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Published by the Greene County Council on the Arts 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY 12414 • Issue 125 • November /December 2018 GCCA’s Salon 2018 & HANDMADE HOLIDAYS SHOW Fine Art & Crafts Exhibition and Sale FEATURING ORIGINAL WORK BY GCCA ARTIST MEMBERS

The Greene County Council on the Arts is pleased Timing is everything, not only can you purchase your to present its much anticipated annual Winter Salon and holiday gifts AND support local artists while you shop! Handmade Holidays exhibition, Salon 2018, featuring These one of a kind gifts will be treasured for originaloriginal artwork from our Artist Members! Salon years to come. This is alsoo a ggreatreat wawayy to 20182018 & Handmade Holidays: Affordable Fine add to your own private collection. Art & Crafts Exhibition andb Sale runs from Shop early! These treasuresreasures NovemberN 17, 2018 through January 12, disappear from the galleryallery 2019. The public is invited to celebrate the walls and shelves as they araree season and meet the artists at the opening purchased. GCCA encour-ur- reception on Saturday, November 17 ages you to visit Salonn from 3:00 – 5:00pm at the GCCA Catskill 2018 often because we Gallery located at 398 Main Street in call the artists who then Catskill,bNY.b promptly replace their GCCA’s Catskill Gallery showcases sold items with new original artworks, mounted salon style works. from fl oor to ceiling, with most work priced GCCA’s Catskill $300 or under. Salon 2018 offers a wide Gallery is located at varietyv of artworks: original drawings, paint- 398 Main Street in ings,in prints, photographs and sculptures. Catskill,b NY.b Gallery No works are larger than 24 x 24 inches. For hours are Monday somesom artists this may be a challenge to work in through Friday from a ssmallerm format, but our viewers and collectors 10AM to 5PM andd responserespo to the smaller works are immense. Saturdays from noon to One ofo a kind hand built crafts, from pottery to 5PM. GCCA will be closedosed designdesigner sunglasses, are featured in the upstairs on Christmas Day andd New ArtArtfulful HandH Gallery Boutique laden with locally Year’s Day. For more informationformation madedft crafts: ceramics, wearable art, jewelry, toys and on upcoming exhibits anandd events, holiday cards made by GCCA member artists as well as artists’ opportunities, grantsrants and funds books, CDs and fi lms by area authors and musicians. visit www.greenearts.orgrg or cacallllb518-943-3400.

Clockwise from top left: Rita Carver-hand printed greeting cards. Love Rust by Steven Nielson, Watercolor & Ink- 11 x 14 inches. Book Cover, Poetry by Carol Durant. Rita Carver-hand printed Greeting Cards (3). Crescent Moon by Carol Swierzowski-Encasutic, 6x8 inches. Manhattan Bridge-Tom Sardo-Phototography 24x10 on brushed metal. Summer Field Landscape by Stuart Friedman, oil on canvas. Kaaterskill Clove by Paul Barton, Photograph. Banded Vase by Ron Miller-hand thrown carved sawdust fi red pottery. Silver Pin Sculptures by Hope Konecny.

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is possible in Greene County GREENE and partnerships form! We are COUNTY fortunate to have The Lumberyard COUNCIL ON President's Corner performing arts space in Catskill THE ARTS Ѭ and look forward to working with them to promote the continued expansion and interest in all art BOARD OF DIRECTORS forms throughout the region. A Message from BILL DEANE, We all benefi t from collaboration David Slutzky, Chairman among artistic organizations. Bill Deane, President GCCA President of the Board of Directors Bill Deane, GCCA’s president Each year over the Columbus of the Board of Directors. Nancey Rosensweig, Vice President Day Weekend the Windham Chamber of Commerce sponsors Jeff Friedman, Treasurer Another year is rapidly Please save the date for our businesses, not-for-profi t and “Autumn Affair.” This year was Lawrence Krajeski, Secretary coming to its end. As I refl ect back major fundraiser, the 31st Beaux philanthropic investors committed their 24th edition of the event and Ava Barbour over the last 12 months I believe Arts Ball, to be held on Saturday, to supporting and growing the attracted thousands of patrons who enjoyed live music, festival food Kico Govantes GCCA took a bold step forward April 6, 2019. We will once Creative Economy of the eight- with its expansion plans and staff again return to The Copper Tree county Capital Region of New York. and shopping for arts and crafts. Deena Lebow changes. We continue to work Restaurant at Hunter Mountain. For more information on ACE visit For the fi rst time the Windham Arts Anne Morton on our plans and also consider We are working on making this www.upstatecreative.com. Alliance, one of GCCA’s member Lisa A. Ovitt increasing Members on the Board evening most memorable for all. The Lumberyard is a great organizations, held it’s ArtFest as a part of the event. GCCA has a long Beth Schneck of Directors to refl ect our diversity What a great holiday gift for family facility and a tremendous creative and constituents’ needs. As with and friends to purchase tickets and asset for Greene County. The standing working relationship with Laura Segall any nonprofi t, Board leadership enjoy a great evening together. Lumberyard found Greene County WAA-they are past NYSCA/DEC Thomas Silvious and work is challenging and yet Stay tuned for further information already supportive and welcoming Community Support Recipients Sheila Trautman rewarding when things go well. and visit www.greenearts.org to new arts related businesses. Now and the two organizations work GCCA welcomes those who may often, just click on Events. in its 43rd year GCCA’s services together in promoting the arts BOARD OF ADVISORS be willing to serve and possess GCCA Board and Staff repre- and direct work with established in the area with separate e-news- letters. The WAA and GCCA also Dick Brooks the appropriate background, skills sentatives attended the Alliance arts organizations and community, and interests. If you are interested for a Creative Economy (ACE) members and businesses, helped share many of their respective Frank Cuthbert in serving on the GCCA Board event held in early October at make that very bground fertile for members. Again, we all benefi t Michel Goldberg please email me at deanbill77@ The Lumberyard. ACE is a not-for- the arts and associated economic through collaboration proving “art Ronnie McCue gmail.com. profi t organization funded by growth. Growth and expansion builds community.” Kim McLean Patrick D. Milbourn Patti Morrow Ruth Sachs CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD GCCA Robert Sheridan Grreateat Holidayoliday Giftift Ideadea Offers FREE John Sowle STAFF Tickets to the Beaux Arts Ball! TECHNICAL Marline A. Martin Executive Director ASSISTANCE Sharon Shepherd Assistant Director; SEMINAR: Membership Coordinator; Arts Alive Editor NONPROFIT 101101 Margaret Uhalde Community Arts Grants Coordinator Are you interested in starting The Community Development a nonprofi t, but don’t know where Clinic, founded in 2016, is a legal Dennis Shaw to begin? Do the different types of resource for grassroots groups of Coordinator Community nonprofi t statuses – 501(c)(3), 501(c) long-time residents in low-income Arts Grants, Schoharie (7), 501(c)(27), and on and on and neighborhoods, as well as new Ruth Leonard, Tara Van Roy on – confuse you? Do you know immigrants, that don’t have access and Erika Russo what a quorum is, and when it is to pro bono legal services but need “Sprouts” Program Co-Directors needed? Did you “inherit” nonprofi t representation in forming a new Patricia Britton leadership, and want to know what not-for-profi t, or small business, or Image Courtesy fotopic.com Bookkeeper your job is? Are you concerned about assistance advocating for economic your liability as a board member of a development in a particular neigh- Will Barnds Give someone you love a night to remember- nonprofi t? borhood. Read more about the clinic Catskill Gallery Reception, fine dining and dancing at a gala masked ball! All these questions and more at albanylaw.edu/centers/law-clinic- courtesy Associates for Training Gift Certificates to the Beaux Arts Ball towards can be answered at the next seminar and-justice-center. and Development Dining and Dancing are available! in our Technical Assistance series: Nonprofi t 101 will take place CONSULTANTS Nonprofi t 101, with the Albany Law at the Greene County Council on Anthony Rago Join David Slutzky, Honorary Ball Host, and GCCA Members on the School Community Development the Arts, 398 Main Street, Catskill, Apogee Webmaster Board of Directors and Staff for a memorable evening celebrating Clinic! This seminar is free and open NY, on Wednesday, November GCCA’s service fostering the Arts in our region. GCCA’s major fund- to the public, and in case you can’t 14, 2018 at 5PM. Reservations are YAMA Industrials, Inc. raiser, the 31st Annual Beaux Arts Ball, will be held at The Copper make the date, it will be live streamed recommended but not required. Computer Technology Tree Restaurant, Peaks Resort at Hunter Mountain, Hunter, NY on on the Greene County Council on the Greene County Council on the Arts Kate Boyer - Heron and Earth April 6, 2019. Gift Certifi cates exclusively available at Greene County Arts Facebook page. The seminar plans to present a variety of technical Design & Layout – Arts Alive Council on the Arts 518-943-3400. will include a PowerPoint presen- assistance seminars in spring 2019- Ruby Silvious tation and Q&A; questions may be let GCCA know what may interest 40th Anniversary Logo Design submitted to margaret@greenearts. you in developing your profession or org, which will be passed along to the organization. Visit greenearts.org or clinic in preparation for the seminar. follow Greenearts for updates. VOLUNTEER GALLERY & OFFICE RUTH SACHS CERAMICS www.ruthsachs.us Loretta Romeo David Hopkins 630 County Rt 17, Jewett , NY 12442 Chuck Pierce 1 Treeview Drive, Melville, NY 11747

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GCCA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Photography Chuck Pierce Students showing radial-symmetry prints inspired by Islamic art, Olana, and Persian poetry made during the Dear Friends, nity resources, toured the moun- Art School of Columbia County’s I am honored to represent the taintop…. and most recently attend free Art in the Library Program in Greene County Council on the Arts a 2 day Camp Finance seminar at New Lebanon Library. These free in the role as Executive Director. I Mohonk Mountain House. This appreciate the warm welcoming via seminar will assist preparing GCCA programs were made possible phone calls, emails, notes, letters for the next challenge which is to with funding from Humanities and the smiling faces of the arts, keep our operating funds healthy NY, Stewart’s Holiday Match, the cultural and creative community. and stable, after learning that Children’s Foundation of Columbia September 2018 marked non-profi ts the size of GCCA usually County, Columbia County Tourism, GCCA’s 43rd year as an active advo- operate on 30 days of cash during Rheinstrom Hill Community Found- cate for the arts at the county, state its the entire fi scal year. ation, Bank of Greene County, Key and federal levels. Our dedicated With that in mind, my immediate Bank, Kinderhook Bank, and public board and staff have done an incred- goals are to develop new sources funds from the Decentralization ible job in expanding our outreach of funding for GCCA, to encourage Program of the NYS Council on and regionalizing our efforts as an creative programming with staff Arts Council serving three counties, and members, to build better part- the Arts, administered in Columbia Greene, Columbia and Schoharie. nerships in the community and to County by the Greene County As we move towards the next step preserve GCCA beyond my years Council on the Arts through the in our journey, we will be bringing here. Our objective is to keep our Community Arts Grants Fund.b exciting changes and improvements overhead low while increasing our to GCCA including an updated iden- service in the fi eld. GCCA is strong tity, complete with new logo and a due to our continually expanding streamlined name highlighting our community who come together to focus on the arts in the geographical donate time, resources and talent in LINCOLN MAYORGA areas served. support of our mission. The past three months have As you know, our main source of Talks About Orchestration proven to be quite exciting and income comes from contributors like challenging. Three new members, you. Our goal is to have $35,000 for FREE MUSICAL EVENT AT THE Beth Schneck, Anne Morton and three months of operations on hand Lisa Ovitt, joined our talented Board as we have been falling short in the HUNTER-WADE STUDIO of Directors in July when I began last years. You will be receiving our my tenure, bringing new energy annual fundraising letter if you are a and professional leadership skills. current member, or on our mailing Beth represents Greene County, list. If not, please consider making Anne and Lisa represent Schoharie an online contribution through our Lincoln Mayorga at his piano. Courtesy of lincolnmayorga.com. County. Our small professional staff website or through the mail. GCCA –Sharon Shepherd, Margaret Uhalde, needs your support so that we can Dennis Shaw, Patricia Britton, Ruth continue to provide you and the In a free musical event, Lincoln of them. The second is this lecture is. NINA already had a collection of Leonard & Will Barnds - continues to region with unique arts programs Mayorga will be talking about on orchestration presented by music and lyrics, but only an outline add presence, creativity and orga- and services. orchestration at the Hunter-Wade pianist/conductor/arranger Lincoln for the story. Though Hunter says nization to their positions as Niva Again, many thanks for your Studio, 40 Church Street, Chatham, Mayorga. that, in her view, the characters were Dorell soars to a full time position at warm wishes and for being a part NY on November 3, 2018 at 3 pm. Mayorga’s wide-ranging musical already well defi ned, she expected The Lumberyard. of GCCA. And remember, I’m new He will be assisted by recorded career is perfectly suited to a that the way a group of creative I had the opportunity to speak and welcome your feedback and orchestrations and three live singers, discussion of the principles of people looked at the some of the about GCCA on the air through suggestions. Robert Osborne, bass-baritone, orchestration and their application. material--and dealt with it—would Wave Farm WGXC 90.7 and 98.5 Terressa Mannix, mezzo-soprano, He has toured the United States be an opening-up infl uence. The The Cat on iHeart Radio, attended Marline A. Martin, Executive Director and Nick Manzella, tenor, who will and Europe as a concert performer, Hudson area group, Plays in Progress several local functions and commu- add their voices to the orchestrations played with Hollywood orchestras (PIP), agreed to listen (away from to demonstrate how the elements and conducted and arranged for story-context) and write. In the end, merge to advance character and famous instrumentalists and singers. they decided to make it a group-cre- story. Lincoln Mayorga has worked across ation, and the resulting scene was Marion Hunter is the recipient the range of musical styles from clas- assembled by Jesse Waldinger and of the 2018 Individual Artist Tier sics through jazz, pop, and theater titled “Echo In Love.” from the NYSCA/Decentralization music. He co-owned the recording The PIP experiment did, in fact, Community Arts Grant Program studio Sheffi eld Lab and produced spark Hunter to move ahead on the administered in Columbia County by many recordings. During this free script and it is now nearly fi nished. the Greene County Council on the mucial event he is expected to talk Her story is quite different from “Echo Arts. Hunter used the funding aimed about principles of orchestration In Love,” yet she calls the experiment at advancing her orchestration skills and use the songs to illustrate their an “inspiration” and “a sharpener.” and the musical theater project adherence or departure from them. The Mayorga talk will begin called NINA. This free discussion is The NINA songs have been at 3 pm at the Hunter-Wade Studio offered in connection with the grant. recorded by area musicians with in Chatham, NY and, although the Though orchestration was the Valatie sound engineer Joseph event is free, attendees are advised main focus of the grant, two auxiliary Jurchak and pianist/ teacher/ to make reservations at 518-392- projects were included, the fi rst conductor Uel Wade. 4697 to assure an available chair. a writers’ experiment in which a If the above-mentioned wri- group listened to three of the songs ters’ experiment sounds like a back- and created scenes making use wards way to work on a musical, it

Panelists review grant applications and then attend events such as Classics on the Hudson’s community arts project and performance Iva Bittova-Lively Arts for Young Audiences. GCCA’s Community Arts Program Seeking Panelists Use your to see their The Greene County Council on or over the phone) meeting, pre- arts community, and to help decide the Arts seeks volunteers to serve review applications, and attend a how your tax dollars are reinvested on its NYSCA/ Decentralization panel review meeting. Panelists locally. If you or someone you Community Arts Grant panel. are asked to attend and review know is interested in becoming a Needed are Schoharie, Greene, funded programs (tickets/tuition panelist, please contact Margaret and Columbia County residents are provided at no cost when Uhalde for Columbia and Greene Appreciate the Arts to the fullest...call for your appointment today with knowledge of the commu- necessary) in order to audit the Counties at margaret@greenearts. nity and/or the arts. Panelists are funded programs matching the org or 518-943-3400 or Dennis Dr. Christine M. Scrodanus - Optometrist assigned to review the applicants objectives stated in their applica- Shaw for Schoharie County at from the County in which they tions to the fi nal projects. [email protected]. 518-943-3691 - 383 Main St., Catskill, NY reside. Due to the incredible multi- Serving on a panel is a great plicity of our region, we’re looking way to have a direct impact on your for the best representatives of that diversity – all of you! There is no age, education, or past panel experience requirement. Decentralization funding deci- sions are made by a peer process review: panelists attend an orien- tation (or one-on-one, in person Page 4 2018 November/December ALIVE

