D & H CANVAS March 2011

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March 2011 Covering Orange and Sullivan Counties and the neighboring towns of Beacon, Marlboro, Walker Valley, Ellenville, Milford and Dingmans Ferry

March is Moving In...

Lord of the Dance see page 2

Gaia Dance Collective see page 16

New Shanghai Circus see page 3

LIVE From the MET: In HD see page 17

art

cinema

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Russian National Ballet “Giselle� see page 16

holistic living

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Publisher’s Column ....................Spring is a -ccomin’ in....................

by Barry Plaxen How do we know?

Spring! - Rebirth Well, for one thing, Air Pirates Radio Theater, “a unique mixture of live contemporary interactive theater and old time radio drama” will be back for its 5th season in the Pavilion at Lycian Centre in Sugar Loaf. One could “understate” and call the group a Hudson Valley gem, but to my knowledge, there is nothing like it anywhere else on the planet.

Producer, director, co-writer Paul Ellis has molded a superb acting repertory company, and if you have never seen one of their wonderfully humorous live radio performances where the audience creates the sound effects, “We Give You The Toys, You Make The Noise,” you are now being given another chance.

And new this year, Air Pirates takes to the road. “Air Pirates on Tour” will be performing two different scripts at the Railroad Playhouse in Newburgh, March 11 and 12, 8:00pm.

The first new play in the 2011 series, Herb Marks Freelance: Art By The Numbers, is set for March 19 at 8:00pm. in the Pavilion at Lycian Centre.

Phone:845-469-7563 or visit www. airpiratesradio.com.

Spring! - Birth For more proof that spring is a-comin’ in, you can visit what is, according to Cultural Affairs Coordinator for SUNY Orange, Newburgh Campus, Nicole Shea, Orange County’s “newest state-of-the-art building”.

I had the honor of being given a private tour of the beautiful addition to the Newburgh Campus, Kaplan Hall, on Grand and First Streets, in the heart of the city’s historic/arts corridor, with its indoor and outdoor views of the icy Hudson River and the spectacular Highlands surrounding Beacon.

Now SUNY Orange has two County Cultural Centers bringing exhibits, lectures and performances to the public: the Middletown Campus, coordinated for many years by Dorothy Szefc, is now joined by Shea’s recently birthed location.

The new exhibit space, CenterArts, will hold its first reception on March 3 from 5:00pm-7:00pm for a juried art show.

“Illuminations. This, CenterArts’ inaugural exhibition, is an exciting step forward for SUNY Orange's Newburgh Campus as well as for the reinvigoration of the arts in the City of Newburgh," stated Shea.

And check the Newburgh calendar on page 19 for the Experiencing India series in the Great Room, Kaplan Hall 101, the Campus’ new performance space.

For information: 845-341-9386.

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Spring! - Rebirth Literally rising from the ashes, another gallery will open at the newly reconstructed Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Rock Hill, which was destroyed by fire in 2006. See story page 7.

Spring -From Budding to Blossoming After having an airing on WJFF’s Monday Afternoon Classics with Gandalf program, Cuddebackville composer Evan Mack’s opera about Dorothy Stang, a 73year-old Sister of Notre Dame de Namur who was brutally murdered by hired logging company Sr. Dorothy Stang assassins over land conflicts in the Brazilian rainforest, has begun to attract more attention.

Encompass New Opera Theater in NYC will be doing a partial, but fullyproduced sequence from Angel of the Amazon, on March 13 during WQXR announcer Midge Woolsey's hosting of New Opera Previews: From Page to Stage.

Then, in early May at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in Manhattan, fourteen performances of Angel will be scheduled.

For info: www.angeloftheamazon.com.

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Cover Photo- Lord of the Dan nce We don’t know if these two dancers will appear at Eisenhower Hall Theater in West Point on March 5 at 8:00pm in the exciting Celtic Lord of the Dance performance, but their photo intrigued us.

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

Ellenville’s Fat Tuesday

Roger Weiss and Buffy Lewis of the renowned Cajun band, Cleoma's Ghost, are bringing a little Cajun history, images, live music and great stories to the Ellenville Public Library, 40 Center Street, for a celebration of Mardi Gras with a sassy Fat Tuesday for the whole family, made possible in part by a grant from Dutchess County Arts Council.

For information on the March 8, 6:00pm event, call 845-647-5530.

Hasbrouck Prose Reading For it’s 2011 opening, the Old Stone House is bringing Shorts & Sweets, a prose reading by Carol Montana who will read the work of Robert Fulghum, Thomas Meehan and Neil Gaiman on March 20 at 2:00pm. Old Stone House is located at 282 Hasbrouck Road, in Woodbourne. Phone: 845-436-7720

Discards in the Manor

Jeff Christensen and his wife operate Hamish & Henry Booksellers, and he also hosts a weekly world music show, Night Out, on WJFF. His solo show, Discadrds, is being shown at the Catskill Art Society Arts Center (CAS), 48 Main Street in Livingston Manor from March 5 to April 10. The paintings in Discards rifle through the psychic sidewalk to retrieve some gold and some dross from the piles awaiting the waste removal trucks.

The exhibition is divided into two sections: Love Is All Around Us, which takes abandoned love letters as its springboard; and Welcome To Taboo, which discreetly takes a seat in the psychiatrist’s office to glean inspiration.

At the March 5 opening reception, from 3:00pm to 5:00pm, CAS will host an artists’ talk at 2:00pm. Light refreshments will be served.

For information: 845-436-4227.

Milford Galleries Share the Wealth

Annual MLK Tribute Orange County Peace and Justice’s tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr is moving to Rock Tavern for 2011, co-sponsoring with The Social Action Committee of the UU Congregation at Rock Tavern.

This annual tribute was created “to rededicate ourselves to fulfilling his dream through the spoken word, music, and readings, looking deeply at the complete message of Dr. King: his complete allegiance to non-violence and civil disobedience, his expanding focus from civil rights in Alabama to human rights in Vietnam and his courageous denunciation of the "giant triplets" of racism, poverty, and militarism”.

At the event, there will be a time for reflection and conversation, a look at “where do we go from here,” and an opportunity to connect with individuals and organizations who are continuing the work he envisioned.

Participants are requested, if able, to bring finger-food to share for refreshments afterward, and a can of food for the Soup Pantry. A collection will be taken to benefit Community Voices Heard in Newburgh and Poughkeepsie..

This year’s event will be held on April 4, 7:00pm-9:00pm at The Unitarian Universalist Meeting House, 9 Vance Road in Rock Tavern. (Snow date, April 5) For information, call: Verne M. Bell 845569-8965: Alison P. Fornes 845-231-3592 or Bennett Weiss 845-569-8662.

Shanghai Circus March 5 Woodcut by Joe Calabrese

Woodcut by Moriah Wolfe

High School students’ art being exhibited in professional galleries is not new to the Tri-State area anymore. It is the best of all possible collaborations between galleries, teachers (who work hard coordinating and hanging) and students to share with the community the creations of young and talented artists. There is no need to elaborate on the esteem it gives the students.

This time around, The ARTery Gallery and Highlands Photographic Guild (HPG) are sharing the honor of exhibiting Delaware Valley HS Students’ work. The

“Wagon Wheel”

by Jordan Saboski, grade 12

“Rose”

by Moriah Wolfe, grade 11

variety of works including ceramics, computer graphics, printmaking, painting and jewelry will be at The ARTery and photographic creations at HPG. The public is encouraged to join in and show support of the emerging talents of these young artists. The galleries are located at 210 and 224 Broad Street and the show runs from March 11 through April 3.

The reception will be held during Milford’s Art After Dark, a town-wide celebration of the arts, on March 12, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm.

Astonishing athletes defy gravity and execute breathtaking feats as they stretch the limits of human ability in this spellbinding show. Fearless performers with boundless energy bring you more than two thousand years of Chinese circus traditions.

Tickets for this astonishing event may be purchased by calling the Lycian Centre Box Office in Sugar Loaf at 845-469-2287, or on the web at www.LycianCentre.com.

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PERFORMANCE VENUES Air Pirates Radio Theater Exclusive Live Radio Theater Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf 845-469-7563 www.airpiratesradiotheater.com Downing Film Center Independent Classic & Foreign Films 19 Front Street, Newburgh 845-561-3686 www.downingfilmcenter,com Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra Dr.Woomyung Choe, conductor Seasonal Subscriptions P.O.Box 7215, Newburgh, NY 12550 www.newburghsymphony.org Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts Music-Theatre-Cinema-Art Exhibits King’s Highway, Sugar Loaf 845-469-2287 www.lyciancentre.com Opera Company of the Highlands Concert & Staged Performances Claudia Cummings, Artistic Director 845-496-9626 www.operacompanyofthehighlands.org

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Destination.................................

Shinin’ on Shane,.....A Musical Memoir - Alice Nielsen-S Shane

by J. A. Di Bello Under the precise direction of Ginny Neidermier, Walden's Josephine-Louise Library continues on a celestial course as a purveyor of fine music delivered by extraordinary musicians. The journey, in the form of Tickling the Ivories, graciously includes a musical memoir by Alice Nielsen-Shane. If you were among those fortunate souls in attendance at Mark and Alice Shane's Valentine concert in February, you'll no doubt remember Alice as Mark's accompanist and accomplished, not to mention attractive, soloist.

On March 20, at 3:00pm, at the Library, Alice Nielsen-Shane, an Alaskan native, will be the featured performer. This is her chance to shine. "Shinin' on Shane" is a musical memoir, reflecting the wide variations in the musical history and personal memories of Alice Nielsen-Shane.

The variations could not be more diverse and still be appropriately representational of her roots as an American artist. A meet-theartist reception will be held at the library immediately following the performance.

For a glimpse of the cultural tugs and pulls that influenced Alice Nielsen-Shane’s music and delivery, digest if you will the images summoned by her performance

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venues. How does the Buckaroo Bar in Anchorage, Alaska sound? Add to that an unassuming performance of the Can-Can on the floor of the Palace Saloon in Fairbanks.

To add a dynamic accent to these diverse fragments, Alice Shane's formative years reveal her country roots. Those experiences were dominated by such traditional country

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greats as Kitty Wells, Hank Williams and Patsy Cline (see photos). Couple this with the fact that Alice is a noted blues and torch song soloist, along the lines of Billie Holiday (see photo) and Bessie Smith, the "Empress of the Blues."

This is not a humble jumble of musical cacophonies, but a unique and precious blend of Musica Americana. These influences were not from the time of the great Alaskan Gold rush, but from the comparable summer of '75 when Fairbanks was booming with the Alaskan Oil Rush in Prudhoe Bay. Saloons, bars and assorted honky-tonks provided the raw materials for a unique and formidable musical foundation. Roots are roots, and Alice demonstrates what it means to be country; "You just can't fake it!"

We're speaking here of a class performer,

influenced by the greats. To finalize expectations, this observer is anxious to experience Alice's delivery of Ten Cents a Dance, connected with an oral interpretation of the works of the noted American poet Robert Service.

And by the way, for those who may have been vacationing during 8th grade American Lit, Robert Service is the author of the ever popular, adolescent favorite The Cremation of Sam McGee. Library phone: 845-778-7621.

...............................Walden

Sleeping Beauty History Prince is right out of Grease with slicked back hair, et al. Wright’s humor always “shines out from my dancers”: sister Keely Wright, other Hudson Valley Conservatory faculty (where Dee teaches jazz and ballet) and students.

March 18-27 at the New Rose Theatre on Route 52. Phone: 845-778-2478.

All the World’s A Stage

by J. A. Di Bello "And all the men and women merely players..." Familiar Shakespearean quotes, as the above, remain as convenient and flexible literary devices. In all but the most obscure cases they are familiar in words and flexible in meaning, leaving the writer free to choose his/her own path. And such is the case as it applies to the Village of Walden, a stellar performer on the expanded stage of Orange County and the Mid-Hudson Valley.

Since the first quarter of the last century Walden's theatre of renown was the Didsbury Opera House which hosted such noted performers as Enrico Caruso and the bands of John Philip Sousa, and J.A.A. Sohns. Quality entertainment of note continues to this day with major cultural contributions from the Hudson Valley Conservatory, the New Rose Theatre, the New York School of Music, and the Smalling School of the Arts. A catalyst in the brew of Walden's position on the stage of the performing arts is the JosephineLouise Library and its culturally proficient director, Ginny Niedermier.

