D & H CANVAS July 2011

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July 2011 Covering Orange, Pike and Sullivan Counties and the neighboring towns of Beacon, Marlboro, Walker Valley, and Ellenville

Sugar Loaf & Pine Island

Highland Lake Loch Sheldrake art • cinema • dance • festivals • holistic living • music • opera • poetry • theatre

Publisher’s Column

CANVAS FRIENDS DIRECTORY DINING

Dawn Ansbro

Claudia Cummings

by Barry Plaxen I herewith wish to offer my sincerest congratulations to a CANVAS friend and supporter, Dawn Ansbro, who recently became the new Executive Director of the Orange County Arts Council (OCAC).

Dawn spent six years as the Director of Organizational Development for the Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts in Sugar Loaf where she was responsible for cocreating and promoting a variety of projects including the On The Lawn outdoor summer concert series and the On The Wharf theatre productions. Most recently, Dawn worked with the Bon Secours Charity Health System in Port Jervis.

Dawn will be working on upcoming OCAC events including a collaboration with the Wallkill River School on the first Orange County Arts Golf Outing and Plein Air Paint Out at Winding Hills Golf Club in Montgomery on August 20, the Orange County South Open Studio Tour on October 22 and 23, and the Annual Orange County Art Awards held at the Harness Racing Museum on November 10th.

As a member of the OCAC, I look forward to assisting Dawn with her projects.

As a passionate friend of all the arts and of Orange County, Dawn’s extensive knowledge and experience (she was also instrumental in the creation of the OCAC) can only result in bringing together and benefiting all segments of our vibrant community, Arts, Education, Business, and the Public.

Though Claudia Cummings of Opera Company of the Highlands has often been seen performing locally, most. if not all, of us had never seen her perform “live” in an opera during her “heyday” at New York City Opera and other major operatic venues.

For years we have mentioned to each other, and to her, this “loss”, wishing “we had known” and gone to watch her perform in the 70s and 80s.

On June 13 two full houses of Claudia

Loretta Swit

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David Mason

fans (at Downing Film Center in Newburgh) were enthralled while viewing scenes from a 1983 live PBS showing of Claudia in scenes from Lucia Di Lammermoor. This was truly worth waiting for - a remarkably charismatic star performance that, because of her age at the time, added a youthfulness to the teenage Lucia that most mature divas do not portray.

Claudia’s superb acting and glorious vocal technique, with beautifully executed coloratura passages, were well worth the anticipation of seeing her in an opera “live”.

Thank you, Claudia. Now we know what you know about your glorious career and can share that with you always.

Similarly, at Shadowland Theatre in Ellenville, Brendan Burke beautifully directed a remarkable cast of five world class actors in The Seafarer. One of them blew me away with his craft.

I was quite mesmerized with David Mason’s characterization as he was nothing like he was in previous roles at Shadowland that I have witnessed. He brilliantly executed incredible physical expressions of an unsavory character, with nervous leg shaking, an intense involvement in everything everyone else on the stage did, his expressive and, when necessary, understated reactions, his walk, sitting positions, arm movements, the way he handled a glass and a bottle, all of it allowing me to feel exactly everything he felt. Another great treat!

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Music and History Unite on Temple Hill Academy Stage

July 2011

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At Forestburgh Playhouse TV icon Loretta Swit gave a magnificent solo performance in Shirley Valentine. Swit knew the wonders of the script, how to get laughs and entertain whether her lines were funny or profound, knew what physical mannerisms to use, and had musical and multi-varied vocal rhythms. Her subtle expression of the play's inherent depths deeply stirred my emotions. She and director Ron Nash had the production perfectly paced. What a treat!

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Recently, the Temple Hill Academy Players performed for their fellow students and teachers. According to Temple Hill Academy teacher Fran Weller, Groovin' to the Music...Rockin' Through Time, was a musical performance based on historical people, events, and music from years past.

Weller wrote the play along with the help of colleague Barbara Lisp.

"I wanted to incorporate the talent we have here at Temple Hill Academy. The play starts in the 1920-30's era and progresses through to modern day," explained Weller.

The cast included 58 students ranging from fourth grade through eighth grade.

Weller explained that the performance would not have been possible without the dedication of the Temple Hill Academy students and the assistance of her colleagues who volunteered their time to help with the production.

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Cover Photos Music - e’lissa jones see page 17

Dance - Alpha Omega see page 12

Theatre - NACL see page 16

CANVAS CALENDARS Art & Photography...........................24 Books, Clubs.....................................24 Category Calendar............................21 Children’s Calendar..........................19 July Calendar................................22-23 Music - Pop / Rock / Blues/ etc.........17 School & Conservatory Calendar....19

World Class Musicians in Orange and Sullivan

A Deadly Good Time

The Young.................................and the Restless

The Playhouse at Museum Village continues its 16th season with Knock ‘Em Dead, a “You-Solve It” mystery-comedy.

This unique comedy/murder mystery is an unabashed brew of mirth and murderous mayhem. All hell breaks loose and the laughs fly when five outrageous contestants show up at Vinnie's Belly Laugh Club for the final talent competition.

A ventriloquist with moving lips, a foul mouthed stand-up comedian, a baton twirling bimbo, the flamboyant owner of a lip synching poodle, a chanteuse with a questionable accent and a hypnotist with a twitch.

When Vinnie turns up dead, they're all suspects and the audience has the time of its life grilling them and fingering the murderer.

The production is under the direction of Michael Frohnhoefer and stage managed

by Jen Mille. Performances run from July 8 thru 24 at Museum Village on Route 17M in Monroe.

Tickets include dessert at intermission consisting of apple pie, ice cream, iced tea and coffee. For more information, call the box office at (845) 294-9465.

Owen Dalby

Ensemble ACJW is the performing arm of The Academy—a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education.

Ensemble ACJW performs at Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and other venues in New York City and New York State, including an annual residency at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs.

The ensemble comes together in different sizes, having the opportunity to play intimate chamber music as well as larger, conducted chamber orchestra works. At Pacem in Terris, site of the Frederick Franck Sculpture Garden in Warwick, ACJW member Owen Dalby returns once again to perform, this time with Meena Bhasin, viola; Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir, cello and James Austin Smith, oboe.

Besides selections by Schubert and Ravel, the ensemble will perform the popular Mozart Quartet for Oboe and Strings in F major, K. 370 and the rarely played Phantasy Quartet for Oboe and Strings, Op. 2 by Benjamin Britten.

The July 24 concert begins at 5:00pm.

Arrive early to ensure a seat for this popular music venue, and visit the Sculpture Garden. Franck’s paintings and books are also on display in the two indoor galleries.

For more information visit frederickfranck.org.

Lee Hoiby

Andrew Waggoner

One dictionary defines “restless” as: offering no physical or emotional rest; involving constant activity or motion. That can certainly describe the Weekend of Chamber Music (WCM) ensemble during its annual July Festival.

These world class musicians are presenting From Classic to Cool, beginning on July 10 and ending on July 24, moving from Jeffersonville to North Branch to Monticello. Their constant activity involves playing the music of Ravel, Brahms, Mozart, a world premiere of a work by Andrew Waggoner, a tribute to our recently “transitioned” local world class composer Lee Hoiby (who is sorely missed by many), and offering free open rehearsals, informal afternoon concerts, pre-concert talks and a Gala Grand Finale, “plus more,” the brochure reads.

Once again, WCM Artistic Director Judith Pearce has assembled an ensemble of musicians that never skimps on their physical efforts to communicate their deeply emotional commitment to great music. WCM is also celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Summer Intern Scholarship Project at the newly opened Nesin Theater in Monticello, adding a new location to its Sullivan County venues.

For the complete schedule of this fine ensemble’s programs, see the ad on page 12 or visit WeekendofChamberMusic.org.

Towns of Cornwall & Woodbury Art News Sponsored by Hudson Street Cafe, Cornwall-on-Hudson There’s a new artist in the Sweet Clover Gallery at Palaia Vineyards in Highland Mills, July 2 thru 30.

Nancy Michael is a 86 year old watercolor artist from Vestal, NY “She’s quite good,” said Palaia owner Jan Palaggi.

“She just happens to be my mother, too”.

Nancy has shown mostly in the Binghamton area at different galleries, Barnes and Noble, banks and hospitals as well as the Sterling Gallery at the Opera school in Johnson City. “At 86 she is still painting up a storm as well as taking square

dance classes, is in a ballroom dancing group, painting group, bridge group, book group, singing group, and just gave up her quilting group. (No time) She’s a pip.”

In addition to the art exhibit and the regular musical gigs, Palaggi is producing the hysterically funny Ken Ludwig farce, Lend Me A Tenor, with the Vineyard Comedy Players Troup, directed by Rich Aufiero, July 14-17 and a Neil Young Tribute Festival on July 23 & 24 benefitting “Uniting Against Lung Cancer”.

For information: 845-928-5384.

Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players, Inc. is an incorporated, non-profit organization that has been performing in the mid-Hudson since 1978.

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CANVAS FRIENDS DIRECTORY ARTISTS Mary Mugele Sealfon Portraits, Landscapes, Still Life Commissions 845-774-7658 mary.sealfon@gmail.com Linda Richichi Mind, Body & Spirit Art Workshops Landscapes and Wellness Paintings 38 Colden Hill Road, Newburgh 845-527-1146 Mary Evelyn Whitehill Watercolors “Paintings to Enhance Your Life” www.mewhitehill.com

BUSINESS SERVICES Dependable Maintenance Co. Lawnmowers, Tractors, Snowblowers Serving Orange County 845-374-2425 Drake, Loeb, Heller, Kennedy, Gogerty, Gaba & Rodd General Practice Law 555 Hudson Valley Ave., New Windsor 845-561-0550 Hudson Valley Planning and Preservation Municipal & Private 845-893-0134 www.HudsonValleyPlanning.com Peggi's Place Over 30 years experience in Hair Care 238 Main Street, Cornwall 845-534-3351

BUY LOCAL Consignium A Consignium Emporium Sharon McKane, prop.

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Those lucky people who saw Shadlowland Theatre’s production of The Marvelous Wonderettes last year might have an inkling of what is in store at the top drawer Ellenville theatre, July 15 thru August 14..

The Andrews Brothers is a new '40s musical by the creator of Wonderettes. The show, which uses pop songs from the '40s as a vehicle to tell its story, pays homage to the USO Entertainers of World War II. In a sudden and hilarious turn of events, the Andrews Sisters are too ill to perform.

Their three male stage hands are called upon to perform in their place.

Advance reservations are advised. 845647-5511.

Steve’s Music Center Musical Equipment & Lessons 248 Rock Hill Drive, Rock Hill 845-796-3618 www.stevesmusiccenter.com

PERFORMANCE VENUES Air Pirates Radio Theater Exclusive Live Radio Theater 845-469-7563 www.airpiratesradiotheater.com Downing Film Center Independent, Classic & Foreign Films 19 Front Street, Newburgh 845-561-3686 Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra Dr. Woomyung Choe, conductor P.O. Box 7215, Newburgh, NY 12550 www.newburghsymphony.org

Maxine, Patty and LaVerne Andrews sold between 75-100 million records from a little over 600 recorded tunes, had 113 charted Billboard hits, 46 reaching Top 10 status (more than Elvis Presley or the Beatles), and made 17 Hollywood films (more than any other singing group in motion picture history).

Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts Music-Theatre-Dance-Cinema-Art King’s Highway, Sugar Loaf 845-469-2287 www.lyciancentre.com

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Opera Company of the Highlands Now accepting donations for the upcoming season.

OperaCompanyoftheHighlands.com 845-562-5381

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Destination....LOrds valley/milford Hemlock Artists Display

Meet Rozz & Bernie Hoffman

Rozz & Bernie Hoffman

"Unlocking Creativity Since 1950" is the theme of the Pike County Arts and Crafts (PCAC) 61st Annual Summer Exhibition, July 13 thru July 24. The PCAC has hundreds of members, many of whom are full time working artists and crafts people.

This show reflects the high caliber of their work in all genres, and it is dedicated to artists Rozz and Bernie Hoffman.

The Hoffmans met at a Dude Ranch where Bernie wrangled and taught horseback riding. One of the attractions was that both were artists. Between them they have three children and four grandchildren.

Rozz, born and raised on Long Island, graduated with a BFA in Fine Arts from SUNY at Stony Brook. She has been a stock broker and holds a Masters Degree as a Certified Financial Planner. Rozz considers herself an abstract realist painter. She is an acrylic painter who uses small, deliberate brush strokes and a lot of bright color on canvas. Her strokes produce an almost three-dimensional quality of texture and movement, displaying an emotional

abstract realistic presentation. In the past few years she has taken up Sumi Chinese ink painting which is specialized brush strokes using ink and Chinese watercolor paint.

Bernie, born in Los Angeles and raised in New York City, has been drawing and painting since elementary school. At age 10, he was awarded a scholarship to The Little Red Schoolhouse Saturday art classes in Greenwich Village. At age 12 he received a scholarship to the Brooklyn Museum Art School. At age 13 he gained admission to the High School of Music & Art. Throughout these early years he has won many art awards and had his paintings exhibited in many NYC galleries and museums. Bernie is strictly a realistic artist specializing in portraiture. He was commissioned to paint a series of 16 Benjamin Franklin pictures that have been exhibited in every American Embassy all over the world.

On Friday, July 15th the public is invited to come to the "Meet the Artists Wine and Cheese Reception" at 7:00pm in Borough Hall, 109 West Catherine Street, Milford.

“The Devil” by Bernie Hoffman

ARTery Artists Display

Sculpture by Tom Holmes “Stone Arch Bridge”

by Joan Polishook

VISIONS, the annual Hemlock Farms and Friends Summer Group Show and Sale in The Gallery at Chant Realtors, 631 Rte 739 in Lords Valley, will run from July 1 thru August 30.

Meet the artists at the Gala opening reception on Friday, July 1 from 5:00pm to 8:00pm.

There will be refreshments and live music

by Eddie Biamonte (see photo).

Artist Opportunity Come Paint With Me, the plein air painting program now in its 14th year got off to a great start on June 2 at Grey Towers in Milford. Thirty-five participants attended the lecture on Journaling, each received a small sketch journal, compliments of The Grey Towers Heritage Association, and then went off for the day to paint on the grounds.

Come Paint With Me locales for July will be in Lords Valley, Shawnee, White Mills and Blooming Grove (PA).

The program continues through October 13. A complete schedule is available on line at www.joanpolishook-art.com.

"Expanding Questions, Frozen Light" featuring new works by two popular and long-time members of the gallery, Tom Holmes and Richard Weber, will be at The ARTery Gallery in Milford, July 7 thru August 8.

Both artists are well known for their sculptural/three dimensional works, but equally proficient with their two dimensional works.

Tom Holmes creates sculpture from stone, metal, wood, light, ice and water. He will be presenting new works fashioned from burnt wood, stone and steel. as well as mobiles. He will also be showing new ice photos from this year’s winter season.

These large, colorful, thought-evoking and visually exciting images are made from lighted, pigmented ice that is photographed as it melts and changes.

Richard Weber is literally expanding his exploration of the carved, Escher-like ceramic spheres that have thrilled art enthusiasts and collectors for years, by offering larger versions that are made of concrete and can be displayed outdoors, as well as smaller, lighter, painted spheres for indoor pedestal and hanging display.

ARTery Gallery is at 210 Broad St., Milford. Phone: 570-409-1234.

n.e. pike calendar Sponsored by Chant Realtors, Lords Valley BUSHKILL Lecture “Living with Backyard Wildlife: Deer, Raccoons, Bears, Coyotes, Skunks, etc.”