These events are funded, in How to Contact Your Lawmakers part, with public funds from the Schoharie NOVEMBER & NYSCA/Decentralization Community For Columbia, Greene and Schoharie Counties Arts Grant Program administered Spotlight in Schoharie County by the Greene The November election results did not take place at the time DECEMBER EVENTS County Council on the Arts of press. Please visit www.greenearts.org, www.nysenate.gov, www. nyassembly.gov and your county and town website for updates. The 2018 DEC Grant season is now starting to wind down a bit as the 2019 NYSCA/Decentralization Thank you. Community Arts Grant season is ramping up. Schoharie County residents have been fortunate this year to have so Governor Andrew Cuomo many great arts events taking place throughout the County. November and December prove to be just as exciting. Executive Chamber, State Capitol, Albany, NY 12224 Tel: (518) 474-8390 The Upper Catskill String On November 30, December Reformed Presbyterian Church at Senator John J. Flanagan, Majority Leader Quartet will present their 1 and December 2, 2018 the 7:30 pm. Tickets $8 at the door for Legislative Offi ce Building, Rm. 805, Albany, NY 12247 Masterworks of Music concert Theater Project of Schoharie adults and senior citizens and $3 Tel: (518) 455-2071 email: fl [email protected] at St. Vincent’s in Cobleskill on County will presents the Charles for children under 12. Assemblyman Carl E. Heastie, Speaker November 4, 2018 at 3:00 PM. Dickens classic A Christmas Keep informed on grant 932 Legislative Offi ce Building, Albany, NY 12248 The UCSQ will be sharing the Carol at Golding Middle School funded and non-grant funded Tel: (518) 455-3791 Fax: (518) 455-4812 concert with the New Day Vocal in Cobleskill. Tickets are $10 Schoharie County events at face- email: [email protected] Ensemble. For additional informa- General Admission and $7 book.com/greenecountycouncil- Senator Rich Funke tion email [email protected] or Seniors/Students. For more infor- ontheartsschoharie/. Visit www. Chair Cultural Aff airs, Tourism, Parks & Recreation call 518-234-2259. mation contact Dennis Shaw at greenearts.org or call 518-943- 188 State St., Room 905, Legislative Offi ce Bldg, Albany, NY 12247 On November 4, 2018 Sonny [email protected]. 3400. Follow GCCA@ greenearts. Tel: (518) 455-2215 Fax: (518) 426-6745 Ochs Not So Quiet Concert Series And last but certainly not least Events are made possible in District Offi ce: 230 Packett's Landing, Fairport, NY 14450 will present Tom White and Wilder the Schoharie Valley Singers will part with public funds from the Tel: (585) 223-1800 Fax: (585) 223-3157 Hook at 4 pm at the Middleburgh be presenting Christmas Around Decentralization Program of the email: [email protected] Public Library, Main Street The World. This years Christmas NYS Council on the Arts, adminis- Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell Middleburg, NY. $10 suggested concerts will be held on Friday, tered in Schoharie County by the Chair Tourism, Parks Arts and Sports Development donation.b For more information December 7, 2018 at Cobleskill- Greene County Council on the 712 Legislative Offi ce Building, Albany, NY 12248 contact Sonny Ochs at sonnyo@ Richmond High School Theatre at Arts through the Community Arts Tel: (518) 455-5603 email: [email protected] midtel.net. 7:30 PM and Saturday, December Grants program. GREENE COUNTY 8, 2018 at the Duanesburg Senator George A. Amedore, Jr. (District 46 – Greene) 802 Legislative Offi ce Building, Albany, NY 12247 Schoharie Valley Singers Tel: (518) 455-2350 Fax: (518) 426-6751 th email: [email protected] Presents 40 Season Chris Tague (District 102: all of Greene + Stuyvesant + Stockport in Columbia County; Rensselaerville, Westerlo & Christmas Around Coeymans in Albany County; Saugerties in Ulster County & all of Schoharie ) District Offi ce-Greene: 45 Five Mile Woods Rd., Bldg. 2, Suite 2 the World Catskill, NY 12414 518-943-1371 District Offi ce-Schoharie: 113 Park Place, Suite 6 The Schoharie Valley from Eastern Europe (“Carol of Schoharie, NY 12157 518-295-7250 Singers, formerly known as The the Bells”), Bolivia (“Duérmete Mi Albany Offi ce: LOB 937 Albany, NY 12248 Depot Lane Singers, are proud Corazón”), England (“This Little 518-455-5363 [email protected] to present their Winter Concert Babe”), the Caribbean (“The Virgin COLUMBIA COUNTY Series, Christmas Around the Mary Had a Baby Boy”), and many World. Concerts are scheduled more! It is a diverse collection of not-for-profi t 501(c)3 organization. Senator Kathleen Marchione At that time, Middleburgh Junior (District 43 – Columbia) for Friday, December 7, 2018 at both upbeat and fast, lyrical and 188 State Street Legislative Offi ce Building - Room 918 Cobleskill-Richmondville High slow. and Senior High School music Albany, NY 12247 School, and Saturday, December 8, The Schoharie Valley Singers teacher Benjamin April was named Tel: (518) 455-2381 email: [email protected] 2018 at the Duanesburg Reformed were originally founded as The as the third director of the Singers. Assemblymember Didi Barrett Presbyterian Church. Both concerts Depot Lane Singers by the late Anyone wishing for more (District 106: Ghent, Claverack, Greenport, Germantown, begin at 7:30pm. Tickets are $7 if Frances B. Tripp, a former Schoharie information can contact the group Livingston, Tachkanic, Copake, Clermont, Gallatin & purchased ahead of time or $8 the High School music teacher. Tripp at schoharievalleysingers@gmail. Ancram in Columbia County) night of the concert. founded the Depot Lane Singers in com or follow us on Facebook as LOB 553, Albany, NY 12248 As the name of the theme September of 1979, after her retire- the Schoharie Valley Singers. Tel: (518) 455-5177 Fax: (518) 455-5418 implies, the program includes ment from active teaching. In 2005, This event is made possible, District Offi ce: 751 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534 in part, with public funds provided Tel: (518) 828-5329 Fax: (518) 828-5329 Christmas and Holiday songs from direction of the group was passed email: [email protected] a variety of countries and world to Mitch Haverly, a retired music by the New York State Council on cultures. This does, of course, teacher from Berne-Knox-Westerlo the Arts Decentralization Program, Jake Ashby include familiar holiday favorites Central School. Earlier this year, the in Schoharie County through the (District 107: Kinderhook, Chatham, New Lebanon, Community Arts Grants Program Canaan, Austerlitz & Hillsdale in Columbia County) such as “It’s the Most Wonderful Depot Lane Singers were renamed District Offi ce: 258 Hoosick Street, Suite 109 Troy, NY 12180 Time of the Year” and “Jingle as the Schoharie Valley Singers and administered by Greene County 518-272-6149 Bells”. Also featured are songs incorporated as an independent Council on the Arts. Albany Offi ce: LOB 720Albany, NY 12248 518-455-5777 [email protected] SCHOHARIE COUNTY A Christmas Carol Tickets are $10 General Senator James L. Seward Admission and $7 Seniors/ (51st District - Schoharie) Comes to Cobleskill Students. For more information 430 State Capitol Building, Albany, NY 12247 about A Christmas Carol contact Tel: (518) 455-3131 Dennis Shaw at shawvideo@ District Offi ce: On November 30, December young Scrooge by Alyssa Pacatte, 41 South Main Street, Oneonta, NY 13820 607-432-5524 1 and December 2, 2018 the Belle by Hanna Rose Foote, Fan nycap.rr.com. [email protected] Theater Project of Schoharie by Saoirse Cooper, Bob Cratchitt This event is made possible in part with public funds from the Chris Tague County will present the Charles by Michael Breglia, Mrs. Cratchill (District 102: all of Schoharie County) Dickens classic A Christmas Carol by Katie Horn, The Ghost of Decentralization Program of the District Offi ce-Schoharie: 113 Park Place, Suite 6, Schoharie, NY 12157 at Golding Middle School in Christmas Past by Natasha Foote, NYS Council on the Arts, adminis- 518-295-7250 email: [email protected] Cobleskill, NY. The role of Ebenezer The Ghost of Christmas Present tered in Schoharie County by the Greene County Council on the FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVES Scrooge will be performed by by Libby Hammecker, Mr. Fezziwig Bob Hooper. Other roles include by Vern Hall and Mrs. Fezziwig by Arts through the Community Arts U.S. Congressman John Faso Grants Fund. (19th District: Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer) the child Scrooge by Ula Hooper, Susan Peter. 2 Hudson Street, PO Box 775, Kinderhook, NY 12106 Tel: (518) 610-8133 Fax: (518) 610-8135 U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer The Upper Catskill String Quartet Leo O’Brien Federal Offi ce Building, Room 420, Albany, NY 12207 Tel: (518) 431-4070 Fax: (518) 431-4076 The Upper Catskill String The New Day singers will perform choral group formed in 2015 by U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Quartet and The New Day- a set of unaccompanied choral director Mark Pracher is dedicated 478 Russell Senate Offi ce Building,Washington, DC 20510 Voices of Schoharie Valley will works. To conclude the program the to the performance of quality Tel: (202) 224-4451 Fax: (202) 228-0882 present a performance featuring two ensembles will join together to vocal repertoire. Members of the each ensemble alone and also perform the W.A. Mozart – Te Deum ensemble come from all walks of performing as a combined in C Major followed by The Ground live and all ages with a common ensemble. The concert is scheduled by Ola Gjeilo. love of vocal music and musical for November 4, 2018, 3:00 PM The Upper Catskill String excellence. at the St. Vincent de Paul Church, Quartet, a familiar ensemble to This program is made possible, Washington Ave., Cobleskill, NY. audiences in Schoharie County, in part, with public funds from the There is no admission charge for consists of Beth Brandel – I Decentralization Program of the this event and it is open to the Violin, John DeValve – II Violin, New York State Council on the general public. Call 518-234-2259 Alison McMahon – viola and Arts with the support of Governor or [email protected] for more Robert Gosselink – cello. Robert Andrew Cuomo and the New York information on this concert. Gosselink states ”The November State Legislature, administered The program will begin with 4th performance presents the rare through the Community Arts the Upper Catskill String Quartet privilege of hearing classical music Grants Fund in Schoharieb County supplemented by an extra viola, performed in Schoharie County.” by the Greene County Council on cello and bass performing the The New Day – Voices of the Arts. Edvard Grieg – Holberg Suite. Next, Schoharie Valley, a 12 member THE SALON 2018 & HANDMADE HOLIDAYS: AFFORDABLE FINE ART & CRAFTS EXHIBITION ANDbSALE runs from November 17, 2018 through January 12, 2019 at GCCA, Theater Project of Left: The Theater Project of Schoharie 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY. Visit greenearts.org. Pictured is… County lends opportunities to actors Anciana Nona by Carol Slutzky Tenerowicz, Linocut. Schoharie County of all ages.

Founded in 2006 by Katherine actors to the props manager to and The Hallelujah Girls. Hawkins, Theater Project’s mission it’s generous supporters who Now TPSC is in rehearsal for has always been to bring high advertise in it’s playbill are all local, a production of Charles Dickens quality Community Theater to some having been involved in classic, A Christmas Carol that Schoharie County. This all volun- theater for many years, and others will take place on November teer organization whose produc- new to the theater, but with each 30, December 1 and December tions are funded in part with public show TPSC produces, it’s commu- 2 2018 at the Golding Middle funds from the Decentralization nity theater family expands. School in Cobleskill, NY. This Program of the NYS Council on the Always open to giving directors production will be dedicated to Arts, administered in Schoharie the freedom to choose any genre, Cherie Stevens, who passed away County by the Greene County Theater Project has produced an on June 16, 2018. Cherie was a Council on the Arts through the eclectic mix that includes: A Little board member of TPSC and over Community Arts Grants program Touch of Shakespeare in the Night, her more than thirty years of being produces several major produc- Nunsense Jamboree, Crimes of the involved in theater in this county tions each year. Hearts, You Can’t Take It With You, had directed over 100 productions The Theater Project of Harvey, Paint Your Wagon, To Kill and acted in many of them. She Schoharie County’s goal is to A Mockingbird, The Wizard of Oz, will be missed by Theater Project give as many people as possible, Twelve Angry Men, The Fantastics, and Schoharie County for her young and old, the opportunity to The Laramie Project, The Sunshine community activism that touched experience being in a theatrical Boys, Steel Magnolias, a Few Good the lives of so many. production. Everyone from the Men, Our Town, The Music Man, ALIVE 2018 November/December Page 5

GCCA Catskill Gallery Call for Save the Dates! GCCA ExhibitS and Special Events Entries and Exhibit Opportunities On Display through November 10, 2018 Exhibit: ‘BRIGHT FUTURE GROUP SHOW’ curated by Jack Walls. Featuring works on paper by Simeon Amstutz, David Aron, Marty Katzoff, Elbert Perez, Sonia Corina Ruscoe, Louise Smith, Becca Van Kollenberg and Jack Walls. GCCA Catskill Gallery.bFREE & Open to the Public.

November 14, 2018 Technical Assistance Seminar: Nonprofi t 101, with the Albany Law School Community Temptation I by Dot Chast- Development Clinic. 5PM. The seminar will include a PowerPoint presentation and Q&A; Linocut 8 x 8 questions may be submitted to [email protected], which will be passed along to the inches. clinic in preparation for the seminar. FREE &Open to the public. GCCA Catskill Gallery.

November 17, 2018 – January 12, 2019 Exhibit: Winter Salon – Holiday Gifts. The winter salon features original artwork and handmade giftsbby GCCA Artist Members. Most works priced at $300 or less. Perfect for holiday giving! Opening Reception:bSaturday, November 17, 2017, 3-5 pm. GCCA Gallery, 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY.bFREE & Open to the Public.

April 6, 2019 Winter Salon – Holiday Gifts GCCA Special Event: 31st Annual Beaux Arts Ball-GCCA’s major fundraiser at The Copper November 17, 2018 – January 12, 2019 Tree Restaurant, Peaks Resort at Hunter Mountain. Great Holiday Gift Idea- Gift Certifi cates The winter salon features original artwork and handmade giftsb for Reservation for Dining and Dancing available at Greene County Council on the Arts by GCCA Artist Members. 518-943-3400. Opening Reception:bSaturday, November 17, 2017, 3-5 pm. GCCA Catskill Gallery is located at 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY.b Offi ce and Gallery hours are Monday-Friday from Drop off dates:bNovember 5-9, 2018 from 10 am to 5 pm and Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm. The Gallery remains open on Saturday Noon to 5 pm. Visit www.greenearts.org or call 518-943-3400. November 10, 2018 from noon to 5 pm. Follow GCCA at www.facebook.com/greenearts Twitter.com/greenearts Instagram.com/greenearts Pick up dates:bJanuary 14-18, 2019 from 10 am to 5 pm and January 19, 2019 from noon to 5pm. Guidelines: Three Entries per artists. Entries are limited to 24 inches in length and width. GCCA suggests all work be priced at $300 or less. GREENE GREENE COUNTY Sorry-no shipping, all work must be hand delivered. Must be a current GCCA Member to participate in this annual exhibition. COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS Artists may join when dropping off artwork. COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Questions:bCall Greene County Council on the Arts at 518-943-3400 or MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION email Marline A. Martin [email protected] ON THE I/We wish to become members of the Greene County Coping: Art to Process Illness, Decay, and Loss ARTS Council on the Arts (GCCA) in the following category. Please Check one: New R Renewing R Member January 26, 2019 – April 13, 2019 MEMBERSHIP R Senior/Student $ 0. Curated by Ashley Hopkins-Benton, Senior Historian and Curator of BENEFITS: R Individual 5. Social History at the New York State Museum. This exhibition will focus Family 0. on artists using the process of creating art as a means to process and Members at all levels receive R  cope with a diagnosis, long-term illness (mental and physical), decay, the following: R Friend/Business/Organization . and loss. The show is inspired by Bruce Hopkins, who used journaling as R Sponsor 100. a way to process a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. Hopkins focused on writing • Newspaper, "Arts Alive", with R Supporting 250. as a way to stave off the effects of the disease, as well as sketch studies arts information for Greene and R Patron 500. of fallen leaves, to explore the process of decay. Columbia Counties, grants & R Benefactor 1,000. Submission deadline:b Friday, November 16, 2018. Notifi cation of opportunities listings, and a 4Reciprocal CCCA 10. R acceptance will take place as soon as possible. cultural events calendar. TOTAL MEMBERSHIP $ ______Guidelines andbEligibility • Advance program announcements Building Fund Contribution $ ______Unless otherwise noted, our exhibits are open to all artists 18 years & invitations to special events. and older residing in the USA. Accepted entries must be identical to J. Ruben Garcia Memorial Fund $ ______submitted images or the work will not be exhibited. Acceptance implies Endowment Fund $ ______the use of your images and your name in any printed or online publicity. All members can take TOTAL ENCLOSED $ ______advantage of the following: Email submissions for consideration to Marline A. Martin, GCCA Payment: Check R Cash R Executive Director,[email protected] with «Coping Submission” • Technical Assistance MasterCard R VISA R Amex R in the subject lineb or send via postal mail to Greene County Council • Referrals on the Arts, P.O. Box 463, Catskill, NY 12414, and Attention:bMarline A. Card #: ______Martin • Networking Expiration Date: ______• Information Services Maximum of 10 artwork entries, including dimensions, materials used, “Thank you!” year made Digital images cropped to include artwork only, no frames, • Access to Media & Publicity Make your tax-deductible contribution payable to mountings or added text Professional bio and/or artist statementbwith Recources GCCA and return to the address listed below. submission entry • Artist's and Arts Organizations' Artwork must be for sale---Gallery commission is 30% links on GCCA website. GCCA reserves the right to refuse any entry which does not meet the Please fill out completely criteria listed. Discounts: Name: ______Questions:bCall Greene County Council on the Arts at 518-943-3400 or emailbMarline A. Martin, GCCA Executive Director atbgcca@greenearts. • Gallery & Artful Hand Boutique Address:______org purchases. City: ______• Discounted Fees on Classes at Rivertide Aikido State: ______GCCA Seeking • Artist members may submit free-of Day Phone: ______charge for group and curated Eve Phone: ______exhibitions at the Catskill gallery Volunteers and may become part of our E-mail: ______and Visual Arts artists-resource fi le. Website: ______• Arts Organization Members are Are you an artist? Yes R No R Interns eligible to receive privileges with GCCA Constant Contact e-mail If yes, what is your discipline? ______service. Brief description of your work ______• Members at the $250 level and ______above receive a gift certifi cate valid for a basic one-year member- ______ship for a friend or family member. Artists/Arts Organizations, do you wish to have • NEW! On-screen advertising at your website linked to the GCCA website? the Greenville Drive-In. Yes R No R • New! Join the Columbia-Greene Menberships are for one year. Federal Credit Union Membership & Memberships are for one year. receive a myriad of fi nancial services. You may be able to double your contribution if you work for, or are retired from, a company which has a matching gift program. To make your match, simply obtain a form from your company’s Matching Gift Coordinator and send it along with your contribution to: Greene County Council on the Arts Guests View Work by Kico Govantes at Resident Alien exhibit opening P.O. Box 463, Catskill, NY 12414 reception. Photo Credit: Susan Sabino. (518 ) 943-3400

