D&H CANVAS December 2022

CANVAS A Complimentary Arts, Entertainment and Buy Local Guide

DECEMBER 2022

art • cinema • dance • festivals • holistic living • music • opera • poetry • theatre

From The Publisher...

by Barry Plaxen Welcome back from the Pandemic: This is the first month we do not have to welcome back a venue or event due to the pandemic. I am so happy to write this. FINALLY! Please continue to stay safe and healthy.

Welcome Back: But I will use the “welcome back” phrase for its usual healthy meaning, and welcome Broadway star Karen Mason back to Eldred for the Bradstan Cabaret series, and welcome back Miracle on South Division Street to Ellenville.

Vocabulary Lesson: Quotidian: of or occurring every day;

daily.

Synchronicity of the Month: Art Exhibits in Newburgh and Youngsville with the same title.

Kudos to: Music Institute of Sullivan & Ulster and Nesin Cultural Arts for combining students with professionals to make music together.

In this issue: Family-Friendly events in Dingmans Ferry, Hurleyville, Montgomery, Newburgh, Pine Bush, Tuxedo, Walden and Warwick.

New art exhibits in Greenwood Lake, Liberty, Livingston Manor, Montgomery, Newburgh, Rock Tavern, Shohola,

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Herbal Alchemy of Soap & Incense Craft Two Crow Cottage Burlingham, NY 12722-0210 www.etsy.com/shop/happyherbssoap

by Jo Ann Johnson

On view in the Goshen Art League’s “Celebrate” Winter Holiday Show.

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Thanks to CANVAS, I was able to see Prudence Wright Holmes’ powerful one-person show about Miep Gies, who brought food and news to Anne Frank and her family when they were in hiding.

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Youngsville and Warwick.

Christmas events in Bethel, Highland Falls, Hurleyville, Middletown, Newburgh, Pine Bush, Sugar Loaf, and Vails Gate.

Holiday music in Bullville, Cornwall, Ellenville, Middletown, Milford, Montgomery, Mountaindale, Newburgh, Pine Bush, Sugar Loaf, Warwick and West Point.

Live theatre in Cornwall, Ellenville, Montgomery and Loch Sheldrake.

Storytelling in Callicoon.

Tango in Sugar Loaf.

Opportunities for YOU to sing in Ellenville and Mountaindale.

Nutcracker events in Hurleyville, Newburgh and Sugar Loaf.

Be sure to check out our Holiday Shopping stories on pages 20-23. By keeping your holiday shopping dollars local, you are supporting the arts and artists at the same time.

2023, we welcome you!

Amity Gallery, Warwick ���������������������21 Barryville Area Arts Association ��������23 Bradstan Cabaret Series, Eldred ������25 Catskill Art Space, Livingston Manor ��6 Chester Public Library ����������������������24 City Winery, Montgomery ��������������6, 21 CMA Gallery, Newburgh ���������������������5 Cragsmoor Library ����������������������������22 Delaware Valley Arts Alliance �����������20 Delaware Valley Choral Society ��������18 Desmond Center, Newburgh ��15, 21, 26 Domesticities, Youngsville ������������������5 Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West Point ��18 Eldred Preserve ��������������������������������25 Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf ���������20 Falcon, Marlboro �������������������������11, 14 Forestburgh Playhouse ��������������������22 Frederick Cook Society, Hurleyville ��24 Gallery 222, Hurleyville ���������������������22 Goshen Art League ���������������������������12 Greater Newburgh Symphony Orch. ��17 Greenwood Lake Public Library �18, 28 Happy Herbs Soap ���������������������������22 Highlands Art Alliance �������������������7, 13 HPAC, Hurleyville �����������������������17, 22 In Memoriam: Sister Sylvia Bielen, OP �27 John DiLeo, Film Historian ���������������22 Joseph & Elizabeth Sundwall, artists ��23 Josephine-Louise Library, Walden ������6 Kindred Spirits Arts, Milford ��������������19

Community Arts: News, Views And Schedules Serving Orange, Sullivan, & Pike Counties and bordering Ulster County hamlets.

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS 297 Stone Schoolhouse Road Bloomingburg, NY 12721 Publisher, Barry Plaxen barry@dhcanvas.com calendar@dhcanvas.com 845.733.4979 Editor, Sophia Krcic editor@dhcanvas.com ads@dhcanvas.com 845.666.0000 Email calendar submissions by the 15th of the prior month to calendar@dhcanvas.com Liberty Museum and Arts Center ��������3 Milford Theatre ����������������������������������19 MISU & Music on Market, Ellenville �8,19 Monroe Library ���������������������������������24 Music for Humanity ���������������������������28 Narrowsburg Union ���������������������������20 Nesin Cultural Arts ����������������������������17 Newburgh Free Library ���������������������22 Newburgh Historical Society �������������27 Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall ��28 Orange County Arts Council �������������11 Orange County Land Trust ���������������20 Original Vinyl Records, Warwick �������22 Paramount Theatre, Middletown ���������3 Pat MacDonald, artist �����������������������10 Pine Bush Community Band �������������18 Pine Bush First Fridays ��������������������22 Pocono Environmental Educ. Ctr.. ����16 Roberta Gould, poet ���������������������������9 Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf �����������8 Seminary Hill Cidery, Callicoon �����������7 Shadowland Stages, Ellenville �����������4 SLPAC, Sugar Loaf ���������������17, 26, 28 Sugar Loaf Holiday Celebration ��������20 Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra 17 Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop 14,18 Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville ��24 SUNY Orange, Middletown ���������12, 14 SUNY Orange, Newburgh ����������������12 SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake �������25 Theatre on Main Street, Cornwall �����10 Time Warp Records, Callicoon ���������22 Tuxedo Park Library �������������������16, 24 Unitarian Universalist Congregation ����10 United Methodist Ch., Dingmans Ferry ��7 UpFront, Port Jervis ����������������������7, 12 Wallkill River Center for the Arts 12,21,23 Washington’s Hdqrts, Newburgh ������19 Western Sullivan Public Library ��������16 Wisner Library, Warwick �������������������19 Woodbury Public Library �������������������24 Wurtsboro Art Alliance ����������������������21

Spirit of Christmas at the Paramount Following his November through the 1960s. In 1987, they concert in Sugar Loaf, and just were the first group inducted prior to bringing his The Spirit into the Rock and Roll Hall of of Christmas to Southington, Fame.

CT (Dec. 4) and Holyoke, MA Polka Today! originators Matt (Dec. 6), world renown 18-time & Elaine Bonowitz appeared Grammy winning artist Jimmy on America’s Got Talent in June, Sturr will bring his Holiday Jimmy Sturr 2022. They beat out over 25,000 Show to Middletown. contestants to take their This great holiday high-energy polka style presentation stars Jimmy of dance to new levels Sturr and his Orchestra, by blending country, with special guests, The swing, and ballroom Coasters singing their dancing with the polka, many hits, The Jimmy and adding flashy and Sturr Singers, Matt & appealing costuming The Coasters Elaine and more. and choreography.

The Coasters are an Seeing is believing. When American rhythm & blues/rock you see Jimmy Sturr and & roll vocal group who had a his Orchestra in person, string of hits in the late 1950s. you know why they draw Beginning with Searchin’ and the huge crowds, have been Young Blood in 1957, their voted #1 in the country, and most memorable songs were are considered the very best written by the songwriting in Polka music. and producing team of Leiber The Holiday Show is on and Stoller. Although the December 3 at 3:00pm at Matt & Elaine Coasters originated outside of the Paramount Theatre, 17 mainstream doo-wop, their records were South Street, Middletown. so frequently imitated that they became For tickets: 845-346-4195 or visit: an important part of the doo-wop legacy www.middletownparamount.com.

Paintings in Liberty thru December 3 Hurry! The solo exhibition of paintings that portray views of NYC neighborhoods, Sullivan County, and rural Brazil, where artist Edward Ziff (who has led quite the career - continue reading!) has been a frequent visitor, are only on view until December 3 at the Liberty Museum & Arts Center.

Take a friend and enjoy viewing Mr. Ziff’s artworks while supporting our local art scene!

Mr. Ziff’s work has been influenced by the belief that the world that we experience is more than what we simply see and hear. It incorporates emotions, understandings, memories, reflections, compassion, etc., added by the brain, giving his work an altered, sometimes paradoxical perspective. “Through the medium of art, we can share with others these creations of our minds,” he says.

In his professional life, Mr. Ziff is a neurobiologist. Born in New York City and educated in the NYC public schools, he earned a Bachelor’s degree at Columbia, a PhD at Princeton and completed his post doctoral studies

Work by Edward Ziff

in Cambridge, UK. He has conducted neurobiology and cancer-related research in London and at Rockefeller University and most recently at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where he is now Professor Emeritus.

Ziff has co-authored books on DNA and autism for the non-specialist, as well as articles in the New York Review of Books on evolution and brain function. He first came to the Catskills more than 30 years ago and divides his time between a home in Swan Lake and NYC. LMAC, at 46 South Main Street, Liberty, is open Saturdays from noon4:00pm. For info, call: 845-292-2394.

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Dudzick’s “Miracle on South Division Street” Closes Shadowland’s Season Playwright Tom Dudzick was born it. We just got our hair cut and kept our and raised in Buffalo - in an apartment mouth shut. above his father’s tavern, only steps “I was standing across the street from away from the Our Lady of Seneca Street it, just looking at it and, I think, that’s shrine, upon which his play Miracle on dramatic enough all by itself. It’s lifeSouth Division Street is based. sized, and it’s in a 20-foot shrine, made “My childhood was great, and it of brick and glass. So I interviewed the had a great effect on caretaker, who lived me - I guess everyone’s across the street from it. childhood does, but mine She showed me some happened to be pretty papers; some actual funny - growing up over history of the statue. And a tavern, the run-ins with honestly, it was not that the nuns, and the statue, interesting of a story. It which is on the same was very dry: The barber street I grew up on, about had a vision and he built a block and a half from the statue of the lady who where the tavern was. appeared to him. And that “It was built right was it. There may have around when I was born. been some family drama We were always aware going on, but I wasn’t of it. We had our hair cut “Our Lady of Seneca” shrine privy to it.

by Mr. Battaglia, the man who built it.

“So I decided to totally make up a And we would go look at it and wonder story. And that’s why I decided to change about it. It was a source of mystery. We the street. The story is fictional. So, I felt would kneel in front of it, say a prayer. a little better moving the statue over a And then the nuns gave us the real low- couple blocks. The statue does not sit on down, they said, “Do not pray in front of South Division Street in real life; it sits that statue. He’s a nice man, that barber, on Seneca Street.” but he didn’t have a vision.” We weren’t Dudzick’s fictional play is the story bold enough to ask Mr. Battaglia about of the Nowak family, living amidst

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the urban rubble of Buffalo’s East Side. The neighborhood is depressed, but Clara, the family matriarch, happily runs her soup kitchen and tends to the family heirloom - a shrine to the Blessed Mother, which adjoins the house.

This neighborhood beacon of faith Melody Ladd commemorates the day when the Blessed Virgin Mary materialized in Clara’s father’s barber-shop.

As the “comedic” play opens, a family meeting - run by daughter Ruth - has been called to divulge her plans to go public with the Laura Chaneski family miracle by creating a onewoman play about the sacred event.

As the play begins to close, you watch Clara unknowingly go through a true catharsis regarding her unhappy relationship with her own mother, and you come away J. L. McClintock knowing you’ve witnessed a serious “drama” with an inspiring message for people of all (and no) faiths.

Jodie Lynne McClintock has appeared in film and television as well as on Broadway and Off, in London’s West End, at Israel’s Sean Walsh

National Theatre - the Habimah, and at major regional theatres across the country.

Regional theatre and TV actor (and commercials) Laura Chaneski, is thrilled to make her Shadowland Stages debut!

Melody Ladd will also make her Shadowland Stages debut.

Past credits include many NYC shows as well as regional.

Sean Walsh attends SUNY New Paltz where he is studying theater and performance. He is so happy and grateful to be returning once again to Shadowland to close out a great year for live theater.

Miracle on South Division Street, directed by Artistic Director Brendan Burke, will be performed December 2-18 at the MainStage at Shadowland Stages, 157 Canal Street, Ellenville. The December 3 matinee will be the “vaxxed and masked” performance.

December 2 & 3 matinees offer “pay what you can” tickets.

Box Office: 845-647-5511. www.shadowlandstages.org

“Transition” in Youngsville

“Transition” in Newburgh

Jeffersonville artists Kevin by her art instructor who Gref and Lucy Sardonia invite encouraged her. Although you to the opening reception she took incidental courses of their exhibition, Transition: in art and fashion at Syracuse Exploring Meaning & Change University, she is primarily through Art, on November 26 self-taught. at 3:00pm.

Kevin received his Bachelor Kevin’s work in painted of Fine Arts degree from wood and mixed media is a the University of Buffalo, complex adventure in shape specializing in sculpting. and color which visually After retiring from a career as interprets words and their a carpenter, he returned to his meaning. Lucy works with art in 2013 with the opening a variety of materials as she of his studio Jeffersonville explores and reimagines Steamworks where he began everyday scenes from her to experiment with steam“Topography”

by Kevin Gref childhood in the Caribbean and bent white oak, cherry, and our local landscapes. other hardwoods.

The subtlety of color Kevin’s work has in Kevin’s work is appeared in group complemented by the shows at the Delaware colorful portrayals of Valley Arts Alliance, strength in nature and Catskill Art Space, as humans that Lucy has well as the Broadway created. production of Harold Born in the and Maude.

Dominican Republic, Transition is on view Lucy immigrated to the through December 30 U.S. with her family at at Domesticities & a young age. While in “Lady in Blue” by Lucy Sardonia The Cutting Garden, high school, her talent was recognized 4055 Route 52, Youngsville.

Philippe Safire Nightcolors, a public uses pixel patterns as art installation a visual metaphor to in Beacon. His depict the pervasive art has been influence of digital exhibited at Lacda, technologies in our ArtsWestchester everyday lives. He Gallery, Reverse seeks to translate our Gallery, fascination for the BeaconArts, digital and its power Garrison Art Center, to disrupt society.

NYU, and the Center The artist often for the Digital Arts, appropriates familiar among others. symbols and pop Mount Saint culture iconography.

Mary College’s In this current work, CMA Gallery is Work by Philippe Safire from the “Transition” exhibition. the artist carved located on the 1st replicas of the world atlas, the American floor of Aquinas Hall, 330 Powell flag, human silhouettes, and the “like” Avenue, Newburgh. icon from social media apps.

The CMA gallery was created in 2019 For Transition, Safire has created a set as a professional artist space to exhibit of new pieces made with color pencils media picked by Mount faculty from and black paper cut-outs. The show also among the rising population of artists features an installation consisting of who live and work in Newburgh, Beacon, animation and video projection. and throughout the Hudson Valley.

A French-Armenian artist living The show is on view Monday to and working in the Hudson Valley, Friday during normal business hours, or Safire’s recent projects include Spell, by appointment through January 30, an award-winning short film that 2023. Email cma-gallery@msmc.edu for received international recognition, more information.

Create, a participatory exhibition, and For information, visit www.msmc.edu

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Catskill Art Space, Livingston Manor Catskill Art Space (CAS) is now in its “new” home, a completely rebuilt two-story edifice with numerous galleries and a performance space.

Ellen Brooks, a photographer known for her boundary-pushing forays into sculpture, has suspended over 30 feet of scrolls of film negatives from the ceiling of CAS first floor gallery. Brooks

is showing historical and new works from her Trees 1987/2022 series at the Gallery through December 23.

