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JULY 1 – AUGUST 14
BARDSUMMERSCAPE 2016 Seven inspired weeks of opera, music, theater, dance, film, and cabaret DANCE JULY 1–3
OPERA JULY 22–31
27TH BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL AUGUST 5–14
World Premiere
By Pietro Mascagni Conducted by Leon Botstein, music director Directed by James Darrah A lush, fin-de-siècle exotic opera in which a young girl is tricked into leaving her home for a brothel in Tokyo’s notorious red-light district. A bewitchingly lovely forerunner of Madama Butterfly.
August 5–7 Puccini and Italian Musical Culture August 12–14 Beyond Verismo
FANTASQUE Music by Ottorino Respighi and Gioachino Rossini Choreography by John Heginbotham Puppetry and design by Amy Trompetter Featuring Dance Heginbotham A magical ballet with giant puppets and dancers suitable for the whole family.
THEATER JULY 7–17
DEMOLISHING EVERYTHING WITH AMAZING SPEED World Premiere
Futurist puppet plays by Fortunato Depero Translated, designed, and directed by Dan Hurlin Original music by Dan Moses Schreier A surreal puppet noir based on four beautiful but disquieting plays written at the height of World War I.
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PUCCINI AND HIS WORLD FILM SERIES JULY 21 – AUGUST 14
PUCCINI AND THE OPERATIC IMPULSE IN CINEMA
JULY 1 – AUGUST 13
SPIEGELTENT
Hosted by Mx. Justin Vivian Bond The mirrored pavilion provides a sumptuous and magical environment to enjoy cuttingedge cabaret and world-class musical performances capped by fine dining, dancing, and more.
Tickets and information:
845-758-7900 fishercenter.bard.edu Photo by ©Peter Aaron ’68/Esto.
the bard music festival presents
PUCCINI AND HIS WORLD
August 5–7 Puccini and Italian Musical Culture August 12–14 Beyond Verismo
An illuminating series of orchestral, choral, opera, and chamber concerts—as well as pre-concert talks and panel discussions— devoted to examining the life and times of composer Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924). Through the prism of Puccini’s life and career, the festival investigates a century of Italian music and culture in close-up: politics from Garibaldi to Mussolini, music from Palestrina to Berio, the search for a successor to Verdi, Italy’s glorious choral tradition, and Italian futurism.
For a complete list of events and to order tickets 845-758-7900 | fishercenter.bard.edu
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Great art
is closer than you think The 2016 season features artists Taylor Mac, Josh Radnor (“How I Met Your Mother”), John Slattery (“Mad Men”), Lucy Thurber (The Hill Town Plays), Jose Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries), and Santino Fontana (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”) June 24-July 31 powerhouse.vassar.edu 845-437-5907 Vassar & New York Stage and Film present
Inner Exercises Group Work Movements
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Gurdjieff’s Teaching:
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We recognize that dental health for your whole family is achievable with professional treatment and guidance, together with at-home care. We always listen to our patients’ concerns and tailor our efforts to ensure that your experience is both comprehensive and comfortable.
Gurdjieff’s teaching, or the Fourth Way, is a way of developing attention and presence in the midst of a busy life. Each person’s unique circumstances provide the ideal conditions for the quickest progress on the path of awakening. Using practical inner exercises and tools for self-study, the work of self-remembering puts us in contact with the abundant richness of Being.
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Great art
is closer than you think From ancient Egyptian artifacts to Hudson River School paintings and works by 20th century modernists like Picasso, O’Keeffe, and Pollock, our permanent collection has something for everyone.
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Vassar College
On view through August 21 Touch the Sky: Art and Astronomy On view through December 11 Universal Collection: A Mark Dion Project Free admission / fllac.vassar.edu / 845-437-5632
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St. Paul & The Broken Bones plus Banditos Thursday July 21 at 8pm - Bardavon
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OPEN: Wed to Sat 12-6pm
La Bella Pasta Manufacturer
Celebrating 30 Years serving the Hudson Valley! Family owned and operated
10 Bridge St, Phoenicia, NY
Memorial Day Weekend - Sept 30th
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Fresh ravioli, pasta and tortellini from our family to your table for 30 years. Find La Bella Pasta at your finer restaurants and gourmet shops. Or stop by our outlet store located on Route 28 in Kingston & receive free pasta with a purchase of $15.00 or more. *Offer good through August 21, 2016* 906 Route 28 • Kingston • NY 845 331 9130 • www.lbpasta.com
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Chronogram ARTS.CULTURE.SPIRIT.
CONTENTS 6/16
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COMMUNITY PAGES
17 ARTSCENE TV
28 RED HOOK, RHINEBECK & TIVOLI
A preview of our monthly video series. This month: architect Scott Dutton.
18 ON THE COVER Angela Jimenez’s Long Jumper, from her series “Racing Age.”
20 ESTEEMED READER In the fog of a childhood fever, Jason Stern senses another realm.
21 EDITOR’S NOTE: BLURRED LINES Brian K. Mahoney finds that much in the region defies easy categorization.
22 WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING A 15-year-old discovers a hidden Mayan city, and more you may have missed.
23 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC Larry Beinhart explains why Trump is not as scary as some other Republicans.
A profile of three classic Hudson Valley towns in Northern Dutchess County.
HOME & GARDEN 40 HOME: STITCHED TOGETHER
Kat O’Sullivan and Mason Brown’s home is an evolving art project.
47 GARDEN: FIRST ROSE CONFIDENCE
Michelle Sutton talks with Kevin Lee Jacobs about common rose misconceptions.
FOOD & DRINK 80 DOCTOR FERMENTO
Derek Dellinger spent a year eating only fermented foods, like putrefacted shark.
ART OF BUSINESS
WHOLE LIVING
24 The stories behind local business. This month: Niche, Morrison Gallery, scenes
88 IT TAKES A (FARM) VILLAGE
of renewal in Catskill, Woodstock Playhouse, Hummingbird Jewelers, and architect and builder David Borenstein.
KIDS & FAMILY 26 THE 21ST-CENTURY CLASSROOM
Concerned techers and parents are taking the long view on education reform.
Triform Camphill farm village is an intentional community with a neat twist.
COMMUNITY RESOURCE GUIDE 85 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 86 BUSINESS DIRECTORY A compendium of advertiser services. 92 WHOLE LIVING Opportunities to nurture mind, body, and soul.
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The fanciful vehicles of Kat O’Sullivan and Mason Brown at their Rosendale home.
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CONTENTS 6/16
ARTS & CULTURE 55 SUMMER ARTS PREVIEW Our guide to the region’s artistic abundance includes Bard SummerScape, Jacob’s Pillow, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Powerhouse Theater, Wassaic Project, Shadowland Stages, Art Omi, Newburgh Illuminated, Warwick Summer Arts Festival, Caramoor Summer Music Festival, and more.
70 GALLERY & MUSEUM GUIDE 72 CD REVIEWS & NIGHTLIFE HIGHLIGHTS Nightlife Highlights include The National; It’s Not Night, It’s Space; Dan Brubeck Quartet; Music That Shook the World, and Whitney. Reviews of Revisiting the Music of Herbie Hancock by Infinite Spirit; Hold That Thought Forever by The Last Conspirators, and America by Wreckless Eric.
70 BOOKS: CHRISTINE HEPPERMAN
A profile of the young adult author of Ask Me How I Got Here.
72 2016 YOUNG READERS’ ROUNDUP Outstanding new books for young readers by Hudson Valley authors and illustrators.
78 POETRY Poems by Evelyn Augusto, Cheryl Clarke, James Conrad, Christien Gholson, Michael Glassman, Piper Jaden Levine, Perry Nicholas, Sanjeev Sethi, Richard Shea, shokan, Emily Skinner, and Emily Sofaer.
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VIDEO: ARTSCENE TV Our monthly video series highlights the Hudson Valley artscene. Chronogram.com/TV
THE FORECAST 96 DAILY CALENDAR Comprehensive listings of local events. (Updated daily at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 95 Marquise Productions brings new school circus arts to PS21 in Chatham. 97 Trash Fest problematizes our relationship to refuse this month in Marbletown. 99 Bonnie "Prince" Billy and the Bitchin' Bajas play the Half Moon in Hudson. 100 The Berkshire International Film Festival returns June 3-5. 101 The Catskill Interpretive Center Book Fair takes place on June 4 in Mt. Tremper. 102 Basilica Hudson hosts the Hudson Valley Cider & Cheese Tasting & Market. 103 There’s biking, BBQ, and beer at the Farm to Fork Fondo in Warwick. 104 Cragsmoor Historical Scoiety hosts a talk by Wendy Harris and Arnold Pickman.
PLANET WAVES 106
MERCURY & MARS RETROGRADE: THE UNDERLYING QUESTION
Eric Francis Coppolino on the elements at the core of human emotions.
108 HOROSCOPES
What are the stars telling us? Eric Francis Coppolino knows.
112 PARTING SHOT
A preliminary view of Linda Weintraub’s Grandmother Earth at CHRCH Project Space.
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INSPIRING GENERATIONS THROUGH PEACE, LOVE & MUSIC
JUNE
10-13 MYSTERYLAND USA BARENAKED LADIES 17
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WITH OMD & HOWARD JONES IN THE PAVILION
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DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES
WITH MAYER HAWTHORNE IN THE PAVILION
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JOURNEY & THE DOOBIE BROTHERS
WITH DAVE MASON IN THE PAVILION
JULY 02 A GATHERING AT BETHEL WOODS:
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SMOKEY ROBINSON
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IN THE PAVILION
WITH AARON TVEIT IN THE PAVILION
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SEPTEMBER FREE
CELEBRATING A DECADE OF PEACE, LOVE & MUSIC
09 STEELY DAN WITH STEVE WINWOOD
SUNDAYS THE HARVEST 04-25 FESTIVAL DON HENLEY 10 IN THE PAVILION
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14 JASON ALDEAN
WITH THOMAS RHETT & A THOUSAND HORSES
IN THE EVENT GALLERY
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IN THE PAVILION
16 JIM GAFFIGAN: FULLY DRESSED
IN THE EVENT GALLERY
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JOHN WAITE
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“EMBRACE”
IN THE PAVILION
17 MICHAEL MCDONALD & AMERICA IN THE PAVILION
20 TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND WITH LOS LOBOS & NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL STARS IN THE PAVILION
22 ZAC BROWN BAND
29 ARETHA FRANKLIN
FEATURING CRISTIANA PEGORARO & DANILO REA
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WINE FESTIVAL CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL “SOUVENIRS FROM KAZAKHSTAN” IN THE EVENT GALLERY
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JARROD SPECTOR & KELLI BARRETT
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31 DION WITH RONNIE SPECTOR
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COUNTING CROWS & ROB THOMAS IN THE PAVILION
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This weekend, three top medical doctors in the field, along with the cofounders of Sharp Again Naturally and Health Advocates Worldwide, share effective strategies for preventing and treating these conditions.
BRADSTAN CABARET SERIES
30 HEART WITH JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS AND CHEAP TRICK IN THE PAVILION
Anyone whose life has been touched by dementia or Alzheimer’s disease knows the devastating impact these illnesses can have. But now there is hope.
FEATURING THE CAPRICCCI VIOLIN ENSEMBLE
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July 1-3
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24 KIDZ BOP KIDS
LEE LESSACK & JOHNNY RODGERS BRADSTAN CABARET SERIES
IN THE PAVILION
15 THE BEACH BOYS & THE TEMPTATIONS
“AN EVENING OF CHAMBER MUSIC”
WITH THE HERMITAGE PIANO TRIO
IN THE PAVILION
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HOPE FOR DEMENTIA & ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE CONFERENCE
THE HARVEST FESTIVAL
BLUES FESTIVAL AT BETHEL WOODS IN THE EVENT GALLERY
Join a supportive community and renew yourself on Omega’s Rhinebeck campus, where you’ll gain the tools and information you need to transform post-diagnosis fear and resignation into hope and determination.
IN THE EVENT GALLERY
BRADSTAN CABARET SERIES IN THE EVENT GALLERY
DECEMBER
Continuing education credits are available.
03-04 HOLIDAY MARKET
JERRY GARCIA SYMPHONIC CELEBRATION
FEATURING WARREN HAYNES AND THE HUDSON VALLEY PHILHARMONIC IN THE PAVILION
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Visit BethelWoodsCenter.org for complete calendar of events, including festivals, films, speakers, education and family programming, summer youth programs, and more!
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Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: Once when I was a child I was stricken with fever. It must have been before they invented oral thermometers because the frequent rectal ordeal—truly unpleasant in my weakened state—gave a steady reading of 104 degrees. I had that odd sensation of simultaneously boiling and freezing. I looked around the room, at the familiar pictures on the walls; at the phosphorescent stars glued to my ceiling; at my mother’s worried expression as she replaced the hot, damp washcloth on my forehead with a cool one. At the same time, I seemed to be in another realer world, seated in a loose circle of what I can only call eternal entities.They were both physically and ethereally present and gave the impression of being comprised of stone and light together. At the time I assumed they were angels. Much later I recognized a similar quality of super-aliveness in some of the statues dug up from a pit in the center of the Temple of Luxor in Egypt. This group of entities seemed to be convened in a kind of council; yet it was clear that they had never gathered and would never depart. They were simply there, as though in a dimension of time that was perpendicular to my familiar, linear sense of past, present, and future. In my delirium I recognized that these entities living in a perpendicular dimension were aware of me. I felt their complete, unconditional regard, as though their vigilance was so stable as to be immune from distraction. It was directed to me in particular, and yet I could tell it was for anyone—everyone—in particular. They beamed out a level of attention and watchfulness that was outside the dyads of focus and distraction, or particular and general. Implicit in the attentive regard was a feeling of hope. The entities didn’t say anything. Indeed, in the present moment encompassing a solid state of all time there was no room for any expression requiring a sequence of words. But they conveyed vast meaning through the total regard and in the intense atmosphere of hope. The hope the entities broadcast was simple and pure. In retrospect, I call it unconditional, and yet in line with the complete paradox of the experience, it was a hope for something, which itself was no thing. I can only describe it as a hope for being, which in itself includes becoming. Again, as a nine-year-old, I experienced it as a hope for my particular becoming, or growing up,which is to say the coming into a greater or even complete fullness of being. It was only much later on a visit to a Zen monastery that I heard the expression “you are all, already, Buddha.” I recognized the truth of the expression in the experience I had as a child, which revealed the perfect completeness of everything, including myself; and at the same time the possibility of growing and developing into fresh magnitudes of completion. In my feverish ecstasy I noticed that the entities and their world were only visible when I focused on my breath. When I lost the direct contact with breath the realer world of the entities faded and the familiar room reappeared before my eyes. Somehow it only came visible when I was steadfastly in contact with myself. In the vision, the entities conveyed an image—a single composite of an acorn, a sapling, and mighty oak—all the stages occurring at once as the singular life of the tree. Not long after, having recovered from the brief, intense illness, I read Madeleine L’Engle’s Wrinkle in Time, in which she describes a living, four-dimensional geometric figure. The tesseract seemed to illustrate the sense of an infinitely expanded present moment embodied by the entities. The difference was that there was a profound feeling accompanying the meaning of their transmission. And together with the feeling and meaning was a sense of action, though of a completely different type than I have known before of since. The contact with what I called angels has stayed with me almost continuously in my life, for the experience is, in a sense always present, occurring as it did, outside time. When I recollect it, I recognize that inasmuch as what I see before my eyes is real, there is a far more real and permanent world underlying all I see. This is a world of geometric perfection and inbuilt knowledge; of wholehearted, undisrupted feeling; of impeccable action rooted in presence, unfettere by attachment to results. —Jason Stern
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What future Tony-winner will be debuted at Powerhouse this year? Find out in our Summer Arts Preview, page 55.) The porousness of categorical borders came up in Peter Aaron’s conversation with indie rocker Will Oldham, aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy (“Son of the South,” page 99). Oldham, known as a lo-fi savant, also loves the extravagant MGM musicals of the `40s and `50s. And he sees no distinction between the two. “What drew me to the MGM movies as a kid was the idea that you could wake up, look around, and just sing about anything,” Oldham says. “[Both styles] are about blurring the lines between music and life.” It’s interesting how traditional categories break down under the slightest scrutiny. Taking that line of thinking further, I would suggest that the Hudson Valley is a place that thrives on eclectic combinations—in its people, its institutions, and its art. The line between art and life is completely erased in the home of Kat O’Sullivan and Mason Brown (“Stitched Together,” page 40). Decorated in a riot of colors and conceived in fanciful flair—there’s a smiling set of teeth painted above the front door—the house reflects the couple’s continual artistic output and willingness to defy convention. It’s a strange coincidence that one of the first places that O’Sullivan visited in the Hudson Valley before moving here was the Egg’s Nest in High Falls, whose bric-a-brac aesthetic mirrors her own. Margot Becker, organizer of Trash Fest (“Trash as Treasure,” page 97), is blurring the line between trash and art. (Insert your own wisecrack about how so much art is trash to begin with here.) For the month of June, the Marbletown Waste Transfer Station will be the site of an art show, the artwork assembled from materials salvaged at the dump. There’ll also be a concert featuring instruments made of refuse. This is Trash Fest’s first year, and time will tell whether the line between art and trash needed to be blurred, but its mere existence celebrates the best of the genre-eliminating spirit of the region. One organization that’s been breaking down perceived barriers for many years is the Triform Camphill Community farm village in Columbia County. Since the 1980s, the farm has been a place where young adults with developmental disabilities work and live side by side with resident families and volunteers. At Triform, the emphasis is on inclusion and creating a place for the entire community to balance work, life, and creativity. Wendy Kagan’s report on this incredible intentional community (“It Takes a (Farm) Village,” page 88), is one of the most uplifting and inspiring pieces we’ve published in some time. But sometimes, just like the eight-year-old brat I was, you seek purity through limitation. Enter brewer, author, and fermentation enthusiast Derek Dellinger. Ever wonder what the Icelandic national dish, hakarl, tastes like? Well, Dellinger will tell that it tastes like what it is, rotten shark. He ate it because hakarl is fermented. And Dellinger spent a year eating only fermented foods, taking detours through some bizarre culinary alleyways (“The Fermented Man,” page 80). Ever notice how the word “fermented” rhymes with the “demented?” If I could only think of a fitting rhyme for “Swanson.” 6/16 CHRONOGRAM 21
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The Mister Softee jingle inventor Lee Waas died on April 19 at age 94. Waas wrote the jingle in 1960 for the ice cream franchise’s radio advertisements. He also produced other jingles for Holiday Inn and the Philadelphia Phillies. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City attempted to ban the song in 2004 in an effort to decrease noise in the city. In 2005, a compromise was formed, allowing for the ice cream trucks to play the tune only while in motion. Earlier in 2002, a community court judge in Connecticut ruled that Mister Softee trucks could only play their song six times in a row on any given block, but the state court later decided the ruling was invalid. Source: New York Times In May, a 15-year-old boy from Quebec discovered a lost Mayan city. William Gadoury made the discovery by comparing star charts with satellite images. Gadoury theorized that the locations of the Mayan cities might correlate to Mayan constellations. He analyzed 22 Mayan star maps from the Madrid Codex and overlaid the star positions onto Google Earth images of the Yucatan Peninsula. The city Gadoury found once consisted of 30 buildings and an 86-meter pyramid. Named “Mouth of Fire” by the teenager, this city in the Mexican jungle is considered the fourth-biggest city of the Mayan empire. Source: BBC Feld Entertainment, the production company behind Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, has officially ended its elephant shows after 145 years. The entertainment group has battled with lawsuits—in 2014, the company won a $16 million settlement, and in 2011 the USDA fined it $270,000 for Animal Welfare Act violations when Mother Jones reported that the elephants were chained, whipped, and left in cages full of feces. Local governments have had the most direct impact on the circus. Los Angeles and Oakland both banned the use of bull hooks. Asheville banned elephant performances in its US Cellular Center. Along with the increasing public sentiment against the use of wild animals in entertainment, the bans implemented by local governments have been an obstacle for the circus’s tour. As a result, 11 elephants were sent to the Ringling Brothersrun Center for Elephant Conservation in Florida. Animal rights activists question whether the lives of the elephants will improve in the Florida facility. Source: Guardian
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According to the IRS, unpaid taxes amount to $458 billion annually. “It is absolutely unacceptable that the country has lost more than $400 billion over the past 10 years from corporations dodging their tax payments,” said Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, the senior Democrat on the Finance Committee. “This is money that would be put to good use shoring up critical programs such as Medicare. It’s time the IRS put an effective tracking and auditing system in place to locate this lost money.” The money is lost through a failure to file tax returns, or through the underreporting and underpayment of taxes. The IRS stated that enforcement efforts had recovered around $52 billion of the unpaid taxes. The agency commented, “Those who don’t pay what they owe ultimately shift the tax burden to those who properly meet their tax obligations.” Source: New York Times Isle de Jean Charles in southeastern Louisiana is gradually disappearing due to climate change—rising sea levels, stronger storms, increased flooding, harsher droughts, and changes caused by humans. Since the 1930s, an area equal to the size of Delaware has been lost from southern Louisiana. According to the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security and the International Organization for Migration, between 50 and 200 million people could be displaced by 2050 due to climate change. In January, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced grants to help communities adapt to climate change by building stronger levees, dams, and drainage systems. One of the grants would be used for the island: A $48 million grant would go toward moving the entire struggling community to a different location. The island is home to two Native American tribes—the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw and the United Houma Nation—of whom some members are reluctant to leave the area. Hilton Chaisson, a native to the land, said, “I’ve lived my whole life here, and I’m going to die here.” Since 2002, three different resettlement plans have fallen through due to political complications. Source: New York Times At any given moment in the US, nearly 660,000 people are using cell phones or electronic devices while driving. In 2014, 3,179 people were killed and 431,000 were injured in motor vehicle accidents involving distracted drivers. Texting while driving has been banned by most states over the past seven years. To combat the rising numbers, legislators and public health experts intend to treat distracted driving like drunk driving. New York lawmakers have proposed the digital equivalent of the Breathalyzer—a roadside test called the Textalyzer. Using this device, a police officer could track the recent history on the phones of drivers. Additionally, a new group formed this year, the Partnership for Distraction-Free Driving, is petitioning to get social media companies like Facebook and Twitter to discourage multitasking by drivers. Source: New York Times, Distraction.gov Compiled by Diana Waldron
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or the first time in our long association, my esteemed editor, Brian Mahoney, asked for a particular subject. “All I’m hearing from liberals is about how scared they are about Trump now being the de facto Republican nominee, and the possibility that he might become president, and the fact that they may have to expatriate to Canada,” he wrote. Sure, Brian. Why not. However, I don’t understand why liberals are upset about Donald Trump, per se, in particular, as compared to the alternatives. Remember when this primary season began. The story from Iowa in Rolling Stone was titled “Inside the GOP Clown Car.” The Washington Post, Huffingtonpost, Politico, Joe Scarborough (previously a Republican congressman from Florida, now a right-leaning talk show host), Real Clear Politics, Esquire, the Arkansas Times—among many others—all used the expression. Why is everyone surprised that when the car stopped, a clown stepped out? Yet all the professionals—the party regulars, the consultants, and especially the pundits—are astounded. Discombobulated. Appalled. Reams have been written and towers of babble are being devoted to deconstructing the rise of Trump and the fall of themselves. Nate Cohn, the political analyst for the New York Times, is a perfect example. “A precocious number-cruncher and polling whiz,” according to Politico, his job is to call the dog race. No issue, no facts, just who’s stumbling, who’s lunging, who’s gonna get the rabbit. (As a sideline, his column has labored indefatigably and relentlessly on the nonexistence of Bernie Sanders. But that’s another matter.) Every hound he’s touted has failed. He was wrong so often that at last, on May 4, his column was titled “What I Got Wrong About Donald Trump.” Cohn is to be commended for noticing. But then came the explanations, somewhere between 15 and 22 of them. What was underestimated, unexpected, unimagined: the media, the opponents, the electorate, the establishment! All those things had to come together, to coincide, to combine, in such unpredictable ways!—oh my gosh!—to make Nate Cohn so totally wrong. Actually, there is a very simple and clear explanation. I have to give credit where credit is due. My 23-year-old son was not at all surprised by the rise of Trump. “When idiots argue, the loudest one wins,” he said. The significant idea here is not that Trump is the loudest, it’s that the entire Republican debate took place in their special bubble where the only speech that’s permitted is Fox Babble. Would one of the other speakers of Loony Talk be less fear inspiring than Trump? Seriously, Ted Cruz? A Republican that even other Republicans hate as too mean.Who knew that was possible among a group that so prides itself on being bellicose and bullying? Marco Rubio? Ah, the young cherub who gets brain freeze at crucial moments. He’s actually nearly as far right as Cruz. Ben Carson? He somehow combines being brain dead with neurosurgery. He does not merely disbelieve in evolution, he suspects Darwin was inspired by Satan. Carly Fiorina? She lies with a ferocity that is awesome to behold, as if bitter outrage will make Tinker Bell come to life, bite Hillary Clinton, and give her the Zika virus. John Kasich? His heart’s desires are to end abortions and destroy unions. Chris Christie? If his weight weren’t so great it would be appropriate to call him Donald Trump Lite. What would he do to make our nation better: “How
about [what] I’ve done in New Jersey for the last six years and get rid of Planned Parenthood funding for the United States of America.” Jeb Bush? The National Review assured conservatives that he was “more conservative” than his brother. His foreign policy team was the same crew that missed 9/11, invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, and left them us the mess we’re in. Rick Santorum? Hey, anyone can be anti-abortion and anti-gay. That’s not enough for Rick, who said, “One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is the dangers of contraception in this country. It’s not okay.” Mike Huckabee? He wants to get rid of personal and corporate income taxes, Social Security and Medicare taxes, gift and estate taxes, and replace them with a national sales tax and call it the “Fair Tax.” Rand Paul? He doesn’t like wars, surveillance, people in jail for marijuana, the Federal Reserve, the Department of Education, and progressive taxes. He thinks the civil right of businesses not to do business with types they don’t like is the greatest civil right. He thinks that Social Security is bankrupt, that Medicare is failing. He wants a flat tax and also to go back to the gold standard. Scott Walker? When the Koch Brothers produce cloned candidates, Scott will be their prototype. Destroy unions, disenfranchise voters, cut taxes for the rich, stick it to everyone else. Bobby Jindal? Applied the Koch brothers formula for wealth and success to Louisiana and left it bankrupt. Rick Perry? The clown against which all other clowns are measured. What disturbs liberals so much? Policy? All the rest are as bad or worse. The US already spends nearly as much on the military as the rest of the world combined, they hysterically cry for more! More! Carpet bomb ISIS! No deal with Iran! Kill somebody! At the same time they will cut taxes! And balance the budget! With policies that will send more money to the top and take it from the rest of us! Stop gay marriage. Stop gay rights. Stop abortion, Planned Parenthood, contraception. Prayer back in the schools, creationism in the textbooks! Black Lives Matter is an attack on the police! Trump has even blurted out some truths that none of the others ever would. All the politicians are owned by big money. The rich should pay more of their share in taxes. “Free trade” has screwed over most ordinary Americans. Whogoes-to-the-toilet-where is an overblown issue. If you’re going to outlaw abortion, women who get one are committing a crime. That explains why establishment Republicans are in a snit. But not Democrats. Is it the anti-Mexican stance? The Islamophobia? The birther campaign and the open white-racist support? Please, fear of the blacks and browns have been pillars of the Republican coalition and the keys to its successes since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Is it just that the other guys talk in terms that have been focus group tested, made normative by repetition, and blind media acceptance? While Trump has lifted up the flap of the tent and let us hear how the clowns talk when they’re drunk and think they’re alone. Trump is not an aberration. He is the culmination. The scary part of “When idiots argue, the loudest guy wins” is not about the winner, it’s the fact that it’s possible because it’s idiots arguing. 6/16 CHRONOGRAM 23
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CONTEMPORARY IN KENT A gallery being called a “linchpin of Litchfield County’s art scene” (New York Times) doesn’t justify resting on its laurels. Billy Morrison, owner of Morrison Gallery in Kent, Connecticut, is currently working on sculpture installations in Manhattan and Shanghai—and soon to break ground on the first new construction on Kent’s Main Street since the 1970s. “It’s going to be a 5,000-square-foot gallery and a 10,000-squarefoot state-of-the-art art warehouse. We’ll have art handlers transporting work and drivers bringing clients to the viewing room.”
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Good lighting makes the mundane beautiful and makes the beautiful stunning, and Niche uses 2,700-degree Kelvin bulbs in their handblown glass fixtures and chandeliers for that soft, white-gold glow. But the warmth is deeper than that. “It’s not just the temperature of the light that’s warm, it’s the pay-it-forward mentality,” says Creative Director Jeremy Pyles. “People find us online or in a magazine and don’t realize everything is done in-house and hands-on right here in Beacon, by a close-knit team of 22 people. Supporting living American artists and makers is crucial to us. You might pay a little more, but you get so much more. We’re serious about that and about being good neighbors—people who come up for day one of the warehouse sale we’re having June 11 and 12 won’t just get 50 to 80 percent off amazing lighting, they’ll get to enjoy Beacon during Second Saturday.”
Lately, galas and openings increasingly share calendar space with the many, many meetings attended by Nancy Richards, who’s been with the Village of Catskill for 17 years and is currently community development coordinator, point person for parks and recreation, and secretary to the planning and zoning department. “Tonight we’re celebrating a Main Street garage turning into an event space,” she says. “We just had a groundbreaking for the American Dance Institute; they’re taking over Dunn’s lumberyard. The Bridge Street Theatre is running a full season. We have new restaurants, new artists coming in, shops opening.” So what finally tipped the balance in this pretty little burg? “I think we finally got everyone on the same page,” she says, “from the garden club to the economic development people. It takes a collaborative approach. It’s happening. You can see the difference in the number of people cleaning their yards and planting gardens.”
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Q&A
with Doug Farrell of the Woodstock Playhouse
A STEPPING-STONE TO BROADWAY
This June, the Woodstock Playhouse presents “The Wizard of Oz” and “Guys and Dolls.” Chronogram talked to company manager Doug Farrell about the theater’s history, mission, and future.
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AN ARTIST’S VISION
Architect and builder David Borenstein delights in form as a painter and sculptor and in function as a licensed plumber and electrician. “I’m a serious fan of the well-built, and it’s a help to have the expertise in how the essentials work and fit together,” he says. Borenstein’s also a fan of unusual challenges: He just got done turning a crumbling 1820 summer kitchen into a farmhouse library. “As we started doing the demolition, we found lots of handwritten notes from the original builders. We preserved that while bringing the space up to code with radiant heat, insulating, and building up from outside so as not to cover the history. Oh, and they hung one of my paintings.” Also delightful: redoing a house he built 15 years ago after $200,000 worth of flood damage. “The wood and sheetrock were wrecked, but the boilers and radiant heat system held up really well.”
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Tell me about the offstage drama. Doug Farrell: People coming to shows these days don’t realize how many ups and downs there have been. It was built by a fifth-generation Woodstocker back in `38 as a rural extension of Broadway, and it was just coming into its own when WWII hit and the stage went dark. It reopened in 1950, and by the 1960s it was incredible—Diane Keaton made her professional debut here, we had Lee Marvin, Chevy Chase, Judd Hirsch. The last of the SoundOut concerts that gave birth to the Woodstock festival was here in 1968. But the `70s were tough times, and then in ‘88, it burned to the ground. The Woodstock Arts Board started rebuilding around the turn of the century, but by 2010, it was going under. Banks were calling in loans; it was about to go on the auction block.
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And in 2016 it’s thriving? DF: Thanks to the Contis, the Pan American Dance Foundation, and the New York Council for the Arts. The Conti family really stepped up and played David in the face of Goliath. They took $300,000 they’d saved up to build a theater in Hurley and paid off the debt and took out a $750,000 loan to finish the building. And we kept pushing until it was accepted into the Hudson Valley National Heritage Area. They had never accepted a theater before—we were the first.
So the Contis feel like they made a good decision? DF: It was like a dirty coin that just needed polishing. It’s gleaming. Every seat is the best seat, and it’s the same earth, same energy. In the short five seasons we’ve had it back, performers have gone on to Broadway, regional and national theaters, Disney cruise ships—during the first season, somebody went on to a part in “The Book of Mormon.” It’s a stepping-stone to Broadway once again, and the ghosts are leading the way.
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THE ETHICS OF JEWELRY
“People walk by and think, ‘Pretty window—probably an expensive store,’” says jeweler Bruce Lubman, owner of Hummingbird Jewelers in Rhinebeck. “But service is our real strength; in the workshop we do goldsmithing, repairs, restringing, restoring, repurposing—there’s basically nothing we can’t do in-house.” And Lubman, an environmental lawyer before opening Hummingbird 36 years ago, is a stickler for the ethical sourcing of all materials. “Sustainability is a mindset that millennials have internalized, and jewelers who want to stay in business have to embrace that,” Lubman says. “I deal only with jewelers who share that consciousness, and everything is made from recycled precious metals. The only diamonds we buy are from dealers who embrace the Kimberly process—the stone is tracked from the earth all the way to its final destination. But we didn’t build our business on diamonds anyway; we built it on handmade custom designs and multicolored stones.”
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Kids & Family
THE 21ST-CENTURY CLASSROOM
Katie Zahedi, principal of Linden Avenue Middle School in Red Hook
THE LONG VIEW ON EDUCATION REFORM Text and photo by Hillary Harvey
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ultiple groups of four or five people sat at Conversation Tables or lounged in Adirondack chairs on the lawn of the Taconic Retreat and Conference Center in Red Hook. Hosted by the Avalon Initiative, an independent education think tank with offices in Chatham, the Enough Already! conference in April was attended by the same broad coalition of public, private, homeschool, university, and research individuals who have banded together against Common Core and are opting out of state testing. Gary Lamb had used registration info to assemble the small, diverse groups so each represented all walks of education. They were discussing the soul of education. “We’re creating a unique venue to have conversations that focus on child development and needs,” says Lamb, Avalon’s Projects Coordinator. “We want to help build a new imagination for education around that.” What’s been driving national education reform since the beginning of the millennium is a push toward standardizing achievement. Since 2001, the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) has been publishing the results of worldwide tests administered to 15-year-olds around the globe, gauging their proficiency near the end of compulsory schooling. With 43 countries participating in 2000, input has grown to 75 countries in 2012, and governments eager to jump in the ranks use PISA to promote education policy reforms. No Child Left Behind (2002) used high-stakes testing to assess school district performance. Race to the Top (2009) policies continued that trend by tying teacher assessment to testing and grant funding to the adoption of Common Core standards.With one eye on global PISA scores, politicians turn to corporations and tech companies for solutions and open a new market for corporate-based strategies. The US generally ranks somewhere in the middle of the PISA list. And Katie Zahedi, a presenter at Enough Already!, thinks the middle is just fine. Zahedi is principal at Linden Avenue Middle School in Red Hook, and says, “We [at the conference] have a shared vision for how schools should be: that all children feel cared for, watched, and valued, rather than set up for high-stakes competition where there’ll always be winners and losers. We don’t think there should be any children who are losers. They shouldn’t even be worried about winning and losing.”
