D&H CANVAS April 2023

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by Barry Plaxen Welcome back from the Pandemic: Soprano Julie Ziavras and composer/ pianist Steve Margoshes.

Vocabulary Lesson: Amygdala: a roughly almondshaped mass of gray matter inside each cerebral hemisphere, involved with the experiencing of emotions.

Highlights of the Month: The Chris Farlekas Legacy Fund’s inaugural event and the Wallkill River Center for the Arts’ first music event in

Montgomery.

The String Trio of NY performing with poet Paul Kane in Newburgh.

Kudos to: Tamara Rafkin, NBNY Art Seen CoCreator and Facilitator. We thank her for her hard work and co-creation, and wish her much love, happiness and health on her relocation to the Southwest.

In This Issue: Earth Day Celebrations in Cornwall, Dingmans Ferry and Wurtsboro.

A children’s poetry festival in Bethel and a children’s art contest in Milford.

Letters to the Editor Thank you, Barry, for all you do to make our valley culturally informed.

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SUNY Orange art students’ exhibit in Middletown.

The 2023 theatre season opening with shows in Cornwall and Goshen.

Three “Grand Dames” entertaining in Sugar Loaf and the return to the stage of baritone David Trombley in Monticello.

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Dialogues of Black Artists, Newburgh

Ann Street Gallery will host an Georgia. Their art is riveting, poetic extended multi-media exhibit conceived and thought-provoking; ranging from by curators Jonette O’Kelley Miller watercolors to acrylic and oil paintings, and Karen E. Gersch. Cause We Be photographs and mixed media collages, Complicated: Dialogues of Black Artists sculptures, assemblages, archival ink, honors Black History and features digital art, books and a documentary. sixteen artists. Originally installed at Art Each artist, with a history of longevity Design Spirits Gallery in Newburgh in the arts, provides a unique perspective, for February; it has seen a stellar draw exploring the reality that members of the of visitors and received African Diaspora are not glowing articles in many monolithic. Similar to all publications. The works of human beings, the dreams, new artists have been added tastes, languages and lives to the show making it an of Black people are birthed entirely new installation! in a variety of social and Participating artists are: ethnocultural nuances.

Lillian Alberti, Carol An opening reception on Bash, Vernon M. Byron, March 25 from 4:30pmKhalidah Carrington, 7:30pm will launch the Gerardo Castro, Melissa show; it is free and open Small Cooper, Ted to the public at Ann Street Dixon, Stevenson Estime, Gallery, 104 Ann Street, “The Bledsoe Sisters” Collette V. Fournier, sculpture by Lillian Alberti. Newburgh. The show is Oluwafiropo Margaret Ibitoye, F. then on view every Saturday and Sunday Geoffrey Johnson, Cheryl D. Holmes (Noon-5:00pm) through April 29.

Miller, Emmanuel Ofori, Ransome, The curators will offer (by appointment Yvonne P. Lamar Rogers and Auguster only), free weekday tours for schools, D. Williams, Jr. cultural centers, libraries, youth and These artists hail from Rockland, arts organizations. If interested, contact Orange, Dutchess and Ulster Counties, Jonette at jom.writes@gmail.com or from Brooklyn, Manhattan and Atlanta, Karen at keg37@frontier.com.

May I Have A Word With You

Quips, Quotes & Quiddities by Carol Pozefsky OUCH There are maxims, axioms, call them what you will, that never made sense and still don’t. Sticks and stones may break our bones but words can never hurt us. Were they serious? Words can never hurt us? What else induces divorce, feuds, riots, and wars if not words?

A critic’s cutting words were aimed at British actor John Cleese. “He emits an air of overwhelming vanity combined with...nastiness, like a black widow spider in heat.” +Another critic described writer Aldous Huxley as the “stupid person’s idea of a clever person.” Winston Churchill was a master of invective and said of British politician Stanley Baldwin, “He’s a man of the utmost insignificance. Occasionally he stumbles over the truth but hastily picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing has happened.”

But likely the most damning exchange ever uttered in the British Parliament took place when Lord Sandwich said to John Wilkes, “You will either die on the gallows or of the pox.” Wilkes responded,

“That must depend, Sir, on whether I embrace your Lordship’s principles or your mistress.”

HOGWASH Did you ever return home with a lame excuse for your parent (or spouse) for the late hour? “Well, Josh said he left his credit card back at the restaurant so we had to turn around and...” “HOGWASH!” shouted your parent (or spouse).

For centuries, hogwash was the common term for the swill fed to pigs.

We trace its playful use to the 1546 book, All The Proverbes in the English Tongue.

“They in the kitchen for jest poured hogwash on her head.” Equally old and from the same book, “Make hay while the sun shines.”

VINTAGE CARLIN “I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‘Where’s the self-help section?’ She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”

“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”

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Catskill Art Space: Trio of Solo Exhibits - Paintings, Film Installation, Paper

Shown above: “Every Day at Six” paper by Jon Kline, 2010/2022

Catskill Art Space (CAS) has announced three solo exhibitions with work from Carter Hodgkin, Nene Humphrey and Jon Kline. The exhibitions will be on view in the ground floor galleries of CAS, 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor from March 25 through May 6. An artist’s talk will be held on March 25 from 3:00pm-4:00pm followed by the opening reception from 4:00pm-5:00pm.

The three artists pull from interdisciplinary pursuits grounded in science to explore their respective artistic practices: Hodgkin draws on particle physics and forms in nature, creating code generated particle collisions to inform her painting.

Humphrey’s installation, inspired by dreams, goes as far as to offer video of the amygdala filmed through a highpowered microscope at the LeDoux lab at New York University, where she is the artist-in-residence.

Kline uses light sensitive paper to capture the sky at different times, closely

“Dream Scroll” by Nene Humphrey, 2021

attuned to place and shifts in light.

Carter Hodgkin, Visual Fields, connects digital technology and painting, utilizing conceptual and chance-based themes to create her mesmerizing work.

In this series, the artist modifies code attune to gravity, exploring particulates’ descent and reverberations upwards.

Hodgkin extracts a digital file of the collision, transforming the image into a mosaic, applying hand-painted paper squares onto painted canvas. The painting becomes a mediation between defining and dissolving the pictorial plane, evoking microscopic landscapes from outer space or the ocean depths.

What emerges are paintings which

reflect a tension between technology and handcraft, exploring a relationship between algorithmic data and the pictorial.

Nene Humphrey will present This Like a Dream Keeps Other Time, a series of video, sonic and performative works created in collaboration with jazz musicians Matana Roberts and Staar Busby, along with video designer Simon Harding. Together, the works create a tangible space that mirrors the ephemeral part of the brain where complex emotions are born. These works were inspired by a dream the artist had in which she was learning to sing from “choir ladies” at Plainview Baptist, her late husband’s family church in rural Georgia. The works investigate both the overlooked importance of dreaming to our psychological health and scientific research demonstrating that feelings of well-being and mood elevation are programmed biologically to surface with communal singing.

Jon Kline’s work explores the subtle language of natural light and time,

“Particle Horizon” by Carter Hodgkin, 2022

working with both cameras and light sensitive paper. Each piece involves observing, measuring, recording, and comparing the color and intensity of the overhead sky at specific moments in time from one place and from multiple places on the globe. Employing both alternative and digital means, Kline’s photographic and film projects explore the primacy of light and temporality.

Kline’s presentation at CAS will include two murals that record the sequential shift in the color and intensity of light at a specific moment in time at this latitude.

For more information and to schedule a visit at CAS, visit catskillartspace.org

NBNY Art Seen Art Initiative Year Two

NBNY Art Seen is an Street: Cause We Be initiative by Newburgh’s Complicated: Dialogues community of galleries of Black Artists. See and art spaces, on the page 3 for more info.

Last Saturday of each Mindy Ross Gallery, month April to October SUNY Orange, First (1:00pm-5:00pm) the and Grand Streets: venues participating are Introspective, a solo art open to the public. exhibition by Rachel “We are pleased to Williams. See page 20 present our second for more info. season of NBNY Art CMA Gallery at Seen inviting the public Mount Saint Mary to experience the growing College, 330 Powell art scene in Newburgh, Avenue: A Place to giving viewers a chance “Amplifier” by Marton Nemes Connect, works by to walk from art space to art space while Romina Gonzales and Jason Bauer. taking in the historic architecture and Elijah Wheat Showroom, 195 Front blossoming restaurant and shopping Street: Amplifier by Marton Nemes. area found overlooking the vistas of the NBNY Art Seen participants will be Hudson Valley,” stated NBNY outgoing open to the public free of charge unless Facilitator, Tamara Rafkin and new otherwise noted on their websites. Covid NBNY Facilitator, James Jackson.

19 rules are determined by spaces Participating venues include: Visitor please be respectful of their requests.

Center, 233 Liberty Street: Provenance, The Newburgh Arts and Cultural see page 25 for more about the show.

Commission supports this event by Grit Works Gallery, 115 Broadway: hosting online information about the Figures - Burden - Loneliness. See page monthly event, participants, and a 20 for more information. downloadable walking map of locations: ADS Gallery, 105 Ann Street: Hearts www.newburghart.org/nbny-artseen and Minds, work by James Savage.

Free city parking is available on Ann Ann Street Gallery, 104 Ann Street off of Liberty Street.

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Wurtsboro Art Alliance: Spring Exhibit

ARTery Gallery: Multi-Media Solo

Award winning artist Jeffrey Wiener was born in Miami, Florida in 1961, and graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1983. A pioneer in using new drawing tools and technologies, Jeffrey taught iPad drawing “The Class of 1972” by Jeffrey Wiener, at the Art Students League of New York, on paper, 1989. OpEd commissioned by as well as numerous Catskills locations. pencil the New York Times illustrating the financial He has exhibited his surrealistic drawings future of a maturing generation. and paintings in galleries nationally.

Jeffrey is the also the publisher of A member of the Wurtsboro Art TheGreatNude.tv, a web/video magazine Alliance (WAA), see his work in the for the Figurative Arts with content WAA’s annual Spring exhibit from April featuring artists dedicated to the nude.

1-30. An opening reception will be held For more information about the artist, on April 1, from 2:00pm-4:00pm. visit https:jeffreywiener.gallery

Spring is the theme of the new April this manner, Hottinger recently honored exhibit at the ARTery Gallery in Milford. female artists Joan Mitchell and Georgia This show features the colorful work of O’Keeffe as part of a group exhibit Pocono resident Rena Hottinger, who celebrating “Women’s History Month” at the Smithfield Community & Cultural originates from Brooklyn.

Center in East Hottinger is a Stroudsburg, PA. master of free-style Meet Rena multiple media. She Hottinger at the allows her natural opening reception artistic impulses to on April 8 from manifest in each 6:00pm-9:00pm, piece, intuitively which includes arranging colors and refreshments. The shapes on the canvas public is welcome to her own unique to attend this free specifications. cultural event.

Her materials The ARTery are varied and Gallery is a extensive: acrylics, oils, impasto, cold “Less is More” by Rena Hottinger (12”x12”) cooperatively wax, glitter paint with sand, chipped owned and operated fine art gallery, rocks, soft pastel, charcoal, ink, marker; serving regional artists and art lovers crayon, collage, clay, floral design, and since 1996. The gallery features a wide array of artistic talent ranging photography.

Since 2016, Hottinger has also been re- from traditional oil, watercolor, and interpreting the work of Old Masters and photography to sculpture, jewelry, other more current well-known artists. By textiles, pottery, and collage.

Hottinger’s exhibit will be on display reading and studying about the artist first, she channels the energy and emotions from April 6 to May 8 at the ARTery expressed in the original artwork to take Gallery, 210 Broad Street, Milford.

Visit www.arterygallerymilford.com the artist’s work in a new direction. In

Salon Series Ends with Music & Video Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (DVAA) once again opened the doors of Krause Recital Hall for another enriching Salon Series. In the grand tradition of the “Salon,” DVAA invites the community to experience, learn, participate, and exchange ideas with artists, musicians, and storytellers.

The 2023 Salon Series culminates with a kaleidoscopic performance of music & video by Andrea Wittgens. The singersongwriter and visual artist will perform on the baby grand piano in Krause Hall, debuting an original video installation accompaniment to her music.

Wittgens, whose style pulls from pop

and jazz to early punk, offers references to Joni Mitchell, Tori Amos, and even Patti Smith, all the while creating a sound all her own.

DVAA is grateful to be a part of Wittgens’ debut of this multi-media performance. The synthesis of sound, lyrics and visual art creates an exclamation point to the end of the 2023 Salon Series season.

The presentation is on April 8 at 2:00pm in Krause Recital Hall, on the 2nd floor of DVAA, 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg. Free admission.

For information, call 845-252-7576 or visit delawarevalleyartsalliance.org.

Let us honor the Women and the Men who Inspire & Nurture our Creativity all year long!

Easter Jazz in Greenwood Lake

Mike Jackson is a legend known for his long-standing among jazz guitarists. collaboration with singer Jackson backed up artists Annie Haslam and her band such as Solomon Burke, Renaissance.

Baby Washington, Clyde Tony Jefferson has been McPhatter, The Marvelettes, a fixture on the New York The Four Tops, Marvin Gay jazz scene for many years. and many others. “If you He has toured around the Mike Jackson haven’t heard Mike Jackson globe playing both festivals play jazz guitar, you’re in for and clubs with world class a treat. He may be the best musicians. As a drummer, jazz guitar player you never Tony has performed and heard.” Certifie. recorded with many jazz Rave Tesar is a veteran of artists and groups including the New York jazz scene and Eddie Harris, Kenny Drew a prolific composer for film Jr., Lonnie Smith, Eddie and television. He began his Henderson, Lou Donaldson, Rave Tesar career working in the jazz Frank Wess, Don Byron, scene in and around New John Abercrombie, Joey York with numerous groups Calderazzo, and many others. and leaders. His reputation The Mike Jackson Trio soon led to national and performs during the Easter international tours as a side Jazz Brunch at The Cove, man with Frankie Randal, The 13 Castle Court, Greenwood Shirelles and the minimalist Lake on April 9 at 12:30pm Tony Jefferson pop group Tirez Tirez, led and 2:00pm.

by Mikel Rouse. Rave is, perhaps, best For information, call 845-477-5599.

Please join us for a Stellar Concert of Song in support of The Wallkill River Center for the Arts April 2023

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Goshen Art League: “Greens of Spring” Hang ‘Em High Quintet in Port Jervis Goshen Art League (GAL) invites the public to see a variety of art in four exhibits. The League has kicked off their exhibit season with a new year-long theme entitled, Color Wheel of Seasons.

Greens of Spring is part one of the series. The artists’ work on display in this show was inspired by the season of Spring - with a lot of the color green on display.

