D&H CANVAS October 2022

by Barry Plaxen

Welcome back from the Pandemic: Liberty Harvest Festival and Chili Cook-off.

Synchronicity of the Month:

A teacher/mentor passing arts knowledge along to a teen - on our cover and in a story about Manor Ink. Highlights of the Month: Kaffeehaus in Hurleyville and Jeffersonville.

WJFF-Radio Catskill honors journalists in Liberty.

Vocabulary Lesson: Anthemic: like an anthem in being

Letters

We’re planning our Community Awards for October and we’d like to honor CANVAS!

CANVAS has been nominated for this special recognition because of the outstanding information you produce about the arts and arts resources in our communities. Thank you for all you do, and congratulations!

- Tim Bruno, WJFF Radio

We hear CANVAS has just started its 19th year! Congratulations! Many thanks and deep bows to you and Sophia for all your good work.

We are grateful. Cheers!

- Frances, Pacem in Terris

Thanks so much for the great editorial for our upcoming show at Domesticities! Also - wow, Barry!congrats on a major birthday! We hope to see you at Anne’s. - Marjorie Morrow, artist

rousing or uplifting

In this issue:

Tributes: Johnny Cash in Sugar Loaf. ABBA and Pink Floyd in Middletown.

Fundraisers: Animal Rescue in Pine Island.

Rocky Horror Picture Show: Live in Forestburgh. Film w/guest Barry Bostwick in Sugar Loaf.

Kids: Book Festival in Warwick. Acting auditions in So. Fallsburg. Bilingual concert in Bethel.

Halloween in Bethel, Goshen, Huguenot, Newburgh, Milford, So. Fallsburg, Vails Gate, Warwick, Walden.

Vinyl Talk in Florida.

And, events in Campbell Hall, Cornwall, Cragsmoor, Eldred, Ellenville, Florida, Grahamsville, Greenwood Lake, Highland Falls, Lake Huntington, Liberty, Marlboro, Montgomery, Monticello, Narrowsburg, Port Jervis, Rock Tavern, Wurtsboro, and (in calendars), Barryville, Callicoon, Dingmans Ferry, Livingston Manor, Mountaindale, Parksville, Salisbury Mills, Youngsville.

The Arts are Everywhere!

Thanks again to everyone who helped create this overflowing issue.

A special heartfelt thank you goes out to Tim Bruno and everyone at WJFF for a very special honor. See letter below.

On The Cover

Community Arts: News, Views And Schedules

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS 297 Stone Schoolhouse Road Bloomingburg, NY 12721

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CALENDARS

Art & Photography 18 Books 15 Category 15

Centerspread: October 2022 16, 17 Children & Teen’s 14 Clubs 14

Lectures, Masterclasses, Demos 18

COLUMNS

May I Have a Word with You 29

STORIES

Alice Desmond Ctr , Newburgh 12, 29

Amity Gallery, Warwick 21 Ann Street, Newburgh 28 Artery Gallery, Milford 9, 24 Bashakill Wetlands, Wurtsboro 26

Bethel Woods 8, 12

Black Bear Film Festival, Milford 19 Blue Arrow Farm, Pine Island 13 Bradstan Cabaret Series, Eldred 5, 25 Buckbee Center, Warwick 12 City Winery, Montgomery 9

Cornwall Arts Collective 6

Cragsmoor LIbrary 31 Crawford Library, Monticello 10, 23 Deerpark Museum, Huguenot 12

Delaware Valley Arts Alliance 16, 21 Delaware Valley Opera Center 31

Eldred Preserve 5, 25 Falcon, Marlboro 24, 27 Flats, Narrowsburg 25 Florida Public Library 14, 22 Forestburgh Tavern 3, 23

Goshen Art League 4, 22 Goshen Green Farm 26 Goshen Methodist Church 12 Goshen Music Hall 22 Grahamsville Fairgrounds 3, 8

Greenwood Lake Public Library 7 Happy Herbs Soap 8

Nothing in this publication may be reproduced without written permission of the publisher.

Highlands Art Alliance 6

Holland Tunnel, Newburgh 27

HPAC, Hurleyville 8, 32

In Memoriam: Sandra R Spitzer 4

Indigenous Womens Voices Summit 8

Josephine-Louise Library, Walden 12,14

Knox’s Headquarters, Vails Gate 12

Laurie Kilgore, artist 9

Lawrence Farms, Newburgh 26

Leo’s Restaurant, Cornwall 19

Liberty Harvest Festival 32

Liberty Museum & Arts Center 32

Marie Liu, artist 9

Mary Mugele Sealfon, artist 19

Milford Theater 12

MISU & Music on Market, Ellenville 7

Mitchell Saler, artist 7

Music for Humanity 11, 30

Nesin Cultural Arts, Monticello 9, 28

Noble Coffee, Campbell Hall 11

Orange County Genealogical Society 14

Pacem in Terris 16

Paramount Theatre, Middletown 20

PEEC, Dingmans Ferry 14

Phylis Lehman, artist 21

Poetry Happenings 3, 21, 22, 24, 27

Randall FitzGerald, artist 9

River Rep Theatre 31

River Valley Artists Guild 11

Rivoli Theatre, South Fallsburg 12, 27

Robb Gomulka, artist 4

Shadowland Stages, Ellenville 3

SLPAC, Sugar Loaf 13, 23, 24, 30

Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra 28

Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop 12,27

SUNY Orange, Middletown 5, 27

SUNY Orange, Newburgh 3

Unitarian Universalist Cong 4,30

UpFront, Port Jervis 10

VetRep, Cornwall 20

Wallkill River School, Montgomery 3,4,26

Wisner Library, Warwick 6, 23

Wallkill River School / Center for the Arts: Reception for Three Exhibitions

The public is invited to an artists’ reception at Wallkill River School/ Wallkill Center for the Arts (WRS) on October 1, from 5:00pm-7:00pm.

The featured exhibits are: Clayton Buchanan - Life and Love, Tony Conner - Outside Observations, and a Juried Group Exhibit - Realism: An Academic Approach

Clayton Buchanan has donated four original paintings toward fundraising efforts for the WRS. Four large paintings on canvas (24x30”) which he originally created to be reproduced for covers

of Hudson Valley Parent Magazine, and a 12x10” pastel created during a demonstration, will be offered at silent auction through October 9 at 5:00pm.

The paintings can currently be viewed at WRS during regular gallery hours.

Bids may be placed with the WRS receptionist in person or by phone. The starting bid for each painting is $100. (Please see the WRS website for more).

The currents exhibits will be on view now through October 9 at the WRS, 232 Ward Street (17k), Montgomery.

Info: wallkillriverschool.com

Don’t Miss Out! - Late September & Early October Events

SUNY Orange / Newburgh Art Walk

In support of Newburgh Open Studios on September 24-25, the Mindy Ross Gallery in Kaplan Hall, SUNY Orange, First & Grand Streets, will be open on September 25, Noon-5:00pm

The artwork of Jose Gonzalez Soto is featured.

Simultaneously, outdoors in Larkin Plaza, a paint-out will take place. In case of rain, artists will work indoors. Whether indoors or outdoors, the view of the Hudson River from the bluff on which SUNY Orange is situated is spectacular!

Watch the artists create new paintings and drawings and ask questions if you like. Questions may be directed to: cultural@sunyorange.edu

Drag Show: Forestburgh Tavern

Showbiz spitfire Paige Turner returns to Forestburgh Tavern with her all-new, all-live slumber party! NYC’s tawdry blonde bombshell invites you into her boudoir for an evening of mayhem and campy foolishness! Tucking Myself In features ridiculous parodies and songs from Broadway and pop stars. Snuggle up, put on your PJ’s, and get ready for

aDRAG-tastic extravaganza!

Get a complimentary cocktail with your ticket purchase! September 30 and October 1 at 8:00pm

Visit www.fbplayhouse.org or call 845-794-1194.

Giant Pumpkin Party: Grahamsville

The annual fundraiser for Grahamsville’s Daniel Pierce Library, the Giant Pumpkin Party & Children’s Parade, takes place on October 1, from 9:00am-5:00pm this year.

Admission, parking, participation in the parade and costume march, and

access to the music are free. Food and refreshments are available for purchase. Grahamsville Fairgrounds, 8230 State Route 55, Grahamsville.

For more info: 845-985-5101.

For additional events happening on October 1 & 2, see the following:

Vets Rep, Cornwall, page 20.

SONiA Disappear Fear, Campbell Hall, page 11.

LUNA: The Doug Beavers Latin Jazz Octet, Middletown, page 5. Madarka, Ellenville, page 7 and, a one-day-only art show (Laurie Kilgore) in Monticello, page. 9.

Shadowland Stages: “In the Continuum” and “The Lifespan of a Fact”

The Studio: In The Continuum In the Continuum by Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter dramatizes the devastating impact of AIDS on African and African-American women with two actresses portraying dozens of roles in this captivating story of parallel lives.

Living worlds apart in South Central Los Angeles and Harare, Zimbabwe, two young women (portrayed by Kayla Bennett and Omolade Way) experience a kaleidoscopic weekend of darkly comic, life-altering revelations.

Directed by Jamie Patton, In the Continuum runs through October 2 in The Studio at Shadowland Stages, 14 Market Street, Ellenville. Tickets: www.shadowlandstages.org or phone 845-647-5511.

MainStage: The Lifespan of a Fact The Lifespan of a Fact by Jeremy

Kareken, David Murrell and Gordon Farrell based on the book by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal, follows Jim Fingal, as a fresh-out-of-Harvard fact checker for a sinking literary magazine.

When his editor charges him with the assignment of checking an article by a prominent literary powerhouse, John D’Agata, the magazine hopes this is the article that will change their fortunes. When not everything checks out, Fingal and D’Agata go head to head as hard facts battle against emotional truths in a highstakes and hilarious verbal showdown.

Jeremy Kareken’s plays have been performed around the country and internationally. A lifetime member of The Actors Studio, Jeremy occasionally acts, and for 18 years served as the researcher for Bravo TV’s Inside the Actors Studio

David Murrell has written a sea chest’s worth of TV, film treatments and spec scripts. In 2019, the Outer Critics Circle co-awarded David its John Gassner Playwrighting Award for The Lifespan of a Fact

Gordon Farrell worked with major Hollywood studios, initially as a story analyst for Warner Brothers and Columbia Pictures, and eventually as a screenwriter. He is the author of

The Power of the Playwright’s Vision, published by Heinemann Press in 2001. It has been translated internationally and has become a standard playwrighting text at colleges and universities in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Featured in the cast are two Shadowland favorites and one newcomer.

Steve Brady may be remembered for his versatility and booming voice in plays such as Papermaker (2018), Noises Off (2017), Bill W. & Dr. Bob (2013), The Dangers of Electric Lighting as George Westinghouse (2013), The Ladies Man, (2011), The Seafarer (2011) and Yankee Tavern (2010).

Kathy McCafferty is known for her charismatic performances and adeptness in both dramas and comedies such as The Mystery of Love & Sex (2018), Bang Bang! (2018), Miracle on South Division Street (2016), Falling (2014,) Boeing Boeing (2013) Love/Sick (2013) and Almost Maine (2009).

Actor, singer, dancer, and gymnast Logan Marks was born and raised just outside of Boston. He grew up doing gymnastics, visual art, and soccer. It wasn’t until the end of middle school when he discovered his love of theater.

Logan played Mark Cohen in

RENT for its 20th Anniversary National and International Tour from 2018-2019. He performed the role over 300 times.

The play is directed by Shadowland Stages’ Artistic Director Brendan Burke.

The Lifespan of a Fact runs from October 7 to 23 at The MainStage at Shadowland Stages, 157 Canal Street, Ellenville.

The First Saturday matinee on October 8 at 2:00pm is a ‘vaxxed and masked’ performance.

Limited pay-whatyou-can tickets are available for previews October 7, 8:00pm and for the October 8 matinee, 2:00pm

For tickets and further information visit www. shadowlandstages.org or call 845-647-5511.

Donated works by Clayton Buchanan that will be auctioned off toward fundraising effords for the Wallkill River School soon to be Wallkill Center for the Arts

Kayla Bennett

Omolade Wey

Jamie Patton

Steve Brady

Kathy McCafferty

Logan Marks

Brendan Burke

Illustrations in Rock Tavern

Robb Gomulka grew up in Binghamton and received a Bachelors degree in Illustration and Graphic Arts from Marywood University in Scranton in 2004. He moved to the Village of Goshen in 2006 and works as a freelance graphic designer, illustrator, and artist.

Robb works with acrylic on wood panel, some reliefs, and illustrations on canvas. He has shown his whimsical acrylic paintings in solo and group shows as well as in Goshen’s annual Art Walks.

As President of the Goshen Art League, he is active in the local art community and is a leading player in organizing and marketing exhibitions, public art events, and fundraisers.

Work by Robb Gomulka

by the Wallkill River School / Wallkill River Center for the Arts (WRCA) at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation (UUC), 9 Vance Road, Rock Tavern.

A free opening reception will be held on September 24, from 5:00pm-7:00pm The show is on view through October 30 and can be viewed by appointment through the UUC.

The WRCA offers affordable enrichment art programs to the community for all ages and various free programs for seniors, children, veterans, fiber arts, writing, and more.

Gallery exhibits and receptions are always free and open to the public.

Visit Wallkill.Art for more information.

See over twenty illustrations by Robb Gomulka in a solo exhibition entitled, Robb Gomulka: Illustrations, presented

A portion of sales from this exhibit will benefit both the UUC and WRCA.

Visit www.robbgomulka.com.

In Memoriam: Sandra R. Faland Spitzer

July 20, 1947 - September 9, 2022

Local artist Sandra “Sandy” Faland

Spitzer passed away after a long illness on September 9, 2022. Her smiling face and artistic enthusiasm will be missed by the local arts community.

Our hearts go out to her husband Russell, her family and friends. She left the world a legacy of exquisite artworks.

Herewith are some of Sandy’s musings about art, reprinted from previous issues of CANVAS:

May, 2012 CANVAS:

“Art opens up so many possibilities; like a new journey or a distant memory,” says Sandy. Her artistic ability was noticed at an early age, and she was honored to paint backdrops for performances at Bay Ridge High School in Brooklyn.

February, 2013 CANVAS:

Spitzer studied painting in Europe, capturing the Norwegian landscape for many years, where she could often

be found painting on the side of the road, capturing the majestic mountains, lakes and falls of the Norwegian Fjords. Spitzer calls the Norwegian landscape a “smorgasbord of scenic delights”.

December 2014, CANVAS: “Norway, Sweden, Greece, Italy, France, Japan, China... my travels have influenced how I view art, and they have helped me understand the various forms.”

March 2014, CANVAS:

Spitzer’s heart always gravitated to open spaces and the country landscape. Her paintings capture natural beauty along with horses, cows, farm animals, and sunsets that capture beautiful pink tones and the beautiful mountains that surround us. “Art is food for the soul...it takes us to a good place,” she says.

Thank you for sharing yourself with us, Sandy. You were a gift.

Sandy Spitzer

photo by Julie Saltzberg

Bradstan Comedy Cabaret in Eldred

Known for his working class comedy, Jeff Norris is one of the most original and quick-witted comedians performing today. His stand-up comedy and spot-on impressions (including those of Archie and Edith Bunker, Joe Pesci, Robert DeNiro, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Jack Nicholson) are an energetic whirlwind full of nonstop laughter and entertainment. Hardly pausing for a breath as he tears through his act, Jeff is known for keeping the audience alert and in stitches from beginning to end.

Jeff’s countless performances across the country include The Riviera and Tropicana Hotels in Las Vegas, The Borgata Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, Carolines on Broadway, Dangerfield’s Comedy Club in New York City, and many more. He was also the voice behind the “sweet side” in the Kellogg’s Mini-Wheat ad for four years, among many other commercial credits.

John “Gemini” Lombardi’s highenergy, interactive entertainment is sure to deliver an experience of mind-blowing

magic and big laughs. He combines comedy, illusions, ventriloquism, audience participation, and great fun into one astonishing and hilarious show!

Gemini decided to start performing at the young age of 11. He went on to study acting, dance, and choreography to enhance his stage presence and comedic talent, and has since grown his professional career to become a top headlining comedian at The Borgata Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, Parx Casino, and Carolines on Broadway in New York City.

Gemini is an award-winning magician and ventriloquist who has performed on Fox 5, NBC, Showtime, and at hundreds of comedy clubs, casinos, resorts, and theaters nationwide.

The Bradstan Coming Home Cabaret Series is presenting Norris and Lombardi on October 30 at 8:00pm at The Eldred Preserve, 1040 State Route 55. Have dinner at The Homestead Restaurant + Lounge before the show and receive 15% off your meal!

Tickets: www.theeldredpreserve.com

SUNY Orange: Hispanic Heritage Month

Cultural literacies from Afro-Latin-o/x experiences is a series of events presented by SUNY Orange, Cultural Affairs in its Middletown Campus venues.

The series began in mid-September and will continue through October with a variety of presentations including a hybrid/zoom master class, Cultivating Chaos: Craft Talk, given by writer/author/ poet Cristina Garcia on September 26 at Noon, and Strategies in Composing Rhythms and Musical Form Assembly in Afro-Caribbean music with composer/ arranger/trombonist Doug Beavers on September 29 at Noon

October 1 is the exact center of Hispanic Heritage Month. What better way to celebrate than with Latin Jazz!? Come to SUNY Orange for the premiere concert of the exciting music of Luna: The Doug Beavers Latin Jazz Octet

In addition to the superb NYC Jazz musicians of the octet is Spanish Harlem Orchestra vocalist/flutist Jeremy Bosch who joins them for this concert.

