D & H CANVAS January 2014

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January 2014 Covering Orange, Pike and Sullivan Counties, Beacon, Marlboro, & Ellenville

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

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by Barry Plaxen

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Kudos to the Monroe-Woodbury School Happy New Year!

District, Parents and Local Businesses for supporting the district’s K-12 music program.

See page 10 about the students’ concert for the Music in Central Valley series.

BUT condemnation, denunciation, and dishonor to a nearby school district (with a name similar to the above music series). Not only did they cut back on their arts programs, but they also did away with the elementary library program. Maybe they’ll soon delete (or burn) all books from the schools.

For Shame! Yes, we know there are very ignorant, money-driven, detrimentalHere I am in front of “Lady in Red” by to-education and unpopular government Cynthia Harris-Pagano and “Indian Corn” mandates. E’en so - every educator (and

by Roberta Rosenthal at the opening reception of the Orange County Arts pseudo-educator) in that school district Council’s Open Studio Tour in the Ritz need only read Susan Handler’s informative Theatre Lobby in October. column (page 28) to see why arts are NOT to photo by Roberta Rosenthal be taken out of curricula.

This issue is chock full of ideas of how On a happier note, 2014 begins with a new to stay away from the boob tube in January, collaboration involving the former Ellenville from learning about formfolding metal holistic shop Salem’s Moon, whose products in Florida, to library book discussions, to have now magically appeared in Rifka’s beginning visual art classes, to software for Curiosity Shop in Wurtsboro. composing electronic music in Newburgh, “Empathy” seems to be the word of the to chorale singing for adults and kids in month. See Susan Handler’s column on page Middletown, Monticello, Beacon, Blooming 28 and Brian Eno’s quote on page 4.

Grove, Warwick and Sugar Loaf, to portrait Enjoy the other quotes on pages 4 and 5. painting in Montgomery and Otisville, to They are much fun. music lessons in Walden, to floating in Classifieds Hurleyville, how to gain success by design in Newburgh and how to be socially enriched FOR RENT in Balmville.

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Hudson Valley Artist Captures Life & Humanity Through Portraits

by Anna Lillian Moser

For Cynthia Harris-Pagano of Otisville, there’s nothing more special or exciting than creating the likeness of a person through paint.

A member of the Portrait Society of America and the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Pagano has been painting portraits in her North Light Studio since the 1970s.

Harris-Pagano first started painting when she was 11. Her father, a businessman, she remembers, received some oil paints as gifts, and she simply fell in love. “I think I just wanted to paint things that looked beautiful,” HarrisPagano said. “The first things I painted were just a vase, and oranges, and stuff like that, but I was so excited when it came out on a little canvas that I think that was just it.”

While Harris-Pagano has received formal training in other mediums, she’s unique in the fact that she paints exclusively, and has so for the majority of her career. In fact, it was years before she even ventured outside of oils, discovering pastels. “I think I stuck with oils until much later when I learned that pastels could really do a lot,” she said, adding that pastels and oils are very much related.

Harris-Pagano’s bread and butter, so to speak, are her portraits. Even as a child she was drawn to the art of recreating the human face. Painting portraits was, and always has been, exciting to her. “Portraits just seem to be very special for me.

What did the Bible say? Man is a little lower than

The Corts Family

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the angels? Even though I love nature, and I want to try to conserve nature, it seems to me making a likeness of a person is somehow so special,” said Harris-Pagano. “Even in art history they say that portraits are really the backbone of Western painting...that it emphasizes the importance of the individual,” she continued.

After living on Long Island and in New York City, Harris-Pagano, along with her family, moved to Otisville, where she built her own studio, North Light. The studio takes its name from the fact that Harris-Pagano paints in natural,

north light, which she says is extremely unique and hard to come by in the portrait world. “It’s a studio with one very large, high window, and the light comes in there...and it casts very beautiful shadows, it’s a very true light rather than any kind of artificial light,” Harris-Pagano said.

While Harris-Pagano is often called upon to create her portraits by working from photos, she prefers to work with her subjects in person. “I do both, and both can come out very beautiful, but I’m what you call ‘classically-trained.’

“When I work from a photograph, I have the experience of painting models from north light in the studio. This becomes background in my memory, so that in a sense, I am interpreting the photograph in a more classic way. That actually makes a big difference. So many people think of the camera as being so true. By my standards the camera

is just a machine which is recording light in a certain situation the best it can, whereas the eye can do all sorts of things. Sometimes the eye can see what the camera cannot.”

While Harris-Pagano is primarily a portrait artist, she also paints landscapes and still lifes, each of which give her their own unique rewards and teachable moments, deepening her expertise as an artist. “Still life is just so beautiful and so important because firstly, a still life stays still.

My flower painter friends say that flowers move more than people, but still life objects - other than flowers - really stay there, and you can really learn and study, and then you can make beautiful compositions.

It’s just a wonderful thing,” Harris-Pagano said. “And landscapes help so much because you’re out in real light, and not only is it real, but it’s unfiltered, you’re right out in the open light, and it just teaches you so much, and landscape is just so beautiful. It’s very difficult in a different way because in landscape you can change things whereas in portrait work, besides wanting to make a painting, you want to get a likeness, so you can’t take something out or change something around.”

Harris-Pagano will be teaching portrait painting classes at the Wallkill River School in Montgomery on Mondays (845-457-2787), and privately at her North Light atelier in Otisville on Wednesdays and Thursdays (845-386-1712).

Visit www.cynthiaharris-pagano.com or www. portraitartist.com/pagano/pagano.asp

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No less than six chorale concerts were featured in the December CANVAS. Now that the holiday concert season is over, area chorales are planning their 2014 programs, and they want YOU! Singers are volunteers ranging in age from teens to their 90s, with varying levels of experience.

Audition and membership requirements vary, but all choirs have one shared value (as per Classical Choral Society’s information): “a gratifying sense of accomplishment comes to singers early, as musical expectations in rehearsal are met in ways very similar to that of a professional chorus.”

This is true of all of our area choirs. “Members are gently urged to strive to maintain high standards of musicianship and personal discipline as each singer’s talents and circumstances allow.”

“When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because it is all about the immersion of the self into the community.

That’s one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.”

Brian Eno Blooming Grove Classic Choral Society’s Artistic Director Janiece Kohler says, “My best guess is that we’ll have a first rehearsal of the season (one of the most important - that’s when the music is introduced and we give the program a sing-through before we get down to the nitty-gritty of preparing for the Spring concerts) on January 13. No auditions are required. Our concerts have been scheduled

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“If I Cannot Fly, Let Me Sing”

The Classic Chorale Society

to take place May 4 and May 10.

“Our season consists of about 12-14, 2-hour rehearsals on Monday nights (7:30-9:30) in the sanctuary (best acoustics around) at the Blooming Grove United Church of Christ. Classic Choral Society is a member of Chorus America, and I’m a member of the American Choral Directors Association.” For information: 845-928-6462.

“The best advice I can give a young aspiring singer is not to become an old aspiring singer.”

Renata Scotto.

Milford TheDelawareValleyChoralSocietyisdedicated to performing major choral works in their original form. The Society is inviting anyone who loves to sing to join them for their next concert entitled Feelin’ Good. American composers Stephen Foster and George Gershwin will be featured on May 18 at Dingman Delaware Middle School in Dingmans Ferry under the direction of Jeffrey Fornoff. The Society incorporates aspiring musicians from the area as well as professional musicians to bring major works of music to the community Rehearsals begin January 5 at 2:00pm in Milford.

Auditions will be held after rehearsals on January 5,

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In addition to Sunday afternoon rehearsals, Thursday evening rehearsals are also scheduled to accommodate singers who cannot attend Sunday rehearsals on a regular basis. Contact Fornoff at 570296-5333 or at 570-267-8773.

“I only sing in the shower. I would join a choir, but I don’t think my bathtub can hold that many people.” Jarod Kintz.

Monticello “If you love music & like to sing, consider joining the Sullivan County Community Chorus. We give a Spring and a Winter concert.

“Rehearsals are generally Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30 at the First Church of Monticello-Presbyterian on Jones Street.

Rehearsals in preparation of the chorus’s Annual Spring Concert to be performed at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Woodbourne will resume on February 20. Those wishing to perform in the spring concert must regularly attend weekly rehearsals.

“Kevin Giroux is the director, and the chorus contact is Diane Foster 845-439-4458,” informs a happy Shandelee soprano.

The Sullivan County Community Chorus

“Everyone was singing songs. That is what happiness feels like.” Gayle Forman.

Newburgh The Newburgh Symphonic Chorale will resume rehearsals on Tuesdays, 7:00-9:00pm, at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Newburgh in early March in preparation for a June 1 concert which will comprise choral music from the Renaissance to today that celebrates flowers and animals.

“Though we assume some prior singing experience, all are welcome and no audition is required.” The Chorale’s singers, 35-40 in number and comprising the four vocal parts, are under the direction of Peter Sipple.

If interested in joining, please contact the director at 845-534-2864.

“Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.” Yip Harburg.

Warwick Under the direction of Stanley Curtis, along with accompanist Gail Johnson, the Warwick Valley Chorale will perform an All American program, including selections by Randall Thompson and George Gershwin at several local area concerts in May.

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and Verdi’s Requiem: “Opera in Church Vestments”

The Newburgh Symphonic Chorale

Registration begins at 6:30pm on January 14, January 21, and January 28 at the Warwick Reformed Church, 16 Maple Avenue. Rehearsals will follow registration at 7:30pm. No auditions are required.

“Over the holiday season, members of our chorale performed selections from our recent December concerts at local nursing and retirement homes. We are very glad to be able to bring our joy of music into the lives of those unable to be out and about.”

Further information regarding the Warwick Valley Chorale, membership and performances may be obtained by contacting the Chorale’s President, Susan Boserema, at 845-341-8285 or by visiting the website at warwickvalleychorale. org, or go to Facebook and search for Warwick Valley Chorale.

“A person can drop dead even while singing. But that’s no reason to stop singing.” Marty Rubin Middletown The Middletown Concert Chorale, under the

Memphis... in West Point

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new direction of Danielle Cornacchio, invites all interested singers to attend its Open House rehearsals, as they begin their 17th Spring season.

Open rehearsals will be Mondays, January 13 & 20, & 27 from 7:00pm-9:00pm at St John’s Lutheran Church, 391 Mount Hope Road, Middletown, and continue each Monday thereafter.

Auditions are not required and singers don’t have to read music. Concerts are planned for May 10, 17 & 18. The major works this season will be selections from a variety of Broadway shows and a classical piece to be announced.

For information call Jack Austin at 845-8560706; Rob Abramson at 845-386-4398, or Bev Lennon at 845-386-8016.

“A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists.” Vera Nazarian.

Beacon - Adults & Kids Recently retired from the Beacon School District, the Howland Cultural Center Community Chorus director, Michael

The Middletown Concert Chorale

Tabon, says, “if you like to sing, join us each Monday at 7:00pm for Let’s Sing.”

For information: 845-831-4988.

The Rivertown Kids is a community group of musically-minded young people, envisioned and supported by Pete Seeger. “Our mission is to gather together young people (starting at 9 years old) who are willing to make a commitment to social and environmental justice by singing, songwriting, recording, and performing to ‘get the word out’ about living in a more responsible world.”

The Rivertown Kids sing at Howland, 477 Main Street, Beacon, Wednesdays from 4:00pm-6:00pm, “changing the world one song at a time!” 845-831-4988.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing ‘Happy Birthday.” Steven Wright Verdi Requiem Performances of Verdi’s Messa Da Requiem,

Hans von Bulow

The Rivertown Kids with Pete Seeger

which possibly contains more luscious, sumptuous and velvety melodies than any other work extent, takes much in the way of people-power to be performed. Its elegaic, spiritual moments are combined with an intensity and stirring theatricality setting it a long way from the masses of Bach or Mozart.

Performing it locally might be a once in a lifetime opportunity for singers to experience it and be transported, along with the audience, to a higher dimension for an hour and a half (albeit with scores in hand).

Hudson Opera Theatre, under the baton of Maestro Ron De Fesi (see photo) has already begun rehearsing for April performances, but heartily welcomes more, and more, singers. Rehearsals are on Mondays in Sugar Loaf. Call 845-661-0544.

Singing is a way of escaping. It’s another world. I’m no longer on earth. Edith Piaf.

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From the underground dance clubs of 1950s Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis is a Broadway musical filled with laughter, soaring emotion and roof-raising rock ‘n’ roll, with dancing, songs and a thrilling tale of fame and forbidden love. Inspired by actual events, Memphis is about a radio DJ who wants to change the world and a club singer who is ready for her big break.

Winner of four 2010 Tony Awards® including Best Musical, Memphis features a Tony®-winning book by Joe DiPietro and a Tony®-winning original score with music by Bon Jovi’s founding member David Bryan.

Memphis also won four 2010 Drama Desk Awards (including Best Musical) and four 2010 Outer Critics Circle Awards (including Outstanding Musical).

Memphis comes to West Point’s Eisenhower Hall Theatre, Highland Falls, on January 26 at 3:00pm.

For tickets: 845-938-4159.

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Meet Douglas Winslow Cooper: Freelance Writer, Retired Physicist, Caregiver, and Rational Optimist To revisit and spend even the smallest portion of a clear, crisp December day with Douglas Cooper remains an inspiring encounter with love...love on a level so far beyond and above its four simple representational letters. Douglas Cooper is a multitalented individual and writer. He has authored and co-authored three distinct works of creative nonfiction and continues to toil with the peculiar habits of words and language and the stories they tell.

Conversations with an articulate individual of diverse interests are frequently exercises in controlled digressions. For this writer, the subjects and paths continually returned to Douglas and the story of his stimulating encounter with the love of his life: Ting!

As stated, a simple four letter word is “love.”

But in the case of Douglas Cooper it rises beyond and above the pedestrian imagination. It’s the type of romanticism most have only read about and even fewer are able to write about. It is the type of romanticism that deserves a renewed or first-time visit.

Sometimes in jest, coffee saturated lit students make reference to the poets Byron, Shelly, Keats

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and sometimes Wordsworth as the “softheaded romantics.”