Do you have a skill or hobby you wish to share with GCCA? Greene County Council on the Arts is in need of VOLUNTEERS to help with a variety of duties from light offi ce work and reception desk work to building repairs. We know we have skills and experience we can trade. Our collaboration can help make a difference in our community. Some of the areas where help is needed includes lending knowledge in staff professional development-from Titter tips to public speaking, helping Be inspired as at the reception desk, hospitality at art receptions, contributing and editing Arts Alive to helping with repairs and light construction…there is with what NBC no limit! Please contact Sharon at [email protected] or 518-943- 3400 if interested. can do for you. GCCA is seeking INTERNS to assist with preparing promotion and all aspects of preparing the gallery exhibitions and associated special events. Candidates must be dependable, eager to learn, and comfort- able handling a variety of tasks including graphic design, exhibit instal- lation, social media, and liaising with artists. Experience in Photoshop & In-Design, mounting artwork, packaging art for shipments and plastering Hand built silver necklace set by www.nbcoxsackie.com and painting walls a plus! Interested parties should send a cover letter Denis J Jean can be viewed at and resume to Marline A. Martin at [email protected] THE SALON 2018 & HANDMADE HOLIDAYS: AFFORDABLE FINE ART & CRAFTS EXHIBITION ANDbSALE Page 6 2018 November/December ALIVE

Greene County County Initiative Program Chilly Willy WINTER’S EVE TOURS (CIP) News Legislators Bronck Events and programs listed on this page receive support, in part, from public funds Term Expires 12/31/2018 from the Greene County Legislature through the Greene County Cultural Fund, adminis- Museum tered in Greene County by the Greene County. District No. 1-Catskill Costumed guides at Michael Bulich Bridge the Bronck Museum 66 Greenpoint Road lead Chilly Willy Catskill, NY 12414 Winter’s Eve tours, 518-376-4427 Street a celebration of a [email protected] series of ancient, but Theatre now mostly forgotten Kevin C. Lennon celebration, on Nov. 2 Hickory Hollow Ct. 17 & 18, 2018. Palenville, NY 12463 518-291-0990 A Spectacular There had already been goose was replaced by a turkey and [email protected] World Premiere more than a few frosty mornings. how one old holiday gave rise to two The welcome hours of extra light modern holidays. The Martinmas Matthew Luvera Closes Out the provided by the harvest and the lanterns are lit, the corn dolly hangs 41 Wildwing Park hunter’s moons had already come on the front door beside the Lucy Catskill, NY 12414 2018 Season and gone. The snow moon would bundle. Inside the klompen are 518-506-7323 arrive soon. Each afternoon as the ready. The Lucy Kator sits patiently on [email protected] retreating sun sank in the west, the parlor stairs and the Lucy crown deep shadows crept from corners has been prepared.b Visitorsb will be Linda Overbaugh to envelope the whole house in a led by a costumed guide and pass Catskill’s intimate Bridge The World Premiere of Michael 5606 Cauterskill Rd dim chill. The attics and cellars are through rooms which approximate Street Theatre will close out its Whistler’s CASSE NOISETTE (A Fairy Catskill, NY 12414 fi lled with barrels of corn, piles of the temperatures and light levels 2018 Subscription Season with a Ballet) comes to Catskill’s Bridge 518-943-5794 fat squash and pumpkins.b Strings present during winters in the 1700’s. major coup: the world premiere Street Theatre November 8-18, 2018. [email protected] of dried apples dangle from the Warm attire is strongly suggested! of Philadelphia-based playwright beams. The cider has been made Swedish and Dutch refreshments will Michael Whistler’s brilliant, funny, District No. 2-Coxsackie and stored in the barrel cellar. Sweet be served. The tours leave from the and touching “Casse Noisette” (The “We previously collaborated Thomas Hobart and savory pies have been piled in Bronck Museum Visitor Center at 11 Nutcracker). The play, described by with playwright Michael Whistler 411 Main Street, Suite 408 the attic chests to await the arrival am, 1 pm and 3pm each day. Seating its author as being about “a very on his one-act play ‘Quimper’ over Catskill, NY 12414 of the truly freezing temperatures for this special event is limited and is quiet man and some very loud at Stageworks/Hudson a few years 518-859-7803 of winter. Soon it would be cold offered on a fi rst come fi rst served music”, masterfully interweaves the back and we’re over the moon [email protected] enough to butcher and to make basis. Adult admission for this event life of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich that he’s permitting us to present candles. This was the season the fi rst is $8, GCHS members and children Tchaikovsky with that of a deep- this magnifi cent work in its fi rst Charles Martinez, Budget Offi cer European colonists knew as “harvest $4. The Bronck Museum is located ly-closeted modern-day American full production anywhere,” says 38 Flint Mine Rd. home” a time for celebration. On just off US 9W 1.5 miles south of the high school teacher obsessed with Steven Patterson, Bridge Street Coxsackie, NY 12051 the weekend of November 17b and intersection of routes 9W, 385 and Tchaikovsky’s music. Sugar Plum Theatre Associate Artist. “New plays 518-731-8825 18, 2018bthe Bronck Museum, near 81 near Coxsackie, N.Y., and is easily Fairies and phone sex workers are our artistic life’s blood here [email protected] Coxsackie, NY, will hold its Chilly reached via Thruway Exit 21B. collide, and fi ve actors play eleven at BST and this one is amazingly Willy Winter’s Eve tours, a celebra- This event is made possible, different roles in two completely accessible – like a mash-up of District No. 3-Athens tion of a series of ancient, but now in part, by public funds provided different time periods, in this tale Masterpiece Theatre and William Lee Palmateer mostly forgotten celebrations. The by the Greene County Legislature about discovering the strength to be Inge. We love the parallel stories it 35 Second Street venerable Bronck houses will be through the Greene County Cultural true to one’s self, whatever the cost. tells and the wonderfully theatrical Athens, NY 12015 decorated for the celebrations of Fund administered by the GCCA. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is way their clashing realities refl ect 518-591-4636 Martinmas, St. Nicholas Day and For more information about the a musical titan in 19th Century and amplify one another. And, of [email protected] St. Lucia Day. The ancient legends Bronck Museum or this event visit Russia: hugely popular, incredibly course, the entire play is steeped will be told. Visitors will learn how a gchistory.org or call (518) 731-6490. charismatic, deeply emotional, in Tchaikovsky’s glorious music. It District No. 4-Greenville mercurial, explosive. Tortured by his should be the perfect lead in to the Kevin Lewis, Chairman homosexuality, he fi nds release only holiday season for our audiences.” 1350 Red Mill Road in composing and in his love for the Greenville, NY 12083 son of his invalid sister. Joe Jessup Michael Whistler’s “Casse Noisette 518-966-8691 is a quiet, unassuming, and very (A Fairy Ballet)” is recommended for [email protected] private high school Earth Sciences audiences ages 16 and older and teacher in suburban Washington plays Thursdays through Saturdays District No. 5-New Baltimore state, a man who has long since at 7:30 pm and Sundays at 2:00 Patrick S. Linger, Jr. resigned himself to not getting pm from November 8-18, 2018 at P.O. Box 9 exactly what he might wish for out Bridge Street Theatre, located at New Baltimore, NY 12124 of life. For years, his only emotional 44 West Bridge Street, in Catskill, 518-496-8399 outlet has been his love for the NY, just a block and a half west of [email protected] music of Tchaikovsky and, more Main Street across the Uncle Sam recently, his furtive calls to a gay sex Bridge spanning Catskill Creek. District No. 6-Prattsville, Ashland, chatline – but merely to listen to the Eight performances only! General Windham & Jewett young man on the other end of the Admission is $25, Students 21 and Lori Torgerson phone, never to speak himself. Actor under are $10. Discounted advance 251 Brooksburg Road Jason Guy, whom audiences may tickets available at casse.brownpap- Hensonville, NY 12439 remember from his tour-de-force ertickets.com or by calling 800-838- 518-755-2498 performance in Bridge Street’s 2017 3006. Tickets will also be sold at the [email protected] world premiere of Kieron Barry’s door one half hour prior to each “The Offi cial Adventures of Kieron performance subject to availability. District No. 7-Halcott, and Jade”, portrays both these char- “Pay What You Will” performances Lexington & Hunter acters as their worlds intertwine and Thursday November 8 and Sunday Larry Gardner each struggles to fi nd some sort of November 11 (“Pay What You Will” P.O. Box 554 fulfi llment in his life. tickets are available only at the door Hunter, NY 12442 The cast also includes Nancy one half hour prior to those perfor- 518-263-3747 Oarneire Graham as Nancy Klein mances). [email protected] (a high school co-worker of Joe’s) “Casse Noisette” is the only and Antonietta Dell’Era (the original ‘offi cial’ Bridge Street Theatre event District No. 8-Cairo Sugar Plum Fairy in Tchaikovsky’s taking place during November and William B. Lawrence, Majority Leader “The Nutcracker”), Jason Kellerman December, but outside groups will P.O. Box 112 as Marc Maynes (a coach at the high undoubtedly be using the space Cairo, NY 12413 No Two Lovesboil on linen by Laurel Sucsyb(courtesy John Davis Gallery) school where Joe teaches), Modeste for their own events during the 518-622-3707 Ilyich Tchaikovsky (the composer’s holiday season. For all the latest [email protected] brother), and the Consort of the programing updates (including What is a Painting and Small Faces Sugar Plum Fairy, Serena Vesper any last-minute additions), further Harry Lennon, Minority Leader as the Sugar Plum Fairy and Sasha ticketing information, and how you P.O. Box 95 Ilyinova Davidov (Tchaikovsky’s can donate, volunteer, or otherwise Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery Brings Round Top, NY 12473 invalid sister), and Bradley Levine support Bridge Street Theatre’s th 518-622-3876 as Blaine (a young runaway working work, visit their Facebook page or CMF’s 20 Anniversary to a Close [email protected] for a gay phone sex chatline) and their website at BridgeSt.org. See Vladimir “Bob” Lvovitch Davidov you out front! As the Catskill Mountain with Small Faces, an exhibition which District No. 9-Durham (Sasha’s son and Tchaikovsky’s Events and performances in Foundation (CMF) brings its 20th anni- the Gallery Director Robert Tomlinson Aidan O’Connor, Jr. nephew). Production of this world Bridge Street Theatre’s 2018 Season versary celebrations to a close, the will highlight the work of portrait 2547 Route 145 premiere has been underwritten in are made possible in part by the Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery hosts two painters. “For as long as people have East Durham, NY 12423 part by a generous gift from Duke New York State Council on the major exhibitions: What Is A Painting, been painting, they have been making 518-858-2459 Dang. The show is directed and Arts with the support of Governor currently on display and Small Faces, portraits.b It’s one of the cornerstones [email protected] designed by Bridge Street Theatre’s Andrew M. Cuomo and the New which has its offi cial opening on of the visual arts world. Painters have Artistic and Managing Director John York State Legislature and by Public December 8, 2018. often set self-imposed restrictions Please write to your Sowle, with costumes by Jennifer Funds from the Greene County According to Gallery Director that have frequently resulted in new, Legislators and Anderson (BST’s “The Revenge of Legislature through the Greene Robert Tomlinson, the theme of expansive ways of seeing.b The artists thank them for their the Space Pandas”). Production County Cultural Fund, administered the fi rst of two year-end shows is to in Small Faces celebrate this notion by support to the arts Stage Managers are Julia Rothwax in Greene County by the Greene explore what it is like to make paint- working on a reduced scale, creating and Frank Dianda. County Council on the Arts. ings in 2018. “We will explore the intimate but emotionally powerful in Greene County. relevance of painting as an art form, work with distinctly different methods, the various processes that painter’s mediums and outcomes,” Tomlinson use, examining intuitive vs. intentional stated. approaches, concerns of message Among the participating artists THE ZADOCK PRATT MUSEUM FIFTH ANNUAL AWARDS BENEFIT and craft, isolation vs community are Julie Chase, from Catskill, NY; engagement and the place of beauty Catherine Haley-Epstein, from Camas, The Pratt Museum is very pleased people like you and all our donors, from the Greene County Legislature in art. On display are eight paintings Washington and Robert Schlegel, to announce the Honorees for its Fifth sponsors and membership commu- through the Greene County Cultural by eight different painters, with a text from Portland, Oregon. Annual Benefi t and celebrates those nity supporters. Fund, administered in Greene County by each artist — a personal narrative Small Faces opens on Saturday, outstanding individuals in our region The Zadock Pratt Museum by the Greene County Council on the as to what a painting means to them December 8 with a reception at whose work has resulted in remark- continues its mission in preserving Arts. within the context of today’s diverse 5pm and runs until January 6, 2019. able contributions to preserve the and promoting New York State history art world,” notes Tomlinson. The Catskill Mountain Foundation history, culture and community of the through the life and legacy of Col. The Zadock Pratt Museum presented The fi ve-week exhibit, which runs Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery, Hunter Catskillsb region. The 2018 Honorees Zadock Pratt.b For more information a July 4th event celebrating the through December 2, 2018 comprises Village Square, 7950 Main Street, are Andy Dresser, Sylvia Hasenkopf, visit zadockprattmuseum.com. 240th anniversary of the signing of works from regional artists Sarah Hunter, NY.b Visit www.catskillmtn.org Beatrice Mattice, Kevin Piccoli, Sylvia The Zadock Pratt Museum’s 2018 our Declaration of Independence. Barker, Darla Bjork, John Adam Fahey, for more information. Van Houten and Robert Uzzilia. exhibit season and events were made This event was just one of its many Nate Orton, Padma Rajendran, Laurel CMF and its programs are The Zadock Pratt Museum possible, in part, with public funds 2018 programs. Sucsyb (courtesy, John Davis Gallery), supported, in part, by the Greene invites all to its Fifth Annual Awards Laura Taylor and Tomlinson as well. County Legislature through the Event on Saturday, November 10, The curtains come to a close on Cultural Fund administered by the 2018 at The Copper Tree Restaurant CMF’s 20th Anniversary celebrations Greene County Council on the Arts. at Peaks Resort at Hunter Mountain. The evening begins with cocktails at 6PM cocktails followed by dinner at 6:30PM. This Benefi t will be abmemo- rable evening with friends, awards, dinner, music, raffl es, door prizes and drawings in the beautiful setting of The Copper Tree Restaurant on scenic Hunter Mountain. Ticket prices are $85 per person andb $95 day of event. Special pricing is offered for tables of 4, 6 and 8. Reserve your place ahead by contacting Benefi t Chairwoman Switlana Breigle at [email protected] or 518- 929-2447. The 2018 Zadock Pratt Museum Benefi t Awards Event is made possible with our thanks to ALIVE 2018 November/December Page 7