“Willow at Kershaw Park” by Mitchell Saler “GAL has diversity to bring more people in the style and medium into our community art of work created by its exhibits.” members and strives to View the exhibition come up with different weekdays at the Goshen themes that leave the Music Hall, 223 Main interpretation open to Street, Goshen, through the artists; this yearApril 26. The reception long exhibit in four is on March 29, parts continues that 6:30pm-8:00pm, along intent,” explained GAL with a reception across Vice President, Michele the street at Griffth Meek.

Olivera Realty for League Treasurer Pat another exhibit featuring MacDonald added, “I’m art by Ciro Attardo, looking forward to this Nancy Reed Jones and new idea. We are hoping “House on a Hill” by Karen Schoen Ginirose Sivili.

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A fiery group spanned genres of musicians and styles ranging will be playing from blues rock, original music hard rock, jazz and celebrating fusion, a blend of Charles Mingus, guitar-rock and Wayne Shorter, and electronica. Beck Jeff Beck for the Charles Mingus Wayne Shorter Jeff Beck was ranked in the groove port music series. top five of Rolling Stone Charles Mingus, Jr. (1922and other magazines’ lists 1979) was a bassist, pianist, rankings of the greatest composer, bandleader, and guitarists. He was often author. A major proponent called a “guitarist’s of collective improvisation, guitarist.”

Wayne Tice Mark Dziuba he is considered to The Hang Em High be one of the greatest Quintet, featuring jazz musicians and Wayne Tice (reeds), composers in history, Mark Dziuba (guitar), with a career spanning Neil Alexander three decades. (keyboards), Bryan Wayne Shorter (1933Kopchak (drums), 2023) was an American Robert Kopec (basses jazz saxophonist and and tune guitar), composer.

Shorter N. Alexander, R. Kopec, & B. Kopchak perform for the groove came to prominence in the late 1950s port music series at UpFront Exhibition as a member of, and eventually primary Space, 31 Jersey Avenue, Port Jervis, on composer for, Art Blakey’s Jazz April 22 at 7:00pm.

Messengers. In the 1960s, he joined The gallery opens at 1:00pm for Miles Davis’s Second Great Quintet. viewing the current art show and will be While Jeff Beck (1944-2023) pioneered open through to the concert. Tickets at the jazz-fusion guitar sound, his releases the door. BYOB! Info: 845-754-1808.

Let’s Talk Sam’s Point Park Preserve

Rebecca Howe Parisio, Interpretive Ranger, Sam’s Point Area of Minnewaska State Park Preserve (pictured) will explain Sam’s Point: what a Park Preserve is, and how to protect it. She will also discuss how the Shawangunk

Mountains were formed and natural and historical events that happened there on April 29 at 1:00pm at the Cragsmoor Library, 355 Cragsmoor Road.

To register: call 845-647-4611 or nancy@cragsmoorfreelibrary.info

Cornwall Arts Collective Spring Show The Cornwall Arts artists. In 2022, they Collective’s Spring exhibited at Leo’s, as well Exhibition is on display as 2 Alices in Cornwall at Leo’s Restaurant, and the Cornwall Public 23 Quaker Avenue, Library.

Cornwall, through May For more info about 23. the Collective and The Cornwall Arts upcoming exhibits, visit: Collective is a small but CornwallArtsCollective. growing group of local “Floating Flowers” by Judi Silvano org.

The Beatles to Bartok in Warwick The New Beatles to Bartok to World Ramblers Bill Monroe, with are three of the excursions into OldHudson Valley’s Time, Jazz, Celtic finest acoustic and Scandinavian musicians: guitarist music. The music is Wayne Fugate & Mike Kobetitsch Mike Kobetitsch, fun and inviting and mandolinist Wayne Fugate and double- always directly involves the audience in bassist Vin Warner. The three have the thrill of musical discovery. been performing together for years with Enjoy an evening of genre-bending, synergy and with thoughtful arrangements foot-tapping acoustic music on April 15 that reimagine tunes in exciting ways. at 7:00pm at the Amity Gallery, 110 Their musical landscape includes The Newport Bridge Road, Warwick.

UUC: Ceramic, Paintings, Collage

The wide-ranging works of Richard Weber will enhance the sanctuary of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation (UUC) in Rock Tavern this April.

Hailing from Saratoga Springs, Weber has spent the last 37 years in Orange County working at his craft and, until his retirement, teaching art in the Warwick school system. His studio is

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by Richard Weber

in Florida, where he works in ceramics, photography, collage, painting and mixed media sculptures. He will be showing ceramic masks, wall pieces, collages and paintings at the UUC. An artist’s reception, open to the public, will be held on April 8 from 3:00pm-5:00pm at the UUC, 9 Vance Road, Rock Tavern.

Amity Gallery Solo Show: “Traffic” Lou Fatta works in steel using a variety of welding and cutting techniques to cut silhouetted shapes of cars, crows, ravens, songbirds, ants and city skylines along with images of vines and weeds.

Amity Gallery will open their 2023 season with Traffic, an exhibit of works

by Fatta from April 1-30. Traffic involves the automobile and the impact it has had on nature as well as on our individual and

collective lives. Fatta works to represent these shapes as archetypes and in reference to totems and stories that work to atone themselves with nature through their own deterioration.

The opening reception is on April 1, from 5:00pm-7:00pm at Amity Gallery, 110 Newport Bridge Road, Warwick. View the work on Saturdays & Sundays, 1:00pm-4:00pm.

For info: www.amitygallery.org.

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Rejuvenating an Historic Music Venue The musical energy lives of all genres, what I like on in the walls of historic to call Opera to Opry, Nutshell Hall on the shores Jams to Jazz.” of Lake Huntington. More Collabonation’s intent than a century after its is to carry forward the beginnings, Nutshell Hall musical legacy of Nutshell is now the forever home Hall by booking both of the Delaware Valley national artists and local Opera (celebrating its 37th talent to help ensure the season) and part of their Hall’s former psychedelic Delaware Valley Opera rock reputation gets the Center. The DVOC has Dysfunktone performs April 1 respect it deserves while welcomed new ‘roommates’ with old opening doors to new generations of fans friends: Collabonation Productions. and different stylistic tastes.

Collabonation has undertaken a Joe adds, “We are confident that spirited revitalization of Nutshell Hall, between an invigorated concert schedule working to ensure that music, history, and and improved patron experience, inclusion are integrated into the future Nutshell Hall can harken back to the days evolution of the venue. Collabonation’s as a club where bands want to perform. principal partners are Joe Murray and On the heels of a very successful Fall Zoot Damnit, veterans of the music season, Collabonation has launched industry with a penchant for world-class their Spring series of weekly concerts, sound and lighting production. What Saturdays Live from Nutshell Hall. sets this duo apart is their dedication to You can follow Collabonation on treating the visiting artists as guests in Instagram, Facebook, or visit www. their house, to inspire amazing musical collabonationproductions.com for details performances for the audience. and tickets for weekly Saturday shows.

Zoot offers his vision. “Our focus is to Nutshell Hall is at 6692 Route 52, develop Nutshell Hall as a premier venue Lake Huntington. Doors open at 7:00pm. of live musical performance by offering Entertainment continues until 11:00pm. our audiences high-caliber productions See calendar page 13 for April concerts.

HV Folk Guild’s Open Mic & Concert “We have returned to in-person and open mic performances on the second Saturday of every month, weather and pandemic permitting,” announced Maureen Black, president of the Rock Tavern chapter of the Hudson Valley Folk Guild. “Open mic performances are available to all. Signup begins at 7:00pm and open mic begins at 7:30pm.”

Music has always been a part of Andy Shapiro’s life. Born into the folk world, he studied classical, rock, blues, country,

jazz...he’s all mixed up, and his music reflects that. He loves weaving all of what he’s taken in into his music. His songs have received honorable mention at the Post Music Awards, and he is working on his second album.

Shapiro will perform his songs for you as part of his pre-CD release tour at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Rock Tavern, 9 Vance Road, Rock Tavern, on April 8. The performance is expected to begin at 8:30pm.

For information call 845-464-2526.

Meet Dr. Cook in Grahamsville Born in Hortonville, Frederick Albert Cook (1865-1940) was an American explorer, physician, and ethnographer who claimed to have reached the North Pole on April Carol Smith 21, 1908. That was nearly a year before Robert Peary, who similarly claimed to have reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909. Both men’s accounts have been disputed ever since.

Focusing on preserving the legacy of Dr. Cook’s outstanding accomplishments, Carol Smith, Director of the Frederick

Cook Society, will give an illustrated talk on photographs taken

by Dr. Cook on his expeditions between 1897 and 1908. The collection includes Arctic and Antarctic Dr. F. A. Cook wilderness, exploration ships and portraits of the native Inuit.

Frederick Cook, Arctic Explorer will be presented on April 30 at 2:00pm in the Time and the Valleys Museum, 332 Main Street, Grahamsville. For information, call 845-985-7700 or visit: www.timeandthevalleysmuseum.org.

City Winery: Chris Knight/Chris Berardo Chris Berardo’s For the past 20 years, quarter-century of music Chris Knight has only making has been a pure, made music his own way. emotional outpouring He’s released eight albums, a triumph of authentic played thousands of songcraft and storytelling electrifying live shows and over careerism, fashion built generations of fervent and hype. “I never really fans from Texas honkywas the type to chase tonks to Manhattan rock Chris Knight fame,” he says. “It was clubs. He’s been hailed as that I wanted to do this “the last of a dying breed...a stuff. It was more I want taciturn loner with an these opportunities to sing acoustic guitar and a college these songs for people.” degree,” - New York Times Over the course of three and “a storyteller in the best albums and countless traditions of Mellencamp roadhouses, honkyand Springsteen.” - USA tonks, close calls and lost Today. weekends, Berardo and his “It’s hard to know how Chris Berardo people are gonna react,” Chris Knight longtime band The DesBerardos have says of Almost Daylight, his ninth album earned a loyal fanbase and peer respect and first new recording in over seven for the sheer quality and sincerity of their years. “I’ve written songs about a lot of rootsy Americana rock. It’s a nuanced, different things going all the way back to genre-straddling sound that resonates my first record, and some folks still think widely through both pop sensibilities ‘somebody kills somebody’ is all I write and outlaw attitude.

City Winery Hudson Valley, about. Maybe that’s why I was bound and determined to get these particular 23 Factory Street, Montgomery, is songs on this album. If people like them, presenting Chris Knight featuring Chris then we’ll be fine. But I wasn’t gonna do Berardo on April 7 at 8:00pm.

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DVAA: Duo Exhibition

Joni Wehrli’s sculptures reference the landscape of our internal anatomy and biomorphic forms in nature.

Desmond Beach is influenced by the African storytelling tradition. His work symbolizes one’s sense of duality: Black, American; two thoughts, two souls, “Garden Variety” “Time is filled with Swift

by J. Wehrli Transition” by D. Beach two feelings, unresolved strivings, and contradictory beliefs in exhibition running from April 1 to May one’s dark skin, which is held intact 7. The opening reception is on April solely through its purposeful power.

1, from 4:00pm-6:00pm at DVAA, 37 The Delaware Valley Arts Alliance Main Street, Narrowsburg. will feature Wehrli and Beach in an www.DelawareValleyArtsAlliance.org

SUNY Orange Students: “Expressions” The 19th annual SUNY Orange Student Art Show is here again with paintings, drawings, photography, graphics and theatre art.

Expressions runs April 3-28, with an opening reception on April 4, from 2:00pm4:00pm. Music will be provided by the Spring Jazz Quartet: Megumi Kinoshita, piano; Leo Betcher, alto sax; John Parodi, electric bass, & Kim Peralta, drums.

Presented by the Arts and Communication Department and SUNY

Still Life by Ilona Velasquez, oil on canvas

Still Life by Guytano Carillo Lockwood, color pastel

Orange Cultural Affairs, the remarkable works can be seen Monday-Thursday from 8:00am-8:00pm; Friday from 8:00am-5:00pm, and during performances in the theatre and gallery in Orange Hall.

Free parking is at the corner of Wawayanda & Grandview Avenues, (GPS: 24 Grandview Ave.) on the Middletown campus of SUNY Orange. For info, call the Arts & Communication Department at 845-3414787 or Cultural Affairs at 845-341-4891.

Poetry to Honor Prof. Sandy Graff The SUNY Orange in Garden as well as other English Department published works. All are Poetry Committee will be welcome to read her works, holding a Memorial Reading your own related work, or celebrating the work and life speak in honor of her during of SUNY Orange English the open mic period.

Professor Emeritus Sandy Bringing small gardening Graff in the Great Room tools, pots, and seeds to on the Newburgh Campus decorate and then donate Professor Graff loved. to the SUNY Orange Sandy earned a Bachelor’s Horticulture program is Sandra Graff degree from SUNY Albany (2/16/1951 ~ 3/4/2023) encouraged. and a Master’s degree in English You are also invited to donate to the Education from Fairleigh Dickinson newly created scholarship: Professors University. She served as a Jesuit Stephen Meagher and Sandy Graff Volunteer before working at alternative Environmental Advocate Award. high schools in Newark, New Jersey.

Celebrating Poet Sandy Graff, a She also taught at St. Peter’s University, memorial reading, is on April 23 at Sussex County College, and finished 2:00pm in the Great Room (101), the last 23 years of her teaching career Kaplan Hall, SUNY Orange, 73 First at Orange County Community College, Street, Newburgh. Free parking in the retiring as a Professor Emeritus in May garage on First Street. of 2021.

For additional information, contact The committee will be reading from Amanda Crowell-Broadleaf at her chapbooks This Big Dress and Girl AmandaCrowell@sunyorange.edu April 2023

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Let’s Celebrate Farm Arts Collective!

Farm Arts Collective (FAC), a farm-based cultural organization on Willow Wisp Organic Farm in Damascus, PA, will host its second annual April Fool’s Fête on April 1 at Members of FAC and happy attendees at a FAC flower workshop the Catskill Provisions Distillery, 16 will include a Mexican food cantina Upper Main Street, Callicoon. buffet, signature cocktails by the host This major fundraising event of the distillery, local wine, live music with FAC season supports the 2023 line-up a sneak peek of a scene from the 2023 of farming workshops for adults and Dream on the Farm and an incredible children, the creation and presentation of silent auction featuring art, photography, play #4 of Dream on the Farm (an annual hand-crafted furniture, and pottery by climate-change themed performance local makers and artists. that the FAC actors, farmers, writers and The 2023 Gala is sponsored by musicians are making from 2020-2030), Toad Hollow Farm, Wayne County special agri-cultural events, and FAC’s Community Foundation, Leo Schmidt work to provide a place for creative and Melissa Bell, Sue Currier and Ace community engagement in agriculture, Thomas. environmentalism, and the arts.

Tickets are $100 and can be purchased Doors open at 6:30pm and the evening online at www.farmartscollective.org.