Katherine & Eric Uhler NPS Visitor’s Center, Bushkill, Jul 16, 7pm

DINGMANS FERRY Recreation Sunday for Singles Hike Jul 10, 1pm Frog Frenzy I Jul 16, 9am Nature at Night Jul 23, 8pm Summer Waterfall Tour Jul 30, 1pm Pocono Environmental Education Center

LORDS VALLEY Exhibits

“Visions” Hemlock Farms Artists and Friends Chant Realtors, Jul 1-Aug 30

MILFORD Exhibits Matt Blackwell Pine’ing The Forge, thru Jul 7 Debbie Gioello, Rosalind Hodgkins thru Jul 4 Tom Holmes, Richard Weber “Expanding Questions, Frozen Light” Jul 7-Aug 8 The ARTery Bruce Frazier thru Jul 3 Thom O’Connor “Intersecting” Jul 9-31 Highlands Photographic Guild

John Tilton, Jaruwan (Oi) Ponmak & Marsha Silverman BlueStone Gallery thru Jul 3 61st Annual Summer Exhibition Pike County Arts and Crafts Borough Hall, July 13 thru July 24 Music - Classical “Christmas in July/Messiah Singalong” Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, Jul 23, 7pm

SHOHOLA Festival Mad Hatter’s Bash Barryville Green Market Blue Stone Farm, Jul 23, 7pm-10pm

Leave the Driving to NPS The National Park Service and Monroe County Transportation Authority (MCTA) are providing transportation from Milford to the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area to address parking, safety, resource protection and congestion issues in the Park.

The “McDade Mover Route” runs roundtrip from Bushkill through the Park to Dingmans Ferry to downtown Milford, with stops at the various boat launches, Tom’s Creek, the Dingmans Falls Visitor Center, Milford Beach and the Pocono Environmental Education Center.

Bus service is on weekends through October 30, on July 4 and Labor Day. The service is free and open to the public.

Call MCTA for a flyer and full schedule: 570-243-3400.

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Destination....MOntgomery.......................................

DINING OUT and IN

The Art of “Gastropub”................................

by J. A. Di Bello Montgomery's culinary scene is spiced with the area's finest restaurants. Located on the Wallkill River, at the intersection of the Cochecton Turnpike (Rt. 17K) and the Minisink Turnpike (Rt. 211), the area is frequently identified as the culinary capital of Orange County. A place "Where the river flows north, the pastures are lush and all the pasta's al dente."

Although this writer does not even pretend to be on a first-name basis with culinary trends, the term “Gastropub” is totally unfamiliar. However, this is the term Tim Garrison, owner of Garrison's Tavern and Restaurant on Union Street, Montgomery, uses to describe his fine establishment. Investigation of the terminology is revealing. Its origins are British and originally described London "pub owners who hired chefs who could do more than fry fish and chips."

Tim is a native of Montgomery and fortunately has one of those gregarious personality traits that permit him to recognize faces and the names that accompany. He has laboriously transformed what was once a delicious, unpretentious coffee and lunch café, The Daily Bean, owned by John and Marlene Wood, into a trendy, comfortable nightspot, with a legitimate neighborhood vibe. Dark cherry

A young, bright, articulate patron from the Newburgh area recently commented on Garrison's as a place for "great service and fantastic wine." Whether this is called a saloon, bar and grill or gastropub there are plenty of beverages to choose from and ample opportunity to enjoy people and a good meal.

The Art of “Gluten-y y”

Artist-owned Blazing Bagels

by J. A. Di Bello

paneling creates an atmosphere that can only embellish an evening's delight of food, beverage and companionship.

For aficionados and neophytes alike, Garrison’s Tavern boasts a selection of over 40 fine wines, ranging from the Chardonnays to the Zinfandels, including numerous, tasty offerings from the Hudson Valley's burgeoning wineries. To add to an already interesting evening, over 40 imported, domestic and craft beers are available.

The above blends nicely with an upscale kitchen that offers house-marinated olives, rosemary parmesan fries with lemon garlic aioli and potato & pea samosas with tamarind sauce for bar snacks.

The Town of Montgomery is comfortably settled in the Northeastern pocket of Orange County. And as is the case in many oncerural locations it is filled to the gunwales with treasured little secrets of mystery and surprise.

Almost as elusive and secretive as one's loose change is a diminutive bagel shop, Blazing Bagels, located at 111 Hawkins Drive in the Shoprite Plaza, Montgomery.

It's just a quick jaunt off Route 208.

Upstaging all other offerings are real bagels, each kettle boiled and oven baked.

"Where'd they come from?" a surprised visitor was heard to ask. The art of producing real on-the premises bagels that can be served to customers while they're are still warm from the baking oven is no piece of cake - sorry -, no walk-in-the park.

Obtaining and mixing the ingredients for producing "Real Bagels" is not exactly

rocket science, but it's in range. However, as mystery frequently surrounds the kitchens of the culinary arts, much depends on knowing and applying the correct proportions with impeccable timing. One must possess a feeling for the whole process.

At Blazing Bagels there are fourteen (14) types of bagels on the menu. Each made with flour high in gluten, as gluten is responsible for that chewy characteristic, so sought after by a growing number of bagel aficionados. The bagel rings are joined by hand and immersed in boiling water for just the proper amount of time necessary to seal the dough. It's the combination of water and the secret ingredients added to it that produces a shiny crust. Salt, onion, poppy seeds are added just before the newly formed bagel is introduced to the heat of the oven.

Blazing Bagels is designed to be a takeout restaurant, although comfortable seating is available. It boasts of homemade soups with wraps and sandwiches made with healthy ingredients and "lots of love." Great coffee and generous portions of homemade flavored cream cheese complete the complements.

Interestingly, and in-line with the multiple artistic venues which seem to be emerging in various spots on the Town of Montgomery's palette, the Blazing Bagels bagel shop is also a fledgling and expanding little art gallery. Owner, (here's the surprise!) is Lana Privitera, an award winning, accomplished watercolorist, educated at the School of Fine Arts, Zaragoza, Spain and winner of awards in the Hudson Valley.

Fine art, great coffee and fresh, warmfrom-the-oven bagels bulging with generous amounts of cream cheese sounds to this writer like a comfortable, small café.

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Wallkill River School July Exhibits Elizabeth Ocskay was born in Vienna, Austria to Hungarian Refugees and spent her early years on a farm in the countryside.

She began drawing animals, particularly horses, as soon as she was able to hold a pencil. Her family emigrated to America when she was five and she continued to draw and also paint with oils through elementary and high school. Ocskay graduated with a BA from the College of New Rochelle and received her Masters Degree in Social Work at Fordham University. She currently works for an addiction treatment center Ocskay gave up art after college when work and commuting left little time and only returned to it in recent years. A little over a year ago, she discovered the Wallkill River School and found a love for plein air painting. She credits the school with bringing her back to her creative roots and showing her the way to combine her love of nature with art. She has been an avid outdoorswoman, was a skier, cyclist and runner for many years. She is also a longtime yoga practitioner and finds her spiritual strength there, in meditation, and in the zen of creativity. She has accepted commissions for portraits, pet portraits and cartoon/caricatures and has a particular love of painting animals.

Steve Blumenthal, a Newburgh artist, studied oil painting with Hong Nian Zhang at the Woodstock School of Art (WSA);

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Elizabeth Ocskay, Steve Blumentahl, Barbara Benjamin

watercolor with Richard Ochs and Eli Rosenthal, and pastel with Shawn Dell Joyce and Anna Contes ( at WSA ). He is an active member of the Wallkill River School, Washingtonville Art Society and the Orange County Art Federation. “One of my greatest pleasures is to capture the luminous landscapes of the Hudson Valley area with strong compositional elements while on location,” Blumenthal stated.

Blumenthal offers his considerable skill as a demonstrating artist in the plein air painting class offered by the Wallkill River School. "I feel that the role of an art instructor is to give the student the tools and reinforcement to develop their own personal style,” comments Blumenthal.

He has recently won awards for watercolor at the Orange County Day exhibit, and for pastel at a New York State competition. Blumenthal has exhibited at the Woodstock Art Association and the

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Garrison Art Center. His works are in many private collections.

Barbara Benjamin began oil painting only four years ago. She studied with Gene Bove, Steve Blumenthal, Dennis Fanton, William Noonan, and Karen O'Neill. A year and a half ago she also participated in a week long workshop with California colorist Camille Przewodek. The workshop influenced Barbara's style of painting.

Recently, she began studying watercolor.

In the spring of 2010 Barbara was honored and proud when an image of one of her oil paintings was featured on the postcard and email that advertised the art auction of the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands. Her works of art can be found in many private collections. This is her first solo show.

Barbara is a member of the Wallkill River School. She paints with other members en plein air on Sundays from May through October. She enjoys the camaraderie of the other artists during these sessions.

The Wallkill River School announces New Works by Elizabeth Ocskay and Steve Blumenthal in the Devitt Wing, and emerging artist Barbara Benjamin in the workshop room, July 1-30.

The reception is from 5pm-7pm on July 9, with hors d’oevres from Wildfire Grill, and wine, gallery hours are 9am-6pm, MonSat. from July 1-30.

For more information: 845-457-ARTS.

Father & Son at Wolfgang On July 9th an exhibition of pictures by artists John D. Wolfe and son, John A. Wolfe will open at Mikey Teutul’s Wolfgang Gallery, 40 Railroad Avenue in Montgomery.

Both artists find inspiration for their work in history. Subjects include Early Jazz, Negro-Leagues and Cuban Baseball, War, and Colonialism. Other pictures celebrate the beauty of the human form or the raw power of the bull. The exhibition, entitled Sympathy for the Devil, will run until August 10. (see photos page 10)

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A Noble Café Convocation...................................

by J.A. Di Bello The month of July arrives in Orange County with more than the expected celebrations of independence, sultry summer picnics and competitive trotters and pacers. The Di Bello Gallery of Montgomery will be present at the Noble Coffee Roasters' Café in Campbell Hall accompanied by a noteworthy collection visual art and artists.

The works of several known, local artists will be available for display and sale on the premises weekdays during the month of July. As an added treat, the grounds and patio area adjacent to the facility will host a lawn show and sale of featured pieces on each of July's five Saturdays, weather permitting.

Artists to be included are award winning watercolorists Lana Privitera, Mickie Mac Millan and Walter Bill, all noted for their own special techniques and mastery of the medium. Adding a fresh vision to the art on display is Catherine Hagerty, noted for her passionate interpretations, expressed with oil on canvas via an assertive and cunning palette knife.

The Café Convocation's multimedia palette includes noteworthy photographers.

James Hoffman an awarding winning wildlife photographer will be present and feature his attention-gathering "Coyote."

On a more tranquil note the inquisitive, enthusiastic Jeanne Mueller of

through Wednesday, it's open until 6:30pm; on Thursday until 8:30pm and on Fridays and Saturdays this cozy little spot doesn't turn off the lights until 10: 30pm.

Additional information is available at 845-457-2773, or cut and paste the ad that appears regularly in this publication.

“Buck’s Farm” by M. Mac Millan photo courtesy of the Di Bello Gallery

Montgomery will display her accomplishments along with Donna Dolan, also of Montgomery.

To reassure those who doubt, an enthusiast of the Hudson River School will let it be known that Romanticism remains a vibrant force in the Wallkill Valley.

Propelled by her muses, Marilyn Richter (see photo page 10) has marked the local art scene with successful shows and robust sales. Her medium of preference is acrylic on canvas. These and other known artists’ work, including Ruth O'Reilly, are samples of many not-to-be-missed creations designed to highlight the Café Convocation and Art Show.

The Noble Coffee Roasters' Café, where beans are roasted on the premises, is located at the junction of Stony Ford Road and NYS Route 207 in the Town of Hamptonburgh.

The Café is closed on Sundays, and opens at 6:30am each day except Saturday when the doors are opened at 8:00am. On Monday

Gil Anderson's book Going Fore It: In Golf and Life is the result of a lifelong pursuit of the deeper meanings and complexities that lie at the core of the golfing experience.

Anderson will be signing books at the Wallkill River School on July 10 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm. 845-457-ARTS.

montgomery & Campbell Hall calendar Sponsored by Di Bello Gallery Book Signing Gil Anderson Art Exhibits “Going Fore It: In Golf and Life” Mike Jaroszko luminist Wallkill River School, Jul 10, 3pm-5pm James Hiller photography James Douglas Gallery, ongoing Music River’s Edge Elizabeth Ocskay & Steve Blumenthal Downtown Montgomery, Jul 2 TBA Barbara Benjamin emerging artist Wallkill River School, Jul 1-29 Joe Frazita Jul 9 Reception Jul 9, 5pm-7pm Music for Humanity Jul 16 Sojourn Jul 23 Di Bello Gallery Artists Carol Beaugard-Blues Express Jul 30 “Cafe Convocation & Art Show” Noble Coffee Roasters, 7:30pm Noble Coffee Roasters, Lawn & Patio Saturdays, Noon-4pm Open Mic Noble Coffee Roasters, Jul 21, 7:30pm Starving Artist Exhibit Wallkill River School, Jul 30 & 31 Poetry Reading Teresa Marta Costa John D. Wolf & John A. Wolf Noble Coffee Roasters, Jul 7, 7:30pm “Sympathy for the Devil” WolfGang Gallery, Jul 9-Aug 10 Recreation Reception Jul 9, 6pm-8pm Kayaking on the Wallkill Montgomery Boat Launch, Jul 16, 2:30pm

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Community = Business + Art Jazz Series Principal Sponsor Returns

Chiku Awali African Dancers

Ferry Godmother Productions is delighted to announce the return of SmileWorks Dental of the Hudson Valley as principal sponsor of Newburgh Jazz Series 2011. SmileWorks Dental offers an extensive and highly reputable dental practice in Newburgh and Wappingers Falls.

Dr. Wagner of SmileWorks states “this series offers me the opportunity to be a part of something that is making our community a better place. Smileworks recognizes Ferry Godmother Productions as the driving force behind the mid-Hudson Valley’s music industry, and is pleased to once again be the lead sponsor of the annual Newburgh Jazz Series. We believe that (producer) Aquanetta Wright does an incredible job in providing support to the music community and the local community. As a musician myself I want to assist creative people, in this case, musicians, to develop sustainable careers in the fields they are passionate about. We are thrilled to return as principal sponsor.”

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The free Jazz Series concerts take place every Wednesday & Thursday night in July and August at 6:30pm on the Newburgh waterfront. Rain location will be announced..

On July 6, the City’s Youth Bureau will offer the debut of its own drumming corps, The Dynamic Approach Marching Band.

They will be joined by Series favorite, the Chiku Awali African Dancers.

For the rest of season’s line-up, visit newburghjazzseries.com.

CANVAS wishes to thank SmileWorks, Mandon Productions of Ellenville, along with the City of Newburgh and all the other co-sponsors for making the series happen again in 2011.

RR Playhouse & Artists “The idea to get fellow grant recipients together came to me when I was musing over just how large, vibrant and diverse our creative community is. Together, we offer a priceless contribution to our County,” said Melanie Gold, recipient of an Orange Arts grant, administered by Orange Tourism.

For the first time in the history of the Orange County Arts Grant, its recipients will gather together. This is a chance to see more than 20 performers, arts groups and individual artists under one roof in one day at the Railroad Playhouse, S. Water St., on July 24 from 12:30pm to 4:00pm.