None of the above can exist as a flame without support. To continue the Shakespearean allusion each of the men and women has an exit and an entrance. A broad

interpretation places the residents of Walden, the individuals, the families and the businesses in the role of the supporting cast, a cast that extends beyond the proscenium and beyond the ticket booth.

Someone must turn on the stage light and someone must pay the plumber and someone must be the plumber. Over this and the last century, time and stability has been kind to the Village of Walden.

Stability is one dominant characteristic placed down stage center by the number of influential and multigenerational businesses in Walden! Their family contributions combined with those of their colleagues and employees provided and continue to provide the stimuli required to perpetuate Walden itself as a stellar performer.

As in many towns and villages a number of families and businesses came to Walden from neighboring locations, and others from distances and lands many had only read about. Many came with meager purses, armed only with dreams that could fill a theatre and ambitions that overflowed. It is the purpose of this buy-local publication to highlight those multigenerational businesses and provide insight into the backbone of the Village of Walden. Their stories are unique.

Their contributions great.

Stay tuned!

Choreographer, Dee Wright

Sleeping Beauty's earliest influence apparently comes from Perceforest, a French romance first printed in 1528. While not a Sleeping Beauty tale, it contains many elements similar to the later Sleeping Beauty tales, warranting comparison.

The next known version of the tale came from Giambattista Basile's Sun, Moon, and Talia (1636). This is the tale which is thought to have influenced Charles Perrault's Sleeping Beauty (1697), the first to use Sleeping Beauty as a title. After Perrault, the Grimms wrote Briar Rose, the most well-known version before Disney's.

Some scholars speculate that it appears in embryonic form in a story in the Volsunga Saga which tells of Brynhild and her fear of being married to a cowardly man when she is banished to earth.

Fast forward to 2011..........

Known for her innovative dance adaptations, such as the Cracked Up Nutcracker, in this version of the tale, choreographer extroadinare, Dee Wright’s heroine wakes up in the 1950s and her

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walden calendar Sponsored by Walden Business Assocaition Dance “Sleeping Beauty” New Rose Theatre, Mar 18-27 Lecture "Weather You Like It Or Not" Christina Faraone, meteorologist family event Josephine-Louise Library, Mar 15, 4:30pm Music - Jazz - Blues Alice Nielsen-Shane “Tickling the Ivories” Series Josephine-Louise Library, Mar 20, 3pm Open Mic , 7pm-8pm A Hudson Valley Band, 8pm-10pm NY School of Music Den Series, Mar 25 Recreation Chess Club Mondays 6pm, Saturdays 10am Scrabble Club Thursdays, 6pm Josephine-Louise Library

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Broadway Play comes to Goshen School

Master Class at OCCC

Tannis Kowalchuk is the co-founder, actress, & artistic director of NACL Theatre in Highland Lake, a unique Sullivan County gem where audiences are treated to modern and experimental theater, often exciting, often outrageous, often frightening, often thrilling, and always innovative.

Tannis has created and performed in over sixteen NACL productions and has toured Canada, England, Italy, and Balkan Europe performing and teaching performer training with a specialization in singing. She runs the NACL Theatre center and artist residence, curating The Deep Space Residency program, The Catskill Festival of New Theatre, and leads the theatre

education classes at NACL. In 2008 she became a mother and began an organic vegetable and flower farm in Damascus, PA, across the Delaware River from the western end of the Newburgh-Cochecton Turnpike.

Tannis is a graduate of The University of Winnipeg theatre department and was a core member of Primus Theatre, a prominent experimental theatre troupe based in Canada from 1990-97. She is one of the performercreators of EXILIO: My Life as Bolaño, an international theatre project with artists and producers in the USA, Canada, and Mexico.

The performance will premiere in December 2011 at NACL. SUNY Orange Cultural Affairs Coordinator, Dorothy Szefc, has arranged for Tannis to conduct a master class, open to the public, in “Methods of Original Theatre Creation” for actors, directors, writers, singers, spoken word poets, and all creative people.

The free master class is held on March 16, 2:30pm to 5:30pm in Orange Hall Theatre, Grandview and Waywayanda Aveues in Middletown.

Registration is required: 845-341-4891.

Sealfon in Goshen

“Baird’s Cows”

“Steve”

Paintings by Mary Mugele Sealfon will be on exhibit on the third floor of the Orange County Govenment Center in the Executive Suite Gallery, 225 Main Street in Goshen, open to the public during business hours, Monday through Friday.

Her paintings and prints have been exhibited nationally and internationally and won numerous awards. And locally, Bairds Cows was featured on the 2004 Warwick Valley Telephone Book Cover!

Sealfons art work will be on display from March 4 thru April 22.

845-615-3860 for more information.

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Peggy Ashcroft (1984 Oscar winner) and Paul Robeson in “Othello”, (1930)

Goshen Public Library’s Education Theatre Series focuses on both Shakespearean plays and historical figures.

Past productions include Broadway shows such as The Belle of Amherst (Emily Dickinson), classics such as The Devil and Daniel Webster, and plays with ‘obvious’ titles: Vincent, Einstein and last season’s highly touted production of Cobb.

Series (and play) Director Ken Tschan, recipient of the Orange County Arts Council’s “2009 Arts in Education award”, has cleverly chosen to double the pleasure and combined Shakespeare with an historical figure for his next production, Paul Robeson: All-American by Philip Hayes Dean, a tribute to a great sports figure, a very respected Shakespearean actor and controversial American.

Unknown to many is Robeson’s US movie career which began in Philip Hayes Dean silents (1924) and ended in 1936 after Show Boat. But his major film career was in Great Britian from 1935 to 1939. He returned to the screen in 1944 for

Jeff Starr, Les Ferguson, Ken Tschan, (with Dennis O’Connor) in “Cobb”

the American classic, Tales of Manhattan.

Dean’s play was performed on Broadway in 1978 and starred James Earl Jones and Burt Wallace. Tschan’s production will feature Jeff Starr and Les Ferguson.

Music will be provided by bass artisan Christopher Dean Sullivan, a major player (pun intended) in the Hudson Valley jazz scene.

Performances will run from April 1 thru April 10 at the Main Street School, 229 Main Street, Goshen.

Christopher Dean Sullivan Admission is free, donation requested. 845-294-6606.

UU Art Gallery Re-O Opens After Fire

When the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Rock Tavern (UUCRT) lost their building to fire in September, 2006, 25 original oil paintings on the walls of the sanctuary also burned. The 140-yearold congregation has been a favorite of the art community for many years, hosting music events, poetry readings, and even an exhibit of ice sculpture, in addition to providing gallery space for fine artists in all media. Now they are back on the same site in a big new building and so is the art.

"One of our UU Principles is the free and responsible search for truth and meaning," said Peggy Landrum, curator for the congregation since 1996. "That has always seemed to me to be one of the definitions of art. It adds so much to the spirit of our Sunday morning services to see the everchanging work of local artists hanging on our sanctuary walls."

Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religion with Jewish-Christian roots. It has no creed. It affirms the worth of human beings, advocates freedom of belief and the search for advancing truth, and tries to provide a warm, open, supportive community for people who believe that ethical living is the supreme witness of religion.

The first show is an exhibition of landscape paintings and pastels by Orange

Art with a Twist of Spiritual Muse

“In The Night Sky” by Linda Richichi “Path Less Traveled” Linda Richichi

by Vicki Botta

“Never Alone” Linda Richichi

County artist Linda Richichi. There will be an artist's reception with refreshments and live music provided by pianist Judy Garrett on Sunday, March 20 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm.

The gallery is open to the public on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, Noon to 3:00pm, or by appointment, 917-613-3489 or 917-647-7893.

Worship services are on Sunday mornings at 10:45am.

Almost all of us have looked at clouds or trees and seen images in the seemingly random patterns of nature. It might be faces, an angel, a heart or dragon, and it's fun to decipher what the image might mean.

Linda Richichi's upcoming exhibit entitled Revelations captures spiritual images in almost half of her landscapes and she feels they have come to her by way of divine guidance. "I watch my brush paint and I feel like a conduit for the divine spirit."

When she was very young she always suspected that she felt that spiritual connection. "Looking back, it was always there," she says, "however, I didn't realize that I was kind of channeling." When she was about 33 and decided to be a full time artist, a teacher told her that she was “using metaphors”. For example, she painted a landscape, but instead of rocks and a stream, there was a figure with eyes, an alligator as a path. Years later she realized that she was telling a story.

"So many times I paint and then a year or two later I understand from what the painting is teaching me," she says. Other people look at her art and point out things she hasn't seen in her own work. "In the beginning I felt compelled to paint these metaphors and then portraits, then landscapes and now it is coming full circle.”

Though she paints in acrylic, pastel is her favorite medium because of the prismatic quality it possesses. In her Revelations exhibit there will be a mixture of spiritfilled landscapes and abstracted works from her Chalice Series. There are Hudson Valley landscapes and landscapes painted partly

from memory and from her imagination.

Richichi has always loved the woods and wetlands. However, not until she began plein air painting did she begin to feel that energy. "In the past it seemed I had two distinct bodies of work; landscapes and abstractions. While both were very spiritual, they were very different. I would paint a landscape filled with prismatic colors so that when back (at) home I could feel the same energy that I felt on location. These colors are in a higher vibration. I was not painting the light as the impressionists did although one may say the landscapes look impressionistic. I aimed to paint the energy felt within me by being in the landscape. It was my feeling within that I could alter through color and energetic lines.

Linda, who teaches one day a week at the Newburgh Campus of SUNY Orange where she has taught for the past ten years has been inspired by artists such as Dali, Chagall, Klimt and Frieda Khalo. “Khalo expressed herself through her art so honestly and uniquely.”

This exhibit will have over two dozen landscapes, and in them she allows trees and things to become what they want to become, therefore a lot of Native American figures and spirits in the sky are merging into the landscapes. "I'm allowing them to show up in the landscape as well so that two bodies of work (the landscapes and abstracts) are merging into one. Now, spirits are appearing more and more in the paintings. Most often the figures are Native American although a variety of nationalities show up as well.

They always feel like spirit guides or goddesses and are filled with love.

“I have painted Goddesses from all different cultures in the same painting like it is all the same energy showing up with different faces. We can only see what we are ready to see, so a soul portrait may change over time. I just found the angelic woman rising in one of the skies of a landscape.

What a shock to me to find her there."

Perhaps you will find her when you visit the exhibit which takes place March 6 thru May 1. There will be an opening reception on March 20th from 1:00pm to 4:00pm at the UUCRT, 9 Vance Road, Rock Tavern For more info call 917-613-3489 or see website LindaRichichi.com.

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Postmodern, Figurative, Conceptual, Expressionist Art in Narrowsburg

"My paintings were a component of the figurative, conceptual, and expressionist work prevalent in the thriving Buffalo art scene in the late 1970s, and the international

neo expressionist figurative movement of the 1980s," explains painter Richard Seehausen.

Postmodern figurative painter Seehausen is exhibiting new and old work as part of A Missing Artist from the Picture Years, at Alliance Gallery in Narrowsburg through March 19.

Seehausen’s work fits in with the figurative paintings prevalent at the time.

His postmodern paintings, which one reviewer termed “pop expressionism,” are influenced by the British painter Francis Bacon, the German Expressionist tradition, and figurative art through the ages.

In 2001 he moved to the lower Catskills with his wife and daughter. Since that time, Seehausen has exhibited in the Catskill Art Society's members' shows, and at the Nutshell Art Gallery in Lake Huntington.

The exhibit is sponsored by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, the Arts Council for Sullivan County.

Alliance Gallery is located at the Delaware Arts Center at 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00am to 4:00pm.

For more information about the exhibit call 845-252-7576 or visit www.ArtsAllianceSite.org.

Women’s Conference at SCCC Sullivan County Community College in Loch Sheldrake is holding The Celebration of Being a Woman subtitled How I Stopped Worrying about Visible Panty Lines & Conquered the World, on March 26 from 8:15am to 3:30pm.

Learn to dye silk scarves, cook a la Brazil, stay alive and well at any age, use essential oils, repurpose your beads and baubles, work out with Zumba, practice self-defense techniques, bake cupcakes, create finger

food, plant in small places, and participate in the Woman’s Circle of Light. You can also learn what NOT to wear!