Yarnslingers Gather in Callicoon

Dedicated to the art and craft of story, Yarnslingers was founded in 2012 by writer/musician Ramona Jan. She believes “Everyone has a story...or two,” and encourages people from all walks of life to spin their spellbinding tales.

Yarnslingers have presented their stories in the villages extending from Narrowsburg to Long Eddy. Venues which have hosted Yarnslingers include the Catskill Art Space, Wayne County Arts Alliance, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, NaCl Theatre, Rock Valley Schoolhouse, Bethel Woods Center for the Performing Arts, and the public libraries of Callicoon, Tusten, and Cochecton, as well as cafes and taverns in the Upper Delaware River region.

Although participants in Yarnslingers change periodically, the focus remains consistent and steadfast: to create

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Chorale & Drumming in Port Jervis The Four Seasons Chorale will be presenting a concert, One World: A Concert of Musical Connections. The chorale, under the direction of Kathy Brink and accompanied by Seth Riehl, will include music from Africa along with popular selections such as Let There Be Peace on Earth, We Shall Overcome, and What a Wonderful World.

The chorale’s special guest for this concert is Maxwell Kofi and Sankofa (meaning ‘going back to the roots’ in the Twi language from Ghana).

Kofi is the leader and artistic director of Kofi & Sankofa Drum and Dance Ensemble. “The ensemble is very symbolic in promoting personal and community awareness of the positive role of the arts in the villages in West Africa demonstrated through our rich cultural values passed on to us by our great ancestors ‘Nananom’,” said Kofi.

Sankofa is made of four drummers and three dancers led by Kofi (an Asante prince from Ghana) and Yacin (a Wollof princess from Senegal). Sankofa’s performance is electrifying in terms of

The Four Seasons Chorale

the spiritual release in their drum, dance and songs (chants). The performances generate the same community spirit of sharing, oneness, joy, and love where everyone gets involved, both audience and performers.

Join the celebration of connectedness on April 2 at 3:00pm at First Presbyterian Church, 60 Sussex Street, Port Jervis. The concert is in the handicapped accessible church sanctuary.

Admission is free; donations gratefully accepted to help defray the concert costs.

For information, call 570-430-1755.

This program is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.

“Godspell” Re-Imagined in Cornwall

opportunities for experienced and novice memoirists to write and present true, firstperson stories that engage and inspire audiences and foster self-expression while strengthening the empathic power of communities.

The Yarnslingers will sling their yarns at Seminary Hill Cidery, 43 Wagner Lane, Callicoon, April 2 at 11:30am.

For information: 845-887-4056.

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In the 1990’s, the grunge music scene was instrumental in changing culture and pushed boundaries of gender equality and cultural norms. This “third wave” of feminism was spearheaded by the women born to the “second wave” of feminists who grew up in the 1960’s and early 1970’s.

Godspell was conceived and performed in 1971, at a time when peace and love became paramount in the face of the Vietnam war, when civil rights and the birth of rock and roll were driving culture and hippies were vogue.

Twenty years later we experience the 1990’s, with the first war to hit the Gen Xers and our culture experiencing a new wave of change. Within it, an awareness of fighting to protect our freedoms, leadership by women coming of age in this era, and the advent of a new music scene which spoke of anger, sadness, depression. It was a time before modern technology drove us all into the smaller world of our phones and social media.

In contrast to the original story of Jesus and Judas, the new production envisions God sending his daughter, Jess, to spread a new message of hope, forgiveness, love and community to people gathered in a famous Seattle bar in the early 90’s.

Her closest friend and follower, Judy, betrays her and completes the story of

Rehearsal, “Godspell”

crucifixion, and inevitably the death of humanity’s ability to stay united and on the path of love and forgiveness.

This ancient story is re-told in a more contemporary setting, in an immersive theatrical space which by its nature engenders a feeling of community, to inspire audiences to push the boundaries of their own imaginations of this message, gender leadership possibilities, and their personal participation in leading their own small communities to choose acceptance, forgiveness, love and hope.

The cast and crew are: Michael E. Boyle, Jr., Chelsea Camp Castro, Ryan Danahy, Jessica Jaber, Sara Johnson, Montana Nogrady, Benedict Hudson and Angela Pepe. Directed by Jaber, the stage manager is Meghan Farrell with music direction by Andrew Stein, and choreography by Montana Nogrady.

The show is produced by Theatre on Main Street, 45 Quaker Avenue, Suite 100, Cornwall, through April 2.

Tix: www.theatreonmainstreet.com

“Come As You Are” to Narrowsburg Welcome to Come as You Are, an exhibition featuring artists from diverse backgrounds. This show celebrates the power of self-expression through color, composition, palette, and unique vision.

Each artist has created a distinct body of work, showcasing their individual approach to composition, color, and form.

Through their pieces, the artists convey their personal experiences and emotions, inviting the viewer to experience their unique perspectives.

“I am honored to present this exhibition, which celebrates the unique voices of each artist and the power of selfexpression,” said curator Jodi Sibilia. “I invite you to join us and experience the beauty of individuality through the art of these talented creators.”

The exhibition showcases a range of palettes, from vibrant and bold to soft and muted tones. The artists use color to convey meaning and create atmosphere, evoking feelings of joy, hope, and reflection. Through their use of composition, the artists create dynamic visual narratives that draw the viewer

“After Glow” acrylic by Daniela Cooney

into their unique worlds.

Come as You Are highlights the importance of honoring and celebrating diverse perspectives, inviting viewers to explore new ways of seeing the world.

Artists include Ari Mir-Pontier, Richard E. Bos, Barbara Carpenito, Daniela Cooney, Jonathan Charles Fox, William Landau, Glenn Lieberman, Mx Ruby Mizrahi, Amy Potter, Melissa Riling, Lucy Sardonia and Gail Tuchman. The exhibit will be held at Narrowsburg Union, 7 Erie Avenue, through April 29.

Photo Salon: Copyright Your Photos!

Digital imagery copyright laws have recently changed!

Learn how to protect your work. Making a copyright brush and a watermark in Photoshop will enable you to prove that the work is your own. This technique can be used for any number of creative brushes to add to your library as well.

The Highlands Arts Alliance Photographers Salon will meet on April 1 at 11:00am with a topic-

led discussion on Digital Signature and Copyright Brush, a special presentation

by Eva Whorley, followed by a share and critique of photos at the American Legion Hall, 134 Old State Road, Highland Falls.

Overview, contact and fee info can be found at: www. highlandsartsalliance.org/ photographersalon.

The photo shown is

by Karen Parashkevov, program moderator.

Greenwood Lake: Mysticism & Whimsy Every month the Works of Art Gallery at the Greenwood Lake Public Library showcases the work of a new local artist.

April will feature Jennifer Charton.

Originally from the Bronx, Jennifer is a professional artist and teacher residing in Middletown. She was inspired at an early age to be creative with drawing and painting and has been an artist since she was a child.

Jennifer received her bachelor’s “Goddess Hawk” by Jennifer Charton degree in Fine Art from Purchase College in 2020. She paints practice for me and I view the images of people and animals images I create as catalysts for using rich, vibrant paint and healing and transformation,” collage materials on canvas. explained Jennifer.

Each piece is like a splash Her work is created to invite of energy; she uses a touch the viewer to not only connect of whimsy and a hint of with the piece, but to be mysticism to draw and hold challenged and transformed. the viewer’s interest.

Jennifer has expressed Jennifer Charton Deep, resonating blues call herself through her art for as to mind the mysteries of the infinite - the long as she can remember and has been depth of the sea, the vastness of the sky - showing her work in Orange County for as well as providing a lush counterpoint the past fourteen years. to the warmer colors that Jennifer often Jennifer’s work will be on display at uses to render her subjects. She is a the Greenwood Lake Public Library, 79 fitness and yoga instructor as well as Waterstone Road, throughout the month an artist, and connects with people in a of April. meaningful way through art.

For more information about the artist, “My art has become a very ‘spiritual’ visit www.goddessrockstararts.com

Outdoor Exhibition at Bethel Woods

As a quarryman, Wayne Holbert knows bluestone intimately: how it was formed, how it is cut from the earth, and how it is shaped as a physical material.

As an artist, however, he sees the potential of the bluestone as a living, timeless representation of a primitive form, the human condition set in stone.

Local artist Wayne Holbert, and his series of sculpture/statues paying homage to the Woodstock Festival, feature Catskills bluestone, a beautiful material which can only be found in eastern Pennsylvania and southern New York, and is the bedrock that Bethel Woods is built upon.

The Museum at Bethel Woods is hosting a special outdoor exhibit entitled, Rockin’ the Woods through October.

“Peace, Love & Happiness: Located at the Peace Overlook, this sculpture is inspired

by Nick and Bobbi Ercoline - the blanketed couple who appeared on the cover of the Woodstock album and are currently volunteers at Bethel Woods.”

For more information about the exhibit, visit www.bethelwoods.org.

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Opportunity Playwrights

The Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop (SCDW) is calling for original plays to be presented at the Rivoli Theatre from September 8-17.

Running time must be no longer than 10 minutes from curtain to curtain (strictly enforced).

All plays have a cast size limited to a maximum of 4 speaking characters.

(More characters can be present but in non-speaking roles.)

Plays will be presented in a black box format with minimal set and props. The Producer reserves the right to determine if the chosen plays meet this requirement.

Vulgar language and topics will not be accepted for submission.

Play submissions must be in an electronic format and submitted to the Producer no later than April 15. Plays submitted after that date may not be given consideration.

Two copies of each play must be submitted in PDF format - one identifying the playwright and the file name containing the name of the play and playwright (example: My Play by Harold Tighe.pdf) and one blind copy with no identification as to the author in the script and with blind at the end of the file name (My Play blind.pdf).

Authors will be notified of their play being selected for performance no later than June 30. No more than 2 plays may be submitted by a playwright.

SCDW reserves the right to present the selected plays without payment of a royalty to the author. 16 plays will be selected at the discretion of the Producer and Reading Committee. Each selected play will be performed three times on one weekend.

For more information, contact Harold Tighe at haroldtighe50@gmail.com

Art & Music Lectures at Desmond

April 3, 10:30am many of his wonderful In a period of increasing nationalism, and entertaining film historicized garden buildings brought a roles at a lecture given range of European architectural styles by Leon DiMartino: to America. By imprinting the land with The Wonderful World & symbols of European culture, landscape Career of Peter Sellers. gardeners brought the idea of civilization Peter Sellers to the American wilderness and helped April 11 at 10:00am (1925-1980) define gentility in the young nation.

John Williams has created some of These eccentric and playful structures the most popular and well-loved film were built throughout the Hudson music scores in his Valley in the 19th century, with Andrew career that has been Jackson Downing playing a key role in over 50 years in the the proliferation of the building type. making. A composer, In Follies in America: A History conductor, and pianist, of Garden and Park his career spans over Architecture, Kerry seven decades. With John Williams Dean Carso, Professor 53 Academy Award (b. 1932) of Art History at SUNY nominations, he is the second mostNew Paltz, examines nominated individual, after Walt Disney historicized garden (64 Oscar nominations). buildings known as Kerry Dean Carso For The Life & Times of John Williams “follies” from the nation’s founding to & His Film Music Scores, DiMartino will its centennial celebration in 1876. explain why Williams’ compositions are considered the epitome of film music, and April 4, 10:00am why he is considered among the greatest A highly prolific comedian and composers in the history of cinema. comedy actor, Peter Sellers left a legacy The Alice Desmond Center for of great movies and film performances Community Enrichment is located at 6 of the mid-decades of the last century. Albany Post Road, Newburgh.

Learn how this talented actor created To register, call 845-565-1326.

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have played to countless packed and sold-out clubs and theaters throughout the United States.

Celebrate the 50th+ Anniversary of Joe Cocker’s groundbreaking live album and tour,

Children & TEenS Calendar

sponsored by Music on Market, Ellenville and Nesin Cultural Arts, Monticello HHNM ������������� Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall JLPL ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������Josephine-Louise Library, Walden MEEC ��������������������������������������� Mamakating Environmental Education Center, Wurtsboro PEEC ���������������������������������������Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry

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Listings not included in our centerspread calendar.

Family Storytime ���������������������������������������� Cornwall Library, Tuesdays, 9:30am & 10:30am Toddler Time ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������JLPL Tuesdays, 10:30am Babytime infants up to 18 months ����������������������������������Newburgh Library, Tuesdays, 10am Books & Babies Story Time w/Miss Sophie ������������������� Milford Library, Tuesdays, 10:30am Storytime 1-5yrs ������������������������������������Chester Library, Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 10:30am Family Storytime 8yrs & under ���������������Wallkill Library, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10:30am Shake, Rattle & Read 1-5yrs ��������������������������������������������Newburgh Library, Tuesdays, 1pm Toddler Time 18-36 months ��������������������������������������Newburgh Library, Wednesdays, 10am Storytime ��������������������������������������������������������������������� Goshen Library, Wednesdays 10:30am Baby Storytime ������������������������������������Crawford Library, Monticello, Wednesdays, 10:30am Storytime in the Park outdoors ����� Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, Wednesdays, 10:30am Stories & More 3-5yrs ������������������������������Crawford Library, Monticello, Wednesdays, 11am Preschool Storytime 3-5yrs ������������������������������������������� Newburgh Library, Thursdays, 10am Read and Play ���������������������������������������������������������������������Newburgh Library, Fridays, 10am Books & Babies Story Time w/Miss Sophie ������� Dingman Branch Library, Fridays, 10:30am PJ Storytime ��������������������������������������������������������������� Cornwall Library, Apr 5 & 19, 6:30pm “The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, grades K-2 ����������� Cornwall Library, Apr 12, 4:30pm “The Magician’s Elephant” by Kate DiCamillo, grades 3 & 4 ���Cornwall Library, Apr 20, 4:30pm Rants & Raves Teen Book Club ��������������Moffat Library, Washingtonville, Apr 20, 6:30pm YA Book Discussion teens ���������������������������������������������� Port Jervis Library, Apr 21, 4:30pm “In Your Shoes” by Donna Gephart grades 5-8 �������������� Cornwall Library, Apr 27, 4:30pm Book Wizards Middle Grade Book Club grades 5-8 ������������ Moffat Library, Apr 27, 4:30pm EntertainmenT & Recreation