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Art Exhibits “Frame of Reference: Dioramas in 21st Century” 13 artists thru Jul 7 Ann Street Gallery “The Art of Friendship” Kate Ferriter & Lily Norton Jun 2-Jul 30 “Art in Bloom” Jun 3-5 Reception: Jun 4, 1pm-3pm Karpeles Museum Donise English “Encaustic Works” SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Jul 13-Aug 12 Reception: Jul 13, 5pm-7pm

Family Fun Day Ann Street Market, Aug 6, 11am-7pm Museum Exhibit Charles Darwin manuscripts Karpeles Manuscript Museum, thru Aug 29

Music Talking Machine Jun 2 Mazze Jun 3 Phineas and the Lonely Leaves Jun 4 Eric Person & Meta’Four Jun 5 Committed Acoustic Jun 7 The Wherehouse

Music - Classical Book Discussions “Brooklyn” by Tobias Wolf Jun 8, 7pm “Deep South” by Nevada Barr Jun 20, 7pm Great Books Discussion Jun 24, 11:30am Newburgh Free Library

Cinema “Stage Door Canteen” Jul 3, 1pm “Carousel” Jul 8, 10 & 11 “Water” Jul 22 & 25 Downing Film Center

Festival “The Grand Celebration: The Red, White & Blue Pageant” Jul 4 Washington’s Headquarters, from Noon ”Cause For Applause” Orange Arts Grants Awardees Railroad Playhouse, Jul 24, 12:30pm-4:30pm

GNSO Summer Pops Downing Park, Jul 23, 4pm (rain location: Aquinas Hall)

Music - Jazz Newburgh Jazz Series 2011 Waterfront Park, Wed & Thurs, 6:30pm (rain location: TBA)

Poetry Readings Hudson River Poets Jul 7, 7pm Newburgh Free Library

Honoring Heroes You can still order a personalized brick for the Memorial Brick Walkway to honor the hero in your life as part of Trestle, Inc.’s 2011 Salute to our Heroes program.

Order forms are on page 18 or visit www.trestle.org.

...........................................................................NEWburgH Downing Film Center is 5 years old - “Carousel” is 55 years old - Washington’s Headquarters is 161 years old The Downing Film Center will celebrate its 5th Birthday on Friday, July 22. As part of the celebration, there will be special screenings for members of the Downing Film Center of the first film screened in the theater - WATER. WATER examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi, India. It focuses on a relationship between one of the widows who wants to escape the social restrictions imposed on widows, and a man who is from the highest caste and a follower of Mahatma

Gandhi.

"Quite possibly the best picture of the year thus far, with no fewer than three of the most luminous female performances I have ever seen onscreen." -Andrew Sarris, New York Observer.

This is a members-only event with free Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones admission. Cake and coffee/tea will be star in the 1956 film “Carousel” at served. Members must call and reserve a Downing Film Center, July 8, 10 and 11. seat on a first-come/first-served basis.

See pages 22 & 23 for times.

There will be two celebrations with Birthdays are special. So, when you’re screenings offered: Friday, July 22 at 161 years old, it’s a truly memorable 8:00pm and Monday, July 25 at 7:15pm. occasion. In commemoration of the event admission to Washington’s Headquarters GNSO Salutes America in Beautiful Downing Park on July 4th will be free, sponsored by Regina Angelo and the Friends of the State Historic Sites of the Hudson Highlands. The Grand Celebration: The Red, White and Blue Pageant will be the theme for the day, honoring the Headquarters’ birth as the first historic site in the nation, opening on July 4, 1850.

Erich Tusch Festivities get under way at noon with Jody Weathersone greetings and the raising of the flag by opportunity to perform with a live orchestra, special guests, “General and Mrs. Grant.”

For the 2011 Summer Pops At Downing will also be joining GNSO.

the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra (GNSO) presents An American Salute on July 23 at 4:00pm in the picturesque setting of beautiful Downing Park in Newburgh. Richard F. Regan (see photo, right) will be back to take up the baton after a hugely successful GNSO conducting debut last summer.

This tribute to A m e r i c a n composers is free to all, with music by Morton Gould, Robert Russell Bennett, John Philip Sousa, Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein. Area soloists soprano Jody Weatherstone and bass-baritone Erich Tusch will sing selections from George Gershwin's enduring masterpiece Porgy and Bess.

As always, the superstars of Summer Pops at Downing are the renowned "Mini Maestros," the children in the audience who can be counted on to steal the show. Every child present is invited to take a turn at conducting the orchestra in the lively Washington Post March following a brief lesson. Student-musicians extended the

Star Spangled Banner. Next, line up for the parade in the park! Dress up your children in red, white and blue. As you stroll about showing off your patriotic costumes, judges will select prize winners. Categories are most creative, most historical, the best red, white and blue decorated stroller and a grand prize for “best spirit”.

Trivia games will be played in the Museum and the Golden Songsters will sing in the park. Free tours of the Historic Headquarters will be given every half hour.

Call 845-562-1195 for details and directions.

Richard F. Regan is the Artistic Director of the Greater New York Wind Symphony.

Rick also maintains conducting positions with the Orange County Youth Symphony and the Hudson Valley Honors Youth Wind Ensemble. Additionally, he is in demand as a guest conductor of bands and orchestras throughout the east coast and has served on The Dutchess Community College the brass and conducting faculty of various Student Barbershop Quartet will sing the summer youth music institutes in New York State.

“Rick” is employed by the MonroeWoodbury Central School District in Central Valley, where he teaches brass and percussion, and conducts their award winning High School Wind Ensemble.

Bring lawn chairs or blankets and enjoy lighthearted music in the idyllic park setting. Buy a raffle ticket to win one of the many baskets brimming with goodies. Call 845-913-7157, or for more information. go to www.newburghsymphony.org In case of inclement weather, the concert will take place at the Newburgh Free Academy Auditorium.

This project is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts' Decentralization Program administered by Arts in Orange, and the generous sponsorships of the Hudson Valley Performing Arts Foundation and Price Chopper Supermarket.

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Art gallery photo section Sponsored by Mary Mugele Sealfon, Mary Evelyn Whitehill, Wallkill River School and Wurtsboro Art Alliance

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The Catskill Artists Gallery (CAG) in Liberty is presenting its annual Small Works Show through September 4. Each work is no more than ten inches in any direction.

In addition to the small works, other luscious art is on display, in all media and every price range, to adorn your home or person. Buy a gift for a friend -- or give yourself a treat! CAG has art for any occasion - or no occasion!

Gallery members Robert Friedman, Cate Gundlah, Kathy Jeffers, Buff McAllister and Hank Schneider - along with some 30 local consignors - create paintings, prints, photographs, fabric art, sculpture, woodwork, pottery, glass work, jewelry, books, note cards and more.

The gallery is located at 38 South Main Street and is open Friday and Saturday from 11:00am to 6:00pm, and Sunday from noon to 5:00pm.

For more information, call 845-292-0310 or visit catskillartistsgallery.com

Humans relate to animals for sustenance, inspiration, courage, and companionship.

By examining aspects of the animal world in nature and in relation to artists, the Outsider's Studio Collective (OSC) delves into the chasm of their own collective psyche, reflected in humans' relationships to beasts and other bodied kin.

"Whether we portray them as sentient beings or as monsters of predation, cutie-pie kittens or future porterhouse steaks, humans have been creating animal talismans since the beginning of time. As artists in this show, we are very influenced by our pets and how we communicate with them. In our work, they are icons, saints, fables, metaphors, circus acts, and clinical studiesor, as Naturalist Henry Beston writes, 'fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.'" says OSC members.

Peaceable Kingdom, is on view through July 23.in the Loft Gallery at the Delaware Arts Center in Narrowsburg. Reception on July 1, from 7:00pm to 9:00pm

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Area Artists in Middletown’s Orange Hall Galleries “Old Friends” by Walter Bill

Wearable Art by Adrienne Butvinik and BEad Creative by Karen L. Cohen are exhibited in the Orange Galley Loft through July 18. River Valley Arts Guild’s exhibit is in the Main Gallery.

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Art by John D. Wolfe & John A. Wolfe at Wolfgang Gallery

“Hudson Sails” by Marilyn Richter courtesy of the Di Bello Gallery

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Etching by Robert H. Score

From July 25 to September 15, Mending Wall A Nostalgic, Pen & Ink Reflection by Robert Harry Score and Watercolors of Times to Remember by Walter Bill will be at the SUNY Orange exhibits in Orange Hall Galleries with an opening reception on July 31 from 1:30pm 4:00pm, with music

by Darius Molfetas, classical guitar.

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Dioramas thru July 9 on Ann Street

“The Birthday Suit” by Jonah Samson

The word “diorama” can either refer to a nineteenth century mobile theatre device, or, in modern usage, a three-dimensional fullsize or miniature model, sometimes enclosed in a glass showcase for a museum.

Dioramas are often built by hobbyists as part of related hobbies such as military vehicle modeling, miniature figure modeling, or aircraft modeling.

As a vehicle for artistic expression, the

diorama provides contemporary artists with the perfect platform for taking into account real life conditions by deftly intertwining elements of the authentic and the imagined into constructed environments, silent captured scenes which are frozen in a moment of time.

The Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh is presenting Frame of Reference: Dioramas in 21st Century through July 9. Artists featured in the exhibition are Jessica Bottalico, Darlene Charneco, Lisa Dahl, Lisa di Donato, Jennifer Hunold, Misako Inaoka, Katerina Lanfranco, Elizabeth Livingston, Jason Paradis, Margaret Roleke, Jonah Samson, Justin Shull and Rachel Vaters-Carr. Virginia Walsh is the curator.

Located at 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, directly behind the Ritz Theatre.

Phone: 845-784-1146.

Harriet Finck “Returns” to Orange County

New Jersey artist Harriet Finck’s oeuvre has been seen at Lycian Centre in Sugar Loaf (1997) and Port of Call in Warwick (2004). After a seven year hiatus, her colorful works can once again be seen locally, this time at the Unitarian Universalist Gallery in Rock Tavern, July 1 through August 30.

“From the very beginning of my work as a collagist I have been drawn to two related ideas: putting the pieces of broken things together, and finding form within chaos. My first series, composed daily for about a year, was a group of my own destroyed etchings, reassembled. Within each, I explored the

abstract expressionist terrain of overall composition, and found order and form in the maelstrom,” Finck explains.

“My medium then became painted paper collage. I began to deliberately paint on paper, solid colors, prints and nature studies, knowing that I would take them apart and reconfigure them. For subjects I chose natural forms, textiles and pure color geometries.

“The private dialogue between form and formlessness is now still very much a motif in my new series. In these, though, broken pieces have morphed into myriads of calligraphic marks. There is a new attention to depth: storms rage not just across the page, but beyond the surface. Scale is also given new focus: skeins of tiny shapes are laid across fields of large, amorphous ones.

These are stories about birth and death, angels and dreams, despair and redemption.

An opening reception at the UUC, 9 Vance Road (off of Route 207) will take place on July 17, from 1:00pm to 4:00pm.

A Multiverse of Mediums The Executive Suite Gallery in the Orange County Government Center is hosting a showcase for Middletown artist Catherine DeMaio’s talented use of several artistic mediums: watercolor collages, oils and pastels, through July 14.

The show is located in the on the third floor at 255 Main Street in Goshen, and is open to the public during business hours.

For information: 845-615-3860

“Country TIme” oil by Catherine DeMaio

WAA: Fields and Streams and Eagles, Oh My!

Bald Eagle Photographs

by Gene Weinstein, July 2-3 Sanctuary, acrylic by Jan Horton

Fields and Streams, the Second Invitational Juried Salon Exhibition will be presented at the Wurtsboro Art Alliance Gallery (WAA) from July 9 thru August 7.

This year's exhibit was juried by Linda Richichi, BFA SUNY New Paltz, PSA, master landscape artist, instructor at SUNY Orange and innovative art workshops worldwide.

The exhibit features original works of art by thirteen artists, both WAA members and non-members, that were created in the last two years and not previously exhibited at the WAA Gallery. Mediums include photography, watercolor, ink, acrylic and oil paintings. The qualifying subject included any expression, content or derivation of the title: Fields and Streams.

An opening reception to meet the artists will be held on Saturday, July 9, from 2pm to 6 pm, and will coincide with Wurtsboro Founders Day celebrations taking place throughout the Village. An awards

Sigunick at Red Eft

ceremony will be held at 5:30pm. A "People's Choice Award" is included. The reception is free and open to the public.

Refreshments will be served, featuring local wines from the Basha Kill Vineyard.

Music will be provided by Russell Spitzer on guitar.

Gene Weinstein has been a resident of Sullivan County for over 57 years and is a former biology teacher and Chairman of the Science Department at Monticello High School. After retiring from teaching in 1986, Weinstein continued his interest in wildlife photography. For the past 22 years he has been a volunteer bald eagle monitor for the D.E.C. in the NYS Bald Eagle Restoration Project.

Bald Eagles of New York State Photographs by Gene Weinstein is being presented at the Wurtsboro Art Alliance Gallery on July 2 and July 3. An opening reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, July 2, from 2:00pm to 6:00pm.

The Wurtsboro Art Alliance Gallery is located at 73 Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro, and is open Saturdays and Sundays from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. or by appointment.

Support a Starving Artist

Red Eft Gallery is featuring a solo show of works by Phil Sigunick for its final 2011 exhibit. Sigunick has curated the Gallery’s exhibitions since 2008 and has brought world class artists and their works to the gallery with passion and panache. This exhibition of his works will spotlight Sigunick’s unique vision, style and superb Wallkill River School in Montgomery is artistic skill. holding its annual Starving Artists Sale on Red Eft, at 159 Sullivan St., Wurtsboro, July 30 from 9:00am to 6:00pm. is open Friday from 3pm, Saturday & Prices start at $20. 845-457-ARTS. Sunday afternoons. Phone: 845-888-2519.

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Encore Program Offers Continuing Education

by Tod Westlake If you're over the age of 55, and you're looking for an entertaining but edifying way to spend some time, there are a few seats open in Encore's non-credit program administered through SUNY Orange in Middletown.

The program offers a range of courses designed to help seniors to "imagine, explore (and) grow," and in the past has offered numerous cultural outings, including trips to local museums, theater performances, and Bethel Woods.

Gert Mokotoff, who has administered the program since its inception, says that the program has been a hit from day one. "We've been going strong now for 15 years," Mokotoff says.

"The community really embraced us right from the beginning."

The past range of subjects is really quite eclectic, with everything from yoga, quilting and beginning crochet, to foreign languages and film discussion. "We've had computer courses, we've had literature courses, we've had courses on how to write a short story," Mokotoff says. "And we have a very enthusiastic crowd."

In the past, according to Mokotoff, membership had been limited to 350

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participants. Now, however, the program has been expanded to 400 seats, so those who are interested need to strike while the iron is hot. "We've had a waiting list and it's made us feel bad because not everyone was able to participate," she says.

According to Mokotoff, the program is very affordable, so people shouldn't let cost dissuade them from joining. "We are a very low-cost program," Mokotoff says.

You can visit the Encore website at www.sunyorange.edu/encore to see the courses offered this past spring. The fall courses will be announced soon, but preregistering for membership is necessary prior to the listing of upcoming courses.

The annual cost to join is $55 (which includes two free classes), with most additional classes costing about $10.

Memberships slots will fill quickly, often before classes are announced, so those who are interested shouldn't hesitate in calling 845-341-4896 for details.

Utopian Direction: A Cultural Laboratory

by Robert Kennedy James Antonie describes his bookstore and art gallery as a "synthesis of all the arts: writing, music and visual. Its purpose is to create a new cultural paradigm; to break through the old social and artistic forms, and create a new foundation for our age", he stated. Utopian Direction is very much a ‘salon’; a place where people with similar interests meet to share and absorb ideas.

