CLASSES
Homeopathy: A Natural Medicine For the Flu Call for times. Nature’s Pavillion, Kingston. 688-2976.
Radiant Floor Heat for Homeowners 6:30-9pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. $49.
EVENTS
Speed Dating Event for Single Professionals
7pm. Ages 34-45. Crystal Run Bar & Grill, Middletown. 457-2541. $34.
ART
Thomas Locker: Nature’s Lessons 5-8pm. Kiesendahl + Calhoun Gallery, Pleasantville. (914) 844-6296.
EVENTS
Girl Scout Adventure Badge Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.
Eats, Reads and Leaves
7pm. Celebrate Chronogram’s 2006 Literary Supplement. Blue Mountain Bistro, Woodstock. 679-8519. $5.
FILM
MUSIC
Borderland
Blues Jam
8pm. Spencertown Academy, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693.
7pm. Jon Bowermaster ‘s kayaking trip in Croatia. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. 687-4047. $10.
SPOKEN WORD
KIDS
10:30am. Classics in Religion series. Kingston Library, Kingston. 334-8404.
9am-2pm. For children ages 7 and up. Winslow Therapeutic Center, Warwick. 9866686. $40.
Jesus: The Last Week
A Day at the Barn
Lois Gibbs: Ongoing Struggle for Environmental Justice
MUSIC
5:30pm. Environmental justice lecture. Lecture Center 100, New Paltz. 257-3447.
THU 9 ART
The Valley Table Covers Exhibit
5-7pm. Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh. 561-7204.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Psychic Readings by Shyla O’Shea
12-6pm. Call for an appointment. The Auracle, New Paltz. 255-6046. $40.
Reiki Healing Circle
7pm. The Auracle, New Paltz. 255-6046. $5.
FORECAST
FRI 10
CLASSES
Perceptions of Reality
7-9pm. Buddha’s Teachings on Ultimate Truth. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 856-9000. $8.
EVENTS
Regional Portfolio Day
Folk Jam
7:30pm. Spencertown Academy, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693.
Jesse Lege & Bayou Brew
8pm. Cajun/zydeco dance party. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Multi-Instumentalist John Carty
8pm. Chatham. jrogers@hvc.rr.com. $15/$5 students and children.
Teri Roiger and John Menegon Trio
8pm. Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh. 5617204.
Vassar Chapel Vassar College Choir 8pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 4377404.
The Felice Brothers
KIDS
SPOKEN WORD
MUSIC
John Esposito
6-9pm. Jazz. Gadaletos Seafood and Bandstand, New Paltz. 255-1717.
Author-Publisher Michael Korda
7pm. Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Michael Franti & Spearhead
7pm. Funky WDST favorite mixes it up. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966. $30.
A Brief History of the Blues
7:30pm. History of blues with David Sancious, Jimmy Welder, and Robbie Dupree. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5262.
SPOKEN WORD Poetry Readings
7pm. Featuring Shirley Powell & Mildred Barker. Bohemian Bookbin, Kingston. 331-6713. $2.
THEATER
Fefu and Her Friends
8pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880. $16/$14 seniors, students and staff.
7-8:30pm. Peace Village Learning & Retreat Center, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000.
Wake Up To Your Dreams
7-9pm. How to remember dreams, create a dream journal, resolve nightmares, use active imagination. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. $15/$20.
scholar Robert K. Wallace. He’s speaking of “Moby-Dick: The Waves,” 13 artist’s proofs by Frank Stella, which were used as templates for prints. They currently appear at the Albany Institute of History & Art. Stella (born in 1936) has produced more works of art on Melville than any other major artist. These include three print series, metallic reliefs, and sculptures. Over a 12-year period, Stella created over 200 works of
High Valley Poetry Extravaganza
art about Moby Dick—more than one for each of the book’s 135 chapters.
7:30-10pm. Refreshments, music, poetry slamming. The Center at High Valley, Clinton Corners. 266-2309. $10.