Music with Mr. Matt ���� multiple dates, Wisner Library, Warwick, 10:15am & 11:15am, FREE “Disney’s The Aristocats KIDS” Warwick Center for the Performing Arts ������������������������ Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Mar 25, 11am Ecozone Discovery Room! ���������������������������������������������������������PEEC Apr 2 & 23, 1pm-4pm Tail Waggin Tutor “Charlie” ������������������������������������������������������JLPL Apr 3, 5:30pm FREE Poetry for Kids with Miss Beth ������������������������������������������������������������� JLPL Apr 5, 4:30pm Dungeons & Dragons teens ������������������������������������������������������JLPL Apr 7 & 21, 5pm FREE “Magic! The Gathering Club” teens ���������������������������������������JLPL Apr 8 & 22, 2pm FREE Drop In Lego Club �������������������������������������������������������������JLPL Apr 11 & 25, 3:30pm FREE Hudson Valley Reptile Meet the Reptiles �����������������������Florida Library, Apr 13, 4pm FREE Second Annual Sullivan Youth Poetry Festival ����������������������� Bethel Woods, Apr 15, 2pm “Jr. Field Biologist: Teriffic Toads” ������������������������������������������������������ MEEC Apr 16, 1pm Earth Day Celebration �������������������������������������������������������������������HHNM Apr 22, 9am-3pm Earth Day Festival ���������������������������������������������������������������������������MEEC Apr 22, 1pm-4pm The Rock & Roll Playhouse “Music of Bob Marley for Kids” ����������������������������������������������� City Winery, Montgomery, Apr 23, Noon Earth Day Festival �������������������������������������������������������������������������� PEEC Apr 29, 11am-4pm Family Movie Matinee ������������������������ Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, Apr 22, 1pm FREE

Books: Discussions / readings / Signings sponsored by Josephine-Louise Public Library, Walden

“The Doctors Blackwell” by Janice P. Nimura ������������������ Newburgh Library, Mar 28, 2pm Book Club Meeting ��������������������������������Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Mar 30, 6:30pm “The Marriage of Opposites” by Alice Hoffman ���������������������Goshen Library, Apr 1, 10am “Under a White Sky” by Elizabeth Kolbert �����������������������������Cornwall Library, Apr 5, 4pm “Heaven, My Home” by Attica Locke ����������������������������������������� Florida Library, Apr 7, 1pm Chester Library Book Group ��������������������������������������������� Chester Library, Apr 10, 2:30pm “The Four Winds” by Kristin Hannah ����������������� Thrall Library, Middletown, Apr 13, 3pm “A Woman of No Importance” by Sonia Purnell ������������������� Milford Library, Apr 13, 4pm “Eating Together, Being Together” by/wJulian and Caroline Clauss-Ehlers ���������������������� Wisner Library, Warwick, Apr 16, 2pm Dingman Branch Book Club ������������������������������������Pike Library, Dingman, Apr 19, 3:30pm “The Fiancée” by Kate White ��������������������������������������������������Cornwall Library, Apr 20, 2pm Book Discussion ���������������������������������������������������������������������Port Jervis Library, Apr 20, 2pm “Horse” by Geraldine Brooks ������������������������Crawford Library, Monticello, Apr 24, 1:30pm “Down the Hatch” by M.C. Beaton ������������������������������������� Goshen Library, Apr 24, 3;30pm “The Most Fun We Ever Had” by Claire Lombardo �����������Cornwall Library, Apr 27, 7pm

Mad Dogs & Englishmen. Serving as a dedication to Joe Cocker and Leon Russell, the show/tour will be recreated with a 20-piece band.

This event will feature The Horn Section, guests and full choir, with large interpretations of songs by rock and soul greats. The 8-person choir will comprise

touring artists crossing many genres including international rock acts, soul tours, Broadway, and more.

Catch the madness on April 22 at 8:00pm at Bethel Woods, 200 Hurd Road, Bethel.

For tickets and more information, visit: www.bethelwoodscenter.org

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Art Walk

NBNY Art Seen ��������������������������������������������Various Galleries, Newburgh, Apr 29, 1pm-5pm

Cinema Classics & Documentaries

“Gaslight” Ingrid Bergman, intro + Q&A w/John DiLeo ������� Milford Theatre, Mar 26, 4pm “Operation Mincemeat” Colin Firth �������������Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 27, 1pm FREE “Sing Street” Ferdia Walsh-Peelo ������������������������������� Cornwall Library, Mar 27, 6pm FREE “The Searchers” John Wayne, Natalie Wood �����������������������������Milford Theatre, Apr 2, 4pm “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” Daniel Craig �����Wisner Library, Apr 3, 1pm FREE “The Fabelmans” ����������������������������������������������������������Cornwall Library, Apr 4, Noon FREE “Musical Chairs” Leah Pipes, E. J. Bonilla ������������� Hurleyville Arts Centre, Apr 6, 5:30pm “Sudden Fear” Joan Crawford, Jack Palance ���������������Wisner Library, Apr 10, 1pm FREE “Harold and Maude” Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort ������������Cornwall Library, Apr 10, 6pm FREE “The Manchurian Candidate” F. Sinatra, A. Lansbury ���������Milford Theatre, Apr 16, 4pm “The Mortal Storm” J. Stewart, M. Sullavan ����������������Wisner Library, Apr 17, 1pm FREE Movies on the Mountain series ���������������������������������Cragmsoor Library, Apr 21, 8pm FREE “Radio Bikini: Testing of an Atomic Bomb” documentary ���������������������������������������������������� Mamakating Environmental Education Center, Wurtsboro, Apr 23, 1pm “My Octopus Teacher” documentary �����������������������������Wisner Library, Apr 24, 1pm FREE “Gilda” Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford �����������������������������������������Milford Theatre, Apr 30, 4pm

FestiVALS

Earth Day Celebration ����� Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall, Apr 22, 9am-3pm Earth Day Festival �������Mamakating Environmental Education Ctr., Wurtsboro, Apr 22, 1pm-4pm Earth Day Festival ���� Pocono Environmental Education Ctr., Dingmans Ferry, Apr 29, 11am-4pm

FUndraisers

Farm Arts Collective April Fool’s Fête ����Catskill Provisions Distillery, Callicoon, Apr 1, 6:30pm Newburgh Free Library Back Door Books (sale) �������������������������������������������������������������������� Newburgh Library, Montgomery Street Entrance, Apr 22, 10am-2pm Delaware Highlands Conservancy Dinner ����������� The Inn at Woodloch, Hawley, Apr 29, 5:30pm Wallkill River Center for the Arts & The Chris Farlekas Legacy Fund ������������������������������ Julie Ziavras soprano, Steve Margoshes piano Montgomery Senior Center, Apr 30, 3pm

Music - Celtic

Brian Conway fiddle �������������������������������������������������������Albert Wisner Library, Mar 26, 2pm

Music - Classical & CHorale

Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra “Ladies Weekend: Everlasting Impressions” ������������ Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre, Mar 25, 6pm & DVAA Gloria Krause Recital Hall, Narrowsburg, Mar 26, 2pm FREE Four Seasons Chorale & Sankofa Drum & Dance Ensemble ����������������������������������������������� First Presbyterian Church, Port Jervis, Apr 2, 3pm FREE Birdsongs concert & talk, Kemyndable flute ensemble, Kenneth Korn ����������������������������������� Alice Desmond Center, Newburgh, Apr 14, 10:30am Brooklyn Baroque ���������������������������������������� Thrall Library, Middletown, Apr 16, 2pm FREE Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra “Bach’s Coffee Cantata” �������������������������������������������� Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre, Apr 22, 6pm & Jeffersonville Bake Shop, Apr 23, 3pm Julie Ziavras soprano, Steve Margoshes piano ����� Montgomery Senior Center, Apr 30, 3pm

Music - jazz (see also in-house Music next column)

Hal Galper Trio ����������������������������������������������������� Rafters Tavern, Callicoon, Saturdays, 3pm Rick Savage & SOARTET “groove port” series ���������������������������������������������������������������������� UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Mar 25, 7pm Martin Pizzarelli Trio & Friends �����������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 26, 7pm Hang “em High Quintet music of Mingus, Shorter & Beck “groove port” series ������������������ UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Apr 22, 7pm String Trio of NY w/Paul Kane poet �����SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh, Apr 29, 7:30pm

Opera

“Akhnaten” by Philip Glass, video �������������������������������Cornwall Library, Apr 23, 1pm FREE

Poetry Readings

Black Poet Exhibition �����������������������������������������������Ritz Lobby, Newburgh, Mar 25, 7:30pm William Seaton ���������������������������������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Apr 6, 7pm Second Annual Sullivan Youth Poetry Festival ������������������������ Bethel Woods, Apr 15, 2pm Roberta Gould ���������������������������������� Java Blue Coffee & Market, Montgomery, Apr 18, 6pm Spring Poetry Cafe Jane Ebihara & Elaine Koplow, Robert Milby ���������������������������������������� Florida Library, Apr 23, 1pm FREE Celebrating Poet Sandy Graff ������������ SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh,Apr 23, 2pm Ariana Den Bleyker Poetry at the Church ���������������Goshen Methodist Church, Apr 24, 7pm Annie Christain �����������������������������������������������������Soulshine Market, Pine Bush, Apr 29, 3pm Paul Kane & String Trio of NY �������������SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh, Apr 29, 7:30pm

Recreation

Line Dancing “Kickin’ w/Kathy and Billy” ��� City Winery, Montgomery, Sundays, 2pm-5pm Drum Circle �����������������������������������������������Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh, Tuesdays, 6:30pm Adult Coloring ���������������������������������������������������������������� Goshen Library, Apr 24, 10am FREE

Storytelling

Yarnslingers ������������������������������������������������ Seminary Hill Cidery, Callicoon, Apr 2, 11:30am

Theatre - Musical & Variety

“Curtains” Warwick Center for the Performing Arts �������Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Mar 24-25 “Godspell: Revival Edition” ����������������������� Theatre on Main Street, Cornwall, Mar 24-Apr 2 “Cranky Seniors” Catskill Reader’s Theatre ��������������������������������������������������������������������������� Time and the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, Apr 16, 2pm

Theatre - Play

“A Streetcar Named Desire” Greenwood Lake Theater ���������������������������������������������������������� The Warwick Institute of Culture, Warwick, thru Mar 26 “The Mystery Unfolds” dinner-theatre ������������������������������������ Eldred Preserve, Mar 25, 7pm “Two Across” Cornerstone Theatre Arts ������������������������ Goshen Music Hall, Apr 29-May 14

Music - pop, Folk, Country, Blues, rock, etc. sponsored by Steve’s Music Center, Rock Hill and Al’s Music Center, Port Jervis CANVAS cannot be responsible for errors & omissions. Please verify dates and times

SLPAC ��������������������������������������������������������������Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Chester

Reelin’ In The Years Steely Dan ������������������������������������ The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 24, 7pm Peak w/Lee Ross ��������������������������������� Nutshell Hall, DVOC, Lake Huntington, Mar 25, 7pm Quinn Sullivan & Veronica Lewis blues, r&r �������������������������������� The Falcon, Mar 25, 7pm Kofi Baker Ginger Baker, Cream, Blind Faith �������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 30, 7pm Popa Chubby Band blues ���������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 31, 7pm Ryan Adams ��������������������������������������������������� Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Mar 31, 8pm Jelly w/Dysfunktone ������������������������������Nutshell Hall, DVOC, Lake Huntington, Apr 1, 7pm Popa Chubby blues ���������������������������������������������������� City Winery, Montgomery, Apr 2, 8pm The Magnetic Fields w/Lomelda ������������������������������City Winery, Montgomery, Apr 3, 6pm Chris Knight w/Chris Berardo ���������������������������������City Winery, Montgomery, Apr 7, 8pm Andrea Wittgens music & video ��������DVAA Krause Recital Hall, Narrowsburg, Apr 8, 2pm Andy Shapiro folk �����������������������Unitarian Universalist Cong., Rock Tavern, Apr 8, 8:30pm Mad Cats w/Mike Smith Group funk �Nutshell Hall, DVOC, Lake Huntington, Apr 8, 7pm Mike Jackson Trio jazz ������������������������ The Cove, Greenwood Lake, Apr 9, 12:30pm & 2pm “The Monkees Celebrated by Micky Dolenz” �������������������������������������� SLPAC Apr 10, 8pm Melvin Seals & JGB �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� SLPAC Apr 12, 8pm “Almost Queen: A Tribute to Queen” �������������������������������������������������� SLPAC Apr 14, 8pm Annie in the Water w/P(x3) ����������������Nutshell Hall, DVOC, Lake Huntington, Apr 15, 7pm The New World Ramblers pop, jazz, Celtic, etc. �������Amity Gallery, Warwick, Apr 15, 7pm Music for Humanity, folk ���������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Apr 15, 7:30pm Joan Osborne ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� SLPAC Apr 15, 8pm Judy Collins & Madeleine Peyroux ������������������������������������������������������� SLPAC Apr 21, 8pm THE ORCHESTRA: Members of the Electric Light Orchestra ����������������������������������������� Paramount Theatre, Middletown, Apr 22, 8pm “Remember Jones” Joe Cocker’s “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” + �� Bethel Woods, Apr 22, 8pm Suzanne Vega “An Intimate Evening of Songs and Stories” ���������������� SLPAC Apr 22, 8pm The Soul Cruisers “Soultown to Motown” �������������������������������������������� SLPAC Apr 29, 8pm Jimmy Sturr & his Orchestra polka �����������������������City Winery, Montgomery, Apr 30, 2pm 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, 6pm-8pm Open Mic ��������������������������������������������������������������� Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, Sundays, 3pm Sahana Rao (duo) ������������������������������������������������������City Winery, Montgomery, Mar 29, 5pm Mario Rincon ��������������������������������������������������������������� City Winery, Montgomery, Apr 5, 5pm Open Mic ����������������������������������������� Unitarian Universalist Cong., Rock Tavern, Apr 8, 7pm Mike Jackson Trio Easter Jazz Brunch ������ The Cove, Greenwood Lake, Apr 9, 12:30pm & 2pm Nate Liebert ���������������������������������������������������������������� City Winery, Montgomery, Apr 12, 5pm Strawberry Fields Ultimate Beatles Brunch �����������City Winery, Montgomery, Apr 15, Noon Oxford Station Band �������������������������������Ducktown Restaurant, New Windsor, Apr 15, 8pm Mario Rincon ������������������������������������������������������������� City Winery, Montgomery, Apr 19, 5pm Andrew Jordan ���������������������������������������������������������� City Winery, Montgomery, Apr 26, 5pm Oxford Station Duo ������������������������������������������������� Pizza E Birra, Middletown, Apr 28, 6pm

Musicians: Expose Yourselves!

The Town of Minisink Heritage Commission would like to hear from musicians who might be willing to come and play gratis at events for exposure.

Entertain at their events in Westtown,

spend a few hours advertising yourselves, and get a free lunch and refreshments.