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Fine-Grain Dictates When we spoke by phone, Zahedi was riled. She had just received a memo from the New York State Education Department about training she would receive, which would allow her to administer field tests to her students. The purpose was to let test designers analyze the validity of their test questions. Zahedi had contacted another principal and the superintendent to discuss her concerns. She has grave reservations about handing corporations student data. “They’re given free access to our schools and our children to design the products that they sell to us,” Zahedi scoffed. “It’s obscene.” Zahedi says administrators are buried in policy dictates from the state that seem to only benefit corporate interests: memos stipulating the use of approved vendors; rubrics created by the state to rate her teachers that require her to check prescribed boxes. In the past, she would visit the classroom, observe the teacher, and write it up based on her professional discretion. Just like the state tests administered to students and used to evaluate teacher effectiveness, the purpose is to take a snapshot of a teacher’s performance. But what that type of evaluation doesn’t take into account is the relationship that develops within the school community. Zahedi takes stock of her teachers’ strengths and weaknesses every day of the year. “My job is to motivate, inspire, lead, and evaluate. I’m not a compliance officer,” she sighs. Zahedi suggests that education reform encompass general goals, and that schools be responsible for designing how they’re met. In the face of technology industrialists who hope to update the 21st-century classroom, that solution can feel like a return to simpler times. But there is a movement of people who are trying to make it possible. “Finegrained dictates coming from politicians and business leaders is entirely inappropriate, and it represents a huge overstep of their qualifications into a domain which already has experts.” Zahedi says the people who should be designing policy are teachers, school leaders, and education scholars. “We’re not producing widgets on an assembly line, and so our work is much more complex than a business-minded perspective or even a political perspective. We work over the long view with children.” For the average public school, education is a deeper process.
Stop Blaming Teachers Written into the the New York State Common Core curriculum modules is this: “Feeling invigorated, students take their seats for Sprint B, ready to make every effort to complete more problems this time.” It’s a scripted math curriculum, and many, especially veteran, teachers have concerns about specifying student responses, not to mention their own teaching. Math teachers find problems with the chronology and compression of the learning, feeling they have to rush the kids along and suppress their own expertise and training. “Good teaching is about knowing the children in front of you—knowing where they’re at and where you want to take them,” says Marla Kilfoyle, a teacher at Oceanside High School in Long Island. She wore a T-shirt that read, “Stop Blaming Teachers,” when speaking at Enough Already! Kilfoyle says the creation of a lesson is like a work of art. “You spend a lot of time building up to points and making sure that at the end of the year you’ve met this framework of standards.” But with corporate reform in the driver’s seat, the teaching profession is being relegated to the back of the bus. Kilfoyle is the general manager of the Badass Teachers’ Association (BATs), which started as a Facebook page in June 2013. Within the week, it exploded to 10,000 members, and to date there are almost 60,000 in the group. The BATs staged their first event right away: calling for the resignation of then Education Secretary Arne Duncan by flooding the White House with calls.The following year, they staged a protest outside the Department of Education in Washington. It resulted in a meeting with the Civil Rights Department, where they outlined how education reform policies were violating the civil rights of urban children (through school closures), children with disabilities, and English-language learners, to start. Halfway through the meeting, Secretary Duncan joined them, and Kilfoyle says the BATs let him have it.They said his strategies transformed education into a billion-dollar market. Tech 101 The Alt School in Brooklyn Heights was founded by technology industrialist Max Ventilla and recently profiled in the New Yorker. Students explore curriculum through specially developed software playlists on tablets and laptops. The idea is to create a personalized learning experience where data is collected in minute detail on each student’s progress as they work through digital tasks. AltSchool’s curriculum is roughly aligned to Common Core Standards but enjoys an independent school’s freedom to operate outside the system. In fact, as Rebecca Mead reports, “AltSchool’s ethos is fundamentally opposed to the paradigm of standardization that has dominated public education in recent decades, and reflects a growing shift in emphasis among theorists toward ‘personalized learning.’” That idea of streamlining individualized instruction through new technologies holds appeal for champions of progressive education. The school meets its needs through tuition but also receives funding from investors. “None of these backers want merely to own part of a chain of boutique microschools,” writes Mead. “Rather, they hope that AltSchool will help ‘reinvent’ American education: first, by innovating in its microschools; next, by providing software to educators who want to start up their own schools; and, finally, by offering its software for use in public schools across the nation, a goal that the company hopes to achieve in three to five years.” But tendering it to a public school setting has its challenges. As Kilfoyle points out, “Districts can’t always afford the type of technology that they’re going to be expected to use. And they can’t afford to sustain it.” Teachers want technology use to be balanced. In a computerized, 21st-century classroom like those at AltSchool, students sit at screens for 30 percent of the day, clicking on lessons while the teacher tracks their progress. Kilfoyle feels that lack of human interaction and creativity impacts a child’s ability to work with others, compromise, and problemsolve—important nonacademic skills learned in school. “Teachers don’t mind technology,” says Kilfoyle. “But they want to be able to use it to enhance what they’re doing with children.They don’t want it to replace what they’re doing with children.” When the BATs’ Quality of Work Life Team collaborated earlier this year with the American Federation of Teachers, 30,000 teachers participated in their national survey. “Basically what we found is, teachers are superstressed, and they’re feeling demoralized,” Kilfoyle says. They’re concerned with increasing understanding around teacher working conditions because of their effect on students. “This is what a lot of people don’t understand—public education teachers are the advocates on the ground for children. We’re the ones who speak up when we can about the conditions of our schools.” Kilfoyle says protecting teachers’ rights protects their ability to advocate for students. For teachers, the 21st-century classroom would not revolve around high-stakes testing, efficiency accountability, or competition with other countries, and respect for teachers would be attached to education reform movements. Kilfoyle would like to see serious conversation following Enough Already! around the lack of funding and support for urban schools, and around the best interests of all children. She laments the appropriation of educationese like “individualized instruction” by corporate interests. “Child-centered means that kids have a rich array of experiences while they’re in public school. We’re going to expose them to things and allow them to develop a passion, so they can take that when they graduate and do something good in their adult life with it,” says Kilfoyle. “That’s what you develop in a public school and through all of these interactions with the adults who work in the school, who have a passion for children and are showing them that light. We need to respect that process.”
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here is no finer iteration of the art of living well than life as it is lived in a classic Hudson Valley village. And there is no better way to experience the beauty of that art than by getting to know Rhinebeck, Red Hook, and Tivoli. The northwestern corner of Dutchess County, from rolling inland farm country to the enchanted wetlands of Tivoli Bays, is splendid countryside, once favored by the wealthy and tenderly preserved through the multilayered history of 400 years of European settlement. Yet one wonders if, beneath that gorgeous surface, some convergence of especially fascinating ley lines isn’t operating, drawing together quirky genius and singular endeavors. This part of the Hudson Valley is far, far from just another pretty place. Rhinebeck Rockstar Rhinebeck is perhaps the best-known population center in the region, noted ever since the Revolutionary era for hospitality and elegance. Rhinebeck, where the fairgrounds throb steadily with celebrations of good living: Food, drink, music, antiques, vintage vehicles, and livestock are feted from spring through fall, along with fundraising fun and the actual county fair (best midway in the valley, yo.) Rhinebeck, where they’ve reconstructed Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis at the Aerodrome. Rhinebeck, where the children are quite literally the stars of the community’s own artistic, theatrical, and love-filled Sinterklaas festival.
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Above: Students sunning on the Bard Mansion Lawn. Below: Murray’s in Tivoli.
Bubby’s Burrito Stand in Red Hook on Route 199. Below: Janet Lincoln at Mac’s Farm and Garden World in Red Hook.
Take all of that and blend well, add in a double handful of Zagat-rated eateries of varied genres (Hudson Valley Food Tours has begun sponsoring “Culinary Crawls” round the village) and the top-ranking farmers’ market in the Hudson Valley, shops overflowing with artwork and finery of every sort, and a world-famous institute where they study a wide range of enlightened healing modalities (Omega), and you begin to glimpse the miracle that is Rhinebeck. There’s more. There’s a top-notch community hospital in Northern Dutchess Hospital and a new holistic health institute. There is a new craft beer outpost, From the Ground Brewery, located out in the very field where the barley is grown. There are art galleries and salons and spas and the venerable indie filmhouse Upstate Films. Rhinebeck just keeps getting better, while somehow retaining its own particular flavor of Hudson Valley small-town sweetness. No matter how many visitors Rhinebeck may get, they will always be glad to see you and make you very much at home. Red Hook Five miles north lies Red Hook, a bit more of a best-kept secret, which is why you should establish a beachhead of familiarity and friendship in Red Hook before the secret gets out. Red Hook village was known as “Hardscrabble” until around 1800; just a crossroads, an inn, and a couple of houses. The villagers still celebrate Hardscrabble Day each September, but these days it means fun all day long and music from noon until the folks at the afterparty get tired, and there’s a whole lot more to see any day of the year. For some time, Red Hook led something of a double life. Solidly agrarian and working class for decades, it became an IBM bedroom community around the middle of the 20th century—and a retreat where household-name creatives could truly relax. “Steve Seagal, Carol Goodman, Liza Donnelly, Michael Maslin, Mary Stuart Masterson, Pieter Estersohn, Brice Marden, Natalie Merchant, Dar Williams—I 6/16 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY PAGES 29
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know there are more,” says Juliet Harrison, owner of the Equis Art Gallery, listing some of her better-known neighbors. “Red Hook has held the interest of all of them simply for the wealth of good living you can find here. I moved here right after grad school and raised my son here, and when IBM folded up shop, a lot of us sort of ventured out of our hideaways and started applying ourselves to creative placemaking,” Harrison says. Harrison has been a Red Hook resident for 25 years, while working as a fine art photographer specializing in equine images, and in recent years she’s watched the village liven up. “If I want to eat out, I’m within five minutes of upscale Mexican at a charming little bar with outdoor seating, gourmet deli, Italian, brick oven pizza, delicious Indian curry, artisanal bread and antipasto, inventive New American, mouthwatering sweets. Places where you linger over every morsel because it’s just so good, places where you can order a $10 meal and take some home for later. If I want to eat in, we’re surrounded by boutique farms and CSAs. There are open mikes and author nights and bluegrass and local art openings. And part of the magic is, we still have a very vibrant working-class town here right along with the telecommuters and commuters. You can go anywhere you want in Red Hook in your Carhartt jacket and fit right in.” The Red Hook Community Arts Network (RHCAN) got started in a rented storefront on Route 9 that Harrison describes as “a rabbit warren of little rooms” that quickly filled to bursting with musical events, workshops, and affordable gallery and studio space. In 2006, the parent company of Hannaford’s donated a languishing historic building—an Italian-style villa that had once been an orphan asylum for girls run by Margaret Astor—to the town, and the Arts Network folks stepped up with some ideas for what to do there. It’s now the RHCAN Gallery, home base for the artists’ collective and the site of musical events and changing exhibits every weekend from May through late fall. Red Hook is also home to a fair trade and humanely sourced gift shop, Living Eden. And it’s home to Harrison’s own gallery. “I have 38 contemporary equine artists with me,” Harrison says. “It’s a niche, but a very established niche. When I first spoke about opening a space, people said, ‘You’ll have to go to Rhinebeck.’ I said, ‘No, I’m a Red Hook person. This is home.’ I’m glad I did that. I have people who find me on the Web and come from all over; people spot the big horsehead sign and just have to come in.” Tivoli Moving west to the Hudson, the magic most definitely continues. It would be unfair and impossible to catalogue this area’s charms without mentioning Bard College, home to the nonstop Fisher Center for the Performing Arts and its exuberant Summerscape series of opera, music, theater, dance, film, and cabaret happenings. Red Hook’s western boundary is Scenic Hudson’s Poets’ Walk, a path through a visionary work of landscape architecture commissioned by Astors and Delanos and now open to the likes of you and me for free.
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Friends helped paint the house’s colorful exterior. O’Sullivan never plans her designs: “I always just know what color should come next,” she says.
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his story begins with one lost glove. Kat O’Sullivan had just returned to her Brooklyn apartment when she got a message from a customer. “I’ve lost a hand warmer, can you make me another?” Every coat, dress, and set of “hand warmer” gloves O’Sullivan creates for her popular Katwise Etsy shop is singular. She combs thrift stores throughout the Northeast to find the wool and other natural fiber sweaters she then upcycles into her one-of-a-kind pieces. “I can never, ever, make another glove,” she recalls, “but I had just gotten back from the thrift store with that exact sweater.” It was a rare sweater and an even rarer coincidence. O’Sullivan wrote back, “Yeah, I guess I could make you that glove.” She’d never met the customer, Pamela Camara, but after re-creating a match and preparing to mail it, she saw the return address: High Falls, NewYork. “When you are sitting in industrial wasteland Brooklyn”—where O’Sullivan was living with Mason Brown, her partner in travel and creative living—“High Falls sounds like a pretty name.” So O’Sullivan decided to ask: “What’s High Falls like?” Camara’s answer came immediately: “It’s great! What are you doing this weekend?” A Pair of Vagabonds Tired of “being kicked around and kicked down,” O’Sullivan and Brown were already considering relocation. A vagabond at heart, O’Sullivan had spent 15 years exploring the world and making crafts, living in a multicolored van and a school bus everywhere from California to the East Village. (Both vehicles, now parked in their driveway, complement their rainbow-colored house.) Equally well traveled, Brown has a degree in Middle Eastern studies, speaks fluent Arabic, and lived in Jordan before becoming a musician in New York. The two
were looking for a place that could not only honor their spirit of wanderlust but also allow them to “put down roots and create.” That one lost glove, and the invitation that followed, opened a world for the couple. The next weekend, O’Sullivan walked into the Egg’s Nest restaurant in High Falls (decorated colorfully with bric-a-brac) and realized “there was a restaurant that looked like the inside of my brain.” Brown loved the area as well. “We had no idea,” he says, “what a great place this side of the Hudson was.” Camara, a local African dance teacher, became the couple’s unofficial godmother, introducing them to the community they grew to love. (Since then, Camara and O’Sullivan have even traveled through Africa together and discovered they’re distant cousins.) The Mongolian List During one of their mutual adventures—a trip through Mongolia involving many delays—the couple began writing a list detailing their dream house. In 2010 they found the perfect fixer-upper to upcycle: a patchwork house in Rosendale sitting on 16 acres, bordering the rail trail and state-owned forest. In business and life, O’Sullivan often meditates on the material things that crosses her path—“where they’ve been and whose hands have touched them.” Owned by one family for 60 years, the house was rich with memories and spirit. This appealed, and the couple felt a connection to the seller, Faye Schwager. “If she hadn’t been here I don’t know if we would have bought it,” says O’Sullivan. “We feel like we had the house passed to us.” The couple relished the opportunity to make the home new again. It was, however, going to need some work. 6/16 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 41
Above: The downstairs parlor is decorated with the couple’s eclectic mix of paintings, furniture, and textiles collected during their world travels. Below: O’Sullivan in her sewing room. She loves working with wool because “it has a nice structural element that you can sculpt.”
On their first night as homeowners the coupl, literally dug in. Armed with tools and a bottle of champagne, they began to tear up the linoleum floors, quickly realizing there were actually seven layers of it under their feet. It was a harbinger of what was to come. “We didn’t quite realize how much we were going to have to do,” Brown admits. Dating from 1840, the house was “addition after addition after addition.” Too much love and weather had left it in disrepair. Eventually, almost everything—from the septic tank to the well, from floors to the five layers of roof—had to be painstakingly dissected and then either rebuilt or totally replaced. Luckily, friends from the city and their new neighbors were on hand to help. The almost total teardown also yielded some treasures: Letters from the 1850s, newspapers from New Zealand, and accounts of the Foreman-Ali “Rumble in the Jungle” lay within the walls. And they were able to incorporate much of their original Mongolian wish list into the design. (Aquarium wall? Check. Circus tent? Check. Fireplaces? Library? Hammocks? Check, check, check.) Made Especially for You, by Katwise As with much great art, the couple claims the home is still a work in progress. However, the eye-catching exterior now slows passing bicyclists and inspires tourists to regularly stop and take pictures. The ornate, rainbow-painted walls harmonize with the bright gardens and flowering trees. Gingerbread trim, along with windows and doors from Zaborski Emporium architectural salvage in Kingston, complement the stone walkways and patio O’Sullivan built by hand. A summer of brush clearing uncovered a large pond where the couple occasionally swim. Throughout the interior, wood floors face-off with tin ceilings. Each room is carefully designed to honor the artwork and artifacts the couple have collected 42 HOME & GARDEN CHRONOGRAM 6/16
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over the years. Many pieces, including Brown’s childhood rocking chair, are covered with O’Sullivan’s patchwork designs—her version of the Midas touch. In the kitchen, a turquoise toaster spread “like an infection.” Now countertops, a 1957 GE Liberator stove, and the home’s original farmhouse sink are painted the same hue. A sunny breakfast nook, still etched with the heights of the Schwager children, overlooks the pond. Brown, currently a graphic and Web designer, has a study complete with his grandfather’s working phonograph and a collection of globes. A wooden bookcase, handmade by a neighbor, hides a secret-compartment liquor cabinet. (That’s another check on the Mongolian wish list.) O’Sullivan keeps the wainscoted, arched ballroom empty. It doubles as photo studio and occasional clearing area for her business. Rediscovered Treasures Upstairs, the almost bare white-and-gray bedroom with built-in four-poster bed contrasts with the rest of the house. An adjoining sewing room and attic were repurposed as O’Sullivan’s workspace by raising collar ties and adding skylights. Her collection of needlepoint art lines the walls. “I think about how many millions of hours people put into making these things. They’re often in a bin for two dollars. I just need to save them.” O’Sullivan feels the same way about the quilts she finds and, of course, the sweaters, which often have tags saying “Made especially for you by Grandma.” “I treasure them,” she says. “Anytime I get something hand knit I think about how someone spent all winter working on it. It feels like a privilege I have now—a responsibility—to take it and make something nice.” Those handmade treasures, discarded but not forgotten, are now organized by color into piles on the bright, lake-blue attic floor, awaiting transformation. It’s a visual reminiscent of the photos tourists so often take of their house. Amidst the scraps of hard work and memories, O’Sullivan models her latest creation, a bolero jacket of jade green and hunter wool. Strewn on the floor beneath her feet: the scraps of that project, soon to become new gloves. 44 HOME & GARDEN CHRONOGRAM 6/16
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THE FEISTY ONES For many years I avoided planting roses for myself or for clients. My misperception was that they were all divas that I would have to prop up with endless regimens of fungicides and insecticides and heavy applications of fertilizer. Then, in 2000, came the Knock Out series of roses—they’re the ones you see displayed in massive seas of pink, scarlet, and yellow single or double flowers in the big-box stores. I get the sense that some rosarians pooh-pooh the Knock Outs, perhaps because of their ubiquity, lack of intense fragrance, or the fact that the blooms, while prolific, are not as showy as those of some higher-maintenance roses. But they were my entrée into a world of durable roses I hadn’t known about, so I’m indebted to them for that. And they really work hard. They are extremely disease-resistant, tolerant of imperfect soils (but not poor drainage), flower prolifically, and don’t require heavy fertilization. They can be pruned liberally or chewed by deer and will bounce back. If you are thinking about trying out your first rose, consider a Knock Out. Another rose that has been a friend to me is the rugosa rose, which comes more commonly in white, magenta, and pink, and less commonly in red and yellow, and even striped. It’s native to Asian coastal areas, especially on sand dunes, which tells you that it’s equipped to handle salt spray and dry soils. (In
Ithaca, they’ve planted compact varieties of rugosa roses in the traffic medians, which are as hellish an environment for plants as there is.) I have several rugosas thriving on the baking south side of the house, where the soil gets really dry and I seldom get motivated to drag the hose all the way out there to water. Rugosa flowers aren’t as showy as those of other kinds of roses, but their dark wrinkled leaves are really handsome, as are their rose hips. However (cue “Price Is Right” sad horns), there is some concern about the invasive potential of rugosa roses, especially as the climate warms. It turns out there are a good number of beautiful roses one can grow organically and without a lot of fuss. Let’s huddle with Kinderhook-based food and garden writer Kevin Lee Jacobs, whose popular blog, Agardenforthehouse.com, showcases both the earnest and irreverent sides of Jacobs’s personality. His garden has been featured on the Garden Conservancy Open Days tours of Columbia County, and he has a cookbook, My HudsonValley Kitchen, scheduled to come out in December 2016. He grows about 60 roses on the property he shares with his husband, the psychologist and presidential historian Will Swift, and their rescued beagle, Lily. First, a disclaimer. “Roses really hate New York State,” Jacobs says. “They prefer Paris and London, where they don’t have to struggle with humid summers, frigid winters, and Japanese beetles.” But Jacobs is not deterred from 6/16 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 47
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forging ahead optimistically with his rose garden in Columbia County and reporting his experiences on his blog. IT’S NOT SO THORNY What are some of the misconceptions people have about growing roses organically? “The biggest one is that people think you can’t do it,” Jacobs says. “But I have found that if hardy varieties are selected, and a sensible cultural routine is practiced, chemical controls are not necessary.” He says that good soil preparation is key (loose, fertile soil with high organic matter), so roots can freely establish and water can infiltrate and drain well. He finds that in our climate, heavy mulching with shredded leaves before winter protects the plant’s roots and crown from temperature fluctuations and thawing-heaving cycles. Another misconception is that Japanese beetles—which love to munch on all plants in the rose family—will kill roses. “They will decimate the blossoms and leaves, but healthy roses always recover—they just might look like hell for a while,” Jacobs says. Japanese beetles are more prevalent some years than others. “Some years I pluck the beasts off my roses and drop them into a jar of soapy water, while other years I have taken no action at all. The plants always bounce back.” A further misapprehension is that roses are complicated to prune or shouldn’t be pruned at all. “If you grow shrub roses, as I do, pruning is easy,” he says. “Cut the shrubs back by one-third to one-half in early spring, after you notice the first budbreak.” Climbing roses and ramblers require no pruning whatsoever, other than to remove dead canes, which can be done at any time of year. That said, Jacobs says you can prune climbers and ramblers if they need shaping or have outgrown their space—but they really are happiest if you leave them alone. Never prune in the fall, because that can interfere with a plant’s signals to go dormant for the winter. A final misconception Jacobs runs into: that roses will bloom happily in part sun. “That’s not been true for any of my rose experiments,” he says. “For instance, I had a ‘New Dawn’ that was blooming like mad, but as a nearby tree grew and shaded it over time, the blooming really slowed down. Full sun is key for best bloom.” More advice about growing roses organically can be found on Jacobs’s blog. PICK THESE AND NOT THOSE In selecting your first rose, Jacobs advises that you avoid the hybrid tea type roses. “In our region, they attract every ailment you can imagine,” he says. Instead, he recommends some of the old-time roses like ‘New Dawn,’ a vigorous climber introduced in 1930 (interestingly, it was the first plant ever to be patented). ‘New Dawn’ has fragrant, blush-pink double blossoms in spring, with sporadic rebloom in the fall. “We tend to select roses because we want them to bloom all summer,” Jacobs says, “but in reality, there’s a big flush in late May through mid-June and thereafter the blooms are sporadic.…If you’re lucky, you’ll get a mild flush of bloom in October when the weather cools.” In addition to ‘New Dawn,’ Jacobs recommends ‘The Fairy,’ a compact shrub rose, covered in pink blossoms, that was introduced in 1932. More recently, in 1992, David Austin roses introduced ‘Super Fairy,’ which is a rambler (vigorous climber), so it can be used for training on pergolas, trellises, building faces, and the like. Jacobs says the David Austin line of roses, which are readily available in Hudson Valley garden centers, have proven nearly disease-free for him and are beautiful and fragrant. An Austin rose Jacobs treasures is ‘Gertrude Jekyll,’ which is a superfragrant, pale pink, fully double rose that is easy to grow. Another one Jacobs recommends to newbies is ‘Zephirine Douhin,’ a fragrant, thornless, deep pink climbing rose. “It’s in my top five,” he says, and he has done a blog post about it specifically. It’s readily available in the garden centers, but if you have any trouble finding it, take heart. Jacobs says, “When you research a rose that you feel confident about trying, ask your garden center to order it for you. They have access to so many more varieties than we do.”
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Apple Greens Golf Course The perfect place for golf, dining & special events Apple Greens Golf Course is a 27-hole championship golf course located in the heart of the Hudson Valley in Upstate New York. The family owned and operated establishment has been serving golfers of all ages and experience levels since 1995. Whether you live in the area or are just visiting this historic region, a round of golf at Apple Greens should be high on your list of priorities. With its manicured bluegrass fairways, bentgrass greens, and 4 teeing areas to choose from, the course is challenging yet fun to play, and forces golfers to utilize every club in their bag. Comfortably nestled in the Town of Lloyd, Apple Greens also provides golfers with awe-inspiring views of the Catskill and Shawangunk Mountain Regions year-round. Also located on the golf course is The Restaurant at Apple Greens. The eatery offers classic American cuisine, specializing in smokehouse barbeque. The Restaurant is equipped with a full bar and offers one of the best outdoor eating experiences found in the Hudson Valley. As you sit and enjoy your meal you can watch golfers tee-off on hole #10, our signature hole. With the Shawangunk Mountains and the Mohonk Lookout Tower in the distance, it is an easy place to relax and enjoy your day. It’s easy to see why Apple Greens is also a popular choice for weddings and special events. Family owned and operated by David and Judi Roehrs and the Roehrs Family, Apple Greens Golf Course is an establishment founded upon hard-work, a love of farming, and an appreciation for the challenges and rewards the game of golf provides us with everyday. Whether you’re looking for an unmatched course for a round of golf, a great dining experience or a venue for your next special event Apple Greens Golf Course should be on your short list. Call or stop by today! 161 South Street, Highland (845) 883-5500 info@applegreens.com Applegreens.com
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Talise Trevigne as Iris in the Bard Summerscape production of Pietro Mascagni’s opera “Iris,” running July 22-31. Photo by Todd Norwood.
Welcome to the return of June in the Hudson Valley region. Once again, it’s about to get hot around here—and we’re not just talking about the weather. Besides being one of the world’s most beautiful areas, the land along this stretch of the Hudson River been a hotbed of the arts since the time when the original inhabitants crafted dazzling beadwork and entertained each other with circle dances, storytelling, and music made with hide-and-water drums and bone whistles. And today each summer brings an overwhelming selection of arts-related activities to be discovered by permanent residents and visitors: summerlong festivals centered on theater, music, and dance and the reopening of our treasured outdoor visual art sites. So here’s Chronogram’s 2016 summer arts preview. Use it as your guide as you get out and enjoy the season’s amazing artistic offerings. —Peter Aaron 6/16 6/16 CHRONOGRAM ARTS & CULTURE 55
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MOUNTAIN JAM (JUNE 2-5) The mother of all Northeastern jam fests wends its way up Hunter Mountain for the 12th year, bringing back traditional tie-dye favorites Gov’t Mule, Michael Franti and Spearhead, and Umphrey’s McGee alongside 2016 headliners Beck, Wilco, the Avett Brothers, and Train. Also appearing: Thievery Corporation, Brandi Carlisle, Jason Isbel, Courtney Barnett, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, Lettuce, Third World, and more. Mountainjam.com.
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Joanna Wallfisch performs at the 23Arts Summer Music and Jazz Festival on June 10. Photo by Josh Goleman.
This relative newcomer takes place at various venues in and near Tannersville, the colorful mountaintop town situated along the summer summit’s namesake of Route 23. Classical makes up a significant portion of the calendar, with performances by Juliana Han and Wayne Lee, the Helena Baillie Trio, Babette Hierholzer, and others; there’s also folk by Joanna Wallfisch and blues by Professor Louie and Friends and Born from the Blues. Its parent organization, 23Arts Initiative, also operates the music education program Catskill Jazz Factory, so jazz is well represented, via performances by Marc Cary, Evan Christopher, and Chris Washburne’s Ragtime Band. 23arts.org.
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Founded in 1945, this venerated event in the Westchester County town of Katonah is held on the 90-acre estate of the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts and features opera (Beethoven, Rossini), classical (Wu Hahn, Philip Setzer, and David Finckel, Pacifica Quartet, Jeremy Denk), jazz (Fred Hirsch, Cécile McLorin Salvant and the Aaron Diehl Trio), folk roots (Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams, Richard Thompson, Ben Folds), and family activities (Independence Day pop concert with fireworks, ethnic dance for kids). Caramoor.org.
Lakeville, Connecticut’s Music Mountain, founded in 1930, claims to be America’s oldest continuing summer chamber music festival, although that assertion has been debated (Woodstock’s Maverick began in 1916). But rivalries aside, this acclaimed happening is worth the trip to the nearby Nutmeg State. Each season boasts a series of 16 chamber concerts, a popular Saturday evening jazz series, and a number of other special events including two Friday night concerts of baroque music. For 2016: Emerson String Quartet, Peter Serkin and Julia Hsu, Shanghai String Quartet, Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, New Black Eagle Jazz Band, more. Musicmountain.org.
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FRESHGRASS (SEPTEMBER 16-18) Edging into our 2016 fall finish is this sagely curated folk-roots jamboree at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. Among the 50-plus acts slated are Old Crow Medicine Show, Glen Hansard, Ricky Skaggs and KentuckyThunder, the Devil MakesThree, Roseanne Cash, the Infamous Stringdusters, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Aoife O’Donovan, Allison Brown, and lots more. Musical workshops, luthiers, jam sessions, late-night barn dancing, and camping are promised, as well as a silent film with a live score by Aoife O’Donovan, Stephanie Wrembel, and Darol Anger. Massmoca.org.
On the lawn at Fresh Grass at MASS MoCA in 2015. Photo by Douglas Mason.
MYSTERYLAND USA (JUNE 10-13) The outgrowth of the Netherlands’ long-running MysteryLand festival made its US debut in 2014 at the site of the original 1969 Woodstock Festival.The EDMdominated event returns to Bethel Woods this year with headliners Skrillex, Odesza, and Bassnectar, as well as visits from Gesaffelstein (DJ set), Young Thug, the Chainsmokers, Zeds Dead, Tchami, Griz, Gramatik, Emancipator, Hercules and Love Affair, G Jones, Mr. Carmack, Griz, Claude Von Stroke, and many more. In addition to mixed martial arts and “deep house yoga” classes, there’s a comedy component starring Kyle Mooney of “Saturday Night Live.” Mysteryland.us/en. BELLEAYRE MUSIC FESTIVAL (JULY 2-SEPTEMBER 23) Another established regional favorite, Highmount’s Belleayre Music Festival kicks off in cool style with British Invasion greats theYardbirds (!) with guests Connor Kennedy and Minstrel, and continues with the Paul Green Rock Academy AllStars, with Ed Mann playing the music of Frank Zappa; saxophonists Pee Wee Ellis (James Brown, Van Morrison) and Billy Harper (the Cookers); rising roots crooners Anderson East and Aubrie Ellis; opera singer Cristina Fontarelli; and New Orleans R&B perennials John Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen, with guests Sleepy Man and Simi Stone. Belleayremusic.org/festival.
FALCON RIDGE FOLK FESTIVAL (AUGUST 5-7) Approaching its 30th year, Falcon Ridge (est. 1988) alights once again at Dodds Farm in Hillsdale for three days of folk music and dance. With on-site food and camping, the long weekend-long fest includes the Felice Brothers, Tom Rush, Annie Wenz, the Gaslight Tinkers, the Green Mountain Playboys, Heather Maloney, Metropolitan Klezmer Sun, the Mike + Ruthy Band, Nerissa and Katryna Nields, Patty Larkin, Peter Mulvey, Professor Louie and the Crowmatix, the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, SONiA disappear fear, and others. F alconridgefolk.com.
Emily Drennan and Ralph Legnini performing in“Americana” with 100 choristers, an orchestra, and Dabid Wroe conducting at the 2015 Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice.
PHOENICIA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE VOICE (AUGUST 4-6) The reputation of this annual affair, now in its seventh season, continues to blossom. Established to “[promote] the human voice as an instrument of healing, peace, and artistic expression” via performances in Phoenicia and the surrounding areas, the three-day program includes classes and lectures and presents vocal-oriented music “from opera to gospel, world music to Broadway.” This year’s schedule offers Peter Schickele, the Cambridge Chamber Singers, Gaelic-language group An Crann Óg, Shakespeare’s “Otello” and other works, Porter’s “Kiss Me, Kate,” Tennyson’s “Enoch Arden” with music by Strauss, and more. Phoeniciavoicefest.org. 6/16 CHRONOGRAM ARTS & CULTURE 57
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MAVERICK CONCERTS (JUNE 18-SEPTEMBER 11) The Maverick is known as America’s oldest continuously operating summer chamber music festival. Arturo O’Farrill, Trio Solisti, Vijay Iyer. Woodstock. Maverickconcerts.org. Bill Keith shakes hands with Jonny Cody during Grey Fox 2013. Photo by Fered Robbins.
GREY FOX BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL (JULY 14-17) Grey Fox has been called “a Who’s Who of bluegrass in the beautiful Catskill Mountains.” Bela Fleck and Chris Thile, Del McCoury, David Grisman. Oak Hill. Greyfoxbluegrass.com.
DISCJAM (JUNE 9-12) Revelers here enjoy four days of live music, camping, and disc golf. Dopapod, Kung Fu, Cappadonna. Stephentown. Discjammusicfestival.com.
HUDSON VALLEY JAZZ FESTIVAL (AUGUST 11-14) This earnest young fest attracts top regional and local jazz artists.Wallace Roney, Winard Harper, Metropolitan Hot Club. Various locations. Hudsonvalleyjazzfest.org.
THE PEACH MUSIC FESTIVAL (AUGUST 11-14) The Allman Brothers Band has organized this four-day festival since 2012. Trey Anastasio Band, Gregg Allman, String Cheese Incident. Scranton, Pennsylvania. Thepeachmusicfestival.com. 58 ARTS & CULTURE CHRONOGRAM 6/16
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Dark Circles Contemporary Dance at Jacob’s Pillow in 2015 Photo by CherylynnTsushima.
BARDSUMMERSCAPE Metaphorically mirroring the spaciousness of its signature Spiegeltent, which hosts cabaret events and other performances, Bard SummerScape, an extension of the Bard Music Festival, has a big-tent spirit; the annual series takes in numerous disciplines as it presents internationally esteemed musical concerts, opera, dance, theater, film, and more. Each season, SummerScape’s programming riffs off the Music Festival’s featured composer—this year, it’s Giacomo Puccini—to offer content that’s directly or tangentially related to that artist’s sphere. Some main items for 2016 include “Iris,” Pietro Mascagni’s art nouveau opera, directed by James Darrah; “Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed,” four futurist puppet plays by Fortunato Depero directed by Dan Hurlin; “Fantasque,” a new ballet set to music by Ottorino Respighi that was created by choreographer John Heginbotham and puppeteer Amy Trompetter; and the film series “Puccini and the Operatic Impulse in Cinema.” Fishercenter.bard.edu.