But it was Keats who knew best and wrote of this love as “still steadfast” and “still unchangeable.”

Douglas’ publication, Ting and I, A Memoir of Love, Courage and Devotion is a description of the love discovered by those chosen few who walk the paths of those great poets. If one can bring to mind the popularized “Bright Star,” the courage, love and devotion of Tina and Douglas will shine bright in the night sky.

The events that caused such an extraordinary love affair began with the innocence of a spring morning, post adolescence desires and the realization that the real world of adulthood was rapidly surrounding a couple who looked into the other’s eyes and saw souls laid bare. Seeking acceptance were two bright, articulate, intellectually curious college students with a compatibility level above the “recommended.”

Adults, i.e. parents, who could not see that Bright Star forbade the relationship. Prejudice, the playmate of so many great tragedies from Athens to Stratfordupon-Avon to Broadway had struck once more with its venomous, fate-filled fangs. Douglas was a Caucasian from Walden and Su Ting-Ting (aka Tina) an Asian from Kuming, China. Each rejected

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by the family of the other, found a different path and walked away from love. Tina and Douglas said it was the “rational” thing to do.

Time does not heal all wounds and it does not extinguish love, especially love illuminated by a “Bright Star.”

For Tina and Douglas that star remained constant, and bright. Five years melted into ten and ten into fifteen and then eighteen. Eighteen years since that “rational” good bye. Each had a failed marriage by then and each could not forget the post-adolescent tingle of a college romance coupled with the compatibility of intellectual curiosity. Twenty years after falling in love, Douglas called Tina on the phone and his fantasy was confirmed: Each was still in love with the other. Twenty-one years after the first and fateful encounter, Douglass Cooper and Tina were married.Their wedding rings are inscribed, “A Dream Come True.”

Dreams and fantasies are always confronted by reality, and it is often reality that causes one to wake in the middle of the night and cry. The true test of love is when one comes nose-to-nose, full tilt with the unthinkable. It was known at the time of the marriage that Tina had multiple sclerosis, believed to be an auto-immune disease. There is

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no cure. At the time of the marriage, June 1984, signs of the disease were few and not readily noticeable. The disease, however, continued its unrelenting assault on Tina’s nervous system. “By 1990, she was still able to walk, but only in baby steps; her fatigue had worsened, and she showed a loss of mental clarity. By 1993, she was using a cane, was barely able to climb stairs...” By 1994, to complicate the issue, Tina had been diagnosed with cancer and the treatments had weakened her.

Tina was now paraplegic and would soon heroically face quadriplegia and a close encounter with death from pneumonia. Considering these and other complications, “medical professionals” attempted to impose a Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) order. Tina chose to live.

In 2000, Tina and Doug moved to Lake Osiris in Walden. Douglas’ mother described Tina at Lake Osiris as follows. “Seated in her kitchen, she can look out through a glass door at a lake and watch as squadrons of Canadian geese ripple its surface.”

Tina lives today with Douglas on the lake, the result of devotion, care, and a love so intense. For those not so “softheaded,” find solace, sleep soundly, for there is without challenge a Bright Star over Lake Osiris, “steadfast” and “unchangeable.”

Ting and I, A Memoir of Love, Courage, and Devotion is available through Amazon.

Ten Years Young: The New York School of Music The surrounding hills of the Wallkill Valley are alive. Alive “with the sound of music and with songs they have sung for a thousand years.”

A thousand years may be a stretch of untamed hyperbole, but Walden is an established and respected venue of the performing arts. Its musical history reaches back into the last century with noted performances of Enrico Caruso and John Phillip Sousa at the Didsbury, Walden’s own opera house.

The tradition continued well into the current century. The New York School of Music (NYSM) has been and remains a dominant force in Walden community’s tradition. The school, under the competent hand of Donna Hall, has an enrollment exceeding 200 students and a faculty of 22 professional musicians. The quality of instruction is well known throughout the Wallkill Valley, as it boasts of instruction in a variety of categories: guitar, bass, drums, voice, woodwind, brass, strings, and folk instruments.

As with numerous entities and organizations, the past, especially with respect to origin, easily becomes a faded memory. The NYSM, conveniently situated in the Gridley Building on Orchard Street, however, is an exception. Note the words of owner Donna Hall. She recalls with

vivid accuracy and recognition the days that preceded the opening of NYSM. In 1996, the late and recently passed David Napoli, an experienced and adventurous percussionist, ventured into the business of music education. He and wife Ann modestly opened a small music school at his home on Coldenham Road.

It was just a beginning, the first note of a song to be sung, the first note of a chord to be played. “That was the spark, it initiated the reason why the NYSM is here today. David did not have the advantage of receiving formal scholastic training in music, and in order to follow his passion he adjusted and successfully learned to teach himself. It was in actuality the origin of what is now the NYSM”.

David’s (Circle of Chain) C.O.C. School of Percussive Arts grew and eventually moved into the village, opening a music store first on Orange Avenue and in 1998, relocating to the Walker Building on Main Street. By the year 1999, the school expanded and occupied a storefront in the Mason Building.

Donna Hall was the recipient of the 2011 Tribute to Women of Achievement of Orange County award in the Arts. Donna is an active, articulate, intelligent woman with a clear, realistic vision of community and her place in it. Although

quantities have been written about the school and her personal and professional achievements, “I could not have done this by myself. Without the instructors and staff, NYSM would cease to exist.”

As the NYSM begins its tenth year of operation, it caters to students of all ages and musical interests. Emphasized is the advantage the study of music offers.

Inspired by the memory and ideals of Napoli, Donna is keenly aware of the trials, distractions, and potential hazards young people face in a complex world. She, as did David, believes music, training and the teamwork required of a performing musician provide individuals with the skills required to navigate through the obstacles they encounter at this juncture and will face in the future.

Donna believes students must acquire a thorough knowledge of the basics and all the training and discipline music and music theory offer. Learn your scales and chords. “You never know. What happens when you’re fifteen and want to be in the school’s jazz band?” she asks.

“A thorough and comprehensive preparation offers alternatives, everything you need if you want to take it to the next step.

“Surround yourself with great people and great things will happen.” That’s Donna’s tag.

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Whispering Pines Another New Year

“Happy New Year!” That greeting will be said and heard for at least the first couple of weeks as a new year gets under way.

Traditionally, it was thought that one could affect the luck they would have throughout the coming year by what they did or ate on the first day of the year. For that reason, it has become common for folks to celebrate the first few minutes of a brand new year in the company of family and friends. Parties often last into the middle of the night after the ringing in of a new year. It was once believed that the first visitor on New Year’s Day would bring either good luck or bad luck the rest of the year. It was particularly lucky if that visitor happened to be a tall dark-haired man. Traditional New Year foods are also thought to bring luck. Many cultures believe that anything in the shape of a ring is good luck, because it symbolizes “coming full circle,” completing a year’s cycle. For that reason, the Dutch believe that eating donuts on New Year’s Day will bring good fortune.

Many parts of the U.S. celebrate the New Year by consuming black-eyed peas. These legumes are typically accompanied by either hog jowls or ham. Black-eyed peas and other legumes have been considered good luck in many cultures. The hog is considered lucky because it symbolizes prosperity.

Cabbage is another “good luck” vegetable that is consumed on New Year’s Day by many. Cabbage leaves are also considered a sign of prosperity, being representative of paper currency. In some regions, rice is a lucky food that is eaten on New Year’s Day. The

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with Executive Chef, Douglas P. Frey following are a few of my favorites.

Egg Nog 12 separated eggs 1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup bourbon 1 cup cognac 1/2 tsp salt 3 pint heavy cream Grated nutmeg

Beat yolks until light in color.

Slowly add bourbon, cognac, while beating at slow speed, then chill 3 hrs.

Add salt to whites, beat to peaks.

Whip cream until stiff.

Fold whipped cream into yolk mixture, then fold in the beaten egg whites.

Chill one hour.

Serve with nutmeg sprinkled on top.

For thinner mixture add 1 or 2 cups of milk. Enjoy!

Fillet en Croute

2 1/2 pound fillet steak or chateaubriand 2 tablespoons soft butter Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste 1/2 pound brown mushrooms, finely chopped 1/4 cup minced shallots or green onions 1/4 cup minced flat-leaf parsley 2 ounces Black Forest ham, minced 1 tablespoon brandy or dry sherry 1 package (10 oz.) frozen puff pastry shells, thawed and warmed to room temperature 1 egg white, lightly beaten Watercress or parsley sprigs

Preheat the oven to 425F. Tie the fillet steak or lamb

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roll in several places with heavy string.

Rub the top and sides with 1 tbs soft butter and sprinkle with salt & pepper. Place fat side up in a baking pan. Roast in the oven for 20 minutes. Remove pan to a rack and let meat cool to room temperature; remove string. Meanwhile, sauté the mushrooms and shallots in remaining butter until soft. Add parsley, ham, and brandy and cook 2 minutes to reduce juices. Chill.

Arrange the patty shells on a lightly floured board and press the edges together, making a rectangular shape. Roll out to make a rectangle about 12 x 15 inches or large enough to encase the meat. Trim the pastry and save the scraps for garnish. Spread mushroom mixture over pastry to within 1 inch of all sides and press in firmly. Trim any thick fat from the outside of the meat.

Place meat top side down on the pastry. Wrap pastry around meat; seal securely down the middle and at ends, moistening pastry edges with water. Place seam side down in a greased baking pan.

With a scalloped cookie cutter, cut out designs from pastry scraps and arrange on pastry-wrapped meat. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to cook. Brush pastry with lightly beaten egg white.

Insert a meat thermometer through pastry into the center section of the meat. Bake in a preheated 400F oven for 30 minutes or until the meat thermometer registers 140 for medium rare meat.

With a spatula, transfer the meat to a carving board and remove the meat thermometer. Garnish with watercress. To serve, cut the meat into 3/4 inch thick slices. Enjoy!

For all of your culinary questions, catering needs or personal chef services I may be reached at 845-6471428 or email: whisperingpinescaterers@gmail.com

Howland Pianos

by Derek Leet

I recently computeraudited an online lecture series on Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas by Curtis Institute’s Jonathan Biss.

I learned much and was hoping to attend Biss’ concert on January 5 at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, a part of the Piano Festival series, only to discover it was sold out.

So I opted for the next concert. Pianist Jeremy Denk, (see photo) who performed in October at Bethel Woods, is the featured soloist for Howland’s January 19 concert. He’ll be playing music by Byrd, Schumann, Ligeti, and Colin Noncarrow. But that, too, is sold out.

Denk is known for his original and insightful writing on music. His website “think denk,” recounting his experiences of touring, performing, and practicing, was recently selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress Web Archives. He also writes notes for other performers’ CDs. These concerts are part of an ongoing sell-out series of chamber music and solo piano concerts at Howland, so I strongly suggest you visit their website and “sign up” in advance for whatever is available.

For information call 845-831-4988 or visit: www.howlandculturalcenter.org

The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell

One day in 1855 Lucy Lobdell cut her hair, changed clothes, and went off to live her life as a man.

The New York Times thought her worthy of a lengthy obituary that began “Death of a Modern Diana...Dressed in Man’s Clothing She Win’s a Girl’s Love.’’ The obit detailed what the Times knew of Lucy’s life, from her backwoods upbringing to the dance school she ran disguised as a man, “where she won the love of a young lady scholar.’’ The Times did not know about Lucy’s arrest and trial for the crime of wearing men’s clothes or her jailbreak engineered by her wife, Marie Perry, to whom she had been married by an unsuspecting judge.

Lucy lived at a time when women did not commonly travel unescorted, carry a rifle, sit down in bars, or have romantic liaisons with other women. Lucy did these things in a personal quest - to work and be paid, to wear what she wanted, and to love whomever she cared to. But to gain those freedoms she had to endure public scorn and wrestle with a sexual identity whose vocabulary had yet to be invented.

William Klaber is a part-time journalist.

He lives in upstate, New York, a short way from where Lucy Lobdell lived 160 years ago. The farmhouse he bought with his wife in 1980 had a history with Lucy’s legend, but he didn’t know that till years later when he sat down for breakfast with a local historian

Lucy Ann Lobdell

who told him Lucy’s story and showed him a leather satchel filled with recollections, newspaper articles, and letters gathered over the years. In this collection was a copy of a self-written account of Lucy’s early life that the historian had found in an unmarked box in a library basement.

This book is Lucy’s story, told in her words. The memoir is fiction; the story is true.

The Catskill Art Society will present Klaber reading from his “novel” The Rebellion of Lucy Ann Lobdell at the CAS William Klaber Arts Center, 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor on January 25 at 3:00pm.

This event is free and open to the public, and small donations will be accepted at the door. For information call 845-436-4227.

Downing’s Digital Delight

regressing from a mournful adult On a journey from Hollywood to a young man whose future is to New York in 1931, Moss Hart filled with promise. was inspired to write a play about In 1981, their play, Merrily We an American family’s difficulties Roll Along, was adapted into a over 30 years, beginning with musical with a book by George their innocence and optimism at Furth and lyrics and music by the beginning of the 20th century George Furth & Stephen Sondheim. While the to the dashed hopes caused by the Stephen Sondheim original Broadway production stock market crash of 1929. was a failure, the musical has Before he could realize his since been successfully staged vision, however, he was scooped with numerous changes, and

by Noël Coward’s 1931 British was filmed live during the version of a similar story, final performances of a recent Cavalcade, and he shelved the highly successful production in idea. A few years later, however, London’s West End. Hart turned to George Kaufman, George Kaufman & See Merrily We Roll Along on his collaborator on the 1930 hit, Moss Hart January 18 at Noon or January Once in a Lifetime. The idea had now evolved. Its innovative structure presented 19 at 7:00pm at the Downing Film Center, 19 the story in reverse order, with the character Front Street, Newburgh. Call 845-561-3686.

“Reflective Surfaces” at CAS

Reflective Surfaces presents two distinctive artists with series of images refracted and reflected, revealing glimpses of inner life and environments that are co-existing with us, unaware. Whether among nature or a cityscape, surfaces like mirrors, windows, pools, and puddles become portals that transport us past the boundaries between worlds.