Luna incorporates salsa, R&B and Afro-Caribbean with heavy-horn soul to present a scintillating, powerful program that is sure to keep concert-goers movin’ in their seats.

$5 tickets are available cash or check

only at the Box Office starting at 6:15pm the evening of the 7:30pm performance. Students are admitted free.

La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered is a film screening with a post-screening Q&A and live performance of song & guitar with Cindy Centeno, producer and Lilo Gonzalez, songwriter/ musician on October 3 at 6:30pm

Finally, there is The Rich Music of Latin America, a “Lunch & Learn” event with Joy Zelada, classical guitarist, on October 13 at 11:00am

For questions and exact locations visit www.sunyorange. edu/culturalaffairs, or phone Cultural Affairs at 845-341-4891.

See page 3 for the Hispanic Art Exhibit at SUNY Orange, Newburgh.

Norris & Lombardi perform at The Eldred Preserve on October 30.

Doug Beavers

Lilo Gonzalez

Joy Zelada

Christina Garcia

Author Talk: True World War II Story

In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son - but Hitler’s invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious young woman to deadly sniper - a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death.

Based on a true story, historical fiction writer Kate Quinn’s latest book, The Diamond Eye, offers an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm

who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper.

Quinn is the author of several New York Times bestsellers, including The Alice Network, The Huntress, and The Rose Code

For a captivating conversation, Quinn will discuss The Diamond Eye and her other works on October 25 at 7:00pm at a special ‘watch party’ at the Albert Wisner Library, one McFarland Drive, Warwick.

To watch the event at the Albert Wisner Library, be sure to visit: www. albertwisnerlibrary.org to register.

60 Years of Art: Lehman in Warwick

The Amity Gallery is presenting Phyllis Lehman: An Art Exhibit, a selection of works from a much larger collection of work by Phyllis Lehman, representing 60 years of her “exuberant color and whimsical line” paintings and drawings of models, friends, family, and landscapes, near and far.

An energy therapist and a retired teacher, the confluence of Lehman’s energy work and art work gave her the realization that she was “painting energy” - not light as do the impressionists, but “energy” as the means and the subject.

A painting major at the University

of Michigan, Lehman studied drawing and lithography with David Ben Shaul in Jerusalem. She is graduate of and former teacher at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. She lives in Warwick, and has shown her work in NYC, Mississippi, Michigan, Florida, Mexico, Israel and locally.

The public is invited to the opening reception for Phyllis Lehman: An Art Exhibit on October 1 from 5:00pm-7:00pm

If you can’t make the reception, see the show Saturdays & Sundays, 1:00pm4:00pm, October 1-30 at Amity Gallery, 110 Newport Bridge Road, Warwick.

Highland Falls & Cornwall: Art Galore!

ART: Highland Falls

Highlands Arts Alliance has once again partnered with Highland Falls’ American Legion Auxiliary Post 633 to bring you the Fall Art Fair!

Start your holiday shopping early while supporting local creators!

Stop by the American Legion Hall, 134 Old State Road, Highland Falls, on October 22 from 11:00am-3:00pm to see the work of talented artists and makers from around the Hudson Valley.

There is a $5 admission which benefits American Legion Auxiliary Post 633 and includes light refreshments.

ART: Cornwall

Cornwall Arts Collective invites you to their very first Bridge Street Pop-Up

Art Show on October 15 from Noon4:00pm. The show features creations by Cornwall Arts Collective members and is free to the public. Spend an autumn afternoon outdoors enjoying the work of local talented Cornwall artists!

Rain date is October 16.

Bridge Street Park (as seen on HGTV’s Home Town Kickstart) is located just off of Cornwall’s Main Street, between Hazard’s Pharmacy and Clark & Associates.

Katie Quinn

Work by Phyllis Lehman

The Fall Art Fair in Highland Falls, 2021

Ellenville’s Music on Market: Eastern European Folk Music & A String Duo

Music Institute of Sullivan & Ulster (MISU) and its Music On Market (MoM) 2022-2023 concert series continues with MISU’s informal Coffeehouse Concerts and a Cecily Fortescue Memorial Concert Madárka (“little bird” in Hungarian) plays the traditional music you would have heard in the villages of Eastern Europe many years ago, slightly updated. Drawing from the rich history of Klezmer, Romany, Balkan, Romanian and Russian folk music, they take listeners on a lively journey across borders and centuries.

Their repertoire is flexible and diverse, encompassing high energy music perfect for circle dancing, Yiddish love ballads, Rom murder ballads, Romanian worker’s songs mixed with Appalachian fiddle, standards and bizarre old tunes you are unlikely to hear anywhere else.

Madarka performs for the October 1, 7:30pm coffeehouse at MISU.

Cecily Fortescue was a beloved and ubiquitous presence in Sullivan County and the Upper Delaware Valley, and so were the elegant and graceful pots and vases she created. She also hosted a radio program on WJFF Radio (see page 27), and often performed on her viola. The Catskill Art Society named a gallery

in her honor, and her viola instructor, MISU’s Anastasia Solberg, honors her with memorial concerts.

For the upcoming concert, two members of the Trio Soli-Tude, Solberg (viola) and David Fiedler (violin), will perform a variety of duos and solos by Mozart, Handel-Halvorson, Villa-Lobos, Violeta Dinescu and Dorothee Schabert.

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) was the single most significant creative figure

Greenwood Lake Solo: Mitchell Saler

in 20th-century Brazilian art music. He has become the best-known South American composer of all time.

Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935) was a celebrated violinist, conductor and composer who is remembered today primarily for his brilliant “extrapolation” of Handel’s Passacaglia for a daring ensemble of two stringed instruments.

Violeta Dinescu (b.1953) is a Romanian composer, pianist and professor, living

Cecily Fortescue (October, 2010)

in Germany since 1982. This prolific composer of orchestral, chamber, choral and vocal music, has received many international prizes and awards.

Dorothee Schabert (b.1952) is a composer and an author, composing for classical instruments, voices and ensembles, but also computer compositions and sound installations. Her essays on the aesthetics of technology and music, of sound and space in contemporary compositions, have appeared in various booklets.

Solberg and Fiedler will perform on October 20 at 7:30pm in St. John’s Episcopal Church

Both the church and MISU are located at 40 Market Street, Ellenville.

Check out the ad on page 5.

Greenwood Lake Public Library is presenting a solo exhibit by awardwinning artist Mitchell Saler. His realistic landscape oil paintings are on view from October 4-31

Saler’s paintings include scenes depicting the local Hudson Valley area as well as places he has traveled. In his landscapes, he enjoys conveying the vastness, beauty and power of nature. He frequently paints en plein air, and is inspired by the Hudson River School’s majestic landscapes.

Saler is a member of the Salmagundi Club in NYC, Goshen Art League, Orange County Arts Council, Middletown Art Group, and Wallkill River School.

He graduated with an Associate Degree in Visual Arts from SUNY Orange in Middletown and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing, summa cum laude, from SUNY New Paltz.

Mitchell has received over 20 awards in various exhibits including two awards from the Salmagundi Club.

He lives in Middletown and teaches an art class at the Mulberry House Senior Center as well as private lessons.

For more about the artist, visit his website: www.mitchellsaler.com.

The Greenwood Lake Public Library is located at 79 Waterstone Road, Greenwood Lake.

For information: 845-477-8377.

Madárka

Anastasia Solberg David Fiedler

Violeta Dinescu Dorothee Schabert Johan Halvorsen Heitor Villa-Lobos

“Sterling Lake Panorama” by Mitchell Saler

Indigenous Women’s Voices Summit

Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre (HPAC) is hosting the 3rd Annual Indigenous Women’s Voices Summit. This year’s Summit focuses on film in the elegant HPAC Cinema for two nights, October 7 and 8

The films

Warrior Women and Powerlands will be followed by a hybrid panel and Q&A after the Saturday night screening. The Panel will include Powerlands filmmaker Ivy Camille and Warrior Women’s featured activists Madonna Thunder Hawk and Marcella Gilbert. The Summit concludes with a celebration through a live performance by the Akwesasne Women Singers and a meet and greet at the Tango Café

Warrior Women is the story of Madonna Thunder Hawk, an AIM (American Indian Movement) leader who shaped a kindred group of activists’ children into the “We Will Remember” Survival School as a Native alternative to government-run education.

Powerlands is about a young Navajo filmmaker investigating displacement

of Indigenous people and devastation of the environment caused by the same chemical companies that have exploited the land where she was born.

On view in Gallery222 is the work of Althena LaTocha, an artist whose massive works on paper explore the relationship between human-made and natural worlds, in the wake of Earthworks artists from the 1960s and 1970s.

Akwesasne Women Singers/ Kontiwennenhá:wi, which is translated as “Carriers of the Words”, is a women’s singing group that originated from the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne. Kontiwennenhá:wi is made up of young women, mothers, aunties and grandmothers, who all work full time as teachers, social workers, students, and retirees.

Free admission to all events at HPAC, 219 Main Street, Hurleyville. Gallery 222 is at 222 Main Street, and Tango Cafe is at 221 Main Street. Visit www.hurleyvilleartscentre.org Phone: 845-985-4722.

Kids’ Concert at Bethel Woods

Andrés and Christina are the Latin Grammy-winning music duo 1-2-3 Andrés

Their catchy songs and lively concerts get the whole family dancing and learning, in Spanish and English.

From songs of celebration and encouragement to tunes like Cooperation, this diverse collection of creations expands the definitions of cross-cultural creations and Latin influences alike.

Taking place on the outdoor Terrace Stage at Bethel Woods, 200 Hurd Road,

Bethel, on October 22 at 11:00am, the format of the event accommodates those with young children and sensory needs. Each show in the series concludes with an artistic activity led by Museum Education & Creative Program staff alongside talented Teaching Artists.

In an effort to make live experiences affordable and accessible for all ages, the concert follows a “pay-what-you-can” model, with suggested donations.

Visit bethelwoodscenter.org.

Grahamsville: Happy Herbs Soap

Happy Herbs Soap of Two Crow Cottage in Burlingham participates in many area events and Farmer’s Markets where people seek out owner Anita “Nina” Casamento’s fragrant, herbal, hand-made soaps.

“Vegetable oils, infused with my own herbs, are the heart of my cold process soap. These herbs, along with exotic roots and resins are mixed for my incense. Visit me at events and at local farmers markets!,” says Nina.

Meet Nina and smell her fragrant

soaps and magical incense during the Giant Pumpkin Party & Children’s Parade - the annual fundraiser for Grahamsville’s Daniel Pierce Library

Admission, parking, participation in the parade and costume march, and access to the musical entertainment are free. Food and refreshments are available for purchase. It all happens on October 1, from 9:00am-5:00pm on the Grahamsville Fairgrounds www.etsy.com/shop/happyherbssoap

Madonna Thunder Hawk Marcella Gilbert

ARTery Gallery: Decade Long Tradition Continues

The ARTery Gallery has announced the annual dual-featured exhibits of Marie Liu and Randall FitzGerald titled Home - Land. Both long-time ARTery members, it has become a decade long tradition for them to share the stage for their featured exhibits.

Marie Liu, current director of the cooperative gallery, has been painting images inspired by Milford and The Poconos since 2009. With a seemingly endless supply of interesting subjects, from the landscape, waterways and waterfalls, to the unique history and notable people who have also called this place home, all find their way into her imagery.

One of the subjects she is drawn to has been the Lenape original people. Sensing the energy that is calling them back home, Marie has created a painting of Nora Thompson Dean aka Touching Leaves Woman, a renowned Lenape educator. Nora endeavored to preserve her people’s language, culture and knowledge of their homeland through her teaching. She visited the region (from her home in Oklahoma) in the 1970’s to protest the Tock Island Dam project and consult with archaeologist Herbert Kraft. Marie is excited to present this painting of Touching Leaves in her peoples’ historic homeland

with the sacred Delaware Tobacco in the foreground, as well as other new paintings that explore the depth and meaning of our experience in this place.

Randall FitzGerald, a long-standing member of the Gallery, has been photographing and painting for over 50 years. Professionally trained in the sciences as an ecologist, he has always endeavored to combine his artistic and scientific pursuits. His love for nature permeates his artistic life and consequently what he creates reflects the intimacy he enjoys with the natural world. His current work is dominated by rural landscapes, seascapes and bird life, with a flare for romanticism.

Although he has worked with oils,

It’s Augustana in October

In Autumn 2002 at Greenville University in Illinois, Dan Layus brought friends Josiah Rosen, Kyle Baker, and Simeon Lohrmann together to write and create music, and Augustana was born. They originally wanted to call themselves The Looking Glass, but after discovering another band of the same name they chose “Augustana” instead.

Augustana is back with new music, and through its formation, creator Dan Layus has stepped into a new musical universe. While the group is well-known for their anthemic indierock leaning hits like Boston, Sweet and Low and Steal Your Heart, Augustana’s consistent march of new and everevolving material has embodied a refusal to settle artistically. Never has that been more clearly evident than with the latest studio album, Everyday an Eternity: Solo Piano Works, a genre-shaking fulllength record.

Composing and performing a series of piano pieces that can easily live in the contemporary classical world, Dan Layus confidently chooses to leave his singing voice aside for the project and instead finds his lyricism echoing through the hammers and strings of the piano.

The album finds the composer’s unique melodic and structural stylings effortlessly blending between the classical, the romantic and the modern. Along the way, the unfamiliar terrain for the artist seems to become more familiar with each note, each modulation, each variation, as he makes his way out to the edge of musical expression and safely back home again.

Augustana’s Dan Layus comes to the City Winery Hudson Valley stage in the Hudson Valley Falls Room with a genre-defying collection of powerful piano compositions in concert with the Everyday an Eternity Tour on October 26 at 8:00pm at 23 Factory Street, Montgomery. Doors open 6:00pm.

Tickets: www.citywinery.com.

One-Day-Art-Show

A vision of Nesin Cultural Arts has become a reality!

The Suzanne Stanway Arts Haven is a collaborative effort with St John’s Episcopal Church and Rectory. The space was transitioned from the Church’s former rectory and is now housing a oneday art exhibit!

watercolors, inks, acrylics and encaustics, his artwork in this exhibit is rendered using inks and acrylics on canvas. Being an accomplished woodworker and ardent environmentalist, he makes all his own frames with recycled materials such as old flooring, table tops, and siding. Each piece of art is custom framed with these repurposed materials, cut and stained or painted to enhance each unique work.

At the opening reception on October 8 from 6:00pm-9:00pm meet the other artists who continue to make this cooperative gallery a 23 year success. Free. Refreshments served.

The work is on view from October 6 to November 7 at The ARTery Gallery, 210 Broad St., Milford. Info: 570-409-1234.

Enjoy viewing a one-dayonly exhibit, entitled Scenes of Home, with works by artist Laurie Kilgore

The show and reception will be on October 1, from 1:00pm4:00pm at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 13 St. John Street, Monticello.

“Sunset on Kauneonga Lake” by Laurie Kilgore, oil on canvas, 2019

This project is funded in part by a grant from the Sullivan County Plans and Progress Small Grants Program, administered by the Division of Planning and Community Development.

“Dock of the Bay”, by Randall FitzGerald “Touching Leaves Woman”, by Marie Liu

Augustana’s Dan Layus

UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis: New “Jazz Crawl” & Group Art Show

The groove port music series in Port Jervis continues with Sooner, comprised of Sylvester Germaine (guitar, bass and electronics) and Charlotte Greve (alto sax, voice and synthesizer).

Greve began playing classical flute at the age of eight and picked up the saxophone at sixteen. Originally from Germany, she is presently a NYbased alto saxophonist and composer with a unique concept of tone and composition. She has been making a mark on both the Brooklyn and German Jazz scenes.

Expect back beats, enigmatic lyrics and grooves bathed in swirling synths, alto saxophone, electric bass and guitars: music that is as uncategorizable as the musicians are versatile. A captivating blend of jazz, ambient and rock, with a rarely heard compositional rigour.

See Sooner on October 15 at 7:00pm at UpFront Exhibition Space, 31 Jersey Ave., Port Jervis. Tickets at the door. BYOB! The Gallery opens at 1:00pm for viewing the current Group Art Show.

Rosalind “Roz” Hodgkins is showing a mini-retrospective of her 1980s Neo Expressionist paintings. The works are done on paper and executed in oil stick, pastel and pencil.

The manner and furious palette explode in a fast and loose style with figurative elements dancing in and out of focus among the slashed paint strokes. By the 1990s, Roz’ geometric abstraction paintings in gouache, also in this show, have become quiet, contemplative studies. The works appear to symbolize conversations between forms in a defined space; her use of light, color and energized brush strokes create aesthetic dramas.

Daniela “Dani” Cooney approaches her figurative paintings with a careful practiced eye. She chooses subjects that

resonate with her whether it’s a local landscape, animal or flower - she is meticulous in her execution. The overall brushwork is smooth and detailed. Her ways of seeing often break out of realism and wander into abstraction with playful colors and forms. She is continually expanding her range of skill.

Sculpture by Gordon Graff is a convergence of utility and art. The origins of the parts in each piece come with a cultural and worked history that he expands into a composition of fiction. By placing these disparate objects together, they become characters in a conversation, speaking from their cultural, utilitarian past. They ask for interpretation by use of the viewer’s

perception and imagination. Gordon has an intuitive sense in his placement of the objects while giving them a new life.