Contact: Teresa Weeden Gurdineer, Town of Minisink Historian at: visitcarolscabin@gmail.com

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AMITY ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Amity Gallery, Warwick DVAA ��������������������������������������������������������������Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg HPAC ������������������������������������������������������������������������������� BW �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Bethel Woods Center for the Arts DVOC �����������������������������������������������������������������������Nutshell Hall, DVOC, Lake Huntington JEFFBAKE �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� CIDER ������������������������������������������������������������������������������Seminary Hill Cidery, Callicoon FAL �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro MEEC ��������������������������������������� Mamakating En CITY ����������������������������������������������������������������� City Winery Hudson Valley, Montgomery FPC ������������������������������������������������������������������������� First Presbyterian Church, Port Jervis MSC ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� DESMOND ������������������������������������������������������������������ Alice Desmond Center, Newburgh GOSH Cornerstone Theatre Arts ����������������������������������������������������������Goshen Music Hall MSM-AQ ������������������������������������������������� Aquina DISTILL �������������������������������������������������������������Catskills Provisions Distillery, Callicoon HHNM ������������Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall NFL-MONT ��������������������������������������������Newburg

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Music Melvin Seals & JGB SLPAC 8pm

Art work by Douglass Wilkins on exhibit until April 26 at the Office/Gallery at Chant Realtors, 631 Route 739, Lords Valley, PA

Music - Classical Music..............Alm

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Music...........Judy Cinema....Movies Come enjoy a climb on the Prehistoric Stairway with each step marching you through the evolution of life and geologic history with Walter Jahn, PhD, Professor of Biology, for “Climbing the Steps of the Evolution of Life & History of the Earth” on Tuesday, April 11, at 6:00pm at SUNY Orange, RCSE 010 Gerry Forum, (GPS: 10 East Conkling Avenue, Middletown)

Recreation Adult Coloring Goshen Library, 10am

Cinema “My Octopus Teacher” Wisner Library, Warwick,1pm Poetry Ariana Den Bleyker Goshen Methodist Church 7pm

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Oxford Station Band performs folk rock, classic country & Americana at Ducktown Restaurant, New Windsor, on April 15 at 8:00pm & Oxford Station Duo performs at Pizza E Birra, Middletown, on April 28 at 6:00pm

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Storytelling.....................Yarnslingers............CIDER 11:30am Music - Jazz....Hal Galper Trio..Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, 3pm Recreation.................Line Dancing.................CITY 2pm-5pm ........“Godspell: Revival Edition”........TMAIN 7pm Fundraiser...............Farm Arts Collective.........DISTILL 6:30pm Music & Dance....Four Seasons Chorale/Kofi & Sankofa...FPC 3pm .............Popa Chubby Band..................FAL 7pm Music.......................Jelly w/Dysfunktone.................DVOC 7pm Theatre - Musical.....“Godspell: Revival Edition”....TMAIN 7pm ..................Ryan Adams....................SLPAC 8pm Theatre - Musical.....“Godspell: Revival Edition”...TMAIN 7pm Cinema..................“The Searchers”......Milford Theatre, 4pm Music - Blues...............Popa Chubby......................CITY 8pm

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Chris Knight w/Chris Berardo..............CITY 8pm Music - Pop-Jazz-Punk & Video....Andrea Wittgens....DVAA 2pm Music - Jazz....Hal Galper Trio..Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, 3pm Recreation.................Line Dancing.................CITY 2pm-5pm Music - Funk......Mad Cats w/Mike Smith Group.....DVOC 7pm Music - Folk...................Andy Shapiro...................UUC 8:30pm

Poetry...............Sullivan Youth Poetry Festival............BW 2pm Music - Jazz...Hal Galper Trio...Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, 3pm & Talk....Flute Ensemble....DESMOND 10:30am Music - Pop-Jazz-Celtic...The New World Ramblers...AMITY 7pm most Queen: A Tribute to Queen....SLPAC 8pm Music - Funk.......Annie in the Water w/P(x3)...........DVOC 7pm Music - Folk.............Music for Humanity...........NOBLE 7:30pm Music...........................Joan Osborne......................SLPAC 8pm

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Festival........................Earth Day Festival.......HHNM 9am-3pm Fundraiser........Newburgh Library Book Sale.....NFL-MONT 10am-2pm Festival.........................Earth Day Festival.......MEEC 1pm-4pm Music - Jazz...Hal Galper Trio...Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, 3pm y Collins & Madeleine Peyroux.......SLPAC 8pm Music - Classical.....Sullivan County Chamber Orch...HPAC 6pm s on the Mountain series...Cragsmoor Library, 8pm Music - Jazz............Hang ‘Em High Quintet................UpF 7pm Music - Joe Cocker.......Remember Jones....................BW 8pm Music...........................Suzanne Vega......................SLPAC 8pm Music...Members of The Electric Light Orchestra...PARA 8pm

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Theatre - Play.................“Two Across”.................GOSH 2pm Music - Polka......Jimmy Sturr & his Orchestra......CITY 2pm Recreation.................Line Dancing.................CITY 2pm-5pm Music - Classical.....Julie Ziavras & Steve Margoshes...MSC 3pm Cinema............................“Gilda”............Milford Theatre, 4pm

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

CANVAS cannot be responsible for errors & omissions. Please verify dates and times.

Art exhibits

CAS ������������������������������������������������������������������������������Catskill Art Space, Livingston Manor DVAA ���������������������������������������������������������������� Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg SUNYO-MR �������������������������������������������������� SUNY Orange, Mindy Ross Gallery, Newburgh SUNYO-OH �������������������������������������������������������������SUNY Orange, Orange Hall, Middletown WRCA ����������������������������������������������������������Wallkill River Center for the Arts, 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 James Turrell “Avaar”, Sol LeWitt “Wall Drawings”, Ellen Brooks, ���������������������������������� & Francis Cape “A Gathering of Utopian Benches” CAS ongoing Robyn Almquist “The Space Between You and Me” painting, collage, printmaking ����������� & Allison Maletz “Abundance” watercolors DVAA thru Mar 26 “A Study in Black & White” Community Art Show ���������Wisner Library, Warwick, thru Mar 31 Ciro Attardo, Nancy Reed Jones, Ginirose Sivili ����Griffith Olivero Realty, Goshen, thru Mar 31 Jennifer Leonard “Artist by the Lake” ���������������������� Greenwood Lake Library, thru Mar 31 “Portrait” group show ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ WRCA thru Apr 16 “The Collaborative Works of DiMiceli, DiMiceli & Carver” �������Cornwall Library, thru Apr 25 “Greens of Spring” group show, Color Wheel of Seasons series #1 ������������������������������������� Goshen Art League Goshen Music Hall, thru Apr 26 Douglass Wilkins paintings ������������������Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, thru Apr 26 “Reawakening” group show ������������������� UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, thru Apr 28 “Come As You Are” group show ���������������������������������������� Narrowsburg Union, thru Apr 29 Mixed Media & Collage group show, Spider Graham “Paper Cuts” ������������������������������������������ & Karen E. Gersch “Fusion & Farrago; Painted Tangos with Paper” �����������WRCA thru Apr 30 “Figures - Burden - Loneliness” photography, sculpture, paintings ������������������������������������� Grit Gallery, Newburgh, thru Apr 30 River Valley Artists Guild Art About Town: “Spring Fling” ������������������������������������������������ RVAG members group show, Gio’s Gelato Cafe, Port Jervis & Susan Miiller oils & pastels, Bon Secours Hospital Cafeteria, Port Jervis, & Joe Petrosi color pencil drawings, Mayor’s Office, Port Jervis City Hall, & Joan Kehlenbeck oils & pastels Deerpark Town Hall, Huguenot...............thru May 31 Highland Arts Alliance Members Show ��������� Two Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, thru Jun 13 Wayne Holbert “Rockin The Woods” outdoor sculpture ������������������� Bethel Woods, thru Oct

NEW ART EXHIBITS

Cornwall Arts Collective group show ������Leo’s Restaurant & Pizzeria, Cornwall, Mar 21-May 23 “‘Cause We Be Complicated: Dialogues of Black Artists” paintings, sculptures ���������������� Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, Mar 25-Apr 29 Rick Weber multi-media ������������Unitarian Universalist Cong., Rock Tavern, Mar 25-Apr 30 Carter Hodgkin, Nene Humphrey, Jon Kline ����������������������������������������CAS Mar 25-May 6 Wurtsboro Art Alliance group show ����������������� John Neilson Gallery, Wurtsboro, Apr 1-30 Lou Fatta “Traffic” steel works ����������������������������������������Amity Gallery, Warwick, Apr 1-30 Ellen Joyce Trayer paintings ������������������� Leo’s Restaurant & Pizzeria, Newburgh, Apr 1-30 Jennifer Charton paintings ���������������������������������������������Greenwood Lake Library, Apr 1-30 Joni Wehrli sculptures, Desmond Beach fiber arts ��������������������������������DVAA Apr 1-May 7 Rachel Williams “Introspective” �����������������������������������������������������SUNYO-MR Apr 1-Jun 3 “ Expressions” 19th Annual Student Art Show �����������������������������������SUNYO-OH Apr 3-28 Rena Hottinger multiple media paintings �����������������ARTery Gallery, Milford, Apr 6-May 8 “Provenance” group show ��������������������������������������� Visitor Center, Newburgh, Apr 15-Jun 3 “Nature’s Canvas” multi-media �����������������������������Wisner Library, Warwick, Apr 17-Jun 30 “Animals” group show ������������������������������������������������������������������������ WRCA Apr 21-May 21 Spring Art Fling Highlands Arts Alliance �����American Legion Hall, Highland Falls, Apr 22, 11am-3pm

Photography exhibits

“Along the Towpath: The D&H Canal in Mamakating, 1828-1898” ����Wurtsboro Library Suzanne L. Andrews “Nature Girl Artist” ������������������������ Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Apr 1-30 Walter Jahn “Native Beauties of the Region” ����������������SUNYO-MR Foyer, Apr 3-Aug 10

ART & Photography receptions

Carter Hodgkin, Nene Humphrey, Jon Kline ����������������������������������CAS Mar 25, 4pm-5pm “‘Cause We Be Complicated” ������� Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, Mar 25, 4:30pm-7:30pm Ciro Attardo, Nancy Reed Jones, Ginirose Sivili �����Griffith Olivero Realty, Goshen, Mar 29, 6:30pm-8pm “Greens of Spring” group show, Color Wheel of Seasons series #1 ������������������������������������� Goshen Art League Goshen Music Hall, Mar 29, 6:30pm-8pm Wurtsboro Art Alliance group show ����� John Neilson Gallery, Wurtsboro, Apr 1, 2pm-4pm Suzanne L. Andrews “Nature Girl Artist” ������������ Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Apr 1, 2pm-4pm Joni Wehrli, Desmond Beach ������������������������������������������������������������DVAA Apr 1, 4pm-6pm Lou Fatta “Traffic” steel works ��������������������������� Amity Gallery, Warwick, Apr 1, 5pm-7pm “ Expressions” 19th Annual Student Art Show ���������������������� SUNYO-OH Apr 4, 2pm-4pm Rick Weber multi-media ��������� Unitarian Universalist Cong., Rock Tavern, Apr 8, 3pm-5pm Rena Hottinger multiple media paintings �����������ARTery Gallery, Milford, Apr 8, 6pm-9pm Rachel Williams “Introspective” �������������������������������������������SUNYO-MR Apr 14, 5pm-7pm “Provenance” group show ��������������������������������Visitor Center, Newburgh, Apr 15, 4pm-7pm Spring Art Fling Highlands Arts Alliance �����American Legion Hall, Highland Falls, Apr 22, 11am-3pm 16

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Lectures, talks, master classes & demos sponsored by SUNY Orange and Town of Newburgh Desmond Center

DESM ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������Alice Desmond Center, Newburgh

MEEC ����������������������������������������Mamakating Environmental Education Center, Wurtsboro PEEC ��������������������������������������� Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry SUNYO-RCSE ���������������������������������������������������� SUNY Orange, Rowley Center, Middletown Lectures, Demos, Talks & Master Classes are FREE unless otherwise noted: (FEE) (Events Not lncluded in Centerspread Calendar)

lectures, Tours & Discussions Salamanders, Frogs, and More! Walk �������������������������������������������PEEC Mar 26, 10am FEE “The Five: Jack the Ripper and his Victims” Cynthia Topps ���������DESM Mar 27, 10am FEE “Healthy Coping Strategies for Stress & Anxiety” Diane Lang ����DESM Mar 29, 10:30am FEE “Colonel Tusten and the Battle of Minisink” Andy Mills ������ DESM Mar 29, 10:30am FEE “Follies in America: A History of Garden and Park Architecture” Kerry Dean Carso ��������������� DESM Apr 3, 10:30amFEE “The Wonderful World & Career of Peter Sellers” Leon DiMartino � DESM Apr 4, 10am FEE “The Incredible Life and Legacy of Sybil Ludington” Vin Dacquino ��� DESM Apr 5, 10:30am FEE “Medieval Flowers & Their Symbolism” Laura Nichols ������������������������������������������������������ Moffat Library, Washingtonville, Apr 5, 6:30pm “Why Orange County?” Robert McCue ���������������������������������� DESM Apr 10, 12:30pm FEE “The Life & Times of John Williams & His Film Music Scores” Leon DiMartino ������������ DESM Apr 11, 10am FEE “Climbing the Steps of the Evolution of Life & History of the Earth” Walter Jahn ���������� SUNYO-RCSE Apr 11, 6pm Conference “Hudson Valley Cannabis Industry: Erasing the Stigma Through Education” �� SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh, Apr 13, 9am-4:45pm “Every Man (And Woman) His Own Doctor” Carolyn Ivanoff �����Goshen Library, Apr 13, 6pm “Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly” Janet Mandel �� Cornwall Library, Apr 13, 6:15pm “The Truth About Protein” ToniJean Kulpinski ��������������������DESM Apr 14, 10:30am FEE “Salamanders, Frogs, and More!” ���������������������������������������������������PEEC Apr 15, 1pm FEE “Growing A Pollinator Garden” Kristin Webber ������������������� Chester Library, Apr 15, 1pm “Jr. Field Biologist: Teriffic Toads” ���������������������������������������������� MEEC Apr 16, 1pm FEE “Franklin and Eleanor: Public Admiration; Personal Strife” Anthony Musso ������������������ DESM Apr 17, 10:30am FEE “The Company Town (I Sold My Soul to the Company Store)-Sparrows Point, MD” ���� Rick Feingold DESM Apr 18, 9:30am FEE “Freedomland U.S.A.: The Definitive History”, The Tale of America’s History-Themed Park in The Bronx” Michael R. Virgintino DESM Apr 18, 1pm FEE “Declutter Your Life and Reduce Stress” Diane Lang �����������DESM Apr 20, 10:30am FEE “The Keys to Vitality” Mary Conway �������������������������������������������DESM Apr 21, 11am. FEE Bridge the Gap “Spring Peeper Search” ��������������������������������������������PEEC Apr 23, 7:30pm “The Worst in Air Corps History” Horrific crashes from Mitchell Field on Long Island: 1940-1942” Paul Martin III DESM Apr 25, 10:30am FEE “Congressman Moses Stivers” Andy Mills �������������������������������DESM Apr 26, 10:30am FEE Science Cafe: “Quantum Computing at IBM - A Brief Introduction” David Abraha ������� for Vails Gate restaurant location, email: tobyrossman@yahoo.com Apr 26, 7:30pm “Healthy Living - Healthy Options” ���� Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Apr 27, 6:30pm “What is Sam’s Point?” Rebecca Howe-Parisio ����������������Cragmsoor Library, Apr 29, 1pm “Frederick Cook: Arctic Explorer” Carol Smith ������������������������������������������������������������������� Time and the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, Apr 30, 2pm FEE ARTIST/Author Talks & Salons Carter Hodgkin, Nene Humphrey, Jon Kline Artist Talks ��������������CAS Mar 25, 3pm-4pm Highlands Arts Alliance Photographers’ Salon “Digital Signature and Copyright Brush” �������� American Legion Hall, Highland Falls, Apr 1, 11am FEE

Opportunity for Everyone The Liberty Museum & Arts Center invites artists, musicians and others to participate in a June 2023 exhibition entitled Reflections on Father.