Reflective Surfaces features the photography of Julia Forrest and

Photo by Julia Forrest

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Flora Hogman. No digital alteration is used in their work, yet the subjects can seem fantastic, even surreal, blending figures with landscapes within perfectly composed photographs.

The exhibit runs from January 18February 23. The opening reception is on January 18 from 2:00pm-5:00pm with an Artist Talk at 2:00pm, followed by a wine and cheese reception.

For further information, visit: www. catskillartsociety.org/exhibits.

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Josef Haydn: “Happy Birthday, Mozart”

by Derek Leet

If “Papa” Haydn were alive and well today, he’d be happy to join us in celebrating Mozart’s 258th birthday.

Generally regarded as depicting his reaching a new level of subtlety and sophistication, Haydn had completed his influential “Opus 33” set of quartets in 1781, the year that Mozart arrived in Vienna.

By 1785, Haydn and Mozart had become friends, and sometimes played quartets together in Mozart’s apartment, with Mozart playing the viola, and Haydn playing violin.

Mozart, impressed with Haydn’s Opus 33 quartets, began composing a set of new ones. His “Haydn” Quartets are a set of six string quartets published in 1785 in Vienna, dedicated to Haydn. They are considered to be the pinnacle of classical string quartet writing, containing some of Mozart’s most memorable melodic writing and refined compositional thought.

The String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, KV. 465 is nicknamed Dissonance. It is the last in the set of six. Haydn first heard the six quartets at two gatherings at Mozart’s home. On these occasions he apparently just listened, rather than playing a part himself. After hearing them all, Haydn made the now-famous remark to Mozart’s father Leopold, “Before God, and

as an honest man, I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me either in person or by name. He has taste, and, what is more, the most profound knowledge of composition.”

We often hear that Beethoven was the father of modern music, due to his forward-looking and somewhat dissonant-sounding late quartets. But Mozart’s 19th Quartet got the Dissonant nickname because the harmonies he wrote for its opening Adagio sounded dissonant in 1785, and to my ears, it is the precursor to Beethoven’s innovative late melodies and harmonies. So, I would say that, with Franz Josef being the “papa” of string quartets, Wolfgang Amadeus, not Ludwig, is the “papa” of modern music.

The “featured” opus for the January Potluck concert, the Dissonance will be performed with Potluck’s violinist and co-producer Emily Faxon, and guest artists, including Hudson Valley Philharmonic violinist Heather Vogel who, according to Faxon, “requested that particular quartet”. Good for her!

Come to the Cornwall Presbyterian Church on January 31 at 7:30pm for another Potluck ‘music-olio’ followed by delicious home baked cakes and Haagen Dazs ice cream.

Visit hudsonvalleysocietyformusic.org.

Flotation therapy is undertaken by floating in warm salt water in a float tank.

Research into flotation therapy has shown to improve creativity in jazz musicians, accuracy in rifle shooting, focus before academic examinations and stress relief, among others.

Research in Sweden has demonstrated the therapeutic effect on pain.

The natural tendency of the body in the floating posture at the correct temperature is to dilate the blood vessels, reducing blood pressure and maximizing blood flow. The brain activity normally associated with postural muscles is reduced to a minimum. In this state, which is called the floating state, endorphins are released

that help reduce pain. Lactic acid removal is accelerated. Flow in the lymphatic system is increased.

Flotation Therapy offers what many other therapies do not - a slowing of the mind’s activity and switching from Alpha waves to Theta waves.

People using early float tanks discovered that they enjoyed the experience and that the relaxed state helped heal stress, anxiety, pain, swelling, insomnia, and jet lag. There are now hundreds of flotation centers in dozens of countries.

A flotation room has been constructed at Sat Nam Yoga Spa, 333 Mount Cliff Road, in Hurleyville.

For more information, call 845-866-3063.

Music in Central Valley: Young Artists

In 2012 MonroeWoodbury Central School District Music Coordinator, Nicole Regan shared that the District was recognized as one of the Best Communities for Music Education by the international not-for-profit NAMM Foundation. The school district and Monroe-Woodbury Music Boosters, comprised of parents and local businesses, support the comprehensive music program with over 50 performing groups in k-12.

In 2012, fifty-one Monroe-Woodbury high school students participated in the six county music festivals, with six students selected to participate in the National Association for Music Education, a

multiple state event. Regan spoke about life changing opportunities due to music education in the areas of personal development, learning to work together in group settings, learning the skill of communicating non-verbally, and raising productivity levels, as well as raising math and science skills, leading to an intellectual and emotional alignment in students.

“Musicians have grit. We don’t give up. We listen, we keep working, and this builds the individuals’ and the groups’ confidence.”

Begin this New Year by attending the Young Artists of the Monroe-Woodbury High School concert on January 26 at 3:00pm, for the Music in Central Valley series at Central Valley United Methodist Church, 12 Smith Clove Road.

Admission is free, donations requested.

Call 845-928-6570.

Thirty odd years ago while assigned to the NYPD Intelligence Division, photographer Tom Doyle had the opportunity to do surveillance photography. During the assignment he learned the technical aspect of the craft.

Landscape photography became a full time pursuit after retirement.

It was soon apparent that while technical competence was essential, there was much more to landscape photography. Simply put, this new craft required some understanding of ambient light and graphic composition. Tom has been pursuing the esthetic side of landscape photography for ten years.

“And while there has been some progress, the

longer I work at it, the more I realize that it’s a never ending chase,” says Tom. Cornwall & the Highlands, an exhibit of Tom’s work, is currently displayed in Leo’s Restaurant, 23 Quaker Avenue, Cornwall. The work is up until January 31 and has all been done in the Cornwall area. See ad below for more info.

Tom Doyle Exhibit at Leo’s, Cornwall

New! Flotation Therapy at Sat Nam Yoga Spa, Hurleyville

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A Unique and Fun Experience at Warwick’s “Wine and Design”

by Naomi Kennedy While vacationing in Williamsburg, Virginia with her husband and two sons, Town of Warwick resident Jennifer Marsh attended a “Wine and Design” class. In these classes, students and guests enjoy a glass of wine while step-by-step instructions are provided by art teachers who display original paintings as a guide. Once a painting is chosen and assigned, acrylic paint is applied on 16 x 20 canvases with themes such as landscapes, animals, and still-lives.

Although Jennifer does not have an art background, this experience motivated her to open Warwick Wine & Design, at 133 Route 94 South, the Meadowcrest Building, which opened in late August. “People are always looking for something to do when they go out with friends. This was so much fun and very different. We didn’t have

anything like it in Warwick,” said Marsh. Wine & Design franchises began 3 years ago and now have branched out to more than 30 locations throughout the United States.

Private painting parties are hosted for occasions such as: birthday parties for children and adults (the latter enjoying wine as they paint), girl’s night out, corporate events, engagement parties, wedding or baby showers, and fundraisers. They accommodate a variety of venues including restaurants/bars, corporate offices, homes, and wineries. Participants happily depart with a painting they have created.

Events are held with themes: “Date Night” (January 10), “Paint Your House” (January 12), and “Paint Your Pet” (January 26). “On my favorite “Date Night” everyone painted their significant other

in ‘Picasso’ abstract style without looking at each other’s work until the end of the class. Everyone was very proud of themselves” said Marsh.

You would not expect many of the men who attend to be interested in this type of activity. “Not only the women, but the men have such a good time and the paintings turn out great,” said Marsh. On “Pet Night” you bring a photo of your beloved cat or dog which is enlarged onto a canvas. Everyone finds the results very rewarding. Bring a photo of your beautiful home on “Paint Your House” night and be pleasantly surprised at the realistic image that appears as you create a masterpiece.

Jennifer selected art teachers from the Warwick vicinity with a variety of skills. “They are three very talented women,” said Marsh. Melissa

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Bellantone, who earned a BFA in Fine Arts and Illustration, has experience in painting and drawing, sculpture, print making, and engraving. Lindsey Graham, primarily a video artist, is an animator, performer, dancer, painter, and sculptor. She has shown internationally, winning numerous awards for her stop motion animation and music video work. Jennifer Leonard is a self-taught artist who uses pen and ink, bright acrylics, calligraphy, paper tearing, and photography.

Warwick Wine & Design holds “Paint It Forward” fundraisers for non-profit organizations.

Twenty five percent of the proceeds are donated to the cause. “It’s definitely a great way to be more involved in the community and nice to know that you were able to help someone local,” said Marsh.

For more information, call 845-544-2487.

Editor’s note: See ad on page 18 for Art Cottage, a similar venue in Campbell Hall.

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FoldForming in Florida

To work a hot iron is to experience one of the oldest human technologies - with the aroma of coke fires, the color of the iron’s rising heat, the sound of the ringing anvil, and the movement of the iron under the hammer.

Foldforming is a technique of metalworking whereby metal is folded, repeatedly forged and annealed (altered by heat to increase its ability to deform) to make it more workable,

and ‘unfolded’, at which stage it generally has a dramatic new three-dimensional form.

The technique was invented in the late 1980s by Charles Lewton-Brain, an Englishborn goldsmith who lived and studied in Tanzania, the United States, and Germany before moving to Canada. Outside of the Industrial Revolution, the method represents the first major innovation in metalworking in thousands of years. It can best be described as a combination of origami and traditional metalworking.

By 1991, Lewton-Brain was winning awards for the technique and in 1997 workshops demonstrating the technique

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were at the core of the “Touch the Future” portion of the JCK International Jewelry Show in Orlando, Florida.

Hundreds of folds have now been categorized, and techniques now include use of traditional forging tools, rolling mills, and embedding wire and other objects into the folds.

“Hefestus was the Greek god of metal workers and craftsmen,” explains Chip Schwartz. “He was the son of Zeus and Hera, who tossed him off of Mount Olympus for being too ugly. It was said that Hephaestus fell all day before landing on the island of Lemnos, and from that day on he was a cripple, riding in a chariot made by his own hand. He worked with metal under a volcano, using cyclops as assistants, and was revered for his beautiful jewelry for women and weapons for men.

“The Center for Metal Arts’ logo shows Hephaestus in his chariot, from an early image on Greek pottery, but we have added a few of our own touches to the image of Hephaestus, god of blacksmithing.”

Join Chip Schwartz for his Foldform Sunday Sampler workshop at the Center, 44 Jayne Street in Florida on January 19 from 10:00am-2:00pm.

For information: 845-651-7550.

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Outsiders Inside Liberty’s Green Door

Akira and Ellie Ohiso of Green Door Magazine have invited Andrea Brown and Elizabeth Ennis of The Outsider’s Studio Collective (OSC) to figuratively “bomb” their space in Liberty, cramming every wall, nook, and cranny with portraits of people and their pets.

It will be up to the viewer, faced with this universe of visages, to decide what all of these human and animal faces are thinking, feeling, and talking about. Keep in mind that the OSC has a reputation for “showing artists who work outside the fringes of traditional art.”

The opening reception for Crowd is January 18, 4:00pm-6:00pm. The works are slated to remain in Green Door’s space, 34 South Main Street in Liberty, thru March 1.

For more information about Outsider’s Studio, visit www.theoutsidersstudio.com. You call Green Door at 845-55GD-MAG.

“Winter Solstice” in Huguenot

Winter Solstice is the name of a small show that celebrates the start of winter. Artworks can be seen Monday through Friday from 9:00am4:00pm in various offices at Deerpark Town Hall through March 16.

The show highlights Joan Kehlenbeck, Susan Miiller, Joan Standora and Elva Zingaro.

Included in the exhibit are paintings and pastels that celebrate the visual beauty of winter when snow fills the air and icicles glisten in the sun.

The Town Hall is at 420 Route 209, Huguenot.

For information: susanmiiller01@gmail.com

“Nightfall” by Joan Standora

canvas category calendar sponsored by Hudson Valley Planning & Preservation, Monroe

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cinema

Midday Movie ������������������������������������������������ Fallsburg Library, Tuesdays & Thursday, Noon FREE Surreal Films ��������������������������������������������� Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf, Dec 27, 7pm Reel Eclectic Movie ��������������������������������������������������� Thrall Library, Middletown, Jan 2, 7pm FREE “GMO - OMG” ���������������������������������������������������������������� Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Jan 3-6 Saturday Matinee �������������������������������������������������������������������Newburgh Library, Jan 11, 1pm FREE Afternoon Movie ����������������������������������������������������� Thrall Library, Middletown, Jan 15, 2pm FREE “Merrily We Roll Along” ����������������������������������������� Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Jan 18 & 19 “Waitress” ����������������������������������������������������� Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Jan 23, 6pm FREE “Food Inc.” ����������������������������������Unitarian Universalist Meeting House, Rock Tavern, Jan 24, 7pm Monday Night at the Movies ��������������������������������������������Newburgh Library, Jan 27, 6:30pm FREE “Bordering on Treason” ������������������������������������� Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Jan 27, 7:30pm

comedy

Open Mic ��������������������������������������������������������������������������Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester. 2nd Friday Isaacs & Baker, Jerrold Benford ����������������������������������Jester’s Comedy Club,. Chester, Jan 4, 8pm Jerry Seinfeld ������������������������������������������������������ Eisenhower Hall Theater, West Point, Jan 10, 7pm The Rising Star Comedy Showcase Championship ���Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Jan 10, 8pm Jimmy Failla, Tommy Gooch ���������������������������������������Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Jan 11, 8pm Buddy Fitzpatrick, Gene Trifilio ����������������������������������Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Jan 18, 8pm Jon Fisch, Nore Davis ���������������������������������������������������Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Jan 25, 8pm

holiday Events - Fairs - festivals - Recreation

Liberty Bell Drop Sullivan Performing Arts �����������Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Dec 31, 10pm Light Spectacular 15 minute display ������������� Castle Fun Center, Chester, thru Jan 5, 6pm-10:30pm

holistic events

Psychic Fair ���������������������������������������������������������Crystal Connection, Wurtsboro, Dec 8, Noon-5pm

museums

Sculpture Exhibit ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Dia: Beacon, ongoing Terwilliger House Museum ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������Ellenville, ongoing Sullivan County History Exhibits �������������������������� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, ongoing 19th Century Rural Living ��������������������������������������������������������� Museum Village, Monroe, ongoing “The Final Days of the Civil War” ���Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh, thru Jan 2-Apr 27