The CAS Members’ Exhibition runs from December 31 to January 28 at CAS, 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor.

An opening reception will be held on December 31, from 4:00pm-6:00pm.

Visit www.catskillartspace.org/events

Teens’ Dragons & Magic in Walden As with many area libraries, the Josephine-Louise Public Library in Walden offers various recreation opportunities in addition to classes for all ages. Here are two examples: Dungeons & Dragons is a cooperative role-playing game where everyone works together to create a fun story and go on interesting adventures. Your decisions influence the story you make, guiding your heroes through quests for treasure, daring rescues, intrigue, and much more!

Make new friends at The Royal Heist on December 2 & 16, from 5:00pm-

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8:00pm. All experience levels welcome.

Ages 13+. Register in advance.

Magic is a card game where you are a wizard casting spells and summoning creatures. Your goal is to defeat the opposing wizards. All experience levels are welcome. If you have your own cards, bring them. If not, the Library will provide some for you to borrow.

Magic! The Gathering Club gathers on December 3 & 17, from 2:00pm4:00pm. Ages 13+. Register at the main desk.

For info, email Liz: Llinton@rcls.org.

See ad pg. 8 for more Library events.

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Lunch-Theatre Farce in Montgomery Tony tries to keep The Souprano’s the peace between Last Holiday Party is the rival crime a “Diss-Functional” families but instead, family farce dinner watch the ziti fly, and show (read: Lunch)! see who survives.

Tony and Hormella Enjoy the meal Souprano invite you and the diss-ing to the holiday party at City Winery, of the season and to celebrate their Meet “The Soupranos” and laugh out loud 23 Factory Street, on anniversary. Become at City Winery in Montgomery on Dec. 18 Montgomery, a part of the famiglia as a guest at the December 18 at 12:45pm.

Visit www.citywinery.com and check party, and find out who the real bosses out the ad on page 7. are: the men - or their mamas?

Kids’ Rock-n-Roll Playhouse The Rock and Roll Playhouse, a family concert series, allows kids to move, play and sing while listening to works from the classic-rock canon. The band offers its core audience of families with children age ten and under games, stories and an opportunity to rock out in an effort to educate children and explore their creativity.

“The Rock and Roll Playhouse knows that little ears are sensitive, so we turn down the volume at our shows. However, all kids experience music differently and you may find that your child is more comfortable wearing hearing protection

earmuffs, such as Baby Banz.

“Come sing and dance with the Rock and Roll Playhouse as we jam out to our favorite fun Beatles tunes...and more for the holiday season!”

City Winery Hudson Valley presents The Rock and Roll Playhouse: Holiday Show sharing the music of The Beatles (with a new generation of music lovers!) on December 11 at Noon at 23 Factory Street, Montgomery.

Children one and under are free.

All children must be accompanied by a parent or adult caregiver.

See ad page 7.

Homemade Cookies, Dingmans Ferry The United Methodist Church will have many varieties of delicious, homemade cookies that can be enjoyed immediately or frozen for the holidays.

The Church’s elves do the baking, you just walk around and fill a bag with the ones

you like on December 3 from 9:00am-1:00pm.

The cost is $8 per lb. and all proceeds support the church’s ministries at 115 Myck Road, Dingmans Ferry.

Call 570-828-2288.

Visit www.dfumc.com

Photography Salon: “Pricing Photos” The monthly Highlands Arts Alliance Photographers Salon gatherings connect fellow photographers, where together they share, critique and learn new techniques. The Salon offers monthly focused topic-led discussions, guest speakers, workshops and photo walks. The 2023 Yearly Contributor Photography Exhibition offers an opportunity for members to showcase their photographic artwork, and is planned for January 11-28.

Moderated by program founder and photographer Karen Parashkevov, December’s gathering will feature a focused topic-led discussion: Pricing Fine Art Photos, and share and critique of photos on December 7 at 6:00pm at the American Legion Hall, 134 Old State Road, Highland Falls.

Salon overview, contact and fee information can be found by visiting: www.highlandsartsalliance.org/ photographersalon

Live Jazz at UpFront in Port Jervis

Liza Doolittle is a vocalist who performs with local musicians throughout the Hudson Valley area. She sings covers from various genres and time periods, as well as an assortment of jazz standards, and is most inspired by artists like Billie Holiday, Fiona Apple, Ella Fitzgerald, Carole King, Etta James, and the Beatles.

Bassist Robert Kopec has been instrumental in assembling the finest regional jazz improvisers, performing in venues across the Hudson Valley,

and known as Big Bang!

He was also bassist-inresidence at Dos Amigos in Fair Oaks, and now heads his own trio and quartet comprised of local major musicians concertizing throughout the Hudson Valley.

Doolittle & Kopec will perform for the groove port music series at UpFront Exhibition Space, 31 Jersey Avenue, Port Jervis, on December 9 at 7:00pm.

Upfront’s art show can be viewed from 1:00pm through to the concert.

Tickets at the door. BYOB!

Chutzpah Collaboration in Callicoon Chutzpah (a.k.a. Hutzpah) is a Yiddish word meaning “impudence or gall.”

Bravery that borders on rudeness is chutzpah, which rhymes with “foot spa.”

If you have chutzpah, you say what you think without worrying about hurting someone’s feelings, looking silly, or getting in trouble.

Chutzpah is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad. It derives from the Hebrew word ḥuṣpāh (‫)הָּפְצֻח‬, meaning “insolence”, “cheek” or “audacity”. Thus the original Yiddish word has a strongly negative connotation but the form which entered English as a Yiddishism in American English has taken on a broader meaning, having been popularized through vernacular use in film, literature, and television.

Yarnslingers began telling true, first person stories in 2010. A large group

A few members of the Yarnslingers crew.

of storytellers from all walks of life who love to sling yarn, each of their presentations has a theme.

Yarnslingers on Hutzpah! happens at Seminary Hill Cidery, 43 Wagner Lane, Callicoon on December 4 at 11:30am.

Readers/Storytellers include Anie Stanley, Ramona Jan, Bill Fellenberg, Glenn of Trees, Dawn MacIntyre, Fred Feibusch, Isabel Braverman and Janice Meyerson. Info: 845-887-4056.

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The Audience is the Choir in Ellenville SongClub is a drop-in singing experience aimed at bringing communities together through singing original arrangements of familiar songs in a safe and welcoming environment.

Debbie Lan (pictured) is a musician, singer, choral director, songwriter and teaching artist. With a passion for singing and helping others find their own voices, arranging songs, teaching group harmonies and community building, Debbie enjoys directing SongClub and her four performing adult community Voice Ensembles: Bloom (52 voices), The B2’s (9 voices), Perennial (9 voices) and the Resisterhood Community Choir (20 voices and counting).

A former teaching artist/musician at High Meadow School in Stone Ridge, Debbie is also a musician/singer/ songwriter for the band Grenadilla, with her Kwela flavored rhythms, upbeat melodies, layered voices, a touch of Cape Town jive and a hint of the blues.

“There aren’t enough communities making music together in the world today,” says Debbie. “Kids and adults spend so much time alone in their rooms, with their games, TV’s and computers.

We want to encourage all people, not just ‘musicians’ to make music a part of their

daily lives, to pick up an instrument, open their voice and play and sing along, making music just for the fun of it.”

For the Music Institute of Sullivan & Ulster’s (MISU) next Coffee House Concert, Debbie will conduct YOU while YOU sing. “I hand out lyric sheets and teach harmonies to a familiar popular song. The song will not be Christmas or holiday based. There is no written sheet music,” Debbie explained.

This SongClub event will take place on December 3 at 7:30pm at 40 Market Street, “either in MISU or St. Joseph’s Church, dependant on numbers, so every one can feel comfortable and safe.

Masking will be highly recommended as well as appropriate distance seating being provided for those requesting it,” said MISU Director Anastasia Solberg.

Tickets at the door. See ad page 9.

“Holiday Milonga” in Sugar Loaf After discovering his passion for the art form in his early 20s, Tango expert Jon Tariq embarked on a journey as a professional in 2007 and his career has only gone on an upwards trajectory, working for some of the best studios in New York, Westchester and New Jersey.

Plus, Tango allowed him to share his knowledge with Tango lovers in different parts of the world.

Part of Tariq’s success is due to the wide variety of knowledge that he possesses in the field of Tango. Not one to rest on his laurels, he has continuously searched for new paths to learn from and, nowadays, he has cemented himself as an expert in the field and its many different variables.

Another reason as to why Tariq is so highly regarded in the field of Argentine Tango is that he is one of the most progressive and more capable teachers in the market. Throughout the years, his work as an instructor, teacher and choreographer has received praise for prioritizing technique, execution

HOLIDAY EVENTS December 1 at 6:00pm “Winter Scene Painting Class” for ages 12+ to adults.

All art materials supplied.

December 6 at 10:30am “Toddler Holiday Tea Party”!

December 14 at 4:30pm “Gingerbread Garland” Family Program The Library will be closed: 12/24/22 & 12/25/22 Christmas Eve & Christmas Day

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and fundamentals in a fun, engaging manner.

One of the biggest misconceptions about Argentine Tango is that you cannot learn it or dance it after a certain age.

Tariq’s methods and teachings adapt to people of all ages, and he makes sure that everybody can enjoy learning, as his beliefs and passions for the art form is something that drives him forward, combined with a genuine desire to share his knowledge with more people.

Tariq will share his expertise and passion at his Holiday Milonga on December 17 with all levels of classes and practice starting at 6:30pm, followed by a Holiday Tango Evening from 8:00pm1:00am at the Seligmann Center, 25 White Oak Drive, Sugar Loaf.

For class/level and schedule info, email info@tangoschool.nyc or phone 917-825-0620.

Visit www.tangoschool.nyc.

Check out Tariq’s new book Tango Obsession on Amazon.

Gould’s Poetry, Goshen & Montgomery “Roberta Gould starts the reader off in the territory of the ordinary before turning a corner into realms of the strange and sublime. Holding forth in a voice marked by brevity and surety, she offers poems short on the page but long in perspective: lenses that reflect worlds we thought we knew.”

- Margot Farrington, American Book Review.

Embellishments are kept to a minimum in Gould’s poetry. “Stories do not need me,” she says in a recent interview, and depicts from many angles - personal and philosophical - with an aliveness and verve, expressed in quotidian language which is precise and musical. This gives her work the arresting archetypical power that has been noted. For many years she has also given us true political poetry that transcends time and the details of the day with great power. These poems have been recurrent since her first book, Dream Yourself Flying.

Gould taught Romance languages for twenty years at Brooklyn College and briefly at the University of California in Berkeley. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Poetry Now, Catholic

Worker, California Quarterly, Milkweed Chronicle, Mid American Review, Jewish Currents, Green Mountain Review, Confrontation, Helicon Nine, Naugatuck River Review, Socialism and Democracy, The Art and Craft of Poetry, in many other literary publications, and in anthologies including Mixed Voices, A Slant of Light, and Up the River.

Gould has exhibited her surreal photography in New York City, and has translated poetry by Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, Salvador Espriu, Pedro Garfias, Jorge Luis Borges and other Spanish language poets into English.

She will read from her new book, for the Poetry at the Church series, on December 19 at 7:00pm, at the Goshen Methodist Church, 115 Main Street.

Host: Ted Gill. Info: 845-294-5010.

Donations welcomed.

Gould then overnights to nearby Montgomery where she is the featured poet at Java Blue Coffee & Market, 8 Union Street, on December 20 at 6:00pm.

Host: Robert Milby. Info: 845-4574331. $2 donation.

May I Have A Word With You Quips, Quotes & Quiddities by Carol Pozefsky

The Will British broadcaster, Gyles Brandreth, also a former member of Parliament, has a sharp eye and keen ear for words and mirth. In his sequel More Joy of Lex, Brandreth shares this cynical will written by Philadelphia industrialist, William Hickington who died in 1947.

“To my wife I leave her lover, and the knowledge that I wasn’t the fool she thought I was.

“To my son I leave the pleasure of earning a living. For 25 years he thought the pleasure was all mine. He was mistaken.

“To my daughter I leave $100,000. She will need it. The only piece of business her husband ever did was to marry her.

“To my valet I leave the clothes he has been stealing from me for ten years. Also the fur coat he wore last winter while I was in Palm Beach.

“To my partner, I leave the suggestion that he take some clever man in with him at once if he expects to do any business.

Forty Lashes with a Wet Noodle!

That’s a nonsense punishment probably stemming from early stand-up comedy.

But the number 40 has a singular history, some of it biblical.

It’s still debated but widely believed that Moses spent 40 days and 40 nights on each of his visits to Mount Sinai.

The Lenten period lasts 40 days.

The fictional Ali Baba had 40 thieves.

Quarantine comes from the Italian word meaning a period of forty days.

We may take comfort from the adage, “Life begins at 40” but, some online clown adds: “Life may begin at 40 but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person over and over again.”

This is a real Loo Loo! You’ll be proud to learn that you can not only be a patriot but an environmental champion without ever leaving the bathroom.

I was blow drying my hands in a public restroom while reading the following on the face of the dryer: “Save Trees, Eliminate Paper Towel Waste, and Maintain Cleaner Facilities with World Warm-Air Dryers.”

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Artist Pat MacDonald’s “Road Trip” Pat MacDonald captures the subtle colors of the sky and the landscape with her combinations of oil, pastel and watercolors. “When I choose a landscape I am looking for peace and serenity, something that should be noted and felt, a connection,” she says. “All this beauty and power inspires me, then it can become the essence of a new story. The challenge of capturing a landscape in midflight during a moment that can only be found once is magical and an echo of reality.”

“Pat is a master of composition.

She can take a very simple scene and highlight its beauty and drama with her choices of what to include or not,” said Wallkill River Center for the Arts Executive Director, Sarah Pierson.

“As a pastel and oil painter I am looking to express the subtle colors in the landscape before they quietly and quickly change,” said Pat. “To capture the sky

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or meadow before the air around them moves on and passes through. Showing all the details but softening the edges, blurring some of the static and defusing some of the noise.

Noticing its beauty and bringing it to life. For the flowers are willing to show their beauty and the clouds are willing to show their power and that inspires me; then it can become the essence of a new story.”

An exhibition, titled Road Trip, encompasses a large body of Pat’s works. The pieces have a smooth and soft quality to them, like fond memories. The exhibit now adorns the walls of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 9 Vance Road, Rock Tavern, and will captivate all who come for an open house showing of her art on December 9 from 2:00pm-4:00pm.

Light refreshments will be available.

For further information or to arrange a private showing, contact Michael Landrum at 845-851-6024.

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“Godspell” Comes to Cornwall Godspell first opened offBroadway in 1971, and on Broadway in 1976. It has since been produced by multiple touring companies and a Broadway revival ran from October 13, 2011 to June 24, 2012.

The musical is structured as a series of parables, primarily based on the Gospel of Matthew.

The parables are interspersed with A rehearsal shot from Theatre on Main Street’s production of “Godspell”. music set primarily to lyrics from traditional hymns, with the passion of Book of Matthew through comedy, Christ appearing briefly near the end of song, and dance. Together they create a community to share and enjoy these new the show.

In this re-staging of the revival found values, as they journey toward the production of Godspell, a group of men inevitable weaknesses of human nature, and women come together in the early and suffer through the betrayal and 1990’s in a Seattle bar at the forefront destruction of the very messenger who of the Grunge music scene. This group brought them together.