The show is on view through October 30. For information, call 845-754-1808.

NEW to the local Jazz scene, UpFront co-owner/sculptor Gordon Graff and renown jazz musician Robert Kopec are introducing the first annual Jazz Crawl on October 30 at 2:00pm, with Jazz artists TBA appearing in downtown Port Jervis: UpFront Exhibition Space, Gio’s Cafe, 30-32 Front Street, and Fox-NHare Brewery, 46 Front Street.

Fascinating Sullivan County History

A Wild West Town, Cimarron City came to Monticello around 1960. It was complete with bank, train and stage coach robberies, a saloon, paddle wheel river boat, animal farm, Indian village and alligator wrestling.

Myron Gittel is the author of Woodstock ‘69: Three Days of Peace, Music and Medical Care, a book on the medical services at the ‘69 Woodstock Festival. He will speak about Cimarron City, A Theme Park at the Ethelbert B Crawford Library on October 6 at 6:00pm. If you went there or worked there or just want to learn more about this amazing attraction, attend this interesting program on the history of Cimarron City, and be sure to bring your memories and memorabilia

For inquiries, call 845-428-3111.

Also at the Library, Sullivan County historian John Conway will present a fascinating new program entitled, After the Fall: Life After Sullivan County’s

Golden Age

After his nearly thirty years as Sullivan County historian, John Conway’s timeline depicting the evolution of the Sullivan County resort industry is well known to many, and concepts such as the Silver Age and the Golden Age have entered the mainstream vernacular. But what happened in Sullivan County after the Golden Age ended?

Conway examines and explains that time period, including the airport, proposed convention centers, and music festivals - real and imagined - on October 13 at 6:00pm.

Both programs will be held inside in the Library’s Robert D Norris Community Room, 470 Broadway, Monticello. Registration is required.

Visit ebcpl.org and then click “Adult Calendar.”

Masking and social distancing are strongly recommended.

For information: 845-794-4660.

Charlotte Greve

S. Germaine

“Base E” by Rosalind Hodgkins

“Chariot Race” by Gordon Graff

“Day by The Delaware” by Daniela Cooney

“Wild West” town in Monticello? Welcome to Cimarron City!

Myron Gittel John Conway

The River Valley Artists Guild: “Autumn Spectacular!”

Music for Humanity

Music for Humanity (MfH) is presenting a new concert series featuring professional musicians with a following. The first event features SONiA disappear fear, a dynamic singer/songwriter.

“Playing with Color” by Judith Cramer

Join the River Valley Artists Guild (RVAG) in celebrating the longest days of Autumn with their latest exhibit for their “Art about Town” series, Autumn Spectacular! The show includes photographs, paintings, and pastels that celebrate the visual beauty of Autumn found right in Orange County.

Gio’s Gelato Cafe: Work by RVAG: Judith Cramer works in acrylics, pastel and pencil in styles ranging from Impressionism to abstract. Daniela Cooney has a love of animals and natural landscapes and it is prevalent in her vibrant work. Rena Hottinger is an awardwinning painter and photographer. Joan Kehlenbeck is President of the RVAG and shows her pastels and paintings regionally. Patty Koch is a

“Autumn Colors” by Joe Petrosi“Autumn Fire” by Susan Miiller

self taught artist with nearly 50 years of experience. Judith Weiss begins her work from landscapes, and then moves into recall and feeling.

Bon Secours: Susan Miiller’s fall themed works.Susan received an M.F.A. degree in 1992 and has been teaching faculty at SUNY since 1999. Her work is in many important public and private collections. www.susanmiillerart.com.

Port Jervis Free Library: Works by artists from the Plein Air on the Delaware paint-out. Plein Air on the Delaware was an outdoor community event for artists. Beginners and masters joined in to paint the Delaware River and scenery in Port Jervis.

Mayor’s Office, City Hall: Color pencil drawings by awardwinning artist

Joe Petrosi. Joe’s colored pencil works are fun, bold, colorful and quirky.

Deerpark Town Hall: Joan Kehlenbeck’s fall themed works. In addition to her numerous responsibilities with RVAG, Joan includes important local, historic buildings and scenes in her drawings and paintings.

The exhibits can be seen October 1 to November 26 in Port Jervis at: Gio’s Gelato Cafe, 30-32 Front Street; Bon Secours Hospital (1st floor cafeteria), 160 E Main Street; Port Jervis Free Library (community room), 138 Pike Street; and the Mayor’s Office in City Hall, 20 Hammond Street. Deerpark Town Hall is located at 420 Route 209, Huguenot. Susanmiiller@yahoo.com or visit www. rivervalleyartistsguildofportjervis.com.

From a Palestinian Village in Israel to the synagogue in Fredenthal, Germany to the Sydney Opera House, Americana singer songwriter SONiA disappear fear brings her music to audiences around the world. Having recently completed her 14th tour across Germany she returns to the U.S. with new fans, including those from Ukraine who are now refugees living in Germany.

The venue is Noble Coffee Roasters, 3020 Route 207, Campbell Hall, and it takes place on October 1 at 7:30pm.

“We will also select the Music Teacher Appreciation Award ($1000 Grant),” said MfH’s co-founder, Barry Adelman

For tickets: musicforhumanity.org

Halloween happenings

Bethel: Pumpkin Trails

Bethel Woods is bringing a cornucopia of family-friendly Halloween fun to the historic grounds for Peace, Love and Pumpkins, a walking trail, October 1430 from 6:30pm-10:00pm. During a walk-thru experience, guests will wind through the beautiful garden trails highlighting thousands of unique handcarved jack-o-lanterns and glowing themed pumpkin art.

Delight in displays featuring

Woodstock festival icons, dinosaurs, mermaids, witches and much more on Friday Night Frights, October 21 and 28, 6:30pm-10:00pm

The experience gets a spooky makeover as the ghosts and ghouls come out to roam the grounds for Boos & Booze on October 29, a boozy add-on experience on one special night for 21 & over guests! www.bethelwoodscenter.org

So. Fallsburg: Haunted Theatre Tours

‘Tis the Season to be afraid...to be very afraid...If you enjoy a good scare, who needs a lame Haunted House or far-off Haunted Forest when there’s a forbidding, foreboding Haunted Theatre right in our own back yard?

Thanks to the denizens of the Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop, the Rivoli Theatre in South Fallsburg transforms every October to the creepiest, scariest haunt around. Three floors of frights await you at the Rivoli’s Haunted Theatre Tours - bigger, better, more ghostly, ghastly, eerie and spine-tingling each year.

At the helm of the haunting is Dawn Perneszi who has masterfully created and directed countless spaces and

scenarios to delight and thrill, menace and chill the hardiest of souls. Approximately 30 actors play different roles in different parts of the house.

Do you dare complete a tour? Bring a friend or two along, because going it alone is definitely not the best idea! It’ll be a scream - yours! (not recommended for children under the age of 13).

Weekend tours, October 7-29, begin at 6:00pm and run consecutively with the last tour starting at 10:00pm. Tickets at the door: 5243 Route 42, So. Fallsburg, or online in advance at www.SCDW.net.

The Haunted Theatre Tours are sponsored by the Sullivan County Visitors Association and DVAA

Warwick & Goshen: Ghoulish Poetry

Orange County Poet Laureate Emeritus Robert Milby will present his presentation Ghosts and Gothics at the Milkweed Poetry Workshop on October 19 at 7:00pm in the Buckbee Center, 2 Colonial Avenue, Warwick.

Then, on October 31 at

7:00pm Milby will be the featured poet for host Ted Gill’s Poetry at the Church series which will offer Poems for Autumn and Halloween, at the Goshen Methodist Church, (2nd Floor Meeting Hall), 115 Main Street, Goshen.

Milford: Horror Films

Nationally known film historian John DiLeo will present a series of scary films in October. Characters include an old Frankenstein, a young Frankenstein, Satan mating with a human to create his son, and a blind Audrey Hepburn being terrorized by thugs.

The films will be shown on Sundays at 4:00pm in the Milford Theater, 114 E. Catharine Street.

See page 15 for listings.

Newburgh: Spooky Lecture & Film

Lecture

Do spirits still stalk the Hudson River Valley? Author Vin Dacquino (pictured) strives to discover the true story behind three enigmatic folk legends: Sybil Ludington, Chief Daniel Nimham, and George Denny. Each was the central figure in a dramJ2atic series of events; each became enshrined in local lore; each has had their true story obscured; and each may have left behind a spiritual residue.

Follow Dacquino as he interviews local experts, explores areas where hauntings may have occurred - such as Carmel’s legendary Smalley’s Inn - and digs deep into historical archives to open windows into the lives and possible afterlives of these three mysterious characters.

Hear the lecture on October 18 at 10:30am at the Alice Desmond Center, 6 Albany Post Road, Newburgh.

Film

Did spirits stalk the cliffs of Cornwall, England?

See The Uninvited (1944) on October 21, at 10:00am

Fun Fact: Did you know the song Stella by Starlight, which was created for the film, became a popular jazz standard?

Call to register for both events: 845565-1326. For inquiries email: desmondinfo@townofnewburgh.org

Vails Gate: Costumed Ghosts

Tour the grounds on October 22, from 7:00pm-10:30pm at Knox’s Headquarters by night...if you dare!

In the spirit of 18th century Gothic literature, costumed interpreters from the New Windsor Cantonment and Knox’s Headquarters State Historic Sites submit for your approval a haunting tale!

The eerie night-cloaked grounds of the

Huguenot: “Fright Night” with Paranormal Investigator

Michael Worden is an enthusiastic, energetic and confident storyteller. Some of his ghost stories are based on happenings from the D&H Canal Era (1828-1928) and local communities.

The author of Ghost Detective which is his fascinating explorations of his experiences as a paranormal investigator, his ghostly program will include some of his findings from this book.

Now a retired law enforcement officer

and researcher of historical true crimes, Worden has authored two additional books: Lynched by a Mob! The 1892 Lynching of Robert Lewis in Port Jervis, NY and The Murder of Richard Jennings: The True Story of New York’s First Murder for Hire. Presently he serves as the Deerpark Town Historian, which gives him the opportunity to continue his research into local history.

Join the Halloween spirit with Fright Night at the Town of Deerpark Museum, 25 Grange Road, Huguenot, on October 30 at 3:00pm Light refreshments.

For information, call 845-8562702 or 1863schoolhouse.org.

This free program is sponsored by the Deerpark Heritage Fund, a component of the Community Foundation of Orange and Sullivan

historic Knox’s Headquarters’ 1754 Ellison home serve as a stage for a macabre presentation about strange happenings. Free admission. Call 845-562-7141 ext. 22 to make reservations.

Tales & Mummies

The Josephine Louise Public Library located at 5 Scofield Street, Walden, will offer two Halloween treats!

October 20, at 6:30pm: Spooky Tales for a Dark Night w/ Master Storyteller Eileen Stelljes features tons of tales to celebrate Halloween. Adult themed.

October 26, 4:30pm: Mummies in the Library, Oh My! Learn about the history of mummies, and then learn how to make your own!

What could Mia Farrow be looking at?

Gail Russell as Stella Meredith in “The Uninvited” (1944)

Shawn Barker’s Johnny Cash Tribute

“When you love music as much as I do and people love Johnny Cash as much as they do, there really isn’t much of a

I do what I do so people can continue to enjoy the music of Johnny Cash over and over again,” says Shawn Barker. “Nothing beats a live show and since we cannot see Johnny live any more, I am proud to be celebrating his music each and every time I go on stage. As one of his greatest fans, I am as loyal to his music as the next Johnny Cash lover. We cover pretty much all of Cash’s musical career, starting with the Sun Records and early stuff up to some of the things he did with Rick Rubin and the American recordings. Johnny’s music has feeling and that’s something you get best from a live show.”

Shawn Barker’s first Man In Black show was held in 2004 at a casino in Niagara Falls and he has since performed over 1,000 shows in 12 countries, selling more than half a million tickets over the course of his career. Oddly enough, Barker’s first touring gigs were portraying Elvis, not Johnny Cash. Everything changed, however, when Barker was asked to audition for the part of Cash in a Hollywood production, as it became evident to the director and

Barker himself that Johnny Cash was his true calling. From that point there was no turning back.

With his strikingly similar looks, baritone voice, and spot-on mannerisms, Barker’s uncanny resemblance to the original Man In Black revitalizes the true character and spirit of Cash himself, one of America’s greatest musical icons, for a truly one-of-a-kind show. The show features Barker in character throughout the entire evening, walking the audience through each era of Cash’s life and music, including hits like Folsom Prison Blues, I Walk The Line, A Boy Named Sue, Hurt and Ring of Fire, complete with a full backing band.

The Man In Black stops on October 6 at 8:00pm at the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center

For tickets: www.sugarloafpacny.com

Blues & Buffet for Animal Rescue

Blue Arrow Farm is the brainchild of Don Oriolo, a lifelong animal activist. When the overgrown, falling down farm came up for sale, Don made a commitment to buy it and bring it back to its one-time glory of the winter headquarters for the Meadowlands racehorses, the difference being that Don’s mission was to create a loving, safe environment for the horses (and every other animal for that matter) that need rescuing from ofttimes deplorable conditions.

Horses, alpacas, cows, sheep, goats, mules, chickens, ducks, and pigs who were tossed away, being sent to slaughter, were all rescued and given sanctuary by Don and his amazing staff. Don also spearheaded the biggest cat rescue of over 200 cats recorded in the history of the northeast, contracting a chronic airborne illness in the process.

The Animal Rescue Farm Blues Buffet Benefit takes place on October 16, from 2:00pm-6:00pm at Blue Arrow Farm, 86 Glenwood Road, Pine Island.

The fundraiser for the farm features a concert with Woodstock recording artists

Professor Louie and the Crowmatix, Oriolo’s Felix and the Cats, and special guest rock-n-roll photographer Sue Fino, who will present and share her incredible

Professor Louie and the Crowmatix will perform at Blue Arrow Farm on Oct. 16

intimate photos including Neil Young, The Band, Bruce Springsteen and many other legendary performers.

The fundraiser also features Hudson Valley’s own Culinary Rocker/Chef to the Stars Johnny Ciao who will prepare his inventive culinary dishes.

Johnny has spent five decades in the entertainment industry, not only as a Chef to the biggest names in showbiz, but also in management, production and marketing for entertainment corporate giants. He has been a resident of Orange County since 1968.

Tickets are available online by visiting www.ciaospices.com or call to reserve at 310-927-2586 / 845-533-3351.

Proceeds to benefit Blue Arrow Farm.

Shawn Barker performs as Johnny Cash

CANVAS

River Ramblers

Music - pop, Folk, Country, Blues, rock, etc.

sponsored by Steve’s Music Center,

Arrowhead Ranch, Parksville, Sep 24

The Skivvies eclectic covers, humor Forestburgh Tavern, Sep 24, 8pm

Johnnyswim alt, rock, pop City Winery Outdoor Amphitheater, Montgomery, Sep 25, 2pm

Parrot Beach Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sep 29, 6:30pm

Lindsey Webster soul, r&b

Gabriel Butterfield & Friends blues

The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 30, 7pm

The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 1, 7pm

LUNA: The Doug Beavers Latin Jazz Octet w/Jeremy Bosch

Latin Jazz, salsa, R&B, Afro-Caribbean

SUNYOrange Hall, Middletown, Oct 1, 7:30pm

SONiA Disappear Fear Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Oct 1, 7:30pm

Madarka Eastern European, coffeehouse series MISU Ellenvile, Oct 1, 7:30pm

Sara Milonovich & Daisycutter, Belle Curves indie roots-rock

The Falcon, Oct 6, 7pm

The Man in Black tribute to Johnny Cash ���Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Oct 6, 8pm

Ladies of the 80’s Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Oct 7, 6:30pm

Durham County Poets, Vito Petroccitto’s “Half of Little Rock” The Falcon, Oct 7, 7pm Rock This Town Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Oct 13, 6:30pm FREE

Glen David Andrews Band

Cuboricua! Salsa!

Hill and Al’s Music Center, Port Jervis

OPEN Mic & IN-HOUSE MUSIC

sponsored by Neil Alexander & NAIL, Newburgh

Listings not included in our centerspread calendar

The Parting Glass Band Celtic Loughran’s Pub, Salisbury Mills, Thursdays, 5:30pm-6:30pm

Wine Down Wednesday w/Live Music City Winery, Montgomery, Wednesdays, 5pm-7pm

Open Mic Heartbeat Music Hall, Grahamsville, Wednesdays,7pm

Open Mic

Adam Falcon w/dinner

BUSH Brothers

River Ramblers

Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, Sundays 3pm

City Winery, Montgomery, Sep 9, 6pm

Orange County Hops, Walden, Sep 30, 5pm

Barryville Farmers Market, Oct 1, 11am-2pm

HV Jazz Trio w/Joe Vincent Tranchina & Ryan Berg The Cove, Greenwood Lake, Oct 2, 12:30pm

AMP jazz, R&B, blues, rock

Open Mic

The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 14, 7pm

The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 15, 7pm

The Floyd Experience Paramount Theatre, Middletown, Oct 15, 8pm

Blue Arrow Animal Rescue Blues Buffet Benefit

Blue Arrow Farm, Pine Island, Oct 16, 2pm-6pm

A.M. Gold rock Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Oct 20, 6:30pm

Abraxis Santata

Fred Thomas, w/Bernard Purdie soul

Bernard Purdie & Friends soul

MANIA: The ABBA

Augustana:

The

Simi Stone

Ed Palermo

The Hudson

Vinyl Talk

Why is vinyl so popular now? Are old records worth anything? Can I get a quality record player?