Gina Barreca, an American academic and humorist, professor of feminist theory at the University of Connecticut is the keynote speaker.

For a brochure, 845-434-5750, ext. 4377.

MUSIC - blues / COUNTRY / FOLK / pop/ rock /etc.

HVC PT PV UUC

= Hudson Valley Conservatory, Walden, New Rose Theatre 845-778-2478 = Paramount Theater, Middletown = Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills = Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern, 917-613-3489.

Talking Machine ..................................................................Wherehouse, Newburgh, Mar 3, 8pm Bill Sims, Jr, Adam Levy & tghe Mint Imperials blues ......The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 4, 7pm 3-4 Al Westphal ........................................................................................................PV Mar 4 7pm Fat City..................................................................................Wherehouse, Newburgh, Mar 4, 8pm Foley Road ..............................................................................................................PV Mar 5, 7pm “Back to the Paramount” A Timeless Tribute pop ........................................PT, Mar 5, 7:30pm The Mighty Paul Brothers Band..........................................Wherehosue,Newburgh, Mar 5, 8pm Joey Frazita ......................................................................................................PV Mar 6, 2:30pm Andy Cooney “Echoes of Ireland” ........................................................................PT Mar 6, 3pm Devin Daversa acoustic ......................................................Wherehouse, Newburgh, Mar 10, 8pm Blue Chicken rock & roll ......................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 11, 7pm Robert Schiff ........................................................................................................PV Mar 11, 7pm The Reddan Brothers ........................................................Wherehouse, Newburgh, Mar 11, 8pm Chris Palmerini Band ..........................................................................................PV Mar 12, 7pm Sly Fox and the Hustlers ..................................................Wherehouse,. Newburgh, Mar 12, 8pm Dan Brother acoustic..........................................................Wherehouse, Newburgh, Mar 13, 2pm Nick Morizzo ....................................................................................................PV Mar 13, 2:30pm The Funk Junkies ..................................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 17, 7pm Gregg Van Gelder ................................................................................................PV Mar 18, 7pm Alpha Male Gorillas ..........................................................Wherehouse, Newburgh, Mar 18, 8pm Hurley Mountain Highway ................................................................................PV Mar 19, 7pm The Greyhounds ................................................................Wherehouse, Newburgh, Mar 19, 8pm March Madness Matinee: The Peeps, Crank & Manpower ....Wherehouse, Mar 20, 2pm-7pm Left at the Lama ..............................................................................................PV Mar 20, 2:30pm Brian Conway Celtic ..........................................................................................NFL Mar 20, 3pm David Maxwell Maximum Blues Band, Mike Quick Band ......Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 25, 7pm Bruce Perone ........................................................................................................PV Mar 25, 7pm An Outsider Show: 5 Punk Alternative Bands ..............Wherehouse, Newburgh, Mar 25, 8pm Deep Chemistry ................................................................Wherehouse, Newburgh, Mar 26, 8pm Steve Wells ........................................................................................................PV Mar 27, 2:30pm Al Westphal..............................................................................................................PV Apr 1, 7pm Henderson & Osinski..............................................................................................PV Apr 2, 7pm Open Mic Open Mic w/ Eric Callari ....................................Logan’s Well, Florida, Wednesdays, 9pm Open Mic Musicians Gathering ..........................The Dancing Cat, Bethel, Thursdays, 8pm Open Mic/Coffee House Hudson Valley Folk Guild Second Saturdays, ..............................

Frank Tetler, Feb 12 Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern, 7:30pm Open Mic Acoustic Jam ..........................................The Dancing Cat, Bethel, Sundays, 3pm Open Mic ........................................................................PV Mar 3, & Mar 17 & Mar 31,7pm Open Mic Audition Night..............................................................................PV Mar 10, 7pm Open Mic Comedy Night ..............................................................................PV Mar 24, 7pm Open Mic..........................................................................................................PV Mar 3, 7pm Heritage Coffee House ......Hopewell Presbyterian Church, Thompson Ridge, Mar 19, 7pm

Coffee House Coffee House vocalists, dance,, skits, bands ....................HVC Feb 11. 7:30 & Feb 12, 7pm Hudson Valley Folk Guild Adrian Sicam ............................................UUC Mar 12, 7:30pm

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CATEGORY CALENDAR EHT GMMT HHNM KMM LC NFL PEEC PT PV RR SCCC SUNYO SUNYO-HH TL UUC WPJC

= Eisenhower Hall Theater, West Point = Grand Montgomery Music & Theater Series, Senior Center, 36 Bridge Street = Hudson Highlands Nature Museum-Wildlife Education Ctr, Cornwall-on-Hudson = Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh = Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts, Sugar Loaf 845-469-2287 = Newburgh Free Library, 124 Grand Street 845-563-3619 = Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry = Paramount Theater, Middletown = Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills = Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh = Sullivan County Community College - Seelig Theatre, Loch Sheldrake = Orange Hall , Orange County Community College, Middletown 845-341-4891 = OCCC Harriman Hall, Room 111, Middletown 845-341-4891 = Thrall Library, Middletown = Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern, 917-613-3489. = West Point Jewish Chapel

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ART TOURS / walks Second Saturday in Beacon ..........................................................................Mar 12, all day Art After Dark Milford Galleries ............................................................Mar 12, 6pm-9pm

CINEMA Afternoon Movies for Grownups ................................................................TL Mar 16, 2pm “Devil’s Doorway” Robert Taylor ..........................Emerson House, Milford, Mar 2, 6pm FREE Reel Eclectic Film Series “Osama” ..........................................................TL Mar 3, 7pm FREE “Vision - From the Life of Hildegard von Bingham” ................................................................

Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Mar 11-14 Hot Movies for a Cold Day w/Matt Damien ........................................NFL Mar 14, 6pm FREE “The English Patient” Introduction/Discussion by Anne Sandor ....SUNYO-HH Mar 14, 7pm “Bachelor Mother” Ginger Rogers, David Niven Emerson House, Milford, Mar 16, 6pmFREE “12th & Delaware” ......................................Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Mar 21, 7:30pm “To Kill A Mockingbird” Gregory Peck, Brock Peters, Robert Duvall ......PT Mar 26, 7:30pm ”The Yankles” ................................................Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Mar 25-28

Circus New Shanghai Circus......................................................................................LC Mar 5, 8pm

Comedy Tom Briscoe ................................Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, Mar 19, 9pm & Mar 20, 3pm Comedy Open Mic ..............................................................................................PV Mar 24, 7pm

dance “Lord of the Dance” Celtic w/story ..................................................................EHT Mar 5, 8pm “Carnival of the Animals” Gaia Dance Collective, dance & poetry ........SUNYO Mar 6, 3pm “Giselle” Russian National Ballet Theatre ........................................................LC Mar 10, 8pm “Sleeping Beauty” choreographed by Dee Wright ........New Rose Theatre, Walden, Mar 18-27

festivalS Maple Sugar Festival crafts, games, tours, storytelling, etc. ....HHNM Sats & Suns, 10:30am-3pm Cajun Mardi Gras “”Fat Tuesday” music, history, images, stories w/Rogert Weiss & Buffy Lewis (Cleoma’s Ghost) Ellenville Library, Mar 8, 6pm “Experience India” music, dance, lecture, culinary ..Kaplan Hall 101, Newburgh, Mar 8, 7pm Women’s Conference Gina Barreca, keynote ............................SCCC Mar 26, 8:15am-3:30pm Dessert Festival & Craft Fair ....Storm King Fire House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Apr 2, 10am-3pm

(Museum hours vary. Call first)

Meet the Animals .. ..............................................................HHNM Saturdays & Sundays 2:30pm The Sturgeon Swims through Time..................................................................HHNM Noon-4pm Grey Towers House Tours ..........................................................Weekends, Grey Towers, Milford “Summer Camps of the early 1900’s in Pike County” ..............The Columns, Milford, ongoing Sculpture Exhibits Imi Knoebel, Walter De Maria ......................................Dia:Beacon, ongoing Sullivan County Museum Historical Museum & Archives..........................................Hurleyville The History of Medicine ....................................................................................KMM thru Mar 31 2011 Exhibit ....................................................Neversink Valley Area Museum, Apr 1-October 31

MUSIC - blues / COUNTRY / FOLK / pop/ rock /etc. See page 8

Music - Broadway - classic pop - Opera Broadway Concerts Direct ....................................Wurtsboro Community Church, Mar 12, 8pm

music - classical Radiance Woodwind Quintet “Around the World in 80 Minutes” ..............................................

Newburgh Chamber Music St. George’s Church, Newburgh, Mar 6, 3pm SSG Daniel Pierce trombone ..................................................................WPJC, Mar 6, 3pm FREE Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra w/Steven Zynszajn, violin - Sibelius, Dvorak, etc. ....

Newburgh Free Academy, Mar 12, 3pm Makoto Nakura marimba ..................................................................GMMT Mar 13, 3pm FREE SPC Sarah Botez & SSG Mikki Skinner trumpets ............................WPJC, Mar 13, 3pm FREE Concert Band w/Claude Delanle, saxophone ..............................................EHT Mar 18, 7:30pm Potluck Concerts “Women Composers” ............Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Mar 25, 7:30pm “Four Hands-Four Voices” piano duet & vocal ensemble, Music in Central V alley ..................

Central Valley United Methodist Church, Mar 27, 3pm FREE Hollis Kellog “Basically Bach” piano ..............................................................UUC, Mar 27, 4pm

music - jazz (plus...)

Sean Smith Quartet Akie Bermiss & Elijah Tucker ............The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 3, 7pm Don Byron Trio ........................................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 5, 7pm Edmar Castaneda harp ..........................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 10, 7pm Soren Moller & Dick Oatss Duo, Anders Mogensen Trio..........Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 12. 7pm The Oz Noy Trio with Will Lee & Anton Figf (funk, rock blues) ..............Falcon, Mar 18, 7pm The Stryker / Slagle Band, Judi Silvano & Michale Abene ......Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 19, 7pm Jazz Knights w/Walt Weiskopf, saxophone ..................................................EHT Mar 19, 7:30pm Pete Levin Band......................................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 24, 7pm Maria Neckam, Same Reider and the Lost Boys (folk, pop)......Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 25, 7pm Piano Jazz Summit solo pianists, Cedar Walton, Jacky Terrasson, Hiromi ......LC Mar 27, 7pm

OPera - cinema “Lucia Di Lammermoor” Donizetti - Live from the Met in HD....................SCCC Mar 19, 1pm

POETRY & PROSE READING (Open mic session usually included) Hudson River Poets....................................................................................NFL Mar 3, 7pm FREE Tara Yetter poetry ..........................................Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Mar 3, 7pm Cheryl Rice, Ken Holland Calling All Poets........Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Mar 4, 8pm Tony Puma Poetry on the Loose ......................................7 West St., Warwick, Mar 5, 4pm FREE “Poemz” Richard Hoehler ..............................................................................DVAC Mar 13, 2pm ”Shorts & Sweets” w/Carol Montana, prose ............Old Stone House, Hasbrouck, Mar 20. 2pm Mary Makofske and Donna Spector"Family Albums: Poetry Across Generations" ..................

TL Mar 22, 7pm FREE Poetry at the Church Ted Gill, host................................Goshen Methodist Church, Mar 28, 7pm Dave Kime Poetry Night........................................................Tuscan Cafe, Warwick, Mar 29, 7pm Gypsee Yo poetry ........................................................Narrowsburg Library, Apr 1, 7:30pm FREE Readnex Poetry Squad ................................................Coquito Restaurant, Warwick, Apr 2, TBA

recreation adults & children

holistic living Drumming Circle ................................................The Nurtured Spirit, Pine Island, Feb 28, 7pm Messages From Above..........................................................Spiritquest, Slate Hill, Mar 11, 7pm Health & Healing EXPO..............Best Western, Hunts Landing, Matamoras, Apr 3, 11am-6pm

lectureS, DEmos & SymposiumS / Forums HHNM-L

museum exhibits

= Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Cornwall-on-Hudson

“The Rich Mining History of the Hudson Valley” Doc Bayne ..HHNM-L Mar 1, 7:30pm "What are we doing to evolution?" -- Human Influences on Present & Future..............