Presented by Theatre on Main Street, of people from disparate walks of life find themselves in the bar at a moment Director Jessica Jaber said, “Celebrate in time where society is in transitioning the 10 year anniversary of the revival from the glittering and roaring 1980’s to production with us! Our production features professional talent hailing from the raw and real 1990’s.

At the precipice of the moment all areas of the country, as well as local where technology and social media talent discovered and developed from will change society irrevocably, it is our surrounding neighborhoods!”

See Godspell at 45 Quaker Avenue, here that they form a bond at the behest of a new messenger, and re-tell some Suite 100, Cornwall, December 2-11. of the most notable parables from the For info: 929-483-4776. See ad page 6.

A Virtual Visit with An Artist’s Studio Jean-Marc Superville Sovak is a multidisciplinary artist and teaching professional whose work is deeply rooted in the community around him.

His public works include organizing and officiating a Burial for White Supremacy (Unison Arts Center, New Paltz), retracing speculative steps on the Underground Railroad across historic sites in the Hudson Valley (Wilderstein Historic Site, Rhinebeck), designing memorials to Afro-Dutch pioneers in colonial New Netherlands (Rockland County’s Art in Public Places), and I Draw & You Talk, a storefront portraitdrawing studio doubling as an oral history project (Matteawan Gallery, Beacon).

His current practice, a-Historical Landscapes, involves altering 19thcentury landscape engravings to include images borrowed from contemporaneous anti-slavery publications.

As visiting artist and lecturer, he has used his work as a platform to discuss topics such as The American Picturesque in the Age of Abolitionism at colleges, universities and cultural institutions.

A graduate of Bard College’s M.F.A.

program in Film/Video, JeanMarc’s video work has been screened worldwide and is distributed by Videographe, Inc. A recipient of a NYFA Strategic Opportunity Stipend and the Alice and Horace Chandler Purchase Award, he serves on the board of Education and Outreach at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, and on the board at Unison Arts Center in New Paltz. Jean-Marc works as Museum Educator at Dia:Beacon and is Studio Assistant to Marilyn Minter.

Orange County Arts Council presents a virtual Artist Studio Visit with Superville Sovac on December 15 at 5:00pm. Tickets are free for OCAC members; $10 suggested donation for non-members. Registration is mandatory to attend this virtual event. Visit www. ocartscouncil.org to register. An email with the event link and password to login will be forwarded to those who register.

This program is made possible in part through the support of New York State Council on the Arts, Orange County Government, Shapiro's Furniture, and donations from people like you. Please consider making a donation today at: www.ocartscouncil.org/support.

The Jazz Coalition: “Cinqué” The Jazz Coalition was a vital artistic and financial support initiative for jazz musicians during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The coalition was formed to manifest unity among the global jazz community at a time of mass unemployment, painful lost opportunities, and increased struggle in every area of life.

“The idea to create the Jazz Coalition series stems from the success we have had with the Sunday Night Jazz series I booked at The Falcon, which began in February and runs through next June 26,” said Danny Melnick.

The Jazz Coalition launched its Commission Fund, awarding $1,000 grants to 104 musicians in support of new music to capture this moment and point a way toward transcendence. A new campaign funds the live concert performances and recordings of 15 previously commissioned artists and their ensembles at The Falcon.

The first of three December Jazz Coalition concerts is Elio Villafranca’s Cinqué, which showcases the cultural diversity of the Caribbean, while simultaneously highlighting the African traditions woven into the fabric of each of these nations.

Cinque is a 5-movement suite

Elio Villafranca will perform at The Falcon. photo by Kasia Idzkowska

inspired by the story of Joseph Cinque, who in 1839 led a successful revolt aboard the slave ship La Amistad, days after being sold and transported to a sugar plantation in Cuba. Elio’s most ambitious project today, it showcases the cultural diversity of the five Caribbean nations of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica; while simultaneously highlighting the Congolese musical heritage woven into the fabric of each of these diverse nations, and yet unified via the forced migration of Africans to the Americas.

Cinqué was nominated for a Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Album. It will be performed at The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, December 4 at 7:00pm.

Visit www.thefalcon.com

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D o n’ t Mi s s t hes e ART EXHIBIT S Orange Hall, Middletown: Group Show Art for the Sake of Us All! is a spectacular group show encompassing a variety of styles and sizes, media and techniques and purposes.

The exhibit runs through December 18 at SUNY Orange’s Orange Hall Gallery, 24 Grandview Avenue, Middletown.

For info: cultural@sunyorange.edu

“Farm Life” photo by Renee Zernitsky

Mindy Ross Gallery, Newburgh: Solo

Epiphany of Life is a solo show of paintings (oils and pastels) by landscape artist Judy Reynolds running through January 6 at SUNY Orange’s Mindy Ross Gallery, in Kaplan Hall, located at the corner of Grand and First Streets, (GPS: 73 First Street, Newburgh).

For info, email cultural@sunyorange. edu or phone 845-341-4891. www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs

“Olana Skies” oil by Judy Reynolds

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sponsored by Neil Alexander & NAIL, Newburgh Listings not included in our centerspread calendar.

The Parting Glass Band Celtic �����Loughran’s Pub, Salisbury Mills, Thursdays, 5:30pm-6:30pm Open Mic ������������������������������������������ Heartbeat Music Hall, Grahamsville, Wednesdays,7pm Open Mic ���������������������������������������������������������������� Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, Sundays 3pm Oxford Station Duo �������������������������������The Rock Wall, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Nov 26, 7pm Oxford Station Duo ���������������������������������RoseMary’s Pub&Grub, Montgomery, Dec 3, 7pm Open Mic ��������������������������������������������������������������Tango Cafe, Hurleyville, Dec 5 & 19, 7pm Strawberry Fields Beatles Brunch ����������������������� City Winery, Montgomery. Dec 17, Noon Oxford Station Duo �������������������������������� The Rock Wall, Cornwall-on-Hudson Dec 17, 7pm

Children & TEenS Calendar

JLPL ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Josephine-Louise Library, Walden MEEC ����������������������������������������Mamakating Environmental Education Center, Wurtsboro PEEC ��������������������������������������� Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry “House Under Snow” by Cynthia Harris Pagano

“Anita’s Lily” by Rosalind Hodgkins

WRCA, Montgomery: Group & Solo

In addition to three major exhibits: Streaming the Light: works by Jennie Duke, Between Two Worlds: works by Emmanuel Ofori, and a group show, Draperies curated by Ofori, all running through January 22 at the Wallkill River Center for the Arts... ...there are members’ exhibits: Hats and Shoes runs through December 11 and Holiday runs from December 16 to January 15. That’s five exhibits! A lot of diverse art to browse through. You will surely find a unique, original work of art to suit the art lover/collector on your holiday shopping gift list. Head to the

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Six Fox Whiskey “Friendsgiving!” �� Delaware Valley Opera Center, Lake Huntington, Nov 26, 7pm English Beat ska ������������������������������������������������������ City Winery, Montgomery, Nov 28, 8pm Dylan Doyle Band roots, rock, jam funk �������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 2, 7pm The Brighton Beat ������������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 3, 7pm SongClub Sing-along ��������� MISU/St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church, Ellenville, Dec 3, 7:30pm Clare Maloney w/C Lanzbom r&r ����������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 8, 7pm Adam Weiner of Low Cut Connie ������������������������������City Winery.Montgomery.Dec 8, 8pm Cuboricua! Salsa! �������������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 9, 7pm “Shed is Dead” & “Frank Zappa Experience” ��������������������������������������������������������������������� Delaware Valley Opera Center, Lake Huntington, Dec 10, 7pm The Klezmatics ���������������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 10, 7pm Reggie Harris �����������������������������������Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Dec 10, 7:30pm Marji Zintz & Bones Krew folk �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Dec 17, 7:30pm FREE Lost Leaders, The Yards ������������������������������������������������ The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 15, 7pm Tenth Annual Christmas@TheFalcon Benefit ������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 16, 7pm Eric Lipper r&r ����������������������������������������������� Greenwood Lake Library, Dec 17, 1pm FREE Ed Palermo Big Band ����������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 17, 7pm Toombs Dixon “Origins of Rock & Roll” ���������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 30, 7pm Best of The Eagles ��������������������������������������Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Centre, Dec 30, 8pm “CollaboNew Year’s Eve” ���Delaware Valley Opera Center, Lake Huntington, Dec 31, 7pm NYE! The Big Takeover reggae, ska, Motown �������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 31, 7pm

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

UpFront, Port Jervis: Group Show UpFront Exhibition Space in Port Jervis hosts exhibitions featuring original paintings, photography, and sculpture. A Winter Art Group Show runs through December 31 at UpFront, 31 Jersey Avenue, Port Jervis.

In addition to the monthly art exhibits, UpFront has become a jazz haven with its monthly “groove port” jazz series.

Visit upfrontexhibitionspace.com

sponsored by Steve’s Music Center, Rock Hill and Al’s Music Center, Port Jervis

OPEN Mic & IN-HOUSE MUSIC

Goshen Art League: Group & Solo

The Goshen Art League’s annual winter holiday group show, Celebrate, runs through January 31 at the Goshen Music Hall, 223 Main Street. Members were asked to share “visual interpretations of the season and its varied wealth of traditions” for the theme this year.

In addition, GAL member Lisa O’Gorman has a solo show at GriffithOlivero Realtors, 226 Main Street, Goshen, through January 5.

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

Books

Listings not included in our centerspread calendar.

Babytime toddlers ���������������������������������������������������������Newburgh Library, Tuesdays, 9:30am Storytime 1-5yrs ��������������������������������������������������������������Chester Library, Tuesdays, 10:30am Family Storytime ��������������������������������������Wallkill Library, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10:30am Books & Babies Story Time w/Miss Sophie � Milford, Library, Tuesdays & Fridays, 10:30am Books and Beyond grades K-2 ������������������������������������������Florida Library, Tuesdays, 4:15pm Toddler Time ��������������������������������������������������������������Newburgh Library, Wednesdays, 10am Storytime in the Park outdoors ����� Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, Wednesdays, 10:30am Rhymetime infants & toddlers ����������������������������������� Florida Library, Wednesdays, 10:30am Storytime infants & toddlers ���������������������������������������Liberty Library, Wednesdays 11:00am Storytime 3-5yrs �������������������������������������������������������������Florida Library, Thursdays, 10:30am “Sadie, The Tail Waggin’ Tutor” Children (of all ages) read to Sadie the dog �������������������� all ages, JLPL Dec 5, 5:30pm Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett, ages 12-17 �������������������������Milford Library, Dec 6, 4:30pm “The Afterlife of Holly Chase” by Cynthia Hand, teens � Cornwall Library, Dec 12, 6:30pm Winter Break Reading Kickoff �������������������������������������������������Liberty Library, Dec 19, 3pm EntertainmenT & Recreation

Teen Time ��������������������������������������������������������������� Florida Library, Mondays, 2:30pm FREE Dungeons & Dragons teens �������������������Wisner Library, Warwick, Wednesdays, 5pm FREE Dungeons & Dragons teens ������������������������������������������������������JLPL Dec 2 & 16, 5pm FREE Ecozone Discovery Room! ����������������������������������������������������������������� PEEC Dec 3 & 17, 1pm “Magic! The Gathering Club”, teens ��������������������������������������JLPL Dec 3 & 17, 2pm FREE Toddler Holiday Tea Party ��������������������������������������������������������JLPL Dec 6. 10:30am FREE Wacky Science Adventures: Physics Edition ����������������������������������������PEEC Dec 11, 10am Drop In Lego Club �������������������������������������������������������������JLPL Dec 13 & 27, 3:30pm FREE “Gingerbread Garland” Family Program ��������������������������������JLPL Dec 14, 4:30pm FREE Dungeons & Dragons teens & tweens ����������������������������Florida Library, Dec 15, 4pm FREE “One December Night” teen movie ��������������������������� Goshen Library Dec 17, 6:30pm FREE Holiday “Mamme ni Abofraa I” (detail) by Emmanuel Ofori

WRCA, 232 Ward Street, Montgomery.

For information: 845-457-ARTS.

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Annual Toys for Tots Event w/Santa & US Marines �������������������������������������������������������������� Crawford Senior Center, Pine Bush, Dec 2, 1pm FREE Holiday Blitz at the Ritz w/Santa & Frosty ��������Ritz Theatre, Newburgh, Dec 3, 2pm-4pm FREE Multicultural Holiday Storytime ����������� Wisner Library, Warwick, Dec 10, 10:30am FREE The Rock And Roll Playhouse 10yrs and under �������������������������City Winery, Dec 11, Noon

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“Hung With Care: A Queer Holiday Burlesque Spectacular!” �City Winery, Montgomery, Nov 25, 8pm Karen Mason “The Christmas Show” ���������������������������������������Eldred Preserve, Dec 11, 8pm Bradstan Cabaret Show “New Year’s Eve Celebration” Eldred Preserve, Dec 31, 9pm-2am

Cinema

“Hampstead” Diane Keaton ���������������������������Wisner Library, Warwick, Nov 28, 1pm FREE “The Bishop’s Wife” C. Grant, L. Young �����Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre, Dec 2 & 4 “The White Countess” Vanessa Redgrave ������Wisner Library, Warwick, Dec 5, 1pm FREE “The Peanut Butter Falcon” ���������������������������������������.Cornwall Library, Dec 6, Noon FREE “Christmas in Connecticut” B. Stanwyck �����Wisner Library, Warwick, Dec 12, 1pm FREE “Miracle on 34th Street” M. O’Hara �Moffatt Library, Washingtonville, Dec 14, 6pm FREE “Our Souls at Night” R. Redford, J. Fonda ��Wisner Library, Warwick, Dec 19, 1pm FREE

Comedy

Andrew Dice Clay �����������������������������Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Nov 25 & 26, 8pm Drag Brunch w/Pixel ����������������������������Tango Cafe, Hurleyville, Dec 11, 11:30am & 2:30pm

DANCE

“The Nutcracker” ���������������������������������������������� Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Dec 2-4

Jimmy Sturr & Orchestra “Spirit of Christmas” w/Coasters, Matt & Elaine ����������������������� Paramount Theatre, Middletown, Dec 3, 3pm 2022 Holiday Cabaret Karaoke �����������������������Forage & Gather, Mountaindale, Dec 3, 7pm Ramswick Harp Ensemble “Holiday Harps” � Wisner Library, Warwick, Dec 4, 2pm FREE Calmus Ensemble Leipzig “Christmas A Capella” Kindred Spirits Arts ������������������������������� Milford Theater, Dec 11, 2pm Delaware Valley Choral Society” Christmas Around the World” ����������������������������������������� w/Dingman Delaware Children’s Choir United Methodist Church, Milford, Dec 11, 3pm MISU Community & Youth Ensemble & guest artists ���������������������������������������������������������� St. John’s Episcopal Church, Ellenville, Dec 15, 7:30pm Frank Sinatra & Friends Holiday Show ��Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Centre, Dec 16, 8pm

Music - jazz

Hal Galper Trio �����������������������������������������������������Rafters Tavern, Callicoon, Saturdays, 3pm Jazz Coalition Series: Elio Villafranca “Cinqué” ���������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 4, 7pm Robert Kopec & Liza Doolittle “groove port” ��������� UpFront Exhibition Space, Dec 9, 7pm Jazz Coalition Series: Fay Victor “Sirens & Silences” The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 11, 7pm Jazz Coalition Series: DJ Logic jazz hip-hop ���������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 18, 7pm Jeremy Baum Trio: Charlie “Baum” Christmas ���������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 23, 7pm