Meet Jim Eigo, owner of Original Vinyl Records in Warwick, and get talkin’ about vinyl!

Jim will speak at the Florida Public Library on October 12 at 6:30pm. Learn how to clean and store your records, and how to transfer your old albums to your computer. Free admission. Visit www.floridapubliclibrary.org

Grant Opportunity

The Deerpark Heritage Fund has recently announced the availability of small grants. Grants are for the presentation of art, music, history, or other cultural programming and/or activities in the Town of Deerpark and Port Jervis area.

For further information and to obtain a copy of an application, visit the Community Foundation of Orange and Sullivan website: www.cfosny.org.

Select “About Us” and then “Family of Funds - Donor Advised Funds - Deerpark Heritage Fund.”

The Deerpark Heritage Fund is a component fund of the Community Foundation of Orange & Sullivan. https://cfosny.org

The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 20, 7pm

The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 21, 7pm

The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 22, 7pm

The Falcon, Marlboro,

27, 7pm

The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 28, 7pm

The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 29, 7pm

, Rock Tavern, Oct 29,

Harvest Festival

Celebrate the Fall season at Pocono Environmental Education Center’s (PEEC) 12th annual Harvest Festival and 50th Anniversary! Enjoy animal presenters, arts & crafts, hands-on activities, conservation exhibits, live music, local food, old-timey activities, and much more.

Bring your family and friends on October 8 from 11:00am-4:00pm at the PEEC, 538 Emery Road, Dingmans Ferry. Phone: 570- 828-2319

Railroad History

The Orange County Genealogical Society is offering a program on Railroad History, presented by Robert McCue

Robert McCue was born and raised in Cornwall. Having cultivated a lifelong interest in the region’s history, he researches and writes about the area he grew up knowing. McCue has also been a proud member of the New York, Ontario & Western Railway Historical Society for 10 years and a member of the Woodbury Historical Society

The program will be held on October 1 at 10:30am at the 1841 Historic Courthouse, 101 Main Street, 2nd Floor Courtroom, Goshen.

Free admission.

For more info: www.ocgsny.org

Orange County Hops, Walden, Oct 2, 2pm

Tango Cafe, Hurleyville, Oct 3 & 17, 7pm

Steven Wells City Winery, Montgomery, Oct 5, 5pm

HV Jazz Trio w/Rave Tesar & J. Brunka The Cove, Greenwood Lake, Oct 9, 12:30pm

Matt Carvin City Winery, Montgomery, Oct 12, 5pm

The Rick Savage 4-tet w/Eliot Zigmund The Cove, Greenwood Lake, Oct 14, 7pm

HV Jazz Trio w/Mike Jackson, John Arbo, Steve Rubin

The Cove, Greenwood Lake, Oct 16, 12:30pm

Andrew Jordan City Winery, Montgomery, Oct 19, 5pm

Oxford Station Band bluegrass TAPPED, Middletown, Oct 22, 8:30pm

James Kiernan City Winery, Montgomery, Oct 26, 5pm

Children & TEenS Calendar

sponsored by Music on Market, Ellenville and Nesin Cultural Arts, Monticello

JLPL

Josephine-Louise Library, Walden PEEC Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry

not included in our centerspread calendarBooks

Fall Story Time 3-4yrs

JLPL Tuesdays, 10:30am Rhymetime infants & toddlers

Florida Library, Wednesdays, 10:30am Baby Rhyme Time infants-3yr

JLPL Thursdays, 10:30am Storytime 3-5yrs Florida Library, Thursdays, 10:30am “Sadie, The Tail Waggin’ Tutor” Children (of all ages) read to Sadie the dog all ages, JLPL Oct 3, 5:30pm “If I Built a School” by Chris Van Dusen, grades K-2 Cornwall Library, Oct 12, 4:30pm “Unnatural Creatures” by Neil Gaiman, teens Cornwall Library, Oct 10, 6:30pm Book Break Book Group grades 3-4

Cornwall library, Oct 19, 4:20pm Readzza Readzza Book Group grades 5-8 Cornwall Library, Oct 27, 4:30pm EntertainmenT & Recreation

“Magic! The Gathering Club”, teens JLPL Oct 1 & 15, 2pm FREE Dungeons & Dragons teens JLPL Oct 7 & 21, 5pm FREE Drop In Lego Club JLPL Oct 11 & 25, 3:30pm FREE Ecozone Discovery Room! PEEC Oct 22, 1pm Haunted Library

Florida Library, Oct 21, 5:30pm FREE 1, 2, 3 Andres interactive music for kids and families Bethel Woods, Oct 22, 11am “Mummies in the Library, Oh My!” lecture & craft

Clubs Calendar

JLPL Oct 26, 4:30pm FREE

St. James Camera

Knit and Stitch

James Church, Goshen, 2nd Tuesday, 7pm

Cornwall Library, 3rd Thursday, 4:30pm

Library, Mondays, 6pm

Library Town Branch, 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6;30pm

Library, 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30pm

Knitters” Liberty Library, Mondays,

Warwick, Fridays, Noon

Tuesdays, 6pm

1st Wednesday, 7pm

JLPL: “Give Back”

The Josephine-Lousie Public Library will take part in The Great Give Back on October 15 by supporting Maria Fareri’s Children’s Hospital and The Washbourne House. A list of items needed may be found at the Main Circulation Desk, 5 Scofield Street, Walden. Items will be collected until October 10

For information: 845-778-7621.

JLPL: Writing

Have you always thought about writing a book or wonder if you could ever figure out how to take all the steps necessary to make this dream a reality?

Join Marie Blon and feel safe and confident taking the next step! She will offer a program, Yes! You really can write that book! on October 3 at 6:30pm

Register in advance: 845-778-7621.

Alternative Counseling, Cornwall & Broadway Tailors, Newburgh

Art Walk

Newburgh Open Studios

Canvas category calendar

sponsored by Matthews Pharmacy, Ellenville; Endico Watercolors, Sugar Loaf; High Withers, Goshen; and Peggi’s Place, Cornwall

Newburgh Art Supply, Sep 24 & 25

NBNY Art Seen Newburgh Art Galleries, Oct 29, 1pm-5pm FREE

cABARET

Debra Vogel Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern, Sep 24, 7pm

John Pinto Jr. and Jaron Barney Pre-Cabaret Dinner available Eldred Preserve, Oct 9, 8pm

Cinema

Manhattan Short Film Festival SUNY Orange Kaplan Hall, Newburgh, Sep 24, 7pm

“The Power of the Dog” B. Cumberbatch Wisner Library, Warwick, Sep 26, 1pm FREE

Manhattan Short Film Festival Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre, Sep 30-Oct 1 FREE

“Frankenstein” Boris Karloff, intro by John DiLeo Milford Theater, Oct 2, 4pm

“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom ” Viola Davis Wisner Library, Warwick, Oct 3, 1pm FREE

“La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered”, w/Q&A & live song & guitar performance

SUNY Orange Rowley Center, Middletown, Oct 3, 6:30pm

“Once” Cornwall Library, Oct 4, Noon FREE

“Warrior Women”

HPAC, Hurleyville, Oct 7, 7:30pm FREE & HPAC, Oct 8, 3:30pm FREE

“Powerlands” HPAC, Oct 8, 5pm FREE

“Young Frankenstein” Gene Wilder, intro by John DiLeo Milford Theater, Oct 9, 4pm

“From Here to Eternity” Sinatra, Lancaster Wisner Library, Warwick, Oct 10, 1pm FREE

Black Bear Film Festival Milford, Oct 14-16

“Persuasion” Dakota Johnson Wisner Library, Warwick, Oct 17, 1pm FREE

“The Uninvited” Ray Milland, Gail Russell Alice Desmond Campus, Newburgh, Oct 21, 10am

“Swing Time” F. Astaire & G. Rogers zoom/Cragsmoor Library, Oct 21, 7pm FREE

“Wait Until Dark” Audrey Hepburn, intro by John DiLeo Milford Theater, Oct 23, 4pm

“Love and Gelato” Susanna Skaggs Wisner Library, Warwick, Oct 24, 1pm FREE

“Rocky Horror Picture Show” w/guest Barry Bostwick

Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Oct 26, 8pm

“Rosemary’s Baby” Mia Farrow, intro by John DiLeo Milford Theater, Oct 30, 4pm

“The Midnight Sky” George Clooney Wisner Library, Warwick, Oct 31, 1pm FREE

Comedy

Drag Brunch w/Pixel

Tango Cafe, Hurleyville, Sep 11, 11:30am & 2:30pm

Jeff Norris & John “Gemini” Lombardi Eldred Preserve Oct 30, 8pm Bobby Collins Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Nov 4, 8pm

DANCE

Una Noche de Tango concert & dance Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre, Oct 15, 7pm

FAIRS & Festivals

Harvest Festival

Giant Pumpkin Party

Pine Bush First Fridays

3rd Annual Indigenous Women’s

Festival & 50th Anniversary

Bethel Woods, Oct 2, 11am-4pm

Fairgrounds, Oct 1, 9am-5pm

Street, Pine Bush, Oct 7, 4pm-7pm

Summit Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre, Oct 7-8

Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry, Oct 8, 11am-4pm

Warwick Children’s Book Festival

Stanley Deming Park, Warwick, Oct 8, 11am-4pm

Second Saturday Maker Market & Street Fair Mountaindale, Oct 8, 11am-5pm

Hudosn Valley Plein Air Festival

locations Oct 10-15

Liberty Harvest Festival Liberty Museum & Art Center, Oct 15, Noon-4pm

Legion Auxiliary Fall Art Fair

Legion Hall, Highland Falls, Oct 22, 11am-3pm

October Psychic Fair Crystal Connection, Wurtsboro, Oct 29 & 30, 11am-5:30pm

FUndraisers

Blue Arrow Animal

Halloween

Music - Classical

Harlem String Quartet Newburgh Chamber Music’s 20th Anniversary

St George’s Church, Newburgh, Sep 25, 3pm

Music Meets Visual Art flute, viola, piano, Kindred Spirits Arts

Milford Theater, Oct 8, 7pm

Duo Soli-Tude violin & viola St John’s Episcopal Church, Ellenville, Oct 20, 7:30pm

Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra Players Zimmerman Kaffeehaus

Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre, Oct 22, 6pm & Jeffersonville Bake Shop, Oct 23, 3pm

Music - jazz

Island, Oct 16, 2pm-6pm

Paese, Liberty, Oct 20, 5pm

Library, Montgomery Street Entrance, Oct 22, 10am-2pm

events not listed in centerspread)

Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop’s Haunted Theatre Tours

Rivoli Theatre, So Fallsburg, Oct 7-29, 6pm-10pm

Peace, Love and Pumpkins walking trail Bethel Woods, Oct 14-30, 6:30pm-10pm

Pocus” film Florida Library, Oct 21, 7:30pm

Friday Fright Nights

Was Dark Back

Vails

Bethel Woods, Oct 21 & 28

Oct 22, 7pm-10:30pm

Museums (events not listed in centerspread)

Behind the Scenes Tour, the Woodstock historic site Bethel Woods, Mon-Wed, 12:30pm

Behind the Scenes Tour & Escape Room Experience Bethel Woods, Wednesdays, 4pm

Bethel Woods, Oct 8

Hal Galper Trio

Rafters Tavern, Callicoon, Saturdays, 3pm Analog Jazz Orchestra Roland Vazquez, Latin Jazz The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 29, 7pm

Neil Alexander & NAIL jazz-fusion

UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Sep 30, 7pm

LUNA: The Doug Beavers Latin Jazz Octet w/Jeremy Bosch

Latin Jazz, salsa, R&B, Afro-Caribbean

SUNYOrange Hall, Middletown, Oct 1, 7:30pm

Jazz Coalition Series: Mino Cinélu “Hope On Hope” The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 9, 7pm

Sooner: Sylvester Germaine & Charlotte Greve jazz-rock-ambient

UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Oct 15, 7pm Jazz Coalition Series: Matt Wilson

The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 16, 7pm Jazz Coalition Series: Wallace Roney Jr., “Noir” The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 23, 7pm

1st Annual Jazz Crawl Gio’s Cafe, UpFront, Fox-n-Hare, Port Jervis, Oct 30, 2pm Jazz Coalition Series: Sarah Elizabeth Charles

Poetry Readings w/Open Mic

The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 30, 7pm

Christopher P. Gazeent Poetry at the Church Goshen Methodist Church, Sep 26, 7pm Milkweed Poetry Workshop Buckbee Center, Warwick, Sep 28, 7pm Randy Sutter Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Oct 6 7pm Donna Reis, Donna Spector Amity Gallery, Warwick, Oct 8, 7pm Fall Poetry Cafe Janet Hamill, Douglas Weed

Florida Library, Oct 9, 1pm FREE Robert Milby Poems for Autumn Java Blue Coffee & Market, Montgomery, Oct 18, 6pm Milkweed Poetry Workshop Robert Milby, “Ghosts and Gothics”

Buckbee Center, Warwick, Oct 19, 7pm Chuck O’Neil Milford Poet Laureate ARTery Gallery, Milford, Oct 21, 7pm FREE J.R. Solonche

SUNY Orange, Orange Hall, Middletown, Oct 23, 2pm Robert Milby Poetry at the Church, “Poems for Autumn and Halloween”

Goshen Methodist Church, Oct 31, 7pmRecreation Line Dancing “Kickin’ w/Kathy and Billy” City Winery, Montgomery, Mondays, 7pm Tri-State Drum & Dance Drum Circle UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Tuesdays, 7pm Knight at the Races

Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Chester, Oct 1, 6pm Apple Pie Palooza pies, music Catskill Brewery, Livingston Manor, Oct 8, 5pm-9pm FREE Catskill Chili Cook-Off Liberty Museum & Art Center, Oct 15, 2pm-4pm FREE Trivia Night w/Arthur Aulisi

Storytelling

Tango Cafe, Hurleyville, Oct 20, 6:30pm FREE

Eileen Stelljes “Spooky Tales for a Dark Night”

Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Oct 20, 6:30pm FREE “Fright Night” Michael Worden Town of Deerpark Museum, Huguenot, Oct 30, 3pm FREE

Theatre - Musical & Variety

“Paige Turner: Tucking Myself In” drag, variety Forestburgh Tavern, Sep 30 & Oct 1, 8pm

“Rocky Horror Picture Show” live, w/dinner Forestburgh Tavern, Oct 7-29 “tick, tick...Boom!” musical Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Oct 14-16

Theatre - Play

play reading

The Continuum”

Vet Rep Theatre, Cornwall, thru Oct 1

Studio @ Shadowland Stages, Ellenville, thru Oct 2

“The Lifespan of a Fact” Shadowland Stages Mainstage, Ellenville, Oct 7-23

39 Steps” play reading

Brilliant Thing” River Rep Theatre

Rep Theatre, Cornwall, Oct 8-29

Delaware Valley Opera Center, Lake Huntington, Nov 4-6

Books: Discussions / readings / Signings

sponsored by Josephine-Louise Public Library, Walden

“American Dirt” by Jeanine Cummins Liberty Library, Sep 29, 1pm

Author Talk w/Hernan Diaz zoom & Wisner Library, Warwick,

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

Cinema “The Power of the Dog” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm

Poetry

Christopher P. Gazeent

Goshen United Methodist Church, 7pm Line Dancing see below

Cinema “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”

Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm

Cinema & Music “La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered” SUNYO-RCSE 6:30pm

Recreation Line Dancing City Winery, Montgomery 7pm

Cinema “Once” Cornwall Library, Noon Recreation Drum Circle UpF, 7pm

Poetry Milkweed Poetry

Buckbee Center, Warwick, 7pm

Tree Dedication in Memory of Lynn W. Hoins

“

Cinema

From Here to Eternity” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm Recreation Line Dancing City Winery, Montgomery 7pm

Cinema

Wisner Library, Warwick,1pm

Recreation Line Dancing City Winery, Montgomery

Recreation Drum Circle UpF, 7pm

Everyone is welcome to come to a tree planting in memory of Lynn W. Hoins, poet, writer, workshop leader, and friend to many, at Pacem in Terris, a place Lynn loved so much.

October 9 at Noon, Pacem in Terris, 96 Covered Bridge Road, Warwick

Circle UpF,

Poetry

Robert Milby

for Autumn”

Blue Coffee, Montgomery, 6pm

Poetry

Milkweed Poetry Workshop

Robert Milby

and Gothics” Buckbee Center, Warwick, 7pm

Music Stephen Clair Band

8pm

Parrot Beach�������������������SLPAC 6:30pm Music - Jazz-Vazquez.........Analog Jazz Orchestra FAL 7pm Theatre - Play.............“In The Continuum” S@SHADOW 8pm

Music..................................

Music - Jazz-Fusion..........Neil Music - Soul-R&B..................Lindsey Cinema. Manhattan Theatre - Play.............“In The Theatre - Variety.....“Paige Turner:

Halloween...............Haunted Theatre

Poetry...............................

Randy Sutter NOBLE 7pm

Music.....Sara Milonovich & Daisycutter, Belle Curves FAL 7pm Music - J.Cash.............The Man in Black SLPAC 8pm Music..................................Ilana Glazer

8pm

Fair...................Pine Bush First Music..........................Ladies Music........Half of Little Rock, Cinema..........................“Warrior Theatre - Play..........“The Lifespan Theatre - Musical & Dinner “Rocky

Music................................Rock This Town SLPAC 6:30pm Theatre - Play..........“The Lifespan of a Fact” SHADOW 8pm

Cinema..........................Black Halloween...............Haunted Theatre Theatre - Variety...........“tick, tick...Boom!” Music........................Glen David Theatre - Play..........“The Lifespan Theatre - Musical & Dinner “Rocky

Fundraiser-Dinner.........