music - Broadway - opera - tin pan alley - cabaret

Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra Family Concert, “Tunes from Broadway & Film” ������ Aquinas Hall, Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh, Jan 18, 3pm David Podles violin �����������������������������������������������������������������Newburgh Library, Jan 19, 3pm FREE

music - Classical

Jonathan Biss piano ���������������������������������������������������Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Jan 5, 4pm Ilya Kazantsey piano & Sergey Antonov cello, Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series �������� Montgomery Senior Center, Jan 12, 3pm FREE West Point Band “On The March” ����������������������������������������� Eisenhower Hall, Jan 19, 3pm FREE Jeremy Denk piano ��������������������������������������������������Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Jan 19, 4pm Potluck Concerts ”Happy Birthday, Herr Mozart” �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Jan 31, 7:30pm Bill Owens trumpet & Craig Williams organ ������������������������ West Point Cadet Chapel, Feb 2, 3pm

music - jazz

Barry Scheinfeld & Friends Jazz Cat Brunch ���Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Sundays, 10am-1pm Blue Cranes, Rene Hart & Allison Miller & Jeff Lederer ������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 15, 7pm Bucky Pizzarelli & Ed Laub Duo, Kristina Koller Duo ����������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 16, 7pm Joe Carozza Trio ���������������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 19. 10am-2pm Vic Juris Duo & Kate Baker ��������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 26. 10am-2pm Tootie’s Tempo w/ Tootie Heath, Ethan Iverson & Ben Street ������ Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 28, 7pm Scott Wendholt/Adam Kolker Quartet �������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 30, 7pm

opera

”La Boheme” Puccini (video) ��������������������������������������������������Cornwall Library, Jan 19, 1pm FREE

poetry & prose readings

Poetry Night Host: Robert Milby ����������������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jan 2, 7pm Hudson River Poets ������������������������������������������������������������������Newburgh Library, Jan 2, 7pm FREE Adrianna Delgado & Anne Gorrick �������������������������Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Jan 3, 8pm Poetry on the Loose ���������������������� Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf, Jan 4, 3:30pm FREE “OUT LOUD Performance Party” poetry, music, etc. ��� Yo Cups, Matamoras, Jan 17, 7pm FREE & Port Jervis Community Center, Jan 25, 7pm FREE Poetry at the Church �����������������������������������������������������������Goshen Methodist Church, Jan 27, 7pm

recreation

Line Dancing ������������������������������������������������������������Jester’s Restaurant, Chester, Thursdays 7:30pm “National Pie Day” movie, trivia, prizes, pies ��Josephine-Louise Lib., Walden, Jan 23, 6pm FREE

storytelling

Black Dirt Storytelling Guild “Bad Behavior” ���������������������� Florida Library, Jan 9, 7:30pm FREE

theatre - musical

“Memphis” ���������������������������������������������������������� Eisenhower Hall Theater, West Point, Jan 26, 3pm

Music - blues / country/ folk / pop / rock/ Latin sponsored by Steve’s Music Center, Rock Hill

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Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle ����� Catskill Distilling Company, Bethel, Saturdays, 3pm-5pm Peter Florance & the New Kings NEW YEAR’S BASH ������������������������������������������������������������������ dinner Dancing Cat Saloon, party Catskill Distilling Company, Bethel, Dec 31 New Year’s Eve w/Alexis P. Suter Band, Aubrey Haddard ���� The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 31, 7pm Voices of Glory vocal harmonies �������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 2, 7pm Chris O’Leary Band blues, rockabilly ����������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 3, 7pm Louis Setzer & Appalachian Mountain Boys, Little Sparrow Woodsongs Coffeehouse ���������������� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, Jan 4, 6pm Popa Chubby, Dylan Doyle, rock, rockabilly, blues �������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 4, 7pm Gustafer Yellowgold ������������������������������������������������������������ The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 5, 10am-2pm Jason Casterlin rock, country ������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 5, 7pm Amy Helm & The Handsome Strangers gospel, blues ��������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 6, 7pm Chris Bergson Band, The Flaming Meatballs rock, country ��� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 10, 7pm Pat Lamanna Hudson Valley Folk Guild �����Unitarian Universalist Meeting House, Jan 11, 7:30pm Tony Jefferson & Groovocity funk, jazz, soul ����������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 12, 10am-2pm Jeffrey Broussard & The Creole Cowboys Zydeco ������������������ The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 12, 7pm Amy Helm & The Handsome Strangers gospel, blues ������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 13, 7pm Matuto! The Heights of World Music Americana, Pan-American � Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 17, 7pm The Big Takeover, M’bollo roots, reggae, African �������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 18, 7pm Amy Helm & The Handsome Strangers gospel, blues ������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 20, 7pm Willa McCarthy Band ���������������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 23, 7pm The Amigos Band w/David Amram Zydeco, jazz, country ������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 24, 7pm Jim Campilongo Trio & Josh Dion, Rachel Loshak blues, country, jazz, rock Falcon, Jan 25, 7pm Amy Helm & The Handsome Strangers gospel, blues ������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 27, 7pm “Lord of the Strings” works of J.R.R. Tolkien, music, poetry, art ����������Fallsburg Library, Jan 30, 7pm FREE

Jay Collins & The Kings County Band, Jim Hayes Band jazz, rock, blues �����Falcon, Jan 31, 7pm Brewster Americana, Little Sparrow Woodsongs Coffeehouse ��������������������������������������������������������� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, Feb 1, 6pm

Open Mic & in-house music

Some listings below are not included in our centerspread calendar due to space limitations.

Open Mic w/Bryan & Erin Keegan ������������ Brian’s Backyard Barbecue, Middletown, Tues & Weds Open Mic w/Joe Frazita or Steve Wells ������������������������� Blarney Stone, Warwick, Wednesdays, 8pm Open Mic w/Bob Keegan ������������������������������������������ Brothers Barbecue, New Windsor, Wednesdays Open Mic w/Eric Callari ��������������������������������������������������Eddie’s Restaurant, Warwick, Wednesdays Open Mic ������������������������������������������������ Rolling River Cafe, Parksville, Wednesdays, 7pm-10:30pm Open Mic ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Mountaindale Inn, Wednesdays, 8pm Open Mic Hudson Valley Folk Guild �����������Unitarian Universalist Meeting House, Jan 11, 7:30pm Open Mic ������������������������������������������������������������Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jan 16, 6pm “Out Loud Performance Party” open mic, poetry & music �������Yo Cups, Matamoras, Jan 17, 7pm & Port Jervis Community Center, Jan 25, 7pm Karaoke w/Bill Braine ����������������������������������������� 2Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, 3rd Saturday, 8pm Marilyn Kennedy vocal & Jake Lentz piano ���������������La Piazzetta, Wurtsboro, Wednesdays, TBD Musician’s Gathering w/Stacy Cohen ������������������ Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Thursdays, 7:30pm The Parting Glass Band Celtic ������������������Loughran’s Pub, Salisbury Mills, Thursdays, 7pm-10pm Marilyn Kennedy vocal & Jake Lentz piano ��������Giovanni’s Inn, Wurtsboro, Fri & Sat, 6pm-9pm Steve Wells �������������������������������������������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jan 3, 6pm-9pm Evan Teatum live Karaoke ��������������������������������Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jan 3, 7pm-10pm Sojourn �������������������������������������������������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jan 4, 6pm-9pm McMule! �������������������������������������������������������������Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jan 4, 7pm-10pm John Sheehan ���������������������������������������������Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jan 5, 2:30pm-5:30pm Kevin Ege �������������������������������������������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jan 10, 6pm-9pm Gregg Van Gelder �������������������������������������������Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jan 10, 7pm-10pm Tommy Caprino ��������������������������������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jan 11, 6pm-9pm The Roe Does ��������������������������������������������������� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jan 11, 7pm-10pm Steve Wells �����������������������������������������������Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jan 12, 2:30pm-5:30pm Piet Koster ������������������������������������������������ Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jan 17, 6pm-9pm Rob Schiff ��������������������������������������������������������Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jan 17, 7pm-10pm Music for Humanity ��������������������������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jan 18, 6pm-9pm Side Effect ��������������������������������������������������������Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jan 18, 7pm-10pm Leo B ��������������������������������������������������������Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jan 19, 2:30pm-5:30pm Sarah Morr ����������������������������������������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jan 24, 6pm-9pm Longchamps & Manza �����������������������������������Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jan 24, 7pm-10pm HIKE w/Higgins, Ianucci, Ken & Evan ���������Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jan 25, 7pm-10pm TBA ����������������������������������������������������������Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jan 26, 2:30pm-5:30pm TBA ������������������������������������������������������������������Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jan 31, 7pm-10pm The Blackjacks ����������������������������������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jan 25, 6pm-9pm

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Januar BW �������������������������������������������������������������������������Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel CAS �������������������������������������������� CAS Arts Center, Catskill Arts Society, Livingston Manor DCAT ���������������������������������������������������������� Dancing Cat Saloon & Catskill Distillery, Bethel EHT ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Eisenhower Hall Theater, West Point FAL ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro

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GMCM Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series, Senior Center, Montgomery HCC ���������������������������������������������������������������������Howland Cultural Center, Beacon JCC ������������ Jester’s Restaurant and Comedy Club, Castle Fun Center, Chester MSM-AQ ����������������������������������� Aquinas Hall, Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh NCR ������������������������������������������������������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall

WEDNESDAY

Music & Dinner New Year’s Bash DCAT

Please check the schedule for Gallery Art & Photography Opening Receptions

Open Mic....Musican’s Gathering........Dancing Cat, Bethel,7:30pm

Music Alexis P. Suter Band Audrey Haddad FAL 7pm

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Cinema “GMO - OMG” Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Noon

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Cinema Monday Night at the Movies NFL 6:30pm

Music - Jazz Blue Cranes, Rene Hart & Allison Miller & Jeff Lederer FAL 7pm

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Storytelling..Black Dirt Storytelling Guild..Florida Lib., 7:30pm

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Cinema.........Midday Movie........Fallsburg Library, Noon Open Mic............... Open Mic Night........ NCR 6pm-9pm Music.........................Piet Koster..

Recreation............... Line Dancing................... JCC 7pm Poetry & Music.”OUT LOUD Performa Music - Jazz.Bucky Pizzarelli & Ed Laub Duo.FAL 7pm Music - Americana-PanAmericana Open Mic....Musician’s Gathering............ .......Dancing Cat, Bethel, Music.................................Rob Sch 7:30pm

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Cinema.........Midday Movie........Fallsburg Library, Noon Cinema.”Waitress”.Josephine-Louise Lib., Walden 6pm Music.........................Sarah Morr..

Recreation............... Line Dancing................... JCC 7pm Music -Zydeco-Jazz-Country..Amigo Music.................Willa McCarthy Band..............FAL 7pm Cinema.........................“Food Inc” Open Mic....Musician’s Gathering............ .......Dancing Cat, Bethel, Music....................Longchamps &

Cinema Afternoon Movie Fallsburg Library, Noon

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Poetry Poetry at the Church Goshen Methodist Church 7pm Music Amy Helm & The Handsome Strangers FAL 7pm

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Cinema Afternoon Movie Thrall Library, Middletown, 2pm

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Music Amy Helm & The Handsome Strangers FAL 7pm

Cinema.........”GMO - OMG”.....Do Music.........................Steve Wells.

Music - Blues-Rockabiily.......Chris Music...................Evan Teatum Liv Music.........................Steve Wells.

Poetry.........Adriano Delgado & An

Open Mic....Musican’s Gathering........Dancing Cat, Bethel,7:30pm

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Cinema Afternoon Movie Fallsburg Library, Noon

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Cinema.........Midday Movie........Fallsburg Library, Noon Poetry............Open Mic w/ Robert Milby........ NCR 7pm Music.................................Gregg V Recreation............... Line Dancing................... JCC 7pm Comedy...............................Jerry S Music.... Chris Bergson Band, Flaming Meatballs.FAL 7pm Comedy..Rising Star Comedy Sh

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Music Amy Helm & The Handsome Strangers FAL 7pm

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Music Amy Helm & The Handsome Strangers FAL 7pm

THURSDAY

Cinema.........Midday Movie........Fallsburg Library, Noon Poetry.......................Poetry Night........... NCR 6pm-9pm Poetry................ Hudson River Poets............. NFL 7pm Recreation............... Line Dancing................... JCC 7pm Cinema.........Reel Eclectic Film........Thrall Library, 7pm Music..................... Voices of Glory..................FAL 7pm

Holiday Liberty Bell Drop Liberty Museum, 10pm

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NFL ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� PEEC ����������������������������������������������������������������������Pocono Environme PV ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� SCCC ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������Seelig Audi SCDW �����������������������������������������Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop

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Cinema Afternoon Movie Fallsburg Library, Noon Music - Jazz Tootie’s Tempo FAL 7pm

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Cinema.........Midday Movie........Fallsburg Library, Noon Recreation............... Line Dancing................... JCC 7pm

Music - Jazz..Scott Wendholt, Adam Kolker Quartet.FAL 7pm Music-Poetry-Art...”Lord of the Strings”..Fallsburg Lib. 7pm

“Sunflower Bouquet” print by M.E. Whitehill (1920-2012) See ad page 18

Open Mic....Musician’s Gathering............ .......Dancing Cat, Bethel, 7:30pm

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Music...Jay Collins & Kings Coun

ry 2014

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SCM ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Sullivan County Museum,. Hurleyville SLGMN ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf ST ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville SUNYO-KH ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Kaplan Hall, SUNY Orange, Newburgh SUNYO-OH ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Orange Hall, SUNY Orange, Middletown

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SATURDAY

Cinema.......................”GMO - OMG”...........Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Noon owning Film Center, Newburgh, 1pm Open Mic...................... Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle.................DCAT 3pm ...................................NCR 6pm-9pm Poetry.........................................Poetry on the Loose......................SLGMN 3:30pm s O’Leary Band.................FAL 7pm Music.................................................... Sojourn................................. NCR 6pm-9pm ve Karaoke.................PV 7pm-10pm Music - Bluegrass...Appalachian Mountain Boys, Little Sparrow .......... SCM 6pm ...................................NCR 6pm-9pm Music - Rock-Blues.............. Popa Chubby, Dylan Doyle........................... FAL 7pm nne Gorrick.....................HCC 8pm Music....................................................McMule!.................................. PV 7pm-10pm Comedy............................Isaacs & Baker, Jerrold Benford...................... JCC 8pm