Poetry Readings

“Joy to Wurtsboro” �������������������������������Veterans Park, Wurtsboro, Nov 26, 2pm-5pm FREE Pine Bush First Fridays ��������������������������������Main Street, Pine Bush, Dec 2, 4pm-7pm FREE Second Saturday Maker Market & Street Fair �������Mountaindale, Dec 10, 11am-5pm FREE

The Poetry of Tony Hoagland �����������������������Wisner Library, Warwick, Nov 30, 6pm FREE Robert Milby ������������������������������������������ Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Dec 1, 7pm Alchemy Poets �����������������������������������������������������������������Liberty Library, Dec 15, 1pm FREE Newburgh Poetry Slam Hip Hop & Poetry TV �� Grit Works, Newburgh, Dec 17, 5pm FREE Roberta Gould Poetry at the Church ���������������������� Goshen Methodist Church, Dec 19, 7pm Roberta Gould ��������������������������������� Java Blue Coffee & Market, Montgomery, Dec 20, 6pm

FUndraisers

Recreation

FAIRS & Festivals

United Methodist Church “Cookie Walk” ��������������UMC Dingmans Ferry, Dec 3, 9am-1pm Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop 2022 Holiday Cabaret Karaoke ��������������������������������� Forage & Gather, Mountaindale, Dec 3, 7pm Cragsmoor Library Cookie Walk & Holiday Sale �����Cragsmoor Library, Dec 10, 9am-3pm Wallkill River Center for the Arts “Christmas MART” art show & sale ������������������������������ Inn at the Ridge, Walllkill, Dec 10, 10am-4pm Newburgh Free Library Back Door Books (sale) �������������������������������������������������������������������� Newburgh Library, Montgomery Street Entrance, Dec 17, 10am-2pm

HOLIDAY (some events not listed in centerspread)

Peace, Love and Lights drive-thru ���������������������������������������������������Bethel Woods, thru Jan 1 Holiday Market ���������������������������������������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Nov 26-27 FREE Holiday Pop-Up Art Show/Sale River Valley Artists Guild ����������������������������������������������������� UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Nov 26-27 FREE Annual Toys for Tots Event w/Santa & US Marines ��������������������������������������������������������������� Crawford Senior Center, Pine Bush, Dec 2, 1pm FREE Holiday Artisan Market Highlands Arts Alliance ������������������������������������������������������������������� Delizia’s Pizza & Kitchen, Highland Falls, Dec 3, 11am-3pm Holiday Blitz at the Ritz w/Santa & Frosty �������� Ritz Theatre, Newburgh, Dec 3, 2pm-4pm FREE Santa Comes to Hurleyville ����������������������������������������Gallery 222, Hurleyville, Dec 9, 10, 11 Sugar Loaf Celebration �������������������������������Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, Dec 10, Noon-6pm Holiday Market �������������������������������������������������������� Narrowsburg Union, Dec 10 & 11 FREE Historic House Tours ������������������� Knox’s Headquarters, Vails Gate, Dec 10 & 17, 5pm-8pm & Dec 27 & 28, 10am-3pm “Warm up at the Washington’s” ������Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh, Dec 11, Noon-3pm 2022 Candlelight Tour �������������������������������� Crawford House, Newburgh, Dec 11, Noon-5pm Handmade for the Holidays! ��������������Wallkill River Center for the Arts, Dec 18, Noon-4pm

Museums (some events not listed in centerspread)

Behind the Scenes Tour, the Woodstock historic site ����� Bethel Woods, Mon-Wed, 12:30pm Behind the Scenes Tour & Escape Room Experience ����� Bethel Woods, Wednesdays, 4pm Music, Lunch, & Antarctic History talk, w/Little Sparrow & Van Manakas ������������������������ Frederick Cook Society, Sullivan County Historical Museum, Hurleyville, Dec 9, Noon

Music - Classical

Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra “Nutcracker Suite” w/student dance studios ������ Aquinas Hall, Newburgh, Dec 10, 4pm Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra w/Nesin Cultural Arts Students, Nutcracker Party ��� Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre, Dec 10, 2pm & 7pm, FREE

Music - Holiday

Jingle Jazz Holiday Concert Beacon Jazz Lab ���� Munger Cottage, Cornwall, Nov 27, 1pm FREE Pine Bush Community Band Holiday Concert ������������������������������������������������������������������������ St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church, Bullville, Nov 28, 7pm FREE & Leptondale Bible Church, Newburgh, Dec 5, 7pm FREE & Crawford Senior and Community Center, Pine Bush, Dec 11, 3pm FREE & Village of Montgomery Senior Center, Dec 18, 3pm FREE West Point Band Holiday Concert ������Eisenhower Hall, West Point, Dec 3 & 4, 2pm FREE

Line Dancing “Kickin’ w/Kathy and Billy” ��������� City Winery, Montgomery, Mondays, 7pm Drum Circle ��������������������������������������������� Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh, Tuesdays, 6:30pm Trivia Night w/Arthur Aulisi ����������������������������Tango Cafe, Hurleyville, Dec 15, 7pm FREE Tri-State Drum & Dance Drum Circle UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Dec 20, 7pm

Storytelling

Yarnslingers “Chutzpah” ������������������������� Seminary Hill Cidery, Callicoon, Dec 4, 11:30am

Theatre - Musical & Variety

“In the Heights” musical ������������ SUNY Sullivan, Seelig Theatre, Loch Sheldrake Dec 2-10 “Godspell” musical ���������������������������������������������������Your Dance Closet, Cornwall, Dec 2-11 NCA Fall 2022 Showcase music, dance, theatre, visual Art ��������������������������������������������������� Nesin Theatre, Monticello, Dec 4, 12:30pm

Theatre - Play

“Miracle on South Division Street” ����������������������� Shadowland Stages, Ellenville, Dec 2-18 “Good Evening” by Peter Cook & Dudley Moore ���Vet Rep Theatre, Cornwall, Dec 3 & 10, 7pm “The Souprano’s Last Holiday Party” Dinner-Theatre ������� City Winery, Dec 18, 12:45pm

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

“Akata Witch” by Nnedi Okorafor ��������������������������Wisner Library, Warwick, Nov 26, 6pm Non-Fiction Book Group �������������������������������������������� Wisner Library, Warwick, Dec 1, 2pm “The Accidental Further Adventures of the 100-Year-Old Man” by Jonas Jonasson ������� Tuxedo Park Library, Dec 1, 7pm “The Woman in the Library” by Sulari Gentill �������������������������Florida Library, Dec 2, 1pm “Hillbilly Elegy” by J. D. Vance ������������������������������������������������Goshen Library, Dec 3, 10am “Travels with Charley: In Search of America” by John Steinbeck ��Cornwall Library, Dec 7, 4pm “American Shtetl: The Making Of Kiryas Joel” by/w/Nomi Stolzenberg & David Myers ������� zoom-Chester Library, Dec 7, 7pm “Harlem Shuffle” by Colin Whitehead �������������������������������������� Milford Library, Dec 8, 4pm “Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting” by Clare Pooley Wisner Library, Warwick, Dec 8, 7pm & Cornwall Library, Dec 8, 7pm “The Winners” by/w/ Fredrik Backman �������� zoom/Wisner Library, Warwick, Dec 10, 2pm “Title Remarkably Bright Creatures” by Shelby Van Pelt ����� Chester Library, Dec 12, 6:30pm “Robert B. Parker’s Little White Lies” by Ace Atkins ����� Goshen Library, Dec 19, 3:30pm Books and Tea Discussion Group ������������ Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, Dec 20, 2:30pm Contemporary Classics Book Club �������������Moffatt Library, Washingtonville, Dec 21, 2pm “The Giver of Stars” by Jojo Moyes ���������������������������������Dingman Library, Dec 21, 3:30pm “Once Upon a Wardrobe” by Patti Callahan ����������������������Florida Library, Dec 22, 6:30pm

OPPORTUNITY: Photographers The Highlands Arts Alliance Photographers’ Salon’s Yearly Photography Exhibition will take place in the Highland Falls Library, from January 11-28.

Submissions are open to all, members and non-members.

Visit www.highlandsartsalliance. org/photographersalon for additional information.

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BRAD Bradstan Cabaret Series �������������������Eldred Preserve, Eldred CITY ������������������������������������City Winery Hudson Valley, Montgomery DVO ������������������������ Delaware Valley Opera Center, Lake Huntington FAL ����������������������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro F&G ���������������������������������������������������� Forage & Gather, Mountaindale G222 �����������������������������������������������������������������Gallery 222, Hurleyville

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Poetry Donna Spector Goshen United Methodist Church, 7pm

Music-Ska English Beat CITY 8pm

Cinema “The White Countess” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm Recreation Line Dancing CITY 7pm

Music - Holiday Pine Bush Community Band Leptondale Bible Church, Newburgh, 7pm

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Cinema “Christmas in Connecticut (” Wisner Library, Warwick,1pm Recreation Line Dancing CITY 7pm

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Cinema “Our Souls at Night” Wisner Library, Warwick,1pm

Recreation Line Dancing CITY 7pm Poetry Roberta Gould Goshen United Methodist Church, 7pm

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Poetry The Poetry of Tony Hoagland Wisner Library, Warwick,6pm Jazz vocalist Fay Victor will offer “Sirens and Silences” a ‘memory document’ composition, created to reflect a specific time and place: New York City from April to May 2020 - on December 11 at 7:00pm at The Falcon in Marlboro.

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GRIT �����������������������������������������������������������������������������Grit Works, Newburgh GWL ������������������������������������������������������������������������ Greenwood Lake Library HPAC �������������������������������������������������������Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre IKE �������������������������������������������������������������������� Eisenhower Hall, West Point INN ����������������������������������������������������� 1796 House, Inn at the Ridge, Wallkill MISU ������������������������������������������������ St. John’s Episcopal Church, Ellenville

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MC’d by Clown Daddy, the Forage & Gather at 81 Main Street, Mountaindale, will be swaying with a “Holiday Cabaret Karaoke”.

Hosted by Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop on Dec. 3 at 7:00pm. See page 18.

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Poetry..........................Alchemy Poets...............Liberty Library, 1pm Music.....Tenth Annual Christ Recreation..........................Trivia Night.........................TANGO 7pm Theatre - Play..“Miracle on So Music......................Lost Leaders, The Yards......................FAL 7pm Music - Holiday...........“Frank Music - Holiday..MISU Community & Youth Ensemble..MISU 7:30pm

A play reading of “Good Evening” by Peter Cook & Dudley Moore will be performed by Vet Rep Theatre on December 3 & 10 at 7:00pm at 16 Quaker Avenue, Cornwall

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MONT-SEN ��������������������������������������������������������� Montgomery Senior Center MSM-AQ ������������������������ Aquinas Hall, Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh MUMC �������������������������������������������������������Milford United Methodist Church NFL-MONT �������������������Newburgh Free Library, Montgomery St. Entrance NOBLE ��������������������������������������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall PARA ����������������������������������������������������������Paramount Theater, Middletown

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“Pirate Ship” by Bill Cypher of Washingtonville, is on view in the “Art for the Sake Music..........Toombs Dixon O of Us All!” group exhibit running through December Music.........................Best of T 18 at SUNY Orange, Orange Hall Gallery, 24 Grandview Avenue, Middletown.

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BS&C ����������������������������������������������Pine Bush Senior & Community Center TZ ������������������������������������������������������������������Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh CM ������������������������������������������������������ Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville EELIG ������������������������������� SUNY Sullivan, Seelig Theatre, Loch Sheldrake HADOW �������������������������������������MainStage, Shadowland Stages, Ellenville LPAC ������������������������������������������������������Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center

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TANGO �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Tango Cafe, Hurleyville UMC ����������������������������������������������������United Methodist Church, Dingmans Ferry UpF ������������������������������������������������������������� UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis VET �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Vet Rep Theatre, Cornwall WISNER ����������������������������������������������������������������� Albert Wisner Library, Warwick WRCA ������������������������������������������ Wallkill River Center for the Arts, Montgomery

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Fundraiser - Cookie Walk....United Methodist Church..UMC 9am-1pm Holiday...Artisan Market...Delizia’s Pizza, Highland Falls, 11am-3pm Music - Holiday................West Point Band...........................IKE 2pm Cinema.........................“The Bishop’s Wife”....................HPAC 2pm rst Fridays........Main Street, 4pm-7pm Holiday.................Holiday Blitz at the Ritz................RITZ 2pm-4pm k......Dylan Doyle Band.........FAL 7pm Theatre - Play..“Miracle on South Division Street”..SHADOW 2pm & 7pm Nutcracker”.....................SLPAC 7pm Dance............................“The Nutcracker”..........SLPAC 2pm & 7pm outh Division Street”..SHADOW 7pm Music - Jazz.........Hal Galper Trio.....Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, 3pm Bishop’s Wife”..............HPAC 7:30pm Music - Holiday...........Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra........PARA 3pm .“Godspell”.....................YDC 7:30pm Music.............................The Brighton Beat .........................FAL 7pm the Heights”...................SEELIG 8pm Theatre - Play Reading..............“Good Evening”...............VET 7pm Fundraiser - Karaoke...Sullivan Cty. Dramatic Workshop...F&G 7pm Music - Sing-along...............SongClub..........................MISU 7:30pm Theatre - Musical....................“Godspell”......................YDC 7:30pm Theatre - Musical.............“In the Heights”....................SEELIG 8pm

Street Fair....Mountaindale, 11am-5pm ick Cook Society...............SCM Noon s to Hurleyville..........G222, 3pm-6pm oricua! Salsa! .......................FAL 7pm opec & Lisa Doolittle...........UpF 7pm outh Division Street”....SHADOW 7pm .“Godspell”.....................YDC 7:30pm the Heights”...................SEELIG 8pm

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Fundraiser......Newburgh Library Book Sale.....NFL-MONT 10am-2pm Music - R&R.......................Eric Lipper...............................GWL 1pm tmas@TheFalcon Benefit....FAL 7pm Theatre - Play..”Miracle on South Division Street”..SHADOW 2pm & 7pm outh Division Street”..SHADOW 7pm Music - Jazz.........Hal Galper Trio.....Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, 3pm Sinatra & Friends”..........SLPAC 8pm Poetry........................Newburgh Poetry Slam...................GRIT 5pm Music..........................Ed Palermo Big Band ...,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,...FAL 7pm Music - Folk...........Marji Zintz & Bones Krew...........NOBLE 7:30pm

GMCM Grand Montgomery Chamber Music ���Montgomery Senior Center GOSH ������������������������������������������������������������������� Goshen Music Hall

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Storytelling..Yarnslingers...Seminary Hill Cidery, Callicoon 11:30am Theatre - Variety......NCA Fall 2022 Showcase........NESIN 12:30pm Theatre - Play....”Miracle on South Division Street”....SHADOW 2pm Theatre - Musical.............“In the Heights”...................SEELIG 2pm Cinema.........................“The Bishop’s Wife”...................HPAC 2pm Dance............................“The Nutcracker”.....................SLPAC 2pm Music - Holiday.........Ramswick Harp Ensemble........WISNER 2pm Music - Holiday................West Point Band..........................IKE 2pm Theatre - Musical....................“Godspell”..........................YDC 3pm Music - Jazz...............Elio Villafranca “Cinqué”................FAL 7pm

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Fundraiser - Cookie Walk...Cragsmoor Library.....9am-3pm Fundraiser..Wallkill River Center for the Arts..INN 10am-4pm Holiday,,............Holiday Market........Narrowsburg Union, 10am-6pm Holiday...............Santa Comes to Hurleyville.........G222, 11am-2pm Holiday.........Sugar Loaf Celebration.......Kings Highway, Noon-6pm Music - Classical..Sullivan County Chamber Orch... HPAC 2pm & 7pm Theatre - Play..”Miracle on South Division Street”..SHADOW 2pm & 7pm Music - Jazz.........Hal Galper Trio.....Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, 3pm Music & Ballet.......Greater Newburgh Sym. Orch......MSM-AQ 4pm Music.......Shed is Dead” & “Frank Zappa Experience.....DVO 7pm Music................................The Klezmatics............................FAL 7pm Theatre - Play Reading..............“Good Evening”...............VET 7pm Theatre - Musical....................“Godspell”.....................YDC 7:30pm Music..................................Reggie Harris.................NOBLE 7:30pm Theatre - Musical.............“In the Heights”....................SEELIG 8pm

YDC ��������������������������Your Dance Closet, Cornwall Shopping Plaza

Holiday,,............Holiday Market......Narrowsburg Union, 10am-4pm Comedy..............Drag Brunch w/Pixel...TANGO 11:30am & 2:30pm Music - Beatles..........The Rock and Roll Playhouse......CITY Noon Holiday............Santa Comes to Hurleyville...........G222, Noon-4pm Music - Holiday....Calmus Ensemble Leipzig...Milford Theater, 2pm Theatre - Play..“Miracle on South Division Street”..SHADOW 2pm Theatre - Musical....................“Godspell”..........................YDC 3pm Music - Holiday......Delaware Valley Choral Society......MUMC 3pm Music - Holiday......Pine Bush Community Band..........PBS&C 3pm Music - Jazz...........Fay Victor “Sirens & Silences”.................FAL 7pm Cabaret..............................Karen Mason.........................BRAD 8pm

Holiday............Handmade for the Holidays.........WRCA Noon-4pm Dinner-Theatre..“The Souprano’s Last Holiday Party”..CITY 12:45pm Theatre - Play..“Miracle on South Division Street”..SHADOW 2pm Music - Holiday....Pine Bush Community Band.....MONT-SEN 3pm Music - Jazz - Hip-Hop..............DJ Logic.............................FAL 7pm

Merry Christmas!

io Charlie “Baum” Christmas..FAL 7pm Music - Jazz.........Hal Galper Trio.....Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, 3pm

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photo: FDR Historic Site, Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park decked out for the Holidays, 2018.