What does FATHER mean to you?

Does it immediately bring up a favorite song? Do you picture a fond memory of being together? A place that he loved?

A painful relationship? A sense of loss?

What does it mean to you, personally?

Fun you had growing up? Did he take you fishing? To the ball game?

The artwork will be on display at the Museum in June as well as a concert of

father-themed songs and a roundtable panel where people can share their memories about their fathers. Fathersto-be are welcome.

Artists in all media, writers, musicians and anyone with memories to share can submit their work and ideas. Artists, makers, writers, musicians and the public may apply. Indicate what your medium is and the nature of the proposal.

Send your ideas and photos if appropriate to the show curator, Naomi Frumess at nfrumessfnp396@gmail. com or call her at 845-807-6656.

Children’s Poetry Festival in Bethel

age categories.

The 2nd annual Sullivan The festival is funded Youth Poetry Festival, through donations. Those organized by Sullivan wishing to donate can do County Poet Laureate so through the Sullivan Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, Public Library Alliance takes place on April 15 at 2:00pm at Bethel Woods. Participants at last year’s Fest on PayPal, or by sending a Students in grades 7 to 12 from check made out to SUPLA - with ‘Youth schools all around the county have Poetry Festival’ in the check memo, to: submitted poems and will be reading SUPLA, c/o Sunshine Hall Free Library, them. Cash awards will be given in three P.O. Box 157, Eldred, NY 12732.

Children’s Art Contest in Milford The Pike County Tick Borne Diseases Task Force is holding its second Safe Steps Art Competition. Submissions must illustrate “Where ticks live” or “How to protect yourself from tick bites.”

Help educate your child and their peers about where ticks are found and how to prevent encountering ticks by encouraging your child to participate in this year’s competition.

The art contest is open to children in grades K-6, broken into four groups: grades K, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6. One winner from each group will be chosen.

Entries must be received by April 5 at 4:30pm. Bring entries to the Pike County Commissioners Office or mail to: Pike County Commissioners Office

Attn: Pike County TBD Task Force, 506 Broad Street, Milford, PA 18337.

Contest winners will be invited to attend the May 3 Pike County Commissioners meeting to accept his or her award. All winners will receive a certificate of participation.

Contest guidelines can be found at: www.pikepa.org/tick.

Joan, Judy & Suzanne in Sugar Loaf It’s the Ladies entertaning in Sugar Loaf, and everyone is invited!

April 15, 8:00pm Joan Osborne is an 8-time Grammy nominee and multiplatinum selling recording artist. A native of Kentucky, she moved to NYC to attend NYU Film School, but dropped out after becoming involved in New York’s downtown music scene.

Raised a Roman Catholic, Osborne distanced herself from that institution after childhood, particularly influenced by telling her parents that she wished to become a priest only to learn that tradition forbade it.

April 21, 8:00pm Judy Collins is taking a rare moment to look back on her landmark 1967 album, Wildflowers, accompanied by singer-songwriter Madeleine Peyroux and a 35-piece

Jimmy Sturr to Perform at City Winery

American polka musician, trumpeter, clarinetist, saxophonist and leader of Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra, Sturr’s recordings have won 18 out of the 24 Grammy Awards given for Best Polka Album. The Orchestra is on the Top Ten List of the All-Time Grammy Awards, and has acquired more Grammy nominations than anyone in the history of musical polka awards.

Although the group has toured internationally in Italy, Ireland, Poland, Austria, Switzerland and Germany, they currently tour the USA in their 45-foot tour bus. The band has just returned from touring South Florida where they performed at the famed Strawberry Festival in Plant City. They drew nearly 5,000 people. Sturr’s annual concert in Texas this past year broke the attendance record of 34,000 people.

Jimmy and the band toured with Bobby Vinton for fifteen years, eighteen years

with the legendary Boots Randolph (Mr. Yakety Sax), and for a whopping twentyone years, they toured with Myron Floren, the accordionist featured on the Lawrence Welk television show.

The group released five CDs featuring Willie Nelson, and several other entertainers have recorded with the group such as the Oak Ridge Boys, Alison Krauss, Charlie Daniels, Mel Tillis, and many more.

Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra have performed to sold out crowds at Carnegie Hall in New York City to four performances at the Lincoln Center.

They have headlined in Atlantic City, NJ and Las Vegas, NV casinos such as the Stardust, Aladdin, Sam’s Town and the Orleans.

Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra perform at City Winery Hudson Valley, 23 Factory Street, Montgomery, on April 30 at 2:00pm. See ad page 9.

symphony orchestra!

Collins’ is an Academy Awardnominated documentary director and a Grammy Award-winning recording artist, known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records (which has included folk, country, show tunes, pop, rock & roll and standards).

Madeleine Peyroux began her career as a teenager on the streets of Paris. She sang vintage jazz and blues songs before finding mainstream success in 2004 when her album Careless Love sold half a million copies.

April 22, 8:00pm Suzanne Vega emerged as a leading figure of the folkmusic revival of the early 1980s when, accompanying herself on acoustic guitar, she sang what has been called contemporary folk or neo-folk songs of her own creation in Greenwich Village clubs. She’s bringing An Intimate Evening of Songs and Stories to Chester.

The Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center is at 231 Creamery Pond Road, Chester. Tix: www.sugarloafpacny.com.

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William Seaton Reads at Noble Coffee

The “Other” Frank Sinatra

“William Seaton possesses sixties happenings, Seaton a poetic voice whose sage and was a member of the San steady delivery comforts yet Francisco Cloud House group challenges us simultaneously,” in the seventies and produced writes Karen Corinne of the Words in the Air television Compulsive Reader. show in the eighties and the “Formally trained and Poetry on the Loose series in accomplished in translating the Hudson Valley for twentyGreek, Latin, German, and one years. He was director of William Seaton French, Seaton has a formidable the Northeast Poetry Center background firmly entrenched in the for five years and worked on programs history of poetry. It’s an art he not only of the Seligmann Center for the Arts practices but has taught, and a craft he for seven years, including producing takes quite seriously in the tradition of evenings of performance art. such heady influences as Ezra Pound and Seaton has taught in rural Nigeria, poets who worked laboriously upon each in New York prisons, and in Bedfordword and phrase as being integral to the Stuyvesant as well as in universities. He integrity of an entire piece. Nothing is has won nine NYSCA Decentralization viewed as superfluous. grants, two Orange County Tourism Arts “And in spite of this studied and precise grants, Ada Louise Ballard Fellowship attention to the importance of each word, in the Humanities, Helen Fairall he avoids a didactic, uninspired mindset Scholarship Award in Comparative and transforms that precision into music. Literature, Pushcart nominations in The result is a lovely song to enjoy in its both poetry and essay, and the Orange entirety without the obvious dissection County Arts Council “Champion of the of each note in its composition. We Arts” Award. might be interested in the ingredients of Seaton reads at Noble Coffee Roasters’ a great meal, but it is the colors, textures, Poetry Night, 3020 Route 207, Campbell and tastes we appreciate in the final Hall, on April 6 at 7:00pm, followed by presentation.” an open reading. Host: Robert Milby.

Active in poetry performance since Phone: 845-294-8090. $2 donation.

by Derek Leet

touches both instinctive and technical,” wrote Variety, with his right-on Though Frank Sinatra is characterization of a wouldhailed as one of the greatest, if be writer. not THE greatest, singers of all These films were followed time, please, let us not forget by his wonderful acting in his remarkable/great/moving many movies such as, to name unparalleled screen portrayals, just a few, The Detective mostly always overlooked (1968), Von Ryan’s Express when it came time for the (1965) and The Devil at 4 Oscars. I consider his acting Francis Albert Sinatra O’Clock (1961), in which, (1915-1998) skill far superior to his singing for my money, he out-acts skill, which did lack some and steals the film from, technical perfection. ironically, his acting-idol, In his early musical films, Spencer Tracy. he does show excellent But perhaps his acting skills, and thanks to “deepest” acting is in The his charisma, holds his own Manchurian Candidate with MGM’s other major (1962) in which his Sinatra & Janet Leigh in “The musical super-stars. sensitivity in a train scene, Manchurian Candidate” (1962) But after winning the Oscar, thanks to underplaying falling in love with Janet Ava Gardner’s dedicated efforts to get Leigh, and his heartfelt compassion him the role of Private Angelo Maggio for Laurence Harvey’s turmoil are in From Here to Eternity, he went on two examples of his superior ability to to perform brilliantly in many films, wrench the viewer’s heartstrings. notably Suddenly (1954) as a loathsome, Noted film historian John DiLeo will psychopathic assassin, The Man with be hosting a showing of The Manchurian The Golden Arm (1955) as a struggling Candidate on April 16 at 4:00pm in musician/addict, and Some Came Running the Milford Theatre, 14 E Catharine (1958), giving “a top performance, Street. DiLeo’s usual Q&A follows the sardonic and compassionate, full of screening.

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17th Annual Spring Poetry Cafe, Florida

Jane Ebihara is the author Dylan Thomas, Sharon Olds, of two poetry chapbooks; A and Linda Pasten.

Little Piece of Mourning (2014) Elaine says of her writing, and A Reminder of Hunger and “Often what inspires me Wings (2019), and one full begins as an ordinary, even length book, This Edge of Rain mundane occurrence, that then (2021). becomes a defining moment in Her work has also been our lives.” published in several literary The Florida Public Jane Ebihara journals and anthologies and Library will host its Annual she has been a volunteer author Spring Poetry Café. Orange for New Jersey Norwescap’s County Poet Laureate Emeritus Senior Life Stories Project, Robert Milby will emcee the received a Geraldine Dodge afternoon, which will feature Fellowship to the Fine Arts poets Ebihara, Koplow and Workshop in Provincetown, Milby, on April 23 at 1:00pm.

MA and has been a Pushcart “The Library’s first Spring Prize nominee. She is Poetry Cafe was in April, currently Associate Editor of Elaine Koplow 2006, so this April will mark The Stillwater Review and 17 years,” remarked Milby.

Poetry Contest Editor of Tiferet “It’s been an unusual reading Journal. series. I think this April will be Elaine Koplow is a member the 65th reading since the start of the Writers’ Roundtable, in 2006.”

Director of the Sussex County Open readings will begin Writers’ Roundtable, Associate and end the Café. Seating is Editor of The Stillwater limited so register by visiting Review, Associate Editor of www.floridapubliclibrary.org.

Robert Milby The Paulinskill Poetry Project, and If the weather permits, the Café will be a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. held on the back deck at 4 Cohen Circle, Writers who have influenced her include Florida. For more info: 845-651-7659.

Talk & Edible Craft Every Man (And Woman) His Own Doctor, a lecture by Carolyn Ivanoff (pictured), examines healthcare in Victorian America. What was it like to need and experience medical care in 19th century? How did people handle and treat inevitable illnesses that come with the human condition? Find out on April 13 at 6:00pm at the Goshen Public Library, 366 Main Street.

An edible book is a creative food project that takes inspiration from books.

It can take the physical form of a book, refer to a scene or character, be a pun on the title, or otherwise be inspired by a book or author. Entries can be sweet or savory. While they must be edible, entries do not have to be baked goods, made from scratch or even taste good (unless you hope to win best tasting).

Celebrate books, literature and food at the Edible Book Fest on April 26 at 6:00pm at the Goshen Public Library.

Create an edible book to enter, vote on your favorites, and join in the tasting!

Registration required for both events at Reference Desk or call 845-294-6066.

Cornerstone’s 2023 Season Begins

Cornerstone Theatre Arts wrote the play, I drew from stuff (CTA) has announced the opening in my life.” play of its 2023 season: 2 Across Mayer’s career as a comedy

by Jerry Mayer. writer for television was launched Two strangers, a man and a in 1966, when he met TV comedian woman, board a San Francisco Jerry Lester, known for having BART train at 4:30am. They’re Jerry Mayer hosted the first late-night comedy alone in the car, each and variety program, is married, and both Broadway Open House, are doing The New in the early 1950s.

York Times crossword.

He took the initial She’s an organized, step toward a career as sensible psychologist. a playwright in the midHe’s a free-spirited, 1980s, while working unemployed ad-exec. as executive producer This starts an 80-minute Evelyn Albino Mark Von Oeson of the hit TV series, ride with intriguing and entertaining The Facts of Life. results.

Directed by Sara Johnson, with Tech At age 83, Jerry Mayer, a highly Design by Victoria Cottone, CTA is successful television writer and featuring two of its stalwart thespians producer for hit television shows such in the leading roles, Evelyn Albino and as M*A*S*H, All in the Family, The Mark Von Oeson.

Bob Newhart Show and The Mary Tyler The production is sponsored by The Moore Show is still going strong.

Goshen Public Library & Historical Since 1986, he has been writing Society, and will be performed at CTA’s plays, most of them comedies, which home base, the Goshen Music Hall, 223 have been staged in Los Angeles, off- Main Street, a 2nd floor walk-up theatre.

Broadway, and around the country and Show dates are April 29 to May 14. abroad. “You know, it’s always nice Admission is FREE. Reservations are when you have opposites meeting in a required by calling 845-294-4188. romantic comedy,” Mayer said. “As I www.cornerstonetheatrearts.org

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Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra: All Baroque in Hurleyville, Jeffersonville The Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra (SCCO) will perform an all Baroque program featuring JS Bach’s Coffee Cantata this month in Hurleyville and Jeffersonville. Grab your favorite beverage and snack and mingle while listening to the SCCO house band!

The group will perform a variety of Baroque favorites including: Bach’s Violin Concerto in A Minor performed by Akiko Hosoi, Telemann’s Sonata # 4, in g minor, TWV 43:g1, and Vivaldi’s Cello Sonata No. 6 in Bb, with performers to be announced.

The event will culminate with a performance of Bach’s comic Coffee Cantata. The narrator tells the story of a distraught father (sung by David Trombley) desperately trying to marry off his young daughter to a proper suitor.