Rehersal image from “Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed,” futurist puppet plays by Fortunato Depero, translated, designed and directed by Dan Hurlin and produced by MAPP International Productions. The world premiere is July 7-17 at Bard Summerscape. Photo by Todd Norwood.
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TH THEATER A rehersal of “Clybourne Park” with Michael Irwin Pollard, Naja S. Selby and Ryan Quinn at Shadowland Stages in 2015.
SHADOWLANDSTAGES
Formerly known as Shadowland Theater, this historic, gloriously maintained 1920s Ellenville movie house, complete with an ornate balcony that holds up to 300, was reborn in the late 1980s as a center offering “professional theatre at an affordable price”; although the facility continues to screen classic films as well, the recent name change is intended to shine a spotlight on its live-theatrical focus and its newly built second stage. Shadowland’s Actors’ Equity-certified operation produces several new, original plays per year, and this summer’s main-stage lineup boasts Last Gas, a romantic comedy by Tony-nominated Broadway star John Cariani (June 3-19); “Red,” a dramatic portrait of painter Mark Rothko by John Logan (June 24-July 10); the comedy “Miracle on South Division St.” by Tom Dudzick (July 15-August 7); and the 1970s musical revue “8-Track” by Rick Seeber (August 12-September 11). Shadowlandtheatre.org.
HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL Shakespeare’s great works, performed outdoors on the lush grounds of a historic 19th-century estate with the glorious Hudson River and Catskill Mountains as the backdrop. What could be better? Launched in 1987, the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival presents the best of the Bard each summer in an open-sided tent on the picnic-ready lawn of the Boscobel House in Garrison, a hamlet (get it?) of Putnam County. The 12-week series (June 70-September 5) attracts more than 35,000 attendees and has elicited gushing praise from the New York Times for its approach of staging Shakespeare’s plays within a contemporary context and focusing on their timeless truths. This year promises “As You Like It,” “Macbeth,” “Measure for Measure,” and “So Please You,” a new, family-friendly production inspired by the “As You Like It” character Denis. Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” finishes out the season in early September. Hvshakespeare.org.
Taylor Mac performing in “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music,” part of this year’s Powerhouse lineup. Photo by Kevin Yatarola.
POWERHOUSETHEATER
Vassar College and New York Stage and Film have been partnering since 1985 for this July-August series that focuses on newly developed theatrical works at Vassar’s campus in Poughkeepsie. And for success stories, it’s hard to beat the trajectory of one of Powerhouse’s most recent offerings: the Pulitzer-, Tony-, and Grammy-winning “Hamilton,” which was woodshedded by its creator and star, Lin-Manuel Miranda, at the series in 2013 before moving on to Broadway. (Other Powerhouse-incubated triumphs include Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s musical “Bright Star,” which ran as well in 2013.) This season’s schedule of productions, readings, and workshops includes the dramas “Transfers” (June 30-July 10), “Fury” (July 8-10), and “Fingersmith” (July 2931); the black comedy “The Wolves” (July 21-31); the musicals “Another Word for Beauty” and Taylor Mac’s “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music” (July 22-30), and more. Powerhouse.vassar.edu. Kurt Rhoads in the 2015 production of “An Illiad.“ Photo by T. Charles Erickson
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The Mayapuris prepare for a performance of kirtan and inspirational dance with Kazi Oliver supporting at the Newburgh Illuminated Festival. Photo by Ruedi Hofmann.
NEWBURGHILLUMINATED
Now in its fourth year, the day-long Newburgh Illuminated festival—of which this magazine is a proud cosponsor—radiates with the optimism of an architecturally rich city on the cusp of immense, positive change. Named in honor of Newburgh’s landmark status as one of the first American cities to be electrified (ca. 1883), this free, colorful street party features locally sourced and ethnic foods, family-friendly activities, a trolley tour of historic sites, pop-up art exhibits, a marketplace, yoga, hoop dancing, and live music by more than 20 acts on multiple stages ranging from funk to rock, hip-hop, gospel, folk, jazz, blues, traditional ethnic styles, and more. The headliners this year are area residents Corey Glover, lead singer of the platinum-selling band Living Colour, and famed rapper, poet, and actor Saul Williams (Slam, Holler IfYa Hear Me). Newburghilluminatedfestival.com.
WARWICKSUMMER ARTSFESTIVAL
With performances taking place at various town parks and in one of the Warwick’s famous black-dirt farm fields while its Main Street hosts an art exhibit, the Warwick Summer Arts Festival (July 15-24) has been giving this quaint Orange County ’burg a jolt of seasonal culture since 2000. But even after 15 years, the festival’s size remains at a cozy level; its main stage concerts (past headliners have included folk-rock greats the Roches, singersongwriter Tom Chapin, and avant-jazz violinist Leroy Jenkins) normally bring in somewhere between 500 and 1,000 people. Art, music, and dance workshops are sponsored at the town’s community center and high school and other sites. Described by its organizers as a “fusion fest,” the two-week event also includes further components that “will bring together artists from diverse genres in a multidiscipline showcase set throughout picturesque Warwick.” Warwicksummerarts.com. 64 ARTS & CULTURE CHRONOGRAM 6/16
Working on Art Banners for the Warwick Summer Arts Festival.
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Charley Friedman’s Looking at The Sun, one of the works included in the Art Omi Summer Exhibition.
ARTOMISUMMEREXHIBITION
Columbia County’s Omi International Arts Center and its Fields Sculpture Park make up one of the Hudson Valley’s truly unique cultural attractions. The rambling, 150-acre site in Ghent is home to a permanent collection of massive contemporary sculptures as well as seasonally curated outdoor exhibits of works by artists from around the world. The park’s Summer Exhibition, which opened at the end of last month, features inspiring creations by Rob Fischer, Folkert de Jong, Freya Powell, and Andreas Savva; on view through July 24 inside the gallery of Art Omi’s Berenson Visitors Center (which also houses a cafe) are the prints, architectural drawings, and mechanical sculpture of Charley Friedman. Omi also sponsors summer residencies by a selected cast of visiting international visual artists, writers, dancers and musician-composers, which culminate with public viewings and performances. Omiartscenter.org.
Norman Marshall performing in “John Brown, Trumpet Of Freedom” at the Woodstock Fringe Fest .
WOODSTOCKFRINGEFESTIVAL Woodstock’s historic Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, the oldest continuously operating artists’ colony in America, has been a nexus of creative endeavor since it opened in 1903. This year, the Woodstock Fringe Festival, the town’s long-running festival of theater, music, comedy, and poetry, returns once again to Byrdcliffe with two highly anticipated programs. Opening on August 11 and running for two weeks is a production of Samuel Beckett’s iconic, rarely performed 1961 masterpiece “Happy Days” starring Bette Carson and Rick Siler (tickets go on sale June 1). For 12 days beginning on July 27, five resident playwrights from the Woodstock Fringe Playwrights writers’ retreat will stage individually and collaboratively created new works at Byrdcliffe’s rustic, wooden Eastover venue (check website for updated schedule and other details). Also happening at Byrdcliffe but unaffiliated with Woodstock Fringe: “End Days” presented by Voive Theater (June 9-26) and concerts by Happy Traum (June 18) and Jack DeJohnette (August 13). Woodstockfringe.org. Woodstockguild.org.
WASSAIC PROJECT SUMMER EXHIBITION AND FESTIVAL
The Wassaic Project is an arts center that occupies a converted mill and grain elevator, a former school house, a livestock barn, and a 100-year-old hotel and bar near the rural Dutchess County town of Amenia. The site hosts a coterie of year-round artists in residence and every summer sponsors this multidisciplinary arts festival that brought in 5,000 visitors in 2015. This year’s event, which runs August 5-7, overlaps with Appetite for Destruction, an exhibit of artworks by nearly 60 artists, and includes feature films and film workshops, a selection of committee-curated dance performances, live music by nationally touring acts, and more. Wassaic has camping available (free for volunteers), and additional, less-rustic accommodations can be had via Airbnb or local traditional B&Bs (see website). Sustenance options include a late-night food court and The Lantern, which serves wood-fired pizza and locally crafted beer. Wassaicproject.org. 6/16 CHRONOGRAM ARTS & CULTURE 67
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PS21 On the site of an apple orchard in Chatham, PS21 (aka Performance
Spaces for the 21st Century) presents the Chatham Dance Festival every August and a Performing Arts Festival of music and theater in June and July, plus free performances for kids, dance and theater workshops, community sings, and free movie screenings. Ps21chatham.org.
2015 Summer Sing at PS21 in Chatham.
Measure, part of the installation “Outlooks: Josephine Halvorson,” on view at Storm King Art Center through November 27. Photo by Jeffry Sturges, courtesy the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.
STORM KING ART CENTER Its colossal, surreal sculptures visible from the NewYork State Thruway like some kinds of Dali-esque hallucination, Storm King Art Center, near West Cornwall, was founded over 50 years ago. Its 500 acres of fields, woodlands, and hills serve as the setting for over 100 works by some of the art world’s most recognized names; Storm King’s permanent and long-term-loaned collection includes pieces by Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein, Sol Lewitt, Louise Bourgeois, Nam June Paik, Richard Serra, Isamu Noguchi, and many others. Now on view are exhibits by Dennis Oppenheim (“Terrestrial Studio”; through November 13) and Josephine Halvorson (“Outlooks”; through November 27). The facility’s schedule of events this summer also contains yoga sessions, beekeeper tours, children’s and family activities, and more. Taking place on June 11 is “Six Bands, Six Genres, Six Sculptures,” which pairs live music with outdoor art. Stormking.org.
BASILICA HUDSON The view from the Constellations boat tour. Photo by John Huba.
This multidisciplinary contemporary arts center ensconced in a cavernous former factory building on the City of Hudson’s waterfront presents adventurous film, music, art, food, and community events that nurture a dialogue between the Hudson Valley and the creative world at large. Hudson Valley Cider and Cheese Festival (June 4); Freak Flag Day party (June 11). Basilicahudson.org.
WOODSTOCK PLAYHOUSE Although the original structure burned down and was later rebuilt, Woodstock’s center of classic year-round and summer stock theater, concerts, and other events has been in operation since 1938. “The Wizard of Oz” (June 4-6), “Guys and Dolls” (June 17-July 3), Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” (July 8-24), “Cherry’s Patch” (July 29-31), “Pippin” (August 5-21). Woodstockplayhouse.org.
CONSTELLATION For its second shining season, Constellation, Melissa McGill’s breathtaking and luminous land art project on Pollepel Island, is currently viewable via sunset boat tours through October 2016. Participants can board the vessel Estuary Steward to see the installation up close and tour the island’s Bannerman Castle ruins. Melissamcgillconstellation.com. 68 ARTS & CULTURE CHRONOGRAM 6/16
TANGLEWOOD The summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and one of the world’s premier outdoor concert sites, Tanglewood is located in the Berkshires towns of Lenox and Stockbridge. Dolly Parton (June 17), Brian Wilson (June 19), Bob Dylan/Mavis Staples (July 2), and returning favorites “A Prairie Home Companion” (June 25) and James Taylor (July 3). Bso.org.
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It’s Coming..., a painting by Scott Ackerman, part of the GCCA group exhibit “Faces and Facades,” June 11 through July 23 at GCCA’s Catskill Gallery.
510 WARREN ST GALLERY 510 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-0510. June Invitational 2016. June 3-26. Opening reception June 4, 3pm-6pm. ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART GALLERY 22 EAST MARKET STREET SUITE 301, RHINEBECK 876-7578. “The Long View: 19 Years-19 Artists.” Through July 4. THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM 258 MAIN STREET, RIDGEFIELD, CT (203) 438-4519. “Engaging Place.” David Brooks, Kim Jones, Peter Liversidge, and Virginia Overton. Through February 5, 2017. AMITY GALLERY 110 NEWPORT BRIDGE ROAD, WARWICK 258-0818. “Byromania: the Art of Michael Byro.” June 4-June 30. Opening reception June 4, 12pm-4pm. ANVIL GALLERY AT TECH SMITHS 45 NORTH FRONT STREET, KINGSTON TECH-SMITHS.COM/ANVIL-GALLERY. “Cabin Fever: New Abstract Paintings by Melanie Delgado.” Through July 31. AROMA THYME BISTRO 165 CANAL STREET, ELLENVILLE 647-3000. “Trio of Nature.” Lorraine Devore, Marie Devore and Roberta Rosenthal. June 1-August 3. Opening reception June 5, 1pm-3pm. ARTISTS’ COLLECTIVE OF HYDE PARK 4338 ALBANY POST ROAD, HYDE PARK (914) 456-6700. “American Memories.” Through July 3. BARRETT ART CENTER 55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550. “Envisioning Dutchess.” June 3-July 2. BC KITCHEN + BAR 1-3 COLLEGEVIEW AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 485-8411. “Amy J. Rosen: A Place for Lines.” Through June 26. BCB ART 116 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4539. “Quietus.” Paintings by Richard Butler. Through July 3. BEACON ARTIST UNION 506 MAIN STREET, BEACON 222-0177. “Formas Geometricas.” David Link New works by Vivian Altman in the Beacon Room. June 11-July 3. Opening reception June 11, 6pm-9pm.
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BERTELSMANN CAMPUS CENTER BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON. “Photographs of Educated Youth: Images of the Chinese Youth Sent to the Countryside during the Cultural Revolution 1966–1976.” Through December 31. BOSCOBEL 1601 ROUTE 9D (BEAR MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY), GARRISON BOSCOBEL.ORG. “Hudson Hewn: New York Furniture Now.” Through August 14. CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “25th Anniversary Exhibit.” Leigh Palmer, Leon Smith, Dale Goffigon, Ginny Fox. Through July 10. CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-9957. “Photography Now 2016.” Juried by James Estrin. Through June 19. CATALYST GALLERY 137 MAIN STREET, BEACON 204-3844. “Elijah Wheat Showroom: Petrichor.” Abstract-expressionist photographs by Liz Nielsen. June 2-29. Opening reception June 11, 6pm-10pm. COLDWELL BANKER VILLAGE GREEN REALTY 268 FAIR STREET, KINGSTON 845.331.5357. “Pabo Shine: Offerings.” Works inspired by flora and folklore of Puerto Rico. Through August 14. COLUMBIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 209 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213. “A Stitch in Time: The Fiber Show.” A showcase of works related to the fiber medium.knit, crochet, woven, spun, knotted, felted, riveted and tatted. Through June 30. CORNELL STREET STUDIO 168 CORNELL STREET, KINGSTON 679-8348. “Faces.” Mixed media paintings by Carla Rozman. Through June 30. COTTEKILL CHRCH PROJECT SPACE 167 COTTEKILL ROAD, COTTEKILL. “Grandmother Earth.” The public is invited to participate in the creation of a work of art initiated by the artist, Linda Weintraub and installed at CHRCH Project Space. Through June 30. CROSS CONTEMPORARY ART 81 PARTITION STREET, SAUGERTIES 399-9751. “Ellen Kozak: Periodical.” New oil paintings. Through June 22. CR10 283 COUNTY ROUTE 10, LINLITHGO CR10.ORG. “Judy Pfaff: Grasshopper.” Metaphorical constructions Through July 3. DARREN WINSTON BOOKSTORE 81 MAIN STREET, SHARON, CT (860) 364-1890. Spanish Castle Magic. A exhibition of works by artist Marta Lafuente. June 2-July 3. Opening reception June 4, 6pm-8pm. DIA:BEACON 3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON 845 440 0100. “Robert Irwin, Excursus: Homage to the Square3.” Site-specific work. Through May 31, 2017. DUCK POND GALLERY 128 CANAL STREET TOWN OF ESOPUS LIBRARY, PORT EWEN 338-5580. “Along the Coast: Watercolors of the Outer Banks and Chincoteague Island.” June 4-25. Opening reception June 4, 4pm-7pm. THE FALCON 1348 ROUTE 9W, MARLBORO 236-7970. “The Paintings of Claire Lambe.” June 5-July 31. Opening reception June 5, 4pm-5:30pm. FIELD LIBRARY 4 NELSON AVENUE, PEEKSKILL (914) 737-1212. “Tenebrarum: Art From the Shadows.” Featuring the works of Barry James Lent and Barbara Doherty. Through June 25. FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER AT VASSAR COLLEGE 124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5237. “Touch the Sky.” Multi-media exhibition that explores art related to astronomy. Through August 21. FRIENDS OF HISTORIC KINGSTON 63 MAIN STREET, KINGSTON 339-0720. “The Friends of Historic Kingston Celebrates 50 Years: Treasures Great and Small from Our Collections.” Through October 29. THE GALLERY AT R&F 84 TEN BROECK AVENUE, KINGSTON 331-3112. “New Prints, Ancient Wax.” Works by Marina Thompson. Through July 16. GALLERY 66 NY 66 MAIN STREET, COLD SPRING 809-5838. “Improvisation.” Featuring the dance photography of Ellen Crane and Jennifer Woolcock Schwartz’s paintings inspired by jazz. Gallery C: “Bimorphic Close Ups”, paintings by Michael Mueller. In the Sculpture Garden, Sarah Haviland exhibits bird sculptures in the “Garden Within.” June 3-26. Opening reception June 3, 6pm-9pm. GARRISON ART CENTER 23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON 424-3960. “Chemistry: Explorations in Abstract Photography.” A group exhibition curated by Karlyn Benson. Artists: Ellen Carey, Jill Enfield, Anne Arden McDonald, Amanda Means, Wendy Small, S. Gayle Stevens. Through June 19. GREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS CATSKILL GALLERY 398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400. “Faces and Facades.” Through June 11 through July 23. THE HARTS GALLERY 20 BANK STREET, NEW MILFORD, CT THEHARTSGALLERY.COM. “Future Island: Contemporary Art from Cuba.” Through June 25. HEALING ARTS GALLERY ELLENVILLE REGIONAL HOSPITAL, ELLENVILLE ELLENVILLEREGIONAL.ORG. “Barbara Gordon: The Complete Thing, Unfinished.” New paintings. Through June 24.
galleries & museums HOWLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY 313 MAIN, BEACON. “Portraits: Works on Paper by Joe Radoccia.” June 11-July 3. HUDSON BEACH GLASS GALLERY 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-0068. “Small Wonders. Painting show of oils and acrylics by Caren Benzer.” Through June 5. JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. Sara Jane Roszak: New Work. Also showing Gail Goldsmith, Sculpture; Nature Dress. Paintings and Drawings by Yura Adams; Dale Emmart: Giants; Jean Feinberg: Works on Paper. Through June 19. JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY 16 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-2250. Works by Luis Castro and Jonathan Parker. Through June 25. KARPELES MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY MUSEUM 94 BROADWAY, NEWBURGH 569-4997. “The Stamp Act and the Intolerable Acts.” Historical documents. Through August 31. KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART 134 JAY STREET, KATONAH 914-232-9555. “The Nest: An Exhibition of Art in Nature.” Through June 19. KENT ART ASSOCIATION 21 SOUTH MAIN STREET, KENT, CT (860) 927-3989. Elected Artists’ Invitational & Beverly Bourassa Solo Show. Through June 24. KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER 34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “Catskill Fly Tying: The Art of Artifice.” Work by photographer Mark Loete. Through June 26. LABSPACE 2642 NY ROUTE 23, HILLSDALE LABSPACEART.BLOGSPOT.COM/. “The Lonely Surfer.” A two person show by Susan Meyer and Jeff Starr. Through June 4. MANITOGA / THE RUSSEL WRIGHT DESIGN CENTER 584 ROUTE 9D, GARRISON 424-3812. “Ecstatic Light.” Illuminated paintings of 2016 resident artist Peter Bynum. Through November 14. MASS MoCA 1040 MASS MoCA WAY, North Adams, MA (413) 662.2111 “Here Comes the Sun.” Columbian artist Federico Uribe exhibition opens in the Kidspace ArtBar June 18 from 11am-1pm. MATTEAWAN GALLERY 436 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7901. “Gabe Brown: Six Hits of Sunshine.” Through June 5. OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE 5720 ROUTE 9G, HUDSON (518) 828-0135. “Capturing the Cosmos.” Influence of Alexander von Humboldt on Frederic Church. Through November 6. OMI INTERNATIONAL ARTS CENTER 1405 COUNTY ROAD 22, GHENT (518) 392-4747. “2016 Summer Exhibition: The Fields Sculpture Park.” Rob Fischer, Charley Friedman, Folkert de Jong, Freya Powell, and Andreas Savva. Through July 24. ONE MILE GALLERY 475 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON 338-2035. “Uncannyland.” June 4-July 31. Opening reception June 4, 6pm-9pm. PALMER GALLERY VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE PALMERGALLERY.VASSAR.EDU. “A Photographic Diary of Joseph Bertolozzi’s Tower Music/Musique de la Tour.” Featuring photographs by local artist Franc Palaia and a video by Joseph Redwood Martinez.June 14-July 28. Opening reception June 14, 4:30pm-6:30pm. PINE PLAINS FREE LIBRARY 7806 SOUTH MAIN, PINE PLAINS (518) 398-1927. “Art for All.” Local artists from Pine Plains, Ancram, Milan, Gallatin and Stanford. June 3-5. Opening reception June 3, 5pm-7pm. REGAL BAG 302 WATER STREET, NEWBURGH. “Friends, Family et. al.” Works by over 40 local and international artists. Through June 18. RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880. “Spirit Dancing: The Art of Annette Jaret.” Paintings and photographic collage. Through June 6. SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART 1 HAWK DRIVE, NEW PALTZ NEWPALTZ.EDU/MUSEUM. “Campsite: Hudson Valey Artists 2016.” June 18-November 13. Opening reception June 25, 5pm-7pm. SPENCERTOWN ACADEMY ARTS CENTER 790 ROUTE 203, SPENCERTOWN (518) 392-3693. “From the Garden: Still Life.” Susan Crofut, Ann Getsinger, Patricia Munson Gravett, Katarina Holbrook, Karen A. Hummel, Nina Lipkowitz, Alain J. Picard, and Peter Seltzer. Through June 19. THE CHATHAM BOOKSTORE 27 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM 518-392-3005. “Annalee Johnson: Landscapes in Oil.” June 3-July 31. Opening reception June 3, 5pm-7pm. THE RE INSTITUTE 1395 BOSTON CORNERS ROAD, MILLERTON (518) 567-5359. Works by Sculptor Paul Chaleff. June 4-July 16. Opening reception June 4, 4pm-7pm. THE STUDIO GALLERY 478 UNION AVENUE, NEW WINDSOR 863-4352. “Drawn to the Nude.” Group exhibition featuring nude figure drawings. Through June 30.
Federico Uribe’s On Good Faith, a sculpture made from bullet shells,is one of the works featured in the MASS MoCA Kidspace ArtBar exhibit “Here Comes the Sun,” opening June 18. Courtesy of Adelson Galleries, Boston
THEO GANZ STUDIO 149 MAIN STREET, BEACON (917) 318-2239. “Still Life in the Spinning World: The Force Field of Morandi.” Works by Peter Yamaoka, Claire Lofrese, Beth Haber, Gregory Vershbow. Through June 5. THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE 218 SPRING STREET, CATSKILL 518-943-7465. “Thomas Cole: The Artist as Architect.” Through October 30. THOMPSON GIROUX GALLERY 57 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-3336. “Here-and-Now.” Through July 10. TIME AND SPACE LIMITED 434 COLUMBIA STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-8448. “Give ‘Em Hell.” Show of new street-art paintings. Through June 30. TREMAINE GALLERY AT THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL 11 INTERLAKEN ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CT (860) 435-3663. “Remix, Reshoot, Research.” Curated by video art pioneer 99 Hooker and featuring 10 artists, the exhibition will focus on the evolutionary aspect of media art. Through June 5. UNFRAMED ARTISTS GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ, 12561. “Make Love, Not War.” A group of Hudson Valley multimedia artists. Through July 25. VASSAR COLLEGE RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 229-0425. “Seeing the Sun: Maria Mitchell’s Observations, 1868-1888.” Exhibition celebrates the achievements of astronomer Maria Mitchell and features never-before-seen prints of her astrophotography of sunspots. Through June 12. WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL AND ART GALLERY 232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-ARTS. Mike Jaroszko and George Hayes. Emerging Artist: Bernadette Peck. Hallway Theme: Reflections. Upstairs Gallery: Summer camp instructor’s exhibit and photos. June 1-30. WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940. “Art on Paper: Works from the Permanent Collection.” Through June 5. WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART 2470 RTE. 212, WOODSTOCK 679-2388. “Student Exhibition II.” Works by students of a selection of school instructors. Through June 18.
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NIGHTLIFE HIGHLIGHTS Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
THE NATIONAL June 11. Despite the understated, low-key drama of their music, through their actions indie luminaries the National have never been quiet about their support for progressive social causes; the Cincinnati-by-way-of-Brooklyn band’s charitable efforts have included activities to aid underprivileged Queens families, a Boston nonprofit health-care organization, and the preservation of Tibetan culture. And then there’s this concert at MASS MoCA, whose proceeds will benefit the Massachusetts arts center itself and the Hawthorne Valley Association, the parent organization of Columbia County’s Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School and Hawthorne Valley Farm. The latter beneficiary’s plight hits home for the group, as at least one of its members, multi-instrumentalist Aaron Dessner, is a local resident. With Yassou. (Dan Zanes’s Lead Belly Project moans June 18; the Suitcase Junket unpacks June 25.) 7pm. $45. North Adams, Massachusetts. (413) 662-2111; Massmoca.org.
WHITNEY
IT’S NOT NIGHT: IT’S SPACE RECORD RELEASE
June 1. No, the late pop diva has not returned from the dead. This Whitney is the Chicago indie rock band formed by ex-Smith Westerns vocalist and drummer Julien Ehrlich and guitarist Max Kakacek. Their new group’s moniker, Kakacek explains, is that of the songwriting duo’s imaginary muse. “We were both writing as this one character, and whenever we were stuck, we’d ask, ‘What would Whitney do in this situation?’” he says. “We personified the band name into this person, and that helped a lot. We wrote the record as though one person were playing everything.” That record, the pastoral Light Upon the Lake, comes out this month on the Secretly Canadian label and is being supported with this date at the Hollow. (Boy and Bear burrows in June 8; Hippo Campus grazes June 12.) 7pm. $12. Albany. (518) 426-8550; Thehollowalbany.com.
June 24. Like the turning of the tides and the shifting of the sands, the Hudson Valley’s dark lords of heavy psych, It’s Not Night: It’s Space, continue their tectonic trek through the canyons of your mind and the rock-club stages and house-show basements of North America. And this month the planets align once again, when the trio’s third album, Our Birth Is But a Sleep and a Forgetting, drops on the very day of this record release gig at Snug Harbor (aka Snug’s). The instrumental opus is being unleashed digitally and on CD and vinyl (first 50 copies on magenta wax) by Detroit label Small Stone, and it’s available for preorder right now through the imprint’s Bandcamp page. With River Cult and more bands to be announced. 10pm. $5. New Paltz. (845) 255-9800; Facebook.com/snugsnewpaltz.
MUSIC THAT SHOOK THE WORLD June 11. Subtitled “Earthquakes for the Ears: Musical Ground Settles into Modernism,” this concert at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center is curated by the sage Close Encounters with Music organization. It focuses on the radical innovations of early 20th-century classical music and includes pivotal works by Debussy, Messiaen, Stravinsky, Schoenfield, and Antheil (a segment of Ballet Mécanique, the 1924 film scored by Antheil, will be shown) and adds Modernism influence Beethoven. Performing are pianist Michael Chertock, violinist Yehonatan Berick, cellist Yehuda Hanani, and comedienne Alison Larkin, who will read passages from Stravinsky’s and Antheil’s memoirs. (The Joshua Redman Quartet jams June 26.) 6pm. $30, $50. Great Barrington. (413) 528-0100; Mahaiwe.org. 72 MUSIC CHRONOGRAM 6/16
DAN BRUBECK QUARTET June 25. The son of jazz icon Dave Brubeck, drummer Dan Brubeck plays with his sibling, Chris, in the Brubeck Brothers Quartet, and heads his own group, which here visits the Rosendale Cafe. In addition to the leader on percussion, the Dan Brubeck Quartet includes Mike DiMicco on guitar, Tony Foster on piano, and Adam Thomas on bass and vocals. Dan began touring the world and recording in his teenage years with his father, and performed at the 1996 Grammy Award Ceremony as well as the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony. The Dan Brubeck Quartet’s newest album, Celebrating the Music of Dave and Iola Brubeck, pays homage to his family’s lasting musical legacy. (Milkweed sprouts up June 4; Chris Murphy fiddles around July 2.) 8pm. $25. Rosendale. (845) 658-9048; Rosendalecafe.com.