The Desmond Center, 6 Albany Post Road, Newburgh, will offer a talk, “The Roosevelts at Christmas,” Dec. 9, at 10:30am

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sponsored by Catskill Art Society, Wallkill River School, Goshen Art League & Wurtsboro Art Alliance CANVAS cannot be responsible for errors & omissions. Please verify dates and times.

Art exhibits

SUNYO-MRG ����������������������������������������������� SUNY Orange, Mindy Ross Gallery, Newburgh SUNYO-OH �������������������������������������������������������������SUNY Orange, Orange Hall, Middletown WRS/WRCA �������������Wallkill River School/Wallkill River Center for the Arts, Montgomery

T.A. Clearwater paintings, pastels, prints ����Clearwater Gallery at Jones Farm, Cornwall, ongoing Karen E. Gersch, Gabrielle Dearborn, Josiah Dearborn drawings, paintings, silverwork � Gersch Home Gallery, Montgomery, by appt, ongoing Holiday Pop-Up Art Show/Sale River Valley Artists Guild, ��������������������������������������������������� UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Nov 26-27, 1pm-6pm River Valley Artists Guild Art About Town: “Autumn Spectacular” ������������������������������������ “Plein Air on the Delaware” group show, Port Jervis Library, & Joan Kehlenbeck “Fall” oils & pastels Deerpark Town Hall, Huguenot, & Susan Miiller “Fall”, oils & pastels, Bon Secours Hospital Cafeteria, Port Jervis, & Joe Petrosi “Fall”, color pencil drawings, Mayor’s Office, Port Jervis City Hall, & RVAG members’ group show Gio’s Gelato Café, Port Jervis ��������������������������thru Nov 26 “Plein Air on the Delaware” group show �����������������������������Port Jervis Library, thru Nov 26 Athena LaTocha “La Bajada Red” ����������������������������� Gallery 222, Hurleyville, thru Nov 27 Karen Rossen “Natural Light” ������������������������������������Amity Gallery, Warwick, thru Nov 27 “Anything Goes” group show ���������������������Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Wurtsboro, thru Nov 27 Goshen Art League “Casting Shadows, Reflecting Light” ����������������������������������������������������� Orange County Emergency Services, Goshen, thru Nov 30 Catherine DeMaio “Fall” paintings ��������������������������� Rustic Wheelhouse, Chester, thru Nov Edward Ziff paintings ������������������������������������������Liberty Museum & Arts Center, thru Dec 3 “Hats & Shoes” group show ����������������������������������������������������������� WRS/WRCA thru Dec 11 Sundwall Holiday Exhibit ����������������������������������������������� Regal Bag, Newburgh, thru Dec 17 “Art for the Sake of Us All!~ an eclectic show” ���������������������������� SUNYO-OH thru Dec 18 “Holiday Show” group show & craft/gift items ������������ Wurtsboro Art Alliance, thru Dec 18 “Art in Sixes” group show ������������������������������������������������� DVAA Narrowsburg, thru Dec 23 Ellen Brooks ���������������������������������������������Catskill Art Space, Livingston Manor, thru Dec 23 Edward Cohen �������������������������������������� Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, thru Dec 27 Ryan Fulton “Original Acrylics” �������������������������������������������� Cornwall Library, thru Dec 29 Winter Art Show group show ����������������� UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, thru Dec 31 Pat MacDonald “Road Trip” ���������� Unitarian Universalist Cong., Rock Tavern, thru Dec 31 iena Cruz ��������������������������������������������������������������������� Visitor Center, Newburgh, thru Dec 31 “The Gingerbread Experience” ���������������������������Liberty Museum & Arts Center, thru Jan 1 Lisa O’Gorman �������������������������������������������������Griffith-Olivero Realtors, Goshen, thru Jan 5 Judy Reynolds “Epiphany of Life” �������������������������������������������������SUNYO-MRG thru Jan 6 Jennie Duke “Streaming the Light” ������������������������������������������������ WRS/WRCA thru Jan 22 Emmanuel Ofori “Between Two Worlds” ��������������������������������������� WRS/WRCA thru Jan 22 “Drapery” group show ��������������������������������������������������������������������� WRS/WRCA thru Jan 22 Philippe Safire “Transition” �����������������CMA Gallery, Aquinas Hall, Newburgh, thru Jan 30 Marjorie Morrow “Maker’s Mark” ����������������� Brigantine Goods, Jeffersonville, thru Jan 31 “Celebrate” Goshen Art League �������������������������������������������� Goshen Music Hall, thru Jan 31

NEW ART EXHIBITS

Kevin Gref & Lucy Sardonia “Transition” ������Domesticities, Youngsville, Nov 26-Dec 30 “Instructor’s Small Works Show” ���������Alice Desmond Center, Newburgh, Nov 28-Jan 31 Chrissy Pahucki ���������������������������������������������������������������Greenwood Lake Library, Dec 1-31 The Crafts of the Chardavogne Group Over the Years ��������Amity Gallery, Warwick, Dec 3-18 Barryville Area Arts Association group show & “The Story of Christmas in Classic Art” �������� & “Creation Stories from Around the World” Artists Market Community Center, Shohola, Dec 4-31 “Holiday” group show ���������������������������������������������������������������� WRS/WRCA Dec 16-Jan 15 CAS Members’ Exhibition ������������������Catskill Art Space, Livingston Manor, Dec 31-Jan 28

Photography exhibits

“Along the Towpath: The D&H Canal in Mamakating, 1828-1898” ����Wurtsboro Library “The John Evans Family - 1765 to 1997” ��������������������������Cragsmoor Library, through Nov “WHY EYE ( “i” ) FARM” Woody Goldberg: photography, Rosie Starr: audio ����������������� Narrowsburg Union, thru Nov Quintet Photographers: “Capturing Life” ����������������Greenwood Lake Library, thru Nov 30 2022 Confluence: Land, Water, Wildlife Photo Contest Winners ��������������������������������������� ARTery Gallery, Milford, thru Dec 5 Angelo Marcialis & Jeffrey Schwartz �������� Leo’s Restaurant & Pizza, Cornwall, thru Dec 5 Nick Zungoli “Sugar Loaf Mountain Fundraiser Exhibit” ���������������������������������������������������� & Nick Zungoli “AOTEAROA New Zealand” ����� Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, thru Dec “A Comprehensive Exhibition of Arctic and Antarctic Photography” ������������������������������� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, thru Dec Vincent Manzi ������������������������������������������������������������������ Amity Gallery, Warwick, Dec 3-18 David Nicholls ����������������������������������������Leo’s Restaurant & Pizzeria, Cornwall, Dec 6-Jan 3

ART & Photography receptions

Kevin Gref & Lucy Sardonia “Transition” ��������� Domesticities, Youngsville, Nov 26, 3pm The Crafts of the Chardavogne Group Over the Years + Vincent Manzi photography ���� Amity Gallery, Warwick, Dec 3, 4pm-7pm Barryville Area Arts Association ���Artists Market Community Center, Shohola, Dec 4, Noon-2pm Pat MacDonald “Road Trip” �� Unitarian Universalist Cong., Rock Tavern, Dec 9, 2pm-4pm “Instructor’s Small Works Show” ��� Alice Desmond Center, Newburgh, Dec 11, 1pm-3pm CAS Members’ Exhibition ������������Catskill Art Space, Livingston Manor, Dec 31, 4pm-6pm 16

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

DESM ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������Alice Desmond Center, Newburgh PEEC ��������������������������������������� Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry SUNYO-OH �������������������������������������������������������������SUNY Orange, Orange Hall, Middletown Lectures, Demos, Talks & Master Classes are FREE unless otherwise noted: (FEE) (Events Not lncluded in Centerspread Calendar)

lectures & Discussions “Turning a Setback into a Comeback” Diane Lang �������������������������������������������������������������� zoom/Crawford Library, Monticello, Nov 29, 6pm “Adventures in Africa, Part I: Across the Sahara Desert in North Africa by Truck, 1979” ����� Barry Kass DESM Nov 30, 11am FEE “Circle of Voices: The Poetry of Tony Hoagland” Wisner Library, Warwick, Nov 30, 6pm “River Cruise Travel” Lorraine Martin ����������������������������� Florida Library, Nov 30, 6:30pm “The Life & Times of Mayor Ed Koch” Leon DiMartino ������� DESM Dec 5, 10:30am FEE “Masonic Lodges in Orange County, New York: Their History and Legacy” ������������������� Jonathan Williams Moffatt Library, Washingtonville, Dec 5, 6:30pm Alzheimer’s Educational Series “Healthy Living for your Brain & Body” ��������������������������� Narrowsburg Library, Dec 6, 11am “American Shtetl The Making Of Kiryas Joel” Nomi Stolzenberg & David Myers ������������ Chester Library, Dec 7, 7pm “The Chain that Saved the Colonies” Doc Bayne �������������������� DESM Dec 8, 10:30am FEE Music, Lunch, & Antarctic History talk, w/Little Sparrow & Van Manakas ����������������������� Frederick Cook Society, Sullivan County Historical Museum, Hurleyville Dec 9, Noon “Roosevelts at Christmas” Jeffrey Urbin ���������������������������������� DESM Dec 9, 10:30am FEE Winter Ecology Hike �������������������������������������������������������������������������������PEEC Dec 10, 10am “Before Amelia – Women aviatrix’s & the birth of aerial flight” ���������������������������������������� Paul R. Martin III DESM Dec 13, 10:30am FEE “The D & H Canal, 19th C Engine of Prosperity” Bill Merchant � DESM Dec 15, 10:30am FEE “Staying Healthy Through The Winter” Danielle Moser ��Florida Library, Dec 15, 6:30pm ARTIST Talks & Salons Highlands Arts Alliance Photographers’ Salon: “Pricing Fine Art Photos” ���������������������������� American Legion Hall, Highland Falls, Dec 7, 6pm FEE Jean-Marc Superville Sovac Artist Studio Visit ���������� www.ocartscouncil.org, Dec 15, 5pm MAster Classes Michael Piotrowski Printmaking: Press/No Press/STEAMROLLER! ���SUNYO-OH Nov 30, 5:30pm

“Family Short Movie Night” in Tuxedo Join the Tuxedo Park Library for a seasonal short movie after the Town of Tuxedo’s annual Tree Lighting at the Tuxedo Train Station on December 2.

Pizza and seasonal treats will be served at Family Short Movie Night at the Library, 227 Route 17. No registration necessary. Phone: 845-351-2207.

Kids: “Ecozone Discovery Room” “Climb into a bald eagle’s nest, crawl into a bat cave, explore a beaver lodge, and dig in a fossil pit!” Kids can explore this indoor discovery room and enjoy hands-on exhibits on natural history, sustainability and the local environment, at

the Ecozone Discovery Room, at the Pocono Environmental Education Center, 538 Emery Road, Dingmans Ferry.

It’s open December 3 and 17 from 1:00pm-4:00pm. No registration required.

For info: 570-828-2319.

Educate Yourself: Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’s is not normal aging; it’s a brain disease that causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior.

Learn about the impact of Alzheimer’s, the difference between Alzheimer’s & dementia, stages, risk factors, research, and treatments available.

At any age, there are lifestyle habits we can adopt to help maintain or even potentially improve our health. These may also help to keep our brains healthy as we age and possibly delay the onset

of cognitive decline. A workshop (part 2 of the series) focuses on four areas associated with healthy aging: Cognitive activity, exercise, diet/nutrition and social engagement.

Healthy Living for your Brain & Body will be discussed on December 6 at 11:00am at the Western Sullivan Public Library, Tusten-Cochecton Branch, 198 Bridge Street, Narrowsburg.

To register, visit www.wsplonline. libcal.com. For info: 845-252-3360.

The NUTCRACKER - In Music & Dance

The first nutcrackers were made as replicas of soldiers and other figures of authority. The common folk took great enjoyment in having the ruling people working for them, cracking their “hard nuts of life”. We call it a nutcracker if it has a handle in the back that opens the mouth, even if it is too small to actually crack a nut. Many authorities believe

they first appeared in Sonnenberg in the Thuringia region of Germany.

In 1872, Wilhelm Fuchtner of Seiffen, known as “the father of the nutcrackers”, began the first commercial production of nutcrackers making multiple figures from the same basic design.

Then in 1892, Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet, The Nutcracker, debuted. It

is based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s 1816 fairytale Nussknacker und Mausekönig (Nutcracker and Mouse King) via a French retelling by Alexandre Dumas.

Originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Op. 71), the original production was not a success.

The 20-minute suite that Tchaikovsky

extracted from the ballet was.

The ballet draws new people to the world of ballet and keeps it interesting for those who have seen it many times before. In the last few decades, there has been some controversy over demeaning stereotypes, but the ballet continues to be the most popular and successful event of many ballet companies’ seasons.

The Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra’s “Nutcracker Party” in Hurleyville Join the Sullivan The entire music County Chamber of the ballet will Orchestra in be performed by celebrating the the full Orchestra holidays during complete with their Nutcracker conductor, winds Party where they and brass, and will perform a joining them will chamber orchestra be select Nesin arrangement of Cultural Arts Tchaikovsky’s iconic The Orchestra’s Holiday Concert, 2021 students from the Nutcracker conducted by the arranger Fine and Performing Arts programs and Aspiring Young Musicians Orchestra. himself, Yoon Jae Lee.