Left: Windham Festival Chamber County Initiative Program Orchestra with Anna Polonsky. (CIP) News The Thanksgiving weekend concert program opens with Elgar’s Events and programs listed on this page receive support, in part, from public funds lovely Serenade for Strings Opus 20 from the Greene County Legislature through the Greene County Cultural Fund, adminis- (1892) followed by the brilliant Anna tered in Greene County by the Greene County. Polonsky performing Mozart’s lovely Piano Concerto #23 in A Major K. 488. catskillmtn.org or call 518-263-2063. Barn in Hunter, NY. After intermission the orchestra will The Catskill Mountain Foundation Nutcracker Performances are traverse the depths of Tchaikovsky’s is set to welcome the return of the Friday, December 7, 2018, 7:30 pm, popular and stirring masterpiece, favorite holiday ballet, The Nutcracker, Saturday, December 8, 2 pm, Saturday, Serenade for Strings Opus 48 (1880), for one weekend only December December 8, 7:30 pm, and Sunday, one of the most beloved pieces of the 7-9, 2018 at The Orpheum Film and December 9, 2:00 pm at The Orpheum Classical/Romantic Era. Russian born Performing Arts Center, 6050 Main Film & Performing Arts Center, 6050 pianist Anna Polonsky, a product of Street, Tannersville, NY. Main Street, Tannersville, NY. Ticket the Curtis Institute has captivated audi- This year, for the fi rst time, Victoria purchased in advance are $7 for ences nationwide with her sensitive Rinaldi is partnering with the Petrov students, $20 for seniors and $25 for and strong playing. Ballet School and the American Ballet adults and at the door: $7 for students, Since 2000, the Windham Festival Theater Jackie Kennedy Onassis $25 for seniors and $30 for adults. For Catskill Mountain Foundation Presents Chamber Orchestra under the direction School of Dance. Pre-professional more information visit catskillmtn.org of composer/conductor, Robert Manno dancers from Petrov Ballet will perform or call 518-263-2063. Th eatre de l’Oeil -A Heart in Winter, has earned accolades and national the corps roles, while ABT JKO dancers Catskill Mountain Foundation is attention through the many broad- will perform the two main roles of the supported in part by the New York Classical Music with casts of its live performances from the 2nd Act. State Council on the Arts, Greene Windham Chamber Music Festival and What makes this production of County Legislature through the Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra Catskill Mountain Foundation over The Nutcracker a popular holiday Cultural Fund administered by the American Public Media’s “Performance treat, is the local participation of both Greene County Council on the Arts, the and Th e Nutcracker Today.” The orchestra is comprised children and adults cast in Act 1 as Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family of the fi nest musicians from the New party children and party parents, toy Foundation, the Samuel and Esther York area and includes current and soldiers, mice, and angels. While Doctorow Fund, the New York Council Catskill Mountain Foundation those purchased at the door are: $12; former members of the MET Orchestra, local children and adults do not need for the Humanities, Bank of Greene presents the renowned Theatre de $7 students. For more information visit New York Philharmonic, New Jersey prior dance training to be part of the County Charitable Foundation, The l’Oeil from Montreal who will perform catskillmtn.org or call 518-263-2063. Symphony, NYC Opera Orchestra, NYC onstage magic, they have a chance to Greene County Youth Bureau, Marshall a new work, A Heart in Winter, Saturday Classical music enthusiasts are Ballet Orchestra, Mostly Mozart Festival work alongside seasoned and trained & Sterling Insurance, All Souls’ Church, November 17, 2018 at 3:30 pm at in for a treat this Fall when the Catskill Orchestra, American Symphony dancers, many of whom have been Stewarts Shops, Windham Foundation, the Orpheum Film & Performing Arts Mountain Foundation presents the Orchestra, American Ballet Theatre coached privately by Victoria, or taught and by private donations. Center, 6050 Main Street, Tannersville. Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra Orchestra, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, at her community class at CMF’s Red Based on the story of the Snow Queen, with renowned conductor Robert Albany Symphony Orchestra, the A Heart in Winter tells the story of a liƩ le girl Manno and guest pianist Anna Polonsky Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Gerda as she searches for her lost friend. A as they perform a delightful evening Center and many other esteemed New Lantern Heart in Winter quesƟ ons how we react to of Romantic Music by Tchaikovsky, York area ensembles. life’s hardships. It is a touching and vibrant Elgar and Mozart, Saturday November Tickets purchased in advance show with many complex and surprising 24, 2018 at 8:00 pm at the Doctorow are $7 students, $20 seniors and $25 Tours twists, just like life itself. Tickets purchased Center for the Arts, 7971 Main Street, for adults while those purchased at the in advance are $10; 7 students, while Hunter, NY. door are: $7 students, $25 seniors and $30 for adults. For more information visit at the Thomas Cole Prattsville Art Center National & Residency Historic CREATIVE SPACE Site FOR EXPLORATION AND SHARING A Holiday Gathering

The Thomas Cole National and patrons for cocktails from 5-7 Young Visitor at Historic Site will host a holiday gath- pm in Thomas Cole’s New Studio Prankster’s Museum. ering in Catskill, NY on Saturday, with lantern tours of the Main House. December 8, 2018. Enjoy festive Tours are offered at 6 ppm and 7 pm. cocktails and decadent hors d’oeu- Information on Sponsorships, avail- vres in Thomas Cole’s New Studio able at $500 and $1000, are available building and a special guided lantern at thomascole.org. Tickets include The Prankster’s Ball through December County by the Greene County Council on Marine Corps, as well as contributing to tour of the 1815 Main House before cocktails, a guided lantern tour and 2, 2018 features artists Matt Bua, Cassidy the Arts through the Community Arts Grants music education in our region. proceeding on to a private dinner a private dinner party beginning at 7 A Maze (Bua), Harry Matthews, Otto Ohle, Fund, Laleh creates oil portraits of strangers The PAC Members’ Exhibition and party in a beautiful nearby home. pm for $145. Cocktails and a guided Bobby Smith and friends who joined up in public spaces such as laundromats and Holiday Fair opens on the weekend of For the fi rst time, the lantern tours lantern tour tickets are $45. Call with participants in this Fall’s “Workshops libraries. Each painting is made in 20 minutes December 7 and 8, 2018 and continues will allow guests to explore the Main 518-943-7456 or visit thomascole. in Prankster Love” to explore the legacy of and the work is given to the sitter as a gift. through January 5, 2019. Share your work House after dark and imagine what org/events for tickets and more infor- the trickster in art and life across the rural The experience is based in a shared commu- in our fi rst Members Exhibition at the it might have been like to spend the mation. The TCNHS is located at 218 avant-garde. The trickster’s spirit, from folk nication, and has moved some participants Prattsville Art Center, and participate in our holidays here with Thomas Cole. Spring Street, Catskill, NY. tales across the world to the irreverence to tears. Laleh will be visiting Prattsville to Festive Opening and Holiday Weekend. Join Following cocktails, guests are invited The Thomas Cole Cedar Grove that continues to animate the arts, conveys continue this series in public spaces along regional artists including Gail Katstar, Edna to a dinner party hosted by welcoming 2018 Season and exhibit is supported, a particular kind of wisdom, foolish yet Main Street. Arloween, and Robin tower Potter, as well neighbors. Enjoy a winter meal with in part, with funds from the Greene clever, arrogant and benevolent. Creating Video workshops continue on as artisans from throughout the area. Small friends in a nearby private home County Legislature through the its own ever-evolving strategies of shifting Saturdays in November as well with Artists works and artisans’ multiples create unique decorated with holiday splendor. County Initiative Program adminis- signifi cation, double-speak, and subterfuge Laleh Khorramin and Otto Ohle . Both artists holiday shopping, amidst music, and hot The event will support TCNHS’s tered by the Greene County Council the trickster repurposes the masters’ tools will work one on one with local youth to cider, and cappuccino by our woodstoves. 2019 special exhibition entitled on the Arts. to dismantle the master’s house. Our work- create new video projects that express their It’s never too late to join the Prattsville Art Thomas Cole’s Refrain: The Paintings shops in Trickster Love helped participants interests and refl ect life on the far western Center, through affordable monthly contribu- of Catskill Creek presented in part- to consider the tricksters in their own lives, mountaintop. To participate, text 646-678- tions or a work exchange and lend support nership with Vassar College, Cornell weaving their way through forests of paradox 2394. our free classes, exhibitions, concerts and University Press and the Hudson River and contradiction. For centuries, the remote On Friday, November 30, Pratts- social services. Museum, with related programming high peaks of the Catskill mountaintop have ville Art Center hosts Meadowsuite-A Winter’s Prattsville Art Center hosts recurring in partnership with Scenic Hudson. been the site of pranks and tall tales for Native Concert at 7PM. An astonishingly nuanced events year round with a multitude of The exhibition curated by H. Daniel American and European cultures alike; this chamber ensemble, featuring Flutist Caitlin programs including community and health Peck, John Guy Vassar Professor exhibition and its accompanying publication Ippolito, Clarinetist Nancy Trembacz, and care services made available for people of Emeritus of English, will reveal new carry this spirit into the modern world. Tubist Eric Metsger, Meadowsuite returns all ages. Prattsville Art Center, 14562 Main research on Thomas Cole’s Catskill Laleh Khorramin, The Laundromat to the Prattsville Art Center with a classical Street, Prattsville, NY; visit www.prattsvilleart. Creek paintings, considering them as Series, takes place on Saturdays in program that includes a selection of holiday org or text 646-678-2394 for information. an integral series for the very fi rst time. November. Laleh is a multidisciplinary artist favorites. Pay what you wish admission The Prattsville Art Center’s 2018 The exhibition will bring together whose work ranges from large-scale video benefi ts the performers and includes a family programs are made possible, in part, with nine of Thomas Cole’s Catskill Creek installations in Times Square and moving style dinner with the musicians after the show. public funds from New York State Council on paintings including masterpieces fabric environments at Basilica Hudson’s The performers of Meadowsuite refl ect the the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew from the New-York Historical Society, Soundscape to intimate paintings. In her skill and sensitivity of regional musicians in Cuomo and the New York State Legislature Yale University Art Gallery, and the ongoing “Laundromat Series” a project made our Northern Catskills, as well as the diverse and the Greene County Legislature through National Gallery of Art, Washington, possible, in part, with public funds from the background of our community; members, the 2018 County Initiative Program, admin- D.C. 2018 Decentralization Program of the NYS each with college degrees, have performed istered in Greene County by the Greene Join the Thomas Cole House Council on the Arts, administered in Greene with orchestras, and across the world in the County Council on the Arts. Board of Directors, Staff Members Photo:Jenn Morse

Inaugural Best of Greene County Awards Announced celebrating the winners and the Round hope to showcase how strong, diverse com/bogc or greenecountychamber. Two participants. This magazine will be and exceptional the businesses and com or visit the Chamber’s Facebook or The Greene County Chamber the second round. available year-round at locations across communities of Greene County are. Instagram pages. of Commerce in partnership with Round Two voting will run from Greene County. We invite everyone in Greene County The Best of Greene County is each Columbia-Greene Media is pleased November 27, 2018 through January “We are very excited to be bringing to vote and let their voices be heard in business’ chance to show the public to announce that they are presenting 4, 2019 with the top three nominees in the Best of Greene County into exis- helping to celebrate the very best our their best and for the Greene County the inaugural Best of Greene County, a each category vying for the top spot. tence,” saidbGreene County Chamber of area has to offer.” community to recognize and celebrate contest that allows county residents to Following the voting the winners Commerce President/Executive Director To participate in the voting, partic- the high-quality businesses in their make their voices heard in deciding the of the Best of Greene County will be Jeff Friedman. “Through this contest we ipants can visit either hudsonvalley360. community. best of the county’s businesses in a wide announced at a red carpet gala held range of 50 categories. on February 1, 2019. This event will be Voters will be asked to choose their the highlight of the winter season with favorite businesses from the various hundreds in attendance to celebrate categories in Arts & Entertainment, the Best of Greene County. When voters Community, Food & Drink, Services and visit the balloting website, they will be Shopping. able purchase tickets to the Best of Round One of the voting continues Greene County Awards reception. The through November 25, 2018. This fi rst location and details of the event will be round will be the nomination period, announced shortly. with the top three nominated busi- There will be a beautiful color nesses in each category advancing to magazine distributed at the event, Photo Credit: Francis X. Driscoll X. Francis Photo Credit: Page 8 2018 November/December ALIVE

GCCA 2018 SPROUTS SSUMMERUMMER ARTSARTS WWORKSHOPSORKSHOPS WRAPS-UP ANOTHER SEASON EXPLORING THE ARTS!

SPROUTS concludes another In the Hunter location Donna Foundation, Hudson River Bank season of summer-time fun for Trunzo taught Theater and Dale and Trust, NBT Bank, Pioneer Bank, Greene County youngsters in creative Loughran taught Dance. They Stewart’s Holiday Match, Trusco arts workshops. The program brings used literature as a springboard to Bank, State Telephone, Walmart. weeklong workshops in Art, Music, creativity in a musical called Giraffes Theater and Dance taught by profes- Can’t Dance. The performance used SPROUTS thanks these Muni- sional artists, free of charge, to movement and storytelling to explore cipalities: Town of Athens, Town of Greene County children ages 3 – 7. themes dealing with acceptance, Cairo, Town of Coxsackie, Town of Six weeks of SPROUTS convened friendship and the importance of Durham, Town of Greenville, Town in various locations throughout perseverance. Students learned that of Hunter, Town of Jewett, Town the county during July and August music and dance can be used to of Lexington/Creamery Millworks, in Windham, Coxsackie, Cairo, communicate emotions and to tell Town of New Baltimore and Town of Greenville, Hunter and Catskill. In stories with a beginning, middle, Windham. each of the six weeks artists shared and end. They learned that a good with young children the joy of their art story usually has a problem that must Hats off to these generous Civic form and encourage them to use their somehow be solved. Children also Associations: American Legion imagination to create and learn. Art discovered that music, dance, and Auxillary, Cairo American Legion Post teacher Colette Lemmon remarked, theater are really fun! 983, Catskill Elks Club, Catskill Police “I had one boy who found new and Tasha Depp worked with children Benevolent Association, Coxsackie- wonderful ways to do everything that to made clay animal sculptures. Carlie Athens Rotary Club, Fortnightly Club I introduced.” Goorzorian showed young artists how of Catskill, Kiwanis Club of Catskill, Many delightful projects to make 3-D drawings with shaving Marine Corps League, Inc., Rotary occurred over the six weeks of the cream that hardened when dry. Club of Catskill, Rotary Club of Cairo, SPROUTS Program of 2018. The Margo Muller developed a play based Rotary Club of Greenville, Windham following are just a few examples on local history. In Kate Boyer’s music Rotary Club, Eliot Thrift Shop - United of the creative fun and collective art class there were instruments galore Methodist Church of Norton Hill, projects that took place over. Sarah throughout the room and encour- Windham Foundation of NY. Barker’s art classes in Cairo made aged young hands to touch, listen dragonfl ies mobiles about 6” to 10” and learn. Lora Lee Ecobeli shared her Hats off to our local Businesses and long. Ms. Barker mentions, “They experience teaching theater and the Individuals: B & B Forest Products LDT, are mobiles because I hung them budding thespians acted out an old Baumann’s Brookside Resort, Janice from a stick that they painted, so the classic “Goldilocks and Three Bears.” Cammarato Esq., Dimensions North dragonfl y was in the air. I used natural Ltd, Maggie’s Krooked Café, Jeffrey P. sticks for the bodies and they wadded SPROUTS has a Facebook page! Like & Kerry Leah DeMunn, GNH Lumber, up paper to start the armature of the us on Facebook at SPROUTSGCCA Helmedack & Young Inc., Hendricks head they then fi nished the head with and check out highlights from the Alignment Inc., Hillcrest Press, Emily paper mache put on with glue water. 2018 season or at www.greenearts. Jones, Kaaterskill Associates, Karen’s They attached wings of pipe cleaners org/youth-arts.Please join us for the Flower Shoppe, Living Structures Real and strung it to a 1”x 2” cut piece of 2019 SPROUTS. Registration begins Estate, Meyers Water Services, Main wood I primed white before they in May 2019. Best wishes until then! Care Energy, Mid-Hudson Cablevision, painted it with the ideas from the fi rst Thank you for your support. Inc., Onteora Club, Pollace’s Brooklyn two days work.” House Inc., Sawyer Chevrolet In Greenville Colette Lemmon’s Special thanks to our 2018 volun- Auto Sales & Service, Schneider & art projects included making their own teers: Avery & Noelle Amoroso, Kayla Associates, PLLC., Shook Insurance “scratch art” pieces by coloring the Alberson, Emma Bailey, Joseph and Agency, State Telephone Company, entire surface with crayons to create Tamellyona Barnes, Allie Byrne, Alexa Tip Top Furniture. blocks of color, then covering with Campara, Nia DeRose, Gracie Lee, black paint, then, days later, scratching Emmet Fullins, Shaya and Rachel Special Thanks to the following off designs.b She also didb a project Gerber, Gwen Harford, Lilliah Harper, for raffl e donations: Mid-Hudson creating relief by “drawing” with black Madison Jablanski, Gabby Jollie, Cablevision - Fit Bit, Hunter Mountain glue (glue with blackb paint added Maddy Lehman, Rhianna Johnson, Ski Bowl- Sky Ride Passes, Janie which dried somewhat 3-dimen- Liam and Hayley Lyons, Alannah Greenwald - chair with hand caned sionally) and then using watercolors, MacDonald, Madison Maskowitz, seat, River Garden Flower Farm - diluted food coloring which was Hailey Morrison, Jayda and Jaedon mixed bouquets, Honey from the bees nice and vivid, to paint between the Pagan, Brehan and Jordan Metzler, of Ray Tousey and a Costume from raised surfaces.b The students really Emily Pascucci, Aurora Palmateer, Petite Production Dance Academy. enjoyed drawing with glue, as it was Anthony, Liliana and Peter Pranzo, similar to what they are always told Nathaniel Porter, Oliver Schrull, The GCCA Board of Directors and NOT to do. She also spoke of a girl Genevieve and Josephine Somers, Staff extend sincere gratitude so involved in balloon printing (paper Owen Russo, Faith VanRoy, Chloe Uht, to SPROUTS Co-Directors Ruth plates used as the palette for the paint Ravena Wallace and Juliana Estela. Leonard, Tara Van Roy and Erika and on the fl oor were large sheets of Russo for your dedication in planning mural paper) that she was sitting quite SPROUTS is made possible with the entire season, your constant efforts happily in another student’s paper grants come from: Greene County in fundraising, your enthusiasm, your plate full of paint and no one realized Legislature, Greene County Youth ability to facilitate program opera- until she stood up and her tiny behind Bureau/NYS Offi ce of Children and tions smoothly and your unwavering was completely covered in dripping Family Services, Nan Guterman devotion. A special thank you to paint!bbSprouts Teacher Elly Wininger Foundation, United Way of Columbia the 2018 SPROUTS Teachers for made the Greenville Music Week a & Greene County, United Way SEFA. your leadership with the wee artists wonderful experience. It was her fi rst by providing them with safe, welcom- year and she introduced African tunes SPROUTS would like to thank ing and creative environment s en- and percussion, guitar and singing to our Corporate sponsors: Columbia hancing their exploration of the arts! a very welcoming young crowd. Greene Federal Credit Union, Golub Thank you. ALIVE 2018 November/December Page 9 Barbara Artist’s Profile Walter 

