February 2023

St. George’s Church, Newburgh

Newburgh Free Library, Montgomery St. Entrance Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall Paramount Theater, Middletown

Friday

RITZ

Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh

SCDW Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop venue TBD, So. Fallsburg SCM Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville SEMINARY Seminary Hill Cidery, Callicoon

Court Jester” DESMOND 10am Sixties Show” SLPAC 8pm

Frontiers SLPAC 8pm

Valentine’s Cabaret SCDW 8pm or Not To Be” DESMOND 10am Bailen FAL 7pm

Rose of Sister Sparrow FAL 7pm “1964 - The Tribute” PARA 8pm

Music...“From Bach to Rock” Alex Prizgintas cello ELL-LIB Noon

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

Music........................“A Night on Broadway”�����������������SLPAC 8pm

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Theatre - Musicals....High School Musicals Preview JCP Noon-5pm

Music..Mickey Barnett, Little Sparrow, Cecil Allen, Van Manakas SCM 2pm

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

Recreation...........Valentine’s Disco Dance DVOC 7pm-11pm Cabaret - Broadway............Valentine’s Cabaret SCDW 8pm

SLPAC

Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center SUNYO-OH SUNY Orange, Orange Hall, Middletown

UpF UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis WISNER Albert Wisner Library, Warwick

Saturday Sunday

Storytelling....................Yarnslingers SEMINARY 11am

Recreation....................Line Dancing CITY 2pm-5pm

Theatre - Variety...........Paper Bag Players SUNYO-OH 2pm

Cinema...............................“Cabaret” Milford Theatre, 4pm

Poetry......................Winter Poetry Cafe Florida Library, 1pm Cabaret - Broadway............Valentine’s Cabaret SCDW 2pm

Recreation....................Line Dancing CITY 2pm-5pm

Music......American String Quartet & Nancy Allen harp NCM 3pm

Cinema.......................“The Band Wagon” Milford Theatre, 4pm

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Fundraiser......Newburgh Library Book Sale NFL-MONT 10am-2pm

Music-Bunch - Beatles.........Strawberry Fields CITY Noon

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

Music - Classical.....Greater Newburgh Sym. Orch. MSM-AQ 4pm

Music - Blues-Soul-Roots-Rock....Alexis P. Suter Band FAL 7pm

Music - Folk......Frank Critelli, Randie O’Neill, Neil Okeson NOBLE 7:30pm

Comedy........Anthony Rodia: Totally Relatable Tour SLPAC 8pm

Recreation....................Line Dancing CITY 2pm-5pm

Cinema....................“An Affair to Remember” Milford Theatre, 4pm

Music - Salsa-HipHop-Funk-R&B-Jazz..Don Byron Quartet FAL 7pm

Poetry..............Terence Chiesa Soulshine Market, Pine Bush, 3pm

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

Music............................Ed Palermo Big Band FAL 7pm

Music - Folk........................Marc Von Em NOBLE 7:30pm

Music - Croce................Croce Plays Croce SLPAC 8pm

Music - Classical.....Hudson Valley Ebony Strings WISNER 2pm

Recreation....................Line Dancing CITY 2pm-5pm

Cinema....................“An American in Paris” Milford Theatre, 4pm

Music - Jazz...............Joe Farnsworth FAL 7pm

Evening w/Jorma Kaukonen SLPAC 8pm Music - Jazz.........Hal Galper Trio Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, 3pm

Recreation....................Line Dancing CITY 2pm-5pm

Theatre - Play.............“All Things Equal” SLPAC 6pm

Canvas category calendar

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

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

Art exhibits

CAS .............................................................................. Catskill Art Space, Livingston Manor

DVAA Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg

SUNYO-OH SUNY Orange, Orange Hall, Middletown

WRCA Wallkill River Center for the Arts, Montgomery

T.A. Clearwater paintings, pastels, prints Clearwater Gallery at Jones Farm, Cornwall, ongoing

Karen E. Gersch, Gabrielle Dearborn, Josiah Dearborn drawings, paintings, silverwork Gersch Home Gallery, Montgomery, by appt, ongoing

James Turrell “Avaar”, Sol LeWitt “Wall Drawings”, & Francis Cape “A Gathering of Utopian Benches” CAS ongoing