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Van Gelder..................PV 7pm-10pm Open Mic...................... Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle.................DCAT 3pm Seinfeld..............................EHT 7pm Music............................................. Tommy Caprino........................... NCR 6pm-9pm howcase Championship..JCC 8pm Music...............................................The Roe Does............................. PV 7pm-10pm Comedy...............................Jimmy Failla, Tommy Gooch......................... JCC 8pm

os Band w/David Amram.....FAL 7pm

”.........................................UUC 7pm & Manza.......................PV 7pm-10pm

Music - Jazz........................ Jazz Cat Brunch............DCAT 10am-1pm Music...............................Gustafer Yellowgold............FAL 10am-2pm Music..................................John Sheehan..........PV 2:30pnm-5:30pm Music - Classical..............Jonathan Biss piano....................HCC 4pm Music - Rock-Country..........Jason Casterlin.......................... FAL 7pm

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Music - Classical.Ilya Kazantsey piano & Sergey Antonov cello.GMCM 3pm

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Poetry & Music...”OUT LOUD Performance Party”...Port Jervis Community Center, 7pm

Music - Jazz........................ Jazz Cat Brunch............DCAT 10am-1pm Music - Jazz............... Vic Juris Duo & Kate Baker......FAL 10am-2pm Theater - Musical.....................“Memphis”............................ EHT 3pm

Cinema..............”Merrily We Roll Along”....Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Noon Music - B’way & Film.... Greater Newburgh Symphony Orch.............MSM-AQ 3pm ...................................NCR 6pm-9pm Open Mic...................... Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle.................DCAT 3pm ance Party”.Yo Cups, Matamoras, 7pm Music.......................................... Music for Humanity....................... NCR 6pm-9pm a..........Matuto.....................FAL 7pm Music - Roots-Reggae...........The Big Takeover, M’bollo............................ FAL 7pm hiff..............................PV 7pm-10pm Music..................................................Side Effect................................ PV 7pm-10pm Comedy............................. Buddy Fitzpatrick, Gene Trifilo....................... JCC 8pm

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Open Mic...................... Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle.................DCAT 3pm Music..............................................The Blackjacks........................... NCR 6pm-9pm

Music - Rock-Jazz..Jim Campilongo Trio & Josh Dion, Rachel Loshak..FAL 7pm Music........................... HIKE w/Higgins, Ianucci, Ken & Evan.......... PV 7pm-10pm Comedy.................................... Jon Fisch, Nore Davis.............................. JCC 8pm

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Open Mic...................... Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle.................DCAT 3pm Poetry.........................................Poetry on the Loose......................SLGMN 3:30pm nty Band, Jim Hayes Band..FAL 7pm Music - Americana-Folk.......... Brewster, Little Sparrow............................ SCM 6pm

Music - Jazz..........................Jazz Cat Brunch.........DCAT 10am=1pm Music - Jazz........................Joe Carozza Trio...............FAL 10am-2pm Opera - video...........“La Boheme” Puccini....... Cornwall Library 1pm Music........................................... Leo B................. PV 2:30pm-5:30pm Music - Marches.................West Point Band........................ EHT 4pm Music - Broadway, Pop.....David Podles violin......................NFL 4pm Music - Classical...............Jeremy Denk piano.....................HCC 4pm Cinema.....”Merrily We Roll Along”..Downing Film Ctr, Nwbrgh, 7pm

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Music - Classical.Bill Owens trumpet & Craig Williamsorgan.WPCC 3pm

Poetry..............................Poetry in the Gallery................... WAA 7pm

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Art exhibits

CAS ������������������������������������������������������������ Catskill Art Society, CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor DAC ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg MSM-DC ������������������������������������������������������ Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh SUNYO-KH �������������������������������������������������������������������������������SUNY Orange Newburgh, Kaplan Hall SUNYO-OH ����������������������������������������������������������������������������SUNY Orange Middletown, Orange Hall WRS �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Wallkill River School, Montgomery

Group Show ������������������������������������������������������������������������������Back Room Gallery, Beacon, ongoing Carolyn Duke Pottery ����������������������������������������������� Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Lisa & John Strazza paintings & photography ���������������������������Strazza Gallery, Warwick, ongoing David & Joanne Wells Greenbaum pottery, paintings ��������������BlueStone Studio, Milford, ongoing T.A. Clearwater paintings, pastels, prints ������Clearwater Gallery at Jones Farm, Cornwall, ongoing Jules Medwin outdoor sculpture ����������������������� Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf, ongoing CAS Winter Members Show & Holiday Fair ���������������������������������������������������������CAS thru Dec 31 Janet Howard-Fatta ������������������������������������������������������������������Caffe a la Mode, Warwick, thru Jan 2 Holiday Invitational arts, crafts ������������������������������������������The ARTery Gallery, Milford, thru Jan 5 Group Show ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Elant at Goshen, thru Jan 6 Orange ARHC Real Art Show �����������������������������������Two Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, thru Jan 12 Gayle Clark Fedigan & Robert Trondsen Enlightened Views ���������������������������������������������������������� Orange Regional Medical Center, Middletown, thru Jan 17

clubs

Chess Club �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Ellenville Library, Wednesdays, 4pm Friday Night Chess �����������������������������������������������������������������������Narrowsburg Library, Friday 6pm Knit and Stitch ������������������������������������������������������������������������ Narrowsburg Library, Mondays, 6pm Knitting & Crocheting “Crochety Knitters” ������������������������������Liberty Library, Tuesdays 10:15am Knitting Group ���������������������������������������������� Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Tuesdays, 6:30pm Knitting “Chain Gang Knitting Club” ������������� Mamakating Town Hall, Wurtsboro, Tuesdays 9pm Knitting Club ������������������������������������ Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Wednesdays, 2:30pm Knitting “Stitch and Bitch” ���������������������������� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Wednesdays, 7pm Knit/Crochet Club ��������������������������������������������������������������������Wallkill Library, Thursdays, 6:30pm Knimble Knitters ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Ellenville Library, Saturdays, 10am Knitting Club ��������������������������������������������������������������������������� Newburgh Library, Jan 14 & 28, 7pm Knitting Circle ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Florida Library, Jan 27, 6pm Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Int’l Org. ������Last Sunday, Ellenville, ray@themtharhills,org The Music Lovers Group classical �����������������3rd Thursdays, 7:30pm Montgomery, 845-457-9867 Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop �� St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chester, 2nd Monday, 7:30pm Calico Geese Quilters Guild �������������� Cornwall Cooperative Extension, Liberty, 2nd Monday, 7pm Scrabble Mania �����������������������������������������������������������������������������Ellenville Library, Tuesdays, 6pm Trivia Night w/Sam Hill ������������������������������������ Two Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Thursdays, 8pm Woodcarving Guild ����������������������������������������������������� Museum Village, Monroe, Wednesdays, 7pm

“Celebrations” Hemlock Farms 50th Anniversary ���� Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, thru Jan 29

Desmond Campus Art Instructors Group Show �������������������������������������������� MSM-DC thru Jan 31 “Small Works in a Big Way” Artists in the Parks group show �������� Bear Mountain Inn, thru Jan 31 “Wonder & Mystery” group show �������Unitarian Universalist Gallery, Rock Tavern, thru Aug 2014

NEW ART EXHIBITS

schools & Conservatories

Young Artists from Monroe-Woodbury HS Music in Central Valley ���������������������������������������������� Central Valley United Methodist Church, Jan 26, 3pm FREE

children & Teens Calendar

Susan Caprino ��������������������������������������������������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jan 1-31 Annual Members Exhibit, and Batik & Fiber Arts ��������������������������������������������������� WRS Jan 1-31 Stephanie Eichelberger paintings, drawings, photography ������� Wisner Library, Warwick, Jan 1-31 Sabrina Leviton “Abandoned Places” Washingtonville Art Society �������������������������������������������������� Weathervane Clubhouse, Jan 3, 5pm-8pm Goshen Art League ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������SUNYO-OH Jan 5-Feb-7 Susan Hope Fogel “Warwick Inspirations” ������������������������� Caffe a la Mode, Warwick, Jan 5-Apr 6 Linda Rahl Nadas ceramics “Artists of Excellence” exhibit series �������� SUNYO-KH Jan 8-Mar 20 Nancy Reed Jones ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Elant at Goshen, Jan 13-Feb 11 B&W ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� WRS Jan 15-Feb 14 “Crowd” Outsider’s Studio Collective, group show ����Green Door Magazine, Liberty, Jan 18-Mar 1 “Challenge” SUNY Orange Art Professors group show ���������������������������SUNYO-OH Jan 23-Feb 4 “Natural Selection” group show �������������������������������������������������������������������������� DAC Jan 25-Feb 15

HHNM ����������������������������������Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall HHNM-CoH ������������������� Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Education Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson

photography exhibits

Woodpeckers ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� HHMM Jan 11, 10am Tracks and Scat �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������HHNM Jan 18, 10am Winter Birds at your feeder �����������������������������������������������������������������������������HHNM Jan 25, 10am Black Bears ����������������������� Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry, Jan 25, 1pm

Meredith Heuer “A Visual Map of Community” ������������������� Fovea Exhibitions, Beacon, thru Jan 5 Seasonal Members Show ���������������������������������� Highlands Photographic Guild, Milford, thru Jan 31 Tom Doyle �������������������������������������������������������������������Leo’s Italian Restaurant, Cornwall, thru Jan 31

NEW photography EXHIBITS

Anne Cecille Meadows “Wanderings” ��������������������������Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, Jan 2-Feb 28 Colin Greenly “Sixty Years of Seeing” digital images ��������������������������� SUNYO-KH Jan 13-Mar 14 Julia Forrest & Flora Hogman “Reflective Surfaces” ���������������������������������������� CAS Jan 18-Feb 23

ART & Photography receptions

Anne Cecille Meadows “Wanderings” ��������������������������������������� Karpeles Museum, Jan 2, 1pm-4pm

Sabrina Leviton “Abandoned Places” Washingtonville Art Society Weathervane Clubhouse, Jan 3, 5pm-8pm

Goshen Art League �������������������������������������������������������������������������������SUNYO-OH Jan 5, 1pm-3pm Susan Hope Fogel “Warwick Inspirations” ������������������� Caffe a la Mode, Warwick, Jan 5, 5pm-7pm Susan Caprino ����������������������������������������������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jan 9 TBA Annual Members Exhibit, and Batik & Fiber Arts ������������������������������������� WRS Jan 11, 5pm-7pm Seasonal Members Show ������������������������ Highlands Photographic Guild, Milford, Jan 11, 6pm-9pm Julia Forrest & Flora Hogman “Reflective Surfaces” ���CAS Jan 18, talk:2pm, reception:3pm-5pm “Crowd” Outsider’s Studio Collective ������������������ Green Door Magazine, Liberty, Jan 18, 4pm-6pm Colin Greenly “Sixty Years of Seeing” digital images �����������������������SUNYO-KH Jan 19, 1pm-4pm “Challenge” SUNY Orange Art Professors group show ���������������������������SUNYO-OH Jan 23-Feb 4 “Natural Selection” group show ��������������������������������������������������������������������� DAC Jan 25, 2pm-4pm

books - Discussions & readings

Book Lover’s Club ��������������������������������������������������� Greenwood Lake Library, Fourth Tuesday, 7pm Mother-Daughter Book Discussion ��������������������������������������������������� Newburgh Library, Jan 2, 7pm “Before I Go to Sleep” by S.J. Watson ������������������������������������������������� Cornwall Library, Jan 8, 7pm “Tyler: the strongest boy on the block” by Sheldon Scruggs ������ Port Jervis Library, Jan 9, 6:30pm Clara Gillow Clark Young Author Reading Series ����������������������������Callicoon Library, Jan 11, 3pm “11-22-63” by Stephen King �������������������������������������Fallsburg Library, South Fallsburg, Jan 16, 7pm Book Chat & Chocolate “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott ������� Cornwall Library, Jan 23, 7pm “The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell” by William Klaber ���������������������������� CAS Jan 25, 3pm “Freedom” by Jonathan Franzen, w/Matt Pfisterer �����Thrall Library, Middletown, Jan 29, 6:30pm “The Time Keeper” by Mitch Alborn ���������������� Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Jan 30 , 6:30pm

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Museums

Meet the Animals ���������������������������������������������������� HHNM-CoH Saturdays & Sundays, Noon-4pm, Eco-Zone ��������������������� Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry, Jan 4, 1pm-4pm

music

Evan Gottfied music for pre-schoolers and up ��������������������������������� Newburgh Library, Jan 4, 3pm

Puppets

Lydia Adams Davis & Paul Hudson ��������������������� Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Jan 11, 11am

recreation & Lectures

Lectures / demos / master classes MSM-DC ����������������������������������� Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh PEEC ���������������������������������� Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry

lectures

Winter Bird Walk w/Darryl Speucher ����������������������������������������������������PEEC Jan 4 & Jan 19, 2pm “Heal Your Body to Lose Weight Effortlessly” �����������������������������������������������MSM-DC Jan 6 1pm Animal Tracking ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������� PEEC Jan 11 & Jan 19, 10am “Organizing Your Family History Research” ������������������������������������������� MSM-DSC Jan 14, 1pm “Prohibition to Today, Classic Cocktail Legends and Lure!” ��������������� MSM-DC Jan 14, 6:30pm “Kidney Health and Fear” �����������������������������������������������������������������������������MSM-DC Jan 15, 1pm “The House-Life Connection” ����������������������������������������������������������������������MSM-DC Jan 24, 1pm Eagle Watch w/Jan Lokuta �����������������������������������������������������������������PEEC Jan 25, 8:30am-3:30pm “Awesome Interiors!” �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������MSM-DC Jan 25, 1pm “Setting the Record Straight – Part 1” ��������������������������������������������������������MSM-DC Jan 27, 1pm Owl Prowl �������������������������� Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Jan 31, 7pm & Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall, Feb 1, 7pm

discussion

“What is the fabric of your process to create?” SUNY Orange Art Professors ������������������������������ Orange Hall Gallery Fringe, SUNY Orange Middletown, Jan 30, 11am

master classes

“Success by Design: Create a Transformational Masterplan for 2014 ������������������������������������������ Healing Arts Studio, Newburgh, Jan 11, Noon-6pm “Synthesis Techniques and Ableton LIVE software” Neil Alexander �������������������������������������������� Newburgh Library, Jan 16, 7pm Jazz Master Class Donny McCaslin ��������� SUNY Orange Hall, Middletown, Rm, 23, Jan 31, Noon

SUNY Orange: View Art at Two Campuses Albert Wisner Library January Exhibit

“It is a responsibility of the college (SUNY Orange) to offer events that supplement and broaden the opportunities of the college community and the community-at-large.” So states Dorothy Szefc, SUNY Orange Cultural Affairs Coordinator.