CD REVIEWS INFINITE SPIRIT REVISITING THE MUSIC OF HERBIE HANCOCK
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(2016, FMR RECORDS)
Infinite Spirit finds four ace jazz men—including two Herbie Hancock veterans—celebrating the exploratory energy of some of the earliest fusion: Hancock’s sextet from the early ’70s, known for the albums Mwandishi and Crossings and often referred to as the Mwandishi band. Fusion apologists take pains to divert our attention from what fusion became at its commercial apex later in the decade: the fusion of blue-blazered alto players, smooth, 335-slinging axe men, and a hundred forgettable television theme songs. Instead, they would have us disregard the late-’60s work of Miles Davis and the first wave of records by his heirs, notably, Hancock, Weather Report, and early Return to Forever. At that stage, the music was still largely improvisational: free and wild interplay within smallfootprint, open-ended compositions. The forms moved organically between untimed ensemble colloquy and badass, funk- and afro-inflected jazz groove. On Revisiting the Music of Herbie Hancock, keyboardist Bob Gluck and bassist Christopher Dean Sullivan join with two Mwandishi members: drummer Billy Hart and trumpeter Mganga Eddie Henderson. On original compositions and selections from Mwandishi and Crossings, the ensemble empathy is stunning, and Hart is in rare form. In addition to piano, Gluck supplies electronics, typically noisy and effect-oriented in the spirit of Patrick Gleeson, who played a similar role on Crossings. Highlights include every bloody track here, but for a user-friendly intro, dig the spacious free funk of the Bennie Maupin tune “Water Torture.” Fmr-records.com. —John Burdick
THE LAST CONSPIRATORS HOLD THAT THOUGHT FOREVER (2016, DRIVING RAIN MUSIC)
For nearly a decade on the regional music scene, the sole constant in the Last Conspirators’ lineup has been front man Tim Livingston. Active at ground zero of the Albany punk rock scene of the early 1980s, Livingston has carried on writing and singing heart-on-the-sleeve rebel music in the intervening decades. On this release, the band’s fourth, Livingston shares the songwriting responsibilities with Poughkeepsie native Nick Bisanz (guitar, bass, vocals). Abetted by the rhythm section of Mike Grundy (bass) and Ken Marchesani (drums), this latest batch of songs expands the band’s sound palette. A pounding hard rock vein infuses the swaggering “Blow Away the Sky,” with Livingston’s defiant vocals punctuated by the reverbed riffs and arpeggios emanating from Bisanz’s guitar. In the past, the Last Cons’ music has often grappled with societal injustice and malaise. In contrast, the songs on Hold That Thought Forever, while retaining the same focused commitment, are much more about the politics of the heart. The shimmering psychedelic drone of “1302” has a wired intensity, highlighted by hooky keyboard flourishes and a forward-looking lyrical theme. “I left the past behind the moment I shut the door / I knew from that point on didn’t need it anymore,” sings Livingston. The brooding “Addiction” is built on a skeletal riff, smoldering vocal, and a watery, Claptonesque guitar solo. While the band doesn’t renounce its previous sound quite so adamantly, the record feels like an exciting step into the future. Lastconspirators.com. —Jeremy Schwartz
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WRECKLESS ERIC AMERICA (2015, FIRE RECORDS)
England-born Catskill resident Wreckless Eric’s kitchen-sink-pop masterwork, AmERICa, his first album in 11 years, makes you want to cozy up to chaos and bring some ramshackle glory into your life, as the songs do. Eric is a chaos pro: After penning the much-covered, immortal 1977 hit “(I’d Go) The Whole Wide World,” he turned his back on “the industry” and accidentally pioneered lo-fi recording, which brought scorn (then praise); he’s lived on the cheap in at least three countries, adventured, survived, thrived, started over, and made and endured a bit of, as his name suggests, wreckage. But, rendered through his work, it’s beautiful wreckage. As is his wont, Eric recorded AmERICa at home and played a lot of stuff. Cellist-to-the-stars Jane Scarpantoni (Springsteen, Nirvana) brings color and depth, while multimedia artist/neighbor Brian Dewan adds six-string and “synthetic choirs.” Singer-songwriter and indispensible spouse Amy Rigby lays on banjo, guitar, and lush harmonies. The distinctive swirl of stringed instruments, unpredictable loops, and assorted pet sounds gives Eric a cobbled platform from which to lovingly skewer both his past in “Several Shades of Green,” and his newfound country in “Sysco Trucks,” “White Bread,” and “Life Eternal.” He allows some bonhomie on “Have a Great Day,” drinking in the US with gusto. But whether fed up, in love, or both, AmERICa is an infectious half-hour-plus you’ll wreck your house to again and again. Firerecords.com. —Robert BurkeWarren CHRONOGRAM.COM
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How Christine Heppermann Got Here By Nina Shengold Photo by Franco Vogt
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hristine Heppermann stands out in a crowd. It might be her hair—a vibrant red, somewhere between hot sauce and maraschino. Or the hot-pink T-shirt that says keep it surreal. Or the peregrine falcon tattooed on her arm, or the insouciant smile. But as soon as you meet her, you think, Here comes a jolt of caffeine. Readers who pick up her stunning new verse novel Ask Me How I Got Here (Greenwillow Books, 2016) will feel the same buzz. A longtime reviewer of young-adult books for the Chicago Tribune, Horn Book, and others, Heppermann’s first book was the nonfiction Urban Chickens (HMH, 2012), followed by the breakout success Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty (Greenwillow, 2014). A razor-sharp reenvisioning of fairy-tale tropes through the warped lens of contemporary beauty culture, it was a Best Book selection by Kirkus Reviews and PublishersWeekly, garnering critical raves. Heppermann just picked up her two teenage daughters from Poughkeepsie Day School. Sliding into a seat at New Paltz’s Village Tea Room, she orders a Corsendonk Pale Ale, a vegetable hummus platter, and seasoned popcorn. She’s clear-eyed and frank, discussing such personal issues as Catholicism, abortion, and eating disorders without hesitation; there’s no off-the-record. It’s totally badass. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Heppermann grew up in a community so thoroughly Catholic that she found her Methodist neighbors exotic. She and her two younger siblings went to Catholic schools, including Marian High School, an all-girls prep school known for academic and athletic excellence. Heppermann ran the 400- and 800-yard dash and the two-mile relay; she always ran the first leg to help put her team out in front. Her interest in writing blossomed when one of her teachers brought contemporary poetry (Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich) and James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man into the classroom. “She kind of opened a space in this narrow Catholic environment,” Heppermann recalls. “I was very intense about my poetry.” At the same time, she was starting to question church dogma, and lying to her devout parents. “I’d tell them, ‘I’m going to mass with my friends’ and we’d go to Burger King—we’d stop and pick up church programs on the way home.” There were other outings: friends’ brothers’ bands, punk concerts in bowling alleys, mosh pits. “I was pretending to be a good girl, and going to parties. I lied and lied badly. I was always getting caught. There was a lot of drama and ‘You will be grounded!’ My girls don’t know the concept of grounded.” At 17, Heppermann got pregnant and had an abortion. She has no regrets about this choice, but does regret the subterfuge and self-imposed shame that ensued. This experience forms the emotional core of Ask Me How I Got Here. Its poems have the ring of unvarnished truth: “I’d give anything / for blood / on this / bone-white pad.” Most of the poems are narrated by Minneapolis teenager Addie—like the author, an aspiring poet and track star at a Catholic high school. Some, in a contrasting font, are written by Addie, many about the Virgin Mary. Addie learns early on that she’s pregnant, and though she agonizes about telling her parents, they’re supportive, if privately tearful. “I wanted to show there’s more than one way for Catholic parents to respond,” says Heppermann, whose parents still don’t know about her abortion three decades ago. Telling them at the time was “out of the question,” so she faked sick to stay home from school; her boyfriend drove over to pick her up. When this cover story was blown by a neighbor who saw them together, she spun a false confession about helping a friend in trouble. Lies piled upon lies. When Heppermann had to go to track practice a few days later, she slowed down to a walk, saying she had a cramp. The fictional Addie goes further, quitting the team without telling her parents or boyfriend, hiding out in a coffee shop during practices. One of the book’s many pleasures is Heppermann’s focus not on the abortion but on its long aftermath, deftly avoiding “a soap opera, capital-T capital-P Teen Pregnancy story.” There’s no preaching to the converted, just the soul-searching of a smart teen who’s been knocked off course and is trying to figure out who she is now. And when Addie slips into a same-sex relationship, it’s not because she hates men; it’s simply that she’s connected with someone who gets her. Julianna, a former golden girl now sporting “seasick green hair” and “Abercrombie cadaver fit jeans,” has dark secrets too. In her company, Addie finally
finds the courage to tell her own truths. Nor is ex-boyfriend Nick a bad guy. He goes to the clinic with Addie, and even if twisting her arm to write lyrics for his band feels more like pressure than compassion, he means well. He’s just a bit clueless. “It’s impossible for men to understand from a woman’s perspective,” Heppermann says. “All the shaming sites point toward the mother who killed her baby. Well, there are two people involved. There’s no mention of shaming the man.” She describes the postabortion counseling programs she found in her research. “Some of them advocate building an altar, buying baby clothes, mourning. It’s packaged as trying to help you process your grief, but really it’s ‘Let’s just pound in the guilt.’” (The last page of Ask Me How I Got Here lists resources for teens facing unwanted pregnancies, ranging from Planned Parenthood to Catholics For Choice.) “My parents grew up Catholic and stayed that way,” Heppermann says. No longer a churchgoer, she’s “still taken with the iconography and ritual of it. I wear Virgin Mary jewelry.” She holds up a wrist, displaying a turquoise bracelet with devotional charms. Though her parents read and loved Poisoned Apples, “I’m a little more nervous about this one. I’m not going to push it on them. I’m waiting for them to come to me on their own and talk about it,” she says. “It was a scary thing to write and be honest about.” Scary, but essential. “It really makes me angry to see how women, even people who are pro-choice, can’t talk about abortion without regret and stigma. It’s a legal choice and you can feel fine about making that choice. It’s your right to do it.” In an essay for the website Stacked, Heppermann writes, “Sometimes it feels like our cultural norms have evolved solely to keep everyone, women in particular, isolated, ashamed, and afraid.... I want my books to ask questions and start conversations. Conversations that are complicated, messy, and above all, LOUD, not conducted in fearful whispers. Like mold, shame can be hard to get rid of, but we can’t just let it grow.” Ask Me How I Got Here and Poisoned Apples are potent mold removers. They’re also laced with cool-teen humor: The frontman of Nick’s band writes songs with titles like “Die, Flaming Asswipe, Die,” “Helen Keller Stare Down,” and “God Eats at Denny’s.” (Heppermann can’t resist adding that the last song title came from her husband’s high school garage band—”and I use the term ‘band’ loosely.”) They moved to the Hudson Valley three years ago, when he became the Culinary Institute of America’s librarian; he now works at Yeshiva University. Their younger daughter wrote a novel during NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) at age 11; her proud mama got The Trigger published on Amazon, where it’s racked up five-star reviews. “My sister works on public radio, and got her on Mike Pesca’s podcast ‘The Gist,’” Heppermann says, adding drily, “It helps to be connected.” Their older daughter, now 17, excels at music, linguistics, and cross-country running. Six years ago, when the family was living on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, she became sick with anorexia. Though she’s regained her health, Heppermann calls this period “beyond excruciating.” As with abortion, she hopes speaking openly about eating disorders will help dispel stigma and shame. From “The Never-Ending Story,” a poem in Poisoned Apples: “Once there was a girl who longed to be brave / enough to stick her finger down her throat, / to measure herself by the teaspoon, / to shrink to the size of a serving.” Heppermann has another new book coming out in July, the second in the Backyard Witch middle-grade series she writes with Ron Koertge, her former adviser at Hamline University’s MFA program. She’s also planning a novel inspired by an abandoned train car near the Highland Rail Trail and her childhood fear of demonic possession. “In second grade, my aunt told me about seeing The Exorcist. I was terrified for years. I’d lie awake with my eyes closed, because if I looked in the hallway I knew I’d see the shadow of that priest from the Exorcist poster.” Heppermann’s essay for Stacked concludes, “I never want my two daughters to feel, for any reason, as if they should stay in the shadows. I want them to live in a world where they feel free to tell their stories, to reveal who they are, to not have to pretend. Because it can be cold and lonely in the shadows. Let’s step into the sun.” 6/16 CHRONOGRAM BOOKS 75
2016 YOUNG READERS’ ROUNDUP Outstanding new books for young readers by Hudson Valley authors and illustrators, reviewed by Susan Krawitz, Nina Shengold, Robert Burke Warren, and introducing teen reviewers Ava Ratcliffe and Jack Warren.
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OUR CRAYON COMPANY Matthew Kelly
EXTREMELY CUTE ANIMALS OPERATING HEAVY MACHINERY
COLORPAGE, 2015, $15
Ever wonder what happens behind the closed doors of a crayon factory? Your kid certainly has. In Our Crayon Company, Matthew Kelly, who works at Kingston’s R&F Handmade Paints, relates the step-by-step process of the crayon craft, with each job performed by one of his many pets, including a dog named Joe, a rooster named Kimochi, and a cat named Priest Holmes. With adorable illustrations and simple text, Kelly communicates not only the technical aspect of making crayons but the fun of it too. —JW
DAVID GORDON SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2016, $17.99
When you’re totes adorbs and bullies keep stomping your sandcastles, it’s good to have bulldozer skills. Undaunted Karen and her extremely cute friends crush it. Woodstock artist Gordon has created visuals for everything from Toy Story and Spongebob to the bestselling Trucktown series; he knows how to think like a kid. With artwork that reaches across the toy aisle from pink tutu to heavy-lift helicopter, this irresistibly titled, girl-positive book is a winner. —NS
THIS IS MY DOLLHOUSE
FROM WOLF TO WOOF: THE STORY OF DOGS
GISELLE POTTER SCHWARTZ & WADE, 2016, $17.99
HUDSON TALBOTT
When is a shoe not a shoe? When it’s an airplane. Rosendale artist Giselle Potter’s creative heroine loves her DIY cardboard-box dollhouse, with its multispecies family, matchbox bed, and yarn spaghetti. But her friend Sophie’s plastic dollhouse is “all perfect.” Will she disdain the homemade house, or will her imagination soar like that supersonic blue shoe? Potter’s distinctive folkinflected illustrations include an inviting set of suggestions for young dollhouse architects. —NS
NANCY PAULSEN BOOKS, 2016, $16.99
How did a prehistoric predator become Man’s Best Friend? In inventive spreads that bear many viewings, Hudson Talbott offers a possible “myth of origin” with two scruffy orphans—cave boy and wolf cub—bonding over bones at a scrap heap. Their interspecies band of outsiders “eats better than anyone” (vegan parents may blanch at the spitted muskox). As humans domesticate, dogs diversify. In the final image, cave orphan, wolf cub, boy in pjs, and collared pup share a happy howl. —NS
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JULIE FOGLIANO, PICTURES BY JULIE MORSTAD
LIZA DONNELLY
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Sally tells her mother a hippo is in their backyard, but Mom doesn’t believe her. She tells Dad a tiger has joined the hippo, but he doesn’t believe her either. More animals appear, and then the phone rings. An escape at the zoo? Everyone believes Sally now! Simple, silly text and lively illustrations make for a fun read-aloud for young children. Liza Donnelly, who lives in Dutchess County, is a well-known New Yorker cartoonist. —SK
JUST A LUCKY SO AND SO: THE STORY OF LOUIS ARMSTRONG LESA CLINE-RANSOME, ILLUSTRATED BY JAMES RANSOME HOLIDAY HOUSE, 2016, $16.95
Before he forever altered the course of American music, cultural icon Louis Armstrong started life as a hardscrabble New Orleans kid, bound for jail at best. But a few mentors changed everything from dismal to lucky. Acclaimed Hudson Valley husband/wife duo Lesa Cline-Ransome (words) and James Ransome (pictures) excel at bringing this perilous but ultimately joyous journey to vivid life, artfully embracing some seamier aspects lesser storytellers might’ve glossed over. —RBW
LOOKING FOR BONGO ERIC VELASQUEZ HOLIDAY HOUSE, 2016, $16.95
As every kid knows, a missing stuffed animal is an urgent matter. Award-winning Westchester author-illustrator Eric Velasquez paints idiosyncratic faces and color-drenched rooms full of books, pets, and musical instruments. His bilingual Afro-Latino family includes a slender, young-looking woman called Wela; some readers may be surprised to find out she’s the hero’s abuela (grandmother). But they’ll be even more surprised by the story’s delectable night-lit ending. —NS
ON THE FARM, AT THE MARKET G. BRIAN KARAS HENRY HOLT & COMPANY, 2016, $16.99
How does the food we eat get to our plates? Karas tracks three different kinds of farmers through one day’s work, then follows them to a lively farm market where growers sell products, fiddlers play, and a restaurant owner uses everyone’s ingredients to make a delicious market pie. Author-illustrator Karas lives in Dutchess County, and characters’ resemblance to local farmers is not accidental. (Is that you, Ken Migliorelli?) —SK
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Hudson Valley mom Julie Fogliano nabbed an Ezra Jack Keats Award for her lovely And Then It’s Spring. It’s easy to see why in this couplet from follow-up When Green Becomes Tomatoes: “Just tiny, blue hello / A crocus blooming in the snow.” Similarly taut lines resonate throughout this whimsical calendar of a changing natural world. Elegant, simpatico illustrations from Julie Morstad make this a must-have. —RBW
MIDDLE-GRADE: OLGA TED KELSEY, ILLUSTRATIONS BY DILLON SAMUELSON CREATESPACE, 2015, $10
Olga begins like many a good adventure story: two kids whisked away from a world of parents and cellphones to one of magic and wonder. Instead of a wardrobe or a rabbit hole, 12-year-olds Jack and Sally find themselves stuck to a floating stuffed elephant, which brings them above the clouds to a world beyond their imagining. Peekskill writer Ted Kelsey crafts an enchanting 21st-century fairy tale, featuring terrible attack tigers, great blue giants, and mysterious mustachioed moths. Each page zings with clever writing and snappy dialogue, creating a story as mythic as it is modern. —JW
MERCY: THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF HENRY BERGH, FOUNDER OF THE ASPCA AND FRIEND TO ANIMALS NANCY FURSTINGER, ILLUSTRATED BY VINCENT DESJARDINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT, 2016, $16.99
In the mid-1800s animals were often viewed as slave labor, but Henry Bergh could not ignore their mistreatment. On a diplomatic visit to Russia, he stopped a carriage horse from being brutally whipped, an act that lit a fervor within him to end inhumane treatment to all animals. The organization he founded, the ASPCA, pushed for laws to punish abusers. This earned Bergh both enmity and respect, with nicknames ranging from “the great meddler” to “angel in a top hat.” Furstinger’s compelling and passionate biography offers a well-researched depiction of this era but doesn’t soft peddle its brutalities. Desjardins’s full-color illustrations add clarity and dimension to her words. —SK
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Itzy Nash’s father is spending the summer in Paris, sending his 17-year-old daughter to stay with a loathsome aunt who lives in Manhattan’s luxe Carlyle Hotel. But Aunt Maude has vanished, leaving a curt note, a suite full of furs, and a creepily over-attentive staff. First-world problems? Hardly. In the gleefully skewed world of Divah, the Upper East Side is its own ring of Hell. Some handy tips for demon-hunters: The damned adore Botox, Hermes scarves offer powerful protection, vintage Leicas excel at photographing the supernatural (including your maybe-love-interest’s fallen angel wings), and Marie Antoinette isn’t as dead as you think. Wicked fun from the Ulster County author of the Poisons of Caux trilogy. —NS
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Recent HVYAS guest Jesse Andrews, whose Me and Earl and the Dying Girl was a hit on shelves and onscreen, returns with another two-boys-and-a-girl scenario, upping the rawness with sex, drugs, and many, many dick jokes. For The Haters, he uses his musician cred to create a world of interesting kids with believable problems taking huge risks—like abandoning jazz camp to take their newly formed band the Haters on tour. Parents would be advised not to read over shoulders as believable madness ensues, and narrator Wes (bass), BFF Corey (drums) and manic pixie Ash (guitar, vocals) struggle to shoehorn angsty misadventures into song. Or at least a listicle. —RBW
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The Outliers is a heart-pounding thriller centered around grief-stricken Boston teenager Wylie Lang. The action begins with a text from Wylie’s ex-best friend Cassie, who’s in serious trouble. Wylie enlists Cassie’s mysterious boyfriend Jasper to help save Cassie. But is this just another one of Cassie’s attention-fueled schemes? Or is it something more? Twisting at every corner, The Outliers steals your breath with every sentence. Appearing at Hudson Valley YA Society, 6/12 at 4pm, Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. —AR
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Ari Logan plans to spend this summer like she spends every summer: at a lake in the Catskills, pining after the unattainable Camden Armstrong. Except this summer isn’t like every other summer. Ari’s finally getting her depression under control, and Camden and Ari begin to bond over an old sci-fi television show. As she gets to know Camden and his friends better through cosplay shoots and convention visits, Ari learns the actual Camden is far different from the boy she yearned for. What Happens Now is the quintessential vacation read, with beach days, a visit to the Ulster County Fair, soft serve, and summer love. —AR
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POETRY
Edited by Phillip X Levine. Deadline for our July issue is June 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first). Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com/submissions.
In my dreams I touch the sky, in my dreams I never cry. It’s never night, but there is a moon, and shadows hiss, “death’s coming soon” as I am there, I keep in mind don’t wake up, you’ll be fine.
If I had a stone, I’d turn it into an apple. If I had an apple, I’d slice it in half. If I had two halves of an apple, I’d enter the space between. If I was between two halves of an apple, I’d take a seed from either half. If I had two seeds of an apple, I’d plant them in soil, add water, sun, and care. If I had planted two seeds of an apple, I’d grow me a tree full of apples. If I had a tree full of apples, I’d take one and place it in your hands. If I had given you an apple, then, maybe, you’d be happy.
—Piper Jaden Levine (11 years)
If you were happy, I would be too.
In My Dreams
—p
THE REVOLUTION WILL PROBABLY BE ON YOUTUBE
D AND SMOKED FISH
I wish the Internet told you what you really wanted to know. I wish you could have a conversation with the Internet when you’re lonely. I wish the Internet was a gentle guitar teacher or that Sri Lankan kid who used to take you on fabulous dates when you lived in Brooklyn. I wish the Internet was a witty professor or a stylish maitre d’.
he brings smoked fish and wedges of cheese that melt oh, the heat from our bodies. jugs of kombucha pickled sardines. he is proud of himself he is courting me he is, maybe? nervous. i circle the kitchen table we circle the kitchen table. tear the bread push the cheese into the opportunities of the baguette nudge the head off the kippered trout “shall we go upstairs,” he asks letting me pretend to arrive at a different conclusion, a different response as if there was any answer other than a breathy, bursting, “yes.”
I wish the Internet brought us into the street, throwing colored powder on each other like I saw when I visited India. I wish the Internet could French kiss. I’ll admit, in my weaker moments, I turn to it, futilely googling “freedom for the moment,” “unsomaticize cancer,” “mysticism and 9W,” “Walmart poetics” and “sartorialist Woodstock.” There are few results and many Kardashians. I wish the Internet would listen more closely to the nuances of your sorrow. I wish the Internet was a guru from the sixties or an acting teacher at HB Studios in the seventies. I wish the me decades had not yet begun. I wish the Internet didn’t leave me so neuralgic. I wish the Internet would show me who I am. Internet, 3 dollars and fifty cents will buy you a coffee. Internet, who are all these Airbnb people in my town? Internet, I wish you could comfort me in my ornery moods. I wish you encouraged me to practice the dulcimer instead of shopping for Persian rugs. I wish you would apologize for all the time you steal. Dare I say it? I wish you did not exist.
—shokan
And sometimes, in the quiet hours when rain starts to tap my windowpane, I’ll google lost loves, knowing that I would take more walks if the streets were more full. I do not know what would happen if you googled that phrase. —Emily Sofaer
THE PIER
LYING IN A FLEA-INFESTED APARTMENT They have a music: a violin string reverberating inside an empty eye socket.
We sit in a restaurant on vacation Across from me is a painting Of a pier with no railings that disappears into the ocean I seem to be on that pier with no railings And before me only the ocean I ask him if he remembers our wedding day Especially if he remembers the passionate sex Right after the ceremony Thinking this must remain if nothing else But in fact it is relegated to the file of gone and forgotten Forever gone and forgotten He says as he does regularly “I love you” Almost always followed by “do you love me?” I wonder how I ended up on that pier with no railings Heading into the ocean How can he love me if he doesn’t remember any part OF WHO WE WERE I suppose it is because I am his railings on the pier for his walk Into the ocean
The music of torture before the idea of torture (an unnamed fear just outside the light in the caves where we painted the ibex, the woolly rhino, the horse’s curious face).
—Kate Skinner
—Christien Gholson
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I hear their music enter history: black hands, black feet. With nothing to light my way except a string of white lights draped over the windows facing the street I pick one off my sock, flick it into soap-water, turn the page of a book about American Indian sacred places...
Cars pass.
They are the future: this music of shadows inside sandstone cupolas dug out by anonymous fingers on the last day. Dots, telling the time
THE HOSPICE NURSE
TRAVELER
She waited for you, I tell you though it was really me who waited throughout this Easter blizzard that will give this night a permanence in your mind just as the weight of that wet snow will forever bend the rhododendron that held it like a god.
Life inside life Private and profound In that sheltered space The ship that protects The tiny passenger
Go sit beside her, I suggest because you are unsure, like at the foot of any mountain path that rises like a bookcase before you it’s easier if you’ve done this before counted every step to the top a stranger’s story becomes your own. We never discuss what’s really happening what we all do not want to want but it’s my eyes you’ll keep like something stolen that last look before I go as if I had revealed to you how at the summit the moment the mist clears like your own breath before you, it’s there, it’s always been there, the glorious old hotel in ruins. —James Conrad
LOVE PLUS (1) While stirring your spirit, you asked: What’s your poison? Love. I whispered. (2) Tell me little, little lies truthfully. (3) Your slipping away is a sestina.
—Richard Shea
THESE ARE THE HANDS
Being so caught up So mastered…. —W. B. Yeats
Tonight, you cling to my nakedness with the perfect gratitude of a nearly drowned man. And I think: I am the shore he has washed up on. And I ask: Who is really the one saved? So much doesn’t matter.
I’ve also mastered speech, grasped nuances of despair and the necessary arm-flailing to make myself believable. No worries about aging, no fears of splicing scenes into another world, I’m left with only one question: When will your eyes lift, film me as old? I never expected to look this way, neck rough and snakelike, legs hairless as a Sphynx cat. Does love only see love through a special Shakespearean lens? Now I realize that’s one question— much too hard to frame— gently set aside for another shoot. —Perry Nicholas
There is only now.
PASSING SECRETS
There is only your cheek pressed against the inside of my thigh, the feeling of your skin becoming my skin, the sound of you drawing me in as you inhale that sweet, spicy heat of me that rises up from a dark, warm place you want to return to.
I could say something. But I haven’t. Not even in all the years since we have been grown and on our so-called own.
And there are these hands. Hands that you have given a purpose. Hands that have read the electric petition of your body and understood. And read on. These are the hands that will not lie to you. These are the hands that you will return to. —Evelyn Augusto
(5) Her penultimate query: underscored seriousness of the subject.
The birch, the elm, the aging spruce Cannot restrain the restless roots Of saplings drawn to the silent sound Of brother’s heading skyward bound Youthful trees spreading their wings Dropping away their childish things Until what was there is no more Like ascending marks on a young lads door
—Sanjeev Sethi
It seems I’ve mastered posing, the deceitful practice of photography and staying in front of the artist’s keen eye.
There are no questions about where you have been or where we will go.
(4) Lancet of love: oxymoron like our love.
(6) What happens effortlessly— meant to be.
METHOD AGING
LETTING GO
—Michael Glassman
Just say I had you out of my body. And that it is only biology and didn’t stop me from treating you like a pawn ticket. Tell you I had you out of my body, which doesn’t mean anything either. or I’m sorry, though it’s too over for apologies. Just say I missed you all those times I settled. I don’t have call you “my daughter,” after I say I gave birth to you. I could: tell you I prefer facts murky the way they are, or tell you the truth, or tell you the lie I was coming back for you. —Cheryl Clarke 6/16 CHRONOGRAM POETRY 79
Food & Drink
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Doctor Fermento A Year of Eating Strangely By Erik Ofgang Portrait by Roy Gumpel
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erek Dellinger is fascinated with fermentation. Nearly every day with the passion of an alchemist he combines yeast strains, souring bacteria, hops, and other ingredients that then engage in an intricate microscopic dance that results, after the fermentation process is complete, in beer. As the head brewer at Kent Falls Brewery, a small but increasingly popular brewery located on a farm in Kent, Connecticut, Dellinger produces some sought-after beer. But beer is only the most visible fruit of his fermentation fasciation. A 31-year-old writer and former home brewer who splits his time between Beacon and Kent, Dellinger says that when he started as a homebrewer, it led him down the rabbit hole of the fermentation world. “Beer involves all these different fermentation agents, all these different microbes and the craft beer community at large—and especially the mindset of a home brewer—kind of invites this sense of creativity and experimentation that led to me breaking out into all types of fermentation,” he says. After beer he made cider, kimchi, sauerkraut, and even beet kvass, a pickled fermented beet beverage. (“Beet kvass tastes pretty much like what it is: a sour, salty, earthy beet-flavored tonic,” says Dellinger. “Personally, I like beets, and I love the taste of beet kvass. It’s not necessarily something I’d drink a pint of with dinner, but it’s really enjoyable to sip with lunch or breakfast. It’s very flavorful, so you only need a few ounces to get your fix, and it’s extremely healthy as well.”) In 2014, he embarked on a yearlong experiment with himself as the guinea pig—vowing to consume nothing but fermented foods and beverages from January 1 of that year until January 1, 2015. A Fermented Odyssey He chronicles this culinary odyssey, where too much kimchi was his Scylla and intense guacamole cravings his Charybdis, in The Fermented Man, due out in July from Overlook Press. In this tell-all food memoir Dellinger recounts the highs and lows of the experiment, delves into the science and history of
fermentation, and examines its culinary value and nutritional impact. With an engaging writing style and keen sense of humor, he jumps into Michael Pollan food territory with a Hemingwayesque sense of personal adventure, at one point traveling to Iceland for hakarl, fermented rotten shark meat, a quest that left a bad taste in his mouth, literally. The book began as a sort of thought experiment for Dellinger. “Doing all this home brewing, doing this research, I suddenly realized that there’s this whole land of fermented foods out there that make up this giant contingent of what we eat on a daily basis. The thought just slipped into my head that this is such an expansive, all-encompassing world of food that you can probably live off of fermented food,” he says. When he ran it by publishers at the Overlook Press, they loved the concept, and the thought experiment became an actual experiment—or, as Dellinger puts it: “It sort of accidentally just turned into a real book idea and all of a sudden I agreed to do this.” Advance reviews of the book have been positive. The work has earned praise from the Weston A. Price Foundation, and Kirkus Reviews, wrote “Dellinger ably explains the wide range of fermented foods, the role flavor plays, health benefits, and the basic processes, and he includes a few recipes.…The author hopes his intriguing experiments will open eyes and palates to the culinary and health benefits of fermented foods.” While there’s a tendency for people to look at this yearlong undertaking as an exercise in Spartan-like discipline, or a Morgan Spurlockesque take on stunt eating, one of Dellinger’s goals in writing the book was to show how widespread fermentation is and therefore how well one can actually eat on a fermented diet: “It was something that I realized wouldn’t be that difficult and [the yearlong experiment] would be a hopefully cool and interesting way of demonstrating to people how universal fermentation is.” “This is a hook to make you realize that fermentation is everywhere in most of the things we already eat on a daily basis,” Dellinger says. “There’s a lot of things that people don’t realize are fermented, like yogurt or cheese. Cured meats are the big 6/16 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 81
one that kind of blows people’s minds, that you can ferment meat to begin with, and that a lot of the meat we eat on a regular basis, like salami and prosciutto, is fermented.” Unexpected Health Effects Though he praises the health benefits of fermented foods, he has not remained fermented-only and stresses he is not recommending that course for others. “This is not a diet that I’ve created to go on ‘Dr. Phil’ and encourage other people to follow. It’s a diet that I only followed for a year, just to educate people within the framework of this book. It was a bit arbitrary as a diet. It was more of a culinary and educational experiment then a health experiment.” However, there were likely healthy side effects. Fermentation is human society’s original method for preserving food, and many experts praise fermented foods for the healthy microbes they contain that can help increase the health of our guts. In addition to consuming these healthy microbes, Dellinger also found himself, by necessity, avoiding processed foods and eating more simply. “In a general ongoing sense, it’s good to eat simply and to keep your meals true to their basic elements,” he says. While sticking to fermented foods, “you find yourself eating more pure, natural foods. You’re eating things as they are, you’re not making these elaborate dishes all the time where you tend to overeat.” Chef/owner Mark Grusell’s off-the-wall culinary style, along with awesome cocktails and quite possibly the best coffee in town, is sure to excite the pleasure - seeker in all of us. And if breakfast or lunch isn’t enough, come for dinner on the first Friday of every month when it’s Thai night, Love Bites style. Open Thurs-Tues 8:30am-4:00pm.
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Back in the Land of the Supersized Dellinger recounts in the book that when he came off the diet it took some time to adjust to society’s supersized servings. “Compared to the elementary meals I’d been eating for the last year, the sheer size and variation of ‘normal’ meals, the meals that restaurants have trained us to think of as a standard serving size, seem truly gluttonous,” he writes. While on the diet, Dellinger says one of the hardest things to adjust to was its simplicity. “What I missed the most was probably elaboration, there’s that psychological weird trip that it just didn’t feel right that I wasn’t eating elaborate meals all the time,” he says. In addition, there were specific foods that had no perfect fermented substitute. “I would miss things like burgers even though I could eat similar sandwiches that had meat, cheese, and bread and sauce; I could eat things that were similar but not quite a burger, and that not quite getting what you’re craving begins to itch after a while.” Beyond all other foods, he craved the bright freshness of an avocado. “Avocados are really best fresh,” he says. “It’s very difficult to ferment an avocado. I did have one fermented avocado at this high-end cafe in New Orleans that used this elaborate Japanese pickling method to ferment avocados, and they were pretty incredible.” But even these expert-fermented avocados weren’t quite the real thing and as the end of the experiment approached Dellinger’s cravings for guacamole grew stronger. “The first thing I ate when the diet was done January 1, after midnight on New Year’s Eve, was a bowl of guacamole. I shoved it down my face and got full pretty quickly,” he recalls. Today, Dellinger is not eating exclusively fermented foods but says his diet has changed since the experience. “I’m certainly eating more fermented foods now than I was before, and it’s definitely opened a whole new culinary world to me, a world of food with health benefits that I wasn’t aware of before,” he says. The end of the book is full of fermented recipes that Dellinger developed and continues to make and enjoy. These include aged dishes like Kimchi Sourdough, Honey Fermented Garlic, and Lacto-Fermented Salmon. And Dellinger’s experiments with fermentation are far from over. He continues to brew professionally at Kent Falls Brewery and is set to offer even more IPAs in addition to the brewery’s farmhouse offerings, as well as more barrel-aged products. He also plans on staying busy as a writer. He’s not yet sure what his next nonfiction project will be, though it might be beer related; he also hopes to publish some works of fiction. As to how he finds time to manage the intense demands of both a writing and a brewing profession? “I have no life and I don’t go anywhere,” he jokes, before adding, “I certainly could have picked two easier career paths to juggle, but they both feed off of each other and, fortunately, they’re both complementary.”
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All-Day Breakfast, Lunch, Brunch & Thursday Dinner Tuesday-Sunday 9am-3pm | Thursday Dinner 6-9pm 99 Liberty Street, Newburgh (845) 565-4616 | 99libertystreet.com
Authentic Barbecue & Comfort Food with a Modern Twist OleSavannah.com | 845-331-4283 Historic Rondout Waterfront Dining 6/16 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 83
Heart-warming French bistro open all day. Featuring freshly baked breads and pastries from our wood-fired oven and to-die-for bistro specialties. Live music coming soon!
Winter Hours:
Eclectic wines, spirits, craft beer & tapas Happy Hour Monday—Friday, 3 to 6 $5 mimosas all day Sundays
Tues—Thurs 7AM—4PM Breakfast and Lunch
www.jardwinepub.com water street market, new paltz
230 Warren Street • Hudson, NY 12534 • cafeleperche.com • 518-822-1850
Friday—Saturday 7AM—9PM Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Sunday Brunch 8AM—4PM
Closed on Mondays
Voted Best Indian Cuisine in the Hudson Valley
Red Hook Curry House ★★★★ DINING Daily Freeman & Poughkeepsie Journal ZAGAT RATED
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TUESDAY & SUNDAY 5-10PM
4 Vegetarian Dishes • 4 Non-Vegetarian Dishes includes: appetizers, soup, salad bar, bread, dessert, coffee & tea All you can eat only $12.95 • Children under 8- $7.95 28 E. MARKET ST, RED HOOK (845) 758-2666 See our full menu at www.RedHookCurryHouse.com
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Bakeries Alternative Baker
407 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-3355 www.lemoncakes.com Open 7am Thurs.–Mon.; Closed Tues.– Wed. Small-batch, all from scratch, handmade all-butter baked goods–this is our focus for twenty years. We also offer gluten-free and other allergy-friendly options, plus made-to-order award-winning sandwiches. All-vegan vegetable soups in season, an array of JB Peel coffees and Harney teas, artisanal drinks, plus our highly addictive Belgian Hot Chocolate, also served iced! Special-occasion cakes made to order. Seasonal desserts change through the year. Unique wedding cakes for a lifetime’s treasure. All “Worth a detour”—(NY Times). Truly “Where Taste is Everything!”
Ella’s Bellas Bakery
418 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-8502 www.ellabellasbeacon.com
Butchers Jack’s Meats & Deli
79 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2244
Cafés Bistro-to-Go
948 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 340-9800 www.bluemountainbistro.com Gourmet take-out store serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week. Featuring local and imported organic foods, delicious homemade desserts, sophisticated four-star food by Chefs Richard Erickson and Jonathan Sheridan. Off-premise full-service catering and event planning for parties of all sizes.
Heather Ridge Farm
989 Broome Center Road, Preston Hollow, NY www.heather-ridge-farm.com
Restaurants Cafe Le Perche
230 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-1850 www.cafeleperche.com
Caffe Macchiato
99 Liberty Street, Liberty, NY (845) 565-4616 www.99libertystreet.com
Culinary Institute of America 1946 Campus Drive, Hyde Park, NY (845) 471-6608 www.ciarestaurantgroup.com
Diego’s Taqueria
38 John Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-2816 www.diegoskingston.com
The Hop at Beacon
458 Main Street, Beacon, NY www.thehopbeacon.com
La Bella Pasta
194 Main Street, New Paltz, NY www.LaBellaPizzaBistro.com
Love Bites
69 Partition Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-1795 www.lovebitescafe.com
Ole Savannah Table & Bar
100 Rondout Landing, Kingston, NY (845) 331-4283
Osaka Restaurant
22 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 or 74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY (845) 757-5055 www.osakasushi.net Foodies, consider yourselves warned and informed! Osaka Restaurant is Rhinebeck’s direct link to Japan’s finest cuisines! Enjoy the freshest sushi and delicious traditional Japanese small plates cooked with love by this family owned and operated treasure for over 20 years! For more information and menus, go to osakasushi.net.