CAS Members’ Exhibition CAS thru Jan 28

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

“Instructor’s Small Works Show” Alice Desmond Center, Newburgh, thru Jan 31

Catherine DeMaio paintings Rustic Wheelhouse, Chester, thru Jan

“Open Choice” group show WRCA thru Feb 19

David Nicholls “A Paris Portrait” Cornwall Library, thru Feb 23

Chris Heim Catskill nature scenes Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, thru Feb 25

River Valley Artists Guild Art About Town: “Winter Spirits”

RVAG members group show, Gio’s Gelato Cafe, Port Jervis & Susan Miiller oils & pastels, Bon Secours Hospital Cafeteria, Port Jervis, & Joe Petrosi color pencil drawings, Mayor’s Office, Port Jervis City Hall, & Joan Kehlenbeck oils & pastels Deerpark Town Hall, Huguenot thru Mar 17

“A Study in Black & White” Community Art Show Wisner Library, Warwick, thru Mar 31

New Art Exhibits

David Baldwin calligraphy ����������������Leo’s Restaurant & Pizzeria, Cornwall, Jan 16-Mar 26

Bethel Council of the Arts group show Narrowsburg Union, Jan 21-Mar 4

North East Watercolor Society group show SUNYO-OH Jan 24-Mar 17

Maryann Burton watercolors SUNYO-OH Jan 24-Mar 17

Ciro Atardo, Nancy Reed Jones, Ginirose Sivili Griffith Olivero Realty, Goshen, Jan 24-Mar 31

Members & Teachers Show WRCA Jan 27-Feb 26

Gene Iovine paintings Liberty Museum & Arts Center Window, Jan 27-Feb 28

Bruce Young ink & graphics ������������������������������������������� Greenwood Lake Library, Feb 1-28

2nd Annual Winter Arts Showcase Highlands Arts Alliance www highlandsartsalliance org Feb 1-Mar 1

“Cause We Be Complicated: Dialogues of Black Artists” group show ADS Gallery, Newburgh, Feb 3-Mar 3

Hudson Valley Plein Air Fest Winners Uniterian Universalist Cong Rock Tavern, Feb 4-26

Judith Henry, Samuelle Green, Lizzie Wright sculpture CAS Feb 4-Mar 18

“Greens of Spring” group show, Color Wheel of Seasons series #1 Goshen Art League Goshen Music Hall, Feb 9-Apr 26

“Arts Build Confidence” Student Arts Showcase, Orange County Arts Council JC Penney Square, Crystal Run Mall, Middletown, Feb 11, 10am-5pm

Robyn Almquist “The Space Between You and Me” painting, collage, printmaking DVAA Feb 11-Mar 26

Allison Maletz “Abundance” watercolors DVAA Feb 11-Mar 26

“Tools & Implements” group show WRCA Feb 24-Mar 19

Mixed Media & Collage WRCA Mar 3-Apr 30

“Figures - Burden - Loneliness” photography, sculpture, paintings Grit Gallery, Newburgh, Mar 4-Apr 30

Photography exhibits

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

Yearly Contributor Photography Exhibition Highlands Arts Alliance Highland Falls Library, thru Jan 28

ART & Photography receptions

Bethel Council of the Arts group show Narrowsburg Union, Jan 28, 2pm-5pm

“Cause We Be Complicated: Dialogues of Black Artists” group show ADS Gallery, Newburgh, Feb 3, 6pm-8:30pm

Hudson Valley Plein Air Fest Winners Uniterian Universalist Cong Rock Tavern, Feb 4, 2pm-4pm

Judith Henry, Samuelle Green, Lizzie Wright sculpture CAS Feb 4, 4pm-5pm

“Arts Build Confidence” Student Arts Showcase, Orange County Arts Council

JC Penney Square, Crystal Run Mall, Middletown, Feb 11, 10am-5pm

Members & Teachers Show WRCA Feb 11, 3pm-5pm

Robyn Almquist, Allison Maletz DVAA Feb 11, 4pm-6pm

North East Watercolor Society group show SUNYO-OH Feb 26, 1pm-4:15pm

Maryann Burton watercolors SUNYO-OH Feb 26, 1pm-4:15pm

“Figures - Burden - Loneliness” photography, sculpture, paintings Grit Gallery, Newburgh, Mar 4, 5pm-8pm