In the “Waves” series, he circles the subject of Moby Dick the way Melville himself does. There is no fixed perspective from which to examine the whale. Though the 13 titles in “The Waves” are chosen from the chapter titles of the book, the images aren’t clearly illustrative. A red splotch in “Ahab’s Leg” may be
Johnny Appleseed
10am. Presented by the Traveling Lantern Theater Company. Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum, Poughkeepsie. 471-0589. $5.
Fefu and Her Friends
blood, but it may be simply a red splotch. Though the colors are bright, the compositions are twisting, convoluted, perhaps even apocalyptic. We never see the whale clearly, just as Captain Ahab and his shipmates never did. Referring to the collage “Ahab,” Robert K. Wallace says: “Stella’s wanting to suggest the power or the
8pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880. $16/$14 seniors, students and staff.
emotion or the effect of Ahab. He is more interested in giving us the deep levels of resonance than in trying
The Trip To Bountiful
to illustrate the storyline.”
8pm. Van Cortlandtville School Theater, Mohegan Lake. (914) 528-4145. $15/$10 seniors and students.
WORKSHOPS
Mountain Home: Zen & Chinese Wilderness Poetry
Call for times. Discover the beauty of nature through reading and composing poetry. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper. 688-2228. $225.
Waking Up in the Classroom
Call for times. Explore the element in the teaching equation. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper. 688-2228. $225.
SAT 11
WORKSHOPS
Move From Fear to Love
“In this series Stella’s telling his own story in abstract shapes, in a way that parallels the Melville story,” says
12pm. Dutchess Community College Hudson Hall Room 404, Poughkeepsie. 431-8434.
THEATER Meet the Artists: Soprano Dawn Upshaw and Composer Osvaldo Golijov
75” X 54 5/8”, 1985-89
A WHALE OF AN EXHIBIT
8:30-11:30pm. Acoustic, bluegrass, blues, folk, original, rock. Hyde Park Brewery, Hyde Park. 229-8277.
10pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
6:30pm. Puppets. Andes Library, Andes. 676-3333.
THE PACIFIC, FRANK STELLA, MIXED MEDIA,
Meg Johnson, Kyle Esposito and Doug Marcus
4-8pm. Henry A. Wallace Visitor & Education Center, Hyde Park. 471-7477.
Grian MacGregor and The Ivy Vine Players
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WED 8
ART
Columbia Berkshire Craft Guild Studio Tour
10am. Spencertown Academy, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693. $12.
Cloudscapes
2pm. Works on paper by Mia Pearlman. TenTents Art Lab, Beacon. 705-6233.
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The flagrant use of collage—including marbling, silkscreen, linoleum block, and magic marker—suggests that Moby Dick is itself a collage, which it is. Melville juxtaposed encyclopedia entries (most famously about the size of whale penises) with narrative, and at one point the book turns into a playscript. “The Waves” also recalls the wreckage at the end of Moby Dick. A sinking ship creates a collage on the sea: splintered wood, corpses, barrels, sails. Stella updates the imagery with computer-style graphics, including pictures of printed circuits and crystals. In some, newspaper ads seem to have been shredded, then coded to remove any literal references. The show is part of a larger exhibit at the institute, “A Celebration of Art & Literature”, which includes a roomful of books by the brilliant illustrator Louis Slobodkin and several rooms of nature drawings by Dorothy Lathrop. A citywide celebration of Melville will culminate in a symposium titled “Why Melville Matters Now,” which runs November 17 to 19 and includes a 24-hour marathon reading of Moby Dick. [Fun fact: The Albany Institute of History & Art was founded in 1791, which makes it older than the Louvre.] "Moby-Dick: The Waves" will remain at the Albany Institute of History & Art, 125 Washington Ave., until December 31. (518) 463-4478; www.albanyinstitute.org. —Sparrow