WJFF-Radio Catskill Piccolo Paese, Liberty, 5pm

Recreation..........................Trivia Night TANGO 6:30pm

Storytelling.........

Tales for a Dark Night JLPL 6:30pm

Cinema.........................“The Uninvited”

Halloween...............Haunted Theatre

Poetry....................

O’Neil

Music - Rock........................A.M. Gold

Santana....................Abraxis FAL 7pm

6:30pm Music

Music - Classical..............Duo Solitude MISU 7:30pm

Theatre

Play..........

Lifespan of a Fact” SHADOW 8pm

“Zoe Comes Home”, a play by Melissa Bell, premieres at the Tusten Theatre, 210 Bridge St., Narrowsburg, on October 7 & 8 at 7:00pm. The cast & director,

includes: Amber Schmidt, Susan Mendoza, Scott Porter, Thomas Cambridge, Director

A. Guzda, & Jess Beveridge

Call 845-252-7576 or www.

FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY

Fair...................Giant Pumpkin Party Grahamsville, 9am-5pm

Music - Jazz.....Hal Galper Trio Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, 3pm

Recreation..................Knight at the Races SLPAC 6pm

Neil Alexander & NAIL UpF 7pm

Lindsey Webster FAL 7pm

Short Film Festival HPAC 7pm

Continuum” S@SHADOW 8pm

Turner: Tucking Myself In” FT 8pm

Theatre - Play Reading...“Admissions” Vet Rep Theatre, Cornwall, 7pm Cinema. Manhattan Short Film Festival HPAC 7pm

Music - European Folk............Madarka MISU 7:30pm

Music.........................SONiA Disappear Fear NOBLE 7:30pm

Music....LUNA The Doug Beavers Latin Jazz Octet SUNYO-OH 7:30pm

Theatre - Play.............“In The Continuum” S@SHADOW 8pm

Music - Blues.................Gabriel Butterfield & Friends FAL 7pm

Theatre - Variety.....“Paige Turner: Tucking Myself In” FT 8pm

Fair.....Maker Market & Street Fair Mountaindale, 11am-5pm Festival..Harvest Festival & 50th Anniversary PEEC 11am-4pm

Theatre Tours RIV 6pm-10pm

First Fridays Main Street, 4pm-7pm of the 80s SLPAC 6:30pm

Rock, Durham County Poets FAL 7pm

“Warrior Women” HPAC 7:30pm

Lifespan of a Fact” SHADOW 8pm “Rocky Horror Picture Show FT 8pm

Festival....Warwick Children’s Book Festival DEMING 11am-4pm

Halloween...............Haunted Theatre Tours RIV 6pm-10pm

Theatre - Play..........“The Lifespan of a Fact” SHADOW 2pm & 8pm

Music - Jazz.........Hal Galper Trio Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, 3pm

Cinema..........................“Warrior Women” HPAC 3:30pm

Cinema.............................“Powerlands” HPAC 5pm

Recreation....................Apple Pie Palooza CBLM 5pm-9pm

Music - Classical.....Music Meets Visual Art Milford Theater, 7pm

Poetry................ Donna Reis, Donna Spector AMITY 7pm

Theatre - Play Reading.............“The 39 Steps” VET 7pm Theatre - Musical & Dinner “Rocky Horror Picture Show FT 8pm

Bear Film Festival MILFORD Theatre Tours RIV 6pm-10pm tick...Boom!” SLPAC 7pm David Andrews Band FAL 7pm Lifespan of a Fact” SHADOW 8pm “Rocky Horror Picture Show FT 8pm

Uninvited” DESM 10am Theatre Tours RIV 6pm-10pm O’Neil ARTery Gallery, Milford 7pm Time”��������zoom/Cragsmoor Library 7pm Thomas & Bernard Purdie FAL 7pm “Hocus Pocus” Florida Library, 7:30pm Lifespan of a Fact” SHADOW 8pm “Rocky Horror Picture Show FT 8pm

Theatre Tours��������������RIV 6pm-10pm

Simi Stone FAL 7pm

“Rocky Horror Picture Show FT 8pm

Black Bear Film Festival MILFORD Festival.........Liberty Harvest Festival LMAC Noon-4pm Recreation Catskill Chili Cook-Off LMAC 2pm-4pm Theatre - Variety..........“tick, tick...Boom!” SLPAC 2pm & 7pm Halloween...............Haunted Theatre Tours RIV 6pm-10pm Music - Jazz.........Hal Galper Trio Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, 3pm Theatre - Play Reading.............“The 39 Steps”�������������������VET 7pm Dance - Music Una Noche de Tango HPAC 7pm Music - Jazz-Rock..Sylvester Germaine & Charlotte Greve UpF 7pm Music - Salsa...........................Cuboricua! FAL 7pm Music............................The Floyd Experience PARA 8pm Theatre - Play..........“The Lifespan of a Fact” SHADOW 8pm Theatre - Musical & Dinner “Rocky Horror Picture Show FT 8pm

Cinema..............

Fair..American Legion Auxiliary Art Fair ALHF 11am-3pm Fundraiser..Newburgh Library Book Sale NFL-MONT 10am-2pm Halloween...............Haunted Theatre Tours RIV 6pm-10pm Music - Jazz.........Hal Galper Trio Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, 3pm Music - Classical.....Sullivan County Chamber Orch. HPAC 6pm Music - Soul...................Bernard Purdie & Friends������������������FAL 7pm

Theatre - Play Reading.............“The 39 Steps” VET 7pm Theatre - Play..........“The Lifespan of a Fact” SHADOW 8pm Theatre - Musical & Dinner “Rocky Horror Picture Show FT 8pm Music....................MANIA: The ABBA Tribute PARA 8pm Music..........................Best of the Eagles SLPAC 8pm

Fair...............

October Psychic Fair CRYSTAL 11am-5:30pm

Halloween......Haunted Theatre Tours RIV 6pm-10pm

Art Walk...........................NBNY

Festival..........................Harvest Festival BW 11am-4pm

Theatre - Play.............“In The Continuum” S@SHADOW 2pm

Cinema...........................“Frankenstein” Milford Theater, 4pm

2 9

Comedy..............Drag Brunch w/Pixel TANGO 11:30am & 2:30pm

Poetry Cafe ......Janet Hamill, Douglas Weed Florida Library, 2pm Theatre - Play..........“The Lifespan of a Fact” SHADOW 2pm Cinema....................“Young Frankenstein”�����Milford Theater, 4pm Music - Jazz......................Mino Cinélu FAL 7pm Cabaret.............John Pinto Jr. & Jaron Barney BRAD 8pm

Cinema..........................

Black Bear Film Festival MILFORD Theatre - Play..........“The Lifespan of a Fact” SHADOW 2pm Theatre - Variety..........“tick, tick...Boom!”�������SLPAC Noon & 5pm Fundraiser...Blue Arrow Animal Rescue Blues Buffet BLUE 2pm-6pm Music - Jazz.......................Matt Wilson FAL 7pm

Theatre - Play..........“The Lifespan of a Fact” SHADOW 2pm

Music - Classical.....Sullivan County Chamber Orch. JBAKE 3pm

Poetry..............................J.R. Solonche�����������������SUNYO-OH 3pm

Cinema..........................“Wait Until Dark” Milford Theater, 4pm

Music - Jazz.................Wallace Roney Jr. “Noir” FAL 7pm

Fair.............

CANVAS

Canvas category calendar

sponsored by Catskill Art Society, Wallkill River School, Goshen Art League & Wurtsboro Art Alliance

Art exhibits

DVAA Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg

WRS Wallkill River School, Montgomery

T.A. Clearwater paintings, pastels, prints Clearwater Gallery at Jones Farm, Cornwall, ongoing Karen E. Gersch, Gabrielle Dearborn, Josiah Dearborn drawings, paintings, silverwork Gersch Home Gallery, Montgomery, by appt, ongoing

River Valley Artists Guild Art About Town: “End of Summer”

Susan Miiller oils & pastels, Bon Secours Hospital Cafeteria, Port Jervis, & Joe Petrosi color pencil drawings Mayor’s Office, Port Jervis City Hall, & Joan Kehlenbeck “Summer Florals” oils & pastels Deerpark Town Hall, Huguenot, & RVAG members’ group show Gio’s Gelato Café, Port Jervis thru Sep 30 “Celebrating Warwick’s Countryside Gardens” Warwick Art League

Wisner Library, Warwick, thru Sep 30

Clayton Buchanan “Life and Love” pastels WRS Oct 1, 5pm-7pm

iena Cruz

Visitor Center, Newburgh, Oct 1, 5pm-7pm

Thornton Willis and Bix Lye: “Matter of Fact” Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh, Oct 1, 5pm-7pm

Marie Liu & Randall FitzGerald “Home - Land” ARTery Gallery Milford, Oct 8, 6pm-9pm

Bethel Council on the Arts “Fall” Member Exhibit Narrowsburg Union, Oct 9, 2pm-4:30pm

7th Annual Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival WRS Oct 15, 1pm-3pm

Goshen Art League “3rd Mini-Solo Exhibit”

Goshen Music Hall, Oct 19, 6:30pm-8pm

Young Artists’ Show Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Oct 15, 2pm-4pm

“Mini Solos: 3rd Installment” group show Goshen Music Hall, Oct 20, 6:30pm-8pm

Lectures, talks, masterclasses & demos

DESM

sponsored by SUNY Orange and Town of Newburgh Desmond Center

Alice Desmond Center, Newburgh

“FOUR / FOR Supporting Artistic Expression as a Democratic Principle” group show Domesticities, Youngsville, thru Sep 30 “Picking Up the Pieces” group show

Terry Murray

Gallery, Milford, thru Oct 3

Leo’s Restaurant & Pizzeria, Cornwall, thru Oct 7

Clayton Buchanan “Life and Love” pastels WRS thru Oct 9

Tony Conner “Outside Observations”, “Realism” group show WRS thru Oct 9 “Still Life” group show WRS thru Oct 16

Tricia Lowery-Lippert “Journeys” Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, thru Oct 27 Jose Gonzalez-Soto “SCARS: Pain and Death of an Inheritance”

SUNY Orange, Mindy Ross Gallery, Newburgh, thru Oct 28

Goshen Art League “3rd Mini-Solo Exhibit” Goshen Music Hall, thru Oct 28 Fall Group Show UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, thru Oct 30 Ryan Ward “3,2,1, Ring Baloney!” & “Subterranean” group show DVAA thru Oct 30 Robb Gomulka “Illustrations” Unitarian Universalist Cong , Rock Tavern, thru Oct 30 “Treasures from the Earth” curated by Jonette O’Kelley Miller

JLPL Josephine-Louise Library, Walden PEEC Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry Lectures, Demos, Talks & Master Classes are FREE unless otherwise noted: (FEE) (Events Not lncluded in Centerspread Calendar)

lectures & Discussions

Science Cafe: “The Hudson Valley – A Billion Years of History” Steven H. Schimmrich for Vails Gate restaurant location, contact: tobyrossman@yahoo com, Sep 28, 7:30pm

“Astronomy Program: Telescopes” John Kocijanski

Crawford Library, Monticello, Sep 29, 6pm

“Medicare 101” zoom/Cragsmoor Library, Oct 1, 10am

“Railroad History” Robert McCue 1841 Historic Courthouse, Goshen, Oct 1, 10:30am

Mushroom Walk

Cragsmoor Library, Oct 1, 1pm

Owl Prowl PEEC Oct 1, 7pm FEE

Animal Tracking PEEC Oct 2, 10am FEE

Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, thru Nov 19

studiotheaterinexile com/latino-heritage-month thru Oct 31 “Anthology” group show

Catherine DeMaio “Fall” paintings Rustic Wheelhouse, Chester, thru Nov 2022 Special Exhibit & Art Fair Museum at Bethel Woods, thru Dec

NEW ART EXHIBITS

Goshen Art League “Casting Shadows, Reflecting Light”

Orange County Emergency Services, Goshen, Sep 30-Nov 30 Goshen Art League “Delicious Delights” Noble Coffee Roasters, Oct 1-28

Sullivan County Art Educator’s Show Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Oct 1-29 “Phyllis Lehman: an Art Exhibit” paintings, drawings ���Amity Gallery, Warwick, Oct 1-30 “Celestial/Universe” group show Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Oct 1-30 Roz Hodgkins “A Mini-retrospective from the 1980s & 1990s”

UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Oct 1-30 Karen E. Gersch www HouseOfHolyHumor com Oct 1-31

Thornton Willis and Bix Lye: “Matter of Fact” Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh, Oct 1-Nov 6 iena Cruz Visitor Center, Newburgh, Oct 1-Nov 15 River Valley Artists Guild Art About Town: “Autumn Spectacular” “Plein Air on the Delaware” group show, Port Jervis Library, & Joan Kehlenbeck “Fall” oils & pastels Deerpark Town Hall, Huguenot, & Susan Miiller “Fall”, oils & pastels, Bon Secours Hospital Cafeteria, Port Jervis, & Joe Petrosi “Fall”, color pencil drawings, Mayor’s Office, Port Jervis City Hall, & RVAG members’ group show Gio’s Gelato Café, Port Jervis Oct 1-Nov 26 Mitchell Saler paintings Greenwood Lake Library, Oct 4-31

Marie Liu & Randall FitzGerald “Home - Land”���� ARTery Gallery Milford, Oct 6-Nov 7

Althena La Tocha Gallery 222, Hurleyville, Oct 7-8

Mary Mugele Sealfon Leo’s Restaurant & Pizzeria, Cornwall, Oct 8-Nov 8

Bethel Council on the Arts “Fall” Member Exhibit Narrowsburg Union, Oct 8-Nov 19

Cornwall Arts Collective Pop-Up Art Show Bridge Street, Cornwall, Oct 15, Noon-4pm

7th Annual Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival

WRS Oct 15-Nov 6

“Birds” group show WRS Oct 21-Nov 13 Fall Art Fair American Legion Hall, Highland Falls, Oct 22, 11am-3pm

Photography exhibits

“Along the Towpath: The D&H Canal in Mamakating, 1828-1898” Wurtsboro Library

“The John Evans Family - 1765 to 1997” Cragsmoor Library, through November

Nick Zungoli “AOTEAROA

“A Comprehensive

Exposures

Sugar Loaf, thru

Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, thru

ART & Photography receptions

Robb Gomulka “Illustrations” Unitarian Universalist Cong , Rock Tavern, Sep 24, 5pm-7pm

“Celestial/Universe” group show Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Oct 1, Noon-4pm

Laurie Kilgore “Scenes of Home” Suzanne Stanway Arts Haven, Monticello Oct 1, 1pm-4pm

Sullivan County Art Educator’s Show Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Oct 1, 2pm-4pm

“Phyllis Lehman: an Art Exhibit” Amity Gallery, Warwick, Oct 1, 5pm-7pm

Tony Conner & “Realism: An Academic Approach” WRS Oct 1, 5pm-7pm

“Yes! You really can write that book!” Marie Blon JLPL Oct 3, 6:30pm

“Cimarron City, A Theme Park” Myron Gittel Crawford Library, Monticello, Oct 6, 6pm JLPL’s Fall Rail Trail Bird Walk Bill Fiero Wooster Grove Park, Walden Oct 8, 8am “Medicare 101” zoom Florida Library, Oct 11, 6pm & Oct 29, 10am “Harry S. Truman-The Buck Stops Here” Tom DeStefano DESM Oct 11, 9am FEE “Cyrus McCormick & the Mechanical Reaper” Rick Feingold DESM Oct 11, 10:30am FEE “American Revolutionary War: The Loyalist Supporters of British Colonia America” Leon DiMartino DESM Oct 12, 10:30am FEE

“Detoxing the Past” Diane Lang DESM Oct 12, 10:30am FEE “One Paris: Three Photographers” Laura Nicholls DESM Oct 12, Noon FEE “Talkin’ Vinyl Jim Eigo Florida Library, Oct 12, 6:30pm “Transfer of Animal Diseases to Humans & the Characteristics of the Viruses that make that Happen” John Albarino DESM Oct 13, 11am FEE “House-Life Connection” Claudia Jacobs DESM Oct 13, 12:30pm FEE

“After the Fall: Life After Sullivan County’s Golden Age John Conway Crawford Library, Monticello, Oct 13, 6pm “Secrets That Wall Street Does Not Want You to Know When Investing Your Money” Rick Nathan DESM Oct 14, 10am FEE

Signs of Fall Hike PEEC Oct 15 & 30, 1pm FEE

“How to Drastically Cut Costs in Difficult Times” Rick Nathan DESM Oct 17, 10am FEE

“Hauntings of the Hudson River Valley” Vin Dacquino DESM Oct 18, 10:30am FEE

“How to Go Through College without Going Broke” Rick Nathan DESM Oct 19, 10am FEE “Classical Music, Lecture & Performance” Kenneth Korn DESM Oct 19, 10am FEE Science Cafe: “The Science of Magic” Dr. Willie K. Yee for Vails Gate restaurant location, contact: tobyrossman@yahoo�com, Oct 26, 7:30pm

“How to Use My Digital Camera” Eli Sloves DESM Oct 27, 9am FEE

“Native Wildflower Seeds” Pamela Golben Crawford Library, Monticello, Oct 27, 6pm

“John Singer Sargent: Romance, Drama, & the Visual World – Part 1” Janet Mandel Cornwall Library, Nov 1, 6:15pm

ARTIST Talks & Salons

Highlands Arts Alliance Photographers’ Salon: critiquing, Copyright-protecting your images American Legion Hall, Highland Falls, Oct 1, 11am FEE

Filmmakers + Artists Panel & Akwesasne Women Singers

HPAC Oct 8, 6:30pm

Joy Zelada, classical guitar “The Rich Music of Latin America” a Lunch & Learn event SUNY Orange Shepard Student Center, Middletown, Oct 13, 11am

MAster Classes

Cultivating Chaos w/Christina Garcia, writing master class

zoom:cultural@sunyorange edu, Sep 26, Noon

Doug Beavers “Strategies in Composing Rhythms and Musical Form Assembly in Afro-Carib bean music” SUNY Orange Hall, Middletown, Sep 29, Noon

DEMOs

Andrew Lattimore landscape painting Lawrence Farms, Newburgh, Oct 11, 9am FEE

Joseph Sundwall plein air process Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Oct 15, Noon-1pm

Get Your Popcorn Ready: The 23rd Annual Black Bear Film Festival

See the world through filmmaker’s eyes! The Black Bear Film Festival joins filmmakers with audiences to share their stories for the 23rd annual fest. See cutting edge documentaries on the Main Stage and at Salons. Opening night features a Monster Bash.