But she prefers to spend time drinking her favorite beverage, COFFEE! 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

Akiko Hosoi, violin

David Trombley

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, 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 performances are on April 22, at 6:00pm at the Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre, 219 Main Street, Hurleyville, and April 23, at 3:00pm at the Jeffersonville Bake Shop, 4906 Route 52, Jeffersonville.

For tickets, see ad page 19 and you can also purchase them up at the door at each location.

For further information, email

marina@nesinculturalarts.org 845-798-9006.

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SCCO is a Nesin Cultural Arts supported project. This program is made possible in part by funding from the NYS Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathleen Courtney Hochul and the NYS Legislature, Episcopal Charities, Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, Laura Jane Musser Fund, Sullivan County Legislature, M&T Charitable Foundation, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, NY Life Foundation, Walmart Community Foundation and Stewart’s Shoppes.

SUNY Orange, Newburgh Solo Show Rachel Williams is a full-time art teacher. She studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The School of Art and Design at Alfred University, SUNY New Paltz, and SUNY Orange. A restrained color palette on a variety of surfaces such as canvas, burlap, wood, paper doilies, library cards, sheet music, and vintage paper lends a soothing aspect to her subjects and offers her viewers the opportunity of capturing calm, introspective moments of daily life.

Introspective, a solo art exhibit by Rachel Williams will run from April 1 to June 3 in the Mindy Ross Gallery, Kaplan Hall. The free opening reception, which will include live music provided by pianist Darius Beckford, will be held on April 14 from 5:00pm-7:00pm.

Kaplan Hall is located at the corner of Grand & First Streets, Newburgh where free parking is available in the college’s garage on First Street. www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs

Grit Gallery in Newburgh, Trio Exhibition: “Figures - Burden - Loneliness” Figures - Burden - Loneliness is a remarkable show at Grit Gallery in Newburgh featuring three artists working in three different disciplines: sculpture, painting, and photography.

Explore the gallery and feel the impact of these combined works, inspired by wild beasts, a lifetime of experience, and the lonely, beautiful places of our lives.

Geo/Physical Abstraction “My new sculptures reflect my varied life experiences. No longer predominantly abstract in design, they show my fascination with words and color, as well as the human figure. Moreover, my experience as a builder informs

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each piece with an intimate awareness of how material and form interact in mysterious and sometimes astounding ways.” Morris Shuman.

Beasts of Burden David Lionheart has continued his pursuit of creating Morris Shuman larger than life subjects through mixed media and rugged textures, carefully sculpting impressions made by the wild nature appreciated in

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his life. To see them and to touch them is to understand them.

Liminal Spaces David Patiño is a photographer specializing in portraiture and prosaic scenes.

Patiño creates images that are accessible for David Lionheart all, images that examine the irony of loneliness in a densely populated world.

While his work can be enjoyed simply

as color and composition, it also explores the desire to be recognized in modern society.

Patiño’s work finds beauty in the mundane; it demands reverie.

Most importantly, it triggers pause, if only for just a David Patiño moment.

The show runs weekends through April 30 at Grit Gallery, 115 Broadway, Newburgh. For info: 845-565-0700.

“Spring Art Fling” in Highland Falls

Watercolor Demo Workshop, Balmville

Highlands Arts Alliance “Art to me is an (HAA) is pleased to invite expression of myself which the community to the second is done through my feelings, annual Spring Art Fling. This interpretations, impressions, artists and makers market expectations, desires and is a great way to spend a a quest to portray my spring afternoon immersed innermost thoughts through in creativity! Enjoy painting, movement of paint on photography, home decor, canvas. Art allows me to arts activities and more step outside of the box and from talented Hudson Valley get messy and creative. It is “Spring Art Fling 2022” like I am being guided and creators. was a success!

In 2016, HAA shown where to place member Marie Perrythe tree for peace, the Edwards attended an sky for love and all acrylic painting course the other details are at the Alice Desmond added for a harmonic CenterforCommunity balance.

Aristotle Enrichment and said, “The aim of art decided to pursue is not to represent the painting further. She outward appearance continued taking of things, but their classes in drawing “High Summer” by Marie Perry-Edwards inward significance.” and acrylics learning various techniques, I could not agree more. The feeling of and studied acrylics with Rebecca accomplishment upon completion is Cornell and oils with Mitchell Saler. vastly exhilarating and satisfying.”

A member of the Middletown Art Spring Art Fling is on April 22, from Group, Marie enjoys being involved in 11:00am-3:00pm at the American the arts community. She recently became Legion Hall, 134 Old State Road, the ticket coodinator for the Greater Highland Falls. Light refreshments will Newburgh Symphony Orchestra. also be available. See ad page 8.

Riverside Art Workshops offers small, intimate, and intensive workshops where you can get to know artists personally and participate in their demos from only a few feet away. “We are happy to offer you art workshops in the comfort of our private studio, which has breathtaking, panoramic views of the Hudson River, with plein air instruction, “Game of Thrones” (detail) by Michael Solovyev daily demonstrations, a art societies: National generous lunch menu to order, Watercolor Society, Society free wi-fi, and a welcome of Canadian Artists, North gift,” said director Marguerite East Watercolor Society, Meyerson. and International Watercolor Michael Solovyev is often Society, he is also the brand called a “sunny watercolorist” ambassador of Daniel Smith, - his airy, transparent artworks one of the world’s leading look as though they emit manufacturers of art and the sunlight. His traditional watercolor materials. academic art education, extensive Solovyev will demonstrate and teach experience as a theater stage designer, at Riverside from April 11-14. “Because and oil painter career now inform his we keep the number of student to teacher priority as a watercolor artist - light. ratio smaller, allowing for a better oneSolovyev considers adrenaline, on-one experience, our workshops fill up novelty, and experimentation the quickly,” said Marguerite. necessities of the creative process. He For info and to register, call 845-787is always challenging himself with new 4167 or email mkmeyerson@gmail.com. techniques, ideas, stories, and materials. Visit www.riversideartworkshops.com A signature member of four prestigious and check out the ad on page 26.

VINYL! VINYL! VINYL! “Record stores are gathering places.

They’re rooms full of carefully curated art and entertainment. In your local record store you find common ground and the excitement of discovery. Record stores make it possible for recording artists to find their audience and their voice.” Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires.

Callicoon Vinyl has gotten its groove back at Time Warp Records located at 28 Upper Main Street. Voted as “Best Music Store” by River Reporter readers, owner, Lillyan Peditto brings her extensive personal vinyl library from her radio show days in the 70’s as a DJ at NYC’s rock station WQIV-FM to Callicoon.

Time Warp is a visually stunning store, small in size but giant in well edited, well stocked music history including rock, rap, Motown, soul, reggae, punk, blues, country, r&b and lots of jazz.

Other musical oddities for sale include vintage rock magazines, tapes, cd’s & 45’s, posters, guitars, sheet music, t-shirts, and much more.

Time Warp is constantly buying small and large private collections. It’s a great place for browsers and collectors.

Phone: 845-887-3032 or 845-796-8170.

Pine Bush Marc Giammarco has “curated’ vinyl stores in Salisbury Mills and Montgomery. Now he is bringing his expertise and music on Vinyl Celebration Day April 22 from 10:00am-6:00pm to Soulshine Market, 96 Main Street, Pine Bush. See ad page 10.

Phone: 845-744-6006.

Warwick Join Original Vinyl Records for Record Store Day, an annual event inaugurated in 2007, and held every April and Black Friday of November to “celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store.”

Look for exclusive albums from Taylor Swift, U2, Madonna, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Allman Brothers, Ramones, Keith Richards, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Max Roach, Archie Shepp, Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires, Pearl Jam, Paul & Ringo, and more on April 22, from 9:00am-6:00pm at Original Vinyl Records, ‘Side A’ (unit #7), 314 Route 94 South, Warwick.

Enjoy free refreshments and some vinyl surprises, too! For info: 845-9873131 or www.originalvinylrecords.com.

Check out the ad on the right.

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Celebrate Earth Day with a Hike!

Celebrate Earth Day 2023 with the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum on April 22! This special day kicks off with Hike the Highlands at 9:00am, followed by the Earth Day Celebration from 11:00am-3:00pm. This exciting event has something for people of all ages and interests and will take place at the Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center.

For Hike the Highlands, participants will be able to choose from three different hikes: Hike & Play: A Nature Educator will lead this family friendly hike that is perfect for the little ones! As you walk through the woods, you’ll make stops at some of the Young Naturalist Preschooler’s favorite Nature Play spots and enjoy fun activities.

Field & Forest Ramble: A Nature Museum Naturalist will lead an interpretive hike that focuses on what you’ll see on the trail that day, get you better acquainted with the world around you, and learn what plants and animals are active in April in the Hudson Valley.

Hearty Hike: This is a guided 2.2 mile hike on the McKeon Loop Trail. The hike connects the Outdoor Discovery Center to HHNM neighbors at Black Rock Forest.

This moderately strenuous hike will

take you through a beautiful deciduous forest and includes two wonderful views of the Hudson River (1.5 to 2 hours to complete). Check-in begins at 8:30am.

Pre-registration required.

The Earth Day Celebration will immediately follow Hike the Highlands with activities beginning at 11:00am.

Join in for lots of family fun with Nature Museum Educators who will lead interactive activities. Meet live animals and enjoy Grasshopper Grove, hay rides (fee), storytelling by Jonathan Kruk, and live music by Jackie & John Gioia. There will also be vendors selling wonderful hand crafted and locally made items and snacks, and more!

Visit hhnm.org for more details and to purchase tickets.

Flute Music & Talk at Desmond Center The Alice Desmond Center for Community Enrichment is a beautiful setting with wooded paths, scenic views of the Hudson, and, luckily, home to many song birds. While many works of Classical music have been inspired by nature, there is a particular affinity between the flute and the songs of birds.

Many composers have written works inspired by birdsong specifically for Flute Ensemble.

Among them are these selections which Kemyndable Trio (a mash-up of Amy-Deb-Ken) will perform: Trio in D - F.A. Hoffmeister: Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754-1812) was an Austrian composer and music publisher. By the 1780s he had become one of Vienna’s most popular composers, with an extensive and varied catalogue of works to his credit.

The Bird Fancyer’s Delight: John Walsh (1665-1736), arrangement by Stephanie Proulx (Deb’s daughter): John Walsh (1665-1736) was an English music publisher possibly of Irish descent. He was appointed musical instrument-maker-in-ordinary to the king in 1692. Walsh secured the rights to Handel’s Rinaldo. Handel is reputed to have commented that Walsh should write

The Kemyndable Trio is: Deborah Proulx, Amy Klein & Kenneth Korn

the next opera, while Handel published it.

Birds: Herman Beeftink: “In the late 1990’s, I was lucky enough to write music for over 100 films and TV series. I am currently pursuing my other passion for composing performance pieces, such as Birds,” said Beeftink.

The concert also includes Dance of the Hummingbirds by Halpner; The Cuckoo in the Forest (from Carnival of the Animals) by Saint-Saens; and On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring by Frederick Delius.

As with previous Kemyndable concert/ lectures, a PowerPoint presentation with biographical and historical background on the composers and works presented will be given on April 14 at 10:30am, at 6 Albany Post Road, Newburgh.

To register: 845-565-1326.

Art Exhibit at Leo’s, Cornwall: Cornwall Arts Collective: “Spring Exhibition” runs through May 23

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Photo Contest: You Be the Judge

Orange County Land Trust (OCLT) has helped to protect nearly 6,500 acres of land through the negotiation of conservation agreements with private landowners, property donations and the acquisition of private property.

To preserve iconic Sugar Loaf Mountain, OCLT has developed a photo contest to illustrate the beauty of this landmark and hopefully spur donations, and the public is invited “Summer Sunrise Over Sugar Loaf Mountain”

by Nick Zungoli to be the judge!

Sugar Loaf Mountain has been life, Sugar Loaf Mountain has always photographed from many angles over stood as a natural landmark that changes the years and stands as a stunning only with the seasons,” says OCLT natural backdrop for many nature shots Executive Director Jim Delaune. “Photo in the area. Now, OCLT is shining a submissions highlighting the beauty of light on a project that will permanently the mountain underscore the importance protect water resources, forest, and of protecting it for future generations.”

All entries were reviewed by the editor wildlife habitat while securing the firstever public access to the mountain for at Strauss News, who selected the top outdoor recreation. OCLT has entered 10. These ten photos are situated on the into an agreement with the landowner to OCLT Facebook page, and all community purchase over 300 acres that comprises members can vote by hitting “like” on their favorite photo now through April Sugar Loaf Mountain.

For the Sugar Loaf Mountain Photo 14. The photo that receives the greatest Contest, avid and hobby photographers number of likes, wins. The winner will alike have competed for the chance to be announced on April 15.

To donate to the Save the Mountain win prizes. “Whether you’re new to the area or you’ve lived here all of your campaign, visit www.oclt.org.

Paramount Theatre: THE ORCHESTRA

During Electric Light Orchestra’s (ELO) original 13-year period of active recording and touring, they sold over 50 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling music groups of all time. THE ORCHESTRA is a band that features members of the ELO. Mik Kaminski is the original violin wild man, shattering traditional notions of stage propriety with a classical instrument. You have to sort through his Yorkshire accent to get to his jokes.

Eric Troyer’s distinctive voice and keyboards have been a staple of the band for more than 30 years. Troyer has managed to survive years of exposure to the highest levels of rock and roll insanity with his good humor intact.

Parthenon Huxley was with ELO Part II from November 1998 to 2000.

“Hux” composed four songs for THE ORCHESTRA’s first studio album.

Gordon Townsend was the first choice to replace ELO founding member Bev Bevan on drums, playing down an unshakable back beat beneath the band’s often complex musical arrangements.

Glen Burtnik’s extensive showbiz career includes a stint on Broadway as Paul McCartney in Beatlemania, a Billboard #2 smash hit, Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough, ten years as frontman for rock legend Styx, and several short runs as bassist for ELO Part II. Louis Clark enjoys letting loose on his electric cello especially during the “rockier” songs. He can also be seen and heard on acoustic and electric guitar at each show and occasionally performing 2nd violin alongside Mik Kaminski.

Since the passing of his father in early 2021, Louis is now the group’s sole arranger and orchestral conductor.

The former ELO members perform on April 22 at 8:00pm in the Paramount Theatre, 17 South Street, Middletown.

Tickets: www.MiddletownParamount. com or call 845-346-6145.

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Earth Day Festivals at MEEC & PEEC The first Earth Day was April 22, 1970.

Earth Day is an annual celebration that honors the achievements of the environmental movement and raises awareness of the need to protect Earth’s natural resources for future generations.

Enjoy fun activities at the Mamakating Environmental Education Center (MEEC) that celerate our beautiful Earth and learn what you can do to keep her healthy. Programming is in conjunction with Mamakating Library. Drop in anytime on April 22, from 1:00pm4:00pm, 762 South Road, Wurtsboro.