Szefc (pronounced ‘chef’) does a yeoman’s job of coordinating events for what is really two colleges.

The cultural affairs for the two campuses of SUNY Orange, a/k/a Orange County Community College, are now under her figurative baton. Her longtime “conducting” of events in Middletown is now complemented by her expansion of events for the Newburgh campus.

The latest news for that beautiful new campus is that Szefc has created another visual art venue in front of the Great Room where performances, lectures and other events take place.

The Artists of Excellence exhibit series will make use of the foyer of the Mindy Ross Gallery.

For the inaugural exhibit the ceramic works of sculptress Linda Rahl Nadas are featured from January 8-March 20.

Complementing the “Victory Angel” by ceramic exhibit is 60 Linda Rahl Nadas Years of Seeing, with photography by Colin Greenly in the Mindy Ross Gallery from January 13-March 14.

Jonathan Ogulnick is the pianist for the

Natural Selection

reception on January 19, from 1:00pm-4:00pm.

He will perform for two hours.

Kaplan Hall is at the corner of Grand & First Streets in Newburgh. Street and underground parking Jonathan Ogulnick are available.

Stephanie Eichelberger loves to paint when she’s not climbing mountains and kayaking rivers, or passing time in coffee shops, and enjoys taking photographs of everything along the way.

She embraces all things weird and has a slight addiction to chapstick. Her favorite number is eleven. Her best friend is a golden retriever. She lives her life day by day just bobbing along like everyone else. She creates to live and lives to create and dreams of big things.

With a background in web and graphic design, Stephanie has experience working as an assistant graphic designer at Strauss News in Chester and being a graphic designer/assistant for notable artist, Linda Richichi. Stephanie’s work will

be on display at the Albert Wisner Library, 1 McFarland Drive, Warwick, from January 1-31. For information call 845-986-1047.

“Three Seasons” by Colin Greenly

For the Middletown campus, the Goshen Art League Winter Show (photos right) will be in Orange Hall Gallery from January 5-February 7. Beverly Poyerd (photo right) is the pianist during the reception on January 5, 1:00pm-3:00pm.

In addition, SUNY Orange Art Professors will again be displaying their “challenge” work, which they will have done during the holiday break, from January 23 - February 4 in Orange Hall Gallery Fringe.

A discussion on January 30 at 11:00am

Black Dirt Farm by Mary Mugele Sealfon

with the theme of “What is the fabric of your process to create?” has been organized by adjunct assistant professor Jacqueline O’Malley-Satz. It is a discussion during which time the participating art professors explain

“Life on the Erie Line” by Walter Bill

their process while referring to the artworks.

They will also answer questions.

Orange Hall is located at Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues in Middletown.

Phone 845-341-4891.

Natural Selection[s], a curated group exhibition featuring art works inspired by the natural world, opens at the Delaware Arts Center’s Alliance Gallery on January 25, with a reception from 2:00pm4:00pm.

The exhibit will be on view “Fantastic Flowers” by Charles Farless through February 15.

From a photograph of reflections in water by Beth Baylin to an oil painting of candy-colored Fantastic Flowers by Charles Farless, to a winged sculpture made of animal bones by Denis Yanashot, this exhibition includes a wide variety of art works all influenced by nature.

The exhibition includes a wide variety of art works all influenced by nature, including work by 12 artists from throughout New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. All the artists were chosen from applicants to the DVAA’s 2014 Alliance Gallery program.

Alliance Gallery is located at 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg.

For more information, call 845-252-7576.

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Warwick Inspirations: Helping the OC Land Trust

the past five years she has been “During my 28 years in teaching in her art studio school, Warwick I have seen many the Warwick Atelier. beautiful scenes disappear to An exhibit at Caffé a la development or neglect. As a Mode, 1 Oakland Ave in result I feel compelled to do Warwick is entitled Warwick what I can to participate in the Inspirations and focuses on mission of the Orange County landscape paintings completed Land Trust (OCLT) and our in the artist’s backyard and the community to retain the quality Town’s surrounding areas. and character of this land,” said The opening reception will artist Susan Hope Fogel. take place on January 5 from Susan has been an active 5:00pm-7:00pm A closing member of the arts community in Warwick, having been Artwork by Susan Hope Fogel reception on will be held on president and vice-president of the Warwick Art April 6 from 5:00pm-7:00pm.

A generous portion of all sales will be donated League. She taught art for the Middle School Enrichment Program, as well as the Warwick to the OCLT. For more information call 845-986-0986.

Valley Community Center Teen Program. For

Downing Park: Providing Sustenance

Each year the Downing Park Planning Committee, the guiding force behind the rehabilitation of this incredible Newburfg landscape, hosts a variety of community events and recruits other community groups to bring people into the park, as well.

After a very successful 2013 season with many family-oriented art and history events, the Committee is preparing for Spring 2014. Keep an eye out as they will be replacing the Park’s greenhouses, which have stayed vacant for over twenty years, with new

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“organic” greenhouses with the object of teaching people about growing their own food and providing sustenance.

For information call 845-565-5559.

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The Wanderings of Anne Cecille Meadows

Anne Cecille Meadows is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has also studied at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville and the Scuola Lorenzo de Medici in Florence, Italy, and holds a degree in photography technology from the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Meadows was a regular contributor of sports and news photography to North Carolina newspapers, and her compelling images have been widely published in such regional periodicals as the arts magazine

Chronogram. Her silver gelatin prints and her digital prints have been exhibited

by Starbucks Coffee in Jacksonville, NC, and in Cary, NC. The Karpeles Museum is opening the new year with the creative photography of Anne Cecille Meadows in an exhibit titled Wanderings, at 94 Broadway in Newburgh through February 28. Admission is always free.

The public is invited to meet the artist at the opening reception on January 2 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm.

Visit www.karpeles.com or call 845-5694997 for more information.

Make your New Year’s resolution now: “Avoid Cabin Fever!”

Mt. Saint Mary College’s Desmond Campus for Adult Enrichment in Balmville, wants YOU to be aware of its speaker series, exercise programs, art and technology opportunities, and day trips this winter, that will afford you the ability to stay active and stay social by trying something new and meeting new people. The Campus’ new brochure has it all.

Visit www.msmc.edu/desmondcampus or call for the brochure 845-565-2076.

“Asparagus & Lemon” by Desmond Campus art instructor Gayle Clark Fedigan

“Adult” Brochure is Ready

55 Years of the Paper Bag Players

To celebrate their 55th year of performing, The Paper Bag Players have dug deep into their bag of fan favorites for Lost In the Mall, That’s Good, and A Perfect Picture. These classic numbers combine with a heaping helping of brand new material in The Paper Bag Players Hiccup Help!, a funny, fast-paced, and thrilling show for children ages 3 through 8.

The Paper Bag Players are a company of adults who create and perform original theatre for children, combining short plays, dances, audience participation, mime, painting and drawing on stage, and wonderful ragtime music played live at every performance.

The subject matter of the shows reflects a child’s everyday experiences - with a dash of the fantastic thrown in! Common household objects, cardboard boxes and brown kraft paper brightened with poster paint and crayon, become their sets, props and costumes, so that not only will the children go home singing the songs, but they are given the “tools” to create their own plays and performances with “stuff” they have at home.

The fun begins right when you enter the theater, center stage is a 20’ birthday cake, blue icing, sprinkles, and candles - yum! It’s a

surprise party for Judy, and you’re invited.

Kevin has an extraordinary case of the hiccups. Doctor Kathy comes up with the perfect cure with a little help from a dancing dinosaur. The show is an hour of funny stories, zany characters, lively music, with lots of opportunities for the audience to be a part of the fun. Ted, Kathy, Kaitlin, Kevin, and John at the electric piano are on hand to create theatrical magic.

The award-winning Paper Bag Players have been keeping it simple-and simply hilarious for fifty-five years. True to this theatrical tradition, Hiccup Help! is guaranteed to have children laughing, singing, and dancing in the aisles of Orange Hall Theatre on January 12 at 2:00pm.

Orange Hall is located in Middletown at the corner of Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues, on the campus of SUNY Orange.

For more information call 845-341-4891 or cultural@sunyorange.edu.

Abandoned & Forgotten Places, January 3

An abandoned college. “School is Out” by Sabrina Leviton.

“I’m a college freshman in Orange County.

I’ve been taking pictures for a few years now of abandoned places in the area where I live, and in some places that are hours and hours away,” says photographer Sabrina Leviton.

“I love exploring and making my photos unique. I have experience with Live Music photography and Portrait photography. I love going to shows to take pictures of the performers!”

The Washingtonville Arts Society will

show Sabrina Leviton’s work at their next “First Fridays” exhibit titled, Abandoned Places, on January 3 from 5:00pm8:00pm.

The show will be held at the Weathervane Clubhouse, 25 Weathervane Drive in Washingtonville, just off of Route 94.

For further information and more about the Washingtonville Arts Society, contact Gabriele Spear.

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We Are What We Eat: “GMO - OMG” Genetically Modified Organism may be one way of explaining the acronym GMO, but GoddaMonsantO is, to many people, another way.

GMO OMG tells the story of a father’s discovery of GMOs in relationship to his young children and the world around him. He believes that, “today in the United States, by the simple act of feeding ourselves, we are unwittingly participating in the largest experiment ever conducted on human beings. Each of us unknowingly consumes genetically engineered food on a daily basis. The risks and effects to our health and the environment are largely unknown.

Yet more and more studies are being conducted around the world, which only provide even more reason for concern.

“We still have time to heal the planet, feed the world, and live sustainably. But we have to start now!”

You can help “start” by viewing the film at Downing Film Center, 19 Front Street in Newburgh, January 3-6.

For reservations: 845-561-343686..

Food, Inc. lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer. It shows how our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the safety of workers and our own environment. It reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation, and where we are going from here.

Hosted by the Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Rock Tavern, 9 Vance Road, (off Route 207), snacks

and discussion follows the January 24, 7:00pm viewing.

Small donation requested; no one turned away for lack of funds. For further info: verneMB@ aol.com or 845-569-8965.

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Newburgh Symphony Family Concert Broadway is evocative of bright lights, music, singing violinist Michele George and renowned dancing, intrigue, excitement! From its humble bass-baritone Erich Tusch, who has become the beginnings as an Algonquin trade route to being mellifluous voice of GNSO. coined “The Great White Way” (back The William Tell Overture is the in the late 1890s when the street was overture to the opera by the same one of the first to be fully illuminated name, whose music was composed by electric light), New York City’s

by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868).

Broadway is a world renowned Together with Bellini and Donizetti, phenomenon. Today, it attracts more Rossini was one of the main proponents than 11.5 million theater-goers annually of ‘Bel Canto’ opera. William Tell with its high-profile entertainers and premiered in 1829 and was the last of Michele George world-class sets and costumes.

Rossini’s 39 operas. There has been After the emergence of sound repeated use (and sometimes parody) technology, the musical film was of parts of this overture in both classical a natural outcropping of the stage and popular music. musical. Films could employ even Although there are no horses or more lavish scenery and locations cavalry charges in the opera, this than would be practical or possible in segment is often used in popular media a theater setting, and people flocked to to denote galloping horses, a race, or Eric Tusch the movie houses. a hero riding to the rescue. Its most What the Greater Newburgh Symphony famous use in that respect is as the theme music Orchestra (GNSO) and conductor Woomyung for The Lone Ranger, so famous that the term Choe “did for love”of its wonderful audience is ‘intellectual’ has been defined as “a man who to schedule That’s Entertainment!: an afternoon can listen to the William Tell Overture without of hits from Broadway and film, plus the The thinking of The Lone Ranger.

Lone Ranger theme, Rossini’s William Tell Come one and all to Aquinas Hall, Mount Overture. You’ll hear selections from the winner Saint Mary College at 3:00pm on January 18. of a Pulitzer Prize and nine Tonys, A Chorus The Shacklett Preview at 2:00pm is a pre-concert Line; the legendary and heartwarming Annie; introduction to the music by Gordon Shacklett.

Broadway’s longest running Phantom of the Tickets may be purchased at the door or Opera; the modern take on Romeo and Juliet, reserved at www.newburghsymphony.org or West Side Story and more.

845-913-7157.

Guest soloists are GNSO’s multi-talented [Snow date is January 19 at 3:00pm.]

Spotlight On: Sugar Loaf Guild Randy Brown’s “Bee Positive” & Life Shops

So...how about a little positivity? It’s positively good for you!

Randy Brown, owner of Bee Positive in Sugar Loaf, says his mission is “To bring a smile to your face, a little more bounce to your step and to have you consider the possibilities. With a visit you might also find something unique to take home or to a friend, or you might be inspired to ask us to make something special for you.”

When browsing in Bee Positive, one will find handmade one-of-a-kind crafts and creations, such as glass blocks, mobiles, sculptures, center pieces, wire creations, bottles, macramé jewelry, wall hangings and other fanciful items...actually, you never know what you might find there.

When asked why the name “Bee Positive”?

Randy says, “Because, there is so much negativity vying for your attention, you need a break, a distraction, maybe even a plan.”

Randy also conducts “Life Shops” (as opposed to workshops). Some Life Shop subjects include “How to Maintain Positivity”, “How to Get What You Want”, and “The Art of Communication.” Randy enjoys speaking at seminars, luncheons, rotary meetings, Chamber of Commerce meetings, PTA

meetings, classrooms, everywhere! “It’s not a business for me, I enjoy doing it because I enjoy seeing people profit from it personally.”