Evolution of Other Species w/Warren Allmon SUNYO-HH, Mar 2, 7:30pm Celtic Tea Tradition Celtic women, brewing Irish tea, etc. ......................NFL Mar 5, 2pm The Changing Body: Critical Thinking on Beauty, Culture, and Diversity .................... w/Victoria Pitts-Taylor SUNYO Morrison Hall, Mar 8, 7pm “A Passage through India” Elizabeth White ......Kaplan Hall 101, Newburgh, Mar 8, 7pm Nuclear Power ~ Safe and Clean Energy Patrick Falciano SUNYO-HH Mar 9, 7:30pm “Tibet, the Dalai Lama and 1984” Michael Harris Goodman..Kaplan Hall, Mar 10, 7pm Glassblowing Demo ..................................Gillander Glass, Port Jervis, Mar 12, 10am-3pm "Weather You Like It Or Not" w/Christina Faraone, meteorologist..................................

Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Mar 15, 4:30pm Micro Hydro - Site Survey to Electrical Power Source for Home or Farm ....................

Robert J Honders, Sr. SUNYO-HH Mar 15, 7:15pm Saxophone Conference ..........................................................................EHT Mar 18 and 19 15th Annual Women’s Conference ....................................SCCC Mar 26, 8:30am-3:30pm Plan Your Garden Day ..........................................................................PEEC Mar 26, 1pm "From Petticoats to Breeches: Unveiling 18th Century Clothing." ................................

Tribute to Martha Washington Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh, Mar 26, 2pm Community Wind Development: feasibility, finance, design and construction ..............

Kevin Schulte SUNYO-HH Mar 30, 7:15pm

Winter Hike to Bog Meadow Ponds ......................................................HHNM Mar 5, 9am Amphibian Search ....................................................................................PEEC Mar 19, 1pm Moonrise Walk ..........................................................................................PEEC Mar 19, 7pm Sundays for Singles: Waterfalls ..............................................................PEEC Mar 27, 1pm

storyTelling Black Dirt Storytelling Guild “Catastrophe” ................Florida Library, Mar 10, 7:30pm FREE Judith Katz & Open mic “Baggage” Outsider Studio Collective ................................................

Flour Power Bakery, Livingston Manor, Mar 26, 4pm

theatre - Live Radio “Herb Marks Freelance: It Ain't Over Till The Fat Lady Swings" ................ RR Mar 11, 8pm "Not All Fortunes are Found in Cookies" ..........................................................RR Mar 12, 8pm “Herb Marks Freelance: Art by the Numbers” ............................Pavilion at LC, Mar 19, 8pm

theatre - musical “Echoes of Ireland” Celtic revue w/Andy Cooney..................................................PT Mar 6, 3pm “All Shook Up” ................................................................................................EHT Mar 26, 8pm “Gunmetal Blues” Dinner Theater ..........................................................Pavilion at LC Apr 1-10

theatre - Play Monologues from Tennessee Williams Plays Grass Roots Players, dir. Chris Farlekas ....

UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, March 26, 7pm One Acts by Harold Pinter Terra Firma Theater ..................................................................

Railroad Playhouse Newburgh, Mar 26, 8pm “Paul Robeson: All-American” dir.Ken Tschan, w/Jeff Starr, Les Ferguson, Chris Sullivan ....

Main Street School, Goshen, Apr 1-3 & Apr 8-10 FREE

theatre - Play Reading “Top Girls” by Caryl Churchill, ..................................DVAC Apr 2 , 7:30pm & Apr 3, 3pm

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Cinema “Devil’s Doorway” Emerson House Milford, 6pm Open Mic Logans Well, Florida 9pm

= Howland Cultural Center, Beacon = Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall-on-Hudson = Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts, Sugar Loaf 845-469-2287 = Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, 845-294-1056

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Cinema ......................................“Osama” ..............................TL 7pm

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Poetry Reading ................Hudson River Poets ..................NFL 7pm Music - Blues.......Bill Sims, Jr with Adam Levy Poetry Reading ........................Tara Yetter ........................NCR 7pm Music ......................................Al Westpha

Open Mic.........Musician’s Gathering The Dancing Cat, Bethel, 7pm Poetry Reading ..........Cheryl Rice & Ken Open Mic ............................Palaia Vineyards ......................PV 7pm Music..........................................Fat City .

Music ..................................Talking Machine ......................WH 7pm Music - Jazz.Sean Smith Quartet, Akie Bermiss, E. Tucker ..FAL 7pm

Music - Jazz...Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm

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Open Mic...Musician’s Gathering ......The Dancing Cat, Bethel, 7pm Please check the schedule for Gallery Art and Photography Opening Receptions

Open Mic ..............................Audition Night ........................PV 7pm Festival Cajun Mardi Gras Ellenville Library, 6pm

Music - Jazz ..................Edmar Castaneda harp ................FAL 7pm Open Mic Logans Well, Florida 9pm

Storytelling.....Black Dirt Storytelling Guild ..Florida Library, 7:30pm Music ..............................Devin Daversa acoustic ..................WH 8pm

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Music - Jazz...Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm Theatre - Live Radio.It Ain’t Over Till The Fat Lady SwingsRR 8pm

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Cinema ”Vision-From the Life of Hildegard von Bingham.

Please check the Downing Film Center, schedule for Gallery Newburgh Art and Photography 2pm & 7:30pm Opening Receptions see page 12

Cinema “Bachelor Mother” Emerson House Milford, 6pm

Music - Rock & Roll ................Blue Chicke

Music ................................The Reddan Brot

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Dance ................................“Sleeping Beau Open Mic...Musician’s Gathering ......The Dancing Cat, Bethel, 7pm Open Mic ............................Palaia Vinenyards ......................PV 7pm Music - Funk ......................The Funk Junkies ....................FAL 7pm Music - Jazz...Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm

Music - Jazz......The Oz Noy Trio with Will

Music ..................................Gregg Van Gel

Music - Classical...Concert Band w/Claude De

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Dance ................................“Sleeping Beau Cinema “12th & Delaware” Downing Film Center 7:30pm

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Comedy ....................................Open Mic ............................PV 7pm Music - Blues..David Maxwell Maximum Blues

Music - Jazz ........................Pete Levin Band ......................FAL 7pm Music - Classical..,,.Potluck Concerts ..Co

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Open Mic...Musician’s Gathering ......The Dancing Cat, Bethel, 7pm Theatre - Play...“Paul Robeson: All-Americ Music - Jazz...Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm Poetry Reading.............Gypseee Yo..........

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Recreation............Winter Hike to Bog Meadow Ponds ................HHNM Mar 5, 9am Festival ............................Maple Sugar Festival ......HHNM 10:30am-3pm y & the Mint Imperials ....FAL 7pm Festival ............................Maple Sugar Festival ........................HHNM 10:30am-3pm Music ......................................Joey Frazita..............................PV 2:30pm l....................................PV 7pm Poetry Reading ........Tony Puma......................................7 West Street, Warwick, 4pm Open Mic...................Acoustic Jam ................Dancing Cat, Bethel, 3pm Holland ....................HCC 8pm Music - Jazz..........................Don Byron Trio ................................................FAL 7pm Music - Classical....Radiance Woodwind Quintet..St. George’s Ch., Nwbgh, 3pm ...................................WH 8pm Music........................................Foley Road ......................................................PV 7pm Music - Classical ......SSG Daniel Pierce trombone ..............WPJC 3pm Music - Pop..............“Back to the Paramount, A Timeless Tribute” ........PT 7:30pm Dance....“Carnival of the Animals” dance & poetry ..........SUNYO 3pm Dance - Celtic ..................“Lord of the Dance” ............................................EHT 8pm Theatre - Revue ..“Echoes of Ireland” Andy Cooney ................PT 3pm Circus ..............................New Shanghai Circus..............................................LC 8pm Music........................The Mighty Paul Brothers Band ........................................WH 8pm

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Art Walk ....................Second Saturday in Beacon ..........Downtown Beacon, all day Festival ............................Maple Sugar Festival ......HHNM 10:30am-3pm Festival ............................Maple Sugar Festival ........................HHNM 10:30am-3pm Cinema.”Vision-From the Life of Hildegard von Bingham.Downing, Newbgh 1:15pm

Bingham.Downing, Newburgh 515pm Music- Classical.....Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra....Newburgh Free Academy, 3pm Music ......................................Dan Brother ................................WH 2pm ff ..................................PV 7pm Cinema..”Vision-From the Life of Hildegard von Bingham ..Downing, Newburgh 515pm Music ....................................Nick Morizzo ............................PV 2:30pm n..................................FAL 7pm Music - Jazz....Soren Moller & Dick Oatts Duo, Anders Mogensen Trio ....FAL 7pm Poetry Reading ..........“Poemz” Richard Hoehler ..................DVAC 3pm

thers ..............................WH 8pm Music ..............................Chris Palmerini Band..............................................PV 7pm Open Mic...................Acoustic Jam ................Dancing Cat, Bethel, 3pm e Found In Cookies ........RR 8pm Art Walk ................................Art After Dark ..................Downtown Milford, 6pm-9pm Music - Classical ..........Makoto Nakura marimba ....................GMMT 3pm Music - Folk......Hudson Valley Folk Guild Coffee House ......................UUC 7:30pm Music - Classical.....SPC Sarah Botez, SSG Mikki Skinner trumpets ......WPJC 3pm Music ............................Sly Fox and the Hustlers..............................................WH 8pm Music - Bway-Opera-Pop-Operetta...Broadway Concerts Direct....Wurtsboro Comm. Ch., 8pm

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Festival ..........Maple Sugar Festival ........................HHNM 10:30am-3pm

Opera - Cinema............“Lucia Di Lammermoor” Donzetti ......................SCCC 1pm

uty” ............................NRT 7pm Cinema ........................Hot Movies for a Cold Day ............................NFL 2pm FREE

l Lee & Anton Fig ......FAL 7pm Dance ................................“Sleeping Beauty” ..................................NRT 3pm & 7pm

lder ..............................PV 7pm Open Mic...............Heritage Coffee House ........Hopewell Presbyterian Church, 7pm

elanle, saxophone ....EHT 7:30pm Music - Jazz...The Stryker / Slagle Band, Judi Silvano & Michale Abene ..FAL 7pm

illas ................................WH 8pm Music ..........................Hurley Mountain Highway ..........................................PV 7pm Music - Jazz..............Jazz Knights w/Walt Weiskopf, saxophone ..............EHT 7:30pm Theatre - Live Radio “Herb Marks Freelance: Art by the Numbers” ..Pavilion at LC 8pm Music ......................................The Greyhounds ....................................................WH 8pm Comedy......................................Tom Briscoe ........................................................RR 8pm

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ornwall Presbyterian Ch 7:30pm ternative Bands ..........WH 8pm

Conference....5th Annual Women’s Conference ............SCCC 8:15am-3:30pm Festival................Maple Sugar Festival ............................HHNM 10:30am-3pm

Cinema......................................“The Yankles” ........................Downing Film Center, Noon

Dance ................................“Sleeping Beauty” ..................................NRT 3pm & 7pm Storytelling..........Judith Katz & Open Mic ..................Flour Power, Livingston Manor, 4pm Theatre...Tennessee Williams Monologues....UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, 7pm Music - Jazs..............Maria Neckham, Sam Reider and the Lost Boys ..............FAL 7pm Open Mic ........................Hudson Valley Folk Guild ......................................UUC 7:30pm Cinema..............................“To Kill A Mockingbird”............................................PT 7:30pm Theatre - Musical ....................“All Shook Up” ....................................................EHT 8pm Theatre - Play...............One-Act Pinter Plays ............Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, 8pm Music........................................Deep Chemistry..........................................................WH 8pm

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Music....................................Left at the Lama ..........................PV 2:30pm Music - Blues, Jazz.........Alice Nielsen-Shane..........Library, Walden, 3pm Music - Celtic ........................Brian Conway ................................NFL 3pm Open Mic...................Acoustic Jam ................Dancing Cat, Bethel, 3pm Comedy..................................Tom Briscoe..................................RR 3pm

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Festival.....Dessert Festival & Craft Fair ..Storm King Fire House, Cornwall-on-Hudson 10am-3pm Holistic Living...Health & Healing EXPO ..Best Western, Matamoras, 11am-6pm Theatre - Play........“Paul Robeson: All-American” ..Main St. School, Goshen, 7pm Theatre - Play.....“Paul Robeson: All-American” ..Main St. School, Goshen, 2pm

Music ..............................Henderson & Osinski ............................................PV 7pm Open Mic...................Acoustic Jam ................Dancing Cat, Bethel, 3pm Poetry Reading........Readnex Poetry Squad ......Coquito Restaurant, Warwick, TBA Play Reading ..........“Top Girls” by Caryl Churchill ..............DVAC 3pm Play Reading ..........“Top Girls” by Caryl Churchill............................DVAC 7:30pm Theatre - Musical ....................“Gunmetal” ........................Pavilion at LC Theatre - Musical ....................“Gunmetal”............................................Pavilion at LC

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EXHIBITS CAG..............................................................Catskill Artists Gallery 38 S. Main St., Liberty 845-292-0310 CAS ..................................................................................................Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor DVAC ........................................................................................Delaware Valley Arts Center, Narrowsburg KMM ..........................................................................................Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh SUNYO ..SUNY Orange (Orange Cty. Community College) Orange Hall Gallery & Loft 845-341-4891 UUC ..................................Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern Gallery 917-613-3489.