Red Hook Curry House
28 E Market Street, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2666 www.redhookcurryhouse.com
Station Bar and Curio
101 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 810-0203 www.stationbarandcurio.com
The Vault
446 Main Street, Beaon, NY (845) 202-7735 www.thevaultbeacon.com
of Full Line uts ld C o C ic n a Org e Cooking and Hom ssen Delicate
79 Main Street New Paltz 845-255-2244 Open 7 Days
Yobo Restaurant
Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3848 www.yoborestaurant.com
Wine Bars Jar’d Wine Pub
Water Street Market, New Paltz, NY www.jardwinepub.com
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No Hormones ~ No Antibiotics ~ No Preservatives Custom Cut • Home Cooking Delicatessen Nitrate-Free Bacon • Pork Roasts • Beef Roasts Bone-in or Boneless Ham: smoked or fresh Local Organic Beef • Exotic Meats (Venison, Buffalo, Ostrich) • Wild Fish
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business directory Accommodations Beekman Arms Delamater Hotel 6387 Mill Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7077 www.beekmandelamaterinn.com
Gatehouse Gardens B & B New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8817 ww.gatehousegardens.com
Alternative Energy
29 Main Street, Suite 2B, Chatham, NY www.northrivergallery.com
Roost Studios
(845) 876-3767 www.hvce.com
Antiques Fairground Shows NY
P.O. Box 3938, Albany, NY (518) 331-5004 www.fairgroudshows.com fairgroundshows@aol.com
Hudson Antiques Dealers Association Hudson, NY www.hudsonantiques.net hudsonantiques@gmail.com
Pay it Forward Community Thrift Store - A Division of Community Action of Greene County, Inc. 7856 Route 9W, Catskill, NY (518) 943-9205 www.cagcny.org5 fohle@cagcny.org
Architecture Richard Miller, AIA
28 Dug Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4480 www.richardmillerarchitect.com
Art Galleries & Centers After Eden Gallery
453 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 649-4469 www.afteredengallery.com
Ryan Cronin Gallery
10 Main Street, New Paltz, NY www.ryancroningallery.com
Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2115 www.hhoust.com
WAAM - Ulster Artists On-line
Herrington’s
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 www.woodstockguild.org events@woodstockguild.org
Art Supplies Catskill Art & Office Supply
Kingston, NY: (845) 331-7780 Poughkeepsie, NY: (845) 452-1250 Woodstock, NY: (845) 679-2251
Artisans Fay Wood Studio
123 Market Street, Saugerties, NY www.faywoodstudio.com
Artists John T. Unger Studios
Cross Contemporary Art
81 Partition Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 399-9751 www.crosscontemporaryart.com
Daniel Aubry Gallery
426 Main Street, Beacon, NY (347) 982-4210
Dorsky Museum
SUNY New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3844 www.newpaltz.edu/museum sdma@newpaltz.edu
Eckert Fine Art
1394 Route 83 Unit 3, Pine Plains, NY (518) 771-3300 www.eckertfineart.com
Traffic and Criminally Related Matters. Karen A. Friedman, Esq., President of the Association of Motor Vehicle Trial Attorneys 30 East 33rd Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY (845) 266-4400 or (212) 213-2145 newyorktrafficlawyer.com k.friedman@msn.com
Auctions George Cole Auctioneers
North Broadway, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-9114 www.georgecoleauctions.com
Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com
Auto Sales & Services Fleet Service Center
185 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4812
Beverages Binnewater/Leisure Time Spring Water (845) 331-0504 www.binnewater.com
Books
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 437-5632 www.fllac.vassar.edu
Gallery 66
66 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 809-5838 www.gallery66ny.com
Monkfish Publishing
22 East Market Street, Suite 304, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4861 www.monkfishpublishing.com
Broadcasting WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com
Building Services & Supplies
Hillsdale, NY: (518) 325-3131 Hudson, NY: (518) 828-9431 www.herringtons.com
Ingrained Building Concepts (845) 224-5936
John A Alvarez and Sons 3572 Route 9, Hudson, NY (518) 851-9917 www.alvarezmodulars.com
Devereux in New York
40 Devereux Way, Red Hook, NY www.devereuxny.org
Hotchkiss School
Primrose Hill School - Elementary and Early Childhood Education inspired by the Waldorf Philosophy
2612 Route 44, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-3006 www.millbrookcabinetryanddesign.com
N & S Supply
www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com
WCW Kitchens
6760 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com
Carpets & Rugs Anatolia-Tribal Rugs & Weavings
54G Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5311 www.anatoliarugs.com Established 1981 Offering old, antique and contemporary handwoven carpets and kilims from Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran, Central Asia, in a wide range of styles, colors, prices. Also, Turkish kilim pillows. Hundreds to choose from, in a regularly changing inventory. We are happy to share our knowledge about rugs, and try and simplify the sometimes overcomplicated carpet world. Open Thurs-Mon. Closed Tues & Wed.
Cinemas Rosendale Theater Collective
23 Spring Brook Park, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1226 www.primrosehillschool.com
South Kent School
40 Bulls Bridge Road, South Kent, CT (860) 927-3539 x201 www.southkentschool.org
Vanaver Caravan
10 Main St, Suite 322, NewPaltz, NY (845) 256-9300 www.vanavercaravan.org
Events Artrider Productions Woodstock, NY www.artrider.com
Boscobel House & Gardens 1601 Route 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 265-3638 www.boscobel.org
Chronogram Block Party
Kingston, NY www.chronogramblockparty.com
Dan Smalls Presents
656 County Highway 33, Cooperstown, NY (607) 544-1800 www.dansmallspresents.com
Hudson River Exchange
Hudson River Front Park, Hudson, NY www.hudsonriverexchange.com
Rosendale, NY www.rosendaletheatre.org
Newburgh Illuminated Festival
Upstate Films
Olana Summer Party
6415 Montgomery St. Route 9, Rhinebeck (845) 876-2515, 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock (845) 679-6608 (845) 876-2515 www.upstatefilms.org
Clothing & Accessories The Bra Fit Expert
470 Main Street, Beacon, NY (917) 755-5301 thebrafitexpert.com
Karina Dresses
329 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0717 www.karinadresses.com
Rhinebeck Department Store
1 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5500 www.rhinebeckstore.com
Sundog Shoe & Leather
25 North Main Street, Kent, CT (860) 927-0009
Neumann Fine Art
Berkshire Products, Inc.
38 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4141 willowwoodlifestyle@gmail.com
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2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org
Millbrook Cabinetry & Design
(518) 479-1400 www.broweasphalt.com
(518) 789-4603, (845) 373-8309, (860) 364-1498 www.alrci.com
884 Ashley Falls Road, Sheffield, NY www.berkshireproducts.com
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT (860) 435-3663 www.hotchkiss.org/arts
Associated Lightning Rod Co.
65 Cold Water Street, Hillsdale, NY www.neumannfineart.com
Education
L Browe Asphalt Services
Mark Gruber Gallery
New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com
45 North Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 443-4866 www.tech-smiths.com
2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY www.lindalny.com
Williams Lumber & Home Center
Attorneys
Tech Smiths
Atlantic Custom Homes
Nadine Robbins Art
www.nadinerobbinsart.com
Computer Services
Custom Home Design and Materials
H Houst & Son
3 Cherry Hill Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2022 Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2002
Equis Art Gallery Red Hook, NY (845) 901-4074 www.equisart.com
(845) 255-4704
Hudson, NY (231) 584-2710 www.johntunger.com
ARTBAR Gallery
674 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 338-2789 artbargallery.com
747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2200 www.cabinetdesigners.com
Glenn’s Wood Sheds
Steve Morris Designs
156 Broadway, Port Ewen, NY (845) 417-1819 www.stevemorrisdesigns.com
Cabinet Designers
69 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 568-7540 www.roostcoop.org
28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2940 www.woodstockart.org
Hudson Solar
business directory
North River Gallery
Willow Wood
www.newburghilluminatedfestival.com 5720 Route 9G, Hudson, NY www.olana.org
Opus 40 Concert
50 Fite Road, Saugerties, NY www.opus40.org
Phoenicia Festival of the Voice Phoenicia, NY www.phoeniciavoicefest.org
Red Hook Community Arts Network Red Hook, NY www.rhcan.com
Saratoga Jazz Festival
Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga, NY www.spac.org
Stormville Airport Antique Show & Flea Market 428 Route 216, Stormville, NY (845) 226-1660 www.stormvilleairportfleamarket.com
SUNY New Paltz PIANOSUMMER Festival New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3880 www.newpaltz.edu/piano
Trash Fest
Marbletown, NY www.facebook.com/TRASH-FEST-Ulster
Woodstock Sessions
woodstocksessions.com
Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores Adam’s Fairacre Farms
1240 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 569-0303, 1560 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-6300, 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com
16 Dog Tail Corners Road, Wingdale, NY (845) 832-6522 www.huntcountryfurniture.com
New York Designer Fabric Outlet 3143 Route 9, Valatie, NY (518) 758-1555 www.nydfo.myshopify.com
Utility Canvas
2686 Route 44/55, Gardiner, NY utilitycanvas.com
Interior Design
Apple Bin Farm Market
810 Broadway, Ulster Park, NY (845) 339-7229 www.theapplebinfarmmarket.com
Hudson Natural
348 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1288
Mother Earth’s Store House
1955 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 296-1069, 249 Main Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-9614, 300 Kings Mall Court, Route 9W, Kingston, NY (845) 336-5541 www.motherearthstorehouse.com
Thompson-Finch Farm
750 Wiltsie Bridge Road, Ancram, NY (518) 329-7578 www.thompsonfinch.com
Financial Advisors Third Eye Associates Ltd.
38 Spring Lake Road, Red Hook, NY (845) 752-2216 www.thirdeyeassociates.com
Florist Hops Petunia
73 B Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 481-5817 www.hopspetunia.com
Annie Internicola, Illustrator www.annieillustrates.com
Luminary Media
314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 334-8600 www.luminarymedia.com
Hair Salons Belleayre Music Festival
181 Galli Curci Road, Highmount, NY (845) 254-6094 www.belleayremusic.org
Denise Gianna Designs
494 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 216-4196 denise-gianna.squarespace.com
Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Bop to Tottom
493 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-8130 www.thepfotoshop.com
Landscaping Augustine Landscaping & Nursery 9W & Van Kleecks Lane, Kingston, NY (845) 338-4936 www.augustinenursery.com
Lawyers & Mediators Jacobowitz & Gubits (845) 778-2121 www.jacobowitz.com
Museums Motorcyclepedia Museum
250 Lake Street (Route 32), Newburgh, NY (845) 569-9065
Le Shag.
292 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-0191 www.leshag.com
Locks That Rock Hair Design
1552 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 227-4021 www.locksthatrock.com We are a full service salon offering Hair, Nails, Waxing Hair Cutting, Color, Highlighting, Perms, Hair Extensions, Formal Hair, Make-up. Paul Mitchell, Schwatzkopf Hair Color, Color Design, Keratheraphy, No Inhibition Products Celebrating 25 years in business. Karen M. Catalano owner / stylist.
Lush Eco-Salon & Spa
2 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 204-8319 www.lushecosalon.com
Home Furnishings & Décor A & G Custom Made Furniture 4747 Route 209, Accord, NY (845) 626-0063 www.agcustommade.com
Custom Window Treatments
Music Daryl’s House
130 Route 22, Pawling, NY (845) 289-0185 www.darylshouseclub.com
The Falcon
1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY (845) 236-7970 www.liveatthefalcon.com
Mid-Hudson Civic Center
Poughkeepsie, NY www.midhudsonciviccenter.org
Musical Instruments Barcones Music
528 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 331-6089 www.barconesmusiconline.com
Tourism Historic Huguenot Street
Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1660
Ulster County Tourism
www.ulstercountyalive.com
Shadowland Theater
Arlington Wine & Liquor
157 Canal Street, Ellenville, NY (845) 647-5511 www.shadowlandtheatre.org
7505 N Broadway, Red Hook, NY (845) 835-8086 ourlittlepickles.com
Wine, Liquor & Beer
7466 South Broadway, Red Hook, NY (845) 835-8365 www.daughtersfareandale.com
Pet Services & Supplies
Denning’s Point Distillery
Pet Country
10 North Chestnut Street, Beacon, NY www.denningspointdistillery.com
6830 Rt. 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-9000
Jar’d
Photography Fionn Reilly Photography Saugerties, NY (845) 802-6109 www.fionnreilly.com
Picture Framing The Chocolate Factory, 54 Elizabeth Street, Suite 3, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1004 www.atelierreneefineframing.com renee@atelierreneefineframing.com A visit to Red Hook must include stopping at this unique workshop! Combining a beautiful selection of moulding styles and mats with conservation quality materials, expert design advice and skilled workmanship, Renee Burgevin, owner and CPF, has over 25 years experience. Special services include shadow-box and oversize framing as well as fabricwrapped and French matting. Also offering mirrors.
Pools & Spas
Little Pickles
Daughters Fare and Ale
1351 Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, (845) 610-5900 www.sugarloafpac.org
Atelier Renee Fine Framing
Toy Store
18 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (866) SAY-WINE www.arlingtonwine.net
Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center
10 Main Street, Suite 305, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8466 www.jardwinepub.com Jar’d is a cozy, funky and intimate bar serving tapas, eclectic wines and spirits, craft beer and cocktails. With outdoor seating on a covered porch overlooking the rail trail and a front sun filled patio- perfect for people watching, it’s the perfect place to hang with friends and even your beloved dog. Jar’d is open 7 days a week until midnight every night. Some menu items include charcuterie, mediterranean and cheese plate, crostini, pizzette’s and pretzels stuffed with brie and serrano ham. Housemade white sangria topped with cava flows April through October, mimosas are always $5 on Sundays, and we run specials nightly. Jar’d is the known as the spot where the tourists meet the locals and find out best kept secrets.
Town and Country Liquors
Route 212, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-8931 www.townandcountryliquorstore.com
Aqua Jet
1606 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-8080 www.aquajetpools.com
Real Estate Columbia County Real Estate Specialists
www.rethinklocal.org
Hudson Valley Current
Kingston’s Opera House Office Bldg. 275 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 399-1212 Contact Bill Oderkirk (owner/manager) 3991212@gmail.com
Re>Think Local
exit nineteen
309 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 514-2485
Poughkeepsie, NY www.walkway.org walkway@walkway.org
Upstater
Gargoyles, Ltd
YMCA of Kingston
120 Main Street, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-7666 www.friendlycircle.weebly.com LWillow@Aol.com
507 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 338-3810 www.ymcaulster.org
New Paltz (845) 256-0788 and, Woodstock (845) 679-2373 www.PegasusShoes.com
339 Central Ave, Albany, NY (518) 465-5233 www.thelinda.org The Linda provides a rare opportunity to get up close and personnel with world-renowned artists, academy award winning directors, headliner comedians and local, regional, and national artists on the verge of national recognition. An intimate, affordable venue, serving beer and wine, The Linda is a night out you won’t forget.
88 North Street, Pittsfield, MA (413) 448-6000 CWTBerkshire.com
330 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (215) 629-1700 www.gargoylesltd.com
Pegasus Comfort Footwear
www.facebook.com/kaatsbaan www.kaatsbaan.org
39 Tory Hill Road, Hillsdale, NY realestatecolumbiacounty.com
Walkway Over the Hudson
Shoes
Center for Performing Arts
Go>Local
www.rethinklocal.org
10 Bridge Street, Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-5553 www.towntinker.com
Katonah, NY (914) 232-1252 www.caramoor.org
41 North Front Street, Kingston, NY
(845) 658-2302 www.hudsonvalleycurent.org
Town Tinker
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Inc
Stockade Guitars
Organizations
161 South Street, Highland, NY www.applegreens.com
Bethel, NY (800) 745-3000 www.bethelwoodscenter.org
Hudson Valley Goldsmith
The Pfoto Shop
Apple Greens Golf Course
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
The Linda WAMCs Performing Arts Studio
23 A. East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4585 www.hummingbirdjewelers.com hummingbirdjewelers@hotmail.com
Recreation
35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org
Kaatsbaan International Dance Center
Hummingbird Jewelers
50 N Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-8217
Bardavon 1869 Opera House
Dreaming Goddess
71A Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5872 www.hudsonvalleygoldsmith.com
Rocket Number Nine Records
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (845) 758-7900 www.fischercenter.bard.edu
299 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8100
Campbell & Campbell Salon
493 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 202-7212 www.campbellandcampbellhair.com
Bard College Public Relations
661 Rte. 308, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 232-2320 www.centerforperformingarts.org
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IT TAKES A (FARM) VILLAGE INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES, WOVEN INTO BUCOLIC FARMLAND, ARE GIVING PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS A PLACE TO GROW AND THRIVE.
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hen Carol Fernandez’s son, Alex, was in his late teens, she could hear the clock ticking. It was time to figure something out. Alex has autism, and while the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ensures public education services for people like him, those would end when he turned 22. “He graduated from high school on time, but he needed more services,” says Fernandez, an attorney who raised Alex and two daughters with her husband, a professor, in suburban Boston. “He wasn’t ready to go out into the world.When they’re in that 18 to 22 bracket, you start to wonder, what are they going to do? Where do they go? You’re staring at this precipice, and you’re left to untangle an unholy mishmash of competing agencies. It’s very complicated to figure it out.” Yet while his parents fretted, Alex seemed to know exactly what the plan would be all along. From as far back as eight or nine years old, he had started talking about living on a farm. “He would say, ‘My mom and dad are going to buy a farm, and I’m going to live on it.’ My husband and I are both from New York City, and it was like, no way! That is not happening,” laughs Fernandez. But Alex stuck with the story so consistently that his parents couldn’t ignore it. A few years ago, Fernandez googled “farms and autism,” and to her surprise she discovered a world of options. One of them blew her mind: a 500-acre biodynamic “farm village” in Hudson called Triform Camphill Community, where young adults with various developmental disabilities live and work side by side with resident families and a corps of volunteers. Now 22, Alex is moving into his
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third year at Triform, and his days are filled with working in the vegetable gardens, taking classes in the pottery and weaving studios, helping to cook meals, and hanging with his friends. Even when it’s not his job, sometimes he will wake up early to milk the cows—just because he can. Where Lives of Potential Take Root Tucked into the bovine-dotted fields of Columbia County, where driving directions might include “turn right after the round white barn,” Triform is a pastoral vision painted in the spirit of Rudolf Steiner, one of the community’s main influences. The early-20th-century Austrian philosopher and social reformer had many devotees, and one of them was fellow Austrian Karl König, who translated Steiner’s anthroposophical teachings into a way of living for people with special needs. König’s “Camphill Movement” of the 1940s planted the seed for an international assortment of intentional communities; today, there are over 100 Camphills worldwide, 10 of them in the United States—all independently operated but united in their mission to offer lives of purpose, connection, and meaning to everyone who resides there, abled or disabled. Triform has upheld the Camphill model since the early 1980s, when founders Hans and Sophia Kunz developed the Hudson farm as a place to balance vocational work, community and life-sharing, and artistic and cultural experiences. “It’s a really well-rounded approach to taking in the whole person’s needs in the social, therapeutic, and work realms,” says Triform’s current director, Meg Hen-
Above: The Triform community at the Church Town dairy. managed by the Triform community. Opposite, from left: Ben, a farmer and member of the Triform Bell Choir (photo by Marc Bryan-Brown); community square dancing event in the Phoenix center (photo by Marc Bryan-Brown); Jeff, a land work apprentice in the day program.
derson. Today Triform is home to about 100 people—a fully integrated mix of families, long- and short-term volunteers, as well as 35 resident “students” with mild to moderate developmental disabilities such as Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, and autism. (Triform also hosts 11 day students through Solaris, a Camphill urban outpost in downtown Hudson.) All are involved in some way in the rhythms of the farm, in keeping with the cycles of nature. Students train in various vocational areas, from animal husbandry to working in the on-site bakery; among the artistic offerings are eurhythmy (expressive movement), painting, and drama. Families, volunteers, and students all live together in a collection of houses scattered about the property, making home economics a built-in program as everyone plays a role in running a household. As a self-supporting community that produces most of its own food and lives communally (no one at Triform receives a salary), Triform values the contributions of all its members—yet it places particular emphasis on supporting the growth of a special-needs population that is entering the new terrain of young adulthood. “The best age for coming to Triform, our most populous age, is around 21 to 25, but we do have individuals in their 40s and 50s [who have stayed on], and also some who start at 18,” says Henderson. “The hallmark of everyone who comes here is that they have exactly the same aspirations and dreams as their siblings. They want to move on in life; they want to experience a setting where they can grow up and be independent, and explore being an adult. There’s very little opportunity for that for developmentally disabled youth.”
A Health-Enabling Landscape Give a person room to grow on 500 acres of farmland and transformation is inevitable. Fernandez witnessed big changes in her son in his first year at Triform. “The first thing we noticed about Alex is that he lost like 25 pounds,” she says. “He’s much more physically active now than he was before. Eating better and being physically active just did what it was advertised to do: It made him fitter and leaner and healthier.” And while many people on the autism spectrum are very set in their ways, Fernandez notes that Alex has become a lot more flexible and adaptable, expanding what he eats and trying new foods. Perhaps because Triform is a low-media environment, without the constant stimulation of screens, “Alex is a lot calmer; he’s not as excitable as he was.” He has become more independent, doing things without being told. And he’s expanded his social world, bolstered by the spirit of community that surrounds him. “It’s been great to see him socialize, because that’s a tough one for kids with autism. He’s been terrific about making friends, just laughing and doing guy stuff with them, which is really wonderful.” Fernandez hasn’t thought too much yet about what the next step will be for Alex, but she wouldn’t be surprised if another therapeutic farmstead was in his future. In fact, many Triform “graduates” end up only about 15 minutes away at Camphill Village USA in Copake—the country’s largest and oldest Camphill community, in operation since the 1960s. The Copake facility’s larger population (about 250 people total, including some 100 developmentally disabled 6/16 CHRONOGRAM WHOLE LIVING 89
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adults), spread across 615 acres, gives it a real village feel, with life revolving around the biodynamic farm, gardens, livestock, and array of artistic workshops. “We have a woodshop, a candle-making studio, a weavery, a bookbindery, a stained-glass workshop, a bakery,” says Christine Pizzuti, communications and PR manager for Camphill Village. Just like at Triform, the model is communal. “Everything is shared. We have a little market with vegetables harvested from the gardens, where everyone from the village can come and grab what they need.” Open to the public for tours, Camphill Village also has its own coffee shop and a two-acre healing-plant garden, which yields herbs that villagers transform into salves, lotions, soaps, and other products for sale at the on-site co-op and local markets. Idyllic, But Far from Isolated One thing that’s unmistakable about both Triform and Copake: The people who live here are happy. “We have a nice time doing what we do here,” says Pizzuti. And yet, Camphill communities and similar facilities for people with special needs have come under tough scrutiny in recent years. “We’re challenged by a federal ruling that will come into effect in 2019 called the Olmstead Act, which in essence says that rural communities like this are isolating and shouldn’t exist,” says Henderson.The ruling came about as a response to a few bad-egg rural facilities (most famously, Willowbrook in Staten Island, which in the 1960s and `70s housed some 6,000 developmentally disabled people in horrific conditions, using overmedication and restraint). “But Camphill is so porous. We’re so open to the outside world, so in touch with social workers and inspections. There’s not much going on here that’s not visible.” Ironically, the very thing that the Olmstead Act aims to prevent—the social isolation and institutionalization of the developmentally disabled—is exactly what you will not find at a Camphill community. “There is a move to bring people closer to Main Street,” says Pizzuti. “But this village is anything but isolated.You have people walking all over, riding bicycles, going to see friends. We have music groups, a village choir, lots of clubs and things to do throughout the week. We also have a lot of festivals, and a lot of outings. One of our houses is going to India soon. Last year a bunch of people went to Brussels. We do a lot.” In many ways Main Street is a more isolating experience, while connection thrives in the farm village setting, where people serve to lift each other up. “Here you have the unique experience of being able to realize your full potential,” says Pizzuti, “which is not necessarily something that everybody, with or without developmental abilities, is able to do.” Meanwhile, with autism on the rise (one in 68 US children, and one in 42 boys, are on the autistic spectrum), we need more choices for a special-needs population that’s growing quickly in this country. “It really calls for a societal response,” says Henderson. “Maybe we have to develop ways to live that are more autistic friendly.” Intentional communities like Camphill could offer a solution—one that destigmatizes people with special needs by putting everyone on an even playing field. Living Beyond Labels “There’s something very freeing about being able to live beyond labels,” adds Henderson. “We don’t call ourselves staff; we volunteer our time. Of course, you can be paid to do a job and love it, but you can’t pay somebody to care. Here you’re not being paid, so you really have the freedom to offer what you can without having a price tag attached to it. And you find that the very people you are supposed to be caring for are also caring for you.” As an example, Henderson talks about a woman who has lived with her family in a Triform household for many years. If Henderson’s younger daughters are getting ready for soccer practice, she’s in the basement looking for their shin guards; if her older child is feeling upset, she’ll make a cup of tea. “She does what she can to give. And at the same time [my children] give her the experience of being loved and needed and respected.” In the farm village, health care for the disabled is not a Big Pharma industry or even a job. It’s a way of living, and that is exactly why it is so effective. “This really does become your family,” says Henderson. “There’s a real love and appreciation for people beyond their abilities. It’s not just what they do—it’s who they are. There’s a respect for a person’s intrinsic qualities and spirit. That’s a very loving thing.” RESOURCES Camphill Village USA Camphillvillage.org Triform Camphill Community Triform.org
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Pilates Ulster Pilates Pilates and Gyrotonic® Studio 32 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 658 2239 www.ulsterpilates.com Ulster Pilates offers equipment pilates, gyrotonic® and gyrokinesis® in both individual and group classes. Our Pilates program is based on the precepts of the Kane School for Core Integration and Ellie Herman Studios in New York. It is a full body works out! It emphasizes core stability and strengthening, correct biomechanics and deeply works the abdominals, diaphragm, pelvic floor and back muscles.
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Retreat Centers Garrison Institute Route 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org garrison@garrisoninstitute.com Retreats supporting positive personal and social change in a renovated monastery overlooking the Hudson River. Featuring Karen Maezen Miller, Anyen Rinpoche, Josh Korda: Finding Freedom From Painful Emotions, July 29-31; and featuring our tenth annual CARE for Teachers retreat (Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education), August 1-5.
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Aaron Marquise of Marquise Productions. PS21 hosts the circus troupe on June 25.
Circus’s Next Phase Aaron M. Marquise grew up in the Saratoga County village of Round Lake as the class clown: full of energy, silly, and often getting into trouble. “I didn’t think there was something I could do where I could get all of that energy out and make a living out of it,” he says. That is, before he discovered the Capital Region’s Circus Theatricks in high school, where he dove into the art of real-life clowning. And then, while studying musical theater and playwriting at Marymount Manhattan, he stumbled upon the École Nationale de Cirque, or the National Circus School, in Montreal, where he could actually major in clowning. So he did what any clown-to-be would: left school and the city, spending months toning his physique into tip-top circus shape, honing in on flexibility, strength, and movement. “And I magically got accepted into this secret world,” he says. Four years and a clowning degree later, Marquise began performing in Quebec and touring through Switzerland with Circus Monti, with plans to become a full-time performer. It wasn’t until he found the Gasholder—a massive, 19th-century circular abandoned building tucked away in the south end of Troy—that he toyed with the idea of his own circus production company. “That’s a circus building,” he says, noting how its shape perfectly mimics the ring of the typical French-styled circus. “I want to put Troy on the map as the circus center of this area.” Transforming the Gasholder as a true circus venue is still a process, but Marquise Productions, established just last year, is now fully formed, setting out to create, present, and produce circus work from a local to international scale. But we’re not talking about American, Ringling Bros. arena-packed circus culture. Marquise is promoting the smaller, contemporary French-styled circus, where you’re so close you can see the performers sweat. Everything will be a bit more mysterious, avant-garde, and theater based. After a successful trial show at Chatham’s Performance Spaces for the 21st Century (PS21) last summer with a Montreal-based circus
troupe, Marquise Productions will hold a six-week residency at PS21, culminating in a performance on June 25. “When we had them come last year, we were enchanted by their performance and thought they used the site beautifully,” says PS21 Board President/Founder Judy Grunberg. “They’re not your usual circus, and we like to do things out of the box.” As director and producer, Marquise, along with an eclectic and versatile group of seven performers, will develop an entire work from scratch in just a little over two weeks. Family-friendly, though not with a family-driven feeling, “YOL,” meaning “way” or “road” in Turkish, will tell the imaginative story of a girl’s self-discovery and journey into the afterlife, and the wondrous adventure it leads her on. “It’s funny because beyond that starting image, I don’t know what we’re getting into,” Marquise says. “I don’t know what it’s going to look like, with the exception of knowing what the artists can do. There will be handstands, juggling, and unicycles, but the rest of the show’s creation will happen onsite." Troy-based musician and composer Kristoph “Ragliacci” DiMaria, who is also trained in the holistic and visionary Pochinko method of clowning, will add acoustic-styled music to the set, evoking traditional Turkish drumming and ambient ethereal noises. “There’s a lot of talk about how circus is having its own Renaissance. I want to sort of change the American mindset of the word ‘circus,’” Marquise says. “I want them to see this show and go, ‘Oh, that’s circus. I’d like to see more stuff like that.’” “YOL” will hop on a minitour in June for matinees and evening shows, first hitting the Gasholder June 10 to 12, Saratoga Springs' National Museum of Dance June 17, and Round Lake Auditorium on June 18. A final performance will be at PS21 Chatham on Saturday, June 25 at 7:30pm. $20 general/ $15 member/ $5 student. (518) 392-6121; Ps21chatham.org. Marquiseproductions.com. —Zan Strumfeld 6/16 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 95
WEDNESDAY 1 LECTURES & TALKS Kilns, ‘Caves’ & Mushroom Cans 7pm. With Gayle Grunwald, Century House Historical Society. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 265-8080. MUSIC The Defibulators noon. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. Split Bill: Alexis Cole and HD Quintet 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Community Canvas: Northern Dutchess Hospital Mother’s Club 7-9:30pm. $45. Join us for a Community Canvas event to support the Northern Dutchess Hospital Mother’s Club! The Mothers’ Club is a not-for-profit group of volunteers who raise funds to benefit women and children receiving care at Northern Dutchess Hospital. American Legion Hall, Rhinebeck. Vinevangogh.com/product/sippaint-for-a-cause-northern-dutchess-hospitalmothers-club/. WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Communication Matters 12-1:30pm. This training features a video production developed through the collaborative efforts of many experienced parents, advocates and school administrators, who talk about common communication barriers that may arise during Committee on Special Education (CSE) meetings along with proven strategies to promote collaboration, creativity and agreement in Individualized Education Program (IEP) development. Orange County Dept. of Mental Health, Goshen. 331-0541 ext. 18. Estate Planning: How to Protect your Parents and Yourself 6-7:30pm. How to protect your assets from a nursing home, Medicaid?, The FiveYear Look Back: What is it and why is it important, Probate... does my will avoid it? How to preserve assets and other topics. Julia L. Butterfield Memorial Library, Cold Spring. 265-3040. Journal Workshop $99. Weekly through Aug. 3. Through Journaling we celebrate, laugh, mourn— see the world & ourselves with new eyes. A supportive place to explore writing & connect with ourselves. Learn techniques, gain clarity, explore dreams, deepen creativity, understand patterns. Write for balance, growth, self-expression. Access your past & your future. Write your story. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2575.
THURSDAY 2 DANCE Belly Dancing with Ayleeza: Intro Workshop 6:30-8:30pm. $15. Exciting tunes from Bollywood, Middle Eastern, Oldies and even some hip hop music. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206. HEALTH & WELLNESS Free Monthly Holistic Self-Care Class: Self-Hypnosis for sleep, insomnia, and lucid dreaming with Lincoln Stoller 7-8:30pm. Free. Better, faster, deeper sleep, rest, recovery and recuperation. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. 687-0800. KIDS & FAMILY Juvenile Diabetes Support Group 7-8:30pm. This group, facilitated by social worker Katie Rapp, is for both parents and children affected by type 1 diabetes. Children will meet with a social worker while parents meet with a parent facilitator. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-8500. Kingston YMCA Farm Stand Grand Opening 3:30-6pm. Mayor Steve Noble will kick-off the event with a ribbon cutting. Lively music to be provided by POOK, the Percussion Orchestra of Kingston. Recipes and delicious samples will be available and the farm will be open for tours. All ages welcome! YMCA, Kingston, Kingston. 332-2927. CHRONOGRAM.COM These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.
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LECTURES & TALKS FDR Preseidential Library Presentation on Hoovervilles 1-3pm. The Clinton Community Library will host the popular presentation “Hoboes AND Hoovervilles” by Jeffrey Urbin, Educational Specialist at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum. Mr. Urbin will teach participants about the everyday lives of migrant workers and the homeless during the Great Depression Era, and what President Franklin D. Roosevelt did to help Americans get back on their feet. Clinton Community Library, Rhinebeck. 266-5530. First Thursdays in the Archives First Thursday of every month, 12-2pm. Welcoming visitors to learn more about the library’s special collections. These tours provide an insider’s glimpse at rare menus and documents, as well as sneak peeks of newly discovered materials. Culinary Institute of America (CIA), Hyde Park. 452-9430.
MUSIC Della Mae 7-9pm. $27/$24 in advance or member/$21 member in advance/$11 under age 19. The Grammy-nomintaed all-female bluegrass virtuosos of Della Mae are “smart and assured blurring the lines between bluegrass, folk, soul, and old-time traditions”—Boston Globe. West Kortright Centre, East Meredith. (607) 278-5454. Mountain Jam Four-day music festival. Wilco, Beck, Michael Franti, +. Hunter Moutain. Mountainjam.com. Dr. John & The Nite Trippers 8-10pm. $54/$64. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039. Dylan Doyle Band /Jason Gisser Band 7pm. Split bill. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Friends Concert 8pm. With pianist Ko-Eun Yi. Open to all our Donors, Subscribers, Volunteers and their guests. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
NIGHTLIFE Sip & Paint 7-11pm. $145. Sip, paint & make memories with Vine Van Gogh. Vinevangogh.com. WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Rich Russo: Model and Still Life Basics Workshop 10am-4pm. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. Self-Hypnosis for Sleep, Insomnia, and Lucid Dreaming 7-8:30pm. With Lincoln Stoller. Sponsored by The Rondout Valley Holistic Health Community. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. RVHHC.org.
FRIDAY 3 FAIRS & FESTIVALS Country Living Fair 10am-5pm. 200 vendors bringing the lifestyle magazine to life. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. Countryliving.com. FILM Griefwalker 7-9:30pm. A National Film Board of Canada feature documentary film about Stephen Jenkinson and his work. Following the film Stephen will answer questions from the audience. HealthAlliance Auditorium, Kingston. Occupation of the American Mind 7-9pm. Why is Israel/Palestine the world’s most intractable conflict? This courageous informative 82-minute documentary reveals how powerful interests have manipulated news and politics in our society. A must-see for all who wish to understand the heart of the matter and work on changing mainstream media malfeasance. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston. (518) 291-6808. The Phoenix 7-9pm. Potluck at 6 pm, film at 7 pm. The film reveals intimate details of the suffering of a young Hiroshima woman who in one horrific instant lost her leg. Though she was repeatedly forced into the despair, she eventually made up her mind to live on as an atomic bomb storyteller for peace. Filmmaker present for discussion following. Old Chatham Quaker Meeting, Old Chatham. (518) 766-2992.
FOOD & WINE Stitch and Sip: Samplers 1.0 5:30-7:30pm. $25/$20 members. Like a quilting bee or a sewing circle, this program mixes needlework with socializing. Starting simple and always leaving with a project you can continue to work on at home, this program is a mix of 19th century needle skill work and social fun. Isabel and Frederic Church acquired a diverse collection of embroidered textiles and needlework artworks showing their love for texture and color on fabrics. Join us for instruction, practice, which will be followed by a second half of working, wine and cheese, all with a masterful instructor whose skills help keep this tradition alive. Supplies provided. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext.105.