Nutcracker Ballet in Sugar Loaf

The Warwick Broadway Collective and the Warwick Dance Collective present The Nutcracker Ballet, performed and produced by the Warwick Center for the Performing

Arts during the weekend of December 2-4 at the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, 231 Creamery Pond Road, Chester.

Tix: sugarloafpacny. com or at the door.

Aspiring Young Musicians Orchestra

The students will enhance the classic holiday tale with some original narration, choreography and music, and will invite the audience to participate in some of the scenes.

Guests are encouraged to arrive early

to visit “The Nutcracker Boutique”, selling nutcracker items and “The Land of the Sweets” selling refreshments. The shops will be open throughout the show.

Nutcracker Party takes place twice on December 10, at 2:00pm and 7:00pm, and the locale is the Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre, 221 Main Street, Hurleyville. (Snow date: December 11 at 2:00pm and 7:00pm).

This is a FREE event. Reservations are required as seating is limited. Contact marina@nesinculturalarts.org or call 845-798-9006 to reserve your tickets.

SCCO is an NCA Supported Project.

Visit www.nesinculturalarts.org

Nutcracker Suite in Newburgh Now in his seventh season of Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra (GNSO) leadership, Russell Ger, Music Director of the GNSO, has led the Orchestra to new attendance records and artistic heights.

In addition to seasonal favorites, this year GNSO will add a very special new element, sure to be a joyous event, to its spectacular annual Holiday Concert - O Night Divine.

“The GNSO has set the standard in our region for creating musical Holiday magic,” said Maestro Ger. “In addition to our classic favorites, such as The First Noel and The Christmas Song (“Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire”), this year we are adding a wonderful new element! Young students from local dance studios will join the orchestra on-stage to perform Tchaikovsky’s beloved Nutcracker Suite. It’s sure to be a joyous celebration for all.”

The dancers participating in O Night

Divine represent High Definition Dance of New Windsor, Ballet Art Studio of Beacon, and Take the Leap dance studio of Gardiner.

Maestro Ger also reminded GNSO supporters that the Holiday Concert is the best-attended of the year and has sold out in the past. “Get your tickets early,” he enthused.

O Night Divine will be presented December 10 at 4:00pm in Mount Saint Mary College’s Aquinas Hall, 330 Powell Avenue, Newburgh.

Tickets: newburghsymphony.org or at the door. Free admission for students with valid ID. December 2022

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Christmas Around the World

The Delaware Valley Choral Society (DVCS) is a non-profit group dedicated to performing major choral works in their original form. The Society incorporates John Rutter (b.1945) aspiring musicians from the area, as well as professional musicians, to bring major works of music to the community.

New singers are always welcome to join at the start of each rehearsal Craig Williams season.

The DVCS will perform Christmas Around the World Part 3 with a variety of carols from all over the globe including the West Indies, Ukraine, Russia, Japan, Africa, Great Britain, and the U.S. Works from notable composers and arrangers such as John Rutter and Harry Simeone are featured in a variety of genres ranging from baroque to classical to romantic and the modern era.

Guest instrumentalists will be joining the Choral Society including world renown organist, Craig Williams, organist and director of music, Cadet Harry Simeone Chapel, United States (1910-2005) Military Academy, West Point, and adjunct professor of organ, Nyack College. Also featured will be the Dingman Delaware Childrens’ Choir directed by Brian Krauss joining Jeffrey Fornoff the Choral Society in selected carols, led by Jeffrey Fornoff.

The concert is on December 11 at 3:00pm in the Milford United Methodist Church, 206 East Ann Street, Milford.

Tickets may be purchased in advance by contacting Helen Monisera at 845-8565696, Diane Fornoff at 570-296-5333, or Jeffrey Fornoff at 570- 267-8773. Tickets will also be available at the door.

Visit www.dvchoralsociety.org.

“YOU” Sing in the Season!

The Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop (SCDW) is hosting a Holiday Cabaret Karaoke to usher in the jolly season! MC’d by SCDW’s popular Clown Daddy (see page 14) and starring local singers and YOU, the stage at Forage & Gather, 81 Main Street, Mountaindale, will be shaking

and swaying with the rhythms of the season’s favorite melodies. Don’t miss this opportunity to support the SCDW, to enjoy the entertainment at Forage & Gather, and to buoy the season’s spirit, on December 3 from 7:00pm-9:00pm.

Suggested donation is $10.

For information: ekalter@hvc.rr.com

“A West Point Holiday” Escape the bleak midwinter and head to comfy-cozy Eisenhower Hall Theatre to ring in the holidays with the very merry musicians of the West Point Band. A West Point Holiday is wholesome family fun for all ages, featuring a variety of seasonal hits from classic carols to contemporary jinglebell-rock n’ roll. The Band will present songs celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, and the magic of the winter season, including West Point holiday classics that you won’t hear anywhere else.

Hear them on December 3 at 2:00pm and December 4 at 2:00pm. These

performances are free and open to the public. Visitors attending should be prepared to show proof of Covid-19 vaccination or negative PCR or antigen test. For info: 845-938-2617 or visit www.westpointband.com.

Rock-n-Roll Holiday Music Singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and producer Eric Lipper’s love of music began on a toy piano that he got for his 2nd birthday.

Throughout school, he learned trumpet and piano formally, and used every free ‘study’ period to grab a nylon guitar from the music room closet and get acquainted.

After starting his own rock bands in high school and at SUNY Purchase, he took an opportunity to play keyboards with The Platters.

Eric’s own songs and music range from very melodic to quite experimental.

Immediately fascinated by the ghostly 1920’s recordings of The Carter Family,

Eric started The Tweedlers, a folk group that spent five summers entertaining at county fairs all around the northeast. He has performed with The Drifters, The Chiffons, Lou Christie, Bobby Lewis and Danny and The Juniors. As a solo act, or as part of a band, Eric has played in theatres across the country.

See him perform a special rock and roll holiday music concert at the Greenwood Lake Public Library, 79 Waterstone Road, on December 17, from 1:00pm2:00pm.

Registration is required: 845-477-8377 ext. 101 or visit www.gwllibrary.org.

Pine Bush Band: Holiday Concerts In 1982, a small group of local musicians formed the Pine Bush Community Band. The band performed free public concerts in our area. Today, under the direction of Joe Martellaro, the tradition continues, and the small group has grown to a full concert band. Rehearsals, held weekly on Mondays, are at the Town of Crawford Government Center.

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band, show music and holiday selections appropriate to the season.

For an hour of seasonal tunes, toe tappers, band classics, new favorites, and beautiful melodies, choose from four 2022 Pine Bush Community Band Holiday Concerts in Bullville, Newburgh, Pine Bush and Montgomery.

See page 13 for the dates and times. www.pinebushcommunityband.com

Period-Appropriate Music, Newburgh As the days get chillier, you are invited to Warm Up at The Washingtons. Stop

by Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site on December 11 from Noon-3:00pm to enjoy talks and music.

The free event will feature historic interpreters in each seasonally-decorated room who will greet visitors and talk about when the Washingtons occupied the Hasbrouck farmhouse during the last winter of the Revolutionary War. Learn what happened while General Washington was headquartered here, the longest stay at any of his wartime headquarters, and how the Hasbrouck House became the first publicly owned historic site in the nation.

Holiday Harps in Warwick

Listen to the Salmagundi Consort as they perform period-appropriate music by an indoor Dutch jambless fireplace.

Admission is free for this open house, compliments of the Friends of the State Historic Sites of the Hudson Highlands. Call 845-562-1195 for info.

Christmas A Capella in Milford Widely admired German singers will present a two-part program spanning eight centuries and numerous cultures: Christmas Then and Now and Carols from All Over The World for Kindred Spirits Arts, in cooperation with Milford Hospitality Group.

Homogeneity, precision, lightness, emotionality, humorousness - these are characteristics of the Calmus Ensemble, one of Germany’s most successful vocal groups. The wide range of tonal colors, the joy the singers convey on stage, their sound culture and their varied and imaginative programs never fail to inspire. These five singers from Leipzig have won several international prizes and competitions - most recently the OPUS Klassik for “Best Choral Recording.”

With over 50 concerts a year, Calmus is always a welcome guest throughout Europe and North America

HOLIDAY MUSIC

Calmus Ensemble: Elisabeth Mücksch, soprano; Friedrich Bracks, tenor; Jonathan Saretz, baritone; Michael B. Gernert, bass; Maria Kalmbach, alto

alike. Influenced by the tradition of the old masters of Leipzig, the singers are at home in the vocal music of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Romantic periods alike.

Christmas A Capella will be at the Milford Theatre, 114 E. Catharine Street, on December 11 at 2:00pm.

Tickets: www.themilfordtheater.com or at the door.

Enjoy a refreshing break from the holi-“daze” with a special concert by the Ramswick Harp Ensemble. For their third visit to the Albert Wisner Public Library in Warwick, harpists Ann Carter-Cox, and Penny McCulloch will treat Library patrons to an hour of favorite holiday and other tunes, guaranteed to please even the Grinch!

Now retired from a Youth Choir post in Connecticut, Ann Carter-Cox Ann has focused on music for the Celtic harp and has returned to singing the music which she most loves: the song repertoire written before 1750 and the historical folk songs of the British Isles and the southern Appalachian mountains.

Penny has played the harp since she was in high school. “The harp is Ireland’s

national symbol and dates back to the times Chieftains ruled the land and they all had minstrels,” she said. “The harpers transmitted the news of the day and were powerful in getting people to rally around a cause. All the harpers were men, since women and slaves were forbidden to play the harp.

How times have changed! Most harpers today are women.”

Funded by a generous gift to the Albert Wisner Public Library Penny McCulloch Foundation by Glenn P. and Susan D. Dickes, Music on McFarland presents Holiday Harps! with the Ramswick Harp Ensemble on December 4 at 2:00pm, at the Wisner Library, 1 McFarland Drive, Warwick.

Admission is free. Contact the Library’s Help Desk at 845-986-1047, ext. 3 for additional information.

Music Institute of Sullivan & Ulster The MISU Community and Youth Orchestra will be performing arrangements of standards such as the overture to Die Anastasia Solberg, David Fiedler, Susan Seligman, James Fitzwilliams Fledermaus and viola violin cello organ a medley from various rock groups’ Bartok’s Romanian Dances, “that they have been rehearsing and practicing ‘favorite hits’. We are recruiting brass very hard at this fall!” exclaimed MISU from Rondout to fill it out as well as the aforementioned. This is a fundraising Director Anastasia Solberg.

“The second half of the program will event so, although we will not turn be our usual holiday recipe of Corelli’s anyone away, please think of giving a Christmas Concerto with myself and the donation,” concluded Anastasia.

The free concert is on December 15 guest artists, and Albinoni’s Adagio,” she continued. “There will be a surprise to at 7:30pm in St. John’s Episcopal end the evening with a flare, adding Greg Church, 40 Market Street, Ellenville and Dinger and his guitar, Paul Chambers’ will also be on Zoom through Eventbrite. drums and all the other musicians in the Refreshments will be served.

Visit https://misucatskills.org. room to top off the evening.

See ad page 9.

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“Holiday Market 2022”, Narrowsburg

Holiday Market at the Narrowsburg Union features regional artists, artisans, makers and craftsmen.

This year’s exciting event will feature: Food court: Bridge Street Bakehouse & The Wood Burning Oven; wreath workshops with Catskills Curated; a holiday baking workshop with Bridge Street Bakehouse; a student art show reception, and Bridge Street Bakehouse

invites you to bring your kids to the bakery for cookie decorating!

This event is free, but spots are limited and you must pre-register to attend.

Holiday Market 2022 will take place in Delaware Hall, a 4,500-square-foot event space at 7 Erie Avenue, Narrowsburg, on December 10, 10:00am-6:00pm and December 11, 10:00am 4:00pm.

Visit www.narrowsburgunion.com.

Sugar Loaf: Incredible Craftsmanship

Sugar Loaf, a find Sugar Loaf a hamlet of artists, welcome change artisans and unique with old world shops, is an authentic values, incredible pre-Revolutionary craftsmanship, village, home to and something for close to 20 shops everyone - and and studios, a every budget.

See and explore state of the art the Village during performing arts their annual Holiday theatre, restaurants, on and a craft brewery. “Piece #5760” by Mary Endico of Endico Celebration Watercolors. Visit www.endico.com December 10 from In a world of big box shopping experiences you will Noon-6:00pm. See ad page 17.

Photography in Sugar Loaf The approximate elevation of Sugar Loaf Mountain is 1,138 feet above sea level.

The Orange County Land Trust (OCLT) is purchasing this beautiful, scenic ‘masterpiece’ to open public recreational access to the mountain, which has long been privately owned, and to transfer the land to NYS Parks to be connected to Goosepond Mountain State “Lavendar Winter Eve” by Nick Zungoli Park.

“Sugar Loaf Mountain has long vision and guidance, my dream to see been a destination for locals,” said it protected will soon be a reality,” Jeremy Schneider, OCLT’s outreach said photographer and Sugar Loaf and programs coordinator. “But entrepreneur Nick Zungoli. “I am it’s technically never been publicly donating 50% of each sale of my favorite accessible. Essentially, all of the people Sugar Loaf Mountain images to the that have visited over the years have OCLT. 50% of all print sales will benefit been trespassing on private property. OCLT in raising funds to purchase the This project would provide the first- mountain and over 300 acres.”

Zungoli’s Exposures Gallery, 1357 ever publicly accessible access to the mountain for hiking, photography and Kings Highway, is open most weekends other forms of passive recreation and or by appointment for viewing his new enjoyment, and that in itself would be a exhibit of Sugar Loaf Mountain images which are on view through December. boon for the village of Sugar Loaf.”

Call for hours: 845-469-9382 and visit “I first climbed Sugar Loaf Mountain’s rocky summit in 1972. Now 50 years www.oclt.org to join the effort to save later, with Orange County Land Trust’s this precious resource.

‘Tis The Season for “Sixes!”

The Delaware Valley surprises. Each artwork Arts Alliance (DVAA) is is 6-inches or less in any humming with activity as direction and ready to hang. hundreds of 6-inch artworks Prices generally range are on display for their from $60 to $600. The sale 18th annual and always of artwork benefits artists popular small works group directly and helps to keep exhibition, Art in Sixes. the lights on at DVAA. This year’s show will For 2022, the DVAA boast over 150 artists of extended the invitation “Make Lemonade” all ages. Local well-known to local school districts to

by Valerie Taggart artists exhibit alongside participate in Art in Sixes. community members, Students were offered free creating a vibrant show that 6-inch canvas boards in takes over two floors. With what will surely become over 500 pieces to see, it’s a yearly tradition. “This is truly a magnificent feat the first year we reached and one of the most talked out to local schools for about small works shows in ‘Sixes’. I am really excited the Catskills. to see the young artists’ Whether you are an art faces when they see their “The Life Longed House” connoisseur, a browser, a work hanging in the gallery.

by Oona Archuleta collector, or looking for The kids did a great job!” that perfect gift, Art in said Signe Ballew, DVAA Sixes is sure to delight Gallery Manager. and surprise with original The DVAA’s 18th annual artworks in all media - no Art in Sixes exhibition runs reproductions are accepted. through December 23 at The show offers paintings, the DVAA Galleries, 37 photographs, sculptures, Main Street, Narrowsburg. ceramics, woodwork, fiber For more information, arts, collage, and a few “Full Moon” by Jane Brennan call 845-252-7576.