Mixed Media & Collage WRCA Mar 11, 3pm-5pm

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

DESM ................................................................................Alice Desmond Center, Newburgh

JLPL Josephine-Louise Library, Walden

MEEC ........................................ Mamakating Environmental Education Center, Wurtsboro

PEEC Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry

Lectures, Demos, Talks & Master Classes are FREE unless otherwise noted: (FEE)

(Events Not lncluded in Centerspread Calendar) lectures, Tours & Discussions

Winter Birds at Pine Island Tour PEEC Jan 28, 1pm FEE

Winter Plant Walk - “Identifying Plants in Wintertime” MEEC Jan 28, 1pm FEE

Frozen Waterfall Tour PEEC Jan 28, 9am FEE

Bridge the Gap: Bird Bonanza PEEC Jan 29, 1pm FEE

“The Life & Times of a Quiet American Hero” Carolyn Ivanoff DESM Jan 30, 12:30pm FEE

“And That’s the Way It Is: A Look Back at 70 Years of TV News” Brian Rose Chester Library, Jan 30, 7pm

“Private Yankee Doodle” Peter Cutul DESM Feb 1, 12:30pm FEE

“Private Yankee Doodle” Peter Cutul DESM Feb 1, 12:30pm FEE

Bridge the Gap: Winter Survival PEEC Feb 1, 1pm FEE

“Black History & Identity in the Hudson Valley from Colonial Times to Present”

Myra Armstead Newburgh Library, Feb 1, 6:30pm

“Disorders of the Brain” ToniJean Kulpinski DESM Feb 3, 10:30am FEE

Owl Prowl! carpooling to Shawangunk Grasslands ������������������������������������ JLPL Feb 4, 3pm

Eagle-viewing guided bus tour, Delaware Highlands Conservancy Zane Grey Museum, Lackawaxen, Feb 4, 18, 25, 11am-3pm

“Woodpeckers of the Hudson Valley” Pamela Golben DESM Feb 6, 10:30am, FEE

“Faith Ringgold” Laura Nicholls DESM Feb 8, 12:30pm FEE

“Prehistoric Caves at Mt. Lookout, Goshen/Importance of the Dutchess Quarry Caves” Mary Altobelli…DESM Feb 9, 10:30 am, FEE Eagle Watch Trip ����������������������������������������������������������������������� PEEC Feb 11, 9am-3pm FEE

“Stories from a Renovation: An Historic Warwick House Speaks” Larry Mansour Wisner Library, Warwick, Feb 12, 2pm

“How to Set Up Your Home Wi-Fi Network” Vincent Kayes DESM Feb 16, 10:30am FEE

“Honing your Psychic Abilities” Bill Wiand Pine Bush Library, Feb 16, 1pm

“The Harlem Renaissance: Courage, Grace and Vision” Janet Mandel zoom/Wisner Library, Warwick, Feb 20, 6:15pm

“The Nasty Affair in Pines Bridge” Paul Martin III ��������������� DESM Feb 28, 10:30am,FEE

DEMO

“From Bach to Rock: Interpreting Sound on the Cello” Alex Prizgintas Ellenville Library, Feb 4, Noon

Watercolor painting: “The Value of Values” Maryann Burton SUNYO-OH Feb 26, 2:30pm

ARTIST/Author Talks & Salons

Randall Munroe author zoom/Crawford Library, Monticello, Jan 31, 2pm Highlands Arts Alliance Photographers’ Salon “Winter Photography”

American Legion Hall, Highland Falls, Feb 4, 11am FEE

Judith Henry, Samuelle Green, Lizzie Wright sculpture ��������������������������� CAS Feb 4, 3pm

Lana Harper author zoom/Crawford Library, Monticello, Feb 9, 7pm

Grace M. Cho author zoom/Crawford Library, Monticello, Feb 16, 1pm

Fred Buchholz “Filmmaking: Special Effects” Milford Theatre, Feb 25, 4pm FEE Sadeqa Johnson author zoom/Crawford Library, Monticello, Feb 28, 4pm

Opera Singers Opportunity

This year the Delaware Valley Opera is casting for The Merry Widow, Faust and Rape of Lucretia. Live auditions will be held in Lake Huntington and New

York City in February 2023.