8th Annual Placemaking Conference & Awards: Revitalizing Main Street $75. The Placemaking Awards recognize individuals, organizations, projects, and festivals that have contributed to the creation or transformation of public “places” to improve the local community, and have exemplified placemaking concepts and practices. Includes breakfast, lunch, all conference materials, keynote presentations, and panel discussions. Newburgh Armory Unity Center, Newburgh. 469-9459.
KIDS & FAMILY Storytime in the Museum 1:30-2:15pm. Art-related storytime program for preschool children ages 3-5. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5237.
Rock of Ages 8pm. $27/$25. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
LECTURES & TALKS Horses For A Change 6:30-8pm. Free. Horses For A Change is an equine facilitated therapeutic riding program that uses horseback riding and horse care to develop life skills. Therapeutic riding can help treat learning disabilities, depression, ADD, autism, brain injury and substance abuse. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580. LITERARY & BOOKS Tom Nolan presents Milo’s Gift 6pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. MUSIC Mountain Jam Four-day music festival. Wilco, Beck, Michael Franti, +. Hunter Mountain. Mountainjam.com. Albert Cummings 8pm. $30/$25. Blues. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300. Breakneck Annie and Joe Tobin 6:30pm. Americana. The Dutch Arms Chapel, Saugerties. Johnstjam.net/Chapel.htm. Chris O’Leary Band 7pm. Opener: The Touro Band. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Concert: Flash Co. - St. Paddy’s Day in June 7:30-9:30pm. Pay what you want; pay what you will!. Lovers of Irish music, join us at our Gallery on Rte 9 in Hyde Park for a special “St. Paddy’s Day In June” concert featuring Flash Company. Artists’ Collective of Hyde Park, Hyde Park. 914-456-6700. Deconstructing Strauss with Juliana Han and Wayne Lee 7pm. Mountain Top Library, Tannersville. (518) 589-5023. JB3 Trio 7-10:30pm. Brothers Barbecue, New Windsor. 534-4227. The Kurt Henry Parlour Band 8pm. American Glory BBQ, Hudson. (518) 822-1234. March Delgado and Shamsi Rue 6-8pm. Performing original music, while Susie DeFord and Nelly Reifler are on hand to talk about their writing. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775. Salsa with Winner Willie Torres 8pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Salsa with Willie Torres 8pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. The Chain Gang 8pm. Classic rock. The Italian Center, Poughkeepsie.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS 19th Annual Peekskill Open Studios Kickoff Expo & Party 6-9pm. FLATZ Building, Peekskill. (914) 438-6084. Community Canvas: Dan Leghorn Ladies Auxiliary 7-9:30pm. $45. Join us for a Community Canvas event to support the Dan Leghorn Ladies Auxiliary. This fundraising event is open to all who wish to support this worthy cause. Dan Leghorn Firehouse, Newburgh. Vinevangogh.com/product/sip-paint-for-acause-dan-leghorn-ladies-auxiliary/.
THEATER Moliere’s The Imaginary Invalid 8-10pm. $20/$17 for Playhouse members/$10 students with ID. This is a new adaptation written and directed by Barbara Leavell Smith. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (800) 838-3006.
Wizard of Oz 7-9:30pm. $18-$24. The New York Conservatory for the Arts presents the beloved musical The Wizard of Oz with all of the timeless music and characters of the Classic Motion Picture. Join Dorothy, Glinda, the Wicked Witch, Scarecrow, Lion and the Tin Man (and Toto, too) as they journey to the Emerald City to see the Wizard of Oz. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-6900.
SATURDAY 4 ART Peekskill Open Studios Weekend 12-5pm. Peekskill. Peekskillartists.org. Shirt Factory Open Studio Tour 1-5pm. Shirt Factory, Kingston. 340-4660.
DANCE Ballet Arts Studio presents Moving Images: Dance in Movies 2 & 6:30pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Barefoot Dance Center Annual Student Dance Concert 5-7pm. $12/$6 kids & teens/under age 3 free. Come witness the heartfelt and joyful community dance concert at this familyfriendly event! The evening features a roster of stunning, innovative dances combining modern dance and ballet, choreographed by the students, their teachers, and special guest choreographer John Zullo. McKenna Theatre, New Paltz. 384-6146. Buglisi Dance Theatre 7:30-9:30pm. $30/ $10 student rush and children. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106 ext. 2.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Country Living Fair 10am-5pm. 200 vendors bringing the lifestyle magazine to life. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. Countryliving.com. 9th Annual Children’s Earth & Water Festival 11am-5pm. Games, activities and crafts, and live music & entertainment all day. Thomas Bull Memorial Park, Montgomery. 615-3868. Catskill Interpretive Center Book Fair 10am-3pm. Join dozens of local book publishers, authors and filmmakers at a book fair hosted by the Catskill Interpretive Center (CIC). Catskill Interpretive Center, Mount Tremper. 688-3369. Cider & Cheese Festival Hard cider producers and cheese makers from across the region will kick off Hudson Valley Cider Week, and prove that cider and cheese are a perfect pairing. Co-presented with Glynwood. Basilica Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-1050.
FILM Finding Vivian Maier 4pm. Upstate Films, Woodstock. 679-6608. KIDS & FAMILY The Stars Come Out 10-11am. Enter an inflatable planetarium, relax on the floor and gaze up at a night sky to look for star patterns. SFor all guests age 4 and up. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org. Turn Garbage into Gold & Rot into Riches 10am. Join a Master Gardener from the Cornell Cooperative Extension for this introductory program about composting. Compost your scraps and give back to the soil, an invaluable element to growing the most beautiful flowers and the tastiest, most nutritious veggies. Composting is so easy. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
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The first Musical Waterfall built by Music For Homemade Instruments co-founder Skip LaPlante at PS1 in New York City..
Trash As Treasure “Garbage is very inviting,” remarks Margot Becker, organizer of Trash Fest, an art festival kicking off in Marbletown on June 4. The fair will specialize in two types of art: garbage you can look at and garbage you can hear. The Marbletown Waste Transfer Station (formerly the “town dump”) will host a monthlong art show, including an interactive “waterfall,” and musical instruments for the public; the Wired Gallery in High Falls will offer art made from recycled materials; and a concert at the Rail Trail Café in New Paltz will feature musicians playing instruments fashioned from trash. On the opening day of the festival, John Michelotti of the group Catskill Fungi will lead a workshop assembling structures out of cardboard infused with mushroom spores. Skip LaPlante, avant-garde composer and instrument maker, will construct a waterfall powered by audience members pouring water down PVC pipes, which strike found objects, producing musical tones. “It’s like a big drum where water is the drumstick,” explains Becker. In previous waterfalls LaPlante has used license plates, yogurt containers, garbage can lids, and old boots—hanging from ropes and wooden beams—as noisemakers. (He won’t know the contents of this installation until he visits the Transfer Station and starts foraging.) Trained in music at Princeton, LaPlante creates waterfalls with secret modulations and intonations only the musically astute can hear. LaPlante will also appear at the Rail Trail Café on June 5, where he’ll play the kannon, a hand-built zither made of discarded wood and bronze wire. Bill Ylitalo, a professor at Bard College and the New School, has created musical instruments out of garbage at the Transfer Station for anyone to play. Thanks to Trash Fest, we can all learn the pleasure of melodically reusing a discarded object. Our nation has the concept of a “rescue animal,” but not a “rescue flute.” Playing pieces of garbage leads away from the tradition of Western music, with its rigidly defined scale
of notes, to Asiatic and African music, which employ microtones: sounds in between the notes on a piano. The Wired exhibition will include Eggshells: Deep Root Farm, a painting by Corey Solinger on broken eggshells pasted onto canvas, resembling a mosaic. Ana Bergen has created behind the cloud, a sculpture with a salvaged TV screen. Seven Nails by Chris Fanjul is a found-wood assemblage including the sole of an old shoe. Lenny Kislin makes witty constructions from antique wooden dolls, house keys, chessboards and billiard balls. Meanwhile, back at the Transfer Station, local muralist Eugene Stetz has joyfully decorated truck trailers with re-sourced paint. One can imagine other artforms at future Trash Fests: dancers clad in banana peels, quilts made of aluminum foil, poets writing on Raisin Bran boxes, Clorox bottle puppetry, singer-songwriters playing car windshields. One goal of Trash Fest is to encourage everyone to experiment with rubbish-as-art. Around 10 years ago, a group of Boy Scouts appeared at the Transfer Station and constructed a cheerful robot from metal waste, which still stands and will be a proud participant in this celebration. Educational gatherings are also scheduled. The Marbletown Community Center is showing the film Bag It: Is Your Life Too Plastic? on June 15. Cornell Cooperative Extension will lead a composting workshop on June 18 in Stone Ridge. Trash Fest is sponsored by the League of Women Voters. (Who knew the League had a Resource Management Committee?) All events are free. Obviously, children will be delighted with this celebration. Trash Fest begins at 12:30pm on Saturday, June 4 at the Marbletown Waste Transfer Station in High Falls, and continues throughout the month. For more information, see Trash Fest Ulster on Facebook. —Sparrow 6/16 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 97
LECTURES & TALKS In Dialogue with Timothy Morton and David Brooks’ Continuous Service Altered Daily 3-4:30pm. How do we perceive something as vast and intricate as an ecosystem in our hyperkinetic present era, even though we are situated in the very middle of it? Is it possible to unravel its interlacing chords and measure the magnitude of its life-sustaining impact on the planet—philosophically, psychologically, or experientially? The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-4519. Preserving Olana: Stories from the Field 3-5pm. Professionals from the conservation and preservation fields kick off this special anniversary series with stories of objects and activities from Olana’s collection. Steve Larson is a skilled artisan using the same methods and materials employed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; he will talk about his work at Adelphi and the Olana second floor wallpaper restorations. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 105. Rowan Kunz: Building and Living Tiny: One Approach to Mindful Living 5pm. Rowan Kunz will offer a slide talk on the philosophical and practical reasons she decided to build an off-grid tiny house and reflect on her positive and negative experiences of living tiny. She will also talk about how the tiny house movement might contribute to the broader topics of alternative and mindful living and how this increased interest might affect our community. A Q&A will follow. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-4693. Wanderings & Wonderings: Carey Denniston 2pm. Join artist Carey Denniston for an imaginative exploration of Storm King. Presented with The Shandaken Project. Storm King Art Center, New Windsor. 534-3115. Where Slavery Died Hard: The Forgotten History of Ulster County and the Shawangunk Mountains Region 4-6pm. An exploration of the early history of slavery in the Shawangunk Region Cragsmoor Historical Society, Cragsmoor. 647-6487.
LITERARY & BOOKS Reading by David Black 5-7pm. Black reads and discusses his new mystery novel “Fast Shuffle.” The Chatham Bookstore, Chatham. 518-392-3005. MUSIC Mountain Jam Four-day music festival. Wilco, Beck, Michael Franti, +. Hunter Mountain. Mountainjam.com. America 8-10pm. $67.50, $77.50, $110/M&G. Grammywinning group. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. 914-739-0039 ext 2. The Chip White Sextet 8:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Ed Palermo is the Marlboro Man! 7pm. Orchestral rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Electric Beef 9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Emerson String Quartet 8pm. Their program features string quartets by Schubert, Bartok and Brahms. Olin Auditorium at Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7003. An Evening with Julie Gold 8-9:15pm. $20/$10 for patrons 21 and under. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (800) 838-3006. Berkshire Bach Spring Choral Concert 6-8pm. $30-$50; free for students with ID. Celebrating Berkshire Bach Society’s 25th anniversary, James Bagwell will conduct. First Congregational Church, Great Barrington, MA. 413-528-9555. Jay Ungar and Molly Mason 8pm. $20. Tompkins Corners Cultural Center, Putnam Valley. 528-7280. Milkweed 8pm. $10. Folk. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
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Regina Bonelli Blues Featuring Michael Hill 9pm-midnight. $10. NY Blues Hall of Fame members Regina Bonelli and Michael Hill perform original music from Regina’s 2015 release “Open Up The Door” plus funk and soul classics. Brian’s Backyard Barbecue, Middletown. 692-3227.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS 21st Annual Historical Dinner with Theodore Roosevelt 5-9pm. $150. The evening will include an early 20th century inspired dinner and the presence of President Theodore Roosevelt, author, explorer, naturalist and 26th President of the United States, as finely portrayed by an actor from the American Historical Theatre. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172. Community Canvas: Ulster County Probation Officers Association 1-3:30pm. $45. Join us for a Community Canvas event to support the Ulster County Probation Officers Association. The Ulster County Probation Officers Association strives to further professionalize its members, educate the community about Probation, and be active in service to the community. Our local artist will lead you step-by-step through the re-creation of this beautiful piece of art that you can call your own. Bowery Dugout, Kingston. Vinevangogh.com/ product/community-canvas-for-ulster-countyprobation-officers-association/. First Saturday at ASK 5-8pm. Part of Kingston’s First Saturday art events. Arts Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331. Houses on the Land: WVLT’s 6th Annual House Tour 10:30am-2pm & 11am-4:30pm. $40/$35 by June 2/$5 WVLT discount. This year’s tour explores the fascinating legacy of the Town of Lloyd. Wallkill Valley Land Trust, Highland. 255-2761.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION 18th Annual Plant Swap & Sale 9am-2pm. Presented by Master Gardeners of Cornell Cooperative Extension. At 11:30am the swap will open to the public for the plant sale. Forsyth Park, Kingston. 340-4990. Hike at Fuller Mountain Preserve 10am-noon. $5. This 2-mile round trip hike will take participants along the green-blazed trail up to the preserve’s summit, Fuller Mountain Preserve, Warwick. Https://facebook.com/ events/1104167352967042/. Putnam Secret Garden Tour 10am-4pm. $30. A tour of the best and most beautiful private gardens in Putnam County, NY. This country driving tour will bring you to private homes and sites with formal gardens, perennial flowering landscapes, pastoral fields and vistas, and herb and flowering vegetable gardens throughout Putnam County. Event also includes admission to Boscobel’s Gardens in Garrison and Stonecrop Gardens in Cold Spring. Julia L. Butterfield Library, Cold Spring. 278-7272. 22nd Annual Snapping Turtle Walk 7:30pm. Members of the Constitution Marsh staff will be on hand to discuss the habits and history of these living fossils and to introduce live specimens to the audience. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
SPIRITUALITY New Moon Manifestation 7-8:30pm. $10. Join us as we come together to manifest our heart’s desires with the creative energies of the New Moon. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206. THEATER Moliere’s The Imaginary Invalid 8-10pm. $20/$17 for Playhouse members/$10 students with ID. This is a new adaptation written and directed by Barbara Leavell Smith. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (800) 838-3006. Rock of Ages 8pm and 2pm. $27/$25. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Wizard of Oz 7-9:30pm. $18-$24. The New York Conservatory for the Arts presents the beloved musical The Wizard of Oz with all of the timeless music and characters of the Classic Motion Picture. Join Dorothy, Glinda, the Wicked Witch, Scarecrow, Lion and the Tin Man (and Toto, too) as they journey to the Emerald City to see the Wizard of Oz. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-6900.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES The Business and Art of Illustration 12:30-2:30pm. Weekly through July 9. Presented by Writers in the Mountain and given by Durga Yael Bernhard. Phoenicia Library, Phoenicia. 688-7811. Die Wise: Making Meaning of the Ending of Days 9:30am-3:30pm. Workshop with Stephen Jenkinson. HealthAlliance Auditorium, Kingston. Spring “Plein Air” Outdoor Painting Class 9:30am-noon. $150 series/$30 class. 6-week class with Mira Fink. Location available, High Falls. 338-6503. Yoga Rolla Workshop with Terry Fister 1:30-3:30pm. $40. We will do a handful of asanas to reflect on where and what is tight and keeping you from better alignment. Woodstock Yoga Center, Woodstock. 678-8700.
SUNDAY 5 ART Peekskill Open Studios Weekend 12-5pm. Peekskill. Peekskillartists.org. COMEDY Bill Burr 7pm. $25-$75. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. DANCE Buglisi Dance Theatre 2:30-4:30pm. $30/ $10 student rush and children. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106 ext. 2. Just Dance First Sunday of every month, 12:30-2pm. $10. DJ activated non-stop contagious expression. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Country Living Fair 10am-5pm. 200 vendors bringing the lifestyle magazine to life. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. Countryliving.com. 4th Annual Kingston MultiCultural Festival 1-5pm. Featuring international foods, dances and music performed by local community groups, hosted by the Reher Center for Immigration Culture & History. T.R. Gallo West Strand Park, Kingston. Ucjf.org. High Falls Flea Market 9am-4pm. Art, antiques, collectibles, crafts and unique treasures. Grady Park, high falls. 810-0471.
KIDS & FAMILY Birds of Prey Day 10am-5pm. $15/$5 children under 12 and seniors/free for children under 3, cub scouts and military/$35 family pass. Green Chimneys, Brewster. 279-2995 ext. 307. LECTURES & TALKS The Inside Angle: Premik Russel Tubbs 3-5pm. $10. The Inside Angle is a new series of candid discussions focusing on the artist’s perspective. “The Fullerton House, Newburgh. Https://facebook.com/ events/686028094871237/. MUSIC Mountain Jam Four-day music festival. Wilco, Beck, Michael Franti, +. Hunter Mountain. Mountainjam.com. Barbara Dempsey & Company 2-4pm. They perform songs that span the gamut from well thought out originals to the blues, jazz, rock and pop standards. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. The Blues Farm 10am. Blues brunch. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. David Kraai with Fooch Fischetti 1-4pm. David Kraai doles out two sets of fine country folk music with the help of Fooch Fischetti on pedal steel and fiddle. The Andes Hotel, Andes. 676-3980. Emerson String Quartet 3pm. $75. Season opening concert. Haydn: String Quartet in D Minor, Opus 76 #2 (17967) (12), Beethoven: String Quartet in G Major, Opus 18 #2 (1798-1800) (22), Schubert: String Quartet in G Major, Opus 161, D 887 (1826) (19). Music Mountain, Falls Village, CT. (860) 824-7126.
Indian Dhrupad Concert 5-7pm. $20. Come see the oldest existing form of Indian classical music. A medieval vocal genre that evolved from the chanting of vedic hymns and mantras, Dhrupad seeks to induce deep feelings of peace and contemplation. Pandit Nirmalya Dey is a world-renowned teacher and master of Dhrupad, and Pandit Mohan Shyam Sharma is one of the leading pakhawaj players in India. Woodstock Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700. John Abercrombie/Rob Scheps Quartet 7-10pm. Guitar legend John Abercrombie and saxophonist Rob Scheps c-lead a great new Quartet. With Bill Evans Trio drummer Eliot Zigmund and bassist David Kingsnorth. 7pm. Jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Newburgh Symphonic Chorale 4pm. Performing with chamber orchestra two joyful works of G. F. Handel: the Coronation Anthem “Zadok the Priest” and the Utrecht “Jubilate Deo.” The performance concludes with music by Broadway composers Andrew Lloyd Weber, Lerner and Loewe, and Rodgers and Hammerstein. St. George’s Church, Newburgh. 231-3592. TrashFest Concert 7-10pm. Four musicians will make music on junk: Bill Ylitalo, a member of Karl Berger’s Improvisers Orchestra, The Big Sky Ensemble, and Gamelan Djam Gong; Skip LaPlante, cofounded Music For Homemade Instruments; violist Anastasia Solberg, of the Ellenville Chamber Players, VIOLent PERseCution, and the American Festival of Microtonal Music; and Peter Head, of Gus Mancini’s Sonic Soul Band and Pitchfork Militia. Rail Trail Cafe, New Paltz.
NIGHTLIFE Sip & Paint 2-4:30pm. $45. Sip, paint & make memories with Vine Van Gogh! Limoncello’s at the Orange Inn, Goshen. Vinevangogh.com. OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Community Canvas 3-5:30pm. $45. Join us for a Community Canvas event to support the Wittenberg Sportsmen’s Club Youth Program. Wittenberg Sportsmen’s Club, Mt Tremper. Vinevangogh.com. OUTDOORS & RECREATION In John Burroughs Front Yard 12-3pm. $125. Rustic lunch served in the woods of the JB Nature Sanctuary. Special musical performance by Jay Ungar and Molly Mason. Extended Slabsides Cabin Experience, guided nature walks, and silent auction. Slabsides, West Park. Nycharities. org/events/EventLevels.aspx?ETID=9055. Ride the Ridge 7:30am-3pm. $20+. Multiple group rides for all ages through the beautiful Hudson River Valley, including a 5-mile ride for young riders and their parents. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 658-4855.
THEATER Moliere’s The Imaginary Invalid 2-4pm. $20/$17 for Playhouse members/$10 students with ID. This is a new adaptation written and directed by Barbara Leavell Smith. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (800) 838-3006. Rock of Ages 3pm. $27/$25. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Wizard of Oz 2-4:30pm. $18-$24. The New York Conservatory for the Arts presents the beloved musical The Wizard of Oz with all of the timeless music and characters of the Classic Motion Picture. Join Dorothy, Glinda, the Wicked Witch, Scarecrow, Lion and the Tin Man (and Toto, too) as they journey to the Emerald City to see the Wizard of Oz. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-6900.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Angel School Level 1 1-6pm. $89/$94 after May 29. Enjoy a powerful and loving experience with your Guardian Angels. Experience carefully developed methods to facilitate an experience that is direct and simple. Crystal Essence, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-2595.
MUSIC BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY AND THE BITCHIN' BAJAS
Bonnie "Prince" Billy and the Bitchin' Bajas will perform at the Half Moon on June 21.
Son of the South “Whoa! There goes a snake,” says a startled singer-songwriter Will Oldham from his back yard. A few minutes go by and then comes another interjection. “Two snakes! There’s one hanging out on top of the daylilies, I’ve never seen that before.” But the sudden appearance of serpents in a Will Oldham interview doesn’t seem so inappropriate; the biblical imagery in many of his brooding, literate songs has always felt like it was descended from the gothic work of novelists like Flannery O’Connor and Harry Crews, two of his Southern peers. Since 1999, the singer-songwriter has recorded mostly as Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and it’s under that name that he will perform with Bitchin’ Bajas at the Half Moon on June 21. Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, where he still lives, Oldham is himself an author (the 2012 autobiography Will Oldham on Bonnie “Prince” Billy) as well as an accomplished actor whose first major role came when he was 16, in the 1987 John Sayles drama Matewan; other significant films include 2005’s Junebug, 2006’s Old Joy, and 2008’s Wendy and Lucy. But it’s music that continues to occupy the better part of Oldham’s artistic endeavors, which began Louisville’s thriving, self-sufficient 1980s underground rock scene. “We were digging, following clues to find ways of self-expression,” Oldham recalls. While julep-sipping bluebloods and beer-chugging hillbillies whooped it up at Derby Day parties, punk clubs in the Highlands district rocked with the likes of the Babylon Dance Band, Malignant Growth, and Squirrel Bait. The last’s members scattered to form, among other acts, influential instrumentalists Tortoise, with whom Oldham has recorded, and math rockers Slint. Slint’s Brian McMahan appears on the 1993 debut by Oldham’s first recording project,
the Palace Brothers, There is No-One What Will Take Care of You (Drag City Records, the home of most of his output). With its creaky brew of Appalachian-impressionist folk and parable-rich lyrics of sin and redemption, the album established the enigmatic Oldham as a major new voice. After another release as the Palace Brothers, Oldham made albums under his own name and as Palace Music, Palace Songs, and, simply, Palace. In on the Bonnie “Prince” Billy handle with I See a Darkness, whose soul-baring title track was recorded by Johnny Cash the following year. “I felt that since each record was its own thing, it didn’t seem right to always the same name,” he explains about the current moniker, which was partially inspired by that of 18th-century Jacobite pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie. “But at the end of the day, that didn’t make sense, in terms of selling records.” The newest Bonnie “Prince” Billy record is Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties (Drag City), a collaboration with Chicago experimental trio Bitchin’ Bajas. Interestingly, Louisville’s long-running lord of lo-fi is a fan of the extravagant MGM musicals of Hollywood’s Golden Age, a medium that would seem a lot different than the raw DIY sound he’s identified with. “I don’t think [the two styles] are different, I think they’re the same,” he says. “What drew me to the MGM movies as a kid was the idea that you could wake up, look around, and just sing about anything. [Both styles] are about blurring the lines between music and life.” Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Bitchin’ Bajas will perform at the Half Moon in Hudson on June 21 at 8pm. Highlife will open. Admission is $15. (518) 828-1562; Thehalfmoonhudson.com. —Peter Aaron 6/16 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 99
Children & Families: Sketching Sculpture 1pm. Spend an afternoon sketching in the fields and meadows of Storm King with artist, educator, and conservator Corey D’Augustine. While most sculptors use preparatory sketches to plan their work, this workshop will focus on the viewer’s perspective by emphasizing how we understand the volumes, contours, and colors of various works in Storm King’s collection. Drawing materials will be provided. Storm King Art Center, New Windsor. 534-3115. First Sunday School 12:30-2pm. A unique Buddhist-oriented Class for children ages 5+ and their families. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444. Selling Your Nonfiction Book: The Art of Proposal Writing 1-4pm. $35. With Leslie T. Sharpe. Andes Public Library, Andes. 676-3333.
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HEALTH & WELLNESS Reiki Share First Tuesday of every month, 6:30-8pm. For Reiki practitioners to replenish your reserves. Share and receive Reiki energy in front of the hearth fire with a loving community of Reiki practitioners. The evening begins with a centering meditation, connecting to our Reiki guides and an opportunity to share about reiki experiences. Only to those who have received at least Reiki l training. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206. KIDS & FAMILY ADHD/Autism Support Group 1-2pm. This group, led by social worker Angela Perez, provides a supportive and educational environment where parents can share experiences that they have with their children living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and or autism spectrum disorder. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-8500.
WEDNESDAY 8 MUSIC Bela Fleck & The Flecktones 7:30pm. $44.50-$59.50. 7:30pm. $44.50$59.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. International Orange noon. Original jazz-funk fusion unites the slide guitar of the American south with the rhythmic sensibilities of India, Africa and Brazil. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. Jazz Sessions at The Falcon Underground - Host Doug Weiss 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Satellite Paradiso 7pm. Backstage Studio Productions (BSP), Kingston. 481-5158.
NIGHTLIFE Sip & Paint 7pm. $45. Sip, paint & make memories with Vine Van Gogh. Ice House on the Hudson, Poughkeepsie. Vinevangogh.com.
ART GALLERIES AND EXHIBITS Elijah Wheat Showroom: Petrichor Opening reception June 11, 6pm-10pm Catalyst Gallery, Beacon. (917) 860-2246.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES CMS Spring 2016 Workshop Intensive Through June 10. Composer/bassist/vocalist and educator Meshell Ndegeocello, Moroccan gnawa master Hassan Hakmoun, and percussionist/composer/bandleader Adam Rudolph join Creative Music Studio™ Artistic Directors/Co-founders Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso as Guiding Artists for the CMS Spring 2016 Workshop intensive. Full Moon Resort, Big Indian. 254-8009. Who’s Driving This Bus?!? A Workshop for Performers 6:30-8pm. $85. June 6-27, (four Monday evenings) Open to solo or group performers - all genres and experience levels. Topics: audience rapport, relaxing for the performance, handling sound issues; developing a positive, confident stage presence, and much more. Includes practice with supportive group feedback. Artists’ Collective of Hyde Park, Hyde Park. Https:// facebook.com/events/1817868431774455/.
TUESDAY 7 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Creatives MX Hudson Valley Meet Up 6-8pm. A fun evening of networking and collaboration! Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. 877-928-3287 x15. CHRONOGRAM.COM These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.
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Lakou Mizik: Haitian Roots Gumbo 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Laurance Juber 7:30pm. $20. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.
NIGHTLIFE Sip & Paint 7-9:30pm. $45. Sip, paint & make memories with Vine Van Gogh. Robibero Family Vineyards, New Paltz. Vinevangogh.com. OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Bingo Second Thursday of every month, 7pm. Beekman Fire Department, Poughquag. 270-9133.
THEATER Dream Child: The Trial of Alice in Wonderland 7:30-9pm. $20/$10 for patrons age 21 and under. Journey through the mind of an elderly Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll’s original muse and the inspiration for his timeless stories. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818.
LITERARY & BOOKS Next Year’s Words First Monday of every month, 7:30-9:30pm. $2. Jewish Community Center, New Paltz. Npnextyearswords@gmail.com.
NIGHTLIFE Sip & Paint 7-9:30pm. $45. Sip, paint & make memories with Vine Van Gogh! TGI Friday’s, Central Valley. Vinevangogh.com.
MUSIC Folksinger Joan Shelley 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION Canoe Paddle with the DEC 4-6pm. Join us for an educational canoe paddle through Tivoli Bays with the New York State DEC. Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-3771.
HEALTH & WELLNESS Movement & Strength First Monday, Thursday of every month, 7-8:15pm. $20/bulk discounts available. For individuals that want to improve their balance, strength, and total overall body movement and range of motion. All strength and fitness levels welcome. Diamond Gymnastics, Poughkeepsie. 416-2222.
Speaking of Books 7-8:30pm. Non-Fiction Book Group. We will be discussing Daniel Chamovitz’s book: “What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses”. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Poughkeepsie, Poughkeepsie. 471-6580.
Movement & Strength First Monday, Thursday of every month, 7-8:15pm. $20/bulk discounts available. For individuals that want to improve their balance, strength, and total overall body movement and range of motion. All strength and fitness levels welcome. Diamond Gymnastics, Poughkeepsie. 416-2222.
Measure for Measure 7:30. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Cold Spring. Hvshakespeare.org.
Berkshire International Film Festival This festival features 70 independent features, documentaries, short films, and family films from 26 countries, including Norway, Argentina, India, Italy, Afghanistan, and Germany. Live panel discussions and Q&As will be held with filmmakers, directors, producers, and actors. The festival opens with the screening of Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, an Oscar-winning documentary about the world-renowned cellist that explores the power of music. Attending the event will be Yo-Yo Ma, Bruce Dern, Karen Allen, Doug Trumbull, Noah Baumbach, and others. The festival takes place from Thursday, June 2, through Sunday, June 5, at the Triplex Cinema and the Mahaiwe Theatre in Great Barrington. The festival will also be happening in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, from Friday, June 3, to Sunday, June 5. Passes cost between $200 and $500. Biffma.org.
Cub’s Place 5-6pm. This group, led by social worker Angela Perez, is for children grades K-5 going through a difficult time at home, including a parent or sibling with a chronic illness, temporary placement in foster care and/ or divorce. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-8500.
LITERARY & BOOKS Open Mike 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775. MUSIC Big Joe Fitz and the Lo-Fis Blues and Dance Party First Tuesday of every month, 7-10pm. Big Joe brings together some of the most highly regarded musicians on the northeast music scene. Their sound features a sophisticated blend of jazz and blues. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. The Chapel Restoration Music Series First Tuesday of every month, 4-5:30pm. Classical music series with world-renowned musicians. Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring. Chapelrestoration.org.
NIGHTLIFE Sip & Paint 7pm. $45. Sip, paint & make memories with Vine Van Gogh. Gappy’s Pizza, Carmel. Vinevangogh.com. THEATER As You Like It 7:30. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Cold Spring. Hvshakespeare.org.
THEATER Macbeth 7:30. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Cold Spring. Hvshakespeare.org. WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Anna Haaland: Artist Professional Skills 5-8pm. $180/series. This summertime series of lectures is designed with the idea of managing balance and opportunity in the professional lives of visual artists. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
THURSDAY 9 BUSINESS & NETWORKING Hudson Valley Garden Association Monthly Meeting Second Thursday of every month, 7pm. Shawangunk Town Hall, Wallkill. 418-3640. CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS A Celebration of Women Mentors 6-9pm. $75/$145 couple. Stonehedge, West Park. Raisinghopeulster.org. DANCE Belly Dancing Series with Ayleeza 6:30-7:45pm. $36 for the series. A 3-part series. This series is ALL levels, beginners to experienced. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206. HEALTH & WELLNESS Bodystorm: Embodied Visioning Council with Dr. Roxanne Partridge 6:30-8:30pm. Dr. Roxanne Partridge leads this embodied take on traditional talking-circles as a free community offering for women to come together and (body) brainstorm topics of importance to female embodiment. Aletis House, Hudson. (415) 686-8722.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES The Basics: Memory Loss, Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease 2-3pm. A free educational program by the Alzheimer’s Association Hudson Valley Chapter. Adelphi University Hudson Valley Campus, Poughkeepsie. Https://alz.org/ hudsonvalley.
FRIDAY 10 COMEDY An Evening of Comedy With Paul Reiser 8pm. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. 914-739-0039.. HEALTH & WELLNESS Baby Magic Knitting, Crocheting & Meditation Circle Second Friday of every month, 7-9pm. This circle is for conscious, spiritual women who want to conceive or who are pregnant, as well as their supportive sisters, girlfriends and mothers. Open to knitters and crocheters at all levels, even beginners. White Barn Farm, New Paltz. 259-1355. LECTURES & TALKS Non-Fiction Tour for Writers and Teachers 4:30-6pm. $10. Join storyteller Tom Lee on a tour through Olana to learn how to spark your students’ imaginations and how to enhance learning for K-9 Language Arts and Social Studies. Trained in Visual Thinking Strategies, with years of experience telling stories with museum collections, Tom Lee heads artsVOYAGE, the arts-in-education program at Spencertown Academy. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 105. LITERARY & BOOKS Reading of Selections from Queering Sexual Violence 7pm. By Peri Rainbow, Jennifer Patterson, and other contributors. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. MUSIC Acoustic Music Performance with Dave Berger 6:30-7:30pm. Free. Dave Berger performs and writes music of many styles. First and foremost he is a guitarist, but has been singing and writing for several years. Live performances generally include, but aren’t limited to: -Popular covers (oldies to newies), with singing and looping -Acoustic improvised and original written pieces with looping -Solo jazz guitar Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
The Acquaintances Second Friday of every month, 8-11pm. The Acquaintances consisting of Jeff Entin on guitar, Bob Blum on bass, and Larry Balestra on drums. The trio play mostly original music and also do a fair share of covers including everything from jazz standards to rockabilly, music from The Band, The Grateful Dead, The Beatles, and much more. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Beyond Joni with Joanna Wallfisch 7pm. Mountain Top Library, Tannersville. (518) 589-5023. Mary Mancini & Mario Tacca 8pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Mina Thomas 8pm. $10-$25. Jazz/Gospel singer, recording artist, actress, song-writer and spoken word poet. Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh. 784-1199. Richard Thompson 8pm. $39.50. Iconic British folk rock legend Richard Thompson, one of the world’s most critically acclaimed and prolific songwriters and admired guitarists, performs a unique concert accompanied by a string orchestra. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.
whimsical costumes and, of course, a fluffy hedgehog or two, Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Christopher Williams Dances 7:30-8:30pm. $20/$10 student rush and children. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106 ext. 2. Mid-Hudson Performing Arts Group Poughkeepsie City Ballet present Alice in Wonderland 2 & 6:30pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Beacon Second Saturday Second Saturday of every month. Second Saturday is a city-wide celebration of the arts. Beaconarts.org Downtown Beacon, Beacon. First Annual Food & Arts Festival 11am-4pm. Crown Maple® and Organic Hudson Valley partner to highlight sustainable and local businesses. Madava Farms, Dover Plains. 877-0640.