I wanted to be an artist at a Jonathan Byron Woodin very young age. Because of a fear of heights, my mom often left me with Catskill resident Jonathan Byron Woodin is a singer-songwriter who a neighbor when she went shopping graduated from Hampshire College. He performs in the region solo, with at malls with escalators. The neighbor Hudson Dusters with Foggy Otis, with the Dustbowl Faeries and the Catskill had coloring books to keep me occu- Gamblers. In 2011 Jonathan recorded and releases his CD, The Dreamer. pied and I was in heaven. My love of Johnathan writes about the inspiration to his songwriting. art continued into high school, but I majored in math and economics in college--all because the art teacher AIN’T ABOUT TO LOSE YOU AGAIN © Jon B Woodin 2018 failed to show up for our high school career counseling day while the math By Jon B Woodin (Key of G, Capo 5, D fi ngering) teacher did. You called me to say Toward the end of my business career that I began to create art again. What you were up to that day By that time, I had discovered Greene And I was shocked, to hear where you’d been, County and the Hudson River Valley Art Workshops at the Greenville Arms As I’ve told you before 1889 Inn. The wonderful workshops When you showed me the door offered in Greenville became my art school. Over the years, I have That I ain’t about to lose you again. continued to take lessons from the nationally known artists who teach at the Inn. I also look for interesting art If things were really that bad classes wherever I travel. Each class Since we broke what we had, improves my understanding of how to create good art, through better Why was I the last one you’d clue in? composition, values, or technique. I get why you gave me up My background in business actu- ally contributes to my process as an And I took that fi rst cup artist. Like in business, a large aspect Above: “Walking the Dogs by Barbara Walter acrylic on canvas, 40x40. But I just ain’t about to lose you again. Jonathan Byron-Woodin art is about solving problems—how to Performing at Club capture a particular light or how to Below: Chorus Line”, acrylic on gessoed watercolor paper, 9 x12. Helsinki. make a painting more dramatic. I gain So if we must stay apart, pleasure from solving the problem of making a painting better, experiencing Please be kind to my heart a little joy each time a paint stroke, Cause it’s not just your own that you’d end, by design or sometimes just by luck, creates a better work of art. My hope I’ll only bid you goodbye is that others fi nd pleasure in looking If you promise that I at my work, either from the composi- tion or the combination of color. It is Am Not about to lose you again. successful if it sparks a fond memory for them just as it does for me. While I have painted with water- Please understand, color, oils, and encaustic, my recent You hold our lives in your hand works are in acrylics. I am attracted to the purity and brightness of colors And I’ll be damned, from the paint tube. In addition, the If I lose you, quickness with which the paints dry gives me freedom to be spontaneous. Again. There is no worry about getting every stroke “right”, since it can be painted “This piece was a little more grounded in reality. I usually don’t write over again. about things I have personally experienced, in this lifetime, at least not fully. I Acrylics in my view work espe- did however know somebody who at one point sought to end it all, and it hit cially well over gessoed watercolor me pretty deeply, as I’m sure it did all of our friends. I didn’t really set down to paper, with the textured paper adding write about it until a good Three years later. I’m happy to say that we’re both a subtlety to the design. One of my Dog(s).” During the simple activity of Greene County Council on the Arts, my still here to share it.” recent series features ballerinas walking a pet, I enjoy the beautiful work can be seen regularly at the Tivoli inspired by an old photo and memo- views in Greene County. It is also a Artists Gallery, a non-profi t gallery ries of taking ballet lessons at the time to simply delight in the antics of in Dutchess County run by member FAITHLESS © Jon B Woodin 2018 YMCA. The paintings of a dancer or an animal companion or to resolve artists, or at the Big Eye Gallery in dancers capture their presence on the some issue on my mind. These newest So. Westerlo, NY. Learn more about Jonathan A. Byron-Woodin (Key of A, Capo 2, G fi ngering) stage, while leaving their thoughts a works are on a larger scale and more Barbara and her work at www.barbar- If you say you see it coming, I probably won’t. mystery. primitive than my more traditional awalterfi nearts.com or follow Barbara My most recent work is concen- works in oil. Walter Artist on Facebook. If you ask if I believe in it, honestly I don’t. trated in a series called “Walking the In addition to being a Member at If that ain’t enough to ease you conscience, if that ain’t enough to save my soul Honey you should know, that I NIVA DORELL, Am gonna be alright. YOuR I May Be faithless, GCCA VISUAL ARTS Full Color But with you laying next to me, I don’t need to see the light DIRECTOR AD HERe Cause no matter what is true, MOVES ON Darling I believe… TO A NEW $60 In you, I can take comfort. in you, I know the score. OPPORTUNITY In you and no one else, I see a life worth living for. Dear Friends, VERTICAL: 1 col. Whether that’ll lead me to heaven, to hell, either/or 15 ⁄ 16 1/2 It doesn’t matter any more, to me After almost three years as Visual Arts 1 ”x 4 ” I’ll take now over destiny Director at Greene County Council on the Arts, I am moving on to a new I may be faithless, Niva Dorell at the 2017 Beaux Arts Ball opportunity.bb wearing designer necklace by Jojo Americo. And unafraid of fi ery rain or endless sea. Photo Credi: Rob Shannon/fotopic.com. or HORIZONTAL: Maybe I don’t think quite like you do, There are many people I’d like to 1/16 1/4 acknowledge and thank, who have lasting friendships while at GCCA, 2 col. 4 ”x 2 ” But I still believe in you made my time at GCCA one of the as well as grown as a person and most rewarding experiences of my professional. I will always treasure and life, starting with the Board Members Maybe all that you’ve been preaching, maybe all of it is true. be grateful for this experience. and all my colleagues at GCCA, former Call GCCA at Maybe there’s still time to save me. Well, if only heaven knew and current. I’d also like to thank all the My professional path now takes me That for me, there is no reason, to change my point of view Curators with whom I collaborated and to LUMBERYARD, the new fi lm and (518) 943-3400 who were incredibly generous with performing arts center located at 62 or email: Cause if he really lives in me and you, I’ve been their time and expertise, including Water Street in Catskill, where I am [email protected] Doing my best to let him in… Willie Cole, Michele Saunders, Patricia Marketing and Community Relations Field, Jojo Americo, Vahap Avsar, I may be faithless Manager (which includes box offi ce). Deadline for the Robert Tomlinson, Portia Munson, I’m just down the street at work, and But cherishing you over you’re god, Is that a sin? Sara Pruiksma, Alon Koppel, Jack up the street at home, should you ever January/February Where do I begin to help you see? Walls and Ashley Hopkins-Benton. wish to chat. I sincerely look forward to 2019 issue I would especially like to thank my working with you again, in a different is December 6, 2018

That I don’t care what happens to me most frequent collaborator Michele way. I only hope that you can see it through… Saunders. Michele not only co-curated the Wearable Arts show in 2016 and With gratitude and respect, co-produced two fashion shows, Niva Dorell To just let me including the Patricia Field ArtFAshion Believe show in 2017, but also introduced me to dozens of artists and interesting In you people in the area.bbbb

“Out of all the love songs I’ve written, this piece was actually based on Last but certainly not least, I want to a theoretical idea I had about a specifi c type of relationship dynamic; what thank each and every one of you, happens if you fall in love with someone who has a different faith or spiritual volunteers, artists, business owners, philosophy than you do (or don’t.) I personally feel that there is more than one arts educators, community leaders way to believe in something, or someone and that as long as you can respect and community members, for the each other’s perspective views, there’s no reason you couldn’t fi nd happiness opportunity to collaborate with you together, even if you ARE destined for… different destinations.” on so many wonderful exhibitions and events together. I have met so many incredible artists and made many

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expertise and add to the art culture of Susan Cushin The Art of Music Project the Hudson Valley. is just one The show runs through November of the artists 16, 2018 at the Heermance Memorial represented in On Display at the Heermance Memorial Library Library, 1 Ely Street in Coxsackie, NY. Local Scenes The Heermance Memorial Library now on display is the cultural hub of Coxsackie and Through GCCA NYSCA/ showing interest was waved over to at Windham the surrounding region. It supports Fine Arts. Decentralization Community Arts an easel and provided materials to the arts with exhibitions like this, art Grants re-grant program the “Art of borrow. classes, ukulele club, adult craft classes Music Project” held plein air sessions The project culminated in a music and many art and music programs for throughout spring and summer themed group show now on display children. For more information about for artists to create art inspired by at the Heermance Library with works the show or other library events call the musical groups featured at the by Penny Jordan, Corrine Jorgenson, 518-731-8084. Coxsackie Farmers Market. You don’t Erika Klein, Luis Macia, Emily Pell, Ruby The Village of Coxsackie, the need synthesizers for the music to Silvious and Roz Tobias. Coxsackie Farmers Market and the move you as a visual artist. That’s Luis Macia, who proposed and Coxsackie Farmers Market Director, what the diverse group of participants was awarded funding for this project, Kim Bender, were the Community including an 11-year-old art student is originally from New York City. He Partners for this project. “The Art and seasoned artists found. Through studied art extensively throughout of Music Project” is made possible, Windham Fine Arts this project the public got a unique his life and won awards from the in part, with public funds from the view of the artist’s process resulting in Woodstock School of Art and Athens Decentralization Program of the NYS many onlookers, some of which joined Cultural Center since relocating to the Council on the Arts, administered in Cue Gerhards’ Guitars, in. Luis Macia, the Artist Director, Hudson Valley. When he isn’t working Greene County by the Greene County helped create the atmosphere which on projects or in his studio he teaches Council on the Arts through the For the Love of Art and Local Scenes included expression, the exchange a range of students. Running projects, Community Arts Grants Fund. of ideas and networking. He ensured painting groups, classes and drawing Showing now through December, local scenes galore await you. Gallery that anyone wandering into the area marathons enables Luis to share his Windham Fine Arts is pleased to repre- Hours are Friday and Saturday 12-7 Left: Shannon by Ruby Silvious, sent Cue Gerhards and his master- pm and Sunday 12-4 pm. watercolor and gouche on built custom guitars. Pioneering Local Scenes. It is all local at used tea bag. many artistic color combinations Windham Fine Arts. Introducing our and fi nishing techniques, the guitars newest addition, a dedicated room Below: Emily Beck by Emily Pell are a work of art. Combining skills of of paintings by local artists of local more than 40 years as a woodworker, scenes—from downtown Windham to fi nisher, luthier and working musician, Windham Mountain plus snow scenes, Cue is known throughout the industry rivers, creeks, and mountains. It all for his expertise, integrity and passion local. Beautiful, affordable, and memo- for achieving uncompromising quality. rable. There is artwork for everyone Come see them, come play them. visiting our town and the Catskill Gallery Hours are Friday and Saturday Mountains. Local Scenes resulted 12-7 pm and Sunday 12-4 pm. from customers wanting “a little some- For the Love of Art Holiday Show thing to take home” to remind them of is on December 1, 2018 through our beautiful town and surroundings. January 13, 2019. Meet the artists at Featured artists include Susan Cushin, the opening reception, December Kim do, Mara Lehmann, Kevin Cook, 1 at Windham Fine Arts, 5-7:30 pm. Olive Farrell, Maya Farber, and Scott Windham Fine Arts presents beautiful Balfe. works of passion and possibilities from For more information on their dedicated artists, each painting Windham Fine Arts contact director@ tells a story and conveys why the gift windhamfi nearts.com or visit www. of art is best gift to give. Featuring windhamfi nearts.com. Located at paintings in mixed media, oils and 5380 Main Street, Windham, NY acrylics, sculptures, photography and

KAATERSKILL ACTORS THEATER & a governess to oversee two small Woodstock’s Outside Mullengar, In the roles of the two children at orphans at a remote and crumbling Still and Brilliant Traces, as well as in the heart of the story, Cedar Kos will SCHOHARIE CREEK PLAYERS Present mansion full of secrets. Things go Amadeus, Picnic, Three Sisters, Behind be playing Miles and Luna Clements horribly wrong. the Mask and Come Blow Your Horn at will take the part of Flora. Cedar has The tale’s publication in 1898 other venues. Her fi lm work includes had several lead roles at the Steamer A Turn of the Screw caused strong reaction. The New York The Moment, Paper Boats, Art of Love, Ten Children’s Theater (among them, Times called the novella “a deliberate, Five Census and No Pay, Nudity. Her Robin Hood and Orpheus), and Luna powerful, and horribly successful six-episode webseries, Tabs & Clea, is has appeared as The Weather for The Kaaterskill Actors study of the magic of evil,” and The currently in post-production. KAT-SCP in Pullman Car Hiawatha. Theater and the Schoharie New York Tribune called it “one of the In the part of the mysterious Set and costumes will be by Creek Players are proud to most thrilling stories we have ever gentleman, Josiah Abaddon, Andrew Viviane Galloway, lighting by Kevin present a stage adaptation of read.” However, the Outlook called Joffe, who played the title character Chase and the production stage Henry James’s classic tale of it “distinctly repulsive,” the Bookman in last season’s Tartuffe, portrays a manager is Bob Kelly. supernatural horror, A Turn of “cruel and untrue,” the Independent man far more dangerous and sinister. A Turn of the Screw will run at the Screw. This is one of the “the most hopelessly evil story that we His previous roles include major the Doctorow Center for the Arts, most famous ghost stories ever could have read in any literature.” part in Copenhagen, Uncle Vanya, A 7971 Main Street (Rt. 23A) in Hunter written; a dozen movies and Jim Milton, who adapted and Thousand Clowns, God of Carnage, on Friday and Saturday, November 2 TV shows have been based on directed Moliere’s hilarious comedy, The Art of Dining and Revenge of the and 3 at 7PM, and Sunday, November this work (The Innocents, The Tartuffe, last season, has taken this Space Pandas. 4 at 2PM. Adult tickets are $15 and Nightcomers, In A Dark Place), story of supernatural shock from the As Mrs. Gorse, the long-suffering students 12-18 are $10 (small children and it was adapted as an opera page to the stage with all of its chills housekeeper who literally knows are discouraged from attending), with by Benjamin Britten. Famous intact. And the central question of the where the bodies are buried, Willow all tickets cash at the door (no credit actors associated with these story, whether the Governess is actu- Alder joins us for the fi rst time. Her cards, please). Reservations and infor- adaptations include Deborah ally seeing the apparitions of her dead past performances include roles in mation at Katactors.com. Like us on Kerr, Colin Firth, Michelle predecessors or is only imagining Skirt Job, Murder at the Mansion, The Facebook at Kaaterskill Actors Theater. Dockery, Julian Sands, Amy them as she slowly sinks into madness, Language Archive and in the musical, This event is made possible Irving, Marlon Brando and Lynn remains as tantalizingly unresolved as A World War II Christmas Radio Show in part with public funds from the Redgrave. it is in the original. for the Phoenicia Playhouse. Most Decentralization Program of the NYS A TURN OF THE SCREW In the demanding lead role of the recently, she played Miss Marple in Council on the Arts, administered in concerns an inexperienced Governess, Maria Elena Maurin joins the Agatha Christie play, A Murder Greene County by the Greene County young woman who is hired us for the fi rst time. She has performed is Announced for the Coachhouse Council on the Arts through the Maria Elena Maurin as the Governess by a mysterious gentleman as leading roles in Performing Arts of Players. Community Arts Grants program.