All singers wanting to audition, RUSH a resume and sound bites and/or video links to info@delawarevalleyopera.org

Choral Singers Opportunity

The Delaware Valley Choral Society (DVCS) has begun rehearsals at the Milford United Methodist Church. Friedrich Kiel’s Requiem in f minor (which forms a link between the requiem settings of Mozart and Verdi) is on the program for the first weekend of June.

DVCS is looking to add as many voices to this incredible work as they can. If you like to sing, this will be a great opportunity to join a very friendly group of singers in a major choral work that has rarely been performed.

Interested singers should contact Jeffrey Fornoff, director, DVCS at 570-267-8773 or Jeffrey.marc.fornoff@ gmail.com. For more information, visit: www.dvchoralsociety.org

Volunteer Museum Educators Needed

The Time and the Valleys Museum in Grahamsville is seeking to expand their educational field trip programs for k-12 students, and is seeking volunteers to be Museum Educators that can assist when school groups of 25 to 100 students visit. The programs teach students about the history of the building of NYC’s water system and the effect on local residents; plus the importance of water and its impact on our history. “It is an energizing and rewarding experience helping students learn about local history,” says Mary Inghrim, Volunteer Chairperson.

Museum Educators help in a variety of ways, from teaching students, helping with activities, assisting others who teach students, answering questions and guiding groups through programs. No prior teaching experience is necessary. All that is needed is an interest in working with students and a willingness to learn. Interested applicants will be fully trained and comfortable prior to starting, and can help as little as offering one or two weekday mornings a month (or more). Benefits include a 10% discount in the Museum Shop, free admission to the programs, an invitation to a special recognition luncheon, gaining new skills and making new friends! Join Sullivan an exhibit at the Museum.

County’s RSVP program, and enjoy perks like mileage reimbursement.

For information about the position, email info@timeandthevalleysmuseum. org or call 845-985-7700.

The Time and the Valleys Museum, 332 Main Street (Route 55), Grahamsville, is currently open by appointment and during programs. Admission is a suggested donation of $5. Children under 16 are $2; children under six are free.

The exhibitions are interactive and both fun and educational for all ages. More information about the new exhibit opening for 2023: Bittersweet Memories: The Lost Towns of the Catskill can be found by visiting www. timeandthevalleysmuseum.org.

To schedule a group tour for children or adults, call 845-985-7700.

May I Have A Word With You

Quips, Quotes & Quiddities by Carol Pozefsky

Ifferisms

What a powerful word ‘if’ is. It peeks into the future and can hold such promise. If you knew more about computer programming, we’d hire you. If you’d get rid of that cat, I’d marry you. If you were 2 inches taller, you could be a Rockette. The book IFFERISMS contains maxims but only ones that begin with the Word “IF” -

If your wife wants to learn to drive, don’t stand in her way.

If you can’t live without me, why aren’t you dead yet?

If I have learned anything in my life, it is that bitterness consumes the vessel that contains it.

THEN: OVID. NOW: COVID

Born 43 years BC, Latin poet Ovid’s messages are timeless:

Love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name.

I am the poet of the poor. Since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in a pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. We might ask, What’s eating you? The ancient Romans would ask, Hinc Illae Lacrimae? Whence those tears? We say, Trouble lies ahead, In Latin, Non temper erit aestas. It will not always be summer.

ARE YOU POSITIVE?

Lost positives are words whose positive forms are no longer in common use.

Do you have a disgruntled neighbor? Perhaps in happier times she was a gruntled neighbor. We think of dictators as ruthless. Were they in better times ruth? Are you disturbed, disgusted and distracted when you’d rather be turbed, gusted and tracted? Don’t know those words? Neither do I. They’re lost positives.