Celebrate the spooky season and our glorious Hollywood past at the Premiere Night screening of Boris Karloff in The Man Behind the Monster, directed by Thomas Hamilton.

This documentary explores the life and career of Boris Karloff who kept the world spellbound with his performance as the Frankenstein monster. Watch the moments of iconic filmmaking that made this unlikely star famous. Featuring interviews with Guillermo Del Toro, Ron Perlman, Stephanie Powers, Oscarwinner Lee Grant, John Landis and many more Hollywood greats.

Find your beat with Omar Sosa’s 88 Well Tuned Drums, get an inspirational hug from the Mama Bears, then take a stroll through new neighborhoods with the makers of Why We Walk and No Perfect Walk, two inspiring documentaries.

Why We Walk follows the journey of three Black men, united to empower and de-stigmatize urban communities

of color and their participation in the great outdoors.

No Perfect Walk is about two friends who drop everything in their lives, sell their belongings and set out on a journey that forever changes their lives.

Directed by Lisa Hurwitz, featuring Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elliot Gould and Colin Powell, The Automat tells the 100-year story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, the inspiration for Starbucks, where

Pastels & More, Solo Show, Cornwall

Entranced by the Hudson Valley, Mary Mugele Sealfon enjoys plein air painting, portraiture and still life in pastel and oil. She taught art at SUNY Orange and the Wallkill River School (WRS) and is currently represented by the WRS, Montgomery. She is a member of the Garrison Art Center and several local art organizations. Recently, she participated in the Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival (see page 26), Tuxedo Plein Air and painting Warwick Gradens.

In NYC she pursued a career as Art Director and designer for various publications and companies. She also studied at the School of Visual Arts, the Art Students League and with noted regional artists. Her awardwinning works and prints have been shown nationally and internationally.

“Though I grew up amidst the

amazing beauty of the San Francisco bay area and the Sierra Mountains of California, I find the Hudson Valley equally inspiring. With fellow plein air artists, I have been fortunate to paint many vistas such as those painted by the original Hudson River artists. Whether portrait or landscape, I prefer to work from life. Paintings are more alive when painted on location. Perhaps the joy of the experience is somehow transferred to the painting,” states Mary.

Mary will exhibit her paintings at Leo’s Restaurant, 46 Quaker Avenue, Cornwall, from October 8 to November 8. Go and get a delicious meal at Leo’s while viewing beautiful paintings!

For further information about the artist, visit msealfon.weebly.com.

*Leo’s Newburgh location is seeking artists who want to exhibit their work. Email editor@dhcanvas.com for info.*

generations of Americans ate and drank coffee together at communal tablesfollowed by a Q&A with the director.

Milford has an illustrious heritage of filmmaking and the Milford Theater originally opened as a silent film theater. Black Bear Film Festival is celebrating Milford’s rich history with a screening of A Feud in The Kentucky Hills, filmed in Pike County and starring Milford’s darling, Mary Pickford.

This 15-minute film, produced in

1912, has been curated by the Columns Museum and set to modern music by talented composer Jane Mangini who tours with the Trans Siberian Orchestra.

For the full October 14-16 Festival schedule visit www.blackbearfilm.com.

Opening Night Gala passes and Gold passes that include all the Main Stage screenings are available for purchase. Individual tickets are also on sale for all Main Stage presentations.

Don’t forget, there are plenty of great films that are offered to the community for free at the Salon, located at Good Shepherd Church, 110 W Catherine Street, just a short walk from the Milford Theater, 114 E Catharine Street.

You’ll find so many amazing films created by local, national and international filmmakers!

Visit www.blackbearfilm.com.

Boris Karloff Lee Grant Ruth Bader Ginsburg Colin Powell Omar Sosa Mary Pickford, “A Feud in The Kentucky hills”

Black Bear Film Festival’s “Artful Bears”

“View from Boscobel” (pastel)

Paramount Theatre: Salutes to Pink Floyd & ABBA

The FLOYD Experience is a celebration of the legendary career of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. This 90-minute production features precise musical renditions of some of their signature songs, along with an impressive light show that includes complex synchronized lighting movements, multiple laser displays and video wall. The show is crafted to engage both younger and older generations, providing fans of all ages an opportunity to relive the creative genius of Pink Floyd that produced an incredible spectrum of music over a period of nearly 50 years!

The 10-member band features all of the musical and theatrical elements that were critical to Pink Floyd’s historic success. The vocal focus of the group emulates the quality and energy of two of Pink Floyd founders - David Gilmore and Roger Waters, while the three female vocalists provide the signature harmonies and soulful arpeggios that made the band famous in the 1970’s.

The band incorporates multiple guitarists utilizing electric, acoustic and classical guitars including Pink Floyd’s distinctive lap steel voicings. Two keyboardists provide the orchestral foundation of the original band’s unique

The FLOYD Experience

sound, and a solid rhythm section of percussion and electric bass underlies the overall production. Finally, the saxophone rounds out the ensemble with the unique solo punctuations that highlight many of their hit songs.

The Ultimate U.S Pink Floyd Experience is at the Paramount Theatre, 17 South Street, Middletown, on October 15 at 8:00pm

From London’s West End to Las Vegas, MANIA the ABBA TRIBUTE (formerly ABBA MANIA) remains the world’s No. 1 touring ABBA tribute show. Formed in 1999, this production has sold out theaters and concert halls across the globe, with over 3,000 live concerts in over 30 countries, bringing the music of the beloved Swedish supergroup to 3 million people.

In an exhilarating, two-hour recreation of one of ABBA’s most memorable

concerts, MANIA brings to life the flamboyance of the 1970’s. This includes all of the uplifting, dance-inducing and sometimes heartbreaking songs from the iconic Swedish band, with fantastic costumes, staging, lighting and effects.

For lifelong ABBA fans, as well as new generations who never had the opportunity to see the band live, MANIA provides the perfect excuse to party, relive memories and simply feel entertained with the best music ever.

So dig out those platforms, dust down those flares and enjoy all your favorite hits, including Mamma Mia, Voulez Vous, Dancing Queen, Winner Takes It All, Waterloo, Fernando, Super Trouper and many more on October 22 at 8:00pm at the Paramount Theatre.

Tickets: www.middletownparamount. com and 845-346-4195.

“The 39 Steps”

The 39 Steps is a play adapted by Patrick Barlow, from the novel by John Buchan, from the movie by Alfred Hitchcock, and an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon: a parody of the 1935 film.

The play includes all the suspense of a civilian becoming mistakenly caught up in a spy ring, but with the hilarity of 4 actors taking on all 150 parts - sometimes even simultaneously - all while inserting references and puns to several famous Hitchcock films.

It is the winner of the 2008 Tony for Best Play, the Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience, and the 2007 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.

Directed by Christopher Paul Meyer (former bouncer, firefighter, soldier, comic & prison chaplain, pictured on right), a reading of the play takes place on Saturdays,

October 8-29 at 7:00pm, at Vet Rep Theatre, 16, Quaker Avenue, Cornwall. Pay What You Can.

MANIA the ABBA TRIBUTE

DVAA: Objects & Sculptures; Paintings & Multi-Media

The Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (DVAA) is presenting two exhibitions: 3,2,1, Ring Baloney! featuring objects and sculptures by Ryan Ward, and Subterranean, curated by Rashmi Viswanathan with works by Jamie Kim and Francis Estrada

“3,2,1, RING BALONEY!”

reality, or simply a chance to win. A place where fact and fiction become one, and we don’t really care. Glossy, colorful, tasty things are for sale, and we are along for the ride.

“SUBTERRANEAN”

Curated by Rashmi Viswanathan, Subterranean brings together two artists, Jamie Kim and Francis Estrada, whose works show a narrative caught between the past and the present.

Kim’s figurative paintings & portraits are heavily influenced by news and media sources, traditional Korean folk-art imagery, and childhood photographs. She juxtaposes elements from her personal history with those from collective cultural memory, blending seemingly disparate

“Upright Uptight” by Ryan Ward

Ring toss. WhacA-Mole. Skee-ball. Hot Shot. Water guns. Guess-myweight. These were the classics. These were how Ryan Ward earned his first paycheck. At a certain point, outside of the obvious perils of the job, Ward began to ask himself: What exactly happens at an amusement park? He defines it as one giant social and psychological experiment where we enter into an unwritten agreement to suspend disbelief. It is a place where we form groups and watch one another willingly act out fantastical stories for pleasure, a chance to escape established

“Boy Under Line” by Jamie Kim

elements into imaginary narratives that feel real and familiar.

Estrada’s multi-disciplinary practice extracts from multiple archives. From the American archival footage of its short-lived but impactful occupation of the Philippines to contemporary news imagery of state-sanctioned violence under the current regime of Rodrigo Duterte. Re-interpreting historical archives within a decolonial and anti-authoritarian framework, he reimagines the lives and times of people placed at the margins of the state.

Donna Reis is the author of two full length poetry collections: Torohill (Deerbrook Editions, 2022) and No Passing Zone (Deerbrook Editions, 2012), which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her non-fiction book, Seeking Ghosts in the Warwick Valley: 60 Personal Accounts (Schiffer Publishing, Ltd, 2003) has sold over 3000 copies.

“Bagsak” by Frances Estrada

Rashmi Viswanathan is a modern and contemporary art historian who looks at how arts move across different cultural, regional, and temporal contexts. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hartford and lives in Brooklyn.

See the work through October 30 at DVAA, 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg. Free & open to the public; masks recommended. Visit delawarevalleyartsalliance.org or call 845-252-7576.

Donna Spector was the winner of the Masters Poetry Prize, three-times nominated for the Pushcart Prize, a semi-finalist for the Brittingham Poetry Prize, and Emily Dickinson Poetry Award. A program of her poems was produced by Australia National Radio.

Reis and Spector call themselves “The other Donnas,” and they will read their poems on October 8 at 7:00pm at the Amity Gallery, 110 Newport Bridge Road, Warwick.

For info: www.amitygallery.org.

Donna Reis

Donna Spector

The Florida Public Library’s Annual Fall Poetry Cafe: Janet Hamill

Janet Hamill (see photo) is an American poet and spoken word artist. Her poem K-E-R-O-U-A-C was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her fifth collection, Body of Water, was nominated for the William Carlos Williams Award by the Poetry Society of America. A strong proponent of the spoken word, she has read widely in NYC, across the country and in Europe at museums, venues and festivals.

Hamill is the author of over half a dozen books of poetry, prose and short fiction. After many years at the forefront of the downtown NYC literary community

where she read frequently at venues such as the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church inthe-Bowery, wrote, directed and acted in Bob Holman’s Poet’s Theatre and performed with new wave musician Adele Bertei, she moved to the Hudson Valley.

“Her work is at turns enigmatic, surreal, alchemical. Illuminated internally/ eternally today as the manuscripts of Blake were in another time. Her canvas is a deep and breathtaking sea of chance, of shameless greens and blues, ‘dark blue stronger than the Flemish blue

of hummingbirds’. A place where Buster Keaton turns somersaults in air beneath a butterfly umbrella, where hands brush a chest, coming away with diamond dust and the night is inhabited by saurian daemons, mendicants, wild dogs. Vermillion tents and altars of alabaster where ‘Victorious dark-eyed sleep embraces you with embroidered flowers and the deep song of subterranean waterfalls’.

“A poet shawafa, Janet Hamill is a wise woman, a witch, a jinn. When I approach her work, I say “Quli Taslim!”,

(I submit to the powers of the Jinn) and am unafraid of the fires I discover there for they never cease to warm me into new dreams, new journeys.” - Adele Bertei.

The Florida Public Library will host its annual Fall Poetry Café on October 9 at 1:00pm. Robert Milby (see pg. 12) will emcee the evening which will feature both Janet Hamill and Douglas Weed. An open reading will begin and end the café, outside on the Library’s deck. Seating is limited so be sure to register at www.floridapubliclibrary.org.

The Library is located at 4 Cohen Circle, Florida. For info: 845-651-7659.

Goshen Art League: Last Installment of “Mini Solos” and Two NEW Exhibits

The Goshen Art League (GAL) invites you to the third and last installation of Mini Solos at their home gallery in the Goshen Music Hall (223 Main Street). This final installment will be on display through October 28.

This installment of Mini Solos features the art of six different GAL artists. Participating artist, Ciro Attardo shared, “It’s so nice to see many talented artists share their work with the local community. Now that we’re rebounding from extended isolation, I would encourage people to come out and be inspired by work that is on par with that exhibited in exclusive galleries.”

Pat MacDonald, the lead curator for the show, added, “Dr. Attardo is one of our newest GAL members, and we welcome him as we do all local artists. A

retired family practitioner, he is a very talented artist, mostly selftaught, who has grown his talent through classes at the Wallkill River School.”

Long time GAL member, Ginirose Sivilli, is using the Mini Solos group show as it was intended: to give local patrons of the arts an opportunity to get to know and understand the local artists and their work. She had this to say about her exhibited work: “My mini solo show at the Goshen Music Hall is based on water, which I believe is life. I was inspired by the opera Tommy written by a band called The Who about a deaf, non-verbal, blind child. SEA ME is a collection of six paintings featuring the mighty and beautiful ocean. See Me, Feel

Me, Touch Me, Heal

Me; my paintings of the ocean were inspired by Luis Camara master artist from Spain.”

A reception will be held on October 19 from 6:30pm-8:00pm

The public is invited to view works in various media created by GAL artists for Mini Solos Monday through Friday between the hours of 9:00am-5:00pm or by appointment.

In addition, GAL will be installing two new shows:

Delicious Delights at Noble Coffee Roasters (3020 Route 207, Campbell Hall - see ad page 9) is on display from

October 1-28

Casting Shadows, Reflecting Light is at Orange County Emergency Services Center (22 Wells Farm Road, Goshen) through November 30.

All are welcome to attend and show support for our local artists!

For further information or to make individual by-appointment requests to view the Mini Solos group exhibit at the Goshen Music Hall during off-hours, email the League at goshenartleague@ gmail.com.

“Red Pears” by Ginirose Sivilli

“The Apple Orchard” by Nancy Reed Jones

“Enlightenment” by Ciro Attardo

“Healthy Soul Food” by Oluwafiropo Margaret Ibitoye

“Wallkill RIver” by Vaune Sherin

The Warwick Children’s Book Festival

Warwick Children’s Book Festival is a festival for all children’s book lovers, young and old! Featuring over 70 authors and illustrators, a kid’s craft pavilion, reading to therapy dogs, food trucks, and a concert by the Uncle Brothers Band (see photo) performing fun, lively parent-friendly music (at 12:00pm).

Presented by Albert Wisner Public Library and sponsored by Glenn P. and Susan D. Dickes, join in on this

free event on October 8 from 11:00am4:00pm at Stanley Deming Park, South Street & Park Way, Warwick. Visit www. warwickchildrensbookfestival.org.

Monticello: Monday Book Discussions

The Ethelbert B Crawford Library is hosting Last Monday of the Month Book Discussions, both live and virtual.

“2 Children for Sale”. The scrawled sign, peddling young siblings on a farmhouse porch, captures the desperation sweeping the country in 1931. It’s an era of breadlines, bank runs, and impossible choices.

Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris (pictured) is the selection for October 24 McMorris is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author published by Sourcebooks Landmark, Penguin

Random House, HarperCollins, Harper Muse, and Kensington Books. Her novels have garnered more than two dozen prestigious awards and nominations.

At age nine, she began creatively expressing herself when she embarked on a five-year stint as the host of an Emmy® and Ollie awardwinning kids’ television program.

The discussions are held at 1:30pm. Email langclouse@ rcls.org for virtual participation details. The Library is located at 470 Broadway, Monticello. For info: 845-794-4660.