2018 GCCA The Treble Choraliers COMMUNITY ARTS GRANT NEWS Sing-In th e Winter Season CATSKILL GLEE CLUB ( ANNUAL WINTER 0 CONCERT (

On Saturday, December 8, 2018 at 7:30 pm the Catskill Glee Club will present their Winter Concert at The Catskill First Reformed Church, 310 Main Street, Catskill, NY.b Celebrating their 91stbyear, the 28 voice male chorus with members from Greene, Columbia, Rensselaer and Ulster counties, the Catskill Glee Club has presented quality music to the Hudson Valley since 1927.b Under the direction of Michael Wright, the Club will present a variety of traditional and contemporary seasonal songs.b Wendy Shelburne is the accompanist. The Glee Club’s returning guest artist will be the Greenville High Greene and Columbia Counties Walker and Frost, songs en francaise cert” at the Fireman’s Home in Hudson, oldest all-female choral group, The and those sung in Ladino, songs of the NY. We perform the majority of our School Select Treble Chorus.b Their music director, Jonathan Meredith, th will lead the 32 talented female voices with a celebration of carols and Treble Choraliers, presents its 67 Solstice and those from the manger, concert program for the Home’s resi- several contemporary selections. winter concert on Friday, December 7, the Choraliers promise their audience dents and staff. This event provides us The choruses will combine voicing to sing Adolph Adam’s treasured 2018 at 7:30 pm at the Catskill United a wonderful listening experience. We an opportunity to polish and tighten classic “O Holy Night”, John Rutter’s “Nativity Carol” and J. Reading’s Methodist Church. As we have done will be joined at our concert by our up our performance, and it allows rousing “O Come, All Ye Faithful.”bAn array of home-baked treats and since our founding in 1951, The Treble guest artists The Hudson River Bells those who may be unable to join us in fellowship will follow. Choraliers showcase the richness a handbell choir from Athens, NY. Catskill, a chance to hear some lovely This program is made possible, in part, with public funds from the and versatility of the female voice. An Afterglow reception immediately choral singing. The Choraliers will also Decentralization Program of the New York State Council on the Arts Our thirty-plus members, under the follows the concert. participate in this year’s Winter Walk in with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State direction of Julie Carney, present a For the last several years as Hudson on December 1, 2018. Legislature, administered through the Community Arts Grants Fund in wide selection of holiday and seasonal part of our community outreach, the Tickets for the December music. From Praetorius and Luther to Choraliers have presented a “mini-con- 7 concert are available through Greene County by the Greene County Council on the Arts. sponsorship of our group or may be purchased at the door on concert HINTERLAND DESIGN night for $10. For ticket or sponsorship information, or to learn more about the Treble Choraliers, please call Graphic Lori at 518-943-1030. Check out our website www.treblechoraliers.org and Swamp Angel Antiques Design like us on Facebook. AT DAY & HOLT Theseb programs are made Color Printing possible, in part, with public funds 349 Main Street, Catskill, NY 12414 for from the Decentralization Program of 518.943.2650 Fax 518.943.4824 Postcards the New York State Council on the Arts Business Cards • Brochures with the support of Governor Andrew Booklets • Fliers • Posters Cuomo and the New York State Pat & Stephanie Walsh Programs • Catalogs Legislature, administered through Note Cards • Raffle Tickets the Community Arts Grants Fund in [email protected] Artist Owned and Operated Greene County by the Greene County One Mansion Street, Coxsackie • HinterlandNY.com • 518/731-2895 Council on the Arts. ALIVE 2018 November/December Page 11

Art School of to Thursdays 9am-5pm. CONCERTS IN THE VILLAGE: Columbia County ASCC’s Capital Campaign continues: the Art School must raise $20,000 by December 31, 2018 to Passion! ART CLASSES, secure the donation of the historic schoolhouse and surrounding land FREE TEEN ART which ASCC currently occupies. The Brill iance! historic structure was built c. 1880 as Genius! PROGRAM, a community schoolhouse and was Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante MEMBER’S SHOW, restored in the early 2000s. On its and Immortal Requiem With original foundation, the structure was The Broad Street Chorale, AND CAPITAL situated at a three-way intersection, drawing children from all directions. Orchestra And Soloists CAMPAIGN Today, ASCC uses the building to bring art out into the community, plus its Concerts in the Village continues commission and composition have Drawing by ASCC Faculty adult and teen fi ne art classes, volun- its 9th season with the Broad Street inspired plays, musicals, movies and Member Maj Kalfus. Image teer program, and year-round lectures Chorale and Orchestra joined by guest novels. The Mozart Requiem has Courtesy of the Artist. and exhibits. soloists in performances of Mozart’s become with good reason a legendary The Capital Fund will be used to brilliant Sinfonia Concertante for violin work. Fortunately the brilliant American ensure ASCC has funding for future and viola and the immortal Requiem. scholar and keyboard specialist Robert maintenance needs on this historic The concert begins at 3pm on Sunday, Levin has given us a powerful, but As fall begins to fade into winter, studies, or laying out compositions for building. Having a permanent home will November 11, 2018. This is believed to entirely appropriate completion. And it come enjoy a class at the Art School larger works allow ASCC to develop a permanent be the fi rst performance by a regional- is not by accident that our performance of Columbia County. In its sixth year What can you do in an hour? exhibit and teaching space, conserve ly-based ensemble of Robert D. Levin’s of the Requiem also commemorates, to of offering high quality art classes and A lot! In December, join us for One a historic landscape and structure for completion of the Requiem, Mozart’s the day, the centennial of the armistice outreach programs to the community, Hour Art, a one hour (or two) drop-in future generations, and provide new last but unfi nished work. CITV Artistic concluding World War I.” ASCC, a non-profi t organization with a class exploring Mixed Media with Sara program capabilities, including more Director David Smith will conduct. For the Requiem the Broad Street vision of “imagining Art for everyone,” Pruiksma on December 1, 2018 from on-site children’s programs. Please go Composed in 1779 the Sinfonia Chorale and Orchestra will be joined serves over 1500 community members 1-2pm and 2-3pm, and Printmaking to ASCC’s website to make a donation Concertante is a masterpiece of by four remarkable singers fast gaining each year. on December 8, 2018 from 1-2pm and to provide a home for art in Columbia virtuoso writing for violin and viola. In audience attention: soprano Paulina Our popular “Figure Drawing: 2-3pm. For printmaking, we will be County. form it is a hybrid between concerto Swierczek, alto Chloë Schaaf, tenor All Levels” series continues into exploring techniques without a press All programs and classes are held and symphony, reminding the listener Eric Finbarr Carey, and baritone Wayne November, with ASCC faculty members so you may continue printmaking at at the Old Schoolhouse, 1198 Route of Mozart’s unchallenged creative Arthur Paul, making his CITV debut. Gary Finelli on November 1, 2018 and home. Just $15/hour for adults and free 21c, at the intersection of Harlemville genius. The demanding solo parts CITV presents this memorable Maj Kalfus on November 15, 2018. for ages 13-21, all supplies provided. Road and Route 21C in Harlemville, will be performed by violinist Helena concert on Sunday, November 11 at Drawing the human fi gure is often Join us for our semi-annual NY. Register for classes at artschoolof- Baillie and violist Judith Nelson. Born 3 pm at the Kinderhook Reformed considered a great challengeb but it is Student-Faculty Art Show featuring columbiacounty.org. Email info@ in London, Ms. Baillie’s studies have Church, 21 Broad Street (US Route 9), an immensely rewarding experience the art of ASCC’s summer and fall artschoolofcolumbiacounty.org or call been at the Curtis Institute of Music Kinderhook, NY. Contribution $20. even for beginning artists.b Join us for students and faculty on November 10, 518-672-7140 for more information. and at Yale. Having performed all over The venue is handicapped accessible this unique program to expand your 2018.b Returning this year is a Small The Art School of Columbia the world, she now teaches at Bard and and a reception follows. For further skills and inspire your confidence when Works Show of art by ASCC’s faculty County offers a variety of classes, work- resides in Dutchess County. A native information and reservations please creating art inspired by the human and Members, featuring collage, oils, shops, special programs and numerous of Oregon, Ms. Nelson has been a visit www.concertsinthevillage.org, or form. Instruction from 6-7pm, studio drawings, and assemblage available for events year round. The ASCC’s Art in member of the New York Philharmonic 518-758-6869. from 7-8:30pm. purchase, making great holiday gifts. Library Program received public funds since 1983, living both in Manhattan CITV concerts are made “Painterly Sketching” with ASCC The reception is Saturday November from the Decentralization Program of and in Columbia County. Her studies possible with public funds from the faculty member Sara Pruiksma is on 10, 2018 from 5-7 pm.bThe event is free the NYS Council on the Arts, admin- were at the University of Washington Decentralization Program of the Saturday, November 3, 2018 from 10am and open to the public and refresh- istered in Columbia County by the and The Juilliard School. Ms. Nelson’s New York State Council on the Arts, – 2pm. Learn to capture your subject ments are served. The Small Works Greene County Council on the Arts performing experiences have included administered in Columbia County quickly through the art of sketching Show is also on view during extended through the Community Arts Grants the viola concertos of Hindemith, by the Greene County Council on with paint. This approach is useful in gallery hours Saturdays December 1, 8 Fund.b Walton, and Bartók. the Arts through the Community Arts painting en plein airb(outdoors), making and 15, 2018 from 12-4 pm, in addition Says David Smith, “I am honored, Grants Fund. Generous funding has in fact thrilled, to have Helena and Judy also been received from the Hudson Passage Theater Company at the Mill Hill Decentralization Program of the New York with us in November. They represent an River Bank and Trust Company HRC SHOWCASE Playhouse in Trenton, New Jersey. Critic State Council on the Arts with the support incredibly talented and experienced Foundation, T. Backer Fund, Eugene David Lee White describes the play as, “a of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the pairing in one of Mozart’s most striking M. Lang Foundation, Alexander and THEATRE magnifi cent piece of writing. Very funny New York State Legislature, administered concertos. I know they share my enthu- Marjorie Hover Foundation, Stewart’s and very moving.” through the Community Arts Grants Fund siasm for what we will be offering.” Shops, and The Price Chopper Golub Staged Reading Ian August is an award-winning inter- in Columbia County by the Greene County The great Requiem of Mozart Foundation, as well as from many nationally-produced playwright. Several of Council on the Arts. Additional funding is follows. In Smith’s opinion, “Even individual and business supporters. his works have been published by Samuel provided by the Hudson River Bank and in its incomplete state, this is a Kinderhook Reformed Church is of The French, Inc. The Pitkin Review, Smith and Trust Foundation. much-beloved masterpiece. The especially acknowledged for its many Kraus Publishing and the One-Act Play HRC announces the remaining read- surreal circumstances surrounding its in-kind donations. Goldilocks Zone Depot. Mr. August is a founding member of ings in their anniversary season to occur the Princeton-based playwriting collective. in 2019. The Snowman and the Spirit by The second staged reading of HRC b HRC Showcase Theatre’s Artistic Elisabeth Karlin. A Bronx high school in Showcase Theatre’s 28th season poses the Director, Barbara Waldinger, will direct 1976-An idealistic young teacher opens question, “How can life be created when a cast consisting of Ryan Cashman, Kyle old wounds in his impassioned effort to the universe is working against you?” In The Geraghty, Jerry Greene, and Briana celebrate the life of a forgotten African- Goldilocks Zone by Ian August, Andy (in his Lynn Naughton. The narrator will be Bob American hero takes place on March 23, relationship with Matt), and Franny (in her Pagnani. 2019. On April 27, 2019 HRC presents La relationship with Ray) are struggling to The Goldilocks Zone will be Fonda by Suzanne Trauth. 1945: Santa Fe, answer this question when fate brings them presented on Saturday, November 17, New Mexico. Los Alamos: the atom bomb. together. Through their budding friend- 2018 at 7:30 pm in the auditorium of the Secrets and lies: patriotism or treason? ship, they believe they fi nd the answer, but First Reformed Church at 52 Green Street Later on June 1, 2019 is The English Bride their partners have astronomical concerns. in Hudson, NY. As always, the reading will by Lucile Lichtblau. A woman’s dream lover The Goldilocks Zone is a comedic drama be followed by a reception and talkback turns out to be her nightmare. Winner of about love and resentment, independence with the actors, director, and playwright. the W Keith Hedrick Playwriting Award. and obligation, and the ability of two The suggested donation is $15. For reser- Allb fi ve original plays during HCR’s couples to fi gure out just how to create the vations, call 518-851-2061. Walk-ins are 28th anniversary season were carefully perfect environment for sustaining life. always welcome. selected by a panel of fi ve well-qualifi ed The Goldilocks Zone has already This program is made possible judges from over 160 submissions to their been given a full production by the (in part) with public funds from the national playwriting contest. The Two of Us Productions is well known throughout the Hudson Valley for presenting quality theater, both musicals and dramas. There was a great audience turn out for their most recent production, MAMMA MIA!, which ran October 6-13 at the Performing Arts Center at Taconic Hills Central JENNIE ALLEN-2017 School District in Craryville, NY. Other recent productions of Lend Me A Tenor, Peter Pan, Rumors, Young Frankenstein, Chicago, Les Miserables, INDIVIDUAL ARTIST TIER AWARDEE next to normal and Jesus Christ Superstar were all recognized by the Theatre Association of NYS with multiple awards, including outstanding work by the company & outstanding performance by the orchestra. “THE CLINIC” IS SPRING HAMMER TO This event was made possible, in part, with public funds from the Decentralization Program of the NYS Council on the Arts, administered in NAIL SHORT FILM CONTEST WINNER Columbia County by the Greene County Council on the Arts through the Still from The Clinic-Marsha Stefanie Blake-Smoke Community Arts Grants program.

Columbia County resident, Jennie spring-18-shorts-winners/ for the full horizons rather than trip out. Allen, received the 2017 Individual review. The Clinicb takes viewers on the Artist Tier re-grant for her short fi lm (The Clinic – Trailer) Inspired deep, dark and ultimately clarifying Hudson Valley Choral Society “The Clinic” which screens at the Indie by Michael Pollan’s articleb The Trip journey Adele goes on by using simply Rehearsals are well under way for Hudson Valley Choral Society’s Kick Memphis Film Festival on November Treatment, The Clinicb centers around beautiful cinematography by Andres Off the Holidays Concert featuring Bach Chorales (arrangements of English 2, 2018. This fi lm project was made Adele, a shaken woman (excellently and Karu and truly amazing editing by Allen hymns) Russian Choral music, show tunes, and exciting and playful arrange- possible, in part, with public funds from fearlessly played by Marsha Stephanie herself.b Clocking in at 15 minutes and ments of our most loved Christmas and Winter season songs. the 2017 Decentralization Program Blake) who is suffering from a terminal 40 seconds,b The Clinicb is a solid short We can’t wait to hear an audience giggle its way through John Carter’s of the New York State Council on the illness. While some stories of this nature that we think you’ll be seeing a lot on the ‘A Canine Christmas’ complete with human dog voices and Harry Simeone’s Arts with the support of Governor feature a happy-go-lucky character, festival circuit. storytelling arrangement of Moore’s ’Twas the Night Before Christmas.’ Add Andrew Cuomo and the New York State facing impending doom in a positive As an aside, Dr. Bill Richards at Johns several more of these familiar and unfamiliar classics, and you will leave with Legislature,b administered through the way, Adele isn’t handling it well and it’s Hopkins School of Medicine, whose work every bit of spirit needed to kick-off a joyous holiday season! Community Arts Grants Fund in Greene wearing on her husband and daughter. inspired the fi lm, plans to share the fi lm Be sure to bring the kids, too! Admission $15 for adults, $10 for seniors County by the Greene County Council on Adele decides to participate in an with oncologists and others in the fi eld. and free for students under 18. A reception follows the concert. The HVCS the Arts. unusual experiment in order to face her Jennie Allen hopes to create an event Kick Off the Holiday Concert is on Saturday, November 17 at 7PM at Christ “The Clinic” was also a winner in fears about dying. The study includes with him if accepted into the Maryland Church Episcopal, 431 Union Street Hudson, NY. the Spring Hammer to Nail Short Film a high dosage ofb psilocybin and the Film Festival, and also plan to do a local This program is are made possible, in part, with public funds from the Contest. Critic Don Lewis says: “The results are, well, trippy. I can only speak screening. For more information on Decentralization Program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the Clinicb takes viewers on the deep, dark for myself when I say, I’m not a huge Jennie Allen visit jennieallenfi lm.com. support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and ultimately clarifying journey Adele “drug culture” fan. While I’m totally of the Panel members are needed in through the Community Arts Grants Fund in Columbia County and adminis- goes on by using simply beautiful cine- opinion “to each their own,” the constant November and December to review tered by the Greene County Council on the Arts. matography by Andres Karu and truly barrage (at least where I live in Northern applications submitted to the 2019 amazing editing by Allen herself.b ...The California) about using drugs to expand NYSCA/Decentralization Community Clinicbis a solid short that we think you’ll one’s mind gets overwhelming... But Arts Grant Program. If serving as a be seeing a lot on the festival circuit.” Allen’sbThe Clinicbis a much smarter take panelist interests you please visit www. Visit www.hammertonail.com/reviews/ on using psychotropic drugs to expand greenearts.org/panelists and see!b

Spencertown Department. General admission tickets in Cultural Anthropology, she is a ($25) may be purchased in advance relentless promoter of the arts as a Academy Hosts at spencertownacademy.org and will vital educational component and an MARIA be available at the door.b integral part of society. She has been “Our goal is to help raise money the coordinator of cultural affairs at ZEMANTAUSKI to fi x and buy instruments for the Hudson Valley Community College in district’s band programs, enabling Troy, NY since 2004 and is on the faculty Benefi t Concert students from all backgrounds equal in the college’s Department of Fine Arts, for HCSD Music opportunity to experience playing Theater Arts & Digital Media. Department an instrument,’” says Spencertown Founded in 1972, Spencertown Academy Music Committee Member Academy Arts Center isb a cultural Craig Bender. “Maria Zemantauski is a center and community resource serving Spencertown Academy Concert world-class talent and we are honored Columbia County, the Berkshires, Series presents “¡La Guitarra by her support of the initiative.”b and the Capital region. Housed in a Fiesta!b Kids Need Musicb Benefi t Zemantauski is a nylon-string landmark 1847 Greek Revival school- Concert” with internationally acclaimed guitarist and composer whose style house, the Academy is located at 790 guitarist Maria Zemantauski on Sunday, is most signifi cantly infl uenced by State Route 203 in Spencertown, New