WRS........................................................................................................Wallkill River School, Montgomery

art EXHIBITS Carolyn Duke pottery............................................Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Area Arts and Crafts art, photography, crafts, sculpture, etc.....................CAG Liberty, ongoing 19 Artists ................................................................................BlueStone Gallery, Milford, ongoing Kris Jaroka and Monica Ostrow “Strings and Things” ................................................................

Executive Suite, Government Center, Goshen, thru March 3 “Water - Sustainer of Life” art, photography, sculpture............The ARTery, Milford, thru Mar 6 Kevin Cook” “A New Beginning” ..................................RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon, thru Mar 6 “In Rare Form” contemporary sculpture..............Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, Mar 12-Apr 24 Richard Seehausen “A Missing Artist from the Picture Years” ......................DVAC thru Mar 19 “small” 12 artists ..........................................................Hudson Beach Glass, Beacon, thru Mar 20 North East Watercolor Society Members’ 2001 Show ................................SUNYO thru Mar 24 Rosemary Carin, Rosalyn Ross-Hoffman, Joan Polishook,Madison Strapec ............................

“Abstract Expressions” Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, thru Mar 29 Edward Lundquist ............................................................Livingston Manor Library, thru Mar 31 Dona McPhillips Couch “Portraits in American History”................................KMM thru Mar 31 “Art Is A Gift” 28 artists....................................................Red Eft Gallery, Wurtsboro, thru winter ”Cream of the Crop” art & photos ..............Rolling River Cafe Gallery, Parksville, thru May 31 Koo Jeong “A Constellation Congress”....................................................Dia: Beacon, thru Jun 26

Books & Clubs EHT....................................................................................................Eisenhower Hall Theater, West Point NFL....................................................................Newburgh Free Library, 124 Grand Street 845-563-3619 UUC ..............................................Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern 917-613-3489.

Audubon Society First Sunday Field Trip............................845-744-6047 Goshen, 8am or 9am

NEW art EXHIBITS ”100/$100” ..................................................................................................................WRS Mar 1-5 “Abstract Expressions” paper, canvas, fabric ..................Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Mar 1-29 Sarah E. McHugh “A Breath of Fresh Air” ..........................Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 1-31 Tracy Gansrow acrylic & water color................Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Mar 1-31 “Illuminations” ..........................................................................SUNYO Newburgh, Mar 3-May 6 Mary Mugele Sealfon ................................Executive Suite, Gov’t Center, Goshen, Mar 4-Apr 22 “Expressions 2011” Sullivan Arc disables adults..................................................DVAC Mar 5-26 Jeff Christensen “Discards” ..............................................................................CAS Mar 5-Apr 10 Imogene Drummond “Divine Sparks”..........................Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, Mar 6-31 Gene Bové & Shawn Dell Joyce, Kathy Kral emerging arttist ..........................WRS Mar 12-31 “In Rare Form” contemporary sculpture ............ Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, Mar 12-Apr 24 Linda Richichi acrylics & pastels ......................................................................UUC Mar 5-May 1 Tim Roepe............................................................WolfGang Gallery, Montgomery, Mar 12-Apr 10 “A Fresh Perspective” DVHS students ..................................The ARTery, Milford, Mar 12-Apr 3 The Art of Troy Mack ........................................................Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Apr 1-30

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITS FOV ......................................................................................................................Fovea Exhibitions, Beacon HPG ................................................................................................Highlands Photographic Guild, Milford

“Early to Rise: Working Farms in Orange County”........................................................ongoing Cornell Cooperative Extension, Middletown Nick Zungoli “Trifecta”....................................................Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, ongoing “You’ve Got to Love It: Images of What We Love” multiple artists..................HPG thru Mar 6 “A Fresh Perspective” DVHS students ............................................................HPG Mar 12-Apr 3 Eileen MacAvery Kane “East End Stories” ..............Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh, thru Apr 30 Lori Grinker “Nothing Like My Home (The Iraqi Refugee Crisis)” ..................FOV thru May 8 ”Cream of the Crop” art & photos ..............Rolling River Cafe Gallery, Parksville, thru May 31

Book Singing Kenneth Lipston “Orange County Roots” - signing and presentation ..................

Woodbury Senior Center, Highland Mills, Mar 5, 2pm-4pm Book Signing Kenneth Lipston “Orange County Roots” ..EHT 1929 Gallery, Mar 13, 2pm-4pm Book Signing Barbara Adams “The Stone Man and the Poet: Marriage, Madness and Love” ..

Wallkill River School, Mar 13, 3pm-5pm Book Discussion Mystery Books “Tin Roof Blowdown” w./S. Christensen ....NFL Mar 21, 7pm Book Discussion Great Books Discussion, Shared Inquiry Method..............................................

NFL Mar 23, 7pm & Mar 25, 11:30am Book Discussion “The Valetudinarian” by Joshua Ferris ............................................................

Crawford Library, Monticello, Mar 22, 7:30pm Walden Chess Club all ages, all levels ..............Walden Library, Saturdays 10am, Mondays 6pm Friday Night Chess ..................................................................Narrowsburg Library, Fridays 6pm Knit and Stitch ....................................................................Narrowsburg Library, Mondays, 6pm Knimble Knitters ....................................................................Ellenville Library, Saturdays, 10am Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Int’l Org. ..................Last Sundays, ray@themtharhills.org The Music Lovers Guild ..........................3rd Thurs, 7:30pm FREE, Montgomery 845-457-9867 Listen to recorded classical music, open informal discussion follows.

Photography Club..................................................................Walden Library, 2nd Mondays. 7pm Photography Club Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop ............................2nd Monday, 7:30pm St. Paul’s Epsicopal Church, Chester Psychic Experience Group w/Athen Drewes ..........................................UUC 1st Tuesdays, 7pm Science Cafe “”The American Crow: Not your average songbird”, w/Douglas Robinson PhD ..

Diana’s, New Windsor, Mar 23, 7pm Scrabble Players..........................................................................Walden Library, Thursdays, 6pm Scrabble Players ........................................................................Ellenville Library, Tuesdays, 6pm Trivia Night ........................................................2 Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Thursdays, 8pm

school & conservatory “A Tribute To Langston Hughes” Teen Theatre Ensemble of Newburgh Performing Arts ....

Academy NFL Mar 13. 3pm

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NEW photography EXHIBITs “A Fresh Perspective” DVHS students ............................................................HPG Mar 12-Apr 3 Kenneth Lipston “Orange County Roots”........Class of 1929 Gallery, West Point, Mar 13-May 1 Dana Duke “Foil Series” ..............................................................................DVAC Mar 25-Apr 23

Art & Photography receptions “Illuminations” ....................................................................SUNYO Newburgh, Mar 3, 5pm-7pm Jeff Christensen “Discards”............................................CAS Mar 5, 2pm Artists’ Talk, 3pm-5pm “Expressions 2011” Sullivan Arc disables adults......................................DVAC Mar 5, 3pm-5pm ”100/$100” ....................................................................................................WRS Mar 5, 5pm-7pm “Abstract Expressions” paper, canvas, fabric......Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Mar 5, 5pm-7pm Imogene Drummond “Divine Sparks” ..............................Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, Mar 6, “In Rare Form” contemporary sculpture ...... Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, Mar 12 , 6pm-9pm Gene Bové & Shawn Dell Joyce, Kathy Kral emerging arttist ..............WRS Mar 12, 5pm-7pm Tim Roepe ......................................................WolfGang Gallery, Montgomery, Mar 12, 6pm-8pm “A Fresh Perspective” DVHS students - art, etc.............The ARTery, Milford, Mar 12, 6pm-9pm “A Fresh Perspective” DVHS students - photography..............................HPG Mar 12, 6pm-9pm Kenneth Lipston “Orange County Roots”..Class of 1929 Gallery, West Point, Mar 13, 2pm-4pm Linda Richichi acrylics & pastels Unitarian Universalist Cong., Rock Tavern, Mar 20, 1pm-4pm Dana Duke “Foil Series” ........................................................................DVAC Mar 25, 5pm-7pm The Art of Troy Mack ............................................Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Apr 2, 5pm-7pm

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EHT ............................................................................................................Eisenhower Hall Theater, West Point HHNM ....................................Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall HHNM-CoH ..........................Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Education Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson PEEC ......................................................Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans FerrySUNYO SUNYO ..........................................................Orange Hall, SUNY Orange, OCCC, Middletown, 845-341-4891

LEctures Discovering Animals Together 2-4yrs ......HHNM-CoH Tues. & Weds, 9:30am & 11am & 1pm "Weather You Like It Or Not" w/Christina Faraone, meteorologist - adults & children ..

Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Mar 15, 4:30pm

Museum Meet the Animals ........................................................HHNM-CoH, Sat & Sun, 1pm & 2:30pm Meet the Animals..........................................................HHNM-CoH, Feb 21-25, 1pm & 2:30pm “The Sturgeon Swims Through Time” exhibit ..........................HHNM-CoH, daily, Noon-4pm Music Young People’s Concert USMA Band ......................................EHT West Point, Mar 9, 10:30am

Recreation (see recreation page 9 for adults & children) Equinox Extravaganza ..................................................................PEEC Mar 20, 1pm-4pm

Theatre “Carnival of the Animals” Gaia Dance Collective, dance & poetry ..........SUNYO Mar 6, 3pm

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Out Damned Spot! Out................

by J.A. Di Bello In the world of Shakespearean clichés and other hackneyed expressions, the "Spot" command remains both familiar and effective. Originally directed at a spot of murderous blood, the command more likely than not, now takes aim at a blotch of paint, paint judiciously inflicted by a paintball player with a paintball marker.

Montgomery Sporting Goods' (MSG's) sixty plus acres of fields and woods lie adjacent to the Montgomery Town line and the Blue Sky Polo Club on Bart Bull Road.

It is here that role playing, as a form of competitive entertainmen, has assumed a familiar yet different form.

Civil War re-enactments are frequent in Montgomery and Orange County and provide informative entertainment for spectators as well as those who play the role of Confederate or Yankee soldiers. But as entertainment and recreation unite, the concept has expanded to new levels of competition and historical significance. As participants keep score by paintball hits, the cry of "Out damned spot!" can be heard on the fields and woods near Montgomery.

And, no! These woods are not Dunsinane Woods!

The recent and pronounced development of paintball activities resulted in two basic yet different types of experiences: "speedball" and "woodsball." Speedball is a team game usually confined to a small field with artificial obstacles. In contrast, woodsball is the game where individual role playing has become a popular and rewarding enterprise. The play area can be exceptionally large and lends itself to the concept of scenarios which frequently include historical events presented as re-

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enactments with yet-to-be-determined conclusions.

A prime example of the ultimate roleplaying situation occurs at a paint ball park in Oklahoma where one game is played over a period of a single week. The setting: D-Day, Normandy, June 6, 1944.

Participation exceeds 4.000 players a year.

Wannabe Ike? As reported by Sherry Meres, (MSG) owner, paintball markers were originally used by the Forest Service of New Hampshire to cull trees for removal.

Markers were single shot, pump action mechanisms, utilizing a 12 gram CO2 cartridge. Paint balls at that time were filled with an oil base paint and as entertainment purposes were prohibitively expensive.