Rocky Horror - Live and On Screen

The Musical: Forestburgh

The Film: Sugar Loaf

In this cult classic, the story centers on a young engaged couple, Brad & Janet, whose car breaks down in the rain near a castle where they seek a telephone to call for help. The castle or country home is occupied by strangers in elaborate costumes celebrating an annual convention. They discover the head of the house is Dr. Frank N. Furter, an apparently mad scientist who actually is an alien transvestite from the planet Transsexual in the galaxy of Transylvania, who creates a living muscle man named Rocky in his laboratory.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show will run at the Forestburgh Tavern, 39 Forestburgh Road, from October 7-29 Doors open at 6:00pm for dinner and drinks. Dinner service ends at 7:30pm and the show starts at 8:00pm

For tickets: www.fbplayhouse.org

Still in limited release in 2022, some 47 years after its premiere, it is the longest-running theatrical release in film history. Today, the film has a large international cult following and has been considered as one of the greatest musical films of all time. In 2005, it was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

Barry Bostwick (1975)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: 47th Anniversary Spectacular Tour comes to Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, 231 Creamery Pond Road, Chester, on October 26 at 8:00pm. Join the original ‘Brad Majors’, Barry Bostwick, for a screening of the original unedited movie with a live shadow cast and audience participation. Plus a memorabilia display with artifacts and an actual costume from the movie, a costume contest, and more!

For tickets: www.sugarloafpacny.com

“Rocky Horror Picture Show” at FP, 2021

Barry Bostwick (2022)

Meet Milford’s First Poet Laureate

The ARTery Gallery is pleased to announce a poetry reading featuring Milford’s first Poet Laureate, Chuck O’Neil

Recently, Chuck read at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Milford on Memorial Day, and appeared with Chief Daniel StrongWalker Thomas at the Milford Theater for a Grey Towers Heritage Association Lenape homecoming event. The ARTery is honored to present Mr. O’Neil for a full-length reading, the first since his appointment as Poet Laureate this year.

A resident of Milford since 1982, O’Neil’s poems are rich with local imagery, yet often in their specificity they speak beyond a particular place to what it means to be human, alive in the world - in the same way that a painting can awaken the interior life of the viewer.

Gallery Director Marie Liu states: “The moment I learned that Milford had named a Poet Laureate, I wanted to get in touch with him. Our town is steeped in the arts, and with such a variety of festivals and events like Opera in the Park, Music-Fest, Readers and Writers Festival, Dance-Fest, Black Bear Film

Festival, and it seemed to me that poetry should also be featured in our community.”

Chuck O’Neil’s reading coincides with Liu’s featured exhibit, since both painter and poet use their work to express their sense of belonging to a place beyond current experience or time: ‘...And though I’d never Passed those buildings before I remembered them

And it seemed to me I was always From that place

I arrive today As I arrived Years ago...’ from “The Borough”

The free poetry reading will be on October 21, at 7:00pm at 210 Broad Street. Author-signed books will be available for purchase (cash or check only) with all proceeds donated to the Greater Pike Community Foundation For more information: 570-409-1234.

“tick, tick....BOOM!” in Sugar Loaf

Produced by The Warwick Dance Collective and The Warwick Broadway Collective, the resident companies of Warwick Center for the Performing Arts, owned and directed by Melissa Padham-Maass, in its ongoing pursuit of excellence and cultural development in the Hudson Valley, is presenting its inaugural Actors Equity Association production, tick, tick… BOOM!, as it develops its professional theater outreach in Orange County.

RENT was not Jonathan Larson’s only musical. He spent a six year period between 1985 and 1991 working on Superbia, a science fiction musical set in the year 2064. His next work was an autobiographical “rock monologue” entitled 30/90. Written as a solo piece for himself, Jonathan created the piece in response to his feelings of rejection caused by the disappointment of the unproduced Superbia. The one-man show was renamed tick, tick... Boom! and received a limited off-Broadway production in 1991.

After Jonathan’s death in 1996, playwright David Auburn reconfigured

tick, tick... Boom! into a three-actor musical which premiered Off-Broadway at the Jane Street Theater, and is the current version of the show which you will see at Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, 1351 Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf from October 14-16. The show is directed by Jessica McRoberts, with musical direction by Richard Schacher, choreography by Sara Edwards, and starring Broadway veterans Jennifer DiNoia, Harris M Turner, and Paul Peglar as Larson.

In addition to the show there will be a pre-show: A Jonathan Larson Celebration featuring the Warwick Dance Collective and the Warwick Broadway Collective, as well as talented kids and adults from the Orange County area.

For tickets and more information visit: www.sugarloafpacny.com or www. warwickperformingarts.com

Falcon’s Jazz Coalition Continues

The Jazz Coalition, a vital artistic and financial support initiative for jazz musicians during the Covid-19 pandemic, announces a new fundraising campaign to help support their presentation of live concert performances and recordings of commissioned artists and works.

Calling on industry professionals, artists, advocates, and fans to contribute as individuals to this larger effort, the Jazz Coalition launched its Commission Fund, awarding $1,000 grants to 104 musicians in support of new music to capture this moment and point a way toward transcendence.

To start, the new campaign will fund the live concert performances and recordings of 15 previously commissioned artists and their ensembles at The Falcon in Marlboro. “The idea to create the Jazz Coalition series stems from the success we have had with the Sunday Night Jazz series I booked at The Falcon, which began in

late February and ran through June 26,” said Danny Melnick “I was able to use some of the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) funds I received to pay the artists this season and now we are taking it to another level with the Jazz Coalition, giving us an opportunity to have commissioned artists play their pieces live. Many of these performances will mark the world premieres of these important compositions.”

Lee Falco of The Falcon stated, “My father, Tony Falco, created an incredible space at The Falcon for music to be shared at the highest level of quality. It’s an honor to work with the Jazz Coalition to continue our tradition of presenting world class jazz in the Hudson Valley and further our mission to ‘support living artists at The Falcon and beyond.’”

See captions for acts and dates. Performances begin at 7:00pm at The Falcon, 1348

9W, Marlboro.

Chuck O’Neil

Jennifer DiNoia Harris M.Turner Paul Peglar

Mino Cinélu October 9

Matt Wilson October 16

Wallace Roney Jr. October 23

Eldred Cabaret Hosts “Mormons”

John Pinto Jr. and Jaron Barney, stars of The Book of Mormon’s second national tour, will continue the Bradstan Coming Home Cabaret Series with a night full of show tunes, ‘80s hits, and more.

Pinto (a graduate of Delaware Valley High School in Milford) and Barney performed together for nearly two years after meeting on The Book of Mormon tour. Pinto still performs with The Book of Mormon on Broadway, while Barney cruises the globe performing the songs of the legendary Carole King. The duo is reuniting for one night only for their debut performance!

“Not only am I performing just a few minutes from where I grew up, but I am also performing in a space that I was able to watch - and help - go from a construction site to the beautiful place it is today,” shared Pinto. “That’s right! During the Broadway shutdown in 2020, I went back home to be with my family, and ended up helping my father install tile at The Eldred Preserve. Now being able to perform there really brings the

whole thing full circle, and that’s just so cool.”

Pinto, the recipient of the Roger Sturtevant Musical Theatre Award, has played numerous roles in major productions, including Altar Boyz, the National Tour of South Pacific, a 2015 production of RENT, and of course, his Broadway role as Ensemble and Mormon in The Book of Mormon Barney returned last year from a two year tour with The Book of Mormon, and has performed as a concert singer on stages in NYC and all over the world.

“We are thrilled to be welcoming John and Jaron to our stage for the first time,” said Scott Samuelson, chief operating officer at The Eldred Preserve. “They embody the form of musical theater and talent in the next generation, and we are looking forward to the delightful energy and entertainment they will bring to the audience.”

Enjoy the show on October 9 at 8:00pm at the Eldred Preserve, 1040 State Route 55. For tickets, visit: www. theeldredpreserve.com/2022cabaret.

Outdoor Sculptures in Narrowsburg

Artist and local sculptor Naomi Teppich has joined local writer Cass Collins, known as the “River Muse” for her long-running column in the River Reporter newspaper, to present a public art garden in the Flats in Narrowsburg.

Using the writer’s family property on Second Avenue, the sculptor has installed her work, Cactus Cocoon, a large outdoor sculpture, 10’h x 7’l x 5’w, made of steel, colored cement and ornamental paint. The work is a commentary on global warming that was conceived for and first shown at Catskill Art Society in 2012, indoors.

Later, it was shown at Collaborative Concepts group outdoor sculpture show in Garrison. It was also shown at the North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show, North Bennington, VT and after that at Beacon in 2017.

“Walking in a Circle” by Martin Springhetti

The sculpture will be on view as a loan through May 1, 2024.

An additional sculpture called Walking in a Circle by Martin Springhetti

was recently added to the grounds. It was previously exhibited at the Himalayan Institute, Honesdale. It is 6.5’h and made of steel rebar, metal mesh and black caulking.

Guests are welcome from 10:00am-6:00pm daily to view these sculptures. Collins plans to offer the one-acre lot next to her home for juried sculpture displays.

For further information, contact ArtGarden by emailing: cassvcollins@ gmail.com. Use “ArtGarden” as the subject line.

“Cactus Cocoon” by Naomi Teppich

John Pinto, Jr., & Jaron Barney

The Wallkill River School’s 7th Annual “Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival”

The 7th annual Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival (HVPAF) is scheduled for October 10-15. Sponsored by the Wallkill River School (WRS), the event attracts artists from across the United States to an outdoor, week-long plein air painting festival. Keep watch for artists standing along scenic roadways or overlooks painting the beautiful fall vistas before them! Stop and chat with the artists and learn all about the challenges and pleasures of plein air painting.

The breathtaking scenery of the Hudson Valley has been a joy for plein air artists and art collectors dating back centuries. HVPAF is committed to the community’s participation in this event and has introduced a line-up of events for adults and children alike.

The Festival week kicks off on October 10 at 10:00am with a Quick Draw competition at City Winery in the Village of Montgomery. The plein air competition artists, along with registered community participants, will be

competing in a two-hour session painting the landscapes before them. The framed paintings will be judged at 1:00pm, and prizes will be awarded to those pieces judged best for first, second or third place. In addition, many of the paintings will be offered for sale at 1:30pm

The Quick Draw is a great opportunity to watch artists paint landscapes in the village of Montgomery or on the grounds of City Winery. Children are invited to participate free. Adults wishing to compete should register and pay $15 online. For information and to register, visit hvpleinair.com.

Master artist Andrew Lattimore’s landscape painting demo & workshop is on October 11, 9:00am-10:00am at Lawrence Farms, 306 Frozen Ridge Road, Newburgh. The community is welcome to observe the workshop for a $30 fee. The 2-hour workshop immediately follows the demo. Artists will begin painting their own landscape paintings of the farm, and Mr. Lattimore

will provide suggestions, feedback and instructions.

The community is welcome to participate in the demonstration and workshop for a $45 fee. Space is limited. For information and to register, visit hvpleinair. com or call 845-457-2787.

Observe artists painting from 9:00am-Noon at the following locations during Festival week. Free to the public, no registration required.

October 12 at the Bashakill Wetlands, Haven Road, Wurtsboro.

A DEC Wildlife Management Area, the Bashakill Wetlands is the largest freshwater wetland in southeast NY and is a designated NYS Bird Conservation Area.

October 13 at Goshen Green Farm, 3301 Route 207, Goshen. Originally part of a 1860’s farmstead, the farm now specializes in organic and biodynamic gardens. The grounds include a beautiful copper-roofed barn, glass greenhouse, outbuildings and walking trails.

October 14 at the Goshen Farmers Market, 255 Main Street, Goshen. A popular Friday morning event, the market’s vibrant activity along with

tents, produce, and other products make an interesting scene for painting en plein air. In addition, the artists may also paint the historic village architecture.

The Festival’s reception, free to the public, begins at Noon on October 15 at the WRS, 232 Ward Street, Montgomery. The reception begins with a painting demonstration by awardwinning artist and event juror, Joseph Sundwall.

Following the one-hour demo, Sundwall will award prizes to the artists with the best plein air paintings completed during the Festival week. In addition, the gallery will be open for viewing and sale of the paintings until 5:00pm.

Exhibition and sale of the paintings continues October 16 to November 6. The Gallery is open from Noon-5:00pm every weekend. Visit hvpleinair.com or call 845-893-0134 / 845-457-2787.

Artist David Munford, HVPAF 2021.

“Cattails at the Bashakill” by Thomas Adkins. (An HVPAF 2021 prize-winning work).

S. Fallsburg: Kids’ Acting Opportunity

The Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop (SCDW) is seeking young actors for its Youth Holiday Show, ages 5 to 14. The show, Andy Pavey’s - A Christmas Carol, is a comedic adaptation of Charles Dickens’ beloved tale.

In this short version, the visiting ghosts are rather unusual. The Ghost of Christmas Past is Belle, Scrooge’s former fiancée - awkward! The Ghost of Christmas Present is, well, a present, and The Ghost of Christmas Future is a rapper and wannabe comedian.

Despite their quirkiness, will the ghosts be able to help Scrooge snap out of his need for greed? They’ll have to tug on his heart and purse strings to instill the Christmas spirit into the old miser!

Andrew Pavey (pictured on right) is a writer hailing from the tiny riverside town of LeClaire, Iowa.

Enthralled with creative writing since he was very young, he enjoys writing (of course!), reading, backpacking, and riding his bicycle. He previously spent nine years with Davenport Junior

Theatre, the second-oldest children’s theatre in the United States, where he acted in productions, managed the props building, and wrote plays for young actors to perform.

Roles include Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Mrs. Cratchit, Tiny Tim, Marley, Sister # 1, Sister # 2, Ghost of Christmas past (Belle), Ghost of Christmas Present and Ghost of Christmas Future.

Audition dates are October 8 & 9 from 10:00am-2:00pm at the Rivoli Theatre, 5243 Main Street, South Fallsburg. Show dates are December 9 & 10 at 7:00pm and December 11 at 1:00pm.

For more information email Bunny at bwoloszczak@gmail.com.

Sculpture & Squares in Newburgh

Holland Tunnel Gallery in Newburgh presents an exhibit of works by Thornton Willis and Bix Lye titled, Matter of Fact. The works being shown by Willis feature bold colorful squares and rectangles, and are beautifully placed forming strong compositions. Lye’s exquisitely executed sculptures of intriguing forms and color combinations create moments of contemplation in three dimensional form.

“Willis deals in the fusion of opposites: translucency and opacity; expansion and contraction; open and closed; tension and release. His paintings explore beginnings, first steps, and the building blocks of picture-making - the progression of point to line to plane; and of movement arrested in the plane...and whole planes of scratchy color churn with a flurry of brushwork, reminding us that flat color - vibrating, pulsing - needn’t sit there inactively.” -

“Second Shot” by Thorton Willis

Lance Esplund on Willis. British-American artist Bix Lye’s sculptures challenge definition. “Lye’s sculpture simultaneously reads as a contained, solid object and a construction of modular componentsits finely crafted geometry conjures up references to Tony Smith and even Sol LeWitt; however, the work provides just enough color and whimsy to eschew the reductive stereotype.” - The Brooklyn Rail.

See the show from October 1 to November 6 at Holland Tunnel Gallery, 46 Chambers Street, Newburgh. Gallery hours are Saturdays & Sundays, from 1:00pm-5:00pm and by appointment by phoning 917-520-8971.

Sarah - Not Vaughan - Charles

As an aspiring jazz singer, the teenage Sarah Elizabeth Charles (pictured) wanted to be Sarah Vaughan. But after writing a lot of tunes that she imagined Vaughan might have sung, she sensed the songs were not a fully authentic expression of her artistic self. She needed to reassess her goals.

In 2012, she debuted with the album

Red, on which she was supported by drummer John Davis, pianist Jesse Elder, and bassist Burniss Earl Travis, collectively known as the S.E. Charles Quartet. This remarkably agile jazz vocalist and composer will appear at The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, on October 30 at 7:00pm as part of the Jazz Coalition Campaign series. See page 24.

Live Poetry Reading Amidst Artworks

Poetry is wonderful to read by yourself. With a few words, poetry quickly whisks its reader away from an ordinary space at home to the poet’s environs. Poetry read by the poet is the ultimate treat! The intonations, accents, and immediacy of the wordsmith to the listener brings a deeper dimension to each poem.

Experience poetry live and in-person amidst artworks in Orange Hall Gallery for A Poetry Reading by J.R. Solonche on October 23 at 2:00pm

Solonche (pictured) will read and comment on a variety of his poems from the 24 books he has published. Following the reading, he will let attendees choose

from a large selection of books which he’ll sign and give to them.

Professor Emeritus of English at SUNY Orange, J. R. Solonche has published poetry in 500+ magazines, journals, and anthologies. Through his works, he has been twice-nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and this year nominated for the 2022 National Book Award.

Orange Hall is located at the corner of Wawayanda & Grandview Avenues; GPS: 24 Grandview Avenue, Middletown. Free parking is available in the Orange Hall parking lot. For info, call Cultural Affairs at 845-341-4891 or cultural@sunyorange.edu

“Pink Snack” by Bix Lye

A free opening reception, which the public is welcome to attend, takes place on October 1 from 5:00pm-7:00pm

Visit www.hollandtunnelgallery.com.

SCCO Invites You Back to an 18th Century Kaffeehaus!

Take a moment to go back in time to the Zimmermann Kaffeehaus where Johann Sebastian Bach is set to premiere his newest work, Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht… known today more affectionately as “The Coffee Cantata.” This mini operetta/comic opera is a story of a father intent on marrying his daughter to a proper suitor, but the young woman would rather enjoy her favorite caffeinated beverage.

Bach composed it probably between 1732 and 1735. He regularly directed a musical ensemble based at Zimmermann’s coffee house called Collegium Musicum, which was founded by composer Georg Philipp Telemann in 1702 (as a law student). The libretto suggests that some people in 18th century Germany viewed coffee drinking as a bad habit.