Utopian Direction carries a large selection of used books on a variety of subjects and

Major Dance Company Performs at SCCC

Enrique Cruz DeJesus became the Artistic Director of Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company. in 1998, His artistic goal is to devote his directing and choreographing styles to enhance concert dance with a liberal take on popular, urban

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features the work of local artists in all mediums. Friday and Saturday evenings host events such as music, poetry readings, creativity workshops and lectures.

The store features Antonie's "microgallery", a fully functioning miniaturized model of an art gallery exhibiting works of art including collages and sculpture. James creates these miniatures to shatter preconceptions about galleries, art and our lives.

Currently on exhibition at the "macro" gallery (editor’s note: “Dioramas??) are the paintings of Michael Fabian, the photographic landscapes of Beat Keerl and the prayer flags of Mary Altobelli.

Antonie's paintings, sculptures and mixedmedia installations are also featured.

Utopian Direction is located at 7 West Street in Warwick. Gallery and bookstore hours, and a listing of upcoming events may be found at utopiandirection.com. Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. 845-248-8678.

“Hold the Chicken

contemporary, traditional and theatrical and make it Pea” forms that create dramatic modern dance For the Minnie Feldman Memorial works that are equally accessible and Program of the Crawford Library in entertaining to all audiences.

Monticello, Sullivan County historian John Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Conway is presenting a free lecture entitled Company continues to build audiences Hold the Chicken and through delivering performances that are Make it Pea: The energetic, uplifting, cultural, passionate and History of Borscht all-around entertaining experiences.

Belt Comedy on July This exciting company performs at 6 at 7:30pm.

Sullivan County Community College on Telephone: July 14 at 8:00pm. NOT TO BE MISSED 845 794-4660 Phone 845-434-5750, ext. 4470.

Meet Sarah Norris : Director / Writer / Actor

Bright, articulate, attractive and bubbling over with competence, that's a thumbnail description of Sarah Norris, director/writer/actor who this summer is beginning her ninth season with the Forestburgh Playhouse. Her journey and theatrical role originated in Huntsville, Alabama as she earned her under graduate degree at the University of Alabama.

Interestingly, from the soggy wet lands of the South, she was drawn to the high, dry, desert plains of Nevada, specifically the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV).

Prophetically it was there; in the desert of the American West, Sarah earned her Master's Degree in Directing.

Sarah's initiation to theatre was no more than an innocent, flirtatious brush in high school, where she participated in all the been-there-done-that type activities, including theatre. But, she emphatically recalls, "I had fun!" College curricula call for electives and Sarah, seeking the familiar, enrolled in college level theatre courses. It was to give her an opportunity to determine her academic direction. "I fell in love." She fondly recalls. She was smitten and the curtain was about to rise. "I was inspired by the shows; I was inspired by the people. It took a week and I declared my major and I haven't looked back."

In addition to her formal academic training in Alabama and subsequently at UNLV, an important work experience was

no doubt instrumental in the formative period of Sarah's professional development.

That event appears to have been an internship with Playwrights Horizons in NYC. "Playwrights Horizons is a writer's theater dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers and lyricists, and to the production of their new work." As an organization Horizons supports and encourages growth and development of the theatre arts.

From observed and collected observations of the Forestburgh Playhouse it appears that Managing Director, Norman Duttweiler has created a similar atmosphere. Individuals are encouraged to experience various aspects of theatrical production. Sarah's current role as a director is based on these experiences and her style is one of collaboration with other professionals.

Individuals must work together in an effort to create that wonderful illusion known as theatre.

By definition, collaboration means working together, accent on work. As a director, Sarah is an advocate of this philosophy and acknowledges the artistic interpretations of the choreographers, musical directors, scenic and costume designers and as well as lighting designers. She remains, however, fully in charge. The process can easily become complicated, for the line of concerns stretches from the catwalk to the ticket booth.

For a director, Sarah believes the role of the stage manager to be paramount and she could not be more emphatic in stressing its importance. Fortunately, she believes her directorial position at the Playhouse is facilitated by a talented and functioning stage manager, Larry Smiglewski. Larry, by the way will direct the super anticipated production of "The Buddy Holly Story," opening on July 26. Sarah's theatrical experience reflects stage managers who frequently take notes, recording the vision of the director from artistic conception to the final dress. Sarah is quick to point out, "A good stage manager can direct and a good director can stagemanage!"

Sarah as an artist maintains one's interest and becomes increasing intriguing as she

describes her role as a writer. The theatre, Forestburgh Playhouse, will be producing children's theatre as it has done in the past.

A production scheduled for this summer is The Three Little Pigs. Not surprisingly, the multi-talented Sarah Norris wrote the book with music and lyrics by husband Kyle C. Norris! Her writing is inspired by a collection of her own experiences, people she knows, people she loves.

For The Three Little Pigs she draws on her fond, frequently humorous childhood memories of sibling rivalry, spiced with a Southern flare and a sprinkle of blue grass.

This writer finds the process and the anticipated production most appealing and it has been added to the list of not-to-bemissed summer treats.

Sarah will be the director of the wellknown rock musical Jekyll and Hyde, opening at the Forestburgh Playhouse on July 12 and running through July 24th. The play is based on the novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. In 1997, the show was nominated for the Tony Award, Best Musical. Indications are that under the direction of Sarah Norris it will surpass all expectations. The original show has undergone several rewrites, revisions, additions subtractions, etc. All can not be

included for obvious reason, but in this case the director has the advantage of being able to orchestrate collaborative decisions that determine what's to be included and what's to be dismissed. Sarah's objective: "to create the best performance."

Initially it was stated that Sarah's directorial experiences in the high desert of Nevada were prophetic. That view is reflective of the role she plays so adequately. The director must work with raw materials, the animate and the inanimate: a bare stage, lights, costumes, and actors some well-schooled and others with little more than bubbling ambition.

From this, the director's assignment is to create a spectacle of beauty combined with intellectual wonder. Consider now a spring in the high desert of the American West, where dust, sandy soil and broken rock surrounded by bits of untended scrub brush, are transformed into a blanket of color and wonder, while the night sky boasts of an unimaginable number of spectacular stars.

A wonder and beauty to be admired and a reflection of Sarah Norris' pure talent and direction.

And so, as was asked in another and distant forest some time ago, "Shall we [her] fond pageant see?" - A Midsummer Night's Dream (Act III, Sc. ii).

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To Geek or Not to Geek

by J.A. Di Bello

Breakneck Annie is musicians playing banjo, mandolin, guitar, accordion, washboard and an expanding array of instruments. They open the Music in the Grove free concerts series in Wooster Grove on July 9.

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This is not about Hamlet's dilemma or the parts of speech or even historical linguistics.

"To Geek" is about passion, pure, unadulterated passion. Readers know what it is and most have felt its soft caress and unrelenting grasp.

The Josephine-Louise Public Library, under the firm hand of Ginny Neidermier, is leading the charge by geeking everything in sight and joining with the community libraries of Pine Bush and Wallkill (the hamlet) as a part of a national library awareness campaign, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Language and communication skills are what libraries are all about. American English remains alive and well, subject to sporadic growth and the tides of influence.

The word choice of the Campaign, "geek" is in common usage as a noun with various connotations and serves as a fine example.

For the purpose of promoting verbal and library awareness, the verb "to geek" was coined and simply means to feel passion for a particular person, place or concept. "I geek Puccini operas!" and "I geek musical theatre!" are common examples. Name your passion; the public library supports it and so much more. The Campaign's transformation of a noun to a verb is not so revolutionary when considering other recently born infinitives: "To tweet" and "to Google."

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Useful words possess grammatical versatility, functioning easily as nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives even interjections. And who's to say? "To geek" may become the new adolescent expletive, replacing the more offensive.

To geek the community library is to embrace all it has to offer and to understand why it exists and how it's supported. The push is to bring to the public an understanding: The library does not exist simply by divine fiat.

Recently, it was reported that just shy of 70,000 residents visited the library and completed 44,000 transactions. The library currently has access to over 36,000 fiction, non-fiction collections that include 4,800 CDs, videos and DVDs. A library can operate as a job center by providing the opportunity for online applications and job searches. Recently the American Library Association reported that 70% of public libraries provide the sole location for free and public use of computers and the internet.

A trip to the library can also help individuals discover what they geek, by exploring the fascinating topics to be discovered online. Beyond the traditional library offerings e.g., books, reading for children, etc., more opportunities for geeking are offered. i.e., online homework assistance, genealogy research, exposure to artists and historians that otherwise would not be encountered.

Free Summer Concerts

Wooster Grove is located on East Main St . It is also home to the Village of Walden Recreation Dept’s teen center.’

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Walden calendar Sponsored by Walden Business Association

Book Discussions Page Turner Adventures Jun 30, 2:30pm “Novel Destinations: Around the World in 24 Books” TBA Josephine-Louise Library

Farmers Market The acclaimed Summer Rock Camp 2011 sponsored by the New York School of Music in Walden will have slight resemblance to Allan Sherman's Grammywinning novelty song "Camp Granada" of the sixties or to Ponchielli's “Danza Delle Ore,” but for the youth of Orange County it remains a premier musical training ground.

The camp is not to be understood with frivolity, for its stated mission is to expose young musicians to the reality of performance in the musical field. Young musicians, ages 8 through 19 are grouped by ability, age and interest into functioning "rock bands." Each group is then monitored and motivated by a staff member.

Staff members and coaches are actively performing professional musicians, each keenly aware of the discipline and knowledge necessary for successful live performance. It's the harsh realities, e.g., the lights, the stage, the heat and the fatigue about which students must be made aware.

Each coach / teacher closely monitors his group through two weeks of demanding rehearsals, each rehearsal four hours in duration. At the conclusion of rigorous basic

Thursdays Noon-6pm Village Square, Walden

Music - Open Mic

Recreation Chess Club Mondays, 6pm-8pm Chess Club Saturdays 10am-2pm Scrabble Club Thursdays 6pm-8pm Josephine-Louise Library

Lectures “Lost Amusement Parks of the Hudson” Josephine-Louise Library, Jun 30, 7pm

Children & Teens Calendar

Den Series: Rock Band TBA w/open mic NY School of Music Jul 29, 7pm

Summer Reading Programs “One World, Many Stories” 2-3 years, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10:30am 4-6 years, Tuesdays 6:30pm, Thursdays 2pm 7 and up, Mondays 6:30pm, Tuesdays 2pm Teens “You Are Here” Tuesdays, 6:30pm Josephine-Louise Library

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Music Music in the Grove Breakneck Annie Jul 9 Pine Bush Community Band Jul 11 XCaliber Band Jul 16 The Feds Jul 23 Wooster Grove, 6:30pm

training, the freshly minted "rock bands" will be prepared for a concert at the acclaimed Chance Theatre in Poughkeepsie.

As has been the case in the past and certainly anticipated for the future, Rock Camp USA in Walden has served as a stepping stone for young performing artists throughout the Hudson Valley. Alumni of the Rock Summer Camp have been booked all over the east coast. So, as Allan Sherman modestly demonstrated: "Camp is very entertaining."

Information is available at 845-778-7594 and www.nyschoolofmusiconline.com

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

Opera Company of the Highlands After a series of highly successful fundraising events in 2010 and 2011, culminating with the exciting “livecast” performance of Artistic Director Claudia Cummings’ performance in a 1983 PBS airing of Lucia Di Lammermoor at the Downing Film Center in Newburgh on

June 13, Opera Company of the Highlands is in transition and “will shortly be announcing new and interesting programming for the upcoming season,” Cummings told CANVAS. Visit operacompanyofthehighlands.com for more information and to donate.

Live from the Met in HD Sullivan County Community College in Loch Sheldrake is the place to be for the Summer reruns of Live from the Met in HD. July is “Italian” month and operas by Puccini, Verdi and Donizetti can be seen in the beautiful Seelig Auditorium on Wednesday evenings at 6:30pm.

Check the CANVAS calendar on page 21 for the airing dates so that you don’t miss out on the world class performances of Simon Boccanegra, Tosca, La Fille du Regiment and a superb production of Don Carlo.

Or call 845-434-5750, ext.4470.

Hudson Opera Theatre Scheuermann Farms in Pine Island will concertize at the gala event for the Pine be host to the elegant & sumptuous Black Island Chamber of Commerce Dirt Feast on August 2 at 6:00pm. Singers Celebration of Farm to Table fundraiser. from Hudson Opera Theatre will For info: 845-258-4176.

UpEnded at NACL

Bertoni’s Free Concerts

Buddha and the Rock Star is an experimental dancetheatre performance by an ensemble of Montreal video artists, actors, and dancers.

The high-energy performance incorporates video, text, live music, theatre, and a wide range of dance styles, to engage audiences in a kinesthetic and lyrical stage experience that delves into humanity’s attachment to fear, false identifications, and patterns of behavior.

The performance is structured as a woman’s daily meditation, running the gamut of human experience from the spiritual to the erotic. (Adult Content) This remarkable performance takes place Sunday, July 17 at 4:00pm at the NACL Theatre in Highland Lake.

Phone: 845-557-0694

Bertoni Gallery presents its 7th Annual Sundays in July Free Music Festival every Sunday in the Bertoni Gallery Sculpture Garden located at 1392 Kings Highway in Sugar Loaf from 1:00pm-5:00pm.

July 31st will be the 4th Annual Bill Perry Day dedicated to Perry who was an internationally acclaimed blues-rock guitarist who lived in Chester.

The Gallery and Barry Adelman from Music For Humanity will present the 4th Music For Humanity Bill Perry Scholarship Award in his memory. The recipient (as well as two other Music For Humanity Scholarship Award Winners) will be the guests of honor on this day at 12:00pm.

Delaware Valley Opera is 25 years old Theatre in This summer, your only chance to see live Narrowsburg, Sullivan Opera-Theatre locally is at the Delaware West HS in Lake Valley Opera’s (DVO) productions of Huntington and in Tchaikovksy’s (photo Hawley, PA. left) Eugene Onegin and The DVO’s 2011 Donizetti’s (photo right) Silver Anniversary season includes an array The Elixir of Love.

Performances will be of concerts, opera performances, and special held at the Tusten events to celebrate twenty-five years of

bringing great music to the communities of Sullivan County and the surrounding Delaware Valley.

DVO Artistic Director and General Manager Carol Castel has also arranged for “Young Singers of the Valley” (ages 1418 years) to perform in concert on July 30 at 8:00pm in Narrowsburg.

For information: 845-252-3136

Artist, Performer, & Writer Workshops & Opportunities

Art Opportunites for All Ages and Families

by Robert Kennedy 7 West Art School is located on the Wawayanda River in the Village of Warwick. It offers classes to students of all ages in a variety of mediums. Adult classes in painting, drawing and ceramics are offered days and evenings. Teens, kids and parent/child classes are offered after school

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and on weekends. Or just stop by and "paint-your-own-pottery". Choose your shape, pick your colors and create. All mediums are covered. Its staff is all veteran artists and art teachers.

Art has always been owner Susan Zavagli's passion. She is a graduate of the NYC School of Visual Arts, the Ringling School of Art and has attended the Art Students League. Her work is displayed nationwide.

Mark and Samantha Stankiewicz are muralists with impressive teaching credentials. The studios abutting the Wawayanda River produce a creative, friendly and invigorating atmosphere in which to work.

This year's summer camp begins July 5th.

It accepts students between the ages of four

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and ten in three age-structured classes.

Camp-goers will work in clay, create mosaic tiles, reverse art on Plexiglas, paint using a variety of mediums, create a diorama and sculpt with a variety of materials.