Museum Storytelling: Family Tours 10am-11:30pm. This will not be a traditional house tour; instead storyteller Tom Lee engages with Olana’s collection to invent stories to show how museum collections can come alive. Tom Lee works in museums all over the country including The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext 105. Summer Fair & BBQ 11am-6pm. $12-$14. St. John’s is teaming up with Stone Pony catering to bring you a delicious summer event! Spend the morning shopping local vendors, enjoy free kids activities and petting zoo, watch live entertainment (POOK is back!). St. John’s Episcopal Church, Kingston. 331-2252. Wayfinder Experience’s Living Legends 11am-9pm. $10-$40. Living Legends are one-day, 10-hour promotional events designed to give new players a taste of our programming. Hudson Valley Sudbury School, Kingston. 481-0776.
THEATER As You Like It 7:30. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Cold Spring. Hvshakespeare.org. WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Taking Flight: Birding in the Catskills 3pm. $73+. Through June 12. We have combined the best of a birding conference with a birding festival, and have invented an event that is rich with presenters you will want to hear, speaking on topics you will want to learn about. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. (914) 482-5771.
SATURDAY 11 COMEDY Jackie Hoffman 8:30pm. $35/$55 show and reception. Jackie Hoffman will perform excerpts from her AwardWinning solo shows–full of side-splitting humor and original songs. Reception provided by the world-class chefs of The Culinary Institute of America. Half Moon Theatre, Poughkeepsie. (800) 838-3006. DANCE Alice in Wonderland 2-6:30pm. $15 adult, $12 senior/student/ veteran, $10 groups of 10+. On June 11, 2016 you can jump down the rabbit hole with Alice into the fantastical world of Wonderland first imagined by Lewis Carroll 150 years ago and now re-invented by Poughkeepsie City Ballet into a futuristic steampunk infused rendition. Enjoy tea with the Mad Hatter, croquet with the Queen and a dancing flamingo who tangos on pointe. This mad family adventure will be filled to the brim with music from Queen to Tchaikovsky, colorful and
Music That Shook the World! Gala Event 6pm. $50/$30. Michael Chertock, piano; Yehonatan Berick, violin; Yehuda Hanani, cello; special guest narrator. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040. The National: Benefit Concert for Hawthorne Valley + MASS MoCA 8-10:30pm. $49. Indie rock. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111. Six Bands, Six Genres, Six Sculptures noon. Country, swing, jazz, rock, oldies, latin/world, and many other styles of music in the one-of-a-kind music festival. 126pm. Experience a fun-filled day of music and art. Presented with Ferry Godmother Productions. Storm King Art Center, New Windsor. 534-3115.
The Wendy May Band 9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Community Canvas: St. Patrick’s Church Youth Programs 7-9:30pm. $45. Join us for a Community Canvas event to support the St. Patrick’s Church Youth Programs. Its intention is to raise money to support the St. Patrick’s Church, initiate, and offer scholarships to any high school seniors who participated in any program offered by St. Patrick’s, as well as, providing disadvantaged high school students attain Chromebooks in order for them to be competitive with peers. St. Patrick’s Church, Highland Mills. Vinevangogh.com/product/ sip-paint-for-a-cause-st-patricks-churchyouth-programs/.
THEATER Dream Child: The Trial of Alice in Wonderland 7:30-9pm. $20/$10 for patrons age 21 and under. Journey through the mind of an elderly Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll’s original muse and the inspiration for his timeless stories. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818.
Melissa Ferrick 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
The Slackers, The Big Takeover, and Los Thujones 8pm. $20/$15 in advance. Backstage Studio Productions (BSP), Kingston. 481-5158.
Split Bill: Palm Slap and Mad Satta 7pm. Soul. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION Astronomy: Stargazing 8:30-11pm. View the night sky away from the lights of the cities and towns of our area. Bring your own telescope or view the stars through one brought by our members. Open to the public but RSVP is required. Lake Taghkanic State Park, Ancram. Midhudsonastro.org.
Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert 7pm. Singer-songwriter. American Glory BBQ, Hudson. (518) 822-1234.
Who More Than Self Their Country Loved 7:30pm. The West Point Band will celebrate the Army Birthday. West Point Military Academy, West Point. Usma.edu.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Sip & Paint 7pm. $45. Sip, paint & fundraise with Vine Van Gogh to support Kira 12 Strong! White Eagle Hall, Kingston. Vinevangogh.com.
Catskill Interpretive Center Book Fair The Hudson Valley boasts a robust local publishing industry. Born out of the desire to bring the region’s publishing resources together, this fair hosts an exhibitor’s tent with McPherson & Company, Station Hill, Mayapple, Post Traumatic, Black Dome, and Purple Mountain. Thirty-nine writers, poets, and children’s authors will participate, including Vernon Benjamin, who will discuss his new book, The Hudson Valley: From the Civil War to Modern Times; Evan Pritchard; and Lowell Thing. Hiking experts Carol and Dave White will discuss treks throughout the area. Violet Snow will lead a writers’ workshop. Two panel discussions—one exploring documentary filmmaking in the Catskills and the other entitled “The Catskills As a Creative Muse”—will also be presented. This fair takes place on June 4 from 10am to 3pm at the Maurice D. Hinchey Catskill Interpretive Center in Mount Tremper, with help from WoodstockArts. Catskillinterpretivecenter.org.
(Freak) Flag Day Hudson’s annual Flag Day celebrations, with a big parade and fireworks, are a David Lynch-Americana Dream Come True! Basilica’s (Freak) Flag Day acts as freakier counterpart to the city’s festivities and features performances, and dancing late into the wee hours. Basilica Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-1050. Shale Hill Music Fest 12-3pm. $20. Featuring Tracy Bonham, Bari Koral, and The Cameramen. Proceeds to benefit Choices in Childbirth and New York State Birth Center Association Shale Hill Farm, Saugerties. (917) 975-1380. Spring for Sound 2016 10-midnight. $20. Festival goers are always treated to a family-friendly event with a unique variety of indie-band music for people of all ages in downtown Millerton. North East Community Center, Millerton. Springforsound.com.
KIDS & FAMILY Castle Centennial Community Day 1-4pm. Families can enjoy early-20th-century games and activities in addition to tours of the castle, which features heirlooms, furniture, and architecture from when the home was built in 1916. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291.
LECTURES & TALKS Dia:Beacon Gallery Talk: Paula Deitz on Michael Heizer 2-3pm. Paula Deitz is editor of the Hudson Review, a magazine of literature and the arts published in New York City. Focusing on the work of a single artist on view at Dia:Beacon, these one-hour walkthroughs are led by curators, art historians, and writers. Dia:Beacon, Beacon. Diaart.org/freeday. LITERARY & BOOKS Space Create Poetry Slam 7-9pm.$100 first prize. SpaceCreate, Newburgh. 590-1931. Jennifer Castle presents What Happens Now 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival Reading 2pm. Featuring Jeffrey Davis and Philip Pardi. The Golden Notebook, Woodstock. 679-8000.
MUSIC Dixie Chicks 7:30pm. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. 518-584-9330.
Fairy Houses & Toad Abodes 10am. $3-$7. Ages 5+. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
The Dylan Doyle Band 8:30-11:30pm. A unique musical interpretation that lies somewhere within the Delta of Rock, blues, and funk. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Family Hootenany Second Saturday of every month, 10-11am. $5. Beacon Music Factory (BMF), Beacon. Https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ home?studioid=41760.
Elly Wininger and the The Pine Hill Playboys 6pm. Music, drama, games,poetry, hi-jnks, lo-jinks and surprises. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION Bannerman Wine and Cheese Cruise Tour $75/$70. Enjoy wine, cheese, delectable wraps & salads catered by Loughran’s Irish Pub, cruise to Bannerman for a guided tour. We then cruise down river towards West Point. Bannerman Island, Glenham. Bannermancastle.org. SPIRITUALITY Spirit Salon 11am-4pm. $20 per service. Please join us for a day of psychics and divination practitioners, massage, energy healers and so much more! Healthy snacks will be served. Win handcrafted artisan soaps! Samadhi Bhavana, Poughkeepsie. (484) 258-1891. THEATER Dream Child: The Trial of Alice in Wonderland 7:30-9pm. $20/$10 for patrons age 21 and under. Journey through the mind of an elderly Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll’s original muse and the inspiration for his timeless stories. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818. Measure for Measure 7:30. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Cold Spring. Hvshakespeare.org.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES High and Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center Volunteer Training 10am-noon. Learn to assist people with special needs through equine assisted activities. Ages 14+. High and Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center, Ghent. (518) 672-4202. Repair Cafe: Poughkeepsie 9am-noon. Bring a beloved but broken item to be repaired for free at this communitysponsored “experiment in repair culture.” Mechanical & electrical items; electronic & digital; clothing & jewelry; things made of wood, bicycle tune-ups & repair. An expert level of repair and great place to meet your neighbors. Coffee & tea free; baked goods & fruit in our Cafe. First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Poughkeepsie. Repaircafehv.org. Repair Cafe: Rosendale 10am-2pm. Bring a beloved but broken item to be repaired for free. Mechanical & electrical items; electronic & digital; clothing & jewelry; things made of wood. Coffee & tea free; baked goods & fruit in our Cafe. St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Rosendale. Repaircafehv.org. Spring “Plein Air” Outdoor Painting Class 9:30am-noon. $150 series/$30 class. 6-week class with Mira Fink. Location available, High Falls. 338-6503.
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SUNDAY 12 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Battle of the Brains Trivia Night 6-9pm. $10. Come join for food, fun and trivia! Get a team of 6 or less people together and get ready for host Andre Nachmani to challenge your knowledge. There will be a raffle & a prize for the winning team. All proceeds benefit recreation for adults with developmental disabilities in Devereux NY residences. Bread & Bottle, Red Hook. 331-1660 ext. 221. DANCE Ballet Hispanico 3pm. $15/$13 members/$6 children. HD presentation of their critically and popularly acclaimed “CARMEN.maquia” and “Club Havana.” The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989. FAIRS & FESTIVALS High Falls Flea Market 9am-4pm. Art, antiques, collectibles, crafts and unique treasures. Grady Park, high falls. 810-0471.
MONDAY 13 LECTURES & TALKS Back Pain and Acupuncture 11:30am. Presented by Detlef Wolf, L.Ac. and Dipl.Ac. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145. NIGHTLIFE Sip & Paint 7-9:30pm. $45. Sip, paint & make memories with Vine Van Gogh. Gilded Otter, New Paltz. Vinevangogh.com. WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Writing the Stories of Your Life 2pm. In this workshop, memoir writing instructor Beverly Sloane will teach you how to turn a significant memory into a compelling, vivid and honest written work. The Center for Healthy Aging’s Allison Gould will discuss the therapeutic value of writing for healing and personal growth. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001.
MUSIC The Falcon Underground’s Roots & Blues Sessions - Host: Petey Hop 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Geoffrey Keezer & Gillian Margot 7pm. Jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Happy Together Tour 8pm. Performances by The Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie, Chuck Negron (former lead singer of Three Dog Night), Mark Lindsay (formerly of Paul Revere & The Raiders), Gary Puckett & the Union Gap, The Cowsills and The Spencer Davis Group. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800. Upstate Rubdown Noon. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Happy Together Tour 2016 8pm. $62.00, $52.00, & $42.00 Reserved Seating. Flo & Eddie, Chuck Negron Former Lead Singer of Three Dog Night, Mark Lindsay Formerly of Paul Revere & The Raiders, Gary
FOOD & WINE Brunch & Brush 12-2:30pm. $45. Sip, paint & make memories with Vine Van Gogh. Take Me Back Gourmet Cafe, Newburgh. Vinevangogh.com.
KIDS & FAMILY Pizza & Paint with Van Gogh Jr. noon. $35. Learn, paint & create memories with Vine Van Gogh. Gappy’s Pizza, Carmel. Vinevangogh.com.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION I’d Rather be Hiking 10am. $7/$5 members. Adults only. Explore the new connector trail from the Outdoor Discovery Center to Black Rock Forest. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781. SPORTS Walkway Marathon 6:45am-5pm. Runners of all abilities are invited to take part in one of four flat, fast and scenic races—a marathon, halfmarathon, 5K, and the THINK DIFFERENTLY Dash, a one-mile run for individuals with physical and developmental disabilities. Poughkeepsie. 454-9649. THEATER Dream Child: The Trial of Alice in Wonderland 2-3:30pm. $20/$10 for patrons age 21 and under. Journey through the mind of an elderly Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll’s original muse and the inspiration for his timeless stories. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818. Macbeth 7:30. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Cold Spring. Hvshakespeare.org.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Children & Families: Art Darts 1pm. Create paintbrushes from paper airplanes and drinking straws and use them to make a collaborative splash painting. With Free Style Arts Association. Storm King Art Center, New Windsor. 534-3115. Slackline Series 2:30-4:30pm. $30 drop-in/$100 series. A unique practice that redefines your sense of balance and mental focus on a one inch wide piece of webbing! The Yoga House, Kingston. 706-9642.
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FILM Born in Flames 8pm. Lizzie Borden’s seminal feminist sci-fi film. Basilicahudson.org. KIDS & FAMILY Doo Wop Circus 7pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. MUSIC Connor Kennedy & Minstrel’s Third Thursdays 7pm. Roots rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Library Knitters Third Thursday of every month, 7-8pm. Sit and knit in the beautiful Gardiner Library. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255. Reducing Your Personal Waste Stream with Jacquie Ottman 5:30-7:30pm. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. 8456870880.
MUSIC Bill McHenry Trio 7pm. Jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Klyde Jones 7pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Hudson Valley Food Truck Festival Third Thursday of every month, 4:30-10pm. Local food trucks from the Hudson valley makes their most delicious dishes. There is live music, a great selection of microbrew beers & children entertainment. Bring your family, friends & anyone who might like to eat & drink. Cantine memorial field, Saugerties. 399-2222.
THEATER Dream Child: The Trial of Alice in Wonderland 7:30-9pm. $20/$10 for patrons age 21 and under. Journey through the mind of an elderly Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll’s original muse and the inspiration for his timeless stories. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818. Macbeth 7:30. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Cold Spring. Hvshakespeare.org.
A Tasting of Wines from Around the World 1-5pm. $100/$85 in advance. A Fundraiser for Greene County Council on the Arts. Maggie Fine, Catskill. (518) 943-3400.
Borromeo String Quartet 3pm. Bach: Selections from the WellTempered Klavier, BWV 846-853 (1722) (2), Ravel: String Quartet in F (1903) (45), Beethoven: String Quartet in E Flat Major, Opus 127 (1825) (19). Music Mountain, Falls Village, CT. (860) 824-7126.
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FRIDAY 17 Hudson Valley Cider & Cheese Tasting and Market Cider and cheese are paired in this celebration of flavorful fermentation and tasty textures. Kicking off Hudson Valley Cider Week, more than 20 craft cider makers, such as Aaron Burr Cider, Gravity Ciders, Angry Orchard, Sundog Cider, and Doc’s Draft Cider, and 10 artisanal cheese makers, including Acorn Hill Farmstead Cheese, Nettle Meadow, Sprout Creek Farm, and Vulto Creamery, will join together at Basilica Hudson. Talbott & Arding Cheese and Provisions will serve up sandwiches and light fare, while Gaskins Restaurant will sell hard cider and soft drinks at the bar. Ticket holders can sample over 20 hard ciders, as well as more than 10 kinds of cheese. Presented by Basilica Hudson and Glynwood, this event takes place on Saturday, June 4, from 1pm to 4pm. Tickets range from $10 to $35. Basilicahudson.org.
TUESDAY 14 HEALTH & WELLNESS Living with Lymphedema Support Groups 7pm. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-8500. LECTURES & TALKS Monthly Open House with Dharma Talk Second Tuesday of every month, 7pm. free. Shambhala Buddhist teachers talk on a variety of topics at our Open House. Second Tuesday of every month, after community meditation practice. Meditation: 6-7pm, Talk 7pm, followed by tea, cookies, and converation. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. THEATER As You Like It 7:30. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Cold Spring. Hvshakespeare.org. WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Tea & Stones Second Tuesday of every month, 6:307:30pm. Each month we explore a different stone from our vast collection. Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
WEDNESDAY 15 FILM Bag It: Is your Life Too Plastic? 5:30-7:30pm. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. 8456870880. The Hudson: A River at Risk 7pm. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 265-8080.
Puckett & The Union Gap, The Cowsills and The Spencer Davis Group. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.
SPORTS Annual Support Connection Golf Outing 8am-8pm. $225/$900 for a foursome/$75 dinner only. A benefit tournament, hosted by Club Fit, to raise funds for Support Connection’s free breast and ovarian cancer support services. Garrison Golf Club, Garrison. (914) 962-6402. THEATER Measure for Measure 7:30. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Cold Spring. Hvshakespeare.org. WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Encaustic and Paper 9am-5pm. $400. Through June 17. With Cynthia Winika. R&F Handmade Paints, Kingston. 331-3112. Lyme Wellness Workshop Series Third Wednesday of every month, 122pm. New Paltz Community Center, New Paltz. 255-3631. Tarot Wisdom Gathering Third Wednesday of every month, 6:30-8pm. $10. Join us at our monthly Tarot gathering. Each month a card will be chosen that we will delve into with open minds and hearts. We will have a discussion and journey to gather and share our inner wisdom. All levels of experience are welcome. Bring your own Tarot deck to enjoy this guided exploration to learn & connect more deeply with your deck. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
ART Artists Potluck/Slide Share Dinner 6-9pm. Form community and creative relationships. First Presbyterian Church, Hudson. (518) 828-4275. DANCE Doug Varone and Dancers 8pm. Pre-performance talk at 7pm. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. 518-584-9330. FAIRS & FESTIVALS Kingston Night Market 6-10pm. A monthy pop-up market in downtown Kingston. Nightmarketkingston.com. FILM ASK for Film’s Opening Night: Hudson Valley People and Places 7-9pm. $10. Arts Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0333. KIDS & FAMILY Family Camp Out After dinner, bring your family, tent, and sleeping bags for an evening of nocturnal fun. As the sun goes down, join in for s’mores around the campfire. A light breakfast, snack, and coffee will be provided Saturday morning as you break camp. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781. Tea & Play 1-2pm. Open-house event for parents, caregivers, and grandparents with children from birth to age 6, . Green Meadow Waldorf School, Chestnut Ridge. 356-2514 ext. 311. LITERARY & BOOKS June Poetry Slam 7-9pm. Poets, Cheryl Clarke, John Fitzpatrick and Haigan Smith with open mike. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. Https://facebook.com/ events/1699888490260192/. Sarada Chiruvolu presents Home at Last: A Journey Toward Higher Consciousness 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Storytelling with Janet Carter 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775. MUSIC Bare Naked Ladies 7pm. $45-$96.50. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. 866-781-2922.
Dharma Bums 9:30pm. Progressive rock. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760. Singer-Songwriter Showcase Third Friday of every month, 8pm. $6. Acoustic Music by three outstanding singer-songwriters and musicians at ASK GALLERY, 97 Broadway, Kingston 8-10:30 pm Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0311. Sugar Blue 7pm. Blues harmonica. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
SPIRITUALITY Shamanic Drum Circle 7-9pm. $20. Shamanic Journeying is an ancient technique used to deepen ones spiritual connections. Through rhythmic drumming, we will transcend our normal conscious state and journey to meet the many helping spirits that are always surrounding us. Join us once a month to practice & delve into a deeper understanding of Shamanic Journeying with the support & guidance of David Beck. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
LECTURES & TALKS Navigation Series: Mapping Church’s Travel Routes 3-5pm. $20/$15 member. Do you ever wonder how people traveled in the 19th century without the luxury of Google Maps? Ages 5+. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 105. The Sculpture of Lowell Miller 5pm. Slide talk with Lowell Miller. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-4693.
LITERARY & BOOKS Launch for For Goodness Sake: Plant-Base Recipes from the Spiral House Kitchen 12-5pm. $32. Whitecliff Wine tasting and book signing. Spiral House, Saugerties. 4goodness-sake.com. Poetry Reading by Laurice Byro 2:30-4pm. Author of two books of Poetry, Laurice Byro will read her work at the Gallery. Amity Gallery, Warwick. (973) 853-6713.
Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra’s Annual Pops for Pop Concert 7:30pm. Under the direction of Kathleen Beckmann, the orchestra will stir things up with singer Mark Raisch and soprano Julia Radosz. Rhinebeck High School, Rhinebeck. 871-5500. Scarecrow 7pm. Blues hip hop. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Mountain Road School 40th Anniversary Celebration 5-8pm. Mountain Road School, New Lebanon. Mountainroadschool.org. Jacob’s Pillow Season Opening Gala 5pm. The exclusive Season Opening Gala event will include a special performances. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
THEATER Dream Child: The Trial of Alice in Wonderland 7:30-9pm. $20/$10 for patrons age 21 and under. Journey through the mind of an elderly Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll’s original muse and the inspiration for his timeless stories. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818.
DANCE Company XIV 7:30pm. $30/$10 student rush and children. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106 ext. 10. Freestyle Frolic 7:30pm-midnight. All ages welcome - no partner needed. MountainView Studio, Woodstock. 658-8319.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Newburgh Illuminated Festival 2016 11:45am-10pm. The free all-day Festival will once again celebrate one of the most diverse historic Hudson Valley communities with an even wider variety of unique food offerings, musical and performing arts events, indoor and outdoor activities, a trolley tour, the popular color celebration, and more. Newburgh Artisans, Newburgh. Newburghilluminatedfestival.com/. HEALTH & WELLNESS Exercise Your Body, Exercise Your Mind Wellness Day 10am-2pm. Come join our ½ hour sample classes from the area’s top instructors in Zumba, Yoga, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Juice Tasting and Drumming! This is a kick-off to our adult summer reading program. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580. Exercise Your Mind/Exercise Your Body 10am-2pm. Free. Enjoy a day of Wellness to Kick Off Our Adult Summer Reading Program. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 750-4438.
KIDS & FAMILY Dan Zanes’ Leadbelly Project 2-4pm. $24/$18 in advance/$12 ages 6-18/ under 6 free. The music of iconic American folk and blues legend, Huddie William Ledbetter, best known as Lead Belly. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.
Spring “Plein Air” Outdoor Painting Class 9:30am-noon. $150 series/$30 class. 6-week class with Mira Fink. Location available, High Falls. 338-6503. Woodworking Demonstration Day 10:30am-4pm. Interact with Hudson Valley artist Mike Leggett as he demonstrates the artistry, skills and secrets of woodworking today, as well as 200 years ago. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS High Falls Flea Market 9am-4pm. Art, antiques, collectibles, crafts and unique treasures. Grady Park, high falls. 810-0471. MUSIC Billy Harper Quintet 7pm. Jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
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COMEDY Michael Carbonaro Live! 7:30pm. $36.50/$150 VIP (includes meet & greet). From his hit television series “The Carbonaro Effect” on truTV, magician Michael Carbonaro brings his signature blend of bizarre antics, audience interaction, hilarious video clips, and mind-blowing magic, live on stage. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.
Realigning the Pelvis Workshop with Jory Serota 1:30-3:30pm. $40. Pelvic misalignment and hip imbalance are very common conditions that often lead to back pain. In this workshop, we will explore ways to assess and treat our bodies for these very important and complex conditions. Woodstock Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.
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Macbeth 7:30. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Cold Spring. Hvshakespeare.org.
BUSINESS & NETWORKING How to Create the Most Profitable Marketing Plan for Your Business 9am-4pm. $49.95. When you register for this workshop, you’ll get full access to information only a handful of business owners are aware of. This workshop is only for business owners that want the best return on investment on their resources. The Accelerator, New Windsor. 363-6432.
Cornell Cooperative Extension Composting Workshop 10-11am. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.
Daryl’s House Presents Grace Potter 7pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088.
Farm to Fork Fondo In the early 1800s, a German inventor created a machine resembling a bicycle—a front wheel capable of being steered, a padded seat, and an armrest that helped in exerting force against the ground. After receiving a patent in 1818, he took his vehicle to Paris where it was renamed the velocipede (and nicknamed the “dandy horse”). The term remained in use until the late 1800s, when the word bicycle appeared. Cycling, cider, and community meet in this two-day event, featuring an 11-mile bike ride, the Ramble Ride, winding through Warwick’s countryside. On Saturday, June 25, the Pennings Farm Cidery Tasting Room will hold a five-course farm-to-table dinner. Weekend activities include a selection of bike rides for all ages, live music, farm tours, cycling vendors, a farm market, and more. On Sunday morning, June 26, different rides will depart throughout the area. Presented by Wrenegade Sports and Pennings Farm, general admission for the postride festival and live music is free. The Ramble Ride entry fee is $34.99 for adults and $22.99 for children 12 years old and younger. The price includes the postride BBQ, ride support, a welcome bag, and more. Visit their website for three additional rides and ticket information. FarmForkFondo.com.
Sarada Chiruvolu presents Home at Last: A Journey Toward Higher Consciousness 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
MUSIC Black Dog 9:30pm. $12/$8. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Happy Traum 7:30pm. The folk legend recounts a life in music in a mixed media performance. Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock. Woodstockguild.org. The Crossroads Band 9pm. Whistling Willie’s, Cold Spring. 265-2012. Daryl Hall and John Oates 7:30pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. 866-781-2922. West Point Band: Far and Away 7:30pm. This concert features music from around the globe, and also pays tribute to the heroes of the U.S. Armed Forces who travel far and wide to protect our nation’s freedoms. West Point Military Academy, West Point. Usma.edu. For Pete’s Sake! A Benefit for Clearwater 7pm. $58-$250. Featuring an all-star line-up of Clearwater friends Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390. Melissa Etheridge 8-10pm. $80/$95/$115. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is a contemporary swing revival band from southern California. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039 ext. 2.
Woodstock Area Garden Tour 10am-4pm. $30/$25 in advance. Bird-On-ACliff Theatre Company will hold a benefit tour of beautiful gardens in the Woodstock area. Eight gracious Woodstock area hosts will open their private gardens for leisurely viewing from 10 AM to 4 PM. Proceeds benefit the Woodstock Shakespeare Festival. Woodstock Shakespeare Festival, Woodstock. 247-4007.
SPIRITUALITY Women’s Full Moon Gathering 7pm. $10 exchange. Our Circle is a gathering of women, coming together to draw upon the powerful, rich energies of the full moon. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206. THEATER Dream Child: The Trial of Alice in Wonderland 7:30-9pm. $20/$10 for patrons age 21 and under. Journey through the mind of an elderly Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll’s original muse and the inspiration for his timeless stories. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818. As You Like It 7:30. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Cold Spring. Hvshakespeare.org. Michael Carbonaro 7:30pm. $36.50/$150 meet and greet. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Community Clay Day Third Saturday of every month, 1-3pm. $6. Art Centro, Poughkeepsie. 454-4525.
David Kraai with Fooch Fischetti 4-7pm. David Kraai doles out two sets of fine country folk music with the help of Fooch Fischetti on pedal steel and fiddle. Orange County Distillery at Brown Barn Farms, New Hampton. 651-2929. Hudson Valley BachFest: The Keyboard Marathon 3-5pm. $15. Performed by an array of area pianists, organists, harpsichordists, and will feature Bach’s virtuosic Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903. St Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Beacon. 534-2166. Penderecki String Quartet 3pm. Featuring Maurycy Banaszek, viola. Music Mountain, Falls Village, CT. (860) 824-7126. Sunday Brunch with Chiara Izzi 11am-2pm. Jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION 2016 New Paltz Challenge Run 7:30am. Proceeds will benefit the New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce and its community projects. Participants can choose from a half-marathon, Family 5K, and/or kid’s 1-mile run. Gilded Otter, New Paltz. 255-0243. THEATER Dream Child: The Trial of Alice in Wonderland 2-3:30pm. $20/$10 for patrons age 21 and under. Journey through the mind of an elderly Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll’s original muse and the inspiration for his timeless stories. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818. As You Like It 7:30. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Cold Spring. Hvshakespeare.org.
MONDAY 20 KIDS & FAMILY Camp Cardinal 9am-3pm. $275. South Kent School will be hosting a week-long, hands-on day camp on a real, working farm! South Kent School, South Kent, CT. (860) 927-3539. OUTDOORS & RECREATION Full Moon Summer Solstice Hike 7:30pm. $3-$7. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
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TUESDAY 21 HEALTH & WELLNESS Free Community Holistic Healthcare Day Third Tuesday of every month, 4-8pm. A wide variety of holistic health modalities and practitioners are available. Appointments can be made on a first-come, first-served basis upon check-in. Though no money/insurance is required, RVHHC invites patients to give a donation or an hour of volunteer community service if they can. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. Rvhhc.org/. Women’s Minimally Invasive Surgery with Dr. Edward Marici 5:30-7pm. The Olana Partnership partners with Columbia Memorial Health to encourage thinking of Olana as a place to enhance your mental and physical health. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 105.
LITERARY & BOOKS Open Mike 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Bingo Fourth Thursday of every month, 7pm. Beekman Fire Department, Poughquag. 270-9133. THEATER As You Like It 7:30. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Cold Spring. Hvshakespeare.org. WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Healthy Living for your Body and Brain: Tips from the Latest Research 2-3:30pm. A free educational program by the Alzheimer’s Association with information about research on diet and nutrition, exercise, cognitive activity and social engagement. Hands-on tools provided to help you incorporate these recommendations into a plan for healthy aging. The Landing of Poughkeepsie, Poughkeepsie. (800) 272-3900.
LITERARY & BOOKS Milkweed Poetry Slam 7-9pm.$200 first prize. Milkweed, Sugar Loaf. milkweedsugarloaf@gmail.com. MUSIC Alexis Cole Ensemble 8pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Love and Lamentation: 17th Century Italian Monody 8pm. $40/$35 in advance. The music of Monteverdi, Marini, Marazzoli and Rossi. Prologue from L’Orfeo and Lament of Arianna by Claudio Monteverdi; Elena invecchiata vanitas’ cantata on the aging Helen of Troy by Marco Marazzoli; Lament of Zaida, and Scenes from Orfeo by Luigi Rossi; instrumental music by Biagio Marini, Monteverdi and Rossi. Pre-concert talk at 7pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. (888) 492-1283.
THEATER Macbeth 7:30. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Cold Spring. Hvshakespeare.org.
Where Slavery Died Hard In the 1790s, Ulster County was one of the top four slave-holding counties in New York State. During that time, Sojourner Truth was born a slave named Isabella near Rosendale. She never learned to read or write. In 1826, she escaped with her infant daughter. In 1843, she changed her name, and vowed to travel and preach the truth, speaking against injustice. She traveled the country for over 40 years as a human rights advocate fighting for abolition, women’s rights, and prison reform. Truth’s personal writings inspired anthropological archaeologists Wendy Harris and Arnold Pickman to study historic maps, deeds, wills, contemporary narrative accounts, church records, and census manuscripts to uncover the significance of the presence of African-Americans in the development of the Hudson Valley during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The presentation and slideshow “Where Slavery Died Hard: The Forgotten History of Ulster County and the Shawangunk Region” will be held at the Cragsmoor Historical Society on Saturday, June 4, at 4pm. Cragsmoor.info.
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THEATER Measure for Measure 7:30. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Cold Spring. Hvshakespeare.org.
COMEDY Paula Poundstone 8pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Make Your Own Ice Cream!!!! 6:30-8pm. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
DANCE Inside/Out Performance: Urban Bush Women 6:15pm. From the female perspective of the African Diaspora community, Urban Bush Women (UBW) seeks to bring the stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
THURSDAY 23 DANCE Inside/Out Performance: Emery LeCrone Dance 6:15pm. Emery LeCrone Dance creates innovative contemporary ballet works in collaboration with distinguished composers, musicians, and designers. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745. MUSIC Rodrigo y Gabriela 8pm. $46.50-$56.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. Tweed Funk 7pm. Funk and blues. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
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WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Pigment Stick Monotyoe 9am-5pm. $275. Two-day workshop. With Cynthia Winika. R&F Handmade Paints, Kingston. 331-3112.
DANCE Inside/Out Performance: Ballet Program of The School at Jacob’s Pillow 6:15pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
HEALTH & WELLNESS Nightshades: Embodied Dreamwork with Dr. Roxanne Partridge 6:30-8:30pm. $40. Dr. Roxanne Partridge will share her expertise in Jungian embodied dreamwork methods. Aletis House, Hudson. (415) 686-8722.
Poet Gold’s Poelodies at The Falcon Underground 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Measure for Measure 7:30. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Cold Spring. Hvshakespeare.org.
COMEDY Tales From Geriassic Park: On the Verge of Extinction - An Evening with Comedian Verna Gillis 5pm. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-4693.
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Erin Harpe & The Delta Swingers noon. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.
THEATER Powerhouse Theater: Reading Festival 1 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. Powerhouse.vassar.edu/season/ calendar.html.
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DANCE Inside/Out Performance: The Bang Group 6:15pm. Delightfully family-friendly, The Bang Group bridges percussive and contemporary forms with wit and ingenuity. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
MUSIC Caramoor@KMA: Cole Quest and the City Pickers 5:30-8:30pm. $20/$15 KMA Members. The Katonah Museum of Art renews its collaboration with Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts with a three-part outdoor performance series, Caramoor@KMA, featuring a range of music from jazz to contemporary classical. Cole Quest, grandson of the folk icon Woody Guthrie, and his band of eclectic pickers bring a special brand of high-spirited talent, knee slapping energy, and a high lonesome sound. The Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah. (914) 232-9555.
Sunset Carriage Tours 4-8pm. $25/$75 exclusive couple. Olana offers couples, or groups, carriage rides on the 19th century carriage roads. A stunning carriage and draft team saunter Frederic Church’s gravel roads bringing travelers to majestic views and stellar landscapes while the sun sets toward the Catskill Mountains. Fits up to 6. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 105.