In 1723, the year Bach moved to Leipzig, Zimmermann’s was the largest and bestappointed kaffeehaus in Leipzig and a centre for middle class gentlemen. While women were forbidden from frequenting coffeehouses, they could attend public concerts at Zimmermann’s.

The coffeehouse was located at 14 Katharinenstrasse, then the most elegant street of Leipzig, connecting the Brühl to the market place. The name

of the street had been taken from the old St. Catherine’s Chapel which had been demolished in 1544. In Telemann’s and Bach’s day, only the name of the street remained.

The concerts directed by Bach lasted about two hours and consisted of German and Italian opera, chamber music, secular cantatas, and works for orchestra. Zimmermann charged the Collegium Musicum no fee for hosting their concerts, nor were the audience charged a fee; Zimmermann’s expenses were repaid by sales of coffee. The concerts ended with Zimmermann’s death in 1741.

Enjoy a cup of coffee, tea, and light snacks as Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra (SCCO) chamber musicians perform a variety of baroque music by

Bach, Handel, Telemann and others as the house band for a performance. Musicians for the evening will include SCCO co-founders Akiko Hosoi and Andrew Trombley with Chiu Chen Liu, and Kenneth Hamrick, among others.

SCCO’s performances are October 22 at 6:00pm at the Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre, 219 Main Street. For tickets, visit www.hurleyvilleartscentre. org. The second concert is on October 23 at 3:00pm at the Jeffersonville Bakeshop, 4906 Route 52, Jeffersonville. For tickets, visit: www.nesinculturalarts. eventbrite.com.

SCCO is a Nesin Cultural Arts supported project. This program is made possible in part by funding from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathleen Courtney Hochul and the NY State Legislature.

First Fellowship

Ann Street Gallery is presenting their first Emerging Artist Fellowship exhibition, Anthology, featuring Kammy Daydream, Myra Grice, Fernanda Mello, Neen Rivera, & Angelís Wong

Anthology, a collective vision assembled together in the spirit of temporal togetherness - a term taken from theorist and artist Mieke Bal’s writing, Exhibition-ism, that proposes the act of exhibiting as the loci where art becomes contemporary in the company of an audience. The “being-together-intime of an exhibition” serves as a place of confluence, where art comes alive in the context of the gallery and in the context of each other’s presence.

The show, running through November 19, reflects our current moment, a signal of continued solidarity in the post-2020 aftermath where togetherness may still feel strange or taboo. Each artist’s identity, as Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and Latinx, revalidates the local artist community and breathes contemporaneity by mirroring the cultural production of the larger population of Newburgh, revealing the subcurrents which flow through the city.

Ann Street Gallery is located at 104 Ann Street, Newburgh.

WJFF-Radio Catskill Awards 2022

WJFF-Radio Catskill is honoring Local Media for connecting our community with courageous conversations and quality journalism.

The Honorees are:

The student journalists of Manor Ink, Laurie Stuart on behalf of The River Reporter, Fred Stabbert on behalf of The Sullivan County Democrat, Amberly Jane Campbell on behalf of The Shawangunk Journal, Vince Benedetto & Dawn Ciorciari on behalf of Bold Gold Media, and Special Recognition: Barry Plaxen, CANVAS

The WJFF Radio Catskill 2022 Community Awards takes places on October 20 from 5:00pm-7:00pm at Piccolo Paese, 2071 Route 52, Liberty.

Your ticket includes beer, wine and appetizers. Enjoy beer/wine during the 5:45pm reception.

For tickets and further information, visit the website: www.wjffradio.kindful.com.

Akiko Hosoi, violin, & Andrew Trombley, double bass Chiu Chen Liu, viola Kenneth Hamrick

Zimmermann Kaffeehaus

Manor Ink mentor, Marjorie Feuerstein and Osei Helper, Manor Ink Editor, who just graduated from Livingston Manor Central School in June, 2022.

Laurie Stuart Fred Stabbert A. J. Campbell

Vince Benedetto Dawn Ciorciari Barry Plaxen

Classical Music: A Lecture & Concert

“Classical Music can mean different things to different people,” says Kenneth Korn. “Sometimes it is a general term for anything that might be played by a symphony orchestra, regardless of who wrote it. Music by Bach and Stravinsky may have little in common but in the common use of the word they both would be considered “Classical”. But there also is a more historical definition of “Classical Music.”

“In a lecture and performance, The Kemyndable Flute Trio will explain what makes music classical. Beyond just that it was written by a Mozart or a Haydn, or that it was written in the late 1700’s, we will also talk about the classical aesthetic. We will play examples of phrasing, balance, form and other components of the music that demonstrate the classical style.”

The Trio will perform music by Mozart, Devienne, James Hook, and more.

François Devienne (1759-1803) was active in Paris as a flutist, bassoonist and composer, and played bassoon at the Paris Opera. He wrote successful operas in the 1790s. In 1795 he was appointed flute professor at the Paris Conservatory. He wrote Méthode de Flûte Théorique et Pratique (1793), which was reprinted

several times and did much to improve the level of French wind music in the late 18th century.

James Hook (1746-1827) was an English composer and organist. Throughout these years he composed operas and other musical works, most of which were produced at Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres. He frequently collaborated with family members. His wife Elizabeth wrote the libretto for the opera The Double Disguise. His son James provided librettos for Jack of Newbury and Diamond Cut Diamond, and his son Theodore Edward composed librettos for at least eight operas.

The lecture and performance is on October 19 at 10:00am at the Alice Desmond Center, 6 Albany Post Road, Newburgh. To register: 845-565-1326.

May I Have A Word With You

Monthly Quips, Quotes & Quiddities by Carol Pozefsky

We Love Lists

Whether it’s the best restaurants near Lincoln Center or the top grossing movies of all time, we love lists. When we’re in a hurry, it’s an easy way to learn what we want to know in the shortest amount of time.

Music Now

Sony sold over 200 million cassette tape players until they were discontinued in 2010. Between then and now, music streaming has all but left traditional media in the dust, but by whatever means we’re hearing it, the band plays on.

Here’s a list of Billboard’s most popular songs as of this writing: Bad Habit, Me Porto Bonito, As It Was, Wait for U, Glimpse, Sunroof, Titi Me Preguntô, About Damn Time, Vegas, 5 Foot 9, and I Like You

Music Back Then

In 1922, 100 years ago, the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC, and the construction of the Holland Tunnel began, linking New York and Jersey City under the Hudson River.

Tops on the 1922 Hit Parade of Songs were: Carolina in the Morning, Chicago, On the Alamo, My Buddy, Toot Toot, Tootsie!, Somebody Stole My Gal, Some Sunny Day, Way Down Yonder in New Orleans and I Wish That I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate.

Food Now

Grubhub and the USDA National Agricultural Library were among the compilers of today’s most popular foods: burrito bowl, cheeseburgers, hash browns, onion rings, mozzarella sticks, chicken quesadilla, California roll, edamame (pictured), french fries, cheese pizza, pad thai, mac & cheese, and waffle fries.

Food Back Then

A typical middle class family meal 100 years ago might have begun with celery stuffed with cream cheese and pimentos, a cup of clam broth, an entreé of baked ham served with boiled carrots and peas, fried cauliflower, and, for dessert, caramel custard.

Kemyndable Flute Trio: Deborah Proulx, Amy Klein, and Kenneth Korn.

Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra

Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra have over 117 recordings (5 Gold Records) and 18 Grammy Awards which puts them in the Top Ten list for All-Time Grammy Awards.

At the time that rock was reaching its crescendo, and in the era when Country was dazzling the nation, a strange phenomenon was taking place. In essence, this phenomenon was the rising popularity of Jimmy Sturr as the hottest musical attraction in the polka music field. The band constantly attracts crowds of screaming, adoring fans wherever their travels take them.

The polka is NOT a Polish dance, as many have come to believe. The polka is originally a Czech dance and genre of dance music familiar throughout all of Europe and the Americas. It originated in the middle of the nineteenth century in German and Austrian influenced Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. The term polka possibly comes from the Czech word “půlka” (“half”), referring to the short half-steps featured in the dance.

Today, Jimmy lives in the house he grew up in. His office is across the street from the high school he attended in

Florida. His hometown recently honored Jimmy by placing a Star of Fame in the walkway on Main Street. Downtown Florida also displays HOMETOWN OF POLKA KING JIMMY STURR signs at each entrance to the village.

Jimmy and the orchestra have an extensive road schedule of 165 dates per year. They crisscross the country and make several international trips (and cruises) yearly. While on the road, they travel in Jimmy’s forty-five foot customized tour bus. But for one of their October gigs they will all commute from their respective homes on November 5, just up the road a piece, to Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center for a 3:00pm performance. Don’t miss it!

Tickets: www.sugarloafpacny.com

Showcasing Unitarian Universalism

Five Hudson musicians will unite in voice and spirit to showcase both Unitarian Universalism and their talents. Well known and acclaimed Hudson Valley folk singers Pat Lamanna, Rev. Diane Diachishin and Lydia Adams Davis join with folk scene regular and singer/songwriter Keith Jordan and accomplished pianist Hollis Kellogg, Unitarian Universalists all. Songs will be performed by these artists and guest performers.

Pat Lamanna has been writing and performing songs all her adult life. Her songs have been praised highly by Pete Seeger, Peter Yarrow, and others.

Diane Diachishin’s music is for everyone, of all ages, genders, and differing abilities. Her music brings a fresh vision of social change and world peace. Diane’s singing lifts your spirit and touches your heart.

Lydia Adams Davis is a singer/ songwriter and performing artist who entertains audiences of all ages. Her singing invites lively participation through harmonies,

humor and improvisation.

Hollis Kellogg is a well-known collaborator with area singers and instrumentalists. He also arranged original music by Orange County “amateur” composer and UUC member Howard Garrett (19312020), which was performed in Montgomery.

They will present the Hudson Valley Songbook, a collection of their original music conceptualized by Keith Jordan. “For members of the community, it will serve as an introduction to Unitarian Universalism through song,” Jordan noted. Like the event’s admission at the door, the songbook will be free to all concert attendees.

Freewill contributions will be accepted.

The free concert is on October 29 at 7:30pm at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 9 Vance Road, just off Route 207 in the New Windsor hamlet of Rock Tavern. Doors open at 7:00pm. For further information, contact Keith Jordan at 845-978-5620 or kjordan101010@gmail.com.

Pat Lamanna

Diane Diachisin

L. Adams Davis

Keith Jordan Hollis Kellogg

Photographic History in Cragsmoor

Although there were two early Evans settlements in and around what is now Cragsmoor, the focus of this exhibition is the one settled by John Evans (1765-1847) and his wife, Catherine Crans (1768-1862) along the Towns of Wawarsing/ Shawangunk line. It is believed that this land was originally part of a large land grant given to Captain John Evans, commander of the “Richmond,” in the service of the British Crown in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

The land eventually had to be sold in 1939. In the meantime, however, Susan Barkley Evans (1893-1963) had married Harry Weaver in 1918 in Newburgh and had been able to purchase a 40-acre tract of land to continue the family farming tradition in that area. Their descendant Joanne Stillwaggon married Dick Bierschenk, and in 1988 they bought the original land in Cragsmoor and built their own home.

And so, the story comes full circle, as Joanne is the granddaughter of Susan Barkley Evans. Once settled, Joanne began exploring the community and met life-long resident Ella Stedner, Director of the Cragsmoor Free Library and local historian leading the community. Joanne has brought this story to life for both present and future generations of the Evans family, Cragsmoor Historical Society’s Maureen Radl has written a detailed history of the family for the exhibit, Tom Hammond has shared his keen knowledge of the Evans family genealogy, and Beat Keerl, Director of Art Collections for the Library, organized and reproduced photographs for the historic display.

The John Evans Family: 1765 to 1997, an exhibition at the Cragsmoor Free Library, runs through November at 355 Cragsmoor Road. Phone: 845-647-4611.

Heaps of Audience Participation

Heart-wrenching and hilarious, Every Brilliant Thing tells the story of a girl confronted with her mother’s depression, who, at age 7, begins writing a list of “every brilliant thing” that makes life worth living. This magical, uplifting show is “one of the funniest plays you’ll ever see about depression - and possibly one of the funniest plays you’ll ever see, full stop.” (Guardian, UK). Written by Duncan MacMillan with Jonny Donahoe, the play toured the UK before going on to hit runs in London and at the Barrow Street Theater in New York in 2015 (which was also filmed by HBO). With a soulful soundtrack and heaps of audience participation, the play “balances acuity and affability...with unobtrusive artistry... captivating...” (New York Times).

The play is the first co-production between River Rep Theatre and Delaware Valley Opera, starring Donna Jean Fogel; directed by Arthur Aulisi River Rep Theatre is dedicated to presenting the finest contemporary playwrights, innovative group-generated plays, and bold new adaptations of

classics.

Donna Jean Fogel is an actor, director, deviser, and teacher. In NYC she has worked with The Barrow Group (her NYC artistic home), Circle Rep Lab, Fourth Unity, Manhattan Theater Source, and Blue Light Theater Company.

Arthur Aulisi is a theater artist whose home base was NYC for over 25 years. He has worked with companies such as Manhattan Theatre Club, Soho Rep, and Ensemble Studio Theater, and was selected by nytheatre.com as a “Person of the Year” for his contribution to independent theatre. Arthur has called Monticello home since 2017. He’s thrilled to finally be working “upstate”.

Every Brilliant Thing runs from November 4-6 at the Delaware Valley Opera Center, 6692 NY-52, Lake Huntington. Tickets can be purchased at www.delawarevalleyopera.com

River Rep Theatre is a communitysupported, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Donations are urgently needed and appreciated. www.riverrep.org.

Halloween Fun

October 20, 6:30pm: “Spooky Tales for a Dark Night with Master Storyteller Eileen Stelljes” features a variety of tales to celebrate the spooky season. Adult themed. October 26, 4:30pm: “Mummies in the Library, Oh My!” Learn the history of mummies, then learn how to make your own!

THE LIBRARY...

...will take part in the “Great Give Back” on October 15 by supporting Maria Fareri’s Children’s Hospital and The Washbourne House. A list of items needed may be found at the Main Circulation Desk. Items will be collected during the months of September and October.

Albert & Alice Evans

Oliver Evans & Nancy McCord Evans

Donna Jean Fogel Arthur Aulisi

Tango: Music-Dance-Party at HPAC

The Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet is widely acknowledged as one of the most compelling tango ensembles today, moving forward from the giant footsteps of Astor Piazzolla, and continuing to take this musical genre into new territories. With immense respect for its roots and rich musical past, the ensemble effectively serves as an active ambassador of tango and a proponent of its evolution.

The quartet’s fervent and virtuosic musical style takes elements from Argentine tango, European classical music and American Jazz, and combines them gracefully and organically, bringing something new and exciting to the form while retaining all the lushness and beauty that characterizes the genre.

The Quartet presents the evolution of tango, from its roots in the traditional Orquesta típica to tango nuevo as

epitomized by Piazzolla, featuring the award winning dancers Mariana Parma and Leonardo Sardella. Mariana Parma is an actor, professional dancer, instructor, and choreographer. She is recognized for her passion and versatility in both dance and acting.

Leonardo Sardella was born in Buenos Aires, and has been a leading or featured dancer in Tango shows presented in prestigious theaters in Buenos Aires and around the world.

Una Noche de Tango on October 15 has several events including a music performance (7:00pm), Tango lesson (7:50pm) dance performance (8:15pm), and a Milonga, (social tango dance), with live music and a DJ (8:20pm) at the Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre, 219 Main Street. Tix: www.hurleyvilleartscentre.org

“A Harvest of Health” in Liberty

Once a large street fair in Liberty, the Liberty Harvest Festival has taken place for many years at the Liberty Museum & Arts Center (LMAC) on the Village of Liberty’s Main Street (46 South Main Street) across from the historic and newly restored Liberty Theater

For the almost 30 years of the festival, it has had many themes, most recently a celebration of the Arts. This year, for the first time, the festival takes on a holistic health theme with workshops and demonstrations on Yoga, Meditation and Reiki. “It seemed like the right theme at the right time after having emerged from two and a half years of the pandemic,” said LMAC Director Robert Dadras.

The Catskill Chili Cook-off, a staple at the Festival for over 25 years, has been infused with this same enthusiasm having added an Organic Chili category for the first time.

One chili that has been announced for the 2022 Cook-Off is a white bean borscht chili, a nod to both the new

category and those struggling to survive in conflicts in Eastern Europe. It looks to be the most adventurous (and possibly the most delicious) in this year’s coveted competition. The current very successful Sullivan County Arts Educators art exhibition has now been extended by popular demand through the end of October, and will be available to view at the Festival too, with artworks by Matthew Sherman, Lee Parks, Eliz Bassett, Kim Simons, Pat Gersten, Rocky Pinciotti, Chris Parrow, Judith Reeve, Stephen Morse, Kath Johansen, Brenda Sywalski, Jena Love, Ann Higgins and Valerie Taggert. There will also be wonderful live music, delicious food and beautiful crafts for sale at the Festival on October 15 from Noon-4:00pm, with the Chili Cook-off from 2:00pm-4:00pm

The Festival has always been free but does have small registration fees for a few of its workshops. Donations are always appreciated. Visit www.libertymuseum. com or call 845-292-3494.

Pedro Giaraudo Tango Quartet: Rodolfo Zanetti (bandoneón), Nick Danielson (violin), Pedro Giraudo (bass), Ahmed Alom (piano).

Leonardo Sardella & Mariana Parma

Barbara Schmitt, winner of the 2019 Chili Cook-Off in Liberty.