Our Culinary Shakespeare

Former New York Times food critic Mimi Sheraton wrote this about the baguette: That long, slim, gold-crusted baton of bread...the best of bourgeois France and its dedication to the things that really count. Among Sheraton’s favorite foods, sweet Georgia peaches, and shrimp and grits at a restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina. She mischievously calls shrimp and grits Surf and Turf, southern style.

February 4 at 3:00pm (Snow date: Feb. 18 at 3:00pm) waldenpubliclibrary.org

The Paper Bag Players are BACK!

Because of their many awards, The Paper Bag Players are credited as being the “foremost children’s theatre company in New York.” Their program includes new skits and classic sketches, freewheeling dances, hilarious stories, laughs, whimsical music, singing, audience participation, and their signature paper and cardboard sets and costumes. Half of the ten skits and sketches promote audience participation.

Since 1958, this innovative company has set the standard for original productions that speak directly and vividly to children, while amusing adults with sly wit. Perfect for children ages 3 through 8, the Paper Bag Players plays are lively, funny, fast-paced, colorful, and thought-provoking performances for any theatre-goer. The cast is happy, enthusiastic, and engaging and keep the hour-long show in high gear.

Join them in the William and Helen Richards Theatre at Orange Hall for an afternoon performance created for children and their families and friends when The Paper Bag Players come to present their new play, Big Bag of Laughs on February 5 at 2:00pm

A “Paper Bag Players Study Guide” is available for free. To obtain a copy prior to the performance, email cultural@ sunyorange.edu.

Orange Hall is located at the corner of Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues, Middletown, NY (GPS: 24 Grandview Ave, Middletown) where free parking is available in adjacent lot # one.

Tickets can be purchased at the Orange Hall box office the day of the performance starting at 12:45pm. Cash or Check only. SUNY Orange students with ID admitted free.

For more information, call Cultural Affairs at 845-341-4891, email cultural@ sunyorange.edu or see ad on page 3. www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs

Riverside Art Workshops, Balmville

What makes Riverside Art Workshops unique?

According to director Marguerite Meyerson: “Small, intimate, and intensive workshops where you can get to know our artists personally, and you can actually see and participate in their demos from only a few feet away. Our artists can work with you individually for a wonderful learning experience that you’ll treasure for a lifetime.

“We’re located in Balmville, a lovely, quaint section by the Hudson River in the town of Newburgh. We are happy to offer you art workshops in the comfort of our private studio which has breathtaking, panoramic views of the Hudson River reaching from Poughkeepsie to West Point.

“Workshops are offered with contemporary world renowned professional artists. Some of the features of workshops are small groups usually 8 to 12 students, studio and plein air instruction, daily demonstrations, generous lunch menu to order, free wi-fi, and a welcome gift.

“Because we keep the number of student to teacher ratio smaller, allowing for a better one on one experience, our workshops fill up quickly. In order to register for our workshops, you’ll need to email us a copy of your covid vaccination records. All of our visiting artists who teach here are fully vaccinated. We want to protect everyone who joins us.

“We’re very happy to welcome back Andy Evansen (pictured) for his third visit to Riverside Art Workshops. Andy began painting in the mid 90’s and is largely self taught. He has received several national and international awards during his career. His workshop will focus on using value studies to identify the large shapes in the scenery.”

Evansen opens Riverside’s 2023 season with two sessions, March 26-28 and March 2931. Check out the ad on this page!

For more information, call Marguerite Meyerson at 845-787-4167 or email her at: MKMeyerson@gmail.com. www.riversideartworkshops.com

For further information about Andy Evansen, visit his website at: www.evansenartstudio.com

Comedy in Sugar Loaf

A first-generation ItalianAmerican born and raised in Westchester, Anthony Rodia came out of the womb making people laugh. “I have always been able to find or create humor out of any situation. I am the same person on stage that I am off stage. Funny is the only way I know how to be. I am always thinking of new ways to get a laugh out of someone. The way I see it is, if I have you laughing, then at that moment, you are in a good mood!

“If you can make it to one of my shows, I guarantee that you will leave with stomach pains and tears in your eyes - which is the way you should always exit a comedy show!”

Rodia’s Totally Relatable Tour is at the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, 231 Creamery Pond Road, Chester, on February 18 at 8:00pm

For tickets: www.sugarloafpacny.com