Later semi-automatic markers were manufactured with various firing modes and currently markers are powered by CO2 tanks or compressed air tanks. Electronic markers require a 9 volt battery. Sherry reports further that paintballs are no longer filled with oil base paint. Paintballs today are filled with a water soluble, biodegradable, nontoxic liquid and come in a variety of colors. Finally, the spots from today's paintballs wash off!

Out damned spot!

Art Exhibits Mike Jaroszko luminist James Douglas Gallery - ongoing Tim Roepe WolfGang Gallery, opens Mar 12 Gene Bové, Shawn Dell Joyce, Kathy Kral Emerging Artist Wallkill River School, Mar 12-31 Art Receptions WolfGang Gallery, Mar 12, 6pm-8pm Wallkill River School Mar 12, 6pm-9pm Book Signing & Prose Reading Barbara Adams “The Stone Man and the Poet: Marriage, Madness and Love”, Wallkill River School, Mar 13, 3pm-5pm Music - Classical Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series Makoto Nakura, Marimba, Mar 13 Senior Center, 3pm

Fresh, Local Paintings by Shawn Dell Joyce and Gene Bové

The March show at the Wallkill River School and Art Gallery (WRS), offers new paintings by two Wallkill River School founders; Shawn Dell Joyce and Gene Bové. Artworks will focus on the Wallkill Valley, with sweeping panoramic paintings of local farms, the Shawangunk Ridge, and village scenes.

Gene Bové had a long and successful advertising career before retiring from BBDO Ad Firm in Manhattan, where he was an executive art director. Bové painted with Joyce en plein air (outdoors) for three years before co-founding the nonprofit WRS artists cooperative. He has exhibited his work in many auctions and area galleries.

In addition to co-founding the WRS School; Shawn Dell Joyce is a nationallysyndicated newspaper columnist who writes about sustainability and localism. Joyce’s paintings in this exhibit feature Black Dirt farms, Basha Kill wetlands, scenes of the Town of Montgomery, and farmscapes.

She recently won the “Seligmann Award” from Orange County Citizen’s Foundation, and Orange Environment’s “Sustainable Art” award.

Joyce’s sustainable artworks and writings have been widely publicized in many national newspapers and magazines. She has won many prestigious awards for her work such as the “Woman of the Year” for 2009, from Girl Scouts and YWCA of Orange County.

Shawangunk Ridge

by Shawn Dell Joyce

Emerging Artist Kathy Kral will also be featured in her first solo exhibit in the workshop room.

Kral started off as a graphic designer in her father’s print company. Her artistic skill was identified at an early age, and she became a marketing stylist for wallcovering manufacturers. Kral quickly developed her eye for detail into a lucrative career as a decorative painter and interior designer.

She started her own decorative painting company in 1993, and continues it today.

She specializes in interior design as well as faux finishes, and has been a color consultant for the past eighteen years.

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Shawangunk Ridge by Gene Bové Kral’s true love has always been painting and drawing. She rediscovered it after raising her children and leading a successful career. Her design background has shaped her artistic vision giving her a strong sense of color and composition. Kral is mainly a pastel artist, and an accomplished floral painter. Her subjects are primarily still-lifes painted from direct observation. This is her first solo show in Orange County.

Dell Joyce and Bové will demonstrate live at the reception, which is free and open to the public; March 12, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm. Hors d’oeuvres from Wildfire Grill and local wines will be served.

For more information visit www.wallkillriverschool.com, or call 845457-2727. The WRS is located at 232 Ward Street (Route 17K).

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Barbara Block Adams’ The Stone Man and the Poet

by Lynn Hoins Barbara Block Adams, poet, retired professor, Newburgh Chamber Music secretary, writes in her poetry book The Ordinary Living, "Many [poems] tell a story, and added together, the particular story of one ordinary life." The story of her "ordinary life" is given more flesh and substance in her new memoir The Stone Man and the Poet, a fascinating, upsetting, funny, brave book.

Adams says she worked on it for fifteen years after her husband's death beginning with Chapter 13, “Cancer Journal: Emotional Triage, 1992-1993”, which she put together from a journal kept during her husband's illness. At a writers' workshop, a facilitator, Rosellen Brown, gave Adams feedback: “This is powerful - I want to know what happened before - what led up to this. You need to expand it. It has the ring of truth.” Adams said in its many drafts this piece always remained - the piece never thrown out, the piece staged by Mohonk Mountain Stage Company.

In Adams' expansion of "Cancer Journal," that "ring of truth," always present, ties together the patchwork pieces of their lives into a quilt of their marriage, their life together - the good, the bad, the ugly - now woven into a cohesive whole, each patch or chapter complete in itself, necessary as part

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of the finished mosaic.

For the most part, Adams, mother of four, grandmother of two, left out the younger generations. Yet part of her reason for writing this book was for them. She said, “They have their own stories to tell and a right to privacy." She also said in matters of fact, "My children are my police."

Observing, "This is a great age for memoir," Adams added, "people today crave truth not truthiness." She mentioned special care must be taken in writing a memoir because "memory can play tricks. Sometimes one can't tell memory from dreams."

In writing of her "long, difficult marriage," she says, “I was a New Yorker, half Jewish, half Irish, and El was a New England bricklayer, half Irish and half descendant of presidents. We met at college like two asteroids from distant galaxies colliding in Earth's atmosphere. In the Hudson Valley, where we lived for forty years, he was known as "The Stone Man," the teacher who built fireplaces and I am known as "The Poet."

Written in a non-linear fashion, each chapter tells how their differences both stitched them together and kept them apart.

She writes with unsparing clarity and truth.

Describing their early relationship in college Adams writes, "I'd been homeless for seven years when we met. El made me feel at home again. He was home. … El and

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I had no one but each other. My family had failed me completely, and his was downright destructive. … For all our violent arguments and irreconcilable differences, we could talk to each other and know we'd be understood as no one else could understand." She also writes, "He was the only person who ever made me feel safe."

Although still puzzled by her husband's mental illness, never satisfactorily diagnosed, still angry about the cancer which killed him, "I can never accept the death of a healthy, rugged man of sixtyseven," Adams' memoir is a remarkable, moving testament to a woman and a man who managed to make a difficult marriage work despite everything.

She will be featured poet at Calling all Poets, Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, at 8:00pm on April 1, and in Warwick at Utopian Directions, 7 West Street, at 4:00pm on May 20th. The Newburgh Free Library has invited her to do a special program in May, time and date TBA. Her book will be available at these events, as well as directly from her for $20 including tax and shipping. Contact her atbbadams323@verizon.net. Please put Stone Man & Poet in the subject line.

Adams will present a reading and book signing at Wallkill River School, at 3:00pm, March 13th, 232 Ward Street (Route 17K).

Barbara Adams has published two books of poetry, Hapax Legomena, and The Ordinary Living, a book of literary criticism, The Enemy Self: Poetry & Criticism of Laura Riding.

Her poems, stories and essays have been published in literary and professional journals, including The Nation, Texas Review, Negative Capability, Confrontation, Modern Poetry Studies, Psychoanalytic Review, Home Planet News; and in anthologies of Hudson River poets, Riverine and WaterWrites. Her “interviews/articles” have appeared in D&H CANVAS. She won the 2007 Robert Frost Foundation Award for her poem, Henry Jones, from Wales. Her story, Portrait of the Artist's Daughter, won first prize in the 1999 Negative Capabilty Fiction Contest.

Her one-act play, God's Lioness & the Crow: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes, was produced by the Mohonk Mountain Stage Company in New Paltz, in 2000.

She earned the Ph.D. in English at NYU, and was a Professor of English at Pace University, retiring in 2000.

Her memoir, The Stone Man and the Poet, was published in January 2011.

......................................Montgomery Another Unique Concert in Montgomery Howard Garrett is proud of the fact that he brings unique chamber music concerts to Montgomery. His most recent gave his fullhouse audience the chance to hear a flutepiano-euphonium concert, possibly the first time ever for such an ensemble. And now, he has gone and booked a marimba player.

Last season Pacem In Terris in Warwick offered a concert that included a marimba player BUT in an ensemble. This upcoming Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series marimba concert is “perhaps Orange County’s first solo marimba concert.” says Garrett.

Pine Bush resident Barbara Scales owns an artist management company in Montreal, Latitude 45 Arts. Her impressive roster includes pianist Jenny Lin who performed for Garrett’s loyal concertgoers earlier this season. Now another superb musician from her roster will bring unheard-in-this-area classical music to Montgomery.

Makoto Nakura is a musician whose artistry and astonishing virtuosity mesmerizes audiences. He creates innovative programs, revealing the versatility and expressive range of the marimba while enlightening and entertaining the listener.

Born in Kobe, Japan, Nakura began to play the marimba at the age of eight. In 1994, he moved to New York City. His critically acclaimed performances around the world have included venues in London,

The free concert will take place in the Senior Center, 36 Bridge Street on March 13 at 3:00pm. For info: 845-457-9867.

Tim Roepe at WolfGang Gallery

The Chromatic Marimba

Makoto Nakura by Yukihito Asurra Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires. As a recital soloist, his long list of appearances includes his being a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

With the American Ballet Theatre, he has performed on numerous occasions in New York City where he was soloist in a new production of Marimba. He has played pieces inspired by Paul Klee, Jackson Pollock, and Willem De Kooning and others with projections of their paintings and commentary by a museum curator as well as by the marimbist.

Many leading young composers have written pieces especially for him. This marimbist’s mission is to explore and expand the possibilities of the instrument, demonstrate what an exciting and provocative vehicle it offers to composers, and provide a thrilling experience for audiences.

The chromatic marimba was developed in southern Mexico and northern Guatemala from the diatonic marimba, an instrument whose ancestor was a type of balafon that African slaves built in Central America.

Wood bars are preferred for concert playing, but synthetics are preferred for marching band and other outdoor use because they are more durable and less susceptible to pitch change due to weather.

Modern marimba music calls for simultaneous use of between two and four mallets (sometimes up to six), granting the performer the ability to play chords or music with large interval skips more easily.

Traditional marimba bands are especially popular in Guatemala where they are the national symbol of culture, but are also strongly established in southern Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, as well as among Afro-Ecuadorians and AfroColombians.

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Montgomery artist Tim Roepe is the featured artist for March at Mikey Teutel’s WolfGang Gallery on Railroad Avenue.

A public reception will be held on March 12, 6:00pm to 8:00pm.

WRS Fundraiser March 5 Take Your Pick and then n Pick Up Your Take This year, Wallkill River School is hosting “100/$100”, an exhibit of 100 paintings with 100 tickets for sale at $100 each. The ticket allows the purchaser to pick one of 100 paintings. Each ticket is good for one artwork. The paintings will be on display March 1-5. Ticketholders choose their prize when their ticket number is drawn at the reception on March 5th from 5:00-7:00pm. This fundraiser allows the WRS to offer free programs for the local community.

Phone: 845-457-ARTS.

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Giselle Jetés from Russia to Sugar Loaf

Russian National Ballet’s “Giselle”

Carnival of the Animals March 6 - FOR ALL AGES

was in love. Gautier was inspired by a passage from Heinrich Heine's 1835 work, De l'Allemagne, which also was the source of Puccini’s first opera, Le Villi.

Giselle is a ballet in two acts with a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de SaintGeorges and Théophile Gautier, music by Adolphe Adam, and choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot. The ballet tells the story of a peasant girl named Giselle whose ghost, after her premature death, protects her lover from the vengeance of a group of evil female spirits called the Wilis.

That is where the expression “it gives me the willies” supposedly comes from.

The Russian National Ballet will give us the “one-L Wilis” BUT with grace and beauty on March 10 at 8:00pm on Lycian Centre’s main stage.

Call 845-469-2287 for tickets.

In February we had Camille Saint-Saens masterpiece Carnival of the Animals at the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra concert, presented with the poetry of Ogden Nash.

This month the Birds, Swan, Fossils, Elephants , Snails et al are on their way back but this time to SUNY Orange in Middletown and not with the Nash verses, but with a brand new poem by Liz Geyer of GAIA Dance Company.

The company is an ensemble of local dancers (and puppeteers): Lisa Albornoz, Claudia Soifer, Leah Giles, Liz Geyer, Pam Intveld, Rachel Wunder, Dana Marie Welch, Gloria Detore Mackie, REAL ESTATE FOR RENT - OFFICE BLOOMINGBURG - Industrial property with Emily Silver and Elisabeth Stampfel.