Swing Dance to Roy Wilson & the Buzzards 8-11:30pm. $15/$10 FT students. Free beginners’ lesson at 8pm. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. HVCD.dance.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Old Songs Folk Festival 2pm-1am. $40. Old Songs is a family-friendly festival of folk, traditional, Celtic and world music and dance. Altamont Fairgrounds, Altamont. (518) 765-2815. LECTURES & TALKS Pillow Talk: Three Artists, Two Companies 5pm. Tom Mossbrucker and Jean-Philippe Malaty have run Aspen Santa Fe Ballet for 20 years and recently joined forces with Juan Siddi of Juan Siddi Flamenco to manage both companies. In this PillowTalk, the three dance artists and directors explain their various roles. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Aston Magna Music Festival: The Trio Sonta 8pm. $40/$35 in advance. The music of Handel, Corelli, Purcell, Leclair and an Alex Burtzos world premiere for period instruments, with Daniel Stepner, and Edson Scheid, baroque violins; Laura Jeppesen, viola da gamba; Michael Sponseller, harpsichord; Preconcert talk one hour before the performance. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. (888) 492-1283. Dar Williams 7pm. $75. Proceeds from this event generate much needed funds to help the community with various initiatives. All proceeds this year will be in support of and to strengthen programs for students with special needs at Triform. Triform Camphill Community Phoenix Center, Hudson. 5188519320. David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 9pm-midnight. David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps dole out two sets of the finest country rock this side of 1973. O’Neill’s Shire Pub, Delhi. (607) 746-8758. Miranda Lambert 7:30pm. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. 518-584-9330.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION Live in the Landscape: Astronomy, Music and Film Nights 6pm-midnight. Pack a cooler with snacks and drinks, bring blankets and chairs and join us on the East Lawn for live music, sunset and star-gazing, and outdoor all-audience films. Music by Ilusha Tsinazde & Company, 8pm Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, 10:30pm Eat, Pray, Love. Star-gaze with Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext.105.
Newburgh Open Movement 1:30-4:30pm. Newburgh Open Movement is creating time and space for people of all walks of life to come together and enjoy three hours of playful dancing and mindful movement, starting with a dance improvisation workshop with Ophra Wolf followed by two hours of free and open jamming with live musical accompaniment by Craig Chin on guitar, Richard Kim on viola, and Andy Rinehart on accordion. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. Https://facebook.com/ events/217044665344554.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Old Songs Folk Festival 9-1am. $40. Old Songs is a family-friendly festival of folk, traditional, Celtic and world music and dance, known for its relaxed atmosphere, interactive sessions and workshops, hands-on experience and participatory nature. In addition to three concerts there are 120 daytime workshops given by performers. Also featured are a juried craft show, food and instrument vendors, and a well-run children’s activity area. Altamont Fairgrounds, Altamont. (518) 765-2815. Rhinebeck Arts Festival 10am-5pm. $10/$9 seniors/ children 6-16 are $4 and children under 6 are free. A celebration of artistic expression in its many forms with a main focus on craft and visual art. This unusual and exciting shopping experience will include 200 outstanding American makers, live music, demonstrations, hands-on art encounters, children’s activities, gourmet foods and beverages and more. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. 331-7900. Hudson River Exchange Summer Market 10am-6pm. Annual summer market featuring 100 makers. Henry Hudson Park, Hudson. Hudsonriverexchange.com.
FILM The Third Man 7pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040. FOOD & WINE The Tasty History Series 3-5pm. $25/$20 members. This series explores the dining & drinking customs from three pivotal years in Olana’s history. . Ages 21+. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 105. KIDS & FAMILY Hudson River Day Free family-friendly event with special rowing demos, boat rides, kids’ activities, demonstrations, vendor booths, live music, and more. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 265-8080.
LECTURES & TALKS PillowTalk: Finding Our Community 4pm. Urban Bush Women’s founder-director Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is passionate about engaging her audiences in meaningful ways. Zollar reflects on her company’s deep Pillow roots and current mission during this conversation. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745. The Supernatural World of Shakespeare 5pm. A presentation by Joanne Zipay with a book signing for her new book, Come, You Spirits! The Supernatural World of Shakespeare. An event celebrating Newburgh Last Saturdays #NBLS. Foyer of the Mindy Ross Gallery, Kaplan Hall, SUNY Orange, Newburgh. 341-4891.
LITERARY & BOOKS Laura Ludwig Presents Poetry and Performance Art 6:30pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775. MUSIC Upstater Spring Fling at Bard Spiegeltent 7pm-12:30am. $20. Music, dancing, and libations: Simi Stone Band, The Union Brothers, and DJ Carlos the Sun. Bard Spiegeltent. Upstater.com. Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festivals noon. Featuring Chaka Khan, Steps Ahead Reunion, Pieces of a Dream, Joey Alexander Trio and more. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. 518-584-9330. FreshGrass presents: The Suitcase Junket 8-10pm. $18/$12 students and in advance/$24 preferred. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111. Hudson Valley BachFest Chamber Concert 7:30-9:30pm. $15 suggested donation. Hudson Valley BachFest Chamber Concert this year includes the “Hunting” Cantata (BWV 208), a quintet by JC Bach (one of JS’s sons), Craig Williams with an organ work, the Cornwall Ecumenical and Cornwall Presbyterian Bell choirs, plus more. Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Cornwall. 534-8368. Hudson Valley BachFest Young Performers North 2-4pm. Young area instrumentalists perform music of Johann Sebastian Bach. New Paltz United Methodist Church, New Paltz. schempfr@newpaltz.edu. Hudson Valley BachFest: Young Performers 2-4pm. Young instrumentalists from the region perform music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Cornwall. 534-8368. Hudson Valley Bluegrass Express 8pm. Newburgh Brewing Company, Newburgh. 561-2327. KISS Army 8pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Mighty Girl 8pm. Pop, soft rock. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall on Hudson. 845 534 4717. Popa Chubby 7pm. Guitar blues rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. West Point’s Benny Havens Band 7:30pm. West Point Military Academy, West Point. Usma.edu. Young People’s Concert: Elizabeth Mitchell & Family 11am-1pm. Grammy-nominated Smithsonian Folkways artist, with folk music for all ages. Admission is free for all young people under 16. These wonderful concerts, long a Maverick tradition, are designed for enjoyment by school-age children. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION Butterfly Weekend 10am-3pm. Enjoy illustrated presentations, butterfly tent, guided butterfly walks, crafts for kids! For adults with or without children ages 5 and up. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781. SPIRITUALITY Hudson Valley Psychic Saturday Meetup 3-6pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775. Sacred Pipe Ceremony 3-5pm. The Community Pipe Ceremony is our time to send forth our gratitude to the spirits and to bring their attention to where we need help and healing. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
THEATER Measure for Measure 7:30. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Cold Spring. Hvshakespeare.org. Actors & Writers 8-10pm. A reading of Laura Shaine Cunningham’s screenplay of her acclaimed memoir Sleeping Arrangements, the story of an orphan raised by her two bachelor uncles. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. Powerhouse Theater: Reading Festival 1 3 & 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. Powerhouse.vassar.edu/season/ calendar.html.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES High and Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center Volunteer Training 10am-noon. Learn to assist people with special needs through equine assisted activities. Ages 14+. High and Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center, Ghent. (518) 672-4202. Red Wheel: Embody Menstruation with Dr. Roxanne Partridge 10:30am-5:30pm. $210/$265 after June 5th. Red Wheel is based on a model of integration between body, heart, mind, and soul, that welcomes the full, complex beauty of who you are. Aletis House, Hudson. (415) 686-8722.
SUNDAY 26 FAIRS & FESTIVALS High Falls Flea Market 9am-4pm. Art, antiques, collectibles, crafts and unique treasures. Grady Park, high falls. 810-0471. Old Songs Folk Festival 9am-7pm. $40. Old Songs is a family-friendly festival of folk, traditional, Celtic and world music and dance. Altamont Fairgrounds, Altamont. (518) 765-2815. Rhinebeck Arts Festival 10am-5pm. $10/$9 seniors/ children 6-16 are $4 and children under 6 are free. A celebration of artistic expression in its many forms with a main focus on craft and visual art. This unusual and exciting shopping experience will include 200 outstanding American makers, live music, demonstrations, hands-on art encounters, children’s activities, gourmet foods and beverages and more. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. 331-7900. Hudson River Exchange Summer Market 11am-4pm. Annual summer market featuring 100 makers. Henry Hudson Park, Hudson. Hudsonriverexchange.com.
MUSIC Cassatt String Quartet 3pm. Featuring Colin Carr, cello. Music Mountain, Falls Village, CT. (860) 824-7126. Escher String Quartet 4-6pm. $25-$45. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1, Bartók: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 17, Dvorák: String Quartet No. 13 in G major, Op. 106. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festivals noon. Featuring Chaka Khan, Steps Ahead Reunion, Pieces of a Dream, Joey Alexander Trio and more. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. 518-584-9330. Hudson Valley BachFest Main Event 7-9pm. $15 suggested donation. The Hudson Valley BachFest Choral Concert presents Cantatas #6 (Bleib’ bei uns) and 7 (Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen), motets by Schutz, and the 2nd Brandenburg concerto. The conductors are Christine Howlett and Ed Lundergan. Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 256-9114. Joshua Redman Quartet 7pm. With Aaron Goldberg, Reuben Rogers & Greg Hutchinson. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040. Laney Jones and the Spirits at The Falcon Underground 7pm. Experimental roots rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Sunday Brunch with The Saints of Swing 11am-2pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Western and Swing Week Dance: Lindy and West Coast swing, Two step, waltz and other C&W dances, squares & contras, dance parties and more. Music: Fiddle, mandolin, guitar, steel guitar, piano, vocal technique, harmony singing, swing and country band clinics, improvisation, music theory, jam sessions, song swaps, and more. See website for details. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Annual Fundraising Gala featuring Jane Lynch 7pm. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf. 610-5335. OUTDOORS & RECREATION Butterfly Weekend 10am-3pm. Enjoy illustrated presentations, butterfly tent, guided butterfly walks, crafts for kids! For adults with or without children ages 5 and up. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781. SPORTS 11th Annual Tour De Kingston and Ulster Bike Ride 9am-2pm. The Tour De Kingston offers bike rides for all abilities and interests including: a flat and free 5-mile Family Ride, 10, 18 and 28 mile Road & Trail Rides, as well as 25 and 50 mile Road Rides. Post-ride BBQ provided. Forsyth Park, Kingston. 338-3810 ext. 102. THEATER Powerhouse Theater: Reading Festival 1 2 & 5pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. Powerhouse.vassar.edu/season/ calendar.html. As You Like It 7:30. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Cold Spring. Hvshakespeare.org. WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Slackline Series 2:30-4:30pm. $30 drop-in/$100 series. A unique practice that redefines your sense of balance and mental focus on a one inch wide piece of webbing! The Yoga House, Kingston. 706-9642. Sunday Master Class with Festival Artist: Juan Siddi Flamenco 10am. Festival artist Juan Siddi Flamenco Santa Fe will teach a master class open to all intermediate and advanced dancers ages 16 and over. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
MONDAY 27 KIDS & FAMILY Camp Cardinal 9am-3pm. $275. South Kent School will be hosting a week-long, hands-on day camp on a real, working farm! South Kent School, South Kent, CT. (860) 927-3539. Summer Camp Through July 9. For children ages 4-12! Unique and exciting experiences in the arts, athletics, and open ended play including nature exploration, low ropes course games, and weekly visits to the Rosendale Pool. Our 9 acre campus, complete with science pond, nature trail and bird sanctuary provides the idyllic setting for an unforgettable and meaningful summer experience. High Meadow School Summer Camp, Stone Ridge. 687-4855. MUSIC Western and Swing Week Dance: Lindy and West Coast swing, Two step, waltz and other C&W dances, squares & contras, dance parties and more. Music: Fiddle, mandolin, guitar, steel guitar, piano, vocal technique, harmony singing, swing and country band clinics, improvisation, music theory, jam sessions, song swaps, and more. See website for details. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333. WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Entertainment Electrics Workshop Through June 29. Using the sophisticated technological infrastructure of EMPAC at RPI, Richard Cadena will teach the essentials of audio, video and lighting systems for professional electricians and technicians. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
TUESDAY 28 MUSIC Western and Swing Week Dance: Lindy and West Coast swing, Two step, waltz and other C&W dances, squares & contras, dance parties and more. Music: Fiddle, mandolin, guitar, steel guitar, piano, vocal technique, harmony singing, swing and country band clinics, improvisation, music theory, jam sessions, song swaps, and more. See website for details. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333. THEATER Measure for Measure 7:30. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Cold Spring. Hvshakespeare.org.
WEDNESDAY 29 DANCE Inside/Out Performance: DanceWave Company 6pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745. KIDS & FAMILY Art in the Morning for Preschoolers 10am-noon. $5/adults free. Come anytime within the 2 hour block, everyone leaves with a work of art. We suggest planning a self-guided hike and perhaps a picnic lunch as part of your visit to Olana. Ages 3-5. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 105. LITERARY & BOOKS Author Talk with Ronald G. Knapp/The Gunks Through Time 6:30-8pm. FAn illustrated history of the Shawangunk Mountains and its surrounding ridge and valley towns. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580. MUSIC Teresa Broadwell Quintet noon. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. Western and Swing Week Dance: Lindy and West Coast swing, Two step, waltz and other C&W dances, squares & contras, dance parties and more. Music: Fiddle, mandolin, guitar, steel guitar, piano, vocal technique, harmony singing, swing and country band clinics, improvisation, music theory, jam sessions, song swaps, and more. See website for details. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.
THEATER Macbeth 7:30. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Cold Spring. Hvshakespeare.org.
THURSDAY 30 DANCE Inside/Out Performance: Ate9 dANCEcOMPANY 6:15pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745. FILM Hail the New Puritan 8pm. Charles Atlas’s fictionalized documentary about the Scottish dancer and choreographer Michael Clark. Basilicahudson.org. MUSIC David Kraai 7pm. Country. 7-10pm. Country folk music. This is the second night of David’s residency at Uncle Willy’s, which takes place on the last Thursday of every month through September. Uncle Willy’s Tavern, Kingston. 853-8049. Marco Eneidi, Joe Morris and Luther Gray 8pm. $10. Jazz trio. Beacon Yoga Center, Beacon. 347-489-8406. Western and Swing Week Dance: Lindy and West Coast swing, Two step, waltz and other C&W dances, squares & contras, dance parties and more. Music: Fiddle, mandolin, guitar, steel guitar, piano, vocal technique, harmony singing, swing and country band clinics, improvisation, music theory, jam sessions, song swaps, and more. See website for details. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.
THEATER Transfers 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. As You Like It 7:30. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Cold Spring. Hvshakespeare.org.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Class with Inside/Out Artist: Gaga with Daniele Agami of Ate9 dANCEcOMPANY 4pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
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ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO
Planet Waves BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO
Mercury and Mars Retrograde: The Underlying Question “My definition of learning is discovering that something is possible.” —Fritz Perls
M
ars retrograde began on April 17 in Sagittarius. In late May, Mars retrograded into Scorpio, bringing us to the heart of the matter of this rare transit. The retrograde ends in Scorpio on June 29. Mars is the planet of desire. Desire is one of those elements at the core of the human emotional engine. It’s true that religions and spiritual philosophies line up one after the next attempting to prove to people that desire is the worst thing in the world. Yet nobody would seek being happier, or seek knowledge, or crack open a book about Buddhism, if they didn’t want something. The deeper question of Mars is what you do with the propulsion that it offers. Do you resist? Do you deny, or feel guilt? Do you let it run wild and therefore run your life? Do you harness its power and put it to work for you? We are now experiencing an even rarer event, Uranus conjunct the newly discovered planet Eris in Aries. We might be noticing this one, except that it’s difficult for anything to get noticed these days. This happened last in early Aries in 1927 and 1928. It’s describing the chaos we’re experiencing in society, and in our minds, that’s coating the world in the haze and glaze of glamour and making many relevant things difficult to see. I could hardly think of two more potent factors to put together to create mental turmoil and confusion. We can take this on the level of toxic chaos, or fertile chaos. Fertile chaos requires applying awareness and discernment. Uranus in Aries (2010-18) is the era of the smartphone and the selfie: of unmitigated self-obsession, and obsession with image. Pluto in Capricorn (20082024), a corresponding transit, is about equally unmitigated greed. Together these make up the Uranus-Pluto square (most potent effects from 2011-15). A few years back, we interviewed Martha Lang-Wescott about that aspect, which is still lurking in the background of everything we’re experiencing.
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“It sounds like this unbidden empty narcissism surging from the depths of Pluto and all of its psychological scars. People can get distracted by the twinkles and the erratic behavior of Uranus and overlook Pluto,” she said. Pluto addresses deeper material and is a more urgently necessary agent of growth. The erratic behavior Lang-Wescott is describing includes the conduct of various political movements which we are now seeing come to a head: The Tea Party has taken over the Republican Party in the person of Donald Trump. We might ask why Trump is so popular, and for a real answer we would then have to ask why abusive people, in general, are so popular among sensitive, educated people. What is that really about? Uranus and its effects being more visible, it’s serving to mask a whole layer of awareness. Lang-Wescott continued, “There is the show and the excitement of Uranus [in Aries], and then there’s this underbelly of the concealed drives of Pluto [in Capricorn], such as greed. Uranus presents as the perfect distraction—all this technology stuff—when Pluto is often acting invisibly. There’s also the attraction to the dangerous element of Pluto charisma”—for example, why people might be attracted to Donald Trump as a candidate. The Uranus-Pluto square is now separating, and a new aspect has emerged: Uranus conjunct Eris in Aries. The two are part of the same pattern, and now Uranus-Eris is being emphasized. It’s pushing the glam thing to its very pinnacle. Everyone is a rock star on Instagram. We are supposed to overlook not only that it’s meaningless but also where that energy could be better spent. For its part, Eris in Aries is a massive identity crisis. It can barely bring itself to ask the question “Who am I?” because it makes the question seem unanswerable, or perhaps invisible. No matter how many versions of your business card you make, or how many online profiles you post, the question does not answer itself. The thing to remember is that it’s a hypothetical question with a fictional answer. While we may possess some supreme identity, and seek access to some set of “original instructions,” identity on this plane of reality is a kind of fictional entity.
Yet it can become useful once you express identity as purpose, and as you integrate all the many facets and fragments of yourself into one core idea of who you are. Much of what we call healing involves doing precisely this. Now Uranus is coming along, and is merging the glamour aspect of Aries with the disruption element of Uranus and the identity chaos element of Eris. The result could be a hot mess—or it could represent a time of genuine breakthrough on the theme of self-discovery and self-actualization. We have had a lot of hot mess lately, as you might discover if you initiate a conversation with people about anything potentially controversial, such as how they feel about life and love. The personal breakthrough, however, is not a prefabricated thing, and there is no telling where it will lead. That would seem to be the whole point. Here is the problem as I see it: the need for an organizing or perhaps orienting principle. Aries represents the energy of pure potential. It is motive looking for a purpose. Purpose needs some guiding force. If one purpose of the current astrology is self-actualization, what is the core instinct that will drive that process? Here is another: Self-discovery takes courage, and is wrought with perils. The most prominent of them is how it has a way of dissolving your previous self-concept with something more tangible. If someone is attached to their self-concept, they are unlikely to seek anything that would change it in any way. Many have, I observe, a real courage issue here in the digital age. There are those days when everything besides what is wholly unreal seems too real. Anything more than launching an app is too great of a risk to take. The world is blown up in one action movie after the next; people routinely fight zombies and survive alien attacks; and the world watches from the comfort of their entertainment station or tablet. I think that a lot of this comes back to image: of needing to be seen a certain way (often, how one is not), or being afraid to be seen a certain way (often, how one really is). Mars in Sagittarius possesses some glamour of its own. It’s a fire sign thing, though the glam of Sagg will seem to have more substance to back up its image. That doesn’t necessarily make it so. I would say an example of celebrity in the style of Mars in Sagittarius might be the rock-star pastor of a megachurch. Mars retrograde turns that to a question about what is really true. The crusading quality of Mars in Sagittarius is reversed, and becomes a personal inquiry. This is potentially uncomfortable; it involves questioning assumptions and also getting beneath the level of image, and in particular, the image of piety. True, most people don’t associate themselves with cardinals carrying crosses parading around in red robes outside the Vatican, but there seems to be a strong impulse in contemporary culture to seem pious and pure. This can lead to a real crisis, and not just one of belief; once you get past the layer of belief, the next layer is existential. Think of what religion really is: It’s a contract with existence. Is your contract something that you wrote yourself? Do you have your own lease on life, or do you use the standard Bloomberg version? The standard version is typically what was impressed on people through their early religious and moralistic training. It tends to leave no room to make up your own mind, and when you try to, that can be beset by conflict. On May 27, Mars retrograded into Scorpio, entering the realm of what is beneath the realm of belief. Scorpio is the level you can’t do anything about. One can try to gloss over the core of biological necessity (what Scorpio represents, on one level) with ideas about reality (what Sagittarius represents, on one level). It’s also possible to get them into alignment—to create a belief system for yourself that reflects the deeper truth of what a person is, and what you are, rather than contradicts or attempts to conceal it. And this is what Mars, weaving back and forth between Scorpio and Sagittarius all year, seems to be doing.
What I’m calling the core layer, Mars retrograde in Scorpio, can serve as a point of orientation. Start with the biological level of your existence: your body, your feelings, your instincts. What are they telling you? If you’re picking up some form of anger, pain, or guilt, that’s unlikely to be on the instinctual level. If you are picking up something that feels more like hunger, that’s more likely to be on the level of your biology. However, we do have a few possible issues related to pain and the need for healing. One of them is embarrassment. If you feel guilt or shame associated with desire, that’s calling for healing—and to seek that healing you would have to admit your underlying desire. Another is not knowing where to begin your healing process; being overwhelmed with confusion or frustration at where to start. It’s necessary to place trust in the hands of someone who is helping you. If you don’t, you’re closed down to being helped. Often trust is impacted by repeated failed attempts, or betrayals. That does not mean your desire is wrong. Nor does how often you were told it was wrong, or told others theirs was wrong, make your desire wrong. What if you were actually to stand in your desire, and admit it openly? Do you think you would become a savage, insatiable animal? Or could you manage your hunger like an adult—you know, Chinese, sushi, or stay home and boil some spaghetti? The answer may come down to how you feel you will be perceived. It’s just strange: Craving sushi or spaghetti does not make you a glutton. Lately I’ve been revealing a series of teachings I’ve learned in the process of my tantric studies. Here is one for you. In sexual relationships, women are the teachers. We are all birthed from the cosmos of the female body and the emotional sphere of the female experience of sex. In this sense, there is something inherently cosmic about the female. Honoring this, tantric wisdom suggests that it’s women who initiate everyone into birth and, by association, into death; and along the way, into sexual reality. Yet there’s a question of what to do in a society where so many women are so injured, feel so broken, are angry at sex, and angry at men. There is a question of what to do when so many women, who are our teachers, have been convinced and continue to convince themselves that they are something other than human. This is a challenging question. I don’t have an answer, though I think that we might get some help from returning to the physical, body-level of existence where all this stuff we’re perceiving is happening. Were women to follow the instinctual rather than programmed level of their reality, I believe it would lead to a balanced, healthy, and expressive mode of emotional and sexual exchange. The thing is, at some point, openly admitted desire must enter the discussion. One cannot teach effectively, and raise the level of consciousness, and be in denial at the same time. This would go against our society’s current trend of criminalizing all desire. A second possibility may be found in men who have made contact with their feminine side—a great many have. Many, many men have cultivated their feminine side and have in a sense adopted the preserver energy (inherently female), which has served to preserve the wisdom of women’s bodies. It’s not merely that all men are not rapists. Rather, it’s fair to say that as many men are more comfortable with the female body and female emotional realm than are women, and we can seek them out as people who might be helpful in initiating women as teachers. In any event this is existing knowledge, contained in our DNA, our memories, and our libraries, and it’s time to put it to use.
We might ask why Trump is so popular, and for a real answer we would then have to ask why abusive people, in general, are so popular among sensitive, educated people.
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ARIES (March 20-April 19) Take care of yourself—words often spoken and rarely heeded. Most people take far better care of their car than they do of their body, and incredibly, our bodies hold up under constant assault. Our minds, though, feel the stress, and we pay in ways we don’t usually notice. Begin to orient your life around your home. Speaking of cars, save yourself time, energy, and money by reducing your time spent on needless travel. Notice the many things that make supposedly modern living into the frenetic chase it so often is. The motion and energy expended on so much that matters so little add up to one huge distraction from life. You need your energy now, as you’re in a rare space of personal breakthrough. It’s the kind of development that’s calling for you to pull your attention inward, so you can actually feel, notice and work with the changes that are developing. It is fair to say that you’re taking a genuine, long-anticipated step in your personhood. While this is a rare moment of personal evolution for you, it would be easy to miss the opportunity for profoundly improved self-awareness that you have in your hands. Feed and nourish your internal progress with quiet spaces, doing the things you love to do the most, and spend time with carefully selected people you care about.
TAURUS (April 19-May 20) You are rapidly moving into a space where you can connect your deepest inner truth to some form of creative expression. Consider that this is what many people reach for their entire lives. Others long wistfully for the meekest feeling of creative satisfaction. You can now be among the fortunate few who connect their soul’s growth to a mode of actual material expression. There’s a kind of Zen koan presented in your charts: remember how easy this is; remember how challenging it is. The ease is a description of how what you’re seeking is right within reach. You can accomplish it using skills you already possess. The difficulty is in continually coaxing yourself to respond to a calling or an idea that may seem elusive. You are not following a prescribed plan. You are not driving toward a destination. Creativity is like a river that runs through you. Your main job is to either get out of the way of the flow, or dive in and float along, and see where you end up. To borrow a phrase, you’re seeking process, not product. Think of the thing you make as a side benefit of an experience, rather than the goal. Gardeners understand this: you’re relating to the plants, you’re communing with their divas; you are tending to something older and larger than yourself. And in that journey, many beautiful things grow, emerge, and appear.
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You must make space for yourself in your own world, and in the world. Nobody’s going to do it for you. In fact you might feel as if you’re being crowded out of an increasingly mobbed society. It’s nothing personal, of course; but you must make it so as a conscious act. Space begins with actual room: to work, to think, to live, to explore. Whether there might be an opening for you in a given field starts with whether you have the room to do what you do. Is your worktable big enough? Is your space quiet enough? Do you have time to think? Is there any wasted space in your home, office or studio that can be cleared out? You might start with the corners and work your way into the middle of the room. You could do that mentally as well, noticing what you tend to gloss over or habitually shove aside. As you clear physical and mental space, your energy will begin to flow in a new way. You will gain back some of the emotional self-control that you need to master your creativity. Here’s something to keep in mind: You are more likely to discover an opening or an advantage in the world searching inwardly than you are, say, from a listing on Craigslist. Then you must hold that open as you move through the social world and look for the connection you need.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) You cannot force a breakthrough, though you can set up the conditions that facilitate it. The first step is to become conscious of everything you tend to overlook. This would require a genuine exercise of mindfulness, and dropping your awareness down to the levels you generally don’t notice, or tend to miss. Your dream activity will be profoundly revealing, and clue you into the ways that you can better cooperate with yourself. The phenomenon of levels is vitally important now, though not in the usual sense of pay grade, highest academic degree or the corporate ladder. By levels I mean that a certain type of awareness tends to open up a corresponding dimension in the world. You align your mind, and you notice something or someone that you might not have ever noticed otherwise. It can help to be randomly aware of whatever you observe, to introduce yourself to people you might not have acknowledged, and to shift your point of view continually. There’s one other thing: what you choose to nourish. You will come to love, and to make ever more real, that which you devote loving energy to. This includes doing what you can to take care of people who seem to have much more than you. Few gestures are more effective at establishing common ground, which you might call the key to your success.
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LEO (July 22-August 23) Most blessings are hidden: We don’t notice them. Pay attention; and not only observe but embrace the many offerings existence is holding out to you. First among them is what looks like some burning spiritual thirst or desire. You can count that as a gift because without it, what motivation would you have to seek your deeper truth, embrace your life or strive for freedom? You may be experiencing an emotional craving for sex that has replaced your previous need to feel safe and secure. Count this as a gift because you’re going beyond the need for things to stay as they are, and are becoming willing to challenge yourself and allow your life to change. You may want independence from your family and its drama, which is a gift because you have your own life to live. The essential blessing of this time is the ability to honestly admit what you want, stepping out of any guilt or hang-ups for doing so. This is no small matter, as we live in a time of increasing criminalization of any desire that does not involve your credit card number. You seem ready to burst free from this oppression, though you would be wise to have a plan for what to do with any inner backlash. In this instance, as in most of life, guilt is a sure sign you’re doing the right thing.
VIRGO (August 23-September 23) For most of the summer, Jupiter remains in your sign. This is fairly rare, manifesting every 12 years. Jupiter is a planet of opportunity; and in Virgo, for you, it’s the opportunity to expand your inner horizons. It’s when you stretch your inner capability for experience, for feeling and for the movement of energy through you. There is no doubt that Jupiter in your sign is the invitation to improve your life in many ways, and you’re likely to be experiencing many of them without even knowing it. Yet the most vital of these is consciously exploring your capacity for new experience. You are too young to be set in your ways. I suggest you not take any comfort in doing something, or limiting yourself, because that’s ‘just the way you are’. One thing Jupiter represents for you is the integration of outer experience, including people, into your life. It’s about accepting not just the ideas of your environment but also embracing its actual influences on you. As you encounter new experiences (again, including people) it helps to expand into the potential that they reflect. I recognize there are a few possible issues here, one of which is what seems like a culture-wide reluctance to change; the other is a crisis of trust. To put it mildly, actual growth requires both change and trust.
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LIBRA (September 22-October 23) Success for you is a matter of caring, of devotion and of beauty. Our culture has long been driving a notion of success as competition and greed. This is not in your DNA, and you would be ill-advised ever to act as if it is: to take part in practices that are, in effect, destroying society. You know that you must take another path, something that respects the inherently familial nature of humanity. This month, particularly toward solstice, your sense of caring increases exponentially, partially in response to what looks like the tail-end of an extended self-esteem crisis. Here is the catch: caring in the style of family can breed resentment. You might feel like you have no choice. That, in turn, can come with a wildly varying cycle of devotion. It may seem inescapable, though it’s one of the essential disciplines of your life to stabilize your caring for others, which is a direct extension of your caring for yourself. If you feel resentment, consider resolving that one of the deepest healing projects of your life. This month you will get a chance to feel how beautiful it is to devote yourself fully, to see its effects in the world and to feel the benefits in your own life. Your success is not about you or the wider world separately, but rather the sensitive place where the two intersect.
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SCORPIO (October 23-November 22) Mars ends its long retrograde in your sign on June 29. If you’re asking yourself why your life has been so unusual, why so much emotional material has come up, and what exactly is the nature of the conflicts you’ve experienced, Mars retrograde can help illustrate the point. Several persistent matters are likely to keep vying for your attention. Those are the things to look at and listen to rather than complain about. There are two messages that are pouring through the astrology. One is the emphasis on being here now. By that I mean living in the present, rather than burning your energy obsessing over the past and the future. Note that the very purpose of focusing on anything other than the present is specifically to do just that: essentially, to evade your own life. The answer is found in the second message, which is to be honest about what you want. The whole matter of actual desire can have a way of up-ending social conventions, expectations, and agreements, but the real “danger” is that of actually living. I suggest you face that supposed danger; that you take the risk of actually living for what you want rather than for what is expected of you. To be fair, I must say this will have many unexpected results. There is a risk involved in movement and change, and an even greater risk in stagnation.
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SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 22) You are being taken on a tour of what might be called your underlying motives. You are tapping into the deeper level of your feelings. What you may be noticing is that they don’t quite jive with your image. Neither do they blend well with your conditioning, which other factors in your solar chart are insisting you come to terms with. If you are experiencing any conflict, consider the relationship between these two layers of your psyche. First there is the inner you, driven by passion, a sense of mystery, incessant curiosity and vibrant sexuality. Then there is the outer you, which seems to need space and independence, yet is often caked in a layer of fear that’s difficult to penetrate. Now, at least, you have the impetus to move from the inside out. Your core motives, necessities, and desires are speaking to you, growling and groaning and insisting that you take notice. Here is what I propose, for your consideration. You have nobody you must impress, most particularly your parents or some visage of them (the priest, rabbi, lawyer or insurance company among others). There is no outer authority you must obey. You may govern yourself with decency, empathy, and a sense of balance, but you don’t need to serve or have the approval of any external master. You are, therefore, free to respond to your actual self.
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It’s time for your reputation to live up to your substance. In the age when everyone is their own full-time publicist, it can seem that the thing people are the most afraid of being known for is who they actually are, and what they actually think. This is plastered over—habitually, even incessantly—by the image of integrity and authenticity. Yet it’s not enough to seem sincere. You’re being guided into revealing yourself, your feelings, your misgivings and most of all, what you want. This is likely to be happening among the people you consider your friends and colleagues. Here’s where things get tricky. Social groups are based on the principle of inclusion and, by inference, exclusion. There’s always the lingering primal fear that one will be cast off. So to reveal your inner truth—that is, to actually say what you want, what you want to do, and with whom—you must face that fear. At a certain point the pressure of being bottled up, and the constant need to seem pure and “in integrity,” must give way to being known. This is true even (and especially) if you are addressing inner conflict, which is seemingly the most important thing to conceal. Open up and let in the fresh air and sunshine—and as you do, build the confidence that people love you for who you actually are.
AQUARIUS (January 20-February 19) The poet Marge Piercy wrote, “The good must learn to cultivate their anger like fields of wheat that must feed them, if they are ever to win.” One of the unspoken issues of our time is seething rage, what one pundit called “distemper among the electorate,” that (for example) is driving much of politics at the moment. Yet anger, if taken consciously and properly understood, can be a tremendous force for change. Many other emotions considered unsavory and/or politically incorrect can be cultivated and worked with constructively. Really, do we have any other choice at this point? Shadow is only shadow if it’s unconscious, which typically means projected onto others. You are in a rare position to see the deal the way it’s going down—and to do something about it. This will surely be in many small ways, and potentially some big ways. The action piece is about taking accountability, including for what may not properly be your responsibility. You are in a position of leadership, and your example counts for more than you may know. Yet a vital part of that example involves how you move what is inherently frightening, negative, shadowy and toxic to a new level. This is more than about “seeing the positive” in something. Rather, you have the capacity to recognize anything with emphasis behind it as a source of energy, and to tap that energy on your way to changing the world.
PISCES (February 19-March 20) Keep giving yourself permission to have fun, then go and do it. This month is the perfect storm of opportunity. Mars turning to direct motion in Scorpio is about leaving all of your hang-ups behind. The Sun and Venus heading for your fellow water sign Cancer will open many doors; it’s up to you to walk through them and to keep your emphasis on the grand creative experiment that is life. You can afford to be less picky about who you associate with. Ideally you would find a little something nourishing or inspiring in everyone. If you come from that place of appreciation, you will emit positive vibes and find it easier to move around various social circles. You would be wise to pause and consider the possibility that people are intimidated by you. There continues to be an alignment of slow-moving, deep, and evocative planets in your sign. One response people might have to you is that things get real fast when you’re in the room. This is not your problem; don’t take it on. It’s been a long time since people in Western civilization have been this frightened of their shadow. You will get the best results if you consciously choose not to be frightened by anyone or anything, and hang out where art, love, and celebration are made. If nothing comes up immediately, be persistent. You will break through. 110 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM 6/16
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