evening highlighting three local authors and their recently published works. Each author will have a table for meet-and-greets, book signings, and conversation with friends, family, fans, and potential new readers.
Join us for Sunday morning story hour with Christine! July's theme is OPPOSITES!
Subscribers get to pick their veggies and custom-build their box each week, with options for add-ons like fruit and flowers.
Play in teams of up to six, and win cash to spend at the bar!
Robin will read from her poetry collection, Shipbreaking, which will be for sale at the event. We will then take time for discussion, book signings, and celebration.
Writing can be a lonely endeavor! Sip & Write nights allow you to write in the company of others, so you don't feel isolated.
Join us for lively multimedia talk with tons of historic photographs, “then & now” comparisons, and lesser-known anecdotes.
Join the community of Uptown Kingston for the July [Stockade Nights]. Many local shops, restaurants and service businesses will be open late,
Subscribers get to pick their veggies and custom-build their box each week, with options for add-ons like fruit and flowers.
Poets, storytellers, authors, comics ... Join us for an open-mic with room for discussion and connection.
Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to officially register and run the Boston Marathon and author of Marathon Woman—along with noted writer Roger Robinson, author of When Running Made History—will speak and sign books at Rough Draft Bar & Books in Kingston on Monday, July 1 from 7 to 9 p.m.
Author Lauren Mechling will read from her new book, How Could She, which Vogue called "precise and of-the-moment ... A delectably uncomfortable time capsule of our post-aughts selves and the honest struggles that lurk inside the hearts of women everywhere.”
Come hungry for some pizza with Kingston Bread Lab!
You asked for it: We're playing the U.S. games for the Women's World Cup! Join us Friday at 3 for USA vs France.
Play in teams of up to six, and win cash to spend at the bar!
The monthly book club meeting will discuss IN THE HOUSE IN THE DARK OF THE WOODS by Laird Hunt.
It’s game day in Uptown Kingston! Swing by Rough Draft before or after the Stockade FC home game at Dietz Stadium and get $1 off booze by showing your game ticket or team gear.
The book for June Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts. New members always welcome!
Come join the HV New Economy Meetup! At New Economy meetups they focus on the critical issues of our times, such as economic justice, the climate crisis . . . and our local efforts and projects. New members welcome!
It’s game day in Uptown Kingston! Swing by Rough Draft before or after the Stockade FC home game at Dietz Stadium and get $1 off booze by showing your game ticket or team gear.
Come celebrate the longest night of the year with us and Bell’s Brewing!
Rough Draft Bar & Books presents The 1st Annual Ulster County Grownup Spelling Bee!
Join us Thursday at 3pm for the US vs. Sweden and help us cheer our team on to victory!
Please join us on Sunday, June 16 (Father's Day), as we welcome authors, food and beer professionals, and grilled-cheese enthusiasts, Kevin Van Blarcum and James "Eddie" Davis, as they present some favorites from their book, Grilled Cheese & Beer: The Finer Things in Life.