November 11, 2018 at 1pm. Full of the Spanish classical and fl amenco York. For more information visit www. passion, fi re, and grace, the concert repertoire. She has performed in Spain, spencertownacademy.org or call will feature both classical and fl amenco Italy, and across the continental United 518-392-3693. repertoire. Proceeds will be used to States. Her concerts are a dynamic purchase musical instruments for the blend of artistic freedom, innovation, Internationally acclaimed guitarist Hudson City School District Music and tradition. With a Master’s Degree Maria Zemantauski Page 12 2018 November/December ALIVE

readings. The performances take place in Kruger,b Brett Perry,b Davon At eight o’clock, fi reworks light HUDSON HALL Hudson Hall’s historic 1855 theater on RaineybandbEmma Sandallbjoin Weinert up the winter sky from Promenade Hill, Friday and Saturday, November 9-10, and a host of community partners orga- marking the offi cial conclusion of Winter A CULTURAL 2018 at 7pm, and Sunday November 11, nized by Operation Unite NY for three Walk and time for Santa to be on his way, 2018 at 3pm. Tickets are $25 in advance, enchanting performances fi lled with but the merriment continues long into BEACON $30 at the door and can be purchased at music, dance, comedy, slapstick, and that the night with many businesses open late hudsonhall.org or by phone at 518-822 special, only-at-Winter-Walk charm. for food, drink and entertainment. For NOVEMBER & 1438. Back out on Warren Street, musi- more information and an updated list of Winter Walk 2018 takes place cians and dancers entertain holiday events, please visit hudsonhall.org. DECEMBER on Saturday, December 1, 2018 shoppers with in-store performances, There are still more events in from 5-8pm. For one magical evening, while roving performers delight crowds December! Then on December 15, EVENTS Hudson’s unique creative community taking in the decorated storefronts or Hudson Hall and Operation Unite NY and independent retailers lining the enjoying locally made food and drinks. invite the community to honor African Hudson Hall invites audiences to mile-long historic main street transform Returning to the Below 3rd district is the American culture and unity with the take an interplanetary journey with raga the city into a winter wonderland full stunning traditional Ukrainian Winter annual Kwanzaa Omoja Community collective Brooklyn Raga Massive as of music, performance, food, holiday Star sculpture/installation by Ukrainian- Celebration. The Blithewood Ensemble they play a live, improvised score to the shopping, and family fun. Winter Walk born, Hudson-based artist Maryna Bilak. on December 16 at 3pm for a free perfor- 1973 animated sci-fi classic, Fantastic 2018 begins at 5pm outside Hudson The brightly lit and colorful star-shaped mance. Finally, closing a momentous year Planet on Saturday, November 3, 2018 Hall with the arrival of Santa, welcomed wooden structure stands eight feet of music, dance, theater, art and culture at at 7pm. The fi lm, directed by René Laloux Save December 1, 2018 for Hudson Hall’s by the young Harmony Project Hudson tall with eight rays emanating from the Hudson Hall is the return of The Orchestra and written by Laloux and Roland Topor, Winter Walk. Photo credit JD Urban. choristers. Thanks to our generous center, an ancient symbol of balance, Now, who will be performing a free, is a surreal journey to the future with publishing partners, Santa’s elves will harmony and equilibrium. festive-themed concert featuring Corelli, powerful allusions to the challenges The following week Hudson Hall distribute a free, gift-wrapped book to Up at the 7th Street Park, the Mozart and Beethoven on December 21 of today. The Massive’s raga drenched welcomes Mary Stuart Masterson every child who pays him a visit. Santa’s young and young at heart will delight in at 7pm. The December events are free soundtrack, played under the historic and Jeremy Davidson’s Storyhorse visit is proudly supported by Hudson’s wandering through Santa’s Village and and reservations strongly encouraged. proscenium in New York State’s oldest Documentary Theater to present The Five Star Urgent Care. peeking into tiny homes featuring fun Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson surviving theater, brings the experience Face of It, three new one-act documen- On stage at Hudson Hall, choreogra- festive scenes and enchanting charac- Opera House, 327 Warren Street, Hudson, of this psychedelic cult hit to new tary plays about love at the edge of pherbAdam H. Weinert presentsbRIP THE ters. Santa’s Village is created with help NY 12534. Call 518-822-1438 or visit www. heights. Tickets for the screening are reason. Inspired by real conversations NUT, a pantomime-style, Hudson Valley- from the City of Hudson, the high school hudsonhall.org. Programs at Hudson Hall are $30 in advance/$35 at the door and can with Hudson Valley residents, the stories inspired mash-up of the Rip Van Winkle students at Questar III, Lowe’s, Operation funded, in part, by New York State Council on be purchased at hudsonhall.org or by come to life on stage by professional story and Tchaikovsky’sb The Nutcracker Unite NY, and volunteers from Hudson’s the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew phone at 518-822-1438. actors in multimedia-infused concert-style Suite. Professional dancersb Logan Congregation Anshe Emeth. M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

THE PARASOL PROJECT EXHIBITION AND RECEPTION NORTH CHATHAM LIBRARY CATSKILL COMMUNITY Brought to Light - CENTER A Film about Local Black History

Barbara Reina will show her docu- Valley. Please join us for this fascinating mentary fi lm, Brought to Light about story. This event is made possible with local black history, at the North Chatham funds from the Hudson River Bank and Free Library on Sunday, November 11, Trust Foundation. TANNERSVILLE ARTISAN GIFT SHOP & GALLERY 2018 at 3 pm. She will introduce the fi lm The North Chatham Free Library Art at Leeds and the Catskill and afterwards, answer questions from presents events year round with activi- FEATURING FLURRIES- Community Center are jointly hosting a the audience. The event is free to the ties for people of all ages in mind. On reception of The Parasol Project sponsored public. Sunday, December 9, 2018 at 3pm Works by Nancy Orr by Better Burmese Health Care,ba commu- Brought to Light is a story of the Library hosts The Shoemakers and nity-based, Myanmar doctor-directed rediscovery, respect and change. The the Elves. From the collection of the At the Tannersville Artisan Gift not to be missed. When you view her nonprofi t organization that has provided cleanup efforts by a few villagers of Brothers Grimm, The Shoemakers and Shop & Gallery the upcoming show, pieces you are brought into the land- basic health services to under-served some stone markers in an overgrown the Elves is a delightful tale of gener- “Flurries” features the work of artist scape and can imagine the movement communities in Myanmar since 2005.bb fi eld in Kinderhook lead to the redis- osity and faithfulness. This familiar story, Nancy Orr. It is appropriately named of the wind and snow moving through Until recently, Myanmar (Burma) covery of a forgotten, “slaves’ cemetery” performed by Dancing Hands Puppet “Flurries” after one of her expressive the trees. had been under military rule much to in which hundreds of African-Americans Troupe, and told with marionettes, is oil paintings. “Flurries” opens on In addition the group exhibition the detriment of health care, education, were buried during the 1800s. fi lled with the mystery and magic of Saturday, November 17, 2018 with includes Bill Deane, Carol Slutzky- and countless other needs. The country A portal into the past lives of the season and can be shared with a reception from 4:30 to 7pm. The Tenerowicz, Karen Rhodes, Susan spends only $50 per person per year Kinderhook’s lesser-known non-white the whole family. Following the perfor- exhibit is on display through January Sabino, Larry Gambon, David Slutzky, on health care.b The average wage is population, the documentary explores mance, we will have our traditional 20, 2019 Peter Liman, Annie Borgenicht, Athena around $2 a day. Better Burmese Health Black history and the efforts of some Holiday Party and an ornament making According to Nancy Orr, she Billias, Sheila Trautman, Naomi Blum, Careb serves seven low-income communi- Hudson Valley residents to restore activity. painted the piece because she was “... Laurie Miller Hornik, Marty Bannan and ties in the Burmese community of Yangon respect to the Persons of Color The North Chatham Free Library is impressed by how broken the horizon Patti Ferrara. by providing medical consultations, lab Cemetery. located at 4287 Route 203 in the hamlet looked with the snow interrupting the For unique holiday gifts made tests, medications, staff salaries, transpor- Freelance writer Barbara Reina has of North Chatham, NY. Learn more trees. The piece is best viewed from a locally by artisans, our shop is great for tation, and clinic space rentals.b more than a decade of experience as a about this program and others at ncli- short distance as it does break apart on browsing and completing that holiday The Parasol Project helps to support print and broadcast journalist around [email protected] or 518-766-3211. close examination.” Nancy’s paintings guest list. Items include woodwork, Better Burmese Health Care›s mission. New York State and its beautiful Hudson are mostly in oils and occasionally jewelry, pressed fl ower and plant All parasols are handmade in the town of other media as she experiments with art, essential oils, luminary Candles, Pathein by local artists using bamboo, technique and color. Her paintings are ceramics, handmade bags and much cloth, and string without benefi t of elec- her interpretation of the Catskills and more. Contact Tina Accardi at 917-428- tricity.bThe contemporary art of Myanmar BEND-THE- the world around her, after years of 3797 for more information. Tannersville frequently speaks to the delicate balance working as a scenic artist for the enter- Artisan Gift Shop & Gallery, 6055 Main of embracing modernity while sustaining a KNOTTED-OAK tainment industry. These paintings are Street, Tannersville NY rich cultural heritage.b The artists featured in this exhibit refl ect on this duality in a Selected Works by personal yet contemporaneous manner, indicative of the larger society and its Gaigerova, Winkler, Catskill Community cultural challenges.b Stanchinsky & Krein The reception will be held on Center Presents… Friday, November 2, 2018, at the Catskill Violist Ronald Carbone. Community Center at 341 Main Street, CAMP Catskill, NY from 5-7 pm.b The Parasol No, no, they’re not a Russian Alexey Stanchinsky was a musical Project will be on display at CCC through law fi rm. No, they are not part of Paul genius; however, he suffered from spring 2019. All parasol sales will be shared Manafort’s rolodex. They are composers schizophrenia and committed suicide at NOW between the Better Burmese Health Care, who survived the Russian Revolutions of age twenty-six. Wade will play two solos the artists, and the Catskill Community the early 20thb century. Their works are from the composer’s “Sketches,” which (Find Your Gift) Center. More information at info@catskill- largely unknown outside of Russia, even sound like deeply felt emanations from communitycenter.org or call the Catskill to musicians, and only recently have his Russian soul. We are lucky to have Community Center 518-719-8244 and Art they begun to be recorded. this work, as his challenging music had at Leeds at 518-917-783-1673. One of the Bend-the-Knotted-Oak little chance of being performed in Junior Mentor Hope and Artist in duos (violist Ronald Carbone and post-Revolutionary Russia. Residence Stephanie Dougherty. pianist/BKO-artistic-director Uel Wade) Russia had its own versions of ATELIER PROGRESSIF will perform selected works from the the Bach and Couperin families, who There is something new in the include Cassidy A. Maze (Bua), CREATIVE ART SPACE period on Sunday, November 18, 2018 produced several major composers: making at Catskill Community Center - whose mentoring programs include at 3 pm, at the Wade-Hunter studio, 40 they are the Kreins. The youngest A Gift Shop, Coffee and Snack House, Crealitation (The Art of Creating Church Street, Chatham, NY. Admission Krein, Julian, was a prodigy as pianist Art Installation, Tiny Theater and Reality), Songwriting Made Simple, Jerusalem in the 80’s is $20, and persons under eighteen are (age two) and composer (age six).bbHe Cooperative Model Experiment with Talking To Animals and Shadow Photographs by admitted free. was published at age twelve. The BKO Artist in Residency and Mentorship Dancing. Matt Bua works with commu- Varvara Gaigerova was a child duo will perform his Sonata, a work programs woven throughout. Enter nity members on Art Installation, The Yechiam Gal prodigy. She was afforded musical infl uenced by Scriabin and the French Camp Now. Stone Wall Story and Zine Making. Gil opportunities because of Communist Impressionists. Artist in Residence and Melchior mentors Music and Spiritual ideology, which dared to suggest that Julian’s father, Alexander, will be mentor, Cassidy Maze, shares Camp Theory and artist Stephanie Dougherty the sexes should be equal. Her expo- represented by several piano solos, Now’s mission “We Empower Our presents and shares Upcycling Fashion sure was also a result of the paucity of including some based on ancient Communities To Create Peace Line Development. males at the time, due to deaths in wars, Russian dances. They have strong tunes Together” and “We work to raise Camp Now enlists experience and revolutions, and purges. Her Sonata for and luscious, jazz harmonies. as much funding, consciousness, enthusiasm from its Junior Mentors as viola, which BKO will perform, is fueled Like these composers, the viola and people power as possible - as well with Devon Gaillard, age 14, Hope by Romantic passion and Russian folk as a solo instrument is under-exposed, quickly as possible - for the local Sweeney, 12 and Eve Hyndes, 16. traditions. and the discovery of these works is a Community Center, Artists, Students Camp now is currently selecting Alexander Winkler, a composer of boon to its repertoire. In the hands of and Educational Programming.” from more programming in develop- Jerusalem for Cafe Ole by Yechiam German descent, was a professor at the a master such as Carbone (Met Opera, This is a Holiday Adventure ment from a variety of Artists/Mentors Gal, photography St. Petersburg Conservatory. This viola St. Luke’s, and extensive chamber- designed to be productive and fun for including Sound Engineering and work does variations on an old Breton music performance), this Russian music all ages. Come visit us over the next Producing, Clothing Swap, Upcycling Jerusalem is the epic history of folk tune, a “doing” frowned on by the is delivered rich and sweet, and Wade few months and witness the real time and Fashion Show Production, Taking three thousand years of faith, fanat- Soviet government. gets to indulge his digging-for-musical- building of our hybrid Art Installation, Back Our Story, LGBT and Youth Craft icism, bloodshed, and coexistence, gold habits. Gift Shop, Coffee/Snack House, and Series (Sewing Circles and Support from King David to the 21st century, Tiny Theater. Systems), DJing and many more. Camp from the birth of Judaism, Christianity, Maze and other mentors meet and Now also seeks Residency Mentors and Islam to the Israel-Palestine exchange skills with others through who possess knowledge and experi- confl ict. November 10 with various events. ence in Press and Communications, Yechiam Gal, an 11th generation During the next 30 days Camp Now Retail, Sales and Shop Management, Jerusalemite and principal founder Curriculum begins, while the pop-up Business Management, Book of Vista a photo news agency in building process opens to the public, Publishing (Prototypes and Limited Jerusalem, recorded the vibrant with an opening day for the Holiday Editions) and more. dynamic life of the city. Gal produced Market on December 13 and closing Camp Now, Catskill Community work for clients that included Yedioth Achronot newspaper, the Jerusalem ceremony on December 23, 2018. Center, 344 Main Street in Catskill, NY. Artist In Residency/Mentors post, Der Spiegel, Scene Magazine, the Islamic Museum, Ben Gurion University, The Israeli Foreign Offi ce, The Hyatt Regency Hotel complex, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority, Hbima National Theater, Bat Sheva Dance Company and many more, One of his major projects for Yedioth Achronot was to intensively document life in the City of Jerusalem, the images on display at the show represent a small slice of this project. Jerusalem in the 80’s opens with a reception on Saturday November 17, 2018 from 6 -8 PM. The exhibit is on display through December 14, 2018. Atelier Progressif Creative Art Space, 75 Bridge Street, Catskill, NY. Call 518-768-7787 or info@atelier progressif.com ALIVE 2018 November/December Page 13