Geyer’s original poem will be read BLOOMINGBURG - 4 (small) room office on old farmhouse. Three sections. One gutted

The first ballet at the Paris Opéra to have an original dramatic plot was La Somnambule (1827). Before then, ballets were set to danceable popular tunes that were unrelated in musical style.

Giselle (1841) was conceived by the influential French poet, author, critic and possibly the greatest champion of the Romantic ballet, Théophile Gautier.

Giselle was created to honor the ballerina Carlotta Grisi, whom Gautier not only admired for her dancing, but with whom he

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Broadway Concerts Direct Celebrates Pre-S Spring

Celebrating “Pre-Spring” means acknowledging the winds that annouce the month before the perennial lamb takes over.

March Comes in Like a Lion: Where It Will HELP WANTED Go From There, Who Knows? is Broadway ADVERTISING SALES - CANVAS has openings SERVICES Concerts Direct’s theme for March. for commissioned sales reps. for Orange & Sullivan LIMOUSINE - PINE BUSH Pine Bush Manhattan and local singers Emily Counties and hamlets of Beacon, Marlboro, Walker Taxi. Local and NYC area airports, etc.

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HOLISTIC & SPIRITUAL The Crystals Center Retail, Workshops, Events, Healing 116 Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro Re-Opens Late March

ORGANIZATIONS Orange County Citizens Foundation Citizens Building a Better Community 23 White Oak Drive, Sugar Loaf 845-469-9459 www.occitizensfoundation.org Orange County Arts Council Art Leaves its Mark 23 White Oak Drive, Sugar Loaf 845-469-9168 www.ocartscouncil.org.

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throughout the program by her husband/musician Joseph Karr. “Liz has put her heart and soul into this production.

She has created the costumes and puppets and choreographed the dances,” stated Cultural Affairs co-ordinator Dorothy Szefc. ”This is a dance performance that will delight children as well as adults.”

In addition, after the performance, Liz and her colleagues will be selling cupcakes with animal themes, homemade by Dancer Leah Giles, plus t-shirts–all to benefit the Pet Med Fund. The fund will help keep pets in their homes and out of shelters or from being euthanized because of their owner's inability to pay for medical treatment. The fund is part of Geyer's EGG & Dancers nonprofit dance company. It will grant money to help pay partial medical expenses for adopted shelter and rescue pets.

The performance is in handicappedaccessible Orange Hall, Grandview and Waywayanda Aveues in Middletown on March 6 at 3:00pm.

Cultural Affairs phone: 845-341-4891.

audience on March 12, 8:00pm in the Community Church of Wurtsboro, 134 Sullivan St. with breezy songs from Broadway, Opera and Operetta. For reservations: 845-888-2798 At press time, we learned that the singers will be accompanied by the great pianist, TBA, brother (or sister) of that famous author (or composer) Anonymous.

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Photographer Signs Book

Potluck Honors Women

4+4 = 6 in Central Valley

After a number of showings around the County, Kenneth Lipston’s Orange County Roots is being exhibited in the Class of 1929 Gallery in West Point from March 13 thru May 1.

Lipston’s project has expanded from the original photographic exhibits and now includes a book, funded by a second grant from Orange County Tourism.

A presentation and book signing will take place on March 5 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm at the Woodbury Historical Society Winter Social in the Woodbury Senior Center on Route 105 in Hghland Mills.

Phone 845-928-6770 or 845-928-9249.

International Women's Day (IWD) has been observed since the early 1900s, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies.

In 1908, 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding shorter hours, better pay and voting rights.

In 1909 the first National Woman's Day was observed across the United States.

In 1910 Clara Zetkin proposed the idea of an International Women's Day (IWD).

In 1911 more than one million women and men attended IWD rallies campaigning for women's rights.

To celebrate IWD’s 100th anniversary Potluck Concerts will offer music by women composers on March 25 at 7:30pm in the Cornwall Presbyterian Church, 222 Hudson Street.

Crayons for the fidgety are provided.

Janice Nimetz is wearing two hats in March. The chamber music series Music In Central Valley is her “baby”. She is the producer and artistic director. However, this month, she will be a duo-pianist along with Potluck Concerts co-producer Ruthanne Schempf. These two well-known concertizers are the hands-on part of Four Hands-Four Voices.

The others are all performers with Kairos, the Hudson Valley’s major consort of singers, which recently concertized at the last Newburgh Chamber Music concert in

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Luciia Di Lammerrmoorr at SCCC

Arguably the world’s greatest operatic actress, Natalie Dessay will (if we are lucky) perform the hell out of Donizetti’s Lucia Di Lammermor.

Lucky, because a few times in the recent past, Dessay has had to cancel her appearances. Though scheduled, she has not been seen in the fabulous Live from the Met in HD series since performing the heroine in Bellini’s La Sonnambula in March 2008.

Born Nathalie Dessaix in Lyon in 1965, she dropped the "h" in her first name in honor of Natalie Wood when she was in grade school and subsequently simplified the spelling of her surname outside France.

Famous in her earlier career for a very high tessitura, limpid intonation and superb coloratura, Dessay became more recognized in recent years for her dramatic and comedic flair as a singing actress.

In her youth, Dessay had intended to be a

ballet dancer, and then an actress. She discovered her talent for singing while taking acting classes, and shifted her artistic focus to music.

Dessay was encouraged to study voice at the Conservatoire national de région de Bordeaux and gained experience as a chorister in Toulouse. At the competition Les Voix Nouvelles, run by France Télécom, she was awarded First Prize (Premier Prix de Concours) followed by a year's study at Paris Opera's Ecole d'Art Lyrique, where she sang "Elisa" in Mozart's Il Re Pastore.

Following in the footsteps of mid to late 20th Century great soprano-actresses Beverly Sills, Teresa Stratas, Leonie Rysanek and Inge Borkh, to name a few, it has been predicted that Dessay’s acting will eventually become legend either equal to or a skosh behind Maria Callas’.

Lucia, famous for its Sextet and its Mad Scene, will be videocast on March 19 at 1:00pm, with a brief pre-show talk at 12:15pm, in the Seelig Auditorium at Sullivan County Community College in Loch Sheldrake.

Reservations: 845-434-5750, ext. 4472.

Opera news Sponsored by New Windsor law office of Drake, Loeb, Heller, Kennedy, Gogerty, Gaba & Rodd

Opera Company of the Highlands’ Own Dramaturg A dramaturge, or dramaturg, is a professional position within a theatre company. Its modern-day function was originated by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, an 18th-century German playwright, philosopher and theorist about theatre who borrowed theoretic ideas from Artistotle.

Responsibilities can vary from one theatre company to another. In smaller companies, the dramturg delves into the historical and cultural research of the play and its setting.

If you have been attending the recent fundraising concerts for Opera Company of the Highlands (OCH), you have “met” OCH’s dramaturg Cori Ellison.

Ellison was the dramaturg at New York City Opera from 1997-2010, and was responsible for the company's supertitles, as well as curating its pre-performance event series.

She is a frequent panelist on the Met’s Opera Quiz radio broadcasts and has served as dramaturg for Washington National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Opera Boston, Chicago Humanities Festival, and was dramaturg for a triple bill of Offenbach operettas at the Bard Summerscape Festival.

Ms. Ellison's English singing translation of Hansel and Gretel was commissioned and premiered by New York City Opera, and performed in Newburgh by OCH. She continues to serve New York City Opera as a consultant on selected productions and projects.

We are lucky to have her in the Hudson Valley.

February: baritone Paul Frazer, soprano Carol Lundergan, tenor Edward Lundergan and mezzo-soprano Tricia Agar. The six musicians will perform at the free concert (donations requested) on March 27 at 3:00pm in the Central Valley United Methodist Church, 12 Smith Clove Road.

For info: 845-928-6570.

HMH at Palaia Vineyards

Paul Davis (Keys/Vocals), Jim Iannucci (Guitar/Vocals), Eddie Hurley (Bass/Vocals), Ron Harsch (Drums/Vocals)

Hurley Mountain Highway is a fourpiece acoustic-electric group that calls the songs they play Feel-Good Music, “because we guarantee you'll Feel-Good when you hear them and perhaps you'll be caught dancing, laughing, smiling, and even singing along with them, like you did back when you were a teen!”

It's the music of Firefall, Michael Martin Murphy, Peter Frampton, King Harvest, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Neil Young, Badfinger, The Band, The Beatles, Van Morrison, Hall & Oates, Elton John, The Doobie Brothers, The Youngbloods, and so many more all-time favorite artists from the '60s and '70s...and beyond!

So, wine-taste at Palaia Vineyards in Highland Mills on March 19 after 7:00pm and feel good.

For info: 845-928-5384.

Piano Jazz Summit at Lycian in Sugar Loaf

Cedar Walton, Jacky Terrason and Hiromi

Enjoy three generations, three solo performances, in a “jazz summit” with keyboard marvels Cedar Walton, Jacky Terrasson, and Hiromi. Each will take a turn offering selections from their personal storehouses of distinctive music.

Cedar Anthony Walton, Junior (born January 17, 1934) is an American hard bop jazz pianist who was named the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master for 2010, the nation’s highest honor in jazz.

Jacky Terrasson, winner of the distinctive Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition and two-time Grammy nominee, has been celebrated here and in his native France. He says, “Music makes us smile. Music makes us laugh. Music makes us cry. It makes us think. Music connects souls. Music is greatness.”

Keyboardist-composer Hiromi Uehara has electrified audiences and critics on both hemispheres. She has performed and recorded with pianist and mentor, Chick Corea, as well as the Stanley Clarke Trio, and has released distinctive solo albums.

So, serious jazz fans, this one’s for you.

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And for non-serious jazz fans, these are for you.

“Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I’ll do with my left. [to Bud Powell]” – Art Tatum.

I can’t understand these guys who just have to have your autograph. I asked one of them ‘What do you do when you get home, take it out and look at it?’” – Artie Shaw “I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.” – Duke Ellington “By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.” – Duke Ellington “[Bebop is] Chinese music.” - Louis Armstrong “Women and rhythm-section first!” – Jaco Pastorius Enjoy this unique evening of solo piano times three at Lycian Centre on March 27 at 7:00pm.

Call 845-469-2287 for tickets.

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The Odd Couple Violin Concerto Sibelius' Iconic Violin Concerto in D Minor.

by Philip Ehrensaft Since a credible history of great violinists and great conductors from the early twentieth century onwards could be based on the huge catalogue of recordings of Sibelius's now iconic Violin Concerto in D Minor, it is hard to imagine that work languished in relative obscurity for three decades after its premier in 1905. Even though its premiere was conducted by none other than Richard Strauss.

That all changed in a flash when Jascha Heifitz made the first full recording of Sibelius' “revised” Violin Concerto in 1937.

Ears opened across the world to what Strauss and then Heifitz seized right off the bat. This landmark composition bridged two musical worlds, the Late Romantic era into which Jean Sibelius was born in 1865, and a new, highly original and accessible twentieth century musical language that Sibelius continued to define and refine over the next three decades before becoming disenchanted with his own progress, and foregoing further composition until the end of his long life in 1957.

Seemingly impossible musical partners are wedded to one another in Sibelius's now iconic coupling of romanticism and his own stern and demanding vision of modern music rooted in the modes and rhythms of the Finnish and folk music. A Finnish language and music, one must note, that stands in exception to the Indo-European languages that surround it on all sides.

So, on the one hand, we have the new musical language so deftly explained in

James Hepokoski's seminal article on Sibelius in the New Grove Dictionary of Music: “startlingly original adaptations of familiar elements plus unorthodox treatments of triadic harmony, orchestral color and musical process and structure.

Couple this with moods ranging from celebratory nationalism and political struggle to cold despair and desperate isolation. And then brooding contemplations of neo-primitive musical ideas that slowly transform sound textures to meditations on mysteries, grandeurs and occasional terrors of archetypical folk myths and natural landscapes.”

The voluptuous bride for this stern groom is the lush classical and romantic tradition of flamboyant virtuoso violin solos which could sometimes descend into flash and exhibitionism. As a violinist who discovered that his true calling was composition, Sibelius wedded this odd couple with a sure hand.