What makes his shop different? “I take objects that have been discarded or broken and make something new. I let my creations just come about according to wherever my imagination takes me...I can also create works that are specific to what you like. For instance, I had someone come in with a Warwick Valley Winery blue cobalt bottle and they asked if I could create a lamp out of it and I did. If you say, ‘Randy I have a friend who is really into vintage cars’ I will take that object that you have given me - the block, the tin, the bag - and I will create something that is vintage car oriented and if you don’t quite like it, we can start all over! You can leave the creation details up to me, or tell me what you would like. It’s hard to make the same thing twice...I am always trying to create something new...something that no one has seen before. That’s why I call it the ‘little shop of unique crafts and creations.’”

Want to buzz over to Randy’s shop and take a peek? Bee Positive is located at 1392B Kings Highway. For info: thatsapositive@gmail.com.

Amy Helms Performs at Marlboro’s Falcon

The Jazz Doctor Is In

Every Sunday at the Dancing Cat Saloon, you will find Dr. Barry Scheinfeld, a Doctor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in real life, with his medicinal jazz guitar, sure to soothe the savage pain in your neck, or OH! your aching back, or any sports injury.

Originally called Sunday Brunch with the Jazz Cats, in December Scheinfeld was the sole “host” for Live Jazz Brunch with Barry Scheinfeld and Friends and jammed with guest artists Robert Kopec, bass; Bill McCrossan, bass; and, fresh from his stint with the Parksville USA Music Festival, Larry Ravdin, sax.

Scheinfeld’s musical influences growing up were

“My family...Aunt Libby and Uncle Sam played stride piano, Uncle Archie played sax and Grandma loved it all!” Other musical influences include Ben Sidran, Frank Sinatra, T-Bone Walker, and Bucky Pizzarrelli.

Join Dr. Barry and Friends every Sunday for brunch, from 10:00am-1:00pm at 2037 Route 17B, Bethel. Phone: 845-583-3141.

The Sullivan County Songwriters Circle, or “SC squared”, founded by Elizabeth Rose (see photo) in January 2013, was created in the spirit of Nashville’s acclaimed Bluebird Cafe - for songwriters to share their songs and influences.

“Beginningwithourfirstgathering,” says Rose, “SC squared continues to discover new songwriters every week. Informal and upbeat, a new community is taking root. It’s a safe place to “air out” new songs and works in progress. Songwriters often join each other. Each of the songwriters present could hold an audience for an evening by themselves. But there’s something about sharing

songs while going around in a circle that is fun, diverse and inspiring.

“Each week we feature at least one song from the Great American Songbook saluting our greatest composers and lyricists. This keeps us honest and raises the bar with our own song craft. The Catskill Distillery is blessed with superb acoustics and beautiful views, all of which enhance the creative vibe. SC squared is free and open to the public.”

The Sullivan County Songwriters Circle meets Saturdays from 3:00pm-5:00pm in the Catskill Distilling Company, 2037 Route 17B in Bethel.

Phone: 845-583-3141.

“SC Squared” is not for Squares

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Amy Helm’s deep her distinctive voice can musical roots were be heard on recordings enriched by a lifetime by artists ranging from of exposure to the finest Mercury Rev to Marc expressions of American Cohn. musical tradition.

Helms’ lengthy resume Combined with her is highlighted by many stunning vocal and other years of singing and creative gifts, those roots playing alongside her have grown up to reveal famous father, with whom a spellbinding artist who she conceived, launched moves easily through a and perfected the Amy Helms with her father broad range of musical Midnight Ramble, intimate Levon Helms (1940-2012) styles. performances held since The daughter of music legend Levon Helm 2004 at his home and studio in Woodstock. and singer/songwriter Libby Titus-Fagen, The musical chemistry, affectionate humor and Helm wields a powerful voice that can both stir family pride that Amy shared on stage with her and soothe, whether she is singing traditional father helped shape the Midnight Ramble as it gospel, blues standards or her own heartfelt evolved into a musical event that still attracts compositions. She is a gifted musician on both fans and musicians from around the world. mandolin and drums, and has clearly absorbed Helm continues to perform with Ollabelle, the lessons of the many other accomplished the Midnight Ramble Band and the Dirt artists with whom she has shared stages, Farmer Band. She is poised to release her first including Mavis Staples, Emmylou Harris, solo album. and Joan Osborne as well as other American Helm will perform through January as performers like Dr. John and Hubert Sumlin. “artist-in-residence” at The Falcon with The A founding member of the roots band Handsome Strangers for the Special January Ollabelle with whom she has recorded three Residency on Mondays, January 6, 13, 20 CDs, Helm has also performed live with scores and 27 at 7:00pm. The Falcon is located at of notable musicians like Warren Haynes, 1348 Route 9w, Marlboro.

The Wood Brothers, and Donald Fagen, and For information: 845-236-7970.

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Hurleyville’s Woodsongs Coffeehouse Louie Setzer grew up on a farm with a large family...three sisters and five brothers. After high school he played drums in a rock band with a few friends for a few years. After his service in the army, he formed a country band with four of his brothers.

“I don’t really know what made me go to a Bluegrass Festival but I did. I was so impressed that there were no electric instruments and the harmony just blew me away. I started traveling all over just to find anything to do with bluegrass. I was hooked.”

Louie formed the Appalachian Fiddle and Bluegrass Association in 1973, the organization that owns Mountain View Park in Wind Gap, PA. “I am still amazed to this day how many people responded.

It has done nothing but grow which I am damn proud of,” he says. Louie’s and his band played up and down the East Coast until 1997 when tragedy struck Louie’s family and he gave up music.

Then in 2004 he ran into a friend and his friend suggested he go to a bluegrass show with him to perform. “It was like I never stopped playing. It felt great. I couldn’t stop,” remembers Louie. He put a new band together starting with one old band

member, bass player Ron Penska. “I am very lucky to have the Appalachian Mountain Boys. These guys know their stuff. They really make the band and me - look and sound great. I owe my success all to them,” concluded Louie.

Listen to Louie Setzer & the Appalachian Mountain Boys and hosting band Little Sparrow on January 4, 6:00pm at the Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville.

Woodsongs Coffeehouse will feature Brewster Americana (and, again, host band Little Sparrow) on February 1, 6:00pm.

For more information: 845-671-9548

Presented by The Sullivan County Historical Society and made possible in part with funding from a Sullivan County Arts & Heritage Grant funded by the Sullivan County Legislature and administered by Delaware Valley Arts Alliance.

West Point Band’s On The March Concert

The West Point Band will present its annual “On the March Concert” on January 19 at 3:00pm in West Point’s Eisenhower Hall Theatre.

The performance will feature West Pointcentric marches guaranteed to delight the crowd. This concert is free and open to the public. For information call 845-938-2617.

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Rising Star Comedy Showcase Championship

Montgomery resident Anthony Terribile (pronounced terr-i-beel) has graduated from performing stand-up comedy at community events and open mics. He is now considered to be a “seasoned” comic.

Anthony first performed at Hudson Valley Conservatory’s (HVC) Coffeehouse in Walden where he was tutored by Samuel E. Wright, Amanda Wright and Pamela Murphy in their summer camps and in HVC singing and acting classes where students were taught to create their own plays. It was here he discovered “self-

writing, thanks to Sam Wright”, and found that he preferred writing and reading comedies which led to his creating stand-up routines. His rise from novice to professional has been helped by mentors from the comedy clubs in the area.

Anthony will appear at Jester’s Comedy Club, 109 Brookside Avenue, Chester, on January 10 at 9:00pm (doors open at 8:00pm) along with four other seasoned comics and special guest Gene Trifilo for Jester’s “Rising Star Comedy Showcase Championship.” Don’t miss the laughs. For tickets, call 845-345-1039.

David Podles began playing violin at age 7 in his native country of Latvia.

The Laureate of three prestigious international competitions and holding a PhD in violin, he went on to perform in symphony, chamber, opera and ballet theater orchestras across Russia, including Bolshoi and Kirov and throughout Europe and the U.S. Upon arrival in the United States, David performed at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and at the 92nd Street Y, both solo and with orchestra.

Hear his violin remind you of the everlasting exhilaration and excitement of Broadway. Podles will honor Broadway, performing some of its most memorable and magnificent hits. Songs from the following musicals are to be included: Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Fiddler on the Roof, My Fair Lady, Chicago, Sound of Music and Annie.

Hear him on January 19 at 3:00pm at the Newburgh Free Library, 124 Grand Street. Free admission. For information call 845-563-3601.

“Broadway on Violin” - at NFL

Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series

Cellos were derived from other mid-to largesized bowed instruments, such as the viola da gamba, and the generally smaller and squarer viola da braccio, and such instruments made by members of the Amati family of luthiers.

The invention of wire-wound strings (fine wire around a thin gut core), around 1660 in Bologna, allowed for a finer bass sound than was possible with purely gut strings on such a short body. Bolognese makers exploited this new technology to create the cello, an instrument suitable for solo repertoire due to both the timbre of the instrument and the fact that the smaller (than a bass violin) size made it easier to play virtuosic passages.

Though cello sonatas were composed during the baroque period by the likes of Vivaldi, it took another generation and, specifically, classical composer Luigi Boccherini to create the beginnings of a prolific repertoire. Haydn and Mozart did not write cello sonatas, so it was Beethoven who wrote the first important cello sonatas after Boccherini, and that led to today’s glorious repertoire - Mendelssohn, Chopin, Lalo, Brahms, Saint-Saens, Grieg, Reger, Delius, Miaskovsky, Debussy, Kodaly, Rachmaninoff, Faure, Martinu, Kabalevsky, Barber, Britten, Shostakovich, Poulenc, Carter, Prokofiev, Khachaturian, Schnittke and many, many others. The list is endless,

and we are to be treated to a few (unnamed at press time) masterworks as part of the Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series by two world class artists.

Hailed as “a brilliant cellist” by the legendary Mstislav Rostropovich, Sergey Antonov went on to prove his mentor’s proclamation when he became one of the youngest cellists ever awarded the gold medal at the world’s premier musical Olympiad, the quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Competition.

Antonov’s entry into this elite stratum of sought-after classical artists has already placed him on stages at world-renowned venues in Russia, Japan, France, Italy, Hungary, Sweden, Finland, Korea, Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, Canada, and the United Arab Emirates.

At the age of nine, pianist Ilya Kazantsev

was accepted at the Central Music School at the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow.Subsequently, he came to New York to study at Mannes College of Music, has performed as recitalist and soloist with orchestra extensively in Russia and the United States, as well as appearing in Canada, Ukraine, Belarus, Slovenia, Italy, Germany and Japan, and made his sold out solo début at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall as a winner of the Nadia Reisenberg Piano Award at Mannes College.

“Antonov plays with near technical perfection and a fully mature sense of line.

He is passionate or delicate where required, emotional without being sentimental, and generally just beautiful. Kazantsev matches his style perfectly, a full partner, not overpowering, but complementary,” Elisa Birdseye, Executive Director of the Boston Chamber Ensemble.

The concert takes place in the Montgomery Senior Center, 36 Bridge Street, on January 12 at 3:00pm. Admission is free.

For more information: 845-457-9867.

Monticello Library Wins 28 Teen Books

The Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library was the recipient of a grant for the top books of the year, as voted by teens around the country.

The grant is from the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), to receive the Teens’ Top Ten books. The books were selected by teens around the country. The YALSA website states that “voting for the 2013 Teens’ Top Ten took place from August 15 through Teen Read Week, October 1319. This year, there were 28 nominees that competed for the “top ten” list. Over 32,000 votes were cast. As part of the grant, the library received not only the ten winning books, but all 28 nominees.

The books are on display in the lower level of the Crawford Library, and the book display was decorated by the Teen Advisory Group. Come by to see what teens are reading, and check out a book! For further information on the Teens’ Top Ten, visit the YALSA website at: www.yalsa.ala.org.

For further information on teen programs at the E.B. Crawford Library, 393 Broadway in Monticello, contact Joanna Goldfarb at 845-794-4660, or by email at jgoldfarb@ rcls.org.

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“Lord of The Strings” in S. Fallsburg

by Esther Vanhaecke

sometimes of doubtful legality, “All that is gold does not glitter, because Tolkien’s published Not all those who wander are works will remain in copyright lost” until 2043.

These are the words of John A multi-media presentation of Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (1892the works of Tolkien in modern 1973) who was an English writer, music, poetry and art, will be poet, philologist, and university presented at the Fallsburg professor, best known as the author Library, 12 Railroad Plaza, of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and Gandalf by Esther Vanhaecke South Fallsburg, on January 30 at 7:00pm. The music ranges from actual songs The Silmarillion.

The works of J. R. R. Tolkien have served as the and poems from Tolkien’s works to folk music, soft inspiration to painters, musicians, film-makers and rock, hard rock, and heavy metal.Artwork presented writers, to such an extent that Tolkien is sometimes ranges from official illustrations to photos and clips seen as the “father” of the entire genre of high from the various film adaptations.

For information call 845-434-6067. fantasy.The production of such derivative works is

Patchett House has a New Gallery

Anew gallery space is now located at the Wallkill River School of Art (WRS), complementing the WRS’ three existing galleries in the Patchett House: the Main Gallery, the Emerging Artist Gallery and the Hallway Gallery.

The Main Gallery generally features two artists, except when there is a group show, as in the case of this January when the Emerging Artist Gallery, which is usually devoted to an artist’s first solo exhibit, is also given over to the group show. Exhibits run from the first of the month to the last day.

The Hallway Gallery is a “themed” gallery, and a sampling of members’ artwork based on the theme is always on display from the 15th of the month to the 14th of the following month.

The school offers art instruction for adults and children in painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, clay, etc., and offers many regional artists the opportunity to teach. In lieu of the success of the school and its myriad genres of students, the Student Gallery’s inaugural exhibit opens January 1 and runs throughout the month.

The theme of the January student exhibit is Fiber Arts & Batik. Subsequent exhibits will be devoted to the veterans who attend the weekly senior drop-in classes, specific discipline classes in impressionism, pastel, watercolor, luminism, perspective, palette knife, drawing, oil, acrylic, and children’s classes.