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Wurtsboro Art Alliance: Holiday Show The Wurtsboro Art cards, t-shirts, jewelry, Alliance (WAA) will and so much more. It keep their annual Holiday happens at the WAA’s Show on display through John Neilson Gallery, December 18. Select 73 Sullivan Street, unique hand-crafted items Wurtsboro. Take a peek from beautifully crafted inside - you’ll delight in jewelry to pottery! It’s a the diversity of work wonderful way to support and get to scratch a few our local artists / art people off of your holiday organizations and keep Pottery by Susan/Sumari Petry list! Fridays, Saturdays your holiday-shopping dollars local! & Sundays from Noon-4:00pm.

Works include paintings, stationary Visit waagallery.org for information.

City Winery: Wine Gift Baskets For the friend or family member who loves a glass of wine, City Winery is offering three holiday-themed wine gift baskets / sets as ideas for you!

Holiday Gift Basket ($159): This deluxe basket includes two City Winery wines (pinot noir from Santa Maria Valley and cabernet sauvignon from Guenoc Valley), a branded wine key and corkscrew, four wine cups, an array of dried goods and a bag of coffee with beans roasted at City Winery in NYC! City Winery Red Wine Gift Set ($80): This box includes three gift wrapped red wines including Knit Syrah, Spring Street pinot noir and Big City cabernet sauvignon. Branded wine key included.

City Winery White Wine Gift Set ($70): This box includes three gift wrapped

HOLIDAY SHOPPING Give The Gift of Art Supplies!

Find the perfect frame to fit your latest artwork, or art materials you have been searching for (or get them for a friend or family member this holidays season!) while supporting The Arts!

Each sold item is a donation toward the Wallkill River Center for the Arts that

Jewelry, Leather, Pottery & More!

Jewelry, Jacques Hemsi

white wines including Montgomery Mills sauvignon blanc, Harmony Drops chardonnay and Rosé is a Rosé. A branded wine key is also included.

Purchase on the website, or get a discounted price if you buy them inperson at City Winery, 23 Factory Street, Montgomery. Call 845-424-0222.

Visit www.citywinery.com.

Instructors at Desmond: Small Works

“Painting is my meditation juried and invitiational on creation. It empties me of shows throughout the U.S. everything but the moment The Alice Desmond and what gifts I bring to it.

Center for Community Whatever knowledge, seeing Enrichment’s Art Gallery, and inspiration I possess a part of the Town of give birth to my work. One Newburgh Recreation of my many teachers, Lisa Department, is presenting Specht said, “Knowledge is their annual Instructor’s the one thing you can give Small Works Show. The away and still keep.” I have Instructors are from the been blessed to be on both Desmond Center’s Visual “Madison” by Donna Prizzi the receiving and giving Arts roster and represent ends of that equation a diverse scope of talents from all my teachers and from throughout the students,” says Gayle Hudson Valley. They are: Clark Fedigan.

Gayle Clark Fedigan, Donna Prizzi has Len DeVirgilio, Jodi pursued the arts since her Yeaple King, Donna childhood. As an artist and Prizzi, Paul Martin III, avid gardener she’s drawn & Christina DiMarco. to nature’s seasons and A reception will be the ephemeral beauty of held on December 11 the garden, flora and the “Rose Bowl” by Gayle Clark Fedigan from 1:00pm-3:00pm. ever-changing world that exists around it. This exhibit provides the perfect way to She enjoys the challenge of capturing the support local artists and their beautiful unique essence of each subject; whether work. See it through January 31 at the the still life, portrait or landscape. She Desmond Center, 6 Albany Post Road, has participated in many plein air events, Newburgh. Info & hours: 845-565-1326.

goes towards their continued operation as a 501(c)3 non-profit.

Bring some friends and check it out!

The WRCA is located at 232 Ward Street, Montgomery, and is open from Noon-5:00pm, Fridays to Sundays.

Visit www.wallkillriverschool.com.

Leather, Harvey Greenwald

Amity Gallery will present: Crafts of the Chardavogne Group Over the Years complimented by the photography of Vincent Manzi. Works include jewelry (Jacques Hemsi & Lia Sirelson), leather (Harvey Greenwald), pottery (Rachel Durland), embroidery (Elaine Knight), hand dyed pillows (Pat Foxx), weaving (Myra Reichel), woodworking (George Sharp), blown glass (Gary Gennetti),

Judi

Pottery, Rachel Durland

quilling (Karen Martis), mixed medium crafts (Jill Lindner), and photography

by Vincent Manzi.

Many crafts will be for sale and others on exhibit at Amity Gallery, 110 Newport Bridge Road, Warwick, weekends, from December 3-18. Meet the artists at the opening reception on December 3, from 4:00pm-7:00pm.

Visit www.amitygallery.org.

o n a v l i S Here’s to looking at our World with Wonder.

Seeing our Neighbors as Family.

In Gratitude for our many Blessings.

Compassion with Music & Art. “Snowy Winter Trees” by Judi Silvano.

Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas measuring 11” wide x 14” high, lots of texture. A beautiful winter scene!

Visit www.JudiSilvano.com December 2022

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HOLIDAY SHOPPING Give the Gift of Theatre!

Celebrating its 77th Season as “The Miracle of the Forest,” the Forestburgh Playhouse, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Franklin Trapp, announced its 2023 Season of musicals and plays.

“The 2023 Mainstage Season will be a thrilling celebration of live theatrical entertainment in the Sullivan Catskills,” said Trapp. “Our season is chock full of major Broadway hits including: Jersey Boys, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Matilda the Musical, and The Addams Family.

“The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey will inspire laughter and tears, and audiences should get ready to solve one of our favorite mysteries of all time with Clue the Musical. Suspense will abound in Stephen King’s Misery.

“In addition, our Children’s Theatre Series next summer is featuring

not one, but two shows for the whole family: Dreamworks’ Madagascar the Musical and Gordon Gets Down!

“The Playhouse season will once again include Spring Series at the Forestburgh Tavern, Broadway Concerts Under the Stars, a Fall Series at the Tavern and of course, The Rocky Horror Show during the month of October. We are also proud to announce that the In the WorksIn the Woods Festival will be returning for a third year to celebrate and present the work of emerging artists.”

Give the gift of theatre this year!

Playhouse season passes are available as well as the popular flex ticket 6-pack, which provides 6 voucher-tickets to be used in any combination throughout the season. Passes and 6-packs are available online at www.fbplayhouse.org or by calling 845-794-1194. See ad pg. 28.

Cragsmoor: Cookie Walk, Holiday Sale Head to the Cragsmoor Free Library for a Cookie Walk & Holiday Sale and browse through hand crafted gifts, small fancy flea items, an assortment of Library items and the Cragsmoor Free Library Cookbook among many others.

You can even buy boxes and tins for your purchases!

It happens on December 10 from 9:00am-3:00pm at the Cragsmoor Free Library, 355 Cragsmoor Road, Cragsmoor.

Donations prior to the event are gratefully accepted. For more information, call Nancy at 845-647-4611 or visit the website: www.cragsmoorfreelibrary.info

Gifts: Handmade Natural Soap For the friend or family member who could use a bath, ☺ Anita “Nina” Casamento’s Happy Herbs Soap has you covered.

“Vegetable oils, infused with my own herbs are the heart of my cold process soap. These herbs, along with exotic roots and resins are mixed

for my incense,” says Nina.

(Editor’s note: I was given a gift of Nina’s soaps, and they are absolutely delightful - leave your skin feeling like a baby’s bum! Her unique “herbal alchemy of soap and incense craft” is a great gift idea!) www.etsy.com/shop/ happyherbssoap or 845-733-4577.

For the Film Buff(s) in Your Life Film historian John DiLeo frequently hosts classic-film series in Milford, appears on assorted radio programs, conducts film-history seminars, and has been an annual participant in the Black Bear Film Festival where he has interviewed Farley Granger, Arlene Dahl, Marge Champion, Keir Dullea, Jane Powell, Rex Reed, Tab Hunter, Lorna Luft, and Jane Alexander on the festival’s stage.

“Season’s greetings! As many of you know, my book There Are No Small Parts: 100 Outstanding Film Performances with Screen Times of 10 Minutes or Less was published in February of this year, which means that this is its first holiday season. I hope you’ll consider it when shopping for the movie lovers in your life,” enthused John.

Visit www.JohnDiLeo.com.

Gifts: Books - For All Ages!

The Friends of the Newburgh Free Library will host a special holiday book sale. Check out the following gift possibilities or stock up for a long winter of reading: coffee table books and gift sets, priced as marked; small paperbacks, 4 for $1; cookbooks, buy one, get one free; Read with Jenna books, $2; non-dotted paperbacks and

hardcovers, buy one, get one free; and a free gift bag with $5 purchase.

There will also be a wide assortment of books for children of all ages.

Get yours at Back Door Books, located at Montgomery Street (behind the Library, just north of Second Street), Newburgh, on December 17, 10:00am to 2:00pm.

For the Vinyl Collector(s) in Your Life Time Warp Records, Callicoon Vinyl record sales have been increasing in the last few years, and vinyl record shops are popping up all over the tristate region and beyond. Collectors are still alive and well, blowing the dust off their platters. If you have someone who would love the gift of a shiny vinyl...

Check out Time Warp Records, 28 Upper Main Street, Callicoon. Owner Lillyan Peditto, had this to say about her shop: “It’s a visually stunning vintage vinyl record store, small in size, but giant in well-edited, well-stocked records!”

Check out the ad on the left for more.

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Original Vinyl Records, Warwick And then we have Original Vinyl Records, 314 Route 94S #7, Warwick.

Founded in 2018 by Jim & Pam Eigo, the shop specializes in vinyl records, 45s, 78s, cds, cassettes, 8-tracks, dvds and new turntables.

“We have the largest inventory of Oddball, Lounge and Space-Age Bachelor Pad vinyl in the Hudson Valley region along with pop, nostalgia, comedy, world music, kids, music books, memorabilia and much more,” says Jim. Visit www.originalvinylrecords.com and check out the ad on page 23.

For the Kids: Santa Visits Hurleyville Santa is coming to the Hurleyville Arts Centre so make sure the kids get their lists and letters ready!

Parents and friends can bring their own camera/phone/tablet and take the child’s photo with Santa. Snap a selfie with Jolly St. Nick while enjoying crafts

with the kiddos, too.

Santa’s annual visit to Hurleyville is at Gallery 222, 222 Main Street, on December 9, 10 and 11.

Visit www.hurleyvilleartscentre.org.

All are welcome to this free event. Check out the ad on page 18 for more details.

HOLIDAY SHOPPING The Gift of A Sundwall Artwork

Pine Bush First Fridays Street Fair Pine Bush First Fridays is a nonprofit entity that supports and showcases local businesses, artists and musicians, and Pine Bush as a year-round destination for local residents and visitors to shop, drink, eat, listen to live music, and enjoy the bounty of experiences that the hamlet of Pine Bush has to offer.

Take a stroll down Main Street on December 2, from 4:00pom-7:00pm and enjoy the sidewalk vendors, as each

artist and artisan showcases their unique wares and talent at this free family event, with a Miracle on Main Street theme for the holidays. Experience live music, delicious food from local restaurants, as well as special sales offered by small businesses and eclectic shops. Rain or shine unless there is lightening and high winds with the rain.

Visit www.pinebushfirstfridays.com and check out the ad on page 3.

WRCA’s Christmas MART in Wallkill Join the Wallkill River Center for the Arts (WRCA) for the first annual Christmas MART - Art Show and Sale at the Inn at the Ridge in Wallkill.

Bev Cooper, co-owner of the Inn and member of the WRCA, has graciously consented to host this show. Bev is a retired West Point photographer and watercolor artist.

Diane Israel, the other co-host of the show, is also a photographer and painter of miniature watercolors. A member of the WRCA, she owned an art gallery for 28 years in Montclair, NJ, and now teaches at the South Orange-Maplewood Adult School in New Jersey.

The Christmas MART - Art show

Inn at the Ridge, Wallkill

and Sale is on December 10, from 10:00am-4:00pm at the 1796 House / Inn at the Ridge, 2098 Bruynswick Road, Wallkill.

Partial proceeds will benefit WRCA. Visit wallkillriverschool.com or phone 845-457-ARTS for more information.

The Story of Christmas in Classic Art

of Native American, The Story of Christmas Ancient Egyptian, Hindu, in Classic Art exhibit Babylonian, Chinese, includes images that Ancient Greek, and track the story from Islamic creation stories. when an angel first For example, two delivers Mary the news images feature the Chinese in The Annunciation by Creation Story of how the Fra Angelico (1440) to universe began as a big, when the holy family are black cosmic egg. The egg fugitives, hiding from gave birth to Pangu, who, Herod in Rest on the in one stunning image, is Flight to Egypt by Orazio separating the Yin from Gentileschi (1626). the Yang with an axe.

The exhibit will be on The reception will also display from now until the “The Dream of St. Joseph” end of the year, and there’s by Philippe de Champaigne (1643) include a group exhibit a free holiday reception sponsored by the by local artists, including Jane Brennan, Barryville Area Arts Association on Christine Innaco, Mef Gannon, December 4 from Noon-2:00pm, at the Susan Miiller, Greg Pelly, and Nancy Artists’ Market Community Center, Siegmund.

Complimentary refreshments and a 114 Richardson Avenue, Shohola, PA. Also on display is a sister exhibit, free set of ten holiday greeting cards are Creation Stories from Around the World. available to all who attend.

For information: 845-557-8713.

This one includes artistic depictions

Artwork by Elizabeth Sundwall

“The Morning After” by Joseph Sundwall

Joseph and Elizabeth Sundwall met at the School of Practical Philosophy in NYC. Both study and tutor at a branch of the School in Wallkill, where the core teaching is Advaita, non-duality.

Basic principals of the philosophy are self-awareness: let the work begin from stillness, allow the attention to rest on the work, surrender all unnecessary thinking, and follow the flow of the work without seeking results.

The Sundwalls rediscover themselves in the creative process. When other concerns fall away, they delight in the feel of the tools being used while simply watching the work take place.

“It’s a gift to live a life with someone who is equally passionate about art and devoted to making it. Although we work separately for long stretches of time, we can always rely on the other’s support and encouragement. It’s ever illuminating to see what has emerged from our work each day, and to share new insights that inform it and keep us going back to the easel,” said Joseph.

Check out the ad on page 11 for details about the Sundwall’s Holiday Gallery at the Regal Bag building in Newburgh, where Elizabeth’s watercolors and pastels and Joseph’s oil paintings and portraits will be on view through December 17.

Santa’s Here, Too Wallkill River Center for the Arts, Ms. Claire’s Music and Montgomery Book Exchange Children’s Chapter have joined forces to offer a sale of fine handmade items and holiday cheer.

Join in on their “Campus of the Arts” for a fun family event and grab your holiday gifts from local vendors. Enjoy complimentary hot cider, cocoa, mulled wine and some treats while you browse.

Bring the kids for a picture with Santa!

Handmade for the Holidays is on December 18, from Noon-4:00pm at WRCA, 232 Ward Street, Montgomery.