It took over three decades for a wider musical world to recognize what Strauss saw in this odd couple marriage of musicthinking in 1905, and why Heifitz took this music to the new improved recording technology of 1937, ironically, just as Sibelius decided that it was time to put down his pen for the next 20 years.

But the fire caught on, and burns still.

Mid-Hudson Valley music enthusiasts will have an opportunity to hear a live performance of this wondrous concerto on Saturday afternoon, March 12, at 3:00pm, when violinist Steven Zynszajn joins the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra (GNSO) at the Newburgh Free Academy High School Auditorium, South and Fullerton Streets. GNSO: 845-913-7517.

OK To Talk at the Movies Talking at the movies? Well, almost.

Downing Film Center is holding three panel discussuions in March, following film showings.

Imogene Drummond, whose art work is on display at the Railroad Playhouse, will have her short film Divine Sparks shown on March 6 at 1:00pm with a Q&A afterward, just before the reception at the Playhouse.

Divine Sparks is a whimsical story about the origin of the world, a metaphor for the transformative nature of creativity. It explores Divine Sparks, how they are born, and how they are manifested in each of us and in our universe.

As a father explained Divine Sparks to his young daughter: “This is a story about the

beginning of the world, and how before it was created there was nothing, but in that nothing was possibility. And, that’s what you are: Possibility.”

Vision - From the Life of Hildegard von Bingham will be given special screenings from March 11 thru March 14. You can hear a panel discussion on von Bingham on March 14 after the 7:30pm showing.

For showtimes, check website www.downingfilmcenter.com.

Kelli O’Connor Returns Home With Quintet, March 6

Newburgh Free Academy graduate Kelli O’Connor (center of photo) will return on March 6 at 3:00pm when the Radiance Woodwind Quintet will take us Around the World in 80 Minutes with composers Ravel, Piazzolla, Hindemith, Judith Weir and Lee Hoiby, a resident of Long Eddy.

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"I graduated from NFA in 1988 and had the opportunity to work with Mr. Sickinger, Mary Dietrich, Cal Parent, Grace Bowles, Mrs. Giles, Darryl Winslow, Lou Aulogia, Frank Maraday, and Elaine Simpson," O’Connor stated.

Joining the quintet are guest artists bassist Bob Weirath, percussionist Kuljit Rehney, pianist Laura Hibbard and Gary Chapman, the pianist for Hoiby’s Sextet for Winds, at St. George’s Church, 105 Grand Street, across from the Newburgh Library parking lot.

For more information: 845-562-1861.

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GNSO Programming Continues to Whet Appetites

Steven Zynszajn, born in Evanston, Illinois, grew up in France and has performed throughout Europe and the United States and appeared at musical festivals on both sides of the Atlantic.

He was showcased in the off-Broadway play Two, playing movements of the Beethoven Violin Concerto, and featured with the Brooklyn Philharmonia Chorus in a program of Gershwin songs. As the founder and director of Lautreamont Concerts, he has appeared at the French Consulate, New York Historical Society and Chelsea Art Museum. Mr. Zynszajn's broadcasts include WNYC in New York, Radio Classique in France, and "Good Morning America" on ABC. He performs on a Cremonese violin made in the 18th century in Cremona, Italy, by Aegidius Barzellini.

The March 12 concert will be held at the Newburgh Free Academy, Fullerton and South Streerts in Newburgh.

(The snow date is Saturday, March 19 at 3:00 p.m.)

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Woomyung Choe and the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra will have the World Premiere of Rapid Fire by Korean-American composer Paul Yeon Lee. The March 12, 3:00pm concert begins with this piece of music that its composer describes as “ferocious, wild and hypnotic, a piece that will lead the listener to a fantasy world of sound and energy.” Rapid Fire was commissioned by Dr. Choe and is dedicated to composer Paul Yeon Lee's good friend William A. Verdone.

Lee is committed to writing the most poignant, eloquent and passionate music that he can imagine and, in this case, challenged himself to compose a concert opener similar to a fanfare but without the heavy brass instruments you would expect.

The program will also include Antonin Dvorák's Symphony No. 8 in G Major.

The Shacklett Preview at 2:00pm is a preconcert introduction to the concert by Gordon Shacklett.

Children under 7 are admitted free of charge. Tickets may be purchased at the door or reserved via www.newburghsymphony.org.

Phone: 845- 913-7157

Celebrate Irish Heritage Celebrate all things Irish at a free concert featuring premier IrishAmerican fiddler Brian Conway, on Sun., March 20 at 3:00pm at the Newburgh Free Library.

Conway has won numerous All-Ireland fiddling competitions and performs with a skill, grace and force that are steeped in tradition but distinctively his own. He has been called one of the best fiddlers of his generation.

For information on programs, call the Newburgh Library, 563-3619 or go to www.newburghlibrary.org.

The Library’s main number is 563-3600 and it is located at 124 Grand Street..

....................................Newburgh Multi-M Media Film & Art Show

The Downing Film Center and Railroad Playhouse will host a special combination Divine Sparks preview film screening and art exhibit on Sunday, March 6th at 1:00pm.

Garrison filmmaker and artist Imogene Drummond's Divine Sparks 30 minute multi-media film, a 21st century myth of creativity for children of all ages, celebrates the transformative power of creativity. As a father explained “Divine Sparks” to his

daughter, “This is a story about the beginning of the world, and how before it was created there was nothing, but in that nothing was possibility. And, that’s what you are: Possibility.”

The event includes Divine Sparks film screening and Q & A with the filmmaker, followed by a reception and art exhibit. This unique film-and-art event allows viewers to experience art in diverse media, including digitally in the film and "live" on the gallery walls.

Filmed in beautiful places around the planet, Divine Sparks presents a story of harmony as an alternative to violence in these troubled times. The luminous film celebrates a wide array of art, animation and accents. Members of the Limón Dance Company stretch and sway like paper cutout pieces, eyeball puppets cavort, whales sing, and Native American dancers in full regalia celebrate!

This fun family event is appropriate for all ages, ergo children and families are welcome. A donation to benefit the Downing Film Center and the Railroad Playhouse is requested. The reception of Drummond’s Art Exhibit follows the Q&A at Railroad Playhouse.

The Downing Film Center is located at 19 Front Street in Newburgh. The Railroad Playhouse is located within walking distance at 27 South Water Street in Newburgh.

For information, call 646-295-6254.

Women’s History Month Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site pays tribute to a great woman, Martha Washington, during Women's History Month with their presentation From Petticoats to Breeches: Unveiling 18th Century Clothing and a First Ladies Trivia game.

During the program, the annual "Martha Washington Woman Of History Award" will be given to community activist Mara Farrell.

The event will take place March 26, at 2:00pm in the Museum, 84 Liberty Street, in Newburgh. The program is free, however, donations are appreciated.

For information, call 845-562-1195.

SUNY Orange’s Experience India

Nicole Shea, the new Cultural Affairs Co-ordinator of SUNY Orange, Newburgh Campus, has arranged for an evening of Indian Culture, co-sponsored by Gobal Initiative.

A lecture by Dr. Elizabeth White, A Passage to India, will be followed by a

music and dance presentation with Anindita Ana Nanda (see photos).

“We will also have some Indian culinary delights for you to sample”, reads Shea’s flyer promoting the event which will take place on March 8 at 7:00pm in the Great Room, Kaplan Hall 101, corner Grand and First Streets.

For more information: 845-341-9386

newburgh calendar Sponsored by Kiki Hayden, Roseann Cozzupoli & John J. Lease Realtors Art & Photography Exhibits Dona McPhillips Couch: "Portraits in American History" Karpeles Manuscript Museum, thru Mar 31 Eileen MacAvery Kane “East End Stories” Ritz Theater Lobby, thru Apr 30 Imogene Drummond Railroad Playhouse, Mar 6 Reception Mar 6 , approx. 3pm “In Rare Form” contemporary sculpture Ann Street Gallery, Mar 12-Apr 24 Reception Mar 12, 6pm-9pm

Music The Mighty Paul Brothers Band Mar 5, 8pm Devin Daversa acoustic Mar 10, 8pm The Reddan Brothers Mar 11. 8pm Sly Fox and the Hustlers Mar 12, 8pm Dan Brother acoustic Mar 13, 2:30pm Alpha Male Gorillas Mar 18. 8pm The Greyhounds Mar 19, 8pm March Madness Matinee: 3 Bands: Mar 20, 2:30pm 5 Punk Alternative Bands Mar 25, 8pm Deep Chemistry Mar 26, 8pm Wherehouse Music - Celtic Brian Conway fiddle NFL Mar 20, 3pm

Book Discussions Mystery Books Mar 21, 7pm Great Books Mar 23, 7pm & Mar 25, 11:30am Nerwburgh Free Library

Music - Classical Radiance Woodwind Quintet & Guests Newburgh Chamber Music St. George’s Church, Mar 6, 3pm

Cinema Specials “Divine Sparks” Mar 6, 1pm “Vision - From the Life of Hildegard Von Bingham” Mar 11-14 “12th and Delaware” Mar 21, 7:30pm “The Yankles” Mar 25-28 Downing Film Center

Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra Steven Zynszajn, violin Newburgh Free Academy, Mar 12, 3pm

Hot Movies for a Cold Day NFL Mar 14, 6pm

Theatre “Experience India” Mar 8, 7pm-9pm Music, Dance, Lecture, Culinary SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall 101

Comedy Tom Briscoe Mar 19, 8pm & Mar 20, 3pm Railroad Playhouse Lectures Celtic Tea Tradition NFL Mar 3, 2pm “Tibet, the Dalai Lama, and 1984” SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall 101, Mar 10, 7pm

Museum Exhibits “The History of Medicine” Karpeles Manuscript Museum, thru Mar 31 “The General’s Lady” Exhibit & Lecture Martha Washington Tribute "From Petticoats to Breeches: Unveiling 18th Century Clothing."

Washington’s Headquarters, Mar 26, 2pm

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Poetry Reading Hudson River Poets, Mar 3, 7pm Newburgh Free Library

Air Pirates Live Radio Theater “It Ain't Over Till The Fat Lady Swings" Railroad Playhouse, Mar 11, 8pm "Not All Fortunes are Found in Cookies" Railroad Playhouse, Mar 12, 8pm, “A Tribute to Langston Hughes” Teen Theatre Ensemble, Newburgh Performing Arts Academy Newburgh Free Library Mar 13, 3pm One-Act Pinter Plays Railroad Playhouse, Mar 26, 8pm

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Falcon Jazz from Far and Near

On Novenmber 10, 2010 Edmar Castenada, as the expression goes, stole the show. In this case, the “show” was the Jazz Festival at SUNY Orange in Middletown.

Those in attendance at the OCCC Jazz Festival, a tribute to Marvin Feman, witnessed a unique performer, jazz harpist Castenada. This world class intrumentalist was accompanied by a most expressive and attentive drummer, Dave Silliman.

(Editor’s note:They were outstanding!)

Exactly four months later on March 10, 2011, Edmar Castaneda will perform again, Live at the the Falcon.

Since his move from Bogotá, Colombia to the United States in 1994, Castaneda has taken New York and the world stage by storm with the sheer force of his virtuosic command of the harp, revolutionizing the way audiences and critics consider the instrument. He is a master at beautiful complexities.

The legendary Paquito D'Rivera, Edmar's frequent collaborator, has remarked: "Edmar is…an enormous talent; he has the versatility and the enchanting charisma of a musician who has taken his harp out of the shadow to become one of the

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most original musicians from the Big Apple." (Into classical music? Try THIS!) Area vocalist favorite, and local resident, Judi Silvano is versatile enough to present jazz standards or the more unique work of Thelonious Monk, American women composers or her own originals about the “dance of life.”

Silvano shares her joy, bringing inspiration to every collaborative effort through her skilled improvisational techniques and sensitive listening.

Michael Abene is an intuitive and unusually imaginative composer, arranger, keyboardist and producer whose work has resulted in scores of awards and accolades, including several Grammy nominations for arranging and in Grammy wins for The Duke Ellington Orchestra's Digital Duke, The GRP All-Star Big Band's All Blues and, most recently, Patti Austin's Avant Gershwin.

Judi and Michael will appear Live at the Falcon on March 19 at 7:00pm.

The Falcon is located at 1348 Route 9W in Marlboro. Reservations for dinner are requested: 845-236-7970.

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