Join MEEC before hand in helping

the Bashakill Area Association clean up the Bashakill, from 10:00am-Noon. Wear sturdy shoes and bring gloves. Meet at Haven Road parking lot.

Phone: 845-6445014.

Help Pocono Environmental Education Center (PEEC) celebrate Earth! PEEC will have hands-on learning stations, interpretive hikes, conservation exhibits, crafts, food, music, and much more! Pre-registration is NOT required for the April 29, 11:00am-4:00pm event at 538 Emery Road, Dingmans Ferry. For more info: 570-828-2319 or visit www.peec.org.

See pg. 22 for Earth Day in Cornwall.

“Soultown to Motown” in Sugar Loaf

The Sensational Soul Cruisers are an 11-man horn group fronted by four soulful vocalists who pay homage to the very best of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s old school, classic soul, r&b, motown and disco, emulating the distinctive style, skill and choreography of a classic show band working together to deliver the ultimate Soul Cruisers dance party!

While it is still sometimes possible to find a band featuring a similar line up of instruments, it is unlikely that you will ever find another that performs with as much energy, passion, and talent as these gentlemen. From their humble beginnings rehearsing at the chicken coops on Route 33 to the basement of the Cycle Shop on Throckmorton Street, this band has come a long way from its “Eddie and the Cruisers” days to become one of New Jersey’s best kept secrets.

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grace the stage with many great artists from Bruce Springsteen, Little Anthony and The Imperials, Gloria Gaynor, Gary US Bonds, John Cafferty, Southside Johnny, The Emotions, Bon Jovi, Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder, as well as being the long time favorite house band at New York City’s famed Copacabana.

See them perform in Soultown To Motown on April 29 at 8:00pm at Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, 231 Creamery Pond Road, Chester.

Tickets: www.sugarloafpacny.com

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Award-Winning Documentary at MEEC The Mamakating Environmental Education Center (MEEC) is excited about the return of Gene Weinstein, who presented MEEC’s first ever program on Eagles in November 2019. His is a life of service and MEEC is honored to have him back again.

Join MEEC for the Academy Award nominated documentary, Radio Bikini, which won first place awards at the Sundance Film Festival and the San Francisco Film Festival. This provocative film uses archival footage and “live” radio broadcasts from 1946 to cover testing of the Atomic Bomb on Bikini Island and its aftermath.

Gene is a local retired high school science teacher (Monticello) who is passionate about eagles, teaching, and his time in the Navy. He has the dubious

honor of having witnessed the bomb firsthand as a young radioman aboard the flagship, USS Mt. McKinley.

He will give commentary throughout the one-hour film as well as answer questions.

Find out about the moment of detonation, widespread exposure, decontamination efforts, and the response to claims by the US Dept. of Veteran’s Affairs.

Radio Bikini: Testing of an Atomic Bomb will be shown April 23 at 1:00pm at MEEC, 762 South Road, Wurtsboro.

Disturbing content, not appropriate for children. Call to register: 845-644-5014.

For the Kids: Rock & Roll Playhouse

The Rock and Roll families with children Playhouse is the largest aged 1-7, games, national kid-friendly live movement, stories and concert series having most importantly, an performed to hundreds opportunity to rock out! of thousands of kids and The shows allow parents their families. to enjoy the music they Founded in 2014 by love while little fans are Rock & Roll Playhouse independent concert encouraged to explore promoter Peter Shapiro their creativity and have and educator Amy fun!

Striem, the Rock and On Earth Day, come Roll Playhouse have sing and dance with The hosted over 1,000 shows Rock and Roll Playhouse in more than 35 leading as they salute the live music venues across greatest songs from their Reggae band, SunDub the United States, filling show, Bob Marley for the void for shared KIDS featuring reggae musical experiences band from Brooklyn, between parents and Sundub! children across the Kids 1 and under are country.

Free at City Winery Performing songs Hudson Valley, created by the most 23 Factory Street, iconic musicians in rock Robert “Bob” Marley (1945-1981) Montgomery, on April history, they offer their core audience of 23 at Noon. See ad page 9.

Visitor Center: “Provenance”

Visitor Center in Newburgh will host object by re-engaging the agency of both Provenance, a group show curated by the artist and the viewer.

Marissa Passi with works by Sophia The contemporary artists represented De Jesus-Sabella, Soull Ogun, Patricia employ traditions, materials, and Orpilla, Sagarika Sundaram, and Mia techniques associated with craft. This Wright-Ross. commonality is not The exhibit presents coincidental, as craft contemporary artists media - including who engage craft the weaving, materials and traditions metalsmithing, to consider intertwining felting, and leather notions of materiality, artisanship on view lineage, and identity. are intrinsically rich The opening reception with memory. will be held on April 15 To observe any from 4:00pm-7:00pm. artwork is to activate The ownership it with one’s own history of an art object, interpretation; with or provenance, is often “Slip Through” by Soull Ogun, 2020. craft media, the recorded by cultural Brass, 24k dip, clear quartz, agate. artwork is distinctly institutions in an effort to qualify an loaded with tactile connotations, object’s authenticity or value. This historical applications, generational practice frequently treats an object as techniques, and material associations. its own entity from its completion to Provenance thus presents works that are the present, separate from its creator, as bolstered by their pasts, the identities it travels between places and amongst of their creators, and the associations collectors. Recontextualizing the idea unearthed in the viewer. of provenance, this exhibition will Provenance is on view April 15 to encourage a broader application that June 3 at Visitor Center, 233 Liberty centers and celebrates the layered Street, Newburgh. For information, call histories and influences inherent to an 212-228-8965.

Ward’s Workshop in Warwick

Award-winning artist Ward Lamb, who has been painting for forty years, was the chairman of the Art Department at Minisink Valley High School (MVHS).

Ward and his MVHS colleague Adrienne Butvinik were, to CANVAS’ knowledge, the first local HS art teachers to arrange for an art exhibit of their students’ works in a local professional gallery, the former “Botanical Self-Portrait” by Ward Lamb, on view through April 30 at the Wallkill River Center for the Arts, Montgomery.

Country House Arts Center expressionistic figures, and in Bloomingburg, owned now he will host a portrait and operated by Roanne painting workshop for which Patterson in the early he will be offering a demo/ 2000s. Since then, student workshop on the art of shows in local professional portraiture for the Warwick galleries have blossomed into Art League (WAL) on becoming a popular event in April 22, from 10:30ammany galleries.

12:30pm at the Warwick Throughout the years, Senior Center, 132 Kings Ward has been active in Highway, Warwick. exhibiting his work in the Hudson Valley. He is proud “Warhol” by Lamb (2011) The workshop is free for to have done portrait work for actress- League members who may also invite a singer Cher, among other interesting guest. Non-members are also welcome for a minimal fee of $10. Participants individuals.

Ward’s works range from should bring their own materials.

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Music & Poetry Overlooking the Hudson at SUNY Newburgh Music and Poetry complement each other naturally. So, when two friends who are award winners in their fields of music and poetry, respectfully, work together, a beautifully thoughtful performance emerges. Such is the event when musician/composer James Emery and poet Paul Kane present their collaborative program, One Art: A Music & Poetry Performance.

Ah! And the dynamics of sound will be much larger than Emery’s Jimmy D’Aquisto-hand-built, archtop, acoustic guitar and Kane’s soft, yet distinctive speaking voice. Emery will be playing with his fellow members of the String Trio of New York: Rob Thomas on five-string violin, and Tony Marino on acoustic bass. In addition, veteran jazz drummer/percussionist Thurman Barker will join them to further enlarge the sound.

In 1977, Emery formed the String Trio of New York which brought the genre-busting sounds of chamber jazz to the forefront. By definition, chamber jazz “combines jazz, western classical, world-music, and experimental forms into a cohesive palette of sonic textures and adventurous energy.” JazzTimes observed, “No individual or ensemble

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has done more to is currently a professor demystify chamber at Berklee College of jazz, and to realize its Music, Boston. potential for warmth, Tony Marino is also sensuousness, and known for his concerts beauty...than the String with the Chris Parker Trio of New York.” bands. His versatility Virtuoso guitarist and and wide range of composer Emery has musicality has afforded received international him opportunities to String Trio of New York recognition for his accompany and record distinctive and highly with numerous artists original approach to from folk to pop. He both improvisation and has performed regularly composition. with Broadway star Emery leads his own Betty Buckley and jazz trio, quartet, sextet, and Paul Kane Thurman Barker pianist Kenny Werner septet, and performs photo by V. Manzi as well as performing, solo concerts. A composer of great scope recording, and touring internationally and depth, he has composed for chamber with the Dave Liebman Band. groups, jazz ensembles, solo guitar, Thurman Barker’s career has spanned chamber orchestra, and symphony decades, and his talent encompasses many orchestra. musical genres. From jazz and blues to Rob Thomas is a highly regarded contemporary, classical, and beyond, his multi-instrumentalist, fluent on violin, sound blurs traditionally rigid lines to the bass, and cello. JazzTimes calls him delight of his audiences. He has played “a violinist of exceptional creative behind Bette Midler, Marvin Gaye, Billy resources...riveting as a solo voice Eckstein, Vicky Carr, and Mighty Joe with a rich complex tone that can sing Young. He was a founding member of or shriek.” He is known locally as a the Association for the Advancement of member of the Chris Parker bands and Creative Musicians, and is a professor of

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music at Bard College.

Paul Kane is a poet, critic and scholar.

Awards for his work include Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, and a Fulbright Award. He is also considered an Australian poet and has an honorary doctorate from La Trobe University in Australia. In November 2022, he was awarded the Order of Australia by the Australian government for “significant service to literature, particularly through the promotion of Australian arts, poetry, and emerging talent.” His poems are cerebral and emotional in equal measure. Kane is a professor of English and Environmental Studies at Vassar College.

Come to Kaplan Hall, Grand & First Streets, Newburgh, on April 29 at 7:30pm for a sure-to-be memorable evening of music and poetry. Kaplan Hall is situated on a bluff overlooking the Hudson River and the Great Room has two walls of glass offering full view of the river.

Admission is $5, cash or check only.

Parking is free in the garage at 73 First Street. For questions, email Cultural Affairs: cultural@sunyorange.edu.

Chris Farlekas Fund Premiere Event Benefits Wallkill River Center for the Arts Since the recent renaming and reimagining of the organization, the staff and board of Wallkill River Center for the Arts (WRCA) have been expanding and creating programs beyond the already established and successful visual arts classes, exhibits and festivals.

In 2008, WRCA, formally the Wallkill River School, incorporated as a notfor-profit and moved to the historic Patchett House in Montgomery. Since then, the organization has enjoyed the support and generous donations from Patchett family patriarchs, Arthur and his brother, Joseph and their families. Although the family no longer Arthur Patchett (1929-2022) owns the property, members enjoyed visiting when in the area. After his recent death, WRCA received word that Arthur Patchett included the organization in his will and bequeathed a generous sum to the nonprofit. Honoring his gift, WRCA has named the new music series after Arthur Patchett.

Under the extraordinary creative energy and talents of Music Program Director, Judi Silvano, WRCA has formed the Arthur Patchett Memorial Music Series. The plan is to offer several concerts a year in various genres in select venues throughout Orange County.

WRCA Executive Director Sarah Pierson explains, “Arthur was a lover of music, notably opera and classical.

We found it fitting to honor the memory of this generous man, who supported

our mission and graciously thought to include us as part of his legacy.”

A recent addition to the board of directors, Silvano added, “The concert series will not only serve as a fundraiser for WRCA, but also as a form of outreach and introduction to our organization for those who may not be familiar with our vibrant and varied offerings.”

A series of this nature could not be offered without further support. In this case, the inaugural sponsor and kickstarter of the first concert on April 30 is the Chris Farlekas Legacy Fund. “We are grateful for the generous support and enormous inspiration provided by the Farlekas Fund!,” exclaimed Silvano.

The Fund will distribute grants to various charitable projects in memory of Chris Spero Farlekas (1929-2015), longtime Times Herald-Record arts reporter and columnist, and Port Jervis native. Through his writing and his fundraising efforts he raised, throughout the tri-state area, over $4.5 million dollars for charitable causes including hunger, domestic violence, homelessness and others. His work in the community earned him numerous “Man of the Year”

Cranky Seniors is a performance sure to have seniors (and audience members of all ages!) chuckling. Only seniors know what it’s like to have SENIORITIS! Let Catskill Reader’s Theatre members Albee Arctic, Jean Eifert,

Sally Gladden, Peter Natasi and Paul Preuschner entertain you on April 16, at 2:00pm in the Time and Valleys Museum, 332 Main Street, Grahamsville.

Phone: 845-985-7700.

Barry Plaxen and Chris Farlekas

awards and an Honorary PhD from Mount St. Mary College.

“We’ve been raising money for a few years via the Community Foundation of Orange & Sullivan, and the Fund Board is so happy that its inaugural donation is going to our dear friends at WRCA,” said Barry Plaxen, Fund Chair. “And speaking of dear friends, who better to perform for the Chris Farlekas Legacy Fund’s first event than Farlekas’ dear friend and colleague, another Orange County treasure, soprano Julie Ziavras.” Julie is sharing the spotlight with Orange County composer Steve Margoshes, the Julie Ziavras composer of Fame The Musical and other theatrical and classical works.

“There seems to be a general theme of spring, and pieces we love,” Julie told Barry. “We Steve Margoshes are considering songs by Faure, Duparc, Mompou, Grieg’s Våren, your favorite lied (“spring” in Norwegian), Mahler, R. Strauss, Montsalvage, Gershwin,

Chris Farlekas and Julie Ziavras

Kern and Margoshes; (French, Catalan, German, Norwegian, English). I am opening with a ditty Steve wrote for me to the words of “Will” Shakespeare.”

Steve will also solo works of his own, two of which are “in the style of Faure & Satie,” he stated. “And Julie will sing at least two pieces, including a premiere I just wrote for her, In-Just spring, from a poem by E.E.Cummings.”

The April 30, 3:00pm concert will take place on the Howard Garrett (1931-2020) Stage, (named for a dear friend of Chris’, Julie’s & Barry’s), in the Montgomery Senior Center, 36 Bridge Street. Suggested donation is $20.

For tickets: www.wallkillriverschool. com (click on “Events and Music”), and at the door. Proceeds benefit the WRCA and The Chris Farlekas Legacy Fund.

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Decorate your own Umbrella w/ Miss Beth What makes a leisurely walk in the rain even more enjoyable? Why, using your own customized umbrella of course! Paint, paint markers and stencils to get creative with, and if you are not sure to get started, we’ll have ideas to get you going!

April 20 at 6:00pm Mahjong Club meets every Monday, 9:00am-1:00pm.

April 12 at 4:30pm: Kids’ Art Club April 13 at 4:30pm: Kids’ Book Club

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