The student gallery begins on the staircase and includes various spaces on the second floor where

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Fiber Arts piece by Denise Aumick

there is also a fifth gallery run by WRS member Sandra Faland Spitzer where she paints and exhibits her “mostly” landcape paintings. (“Mostly” because she likes horses, too.)

Scholarships are available for children in financial need. Classes follow the Valley Central schedule, and include snacks, smocks, and materials unless noted. Most classes meet NYS Learning Standards for Art Grades K-5.

Similar to events at the Art Cottage in Campbell Hall and Wine and Design in Warwick, you can co-host a “Learn to Draw Party” and other types of gatherings - “you set the date and time, we supply the instructor and materials at WRS, or at your home,” explained WRS Director Shawn Dell Joyce.

And you can get your artwork framed nearby at Di Bello Frame Shop (see ad page 25).

For more information: 845-457-ARTS.

Wallkill River School Member’s Exhibit

Artwork by WRS member, David Munford

The Wallkill River School (WRS) celebrates its 13th year with its annual Member’s Exhibit featuring works by 200 men, women, children, teens, farmers, hobbyists, doodlers, regional artists, sculptors, painters, photographers, and others who are members of the WRS. The exhibit will showcase the cultural diversity and deep talent pool of Orange County’s first homegrown arts movement, filling the entire exhibition space of the WRS

Plein air painting by WRS member, Louise McCutcheon

throughout the month of January.

The opening reception will be held on January 11, from 5:00pm-7:00pm. The exhibit runs though January 31.

The WRS promotes local artists and integrates art into the people’s daily lives. Part of the organization’s mission is to preserve dwindling open spaces and promote smallscale farms and agricultural heritage.

For information call 845-457-ARTS

An Artist’s Opportunity

Interested in becoming a part of a unique arts and agriculture organization?

Join the Wallkill River School in person by going to the School, 232 Ward Street, Montgomery or by visiting www.

WallkillRiverSchool.com.

Memberships start at $30 and all members are eligible to exhibit one artwork in the Member’s Exhibit. Members will be meeting on January 11 from 3:00pm-5:00pm to vote on artwork and elect a new board of directors. More than

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A Winter Sunset by Sandra Faland Spitzer

$500 in awards will be given including the Board of Director’s Award (best overall artist for $100), Chairperson’s Pick (best artist for $100), Director’s Pick (best represented artist for $100), Best Figurative Artwork wins the Newburgh Art Supply award for $50, Best Plein Air Painting wins the Ridgewood Art Institute Award for $50, and Best Instructor (teaching artist) wins the Mainframe Custom Framers award for $50.

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Open Mics in Matamoras & PJ: All Creative Disciplines “Poetry, Music, Song, Scenework, Monologue, you name it!,” said Alyta Adams, originator and visionary of OUT LOUD performance parties, a multiple discipline open mic. “Take advantage of our 8 minute open mic to show off your talent!”

Adams is a well known area artist who often exhibits at UpFront Exhibition Space, and is the ordained interfaith minister of Spiral Center. “I kind of do my events through the Spiral Center idea. I consider the open mic a service to people, as a part of my ministry.”

OUT LOUD started in spring 2012 and there have been 14 events so far, all at UpFront in Port Jervis until just recently. “We did two at Yo Cups in Matamoras and have now been offered space at the Port Jervis Community Center a/k/a Empowering Port Jervis.”

“When I started it I didn’t have a clear idea, but I knew that I did not want it to be tedious or put one Poet reads at UpFront person above others. I keep it totally fair so that everyone has a chance to shine. I am very strict about that,” she added with a chuckle in her soft-spoken voice. “When talking with a friend

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about there being no open mic in the area for poetry, I decided that anybody can do whatever they do. We’ve had a professional modern dancer dance to poetry and once we even had a political rant.

Alyta Adams “We experimented with the number of minutes...started off with 10 - too long - I could have used the proverbial hook.

“It is meant to be lively - I mix the genres up - poetry, music, more poetry, more music... people want to be entertained; that is what they are there for! It’s a very fun and entertaining evening...we’ve never had one that was not a lot of fun.

“Many people are afraid to get up and perform, so I am doing it from a spiritual point of view - we all have something to offer and we’re all afraid, so I make it a safe space where people are not being judged, and there is no talking during performance. It’s all about ‘living out loud’. Emile Zola said: “You ask why I came here and I will tell you: to live out

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Drummers participating at OUT LOUD

loud.” Most of us are afraid to live out loud. It’s all about giving the best you can and listening and giving others the opportunity.”

There is an OUT LOUD performance party at Yo Cups in the Kmart shopping plaza in Matamoras on January 17 at 7:00pm.

Admission is free, and refreshments can be purchased. Donations appreciated.

And, a new monthly 4th Saturday series: OUT LOUD performance party at the Port Jervis Community Center (corner Fowler & Front Streets in Port Jervis) begins on January 25 at 7:00pm. Admission is free and refreshments will be served. Donations appreciated.

“Oh yes - costumes optional.”

What’s your creative discipline? Music?

Poetry? Prose? Dance? Comedy?

Think about it, give Rev. Alyta a call at 845856-6972, and try it out!

Success by Design

“When I began providing my clients with a Master Plan, I found that not only did they get more accomplished, but they expressed that their lives seemed to be filled with more purpose and took on a deeper sense of meaning,” says Ozioma Egwuonwu Ozioma Egwuonwu, Founder of BurnBright Lifeworks, Inc. and creator of Success By Design.

Success By Design is a master class that teaches how to create a powerful transformational master plan uniquely tailored to fit your needs and steer you in the direction of your dreams.

During the class, participants create a master plan to fuel their lives, learn a proven step-bystep method for clarifying goals, conduct a comprehensive assessment on key areas and work toward determining where attention should be focused, and learn effective strategies for moving beyond procrastination and doubt.

Ozioma will bring her Success By Design seminar to the Healing Arts Studio, 75 Broadway in Newburgh on January 11 from Noon-6:00pm. For information: 347-762-3639.

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New Jazz Sounds at OCCC

Donny McCaslin, Kevin Hays, Scott Colley and Clarence Penn

Acclaimed saxophonist Donny McCaslin took a bold leap forward with his tenth album as a leader, Casting for Gravity. Couching his trademark gift for brawny melodies in lurching dub rhythms, swirling electronica-inspired atmospheres, and arena-rock power, McCaslin has crafted a game-changer of an album,fusing a wealth of forward-looking influences into one wholly new modern jazz sound. McCaslin delves into angular post-bop, rich, polyphonic funk, ethereal balladry, and so much more.

McCaslin has achieved praise for the incisive twists and purposeful turns of his emotionally charged solos, and his sometimes startling virtuosity and distinctive voice as a composer. In 2006, he received a Doris Duke Grant for new jazz composition. In both 2008 and 2009, McCaslin won the Downbeat Critics Poll for Rising Star on the Tenor Saxophone. Now he is bringing his unique sound, adapting to the talents of Kevin Hays, Scott Colley and Clarence Penn, to Middletown.

Jazz pianist and composer Kevin Hays has recorded over a dozen CD’s as a leader and has been featured on many recordings as a sideman.

“My earliest memories are of my father playing the piano. He was an amateur pianist. He would plunk through some standards now and then. I would hear him on the piano we had in the house. I remember watching him. Sometimes he had some broken “stride” piano stuff happening, which I liked. That’s probably my earliest memory...the first music I heard. There were also records played in the house... my parents had some George Shearing records, and they had a Jimmy Smith record, called Organ Grinder Swing.”

Scott Colley, is the bassist of choice for such jazz legends as Herbie Hancock, Jim Hall, Andrew Hill, and Michael Brecker. His remarkably empathetic skills, strong melodic sense and improvisational abilities have served him well in groups. But it is

as a composer and bandleader in his own right that Colley has flourished in recent years.

Colley has performed in U.S. and European tours with Carmen McRae, Dizzy Gillespie, and Clifford Jordan, and his work included touring with a group led by New Windsor jazz-star, Joe Lovano.

Clarence Penn is one of the busiest jazz drummers in the world, a leader of multiple bands, a composer, a prolific producer, and an educator. He has composed music for films and commercials, and produced tracks for numerous singers in the pop and alternative arenas. He earned a “Ten Best of 1997” accolade from the New York Times for his first leader recording, Penn’s Landing.

Since 1991, when he arrived in New York City, Penn has placed his unique blend of mega-chops, keen intellect, and heady musicianship at the service of a staggering array of artists, including Ellis and Wynton Marsalis and Betty Carter.

“Clarence is a charismatic player, with great dynamic range and drama and musicality. He’s an intricate and heady drummer who thinks compositionally, but uses his gut and instincts towards the end result of making something exciting, that feels alive, and is full of energy and passion. He doesn’t have a limited conception of what the drummer is. Of course, he drives the band and pushes the time, but he also knows how to stop and allow things to happen - to be a colorist.” Maria Schneider The Donny McCaslin Quartet is bringing its innovative sounds to Orange Hall Theatre, January 31, 8:00pm, with a same-day Master Class given by McCaslin at Noon in Orange Hall, Room 23.

Orange Hall is located in Middletown at the corner of Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues, on the campus of SUNY Orange.

For further information call 845-341-4891.

NFL: Electronic Music Class Keyboardist Neil an overview of the history Alexander has been of electronic music and performing professionally musical instruments, for over 30 years, and is including the contributions one of the most prolific of Robert Moog (Moog collaborators in the Hudson synthesizer) and Don Valley, having worked with Buchla, a pioneer in the an unbelievable roster of field of sound synthesizers, Neil Alexander top area musicians. who released his first units Alexander works with months after Moog’s first music in all forms and synthesizers. However, his styles from jazz to pop instrument was arguably to rock to electronic to designed before Moog’s. fusion, and as “Composer/ “And we’ll take a look at Arranger and Production some historical recordings of Live Sound to Musical and have a hands on Robert Moog Theater, Modern Dance demonstration of Ableton and Film.” His solo-piano LIVE music production classical repertoire includes software. works by Stravinsky, Ives, “This is the second time Gershwin and Cage. we’ll be at the Newburgh He also teaches Master Free Library. We are Classes in Synthesizer trying to make this an Programming and Music ongoing series at the library.

Don Buchla Performance Technology.

It’s not so much only a “It’s basically all levels,” he explained. “Anyone master class, lecture or demo...kinda a let’s-meetinterested in electronic music and electronic up or a hands on workshop.” music production, whether schooled in any form The free electronic event Synthesis of music or who just want to learn to make sounds Techniques and Ableton LIVE software with on a laptop - or whatever they want to do - even if Neil Alexander happens on January 16 at they are experts, they are welcome.”

7:00pm in the library at 124 Grand Street.

His January master class/demo will include For information: 845-563-3601.

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Community Building Through the Arts with Susan Handler

The Ultimate 21st Century Skill: Empathy Happy New Year! Let’s begin 2014 with children’s projects and programs in service of fostering and teaching empathy.

20th-century philosopher Isaiah Berlin argued that, “genuine empathy requires creativity and commitment, a commitment and a willingness to imagine others’ ideas. One has to be willing to say, “I may not share your perspective I may disagree with you entirely! - but we share a common humanity and so I want to understand what you think.” This capacity for intellectual empathy is essential to those who wish to live generously and with integrity in a pluralistic society. The Golden Rule has existed in all the major philosophical schools dating from 1780 BC and states it best, “Do unto others as you would have them do to you.”

Empathy has deep roots in our brains and bodies, and in our evolutionary history. Humans are not programmed for violence, greed, and aggression but rather for affection, companionship, and social ability. Our main empathetic drive is to belong.

It is interesting that even dating back to infancy when one baby in the maternity ward cries they all begin crying. This empathic crying occurs naturally. However, as a child matures empathy must be nurtured, otherwise our children learn about bullying.

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Art created by the children of Newburgh Heights for the Heights Banners Beautification Project

Study after study has shown that the Arts promote creativity, social development, personality adjustment, and feelings of self-worth. By integrating theArts into children’s lives we teach them to be both creators and thoughtful perceivers of art. Through the Arts students learn collaboration, cooperation, and communication, which aids in developing their ability to understand the perspective of those with whom they are working. Children who are guided in working together on art projects become more kind and considerate in their relations to each other, and in every respect more valuable citizens.

This winter Newburgh invites you to view the Heights Banners Beautification Project. The children of Newburgh Heights have created artwork for public service announcement banners that are hung from utility poles in the Heights on Liberty Street. The focus of the project is to educate the community about social topics, such as good health habits, neighborhood safety, and neighborhood beautification. Funding has been provided by

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Orange Arts Grants.

Art projects that provide an opportunity for our youth to voice their opinions and share their feelings on the destructive affects of alcoholism and drug abuse, benefits not only the children making the art Last year’s winner of the Substance Abuse Poster Contest, Brittany but their families Landrio. She is pictured with and communities Assemblyman Frank Skartados (left), Mayor of Walden Brian Maher at large. The & Kristen Jensen, Assistant to Alcoholism and County Executive Edward Diana.

Drug Abuse Council of Orange County is offering the 27th Annual Countywide Substance Abuse Poster Contest for Orange County students’ grades 1-12. The theme is Live Your Dreams! Be Alcohol and Drug Free. Poster drop off will take

Monticello students at Bernard Woma & Saakuma Dance Troupe dance

place the week of February 1-14 at 224A Main Street, Goshen. (Contact alerman@adacinfo.com) Globalization is at the core of the 21st century.

Cultural, religious, and language differences can be extremely hard to understand. The mission of Sullivan County’s Nesin Cultural Arts is to foster an awareness of world cultures and artistic growth.

From January 13-17 Master Drummer Bernard Woma and the Saakuma Dance Troupe will be “Visiting Artists” in the Monticello Central School District working with students in grades k-12. The public is invited to the final day of the residency on January 17 at Monticello High School from 2:30pm-4:30pm. Tickets are $5 and may be purchased at the door or by calling 845-794-6013.

Ring in this New Year with art actions focused on developing the ultimate 21st century skill and make this world a better place.

Empathy!