7 West's special services include hosting birthdays, anniversaries, bridal and baby showers; and conducting school, religious, civic and fundraising programs. Every 1st and 3rd Friday evening of the month is "Ladies Night Out", a "BYOB" affair where women can meet to create and discuss art.

7 West Art Studio is located at 7 West Street, Warwick. It is open Tuesday through Sunday from 11:00am to 6:00pm and stays open later for reserved events.

Further information and a $5 class discount coupon may be found at www.pcassocreateart.com. 845-544-7017

Music - blues / country/ folk / pop / rock sponsored by Steve’s Music Center, Rock Hill NVAM PV & PVT

= Neversink Valley Area Museum, Cuddebackville = Palaia Vineyards & Palaia Vineyards Outdoor Tent, Highland Mills

Jimmy Sturr & his Orchestra polka, etc.....Festival Square, Middletown, Jul 1, 7pm FREE Straight Shot ......................................................................................................PV Jul 1, 7pm River’s Edge country ....................................................Downtown Montgomery, Jul 2, TBA Fractured Soul ..................................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Jul 2 Groovy Tuesday plus BBQ ..........................................................PVT Jul 2, 6:30pm-9:30pm The Shirelles 1950s Sock Hop ..................................Narrowsburg Central School Jul 2, 7pm Gayle Donnely, E’lissa Jones, The Levins..............................................................................

Bertoni Garden, Sugar Loaf, Jul 3, 1pm-5pm FREE Rob Schiff ........................................................................................PV Jul 3, 2:30pm-5:30pm Don Byron New Gospel Quintet w/DK Dyson ................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 3, 8pm The HotRod Band rock & roll ....................Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf, Jul 7, 6:30pm FREE e’lissa jones & Marc Von Em folk, pop, rock ................Warwick Valley Winery, Jul 7, 7pm Some Kinda Fun 50s & 60s dance music ....Festival Square, Middletown, Jul 8, 7pm FREE Bruce Perone......................................................................................................PV Jul 8, 7pm Joe Frazita ..........................................Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jul 8, 7:30pm Kofi & Sankofa Ghanaian Drumming, etc. ..Storm King Art Ctr, Mountainville, Jul 9, 6pm Breakneck Annie Music in the Grove ............Wooster Grove, Walden, Jul 9, 6:30pm FREE Jermaine Paul plus BBQ..............................................................PVT Jul 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm Doo Wop Extravaganza 8 groups & car show..............................Bethel Woods, Jul 9, 7pm Split Bill w/Marc Black Band & Amy Fradon Band ......The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 9, 7pm Global Groove Quartet......................Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor, Jul 9, 7:30pm Country Cats Festival........................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Jul 9 Steven Wells, Bendy Effect, The Notes ..................................................................................

Bertoni Garden, Sugar Loaf, Jul 10, 1pm-5pm FREE Bobby Messano ............................................................................PV Jul 10, 2:30pm-5:30pm Tim McGraw ................................................................................Bethel Woods, Jul 10, 7pm Yes & Styx ......................................................................................Bethel Woods, Jul 12, 7pm e’lissa jones folk, rock, pop, Clarissa Cupero Latin....Lycian Centre, Jul 14, 6:30pm FREE Rupa & The April Fishes ................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 14, 7pm Dirt Simple ......................................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Jul 15 XCaliber Band Music in the Grove ..............Wooster Grove, Walden, Jul 16, 6:30pm FREE Further: Phil Lesh & Bob Weir ..................................................Bethel Woods, Jul 16, 7pm Music for Humanity folk..................Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jul 16, 7:30pm Miz-After Further & Nailed Shutt ................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Jul 16 Law & Paradise, Sarah Morr Band, Evan & Ariel ..............................................................

Bertoni Garden, Sugar Loaf, Jul 17, 1pm-5pm FREE Slam Allen soul, blues ......................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 21, 7pm Jacked classic rock ....................................Festival Square, Middletown, Jul 22, 7pm FREE Gregg Van Gelder............................................................................................PV Jul 22, 7pm The Mahavisnu Project jazz, rock, raga ........................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 22, 7pm Neil Young Tribute Festival plus BBQ................PVT Jul 23. 1pm-8pm & Jul 24, 1pm-6pm The Feds Music in the Grove ........................Wooster Grove, Walden, Jul 23, 6:30pm FREE Bill Sims, Jr w/Adam Levy & The Mint Imperials ......The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 23, 7pm Sojourn ..............................................Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jul 23, 7:30pm Peter Sando, Tony Rivera Band, Project Mercury ..............................................................

Bertoni Garden, Sugar Loaf, Jul 24, 1pm-5pm FREE 311 & Sublime with Rome ......................................................Bethel Woods, Jul 25, 6:30pm Cabinet..............................................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Jul 25 Still Surfin’ Beach Boys Tribute ..............Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf, Jul 28, 6:30pm FREE The Shallows doo wop, r&b........................Festival Square, Middletown, Jul 28, 7pm FREE Professor Louie & The Crowmatix ..............................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 28, 7pm Finn’s Fury Celtic rock ..............................................................................SCCC Jul 28, 8pm Inner Monologue ............................................................................................PV Jul 29, 7pm Alexis P. Suter Band roots, blues, soul ............................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 29, 7pm Past Masters plus BBQ ............................................................PVT Jul 30, 6:30pm-9:30pm Goo Goo Dolls, Michelle Branch & Parachute ..........................Bethel Woods, Jul 30, 7pm Carol Beaugard & Blues Express ..Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jul 30, 7:30pm Kenny Young & the Eggplants ..........................................................NVAM Jul 30, 7:30pm Bob Stump & the Blue Mountain Band ........................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Jul 30 Bill Perry Day Music for Humanity, et al ..............................................................................

Bertoni Garden, Sugar Loaf, Jul 31, 1pm-5pm FREE Paul Savino....................................................................................PV Jul 31, 2:30pm-5:30pm Global Noize jazz, funk, fusion ........................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 31, 7pm

Making Music on Multiple Instruments in Pine Island and at Sugar Loaf’s Free Outdoor Concerts

e'lissa jones, apparently loves lower case letters. Check out www.elissajones.com.

Born into a musically gifted family, e’lissa began singing and playing piano around the age of five. "At a very early age, my mother trained her girls to sing harmony and play the piano,” she states. “At the age of five I remember my mother keeping us up late singing in thirds with one another.

We were to be the next ‘Jones Girls’” e'lissa wrote her first song at the age of seven and began studying violin at the age of ten. At eleven, she was writing love songs and short classical works for violin and piano. While classically trained as a violinist, e'lissa is largely self-taught as a vocalist and guitarist. e'lissa possesses a dark and melancholy voice with a velvety quality reminiscent of jazz singers. Her songs embrace audiences with powerful melodies and expressive lyrics. Influential styling ranges from folk music, jazz, rock, and R&B in her catalogue of over 250 original songs.

After her July 3 performance (see calendar) in the Bertoni Sculpture Garden in northern Sugar Loaf where free concerts take place every Sunday in July, e'lissa goes southward to Pine Island for the Warwickbased media group and production company, Bozarts, where she performs at the Warwick Valley Winery on July 7.

Then it’s northward again to southern Sugar Loaf on July 14 for the free 6:30pm On The Lawn series at Lycian Centre in Sugar Loaf, where e’lissa will be part of an enormous roster of musicians performing every Thursday in July and August on the beautiful Lycian lawn.

Bring chairs & blankets. (Concerts are indoors in the air-conditioned Pavilion if it rains.)

Open Mic & Coffee House NCR UUC

= Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall 845-294-8090 = Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern 917-613-3489.

Open Mic w/ Eric Callari ......................................Logan’s Well, Florida, Wednesdays, 9pm Stacey & Friends Musicians Gathering........The Dancing Cat, Bethel, Thursdays, from 8pm Open Mic Brunch to Lunch Jazz....................The Dancing Cat, Bethel, Sundays, from 11am Open Mic ..................................................Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jul 7, 21, 28, 7pm Open Mic ..........................................................................................................NCR Jul 21, 7:30pm Open Mic The Den Series ............................................NY School of Music, Walden, Jul 29, 7pm

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Holistic Living The Body/Spirit Connection

by Vero “Medicine Wind” Bero I have noticed a pattern amongst humans.

We are ever trying to split ourselves down the middle. We either take care of our bodies, getting a little caught up in ego and lessening the power of the heart to the power of mind OR we mind the garden of the divine, giving full attention to our spiritual pursuits and letting this earthly container, the body, suffer neglected.

The good news is that this is simple human oversight and the marriage of body and spirit is possible and necessary to reach our full potential spiritually and physically.

Health is the key to Spirit and Spirit is the key to Health. Or to quote a famous book,

Labyrinth in Wurtsboro

“Your body is a temple.”

There are many ways to connect body and spirit, we suggest you try many and stick with what works for you. To connect to spirit try healing modalities such as Crystal Healing, Energy Healing such as Reiki or join a like-minded group through the internet or your local church. To connect to your body begin by prioritizing health, joining our wellness center and explore energetic tools to help release blocks & A labyrinth is an ancient symbol that stress and/or detox your body. We relates to wholeness. It combines the recommend to do it all. imagery of the circle and the spiral into a Listen to your heart, fulfill your spirit and meandering but purposeful path. It take care of your body.

Vero “Medicine Wind” Bero runs the new Shangri-La represents a journey to our own center and Wellness Center; in partnership with Crystal Connection, in back again out into the world.

Wurtsboro .

Labyrinths have long been used as meditation and prayer tools. A labyrinth is an archetype with which we can have a direct experience. Walking the labyrinth can be considered an initiation in which one awakens the knowledge encoded within their DNA. Crystal Connection hostesses Cephora and Vero “Medicine Wind” Bero are holding a Labyrinth Creation and Celebration on July 2 from 5:30pm to 9:30pm at 116 Sullivan Street in Wurtsboro.

Bring-Your-Own-STONE to have it be part of the Labyrinth. Bring something to eat or drink to share with your friends.

Phone: 845-888.2547.

Indigenous Grandmothers Sept. Wisdom Weekend

CANVAS FRIENDS DIRECTORY HEALTH & HOLISTIC SERVICES Helena Moore, Ph.D. Holistic Talk Therapy Wildwood Way, Forestburgh 845-796-1810 Patricia Quinn, MS, LCAT, NBCCH Art Therapy, Hypnosis & Healing 62 No. Main Street, Florida, NY 10921 845-649-0953

HOLISTIC & SPIRITUAL The Crystals Center Retail, Workshops, Events, Healing 116 Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro

845-888-2547 ORGANIZATIONS Orange County Arts Council “Art Leaves its Mark” www.OCArtsCouncil.org 845-469-3145 Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Taven Art Exhibits, Music Events, Discussions 9 Vance Road, Rock Tavern www.UUCRT.org

Farmers Markets Directory Thursdays Walden Noon-6pm Walden Village Square Sundays Ellenville 10am-2pm Market & Center Streets

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Grandmother Star-Johnsen Moser

A Bridge to Oneness is a group that seeks to bring together different circles, individuals, and councils bringing sacred ceremonies and wisdom teachings to our community. This is a weekend of indigenous teachings with Grandmother Arla & Grandmother Star with the intention of healing through the preservation and sharing of traditions.

Grandmother Arla Collett Williams’ vision work has grown through her association with The International Council of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers and their vision.

Grandmother Star-Johnsen Moser is an internationally-known spiritual healer and teacher and has been a channel for the light for over 40 years.: Join them fat the Pocono Environmental Education Center in Dingmans Ferry, September 16 thru 18.

For information and to register: 845-9783861. abtoneness@yahoo.com.

CSA FARM DIRECTORY Abundant Life Farm Biodynamically grown organic vegetables Walker Valley. 1-866-993-8932 x13 Willow Wisp Organic Farm Summer and Winter Shares Callicoon Farmers Market 25 Stone House Road, Damascus PA 570-224-8013

Summer Camps & Free Teen Classes in Montgomery

Wallkill River School (WRS) is offering local children and teens a chance to have creative fun and become young stakeholders in the community. These classes combine local history, indigenous species, and cultural icons into fine art classes that are fun, hands-on art making experiences.

“We want to give our local youth a creative alternative to mind-numbing video games, and hanging out at the mall,” says WRS director Shawn Dell Joyce.

Children’s Summer Camps range from Claymation workshops with local teen Rudy Troncone, “Following in the Footsteps of Jane Colden”, America’s First Female Botanist with Dell Joyce, and Funky Fashions where girls make their own clothes with Jenna Gustafson.

Younger children will love “Recyclable Art, Native American Art, and Papermaking” with Fawn Johnson. For children 10 and up, “Tie Dye and Batik” and “I Want to be an Artist” with Shawn Dell Joyce.

There’s even a scale model train lay-out

workshop designed for parents and children.

The Free Teen classes were paid for through a benefit auction organized this spring by the nonprofit artist’s cooperative.

Classes range from Black and White Darkroom Photography, Beginning Drawing, Beginning Painting, Cartooning and building a portfolio for art school interviews.

“This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for local teens,” notes Joyce, “we are able to offer it this summer because we have a generous and supportive community that has helped us to make this happen.”

Teens who are interested in pursuing a career in the arts will get help compiling a portfolio and meet professional artists who live and work in Orange County.

“We want to encourage our youth to keep their talents in their home community. You don’t have to move to the city to make a living anymore! We have animators for Disney, cartoonists for Marvel and D.C. comics, Fashion Institute (FIT) grads and teachers, and arts professionals living and working right here, in our county,” says Joyce.

Summer Camps are held at the WRS on Mondays-Fridays in July and August from 10:00am-3:00pm. Free Teen Classes are offered at different times.

A brochure is available, or registration can be taken online at wallkillriverschool.com or by phone 845457-ARTS.

Learn to Walk on Stilts

Teens Write & Perform for Kids in Sugar Loaf Kings Theatre Company at the Lycian Centre is introducing new Children's programming at its "On the Wharf" Theatre by the Lake in July and August.

The first production, Alice in Wonderland, will take place on Tuesday, July 19th and Thursday, July 21st at 11:00am and 1:00pm.

This Alice is a new version of the traditional Lewis Carroll story and incorporates song and dance in a drama performed by ten actors from the Kings Teen Theatre Program. The teen group has developed its script from a variety of texts and improvisation. This version maintains all the characters that we all have grown to love. The Cheshire Cat, Caterpillar and the Red Queen are all there as Alice struggles to find her way home from this

Topsy Turvy world.

The students, some of whom have been training for three years will be presenting the show for public performances in July.

Paul Ellis, Director of the program, is thrilled to have the opportunity for his students to perform a full length play.

"There is a point where training has to lead to a full play. These students are more than ready and I am so pleased that Kings Theatre has asked us to produce the Summer Children's Theatre. I am sure everyone will be surprised at the quality of their performances."

This past season the Youth Theatre added a middle school class. The regular class program runs in the fall and spring. The program is now in its fifth year and runs three workshops a year.

The Wharf Theatre is in a completely enclosed tent, and protected from the elements. There is also plenty of available space on the lawn for picnicking before or after a performance.

Advance-discount tickets may be purchased by calling the Lycian Centre Box Office at 845- 469-2287, Tuesday through Saturday between 11:00am and 4:00pm.

Additional information is also available on the web at LycianCentre.com.

school & conservatory calendar St. Peter’s Lutheran Church Youth Ghanaian Drumming Concert ..........................................

First Presbyterian Church, Port Jervis, Jun 29, 6pm Young Singers of the Valley Delaware Valley Opera Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg, Jul 30, 8pm OCMEA Summer Music Institute Students..........C.J.Hooker Middle School, Goshen, Jul 14 “Alice in Wonderland” ....On the Wharf, Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf, Jul 19 & 21, 11am & 1pm

Children and teens calendar HHNM....................................Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall HHNM-CoH ........................Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Education Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson PEEC ..................................................................Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry

Museum Meet the Animals ......................................................................HHNM-CoH, Sat & Sun, 2:30pm

Yes you can!