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Music, Lunch & Antarctic History

Book Talk: The Making of Kiryas Joel

The Sullivan County Antarctic exploration Museum is home to a and Americana music little known organization have in common, it turns called the Frederick out that the explorers on Cook Society. The the Belgica expedition origins of the Society (first ship to overwinter date back to 1940, and in Antarctica) had a the Society’s mission banjo, an accordion and Ellen Iovino, Van Manakas, is to defend Dr. Cook’s a mandolin player on Carol Smith and Aldo Troiani. disputed claim to the discovery of the board! And in a strange twist of fate, the North Pole. The Society will present a Frederick Cook Society Board consists brief talk on Dr. Cook’s famous Belgica of several musicians and members of the expedition, along with a concert by the band Little Sparrow. They perform the band Little Sparrow featuring guitarist music of Traffic, the Grateful Dead, Neil Van Manakas.

Young, Bob Dylan, John Van is a world class Prine and others. musician who has The concert and lecture performed on five will be held on December continents and in all 9, from Noon to 2:00pm. fifty states with such Doors open at 11:30am. musical greats as Paul $10 suggested donation Bley, Miroslav Vitous, includes fresh pizza and Gil Evans and Butch a beverage. Come early Baldasarri, in addition to “The Belgica” by Frederick Cook and enjoy the exhibition performing with Americana band, Little of Antarctic and Arctic photography by Sparrow which consists of Aldo Troiani Dr. Cook, currently on display in the & Carol Smith (guitars & vocals), and Museum’s auditorium.

Ellen Iovino who plays congas and The Museum is at 265 Main Street, provides harmony. They’ll be joined by Hurleyville. Call 845 434-8044 for more Nick Sherman on bass. info, or visit the Frederick Cook Society And if you’re wondering what website at frederickcookpolar.org.

with its own elected local American Shtetl: The government. They show Making of Kiryas Joel, a how constant legal and Hasidic Village in Upstate political battles defined New York is a compelling and even bolstered the account of how a group of community, whose very Hasidic Jews established success has coincided its own local government with the rise of political on American soil. While conservatism and rejecting the norms of multiculturalism in mainstream American American society over society, Kiryas Joel has been stunningly Authors Nomi M. Stolzenberg the past forty years. and David N. Myers Timely and accessible, successful in creating a world apart by using the very instruments American Shtetl unravels the strands of secular political and legal power that of cultural and legal conflict that gave rise to one of the most vibrant religious it disavows.

Authors Nomi M. Stolzenberg and communities in America, and reveals David N. Myers paint a richly textured a way of life shaped by both selfportrait of daily life in Kiryas Joel, segregation and unwitting assimilation.

Chester Public Library is inviting exploring the community’s guiding religious, social, and economic norms. you to meet the authors on Zoom as They delve into the roots of Satmar they discuss their book on December Hasidism and its charismatic founder, 7 at 7:00pm. Only 52 spaces are Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum, following his available. To register, visit www. journey from 19th century Hungary to chesternypubliclibrary.com/calendar.

You will receive a zoom link before the post World War II Brooklyn, where he dreamed of founding an ideal Jewish program. If there are no available spaces town modeled on the shtetls of eastern left, you can try visiting the following websites: Monroe Free Library, Europe.

Stolzenberg and Myers chart the rise Tuxedo Park Library, or Woodbury of Kiryas Joel as an official municipality Public Library.

On display at Leo’s Cornwall: David Nicholls, Photography December 6 - January 3

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Award Winning Singer at Bradstan

Award Winning Musical at Sullivan

Karen Mason has the 2022 Bradstan Coming starred on Broadway, Home Cabaret Series Off-Broadway, television, as she takes the stage to and recordings, and “has perform her legendary few peers when it comes tribute to the holiday to ripping the roof off season, The Christmas with her amazing voice Show! Spend the evening that knows no bounds!” heralding in the season (TheatreScene.net). She with some of the greatest is a 13-time MAC Award holiday hits, embodying winner, has won the MAC Christmas spirit, each Award for Major Female song interpreted with Vocalist of the Year for Karen’s skillful and six consecutive years, and Karen Mason performs on unique artistry. recently was the recipient December 11 at 8:00pm Join hosts Scott of the 2019 MAC Lifetime Achievement Samuelson and Eddie Dudek at The Award.

Bradstan’s famous New York CityMs. Mason was recently seen as caliber cabaret series, taking center stage “Madame Giry” in the North American at The Eldred Preserve, 1040 Route 55, Premier of Love Never Dies, Andrew Eldred, on December 11 at 8:00pm.

Lloyd Webber’s epic sequel to The Full bar + light bites available. No Phantom of the Opera. Previously on drink minimum. Arrive early (7:00pm) Broadway, she garnered rave reviews to grab a cocktail at the Cabaret Bar starring as “The Queen of Hearts” in before the show. Have dinner at The Wonderland, and she originated the Homestead Restaurant + Lounge role of “Tanya” in Abba’s Mamma Mia! before the show and receive 15% off Her other leading roles include “Norma your meal! Call 845-557-8316 or email Desmond” in Sunset Boulevard, which dining@theeldredpreserve.com to secure she performed to critical acclaim and your dinner reservation. standing ovations on Broadway.

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“SUNY Sullivan produces a contemporary, a classic, and a musical every year. In the Heights fulfills our 20222023 season that focuses on Sueñitos (little dreams). The season name was inspired by the students we serve at SUNY Sullivan and the strong community we have created in our theater program that helps nurture dreams.

“This little community banded together during the Lin-Manuel Miranda and company of Broadway’s pandemic to keep us busy and production of “In The Heights” - photo: Joan Marcus inspired. Without our little dreams, our the vibrant neighborhood of Washington sueñitos, we would not have survived Heights of New York City where bodega the pandemic. The pandemic proved to owner Usnavi and his friends dream, us that what is important in our lives is hope and work for a bright future. our families and our community.

It’s about the universal need to “To celebrate this lesson we are maintain and support dreams. The need producing shows that focus on our for family. The need for love. Why sueñitos. The things that we strive for hope is important. Why joy in times of and the sanctuaries we create in our hardship is important. homes and our communities,” - Jessica See this winner of two 2007 Drama López-Barkl and Nick López, SUNY Desk Awards, including Outstanding Sullivan Theatre Directors.

Musical, and 2009 Pulitzer Prize In the Heights is a 2008 Tony Award- nominee for Drama, December 2-10, at winning Best Musical with music and SUNY Sullivan’s Seelig Theatre, 112 lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and book College Road, Loch Sheldrake.

by Quiara Alegría Hudes. The setting is Tickets at the door.

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History at Alice Desmond Center The Alice Desmond Center for Community Enrichment, a part of the Town of Newburgh Recreation Department, is offering lectures of local and worldwide historic significance.

Here are three lectures, all at 10:30am.

To stop the British invasion of the New England colonies during the Revolution, Peter Townsend manufactured a Great Chain for the Continental Army at Sterling Forest. Join Doc Bayne for a presentation on how Townsend discovered the Forge that made the Great Chain on December 8 for The Chain that Saved the Colonies. Doc will share the history of the iron industry that started in 1736 at Sterling Forest, and how the Sterling Forge was used to create the Great Chain that was placed across the Hudson River at West Point.

Before Amelia - Women Aviatrix’s and the Birth of Aerial Flight: 1900-1930: Hear a comprehensive history of the many daring female pilots and inventors who advanced the science of flight and women’s rights during the early days of aviation on December 13 Author/historian/speaker Paul R. Martin III’s forthcoming aviation book and research draw from numerous photo archives, newspapers, government

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“Amelia Earhart” by Todd Spaur

documents, and other archival primary sources to tell this compelling story.

Extensively illustrated with dozens of rare, never-before seen photographs.

The Delaware & Hudson Canal was an important industrial enterprise in 19th century America, supplying anthracite coal to NYC and the country, and fueling the industrial revolution when timber resources were limited. Historian Bill Merchant relates the story of this innovative company and the industries it fostered, illustrated with many historical images, on December 15 for The D&H Canal: 19th Century Engine of Prosperity.

The Alice Desmond Center is located at 6 Albany Post Road, Newburgh.

To register: 845-565-1326.

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2 Presleys Become Sinatra and Martin Daniel Barella has been performing his tribute to Elvis Presley for over eight years.

Whether it be on his own, accompanied by backing tracks or with his band, Daniel Barella he is known for his entertaining and accurate portrayal of “The King”.

Lamar Peters was the first Elvis tribute artist to perform at B.B. King’s Blues Club in NYC. He has toured with the Heart of the King Ambassadors Show Lamar Peters and has placed top three in the “Ultimate Elvis Presley Tribute Contest” sponsored

by Elvis Presley Enterprises.

For a Sugar Loaf audience, these two Elvis portrayers will become Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.

Barella has been performing his heartfelt tribute to The Chairman Of the Board throughout the United States and Canada for several years.

Peters, who comes from a musical

family (father Gregg is also an Elvis impersonator, and brother JJ is a Sinatra tribute artist) has recently taken on a new role as Dean Martin.

Barella and Peters will be joined by surprise holiday guests including Layla Rose Boyles as Marilyn Monroe, a natural for her since she was Layla Rose Boyles born and raised right here in Monroe!

Layla is excited to be performing for the local community. Her passion is making people laugh and she has performed in comedic roles over the years. Most recently, she played “Margaret” in Nine to Five, “The Moon” in The Adams Family and “Ula” in The Producers.

In real life, Layla is a real estate agent in Orange County and has been running her family’s Century 21 franchise in Monroe for twenty years.

Let them entertain you!

See the show on December 16 at 8:00pm at the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, 1351 Kings Highway, Chester.

For tickets: www.sugarloafpacny.com

Candlelight Tour For over forty years, the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands has organized an annual holiday Candlelight Tour of historic homes, churches and buildings in and around Newburgh. From humble beginnings, the tour became one of the most eagerly anticipated Newburgh events of the year and their biggest fundraiser.

This year’s tour will feature a combination of public and private spaces, including stately homes, buildings that have recently been rehabilitated, new construction and some of Newburgh’s most cherished landmarks. And of course, as usual, the Captain David Crawford House, authentically decorated in a 19thcentury style with flowers and greens, will serve as a centerpiece.

The tradition of the Annual Candlelight Tour of historic homes and buildings is on December 11, from Noon-5:00pm.

For discounted advance tickets, visit www.newburghhistoricalsociety.com or call 845-561-2585. Tickets can also be purchased at the Crawford House, 189 Montgomery Street, Newburgh.

In Memoriam: Sister Sylvia Bielen, OP August 18, 1925 - October 26, 2022

Sister Sylvia Bielen, OP (formerly Sister Theresa Clare) of the Dominican Sisters of Hope, Ossining, transitioned on October 26, 2022, at St. Catherine of Siena Convent in Caldwell, New Jersey.

She was 97 years of age.

Sister Sylvia was a teacher in several schools in New Jersey and Bishop Dunn Memorial School in Newburgh from 1955-1963. A Professor in the Art Department at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh from 1975-2009, she was one of the committee members responsible for organizing the annual Artist on Campus event that was well attended there for many years.

She gave lectures and workshops in spirituality and art at retreat centers, spent four summers in Mississippi conducting art workshops for the resident teenagers, and attended an art workshop in Ireland.

In her spare time, she enjoyed creating unique greeting cards, reading, sewing, quilting, cooking, studying Spanish, and doing water aerobics. Her love of music brought her to join the singers in the Greater Newburgh Symphony Chorale.

Her greatest pleasure was watching chefs on TV and experimenting in her galley kitchen.

“She did suffer fools gladly, especially me, and we traveled to many places together but were never on a guilt trip.

Sr. Sylvia opened the door of her world to me; my teaching at Desmond Center, the Artist on Campus Committee, and her Dominican Sisters of Hope.

“I loved my Dominican Mom dearly and know there’s a tambourine in Heaven.”

- Gayle Clark Fedigan Sister Sylvia Bielen, OP (1925-2022) photo: Gina Ciliberto, www.ophope.org

The following submissions are from Sr. Sylvia’s dear friends...

“Sr. Sylvia embodied kindness, laughter, humility, hope. She kept her vows and held fast to her virtues. She could be silly but was always sacred, and her joyfulness came knocking on our door.

“There’s an old Irish saying; “never arrive with one arm as long as the other.”

To our family birthdays and holiday celebrations, Sylvia brought handmade gifts; beautiful cards, afghans, a manger, my daughter’s bridal veil, and the best gift of all, her lighthearted presence.

“Many Halloweens she came as a Gypsy replete with a tambourine.

“Sr. Sylvia was a faithful member of the Committee that produced Artists on Campus for over 30 years. She not only partook of the planning meetings and worked the day of the event but her liaison with the college was so important to our success. Her gifts as an artist was a prime factor when the committee met after the show to select an artwork for purchase for the Mount’s permanent collection.

“Before she left the area we discussed the growth of the arts in the Mid-Hudson and that I thought the show had run its course. She said to me, “Joe, all good things come to an end.” And that’s how I remember her life.”

- Joseph Benzinger

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Reggie Harris in Campbell Hall Reggie Harris is a songwriter of great depth and passion and writes from a personal sense of mission that merges a world wise point of view with a singularly hopeful stance that life, though often challenging, is filled with possibility and hope.

A storyteller and worldrenowned song-leader who is a powerful interpreter of the global music narrative, Harris is an engaging and inspirational entertainer.

He is recognized for focusing new energy on the important role of music in the discourse for inclusion and the struggle for human rights using the lessons of history as a base.

Music for Humanity is honored to feature Reggie Harris on December 10 at 7:30pm at Noble Coffee Roasters, 3020 Route 207, Campbell Hall. Only 50 tickets available. Reserve by visiting: www.musicforhumanity.org/event/

Best of The Eagles in Sugar Loaf Best of the Eagles (BOTE) is the most exact interpretation of the music of the Eagles in America, bar none!

Each member mirrors his counterpart in the Eagles instrumentally and vocally. However, this is no simple copy band or impersonator act but rather a group of excellent musicians who expertly and authentically re-create the songs, the music, the vocals and the magical aura of one of America’s greatest rock bands.

Performing all of the fan favorites including Take it to the Limit, New Kid in Town, Lyin’ Eyes, Take it Easy, Life in

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the Fast Lane, Hotel California and so many others, the band has sold out many venues in the region.

See them perform on December 30 at 8:00pm at the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Kings Highway, Chester.

All proceeds to benefit the Sugar Loaf Film Festival. www.sugarloafpacny.com

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Plein Air Works in Greenwood Lake Artist Chrissy natural landscapes Pahucki is known for with acrylics or oils. her plein air landscape I am especially drawn paintings. Her awards to the way water include “Best of Show” affects the geology, at the Sloatsburg Plein color and vegetation Air and Morristown of the environment,” Plein Air exhibitions. she concluded.

She also won second Chrissy loves the place in the Hudson outdoors and spends Valley Plein Air much of her summer Festival and “Best participating in plein Depiction of Nature” at air festivals in New Ellicott City.

York, Pennsylvania, A member of the Maine, Maryland and National Oil & Acrylic New Mexico. During Painters Society and the colder months she Work by Chrissy Pahucki Plein Air Artists of paints landscapes and Colorado, Chrissy had the following to nature studies from photographs in her say about her work: “When I first started studio. Using acrylics, she captures the painting en plein air in 2006, I went out natural essence of her subjects. for a few hours each week with a group The Greenwood Lake Public of local artists. Being outside and the Library, located at 79 Waterstone Road, challenge of capturing my location on will host the works of Chrissy Pahucki canvas was often the highlight of my for the entire month of December at their week.

Works of Art Gallery.

“I now paint professionally, competing A new local artist is featured every in national plein air competitions all month. If you are interested in showcasing across the country. Traveling to paint your work, contact Adult Services at the and painting to travel has become such a Greenwood Lake Public Library: 845rewarding part of my life. I paint mostly 477-8377 extension 111.