Rise above!

Expand your horizons!

A four-day Stilt Walking Workshop led by the amazing NACL stilt professionals is taking place Monday, July 25 through Thursday, July 28, from 2:00pm to 5:00pm.

NACL Theatre is a professional, not-forprofit company that has created over 15 original and ensemble theatre productions since 1997. Founded by Canadian-born

Tannis Kowalchuk and American Brad Krumholz, NACL (North American Cultural Laboratory) operates a theatre space and retreat center in Highland Lake.

NACL is located at 110 Highland Lake Road, a few minutes from Eldred. It mission is, “To cultivate the rigorous exploration of actor-generated theatre as an ever-evolving art form.”

Class size is limited, so call to reserve space. Phone: 845-557-0694.

Music “Kids Night with Quintette 7”West Point BandTrophy Point Amphitheatre, Jul 10, 7pm FREE

storytelling Page Turner Adventures all ages ....................Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Jun 30, 2pm

Theatre - musical ”The Wizard of Oz”........................Forestburgh Playhouse, Jun 30, Jul 2, 14, 21, 23, 28, 11am “The 3 Little Pigs” ..............................................Forestburgh Playhouse, Jul 7, 9, 16, 30, 11am “Honk, Jr”...............................................................................SCCC Jul 22, 8pm & Jul 23, 2pm

Flamenco at the Ferry

The Ensemble Segue will perform flamenco music and dance at the Pocono Environmental Education Center in Dingmans Ferry on July 16. The program, Ritmo, Color y Pasión, will begin at 5:30pm. Children under 12 are admitted free. Atypically, Segue performs with a violin playing the role of the singer.

Phone: 570-828-2319.

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Firefighter’s Day at Museum Village

Florida, NY Fire Department at Museum Village's 2010 Firefighters' Day

On Sunday, July 17, Museum Village will have a day of family fun, food and music as we honor our local firefighting heroes. Held on the village green this is an opportunity for the community to celebrate these fine men and women who serve our villages and towns.

Hosted by the South Blooming Grove Fire Department, everyone is invited to honor the fire departments throughout Orange County as they show off some of the prize equipment - both old and new! Guests will be able to watch competitive fire drills and learn how first responders protect our community.

The afternoon will be packed with live music, food and games for everyone - Sack Races, Bucket Brigade, Egg & Spoon Races and more. There will also be a Children's Poster Contest and an Adult Photo Contest.

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This community event will be held at Museum Village, 1010 Route 17M, Monroe, from 11:00am to 5:00pm on Sunday, July 17. All 1st Responders and active duty men and women in our armed services will be admitted free with their ID and their immediate families will receive half-price admission.

For more information on Firefighters' Day, please contact Michael Sosler, General Manager for Business Operations at msosler@museumvillage.org or 845-7828248 ext 28.

Museum Village is a living history museum preserving a vast collection of eclectic, 19th century artifacts for educational purposes.

Museum Village is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Educational Institution. www.museumvillage.org.

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CANvas category calendar sponsored by Hudson Valley Planning ART TOURS / walks Second Saturday in Beacon Beacon Galleries....................Downtown, Beacon, Jul 9, all day Art After Dark Milford Galleries ....................................Downtown Milford, Jul 9, 6pm-9pm

Cabaret After-Main Stage Show Nightly Cabarets ............Forestburgh Playhouse, Tuesdays thru Sundays

CINEMA

Tea Time Concert Weekend of Chamber Music....................WCM Jul 16, talk:4pm, concert:5pm MusicTalks! Weekend of Chamber Music ..........North Branch Inn, North Branch, Jul 20, 7:30pm GNSO Summer Pops Greater Newburgh Symphony Orch. ....Downing Park, Jul 23, 4pm FREE Gala Grand Finale Weekend of Chamber Music ............................................................................

WCM Jul 23, talk:7pm, concert:8pm, Gala meet-the-artists buffet:9:30pm “Christmas in July/Messiah Singalong” Pike County Choral Society ..........................................

Good Shepherd Episcopal Ch., Milford, Jul; 23, 7pm 10th Anniversary Celebration Weekend of Chamber Music ..........................................................

Nesin Theater, Monticello, Jul 24, 3pm Ensemble ACJW ”Music for Oboe & Strings” ..................Pacem In Terris, Warwick, Jul 24, 5pm West Point Band & Glee Club ......Trophy Point Amphitheatre, West Point, Jul 31, 7:30pm FREE

“Stage Door Canteen” (1943) ..................................Downing FIlm Center, Newburgh, Jul 3, 1pm “Birth Of A Nation” w/discussion , Ben Model: piano ....................................................................

Neversink Valley Area Museum, Cuddebackville,Jul 6, 7:30pm Reel Eclectic Film Series ..........................................Thrall Library, Middletown, Jul 7, 7pm FREE music - jazz “Carousel” (1956) Rodgers & Hammerstein ......Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Jul 8, 10 & 11 The New Swing Sextet ......................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 1, 7pm “Water” (2006) 5th anniversary presentation ........Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Jul 22 & 25 Hugh Brodie & The Cosmic Ensemble ............................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 2, 8pm Jazz Lunch & Brunch ......................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Jul 3, 19, 17, 24, 31, 1pm dance Travis Sullivan’s Bjorestra w/Becca Stevens....................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 7, 8pm Midsummer Night of Music & Belly-Dancing Boom Boom Shake, Lionel Peled, Shane Chikeles Doug Munro, Jerry Z & Mike Clark - Nina Sheldon ....The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 8, 7pm Studio 208, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Jul 8, 7pm Jenna Esposito jazz, swing, Italian ............Festival Square, Middletown, Jul 15, 7pm FREE Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company ......................................................................................

Oz Noy, Vic Juris, Jay Anderson, Adan Nussbaum, Manual Transmission ......................

Sullivan County Community. College., Loch Sheldrake, Jul 14, 8pm The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 16, 7pm The Connor Kennedy Band ..................................................The Falcon, Jul 17, 10am-2pm festivalS & recreation adults & children Jazz Knights Play It Again ..Trophy Point Amphitheatre, West Point, Jul 17, 7:30pm FREE Jazz Knights American Songbook ..................Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf, Jul 21, 6:30pm FREE “Narrowsburg Celebrates America” carnival, parade, etc.........Downtown Narrowsburg, Jul 2-4 Metropolitan Hot Club Gypsy Jazz ..................................................................SCCC Jul 21, 8pm Great American Weekend ......................................................................Downtown Goshen Jul 2-4 Jazz Knights Music of Charlie Brown ......Trophy Point Amphitheatre, Jul 24, 7:30pm FREE "Independence Day”............New Windsor Cantonment & Knox's Headquarters, Jul 4, 10am-5pm Swing Shift Orchestra ..........................................Main Street Stage, Liberty, Jul 29,. 7pm FREE “The Grand Celebration: The Red, White & Blue Pageant” ........................................................

Jeff Clampa Jazz Trio....................Black Dirt Feast, Scheuermann Farms, Warwick, Aug 2, 7pm Washington’s Headquarters, Jul 4 from Noon, FREE Frog Frenzy ..................................................................................................PEEC Jul 16, 9am Kayaking on the Wallkill ..................................................Montgomery Boat Launch, 2:30pm Opera - Livecast Family Day ............................................................................Bethel Woods, Jul 17, from 10am “Simon Boccanegra” Verdi - Live from the Met in HD ..............................SCCC Jun 29, 6:30pm Firefighters Day..................................................Museum Village, Monroe, Jul 17, 11am-6pm “La Fille du Regiment” Donizetti - Live from the Met in HD....................SCCC Jul 13, 6:30pm Mad Hatter’s Bash food, hat contest, music, etc. ..Blue Stone Farm, Shohola, Jul 23, 7pm-10pm “Tosca” Puccini - Live from the Met in HD ................................................SCCC Jul 20, 6:30pm “Nature at Night” ........................................................................................PEEC Jul 23, 8pm “Don Carlo” Verdi - Live from the Met in HD ..............................................SCCC Jul 27, 6:30pm “Cause for Applause” 2010 Orange Arts Grants Awardees......................................................

Railroad Playhouse, Newburg, Jul 24, 12:30pm-4:30pm Opera - concert National Night Out ................................Brian Ingeber Park, South Fallsburg, Aug 2, 5:30pm Hudson Opera Theatre ..................Black Dirt Feast, Scheuermann Farms, Warwick, Aug 2, 6pm 3rd Annual Black Dirt Feast ......................Scheuermann Farms, Warwick, Aug 2, 6pm-9pm

Opera - theatre holistic living UUC ........................................................................ Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern, 917-613-3489.

Psychic Experience Group w/Athen Drewes ............................................UUC 1st Tuesdays, 7pm Messages From Above ................................Spiritquest Healing Center, Slate Hill, Jul 8, 7pm

lectureS, DEmos & SymposiumS / Forums PEEC ............................................................Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry WCM ............................Weekend of Chamber Music, Eddie Adams Farm, Jeffersonville 845-887-5803

“Hold the Chicken and Make it Pea” John Conway ........Monticello Library, Jul 6, 7:30pm “Letters Home” Charles LaRocca ................Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Jun 30, 7pm “Sunday for Singles Hike” ..........................................................................PEEC Jul 10, 1pm Open Rehearsals Weekend of Chamber Music ......................WCM Jul 15 & 22, 7pm FREE “Living with Backyard Wildlife: Deer, Raccoons, Bears, Coyotes, Skunks, etc.”................

Katherine & Eric Uhler NPS HQ Visitor’s Center, Bushkill, Jul 16, 7pm “Close Encounters with Birds of Prey” Delaware Valley Raptor Center................................

Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, Jul 19, 6pm Ellie Irons, Dan Phiffer work in progress tour ..Denning Town Hall, Claryville, Jul 23, 2pm Summer Waterfall Tour ..............................................................................PEEC Jul 30, 1pm

“Eugene Onegin” Tchaikovsky, Delaware Valley Opera..................................................................

Tusten Theatre Narrowsburg, Jul 15-17 Sullivan West High School, Lake Huntington, Jul 22 & 23, 8pm

POETRY & PROSE READINGs

(Open mic session usually included)

Poetry at the Church Ted Gill, host ..................Goshen Methodist Church, Jun 27 & Jul 25, 7pm Taylor & Marie Elizabeth Mali First Friday Contemporary Writers ............................................

Narrowsburg Library, Jul 1, 7:30pm Marissa Mourges, Haigan Smith Calling All Poets ....Howland Cultural Ctr, Beacon, Jul 1, 8pm Michael Platsky Poetry on the Loose ....................Utopian Direction, Warwick, Jul 2, 4pm FREE Jim Neuberger Poetry in the Gallery ............................Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Jul 3, 8pm FREE Hudson River Poets........................................................Newburgh Free Library, Jul 7, 7pm FREE Teresa Marta Costa, Ken Van Rensselear................................Noble Coffee Roasters, Jul 7, 7pm Franklin Schneider, Glenn Werner, Robert Milby Poetry Cafe..Florida Lib., Jul 15, 7pm FREE Hosts:Adrianna Delgado & Justin Parrinello ..............The Coffee Shoppe, Beacon, Jul 21, 7pm Sonia Lynch, Norma Bernstock Poetry Night ........................Tuscan Cafe, Warwick, Jul 26, 7pm

puppetry museum exhibits NVAM ..............................................................................Neversink Valley Area Museum, Cuddebackville HHNM ........................................Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall & Cornwall-on-Hudson

“At the Turning of the Tide” Arm of the Sea Theatre ..................................................................

Center & Market Streets, Ellenville, Jul 13, 7pm

storyTelling

14th Annual Campfires Black Dirt Storytelling Guild........................Florida Library, Jul 8 & 22 Meet the Animals .. ................................................................HHNM Saturdays & Sundays 2:30pm Brook Trout Exhibit ........................................................HHNM-CoH, Fri, Sat & Sun, Noon-4pm Grey Towers House Tours ............................................................Weekends, Grey Towers, Milford theatre - musical “Man of La Mancha” ................................................................Forestburgh Playhouse, thru Jul 10 “Summer Camps of the early 1900’s in Pike County” ................The Columns, Milford, ongoing “Jekyll & Hyde” ..........................................................................Forestburgh Playhouse, Jul 12-24 Sculpture Exhibits Imi Knoebel, Walter De Maria ........................................Dia:Beacon, ongoing “The Andrews Brothers” ......................................Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, Jul 15-Aug 14 Sullivan County Museum Historical Museum & Archives ............................Hurleyville. ongoing “Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story” ......................................Forestburgh Playhouse, Jul 26-Aug 7 Museum & Frederick Franck Sculpture Garden ......Pacem in Terris, Warwick, thru Oct. FREE Charles Darwin manuscripts ....................Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh, thru Aug 29 2011 Exhibit ..............................Neversink Valley Area Museum, Cuddebackville, thru October 31 theatre - Physical (Optional Spaghetti Dinner follows performance) “Buddha and the Rock Star” ....................................NACL Theatre, Highland Lake, Jul 17, 4pm “The Million Dollar Club: Early Banks & Anthracite Canals” ....................NVAM thru Nov 27 “Strange, Kozmic Experience: The Doors, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix”.....................................

Bethel Woods Museum, Jul 16-Oct 30 theatre - Play “Jackass Flats” dir. Brendan Burke............................Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, thru Jul 10 “The Odd Couple” by Neil Simon, Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop ....................................

Music - blues - country - pop - rock - etc. see page 17 Rivoli Theatre, South Fallsburg, Jul 1-10 “Knock ‘Em Dead” Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players ..........................................................

Music - Broadway - classic pop - Opera - Operetta The Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe, Jul 8-24 Song of the Valley Chorus Female Barbershop....Great American Weekend, Goshen, Jul 2, 10am “Comedy of Errors” W. Shakespeare, adapt. & dir.Ken Tschan ....................................................

Broadway Concerts Direct “Summer Lovin’” ..........Wurtsboro Community Church, Jul 16, 8pm Salesian Park (bring chair or blanket), Goshen, Jul 9-17 FREE “Lend Me A Tenor” ......................................................Palaia Vineyards outdoors, Jul 14-17, 8pm

music - classical

New York Philharmonic Bramwell Tovey, cond. ....................................Bethel Woods, Jul 3, 8pm theatre - Play reading West Point Band w/fireworks display ......................Trophy Point Amphitheatre, Jul 4, 8pm FREE “Phantom Killer” Page 2 Stage readings ......UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Jul 30, 7pm Weekend of Chamber Music wind ensemble....Presbyterian Ch. lawn, Jeffersonville, Jul 10, 3pm Rent Money Readings Liberty Free Theatre - two one act plays ..................................................

Pine Bush Community Band ..................................Rooster Grove, Walden, Jul 11, 6:30pm FREE Beekman House Pavilion, Kauneonga Lake, Jul 7, 7pm Open Rehearsals Weekend of Chamber Music ..............................WCM Jul 15 & 22, 7pm FREE

July 2011

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

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July BW CTMW DVAC FAL FP

= Bethel Woods Center for the Arts =Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players, Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe = Delaware Valley Arts Center, Narrowsburg = The Falcon, Marlboro = Forestburgh Playhouse

MONDAY

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See July 2 & 3

Recreation Independence Day New Windsor Cantonment & Knox’s Headquarters

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

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Theatre-Musical “Man of La Mancha” FP 2pm & 8pm Opera Livecast “Simon Boccanegra” SCCC 6:30pm

Poetry Reading Walter Worden & John Kenselaar Tuscan Cafe, Warwick 7pm

= Howland Cultural Center, Beacon = Kaplan Hall, SUNY Orange, Newburgh Campus = Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts, Sugar Loaf 845-469-2287 = North American Culture Lab, Highland Lake = Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, 845-294-1056

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Theatre-Musical “Man of La Mancha” FP 2pm & 8pm

Music-Jazz Newburghh Jazz Series Waterfront Park, 6:30pm

Theatre-Musical “Man of La Mancha” FP 8pm

Cinema “Birth of a Nation” NVAM 7:30pm Open Mic Logans Well, Florida 9pm

10am-5pm Music & Fireworks West Point Band Trophy Pt. Amphitheatre 8pm

NFL NRT NVAM PEEC PT

THURSDAY

= Newburgh Free Library = New Rose Theatre, 35, East M = Neversink Valley Area Museu = Pocono Environmenal Educa = Paramount Theater, Middletow

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Music - Polka.Jimmy Sturr & his Orchestra

Open Mic ............................Palaia Vineyards ......................PV 7pm Music - Jazz ......................The New Swing S

Theatre - Play ......................“Jackass Flats” ........................ST 8pm Music ........................................Straight Sho

Theatre - Musical ................“Man of La Mancha” ......................FP 8pm Prose Reading.First Friday Contemporary W Music - Jazz...Jazz Trio...Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm Theatre - Musical ................“Man of La Man

Open Mic Logans Well, Florida 9pm

Theatre-Musical “Man of La Mancha” FP 8pm

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HCC KH LC NACL NCR

Poetry Reading..........Marissa Mourges, Hai

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Music...............The HotRoad Band ..........................LC 6:30pm Misic - Jazz..........Newburgh Jazz Series ......Waterfroont Park. 6:30pm

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Cinema.....“Carousel” ......Downing

Cinema.............Reel Eclectic Film Series ......Thrall Library, Middletown 7pm Storytelling ................Black Dirt Storytelli Poetry Reading ........................Hudson River Poets ........................NFL 7pm Poetry Reading....Teresa Marta Costa, Ken Van Rensselear..........NCR 7pm Music - 50s-60s...........Some Kinda Fun ......

Open Mic ..........................................Open Mic....................................PV 7pm Music & Bellydancing...Midsummer Night ..S Play Reading..Liberty Free Theatre ..Beekman House Pav., Kauneopnga Lake, 7pm Music - Jazz-Pop-Rock... E’lissa Jones & Marc Von Em .....Wariwck Valley Winery 7pm

Music ........................................Bruce Peron

Storytelling................Black Dirt Storytelling Guild ....Florida Library, 7:30pm Music - Jazz..Doug Munro, Jerry Z & Mike C

Theatre - Play ..............................“Jackass Flats” ..............................ST 8pm Theatre - Play ......................“Jackass Flat Open Mic..................Musician’s Gathering ....The Dancing Cat, Bethel, 8pm Theatre - Musical ................“Man of La Man

Theatre - Musical ........................“Man of La Mancha”..............................FP 8pm Theatre - Play ......................“Knock ‘Em De Music - Jazz..........Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra..........The Falcon, Marlboro, 8pm Music - Jazz............Jazz Trio. ......Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm

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Music Pine Bush Community Band Wooster Grove, Walden, 6:30pm

Cinema “Carousel” Downing Film Center, Newburgh, 7:15pm Please check the schedule for Gallery Art and Photography Opening Receptions

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Music 311 & Sublime With Rome BW 6:30pm Poetry Poetry at Church Goshen Meth. Ch., 7pm

Cinema “Water” Downing FIlm Center, Nwbrgh, 7:15 pm Music Cabinet Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel

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Music..................E’lissa Jones & Clarissa Cupero..........LC 6:30pm Music - Jazz, Italian ........Jenna Esposito ....

Opera Livecast “La Fille du Regiment” SCCC 6:30pm

Music - Jazz...Newburgh Jazz Series ......Waterfroont Park. 6:30pm

Music Yes & Styx BW 7pm

Music-Jazz Newburghh Jazz Series Waterfront Park, 6:30pm

Open Mic......Musician’s Gathering....The Dancing Cat, Bethel, 8pm Opera - Theatre ..................“Eugene Oneg

Theatre-Musical “Jekyll & Hyde” FP 8pm

Puppetry Arm of the Sea Theatre Center & Market Streets, Ellenville, 7pm

Poetry .......Franklin

Schneider, Gelnn Werne

Music ............................Rupa & The April Fishes ..........Falcon 7pm Theatre - Musical ................“Jekyll & Hyd

Dance......Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company ....SCCC 8pm Theatre - Musical ..........“The Andrews Br

Theatre - Musical ................“Jekyll & Hyde” ........................FP 8pm Theatre - Play ......................“Knock ‘Em De

Theatre - Play ....................“Lend Me A Tenor” ..................PVT 8pm Theatre - Play ....................“Lend Me A Ten

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

Open Mic Logans Well, Florida 9pm

see page 24

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Theatre-Musical “Jekyll & Hyde” FP 2pm & 8pm

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Theatre-Musical “Jekyll & Hyde” FP 2pm & 8pm Opera Livecast “Tosca” SCCC 6:30pm

Theatre-Musical “Jekyll & Hyde” FP 8pm

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Poetry Reading Sonia Lynch, Norma Bernstock Tuscan Cafe 7pm

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

July 2011

Storytelling ..Black Dirt Storytelli Music - Jazz...Newburgh Jazz Series..Waterfroont Park. 6:30pm Music - Rock..........Jacked............

Open Mic ..................................Open Mic ............................PV 7pm Music - Soul-Blues.........Slam Allen ........The Falcon, Marlboro, 7pm Music ....................................Gregg Van Gel Poetry Reading ..............................The Coffee Shoppe, Beacon 7pm Music - Jazz-Rock-Raga...The Mahavisnu P Open Mic ........................Noble Coffee Roasters ..........NCR 7:30pm Cinema..........................“Water” ............Dow

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Music-Jazz Newburghh Jazz Series Waterfront Park, 6:30pm

Theatre - Play ......................“Knock ‘Em Dead”..................CTMW 8pm Theatre - Musical ..........“The Andrews Br Music - Jazz..........Metropolitan Hot Club........................SCCC 8pm Theatre - Musical ......................Honk, Jr..

Open Mic.....Musician’s Gathering ....The Dancing Cat, Bethel, 8pm Theatre - Musical ................“Jekyll & Hyd

Music - Classical WCM MusicTalks!

North Branch Inn, 7:30pm

Theatre - Musical ................“Jekyll & Hyde” ........................FP 8pm Theatre - Play ......................“Knock ‘Em De Theatre - Musical ..........“The Andrews Brothers..................ST 8pm Opera - Theatre..”Eugene Onegin” ..Sulliv Theatre - Play ......................“Knock ‘Em Dead”..................CTMW 8pm Music - Jazz...Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm

Theatre-Musical “Buddy - The Buddy Music....Still Surfin’ Beach Boys Tribute ........LC 6:30pm Holly Story” Music - Jazz...Newburgh Jazz Series ......Waterfroont Park. 6:30pm FP 2pm & 8pm Open Mic ..................................Open Mic ............................PV 7pm Music-Jazz Newburghh Jazz Series Music..............Professor Louie & The Crowmatix..........Falcon 7pm Waterfront Park, 6:30pm Music - Celtic rcok....................Finn’s Fury ......................SCCC 8pm Opera Livecast Theatre - Musical ...“Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story” ........FP 8pm “Don Carlo” SCCC 6:30pm Theatre - Musical ..........“The Andrews Brothers..................ST 8pm

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Theatre-Musical “Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story” FP 8pm

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Music.............................Jazz Knights ................LC 6:30pm

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Music - Doo Wop..The Shallows ..

Music - Jazz..Swing Shift Orchest

Music ......................................Inner Monolog Music - Roots, Blues, Soul ....Alexis P. Suter

Open Mic..........Den Series & Open Mic......N

Theatre - Musical.............“Buddy - The Bu

Theatre - Musical ..........“The Andrews Br

2011 PV / PVT RR SCCC ST SUNYO

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= Palaia Vineyards / Palaia Vineyards Outdoor Tent, Highland Mills = Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh = Sullivan County Community College, Seelig Auditorium = Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville = Orange Hall, OCCC, Grandview & Waywayanda Aves., Middletown

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= Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg = Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern, 917-613-3489. = Wurtsboro Art Alliance,, 73 Sullivan Street = Weekend of Chamber Music, Eddie Adams Farm, Jeffersonville 845-887-5803 = Wherehouse, Newburgh

SATURDAY

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Festival ........Narrowsburg Celebrates America..........Downtown Narrowsburg Festival................Great American Weekend ........................Downtown Goshen

SUNDAY

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Festival.Narrowsburg Celebrates America Downtown Narrowsburg

Festival ................Great American Weekend ......Downtown Goshen Festival Square, Middletown 7pm Music - Country ......................River’s Edge ......................Downtown Mntgomery TBA Cinema.............Stage Door Canteen................Downing Film Center, 1pm Sextet........Falcon, Marlboro, 7pm Music-Barbershop..Song of the Valley Chorus ....Great American Weekend, Goshen Music - Jazz............Jazz Lunch & Brunch ........Dancing Cat Saloon, 1pm

ot ......................................PV 7pm Poetry Reading ....................Michael Platsky ..........Utopian Direction, Warwick, 4pm

Music.......Gayle Donnelly, E’lissa Jones, The Levins ..Bertoni Garden, Sugar Loaf, 1pm-5pm

Writers Narrowsburg Lib. 7:30pm Music ............................Groovy Tuesday & BBQ ....................................PVT 6:30pm Theatre - Play ......................“Jackass Flats” ................................ST 2pm cha” ................................FP 8pm Music - Pop ............................The Shirelles ..........Narrowsburg Central School, 7pm Music ..........................................Rob Schiff......................PV 2:30pm-5:30pm

igan Smith....................HCC 8pm Theatre - Play ......................“Jackass Flats” ..................................................ST 8pm Theatre - Musical ................“Man of La Mancha”................................FP 3pm Theatre - Musical ................“Man of La Mancha” ..................................................FP 8pm Music - Gospel, etc.Don Byron New Gospel Quintet ..Falcon, Marlboro, 7pm Music - Jazz.......Hugh Brodie & The Cosmic Ensemble ........The Falcon, Marlboro, 8pm Poetry in the Gallery ................Jim Neuberger ................................WAA 8pm Music........................................Fractured Soul ................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel TBA Music - Classical ....................NY Philharmonic ................................BW 8pm Film Center, Newburgh, 5:30pm

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Art Walk................................Second Saturday in Beacon ........................Downtown Beacon, all day Theatre - Play ......................“Comedy of Errors” ....................................Salesian Park, Goshen, 3pm

ing Guild ..........Florida Lib. TBA

Art Walk ..................................................Art After Dark ........................................Downtown Milford, 6pm-9pm

.Festival Square, Middletown 7pm

Music - Drumming.....Kofi & Sankofa Ensemble ..............................Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, 6pm

Studio 208, Cornwall-on-Hudson, 7pm Music....................................................Breakneck Annie ................................Wooster Grove, Walden, 6:30pm

ne ......................................PV 7pm

Clark, Nina Sheldon Falcon 7pm

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cha” ................................FP 8pm

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Music ......................................................Jermaine Paul ....................................................PVT 6:30pm-9:30pm Music - Doo Wop ..........

Doo Wop Extravaganza 8 groups ................................................BW 7pm Music ..........................Split Bill w/March Black Band & Amy Fradon Band..................The Falcon, Marlboro, 7pm Music ..................................................Golden Groove Quartet............Catskill art Society, Livingston Manor, 7:30pm Music ........................................................Joe Frazita ....................................................................NCR 7:30pm Theatre - Play........................................“Jackass Flats” ........................................................................ST 8pm Theatre - Musical ..................................“Man of La Mancha” ..........................................................................FP 8pm Theatre - Play ........................................“Knock ‘Em Dead” ....................................................................CTMW 8pm

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MusicSteven Wells, Bendy Effect, The NotesBertoni Garden, Sugar Loaf, 1-5

Music - Jazz.Jazz Lunch & Brunch ..Dancing Cat Saloon, 1pm

Cinema..............“Carousel”............Downing Film Center, Newburgh, 1pm Theatre - Play ......................“Jackass Flats” ................................ST 2pm Music ......................................Bobby Messano ................PV 2:30pm-5:30pm Music - Classical...Weekend of Chamber Music ..Jeffersonville Presby. Ch. 3pm Theatre - Play........“Comedy of Errors”........Salesian Park, Goshen, 3pm Theatre - Musical ................“Man of La Mancha”................................FP 3pm Music..........................................Tim McGraw ....................................BW 7pm Music - Classical...QuIntette 7 ....Trophy Point Amphitheatre, West Point, 7pm

Music - Country ....................................Country Cats Festival ........................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel

.Festival Square, Middletown 7pm

er, Robert Milby ..Florida Library, 7pm

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Recreation..............Kayaking on the Wallkill ..........................Montgomery Boat Launch, 2:30pm Theatre - Play ................“Comedy of Errors” ....................................Salesian Park, Goshen, 3pm

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Festival......................Family Day ........................BW from 10am Music - Jazz..The Connor Kennedy Band ....Falcon, 10am-2pm

Music - Classical ............................WCM Tea Time Concert ................................WCM 4pm talk, 5pm concert Music .Law & Paradise, Sarah Morr Band, Evna & Arielb Bertoni Gdn, Sugar Loaf, 1pm-5pm Music ......................................................XCaliber Band ..................................Wooster Grove, Walden, 6:30pm

Music - Jazz............Jazz Lunch & Brunch ........Dancing Cat Saloon, 1pm

Music ........................................Further: Phil Lesh & Bob Weir ..........................................................BW 7pm Music - Jazz.....Oz Noy, Vic Juris, Jay Anderson, Adam Bussbaum, Manual Transmission ......Falcon 7pm

Theatre - Musical ..........“The Andrews Brothers..........................ST 2pm

Music - Folk ......................................Music for Humanity ............................................................NCR 7:30pm

Theatre - Musical ................“Jekyll & Hyde” ................................FP 3pm

rothers ..........................ST 8pm

Theatre - Musical ..................................“Jekyll & Hyde” ........................................................................FP 8pm

Opera - Theatre ..................“Eugene Onegin” ..............................TT 3pm

ead” ..........................CTMW 8pm

Opera - Theatre ..................................“Eugene Onegin” ......................................................................TT 8pm

Theatre - Play.........“Comedy of Errors” ......Salesian Park, Goshen, 3pm

Theatre - Musical............................“The Andrews Brothers ..................................................................ST 8pm

Theatre - Physical ....“Buddha and the Rock Star” ................NACL 4pm

gin” ................................TT 8pm

nor” ............................PVT 8pm

e......Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel

ing Guild ..........Florida Lib. TBA

.Festival Square, Middletown 7pm der ..................................PV 7pm

Theatre - Play ........................................“Knock ‘Em Dead” ....................................................................CTMW 8pm Theatre - Play ....................................“Lend Me A Tenor”....................................................................PVT 8pm

Theatre - Play ......................“Knock ‘Em Dead” ..........................CTMW 7pm

Music - B’way-Pop-Operetta, etc...Broadway Concerts Direct ..........................Wurtsboro Community Church, 8pm

Music - Jazz...Jazz Knights ..Trophy Point Amphitheatre, West Point, 7:30pm

Music ..........................................Miz-After Further & Nailed Shutt ................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel

Theatre - Play ....................“Lend Me A Tenor” ..........................PVT 8pm

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Music ......................Neil Young Tribute Festival ....................................................PVT 1pm-8pm Theatre - Musical ....................Honk, Jr. ........................................................................SCCC 2pm

Music - Classical ..............................GNSO Summer Pops ..............................Downing Park, Newburgh, 4pm Music ..........................................................The Feds ......................................Wooster Grove, Walden, 6:30pm

Festival............“Cause for Applause” ......RR 12:30pm-4:30pm

Music.Peter Sando, Tony Rivera Band, Project Mercury.Bertoni Gdn, Sugar Loaf, 15

Music - Jazz............Jazz Lunch & Brunch ........Dancing Cat Saloon, 1pm Music ..........................Neil Young Tribute Festival ............PVT 1pm-6pm

roject........Falcon, Marlboro, 7pm

Music - Classical...............................WCM Gala Grand Finale ......WCM 7pm talk, 8pm concert, 9:30pm buffet

ning FIlm Center, Newburgh, 8pm

Music - Classical............”Christmas in July/Messiah Singalong” ....Good Shephard Erpis. CH.. Milford, 7pm

Theatre - Musical ..........“The Andrews Brothers..........................ST 2pm

rothers ..........................ST 8pm

Music - Blues..............Bill Sims, Jr w/Adam Levy & The Mint Imperials ..............The Falcon, Marlboro, 7pm

Music - Classical.WCM 10th Anniversary ..Nesin Theatre, Monticello 3pm

.................................SCCC 8pm

Festival....2nd annual Mad Hatter’s Bash Barryville Green Market ....Blue Stone Farm, Shohola, 7pm-10pm

Theatre - Musical ................“Jekyll & Hyde” ................................FP 3pm

de” ................................FP 8pm

ead” ..........................CTMW 8pm

Music ..........................................................Sojourn ......................................................................NCR 7:30pm Theatre - Musical ..................................“Jekyll & Hyde” ........................................................................FP 8pm Theatre - Musical............................“The Andrews Brothers ..................................................................ST 8pm

Theatre - Play ......................“Knock ‘Em Dead” ..........................CTMW 3pm Music - Classical............Ensemble ACJW ......Pacem In Terris, Warwick, 5pm

van West HS, Lake Huntington, 8pm Opera - Theatre.....................................”Eugene Onegin” ................Sullivan West HS, Lake Huntington, 8pm Music - Jazz...Jazz Knights ..Trophy Point Amphitheatre, West Point, 7:30pm Theatre - Play ........................................“Knock ‘Em Dead” ....................................................................CTMW 8pm Recreation..................Summer Waterfall Tour ....................................................PEEC 1pm-5pm

Play Reading.........“Phantom Killer” ..............................................UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, 7pm

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gue ..................................PV 7pm

Music ...................................Goo Goo Dolls, Michelle Branch & Parachute..............................................7pm

Theatre - Musical ..........“The Andrews Brothers..........................ST 2pm

Band ......Falcon, Marlboro, 7pm

Music ......................................Carol Beaugard & Blues Express..................................................NCR 7:30pm

Music ......................................Paul Savino ................PV 2:30pm-5:30pm

NY School of Music, Walden, 7pm

Music ........................................Kenny Young & the Eggplants ..................................................NVAM 7:30pm

Theatre - Musical.............“Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story”........FP 3pm

uddy Holly Story” ........FP 8pm

Theatre - Musical .........................“Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story” ..................................................FP 8pm

.Festival Square, Middletown 7pm

tra Main Street Stage, Liberty 7pm

rothers ..........................ST 8pm

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Music ........................Past Masters plus BBQ..............................................PVT 6:30pm-9:30pm

Theatre - Musical............................“The Andrews Brothers ..................................................................ST 8pm Opera - Concert.......................“Young SIngers of the Valley” Delaware Valley Opera ......................TT 8pm

Music - Jazz..Jazz Lunch & Brunch ..Dancing Cat Saloon, 1pm Music........Bill Perry Day ..........Bertoni Garden, Sugar Loaf TBA

Music - Jazz-Funk-Fusion...Global Noize ........The Falcon, Marlboro, 7pm Music - Classical...West Point Band & Glee Club ..Trophy Point Amph., 7:30pm

Music ...........................................Bob Stump & Blue Mountain Band ..................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel

July 2011

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

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ART exhibits CAG ..............................................................................................................Catskill Artists Gallery, Liberty CAS ..................................................................................................Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor DVAC........................................................................................Delaware Valley Arts Center, Narrowsburg KMM ..........................................................................................Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh NFL ............................................................................................................................Newburgh Free Library SUNYO ......................................SUNY Orange Middletown, Orange Hall Gallery & Loft 845-341-4891 TL ........................................................................................................................Thrall Library, Middletown UUC..................................Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern Gallery 917-613-3489.

WAA..........................................................................................Wurtsboro Art Alliance, 73 Sullivan Street WRS ..............................................................................Wallkill River School, Montgomery 845-457-2787

PhotograPhy exhibits FOV ......................................................................................................................Fovea Exhibitions, Beacon HPG..................................................................................................Highlands Photographic Guild, Milford

“Early to Rise: Working Farms in Orange County” ........................................................ongoing Cornell Cooperative Extension, Middletown James Hiller ............................................................James Douglas Gallery, Montgomery, ongoing Nick Zungoli “Trifecta” ....................................................Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, ongoing Bruce Frazier A Garden State of Mind” ..................................................................HPG thru Jul 3 “A Day in the Life of Liberty NY” Girl Scout Troup 731 ..............................................................

Liberty Museum & Arst Center, thru Jul 16 “Japan Now”............................................................................................................FOV thru Jul 17 Eileen MacAvery Kane Chakra Garden ........Brody’s Best Cafe & Juice Bar, Goshen, thru Aug 1

Carolyn Duke pottery ..........................................Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Mike Jarozsko luminist paintings ........................James Douglas Gallery, Montgomery, ongoing Nick Angello ..........................Sweet Clover Room, Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, from Jun 4 New photography exhibits Linda Rahl Nadas clay sculptures ......................................Back Room Gallery, Beacon, thru Jul Gene Weinstein “Bald Eagles of NY State” ............................................................WAA Jul 2 & 3 John Tilton, Jaruwan (Oi) Ponmak, Marsha Silverman “Triple Vision”....................................

Thom O’Connor “Intersecting” ..............................................................................HPG July 9-31 BlueStone Gallery, Milford, thru Jul 3 Tom Holmes “Frozen in Frost” ................................................Beacon Artists Union, Jul 9-Aug 7 “New Works: A Ceramic Exhibition” Kirsten Olson, Erica Caginalp, Faith Adams and Louis Jawitz "The Secular & the Other-Worldly" ..........Old Stone House, Hasbrouck Jul 10-31 Eileen Sackman Beacon Artists Union, thru Jul 3 Dana Duke & Joni Wehrli “Third Exhibition”................................................CAS Jul 23-Aug 28 Debbie Gioello and Rosalind Hodgkins “Art About Art, Reflective Perspective” ........................

The ARTery, Milford, thru Jul 4 Arthur I. Keller paintings & sketches ..............................................Ellenville Library, thru Jul 6 Art & Photography receptions Frank Shuback & Jon Patrick Murphy Lost & Found ................................................................

“Visions” Hemlock Farms Artists & Friends ........Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Jul 1, 5pm-7pm WolfGang Gallery, Montgomery, from Jun 11 Kathy Grady “Stratum” fiber art ................................................................DVAC Jul 1, 7pm-9pm ”Frame of Reference” 13 artists ....................................Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, thru Jul 9 “Peaceable Kingdom” Outsider’s Studio Collective ..................................DVAC Jul 1, 7pm-9pm Catharine DeMaio “A Multiverse of Mediums” ..................Executive Suite, Goshen, thru Jul 14 Gene Weinstein “Bald Eagles of NY State” ....................Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Jul 2, 2pm-6pm Phil Sigunick ......................................................................Red Eft Gallery,Wurtsboro, thru Jul 16 “Fields & Streams” 13 artists juried show......................Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Jul 9, 2pm-6pm CAS Summer Members Show ..............................................................................CAS thru Jul 17 Elizabeth Ocskay & Steve Blumenthal, Barbara Benjamin ......................WRS Jul 9, 5pm-7pm Audubon and Friends 17 artists ....................Flour Power Bakery, Livingston Manor, thru Jul 17 Tom Holmes and Richard Weber "Expanding Questions, Frozen Light" ....................................

“Wearable Art on Silk & BEad Creative” Adrienne Butvinik & Karen L. Cohen ......................

The ARTery, Milford, Jul 9, 6pm-9pm SUNYO thru Jul 18 John D. Wolf & John A. Wolf “Sympathy for the Devil” ................................................................

River Valley Artists Guild................................................................................SUNYO thru Jul 18 WolfGang Gallery, Montgomery, Jul 9, 9pm-9pm Cassandra Saulter “Light Whisperer” ............................School of Jellyfish, Beacon, thru Jul 18 Thom O’Connor “Intersecting” ..................................................................HPG July 9. 6pm-9pm Kate Ferriter & Lily Norton “The Art of Friendship” ....................................KMM thru Jul 30 Tom Holmes “Frozen in Frost” ..........................................Beacon Artists Union, Jul 9, 6pm-9pm “UpFront Summer 2001 Show” 29 artists ......UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis thru Jul 31 Louis Jawitz "The Secular & the Other-Worldly"Old Ston House, Hasbrouck Jul 10, 1pm-4pm Cheryl Korb “Olde Towne America” landscapes ........River Gallery, Narrowsburg, thru Aug 20 Donise English “Encaustic Works”......SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh, Jul 13, 5pm-7pm Gail Robinson, Kerry Law, Khara Gilvey “Three at the Beach” ................................................

61st Annual Summer Exhibition Pike County Arts & CraftsBorough Hall,. Milford, Jul 15, 7pm Hudson Beach Glass, Beacon, thru Aug 26 Harriet Finck ................................................................................................UUC Jul 17, 1pm-4pm Valerie Taggert watercolors & botanicals........................Livingston Manor Library, thru summer Dana Duke & Joni Wehrli “Third Exhbition” ............................................CAS Jul 23, 4pm-6pm Small Works Show..................................................................................................CAG thru Sep 4 2011 Members Show ..........................................Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Jul 30, 2pm-4pm Zhang Huan, Daniel Buren, Maya Lin et al, sculptures................................................................

Walter Bill “Watercolors of Times to Remember, ............................SUNYO Juil 31, 1:30pm-4pm Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, thru Nov 13 Robert Harry Score “Mending Wall: A Nostalgic, Pen & Ink Reflection” ..................................

New ART exhibits SUNYO Juil 31, 1:30pm-4pm Di Bello Gallery Artists Noble Coffee Roasters Outdoors, Campbell Hall, Saturdays, Noon-4pm Kathy Grady “Stratum”, fiber art ..........................................................................DVAC Jul 1-23 books & clubs “Peaceable Kingdom” Outsider’s Studio Collective ..............................................DVAC Jul 1-29 Audubon Society First Sunday Field Trip..............................845-744-6047 Goshen, 8am or 9am Elizabeth Ocskay & Steve Blumenthal, Barbara Benjamin..................................WRS Jul 1-29 Book Discussion “The Reader” by Bernard Schlink ..Mamakating Lib., Wurtsboro, Jun 30, 3pm “Visions” Hemlock Farms Artists & Friends ............Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Jul 1-Aug 30 Book Signing Gil Andetrson “Going Fore It: In Golf and Life ..................WRS Jul 10, 3pm-5pm Harriet Finck..............................................................................................................UUC Jul 1-30 Walden Chess Club all ages, all levels ................Walden Library, Saturdays 10am, Mondays 6pm eagles WAA Jul 2 & 3 Friday Night Chess ....................................................................Narrowsburg Library, Fridays 6pm Tom Holmes and Richard Weber "Expanding Questions, Frozen Light" ..................................

Knit and Stitch ......................................................................Narrowsburg Library, Mondays, 6pm The ARTery, Milford, Jul 7-Aug 8 Knimble Knitters......................................................................Ellenville Library, Saturdays, 10am “Fields & Streams” 13 artists juried show ..........................Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Jul 9-Aug 7 Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Int’l Org. ....................Last Sundays, ray@themtharhills.org John D. Wolf & John A. Wolf “Sympathy for the Devil” ..............................................................

The Music Lovers Guild ............................3rd Thurs, 7:30pm FREE, Montgomery 845-457-9867 WolfGang Gallery, Montgomery, Jul 9-Aug 10 Listen to recorded classical music, open informal discussion follows.

Tom Holmes “Frozen in Frost” sculptures ..............................Beacon Artists Union, Jul 9-Aug 7 Photography Club Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop ..............................2nd Monday, 7:30pm 61st Annual Summer Exhibition Pike County Arts & Crafts ..Borough Hall,. Milford, Jul 13-24 St. Paul’s Epsicopal Church, Chester Donise English “Encaustic Works” ........SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh, Jul 13-Aug 12 Science Cafe“Designing and implementing an emerging pharmaceutical infrastructure in ........

2011 Members Show ............................................Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Jul 22-Aug 27 Africa, w/ Rolande R. Hodel, Ph.D. Diana’s, New Windsor, Jul 27, 7pm Walter Bill “Watercolors of Times to Remember........................................SUNYO Jul 25-Sep 15 Scrabble Players............................................................................Walden Library, Thursdays, 6pm Robert Harry Score “Mending Wall: A Nostalgic, Pen & Ink Reflection” ..SUNYO Jul 25-Sep 15 Scrabble Players..........................................................................Ellenville Library, Tuesdays, 6pm Starving Artist Exhibit ........................................................................................WRS Jul 30 & 31 Trivia Night ..........................................................2 Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Thursdays, 8pm

Who Do these People Think they Are?

General Washington knew exactly what he was about, in 1781, by trying to convince the British and his own soldiers that he would attack New York City. Unbeknownst to all, but trusted officials, he had agreed to move with the French Army south to Virginia. In Virginia, a French naval force from the Caribbean would join them to complete the encirclement of the British 24

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

Army at Yorktown. The soldiers of the 2nd and 3rd Continental Artillery Regiments, encamped at New Windsor, since the previous November, spent their time assembling and training on heavy siege artillery. Without the heavy guns to batter down the fortifications of British General Cornwallis’Army at Yorktown, the decisive victory achieved there would not have been possible.

On July 24 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm costumed historians will think and act like they were the actual participants, at Knox’s Headquarters, in 1781, making the final arrangements for the movement of the artillery to the south.

For more 845-561-1765 ext. 22. Knox’s Headquarters is at 289 Forge Hill Road, in Vails Gate.

July 2011

Young Artists Receive Scholarships

"Swing, Swing" by Nicholas Mehedin

"Nina" by Morgaine Flanigan

Delaware Valley Arts Alliance announced four scholarships for high school seniors pursuing higher education in the arts.

Music Scholarship awards went to two seniors at Sullivan West Central School District: vocalist and bassoonist Jacqueline Ellmauer of Youngsville received the Bodenstein Music Advancement Scholarship Award, and vocalist Catherine Peters of Callicoon was awarded the

Bodenstein Music Achievement Prize.

Nicholas Mehedin of Glen Spey received the Segal Scholarship and the D&H Photography Scholarship was awarded to Morgaine Flanigan of Eldred.

DVAA's mission is to build collaborations that advance the arts in Sullivan County and the Upper Delaware Valley; to encourage and support cultural programs relevant to all citizens; and to provide services to individual artists, arts organizations, and the area's arts industry..

For other Arts Alliance programs, visitrtsAllianceSite.org.