Scholarships, apprenticeships & fellowships. Support for emerging artists played to expand opportunities for ensemble playing. Monthly meetings, in theater, dance, fi lm in performing arts, playwriting & fi lm. Deadlines vary Delmar NY. 518-383-6480, 518-580-1206. www.facebook.com/pages/Capital- depending on program. Princess Grace Awards. 150 East 58h Street, 25 fl . Area-Flute-Club 02/16 NY, NY 10155 (212) 317-1470 [email protected] www.pgfusa.org Updated Music... Programming sought by Society for New Music, professional Opportunities for Artists 02/16 organization in Upstate New York dedicated to performing and commissioning New! Fellowships… The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) online the music of today’s composers. Fees range from $1000 to $4000 depending application for 2015 Artist Fellowships is now open. Please go to nyfa.org to on the concert and number of performers. Society for New Music, 438 Extended Residencies multi-year, full-season-3 years. 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Contact: The American Guild of Musical Artists, 1430 th they want to sell to the GCCA Visual Arts Director, 398 Main St., Catskill, NY living composers in sharing their work with a global community. For US based Residencies.... One month for writers, visual artists and composers creating Broadway, 14 Fl., New York, NY 10018, 212-247-0247 [email protected], 12414. 518-943-3400. composers to travel to performance venues or to bring international artists to original work at country estate of poet Edna Vincent Millay. April-November www.musicalartists.org 02/16 There’s a need for your special talents and skills on the volunteer roster at the the US. Grants range from $500 - $5,000. www.meetthecomposer.org 02/16 program. Fee, $30/10 slides, tape or DVD for video artists/fi lmmakers; $50. New! Catskill Glee Club, Male Chorus Founded 1927.Join Us in Song! Sing Submit: project proposal; relevant supporting materials etc. The Millay Colony Greene County Council on the Arts galleries and offi ces in Catskill. There are Performing Arts Production Fund… Program of Creative Capital, for original men’s 4-part harmony, stimulate your mind, improve aerobic capacity, lower for the Arts, Box 3, Austerlitz, NY 12017 518-392-3103. [email protected]., immediate openings on the front desk and exhibit installation staffs, but many new work, all disciplines, traditions in live performing arts, to assist artist stress, relieve anxiety, make new friends, enjoy camaraderie. Join CGC for www.milllaycolony.org. Deadline, October 1 each year for following year. 02/16 other opportunities exist - gallery maintenance, information distribution, and exploring, challenging dynamics. Special focus on projects bringing insight, rehearsal Monday evenings 7:00 – 9:15 starting September 12, 2016 at the much, much more. What are you interested in? Chances are... we need you! critique to cultural difference in class, gender, generation, ethnicity or tradition. Residencies…. No application needed. Organization to preserve land, create Community Life Church, 20 West Main Street, Catskill. Visit catskillgleeclub.org Volunteers can exchange time and efforts for a GCCA membership, network Awards range from $10,000-$40,000. www.creative-capital.org. Updated space to recognized, emerging artists. 104 acres in Cazenovia. Sculpture strives or call Marty Wallace at (518) 943-2719 for more information. within the arts community, learn and teach valuable skills... and volunteering can 02/16 to show relationship between humans and nature. Workspace, stipend, housing be a lot of fun! Call GCCA Catskill Offi ce, 518-943-3400. for professional sculptors. Artistic resume, 20 slides, proposal of intent. SASE Performing Arts Grants for developing and producing work in the musical PERFORMING ARTS to return slides. Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, 3883 Stone Quarry Road, Box 251, NEW! The Art School of Columbia County, centrally located in Columbia theatre. Cheryl Kemper, Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Theatre Foundation, Inc., 109 Performing Arts… Dance classes for children, teens, adults. The Hudson Valley Cazenovia, NY 13035. [email protected]. 315-655-5742. Ongoing. 02/16 County in Harlemville NY is a not-for-profi t [501(c)3] art school dedicated to E. 64th St., NY, NY 10021. www.ggftheater.org 02/16 Academy of Performing Arts features a distinguished faculty of professionally “art for everyone.”bbASCC is seeking applications for the following positions:b Residencies... For photographers or related media. One month, $2,000 stipend, and academically accomplished instructors. 957 Route 82, West Taghkanic, NY Performing Arts Grants… To individuals in theater arts, opera, theater stage, developing and teaching art programs for children, art therapy and teaching art apartment, private darkroom, 24-hour facility access. Send resume, artist 12502. Call 518-851-5501. www.HVAPA.com. 02/16 set and costume design projects are eligible. Tobin Foundation, PO Box 91019, to adults. Please send your resume/CV with educational background, exhibitions statement, letter of intent, slides, proofs or prints of recent work. Light Work San Antonio, TX, 78209. 21-828-9736 [email protected] www.manta. Performing Arts... Always seeking new actors for future performances and (if applicable), and teaching experience with your contact information to: Artist-in-Residence Program, 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244. info@ com/c/mmcqn8p/tobin-foundation-for-theatre Updated 02/16 volunteers to help each production, throughout year in Columbia County. Watch [email protected] Subject Line: application. Please lightwork.org, www.lightwork.org Ongoing. 02/16 for audition notices: Ghent Playhouse, Town Hall Rd, POB 64, Ghent, NY 12075. Photography Grant…Alexia Foundation award for individual professional mention in the body of the email in which position(s) you are interested.b Residencies... Self-directed for research, experimentation and 518-392-6264, [email protected], www.ghentplayhouse.org. 02/16 photographer to produce a substantial picture story that furthers the production of visual, television, new media arts. Banff Centre foundation’s goals of promoting world peace & cultural understanding. Alexia Performing Arts... Private classes available in Dance and Music. Dance studio OTHER OPPORTUNITIES for the Arts, Offi ce of Registrar, Box 1020, Stn. 28, 107 Tunnel Foundation, 116 Oceanport Ave., Little Silver, NJ 07739. www.alexiafoundation. available for rent, 518-851-5150, [email protected], www.abblappen.com. Studio Assistant Wanted, private contractor 1099, for part-time work as studio Mtn. Dr., Banff, Alberta, Canada TOL OCO. 403-762-6114/6302. org Updated 02/16 02/16 assistant for a fi ne artist in Athens NY. Job includes, art handling, archiving, [email protected], [email protected]., www. Performing and Visual Arts… Deep listening programs, and in the gallery, wrapping work, some computer work, digital archiving on Mac, light assembly Photography Grant... Given annually to a U.S. photographer who aspires to banffcentre.ca Ongoing. 02/16 perpetuate the spirit and dedication that characterized Smith’s work. Grants painting, sculpture and workshops. For schedule: The Pauline Oliveros work, must be willing to lift moderate weight. Two days a week 6 hours per Residencies... Ranging from 2 weeks to 2 months for screenwriters and fi lm/ for specifi c project. Add’l grants awarded. W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, Foundation, POB 1958, Kingston, NY 12402, 845-338-5984. Fax: 845-338-5958. day. $10-15 per hour depending on experience. Email [email protected]. video makers October to May. Yaddo, Box 395, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866- International Center of Photography, 1130 5th Ave., NY, NY 10028. www. www.artwire.org/pof, [email protected]. 02/16 Volunteers...Greene County Community College, Elderhostel Institute Network 0395. www.yaddo.org 518-584-0746. Deadlines, August 1 and January 15 each smithfund.org Updated 02/15 affi liate programs: local art scene, artist slide lectures, instruction. Class year. 02/16 Textile Grants...Awards for research, education, documentation & VISUAL ARTS leadership is voluntary, offers wide exposure to interested audience. Adult Residencies... Year-round, in photography, painting, ceramics, textiles, etc. experimentation in the fi eld of quilt making. National Quilting Association, Visual Arts…Art Instructors Needed. ThebArt School of Columbia County, centrally Learning Institute, Box 1000, Hudson, NY 12453. 518-828-4181 x3431. Contact: Nantucket Island School of Design and Arts. 508-228-9248. nisda@ PO Box 12190, Columbus, OH 43212. www.nqaquilts.org grants@nqaquilts. located in Columbia County in Harlemville NY (a 20 minute drive from Hudson), Volunteers… To help spread the news about Thomas Cole, father of American nantucket.net, www.nisda.org 02/16 org 02/16 is a not-for-profi t [501(c)(3)] art school dedicated to “art for everyone.”bbASCC landscape painting and founder of the Hudson River School at his newly Residencies... Two-month residencies year round for professional sculpture is seeking applications for the developing and teaching art programs for *Youth Grants… Focusing on arts and education. Strives to contribute to the restored home, Cedar Grove, a National Historic Site in Catskill, NY. Call 518- artists. Stipends available. SASE: Gina Murtagh, Sculpture Space, 12 Gates St., children or seniors, art therapy and teaching art to adults. Send your resume/ ability of young people to explore their own identity, their relationship to 943-7465. [email protected] Utica, NY 13502. 315-724-8381. [email protected]. www.sculpturespace.org CV with educational background, exhibitions (if applicable), and teaching creative process, with high-impact, long-term experience with accomplished Volunteers…Docents to lead tours of exhibitions & other museum volunteer Ongoing. 02/16 experience with your contact information to artschoolofcolumbiacounty@gmail. professionals. Surdna Foundation, 330 Madison Ave, 3rd fl ., New York, NY 10017. opportunities. Amy Morrison, Development Assistant, (518) 463-4478, ext. combSubject Line: application. Please mention in the body of the email in which 212-557-0010, www.surdna.org [email protected] Application deadlines Residencies...Cooperative residencies/retreats for emerging or established 408 or [email protected] for more information. Albany Institute position(s) you are interested.b (Ongoing) vary by program. 02/16 artists in drawing, painting, sculpture, writing, poetry. Year-round. Private living of History & Art, 125 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12210 www.albanyinstitute. space, modern art studio, reasonable fee includes some mentoring assistance. VA… Life Drawing... weekly sessions of life drawing with model at the Hudson *Youth Grants… Creative residencies for teens from writers, artist’s colonies, org 2/16 SASE #10 to High Studios, RR1 Box 108N, Bolton Landing, NY 12814. 02/16 Opera House.b Artists work independently in a disciplined environment; No communities working with young people. For developing summer retreat instructor or specifi c method is followed. $15 per session.b Offered throughout teens residing communities, be mentored by high standard professionals. Artist Residencies… Retreat, stipend $1,250 for writers in their work; $25 per diem, GRANTS the year on Sundays from 10am to 1pm, check hudsonoperahouse.org for colony must be operating 5 years to be eligible. The Surdna Foundation 330 $500 travel. Gell Writers Center of the Finger Lakes, Writers & Books, 740 Local Grants…Support for family friendly, soundly managed organizations that current session dates.b Hudson Opera House, 327 Warren St., Hudson, NY 12534. Madison Ave., 3rd fl , New York, NY 10017. (212) 557-0010 www.surdna.org University Ave., Rochester, NY 14607. 585-473-2590 www.wab.org. Gell Center enhance the communities where the funder has a presence. Price Chopper’s 518-822-1438. hudsonoperahouse.org, [email protected] 02/16 [email protected] 02/16 Director of Operations [email protected] Ongoing. 02/16 Golub Foundation. PO Box 1074, Schenectady, NY 12301. Does not fund fi lm & VA… Looking for sculptors, painters ad photographers who would like to exhibit Visual Artist Grants… Virginia A. Groot Foundation to ceramic and/or Residencies… Established and emerging artists of all disciplines may create, video projects or individuals. No deadline. updated 02/16 their work year round in Palenville, NY. Very reasonable commission. Contact Al sculpture artists to devote a substantial period of time to the development present, and exhibit experimental work involving sound and technology, with Ceramic Grants…awards from $200 -$5,000 for original research in ceramics or Kathy at 58-678-3110 or www.catskillmtlodge.com 02/16 of their work. Three grants up to $35,000, $10,000, $5,000. Virginia A. Groot the option of integrating any combination of other disciplines including visual history, be based on primary source materials. Susan Detweiler, ACC Grants Foundation, P.O. Box 1050, Evanston, IL 60204-1050. Postmarked by March 1 and/or performance art. Artists work with staff audio engineer. Jack Straw Media VA… Indoor and Outdoor Art… Unison Arts Center in New Paltz seeks Chairman. Suite 12, 8200 Flourtwon Avenue, Wundmoor, PA 19038 sdetweiler@ each year. www.virginiagrootfoundation.org 02/16 Gallery, www.jackstraw.org., Steve Peters, [email protected]. Updated 02/16 proposals from artists to exhibit their wall-hung artwork in our gallery at aol.com www.amercercir.org updated 02/16 Unisonband also from artists to exhibit their sculpture in our outdoor sculpture Visual Artist Grants… based on artistic merit, fi nancial need for painters, Residencies… The Platte Clove program provides a retreat for artists from Dance Grants…Administers a variety of grantmaking programs. The Harkness garden. Call Unison at 845-255-1559. www.unisonarts.org or the Exec. Dir. sculptors, print-makers, and artists who work on paper are eligible. The Pollack- June through October. Painters, sculptors, writers, and composers are invited Foundation for Dance, Inc. 145 E. 48th St, Ste. 26C, NY, NY 10017-1259. Contact: Christine Crawfi s at [email protected]. 02/16 Krasner Foundation 863 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021. (212) 517-5400 to apply for residency. Artist interested in applying should download the Theodore S. Bartwick, Treas. 212-755-5540 02/16 [email protected] www.pkf.org 02/16 application from the Catskill Center website,www.catskillcenter.org Inverna VA… Columbia County Chamber of Commerce is establishing a rack of Grants… Offering fi nancial, administrative assistance to individual artists’ Lockpez, Director, [email protected]. 02/16 post cards and/or note cards by artists and photographers of images of special projects, help develop collaborative projects, assist locating venues RELIEF FUNDS, FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Residencies… The National Park Service offers residency programs to artists Columbia County points of interest and historic sites.bArtist is responsible for for presentation, sponsor for public presentations. Carol Parkinson, Dir., production of cards.bPricing between $2 and $5 each with artist receiving 70% New! - Emergency Resources… Superstorm Sandy. NYFA has a list of working in various disciplines. Contact the specifi c site for further info: Amistad Harvestworks, 596 Broadway, Ste 602, New York, NY 10012 . 212-431-1130 of the proceeds.bPut contact information (i.e. web address) on back of card for art specifi c resources available for artists affected by Sandy and needing National Recreation Area in Texas, Badlands National Park in South Dakota, www.harvestworks.org . Ongoing Updated 02/16 purchaser to access and view more work for possible sale directly from the artist. recovery assistance. See: http://www.nyfa.org/source/content/content/ Bearlodge Writers’ Devils Tower Residencies in Wyoming, Joshua Tree National, Call (518) 828-4417 or visit www.columbiachamber-ny.com 02/16 Grants…Communities, small mid-sized, culturally-specifi c, community-based disasterresources/disasterresources.aspx? Klondike Gold Rush National Park in Alaska, Mammoth Cave National Park, arts institutions. Programs showing issues, experiences of underrepresented Peters Valley Craft Education Center’s Delaware Water Gap Residencies in New VA… On-line art gallery NARtisticCreations.com. Funded by NAR Productions. Relief Fund... To help professional craft artists sustain their livelihood. Services social justice issues, community concerns of national or multi-state impact: Jersey, Saint Gaudens National Historic Site in New, Sapelo Barrier Island in Showcases work of Nick Roes and local artists. Will feature a Visiting Artist each include access to information, resources, business development support and residencies; new performing art, or visual art, cross cultural, multi state Georgia, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Weir Farm National Historic quarter in separate room at no charge. Contact NancyBenett@NARtisicCreations. emergency relief with loans, grants, and in-kind services. Craft Emergency Relief collaborations, dissemination of existing works affecting communities. Nathan Site. www.nps.gov/archive/volunteer/air.htm 02/16 com. Fund, Box 838, Montpelier, VT 05601. 802-229-2306. www.craftemergency.org Cummings Foundation, 475 Tenth Ave., 14th Fl., New York, NY 10018, 212-787- 02/16 VA… Seeking member artists, a few openings available for visual artists. 7300, 787-7377. [email protected] www.nathancummings.org 02/16 WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS Members staff the gallery, perform administrative duties. Art in all media Financial Assistance…to help pay medical or dental costs for artists nationwide. Grants…Municipalities, non profi ts -$15,000. Public buildings; historic Jurying for all media... For new members. Application, guidelines. SASE: The welcome. Established mailing list of 1,300 asking to receive show notices. Prescriptions, eyeglasses, wheelchairs, surgery, cancer treatments, etc. Funds landscape or municipal parks, cultural resource of downtowns, residential National Association of Women Artists, 80 Fifth Avenue, Ste. 14045, New York, Interested? Susan Kotulak, New Member Coordinator, Tivoli Artists’ Co-op paid directly to your medical providers. The Artists Charitable Fund. Judy neighborhoods. Emily Curtis, Program Coordinator, Preservation League of New NY 10011. 212-675-1616 www.nawanet.org . Deadlines, Sept. 15, March 15 Gallery, 518-537-5888. [email protected]. Archibald 970-577-0509. [email protected] or www.artistcharitablefund.org. York State, 44 Central Ave., Albany, NY 12206. 518-462-5658, 462-5684, info@ yearly. 02/16 02/16 VA… Publications: The Artist Workspace: A Guide for Artists; and The Artist preservenys.org, www.preservenys.org 02/16 Workspace Residency: A Guide for Organizations. (845) 658-9133, info@nysawc. Financial Assistance... Relief, fi ne artists grant for professional painters, graphic Grants... $500 for age under 30 creating new project, continue existing project. org, www.nysawc.org. Updated 02/16 artists, sculptors and their families in times of emergency, disability, or bereave- CALL FOR ENTRIES, ETC. Specifi c issue, show concrete action plan, budget, adequate supervision, ment. Artist Fellowship, Inc., 47 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10003 212-255-7740 VA... Seeking proposals for exhibitions at Greenville Branch, The Bank of Greene accountability. Give weekly grants to young people in US, Canada. Do (Salmagundi Club)dial ext. #216. www.artistsfellowship.com/ 02/16 ARTS & CRAFTS/FOLK ARTS County. All Arts Matter, POB 513, Greenville NY 12083. 518-966-4038. Something, 24-32 Union Square East, 4th Fl. South, New York, NY 10003 help@ Arts & Crafts… Columbia County Chamber of Commerce is establishing a VA… Seeking art work for exhibitions at the Agroforestry Resource Center dosomething.org. www.dosomething.org Updated 02/16 Financial Assistance… Emergency grants to visual artists of color. Eligible are Native American, African American, Asian American, Latino 21+, living in tri-state rack of post cards and/or note cards by artists and photographers of images (ARC) in Acra, NY. Original art work only. This will be a juried process. For more Grant… Newman’s Own Charitable Giving Program. Areas of giving include: arts, greater New York City area to help meet urgent fi nancial needs. The Wheeler of Columbia County points of interest and historic sites.bArtist is responsible for information, please contact Marilyn Wyman at the ARC and Cornell Cooperative education, children, elderly groups, environmental causes, affordable housing, Foundation, P.O. Box 300507, Brooklyn, NY 11230. 718-951-0581. www.nyfa.org production of cards.bPricing between $2 and $5 each with artist receiving 70% Extension of Greene County at 518-622-9820 ext/36. www.agroforestrycenter. disaster relief, hunger relief. Newman’s Own Charitable Giving Program, 246 Updated 02/16 of the proceeds.bPut contact information (i.e. web address) on back of card for org 02/16 Post Road East, Westport, CT 06880. www.newmansown.com 02/16 purchaser to access and view more work for possible sale directly from the artist. Financial Assistance... To provide artist emergency assistance to qualifi ed artists VA... Paint outdoors in nature with state organization, New York Plein Air Painters Film/Video & Theater Grants… Free updated bimonthly Funding Newsletters Call (518) 828-4417 or visit www.columbiachamber-ny.com 02/16 whose needs are unforeseen, catastrophic incident, who lack resources to meet Society. Will sponsor paint-outs, exhibitions around NYS. NYPAP, J.Baldini, P.O. distributed via email by The Fund for Women Artists. WomenArts 3739 Balboa situation. One time for specifi c emergency: fi re, fl ood, medical. Adolph and Arts & Crafts... Greene County, NY craftspeople: Marketing Crafts and Other Box 2332, Niagara Falls, NY 14302-2332. [email protected], http://ipap. Street #181 San Francisco, CA 94121 (415) 751-2202 [email protected] www. Esther Gottlieb Foundation, 380 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013. www. Products to Tourists, North Central Regional Extension Publications brochure homestead.com/ 02/16 WomenArts.org 02/16 gottliebfoundation.org Ongoing. 02/16 #445, $1.50. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Greene Co., Greene County offi ce VA…NEW! CALL FOR ENTRIES - The Catskill Mountain Foundation - Kaaterskill Film, Video Grants... Average $25,000 to support international documentary building, Mountain Ave., Cairo, NY 12413. 518-622-9820. [email protected], Fine Arts and Crafts Gallery and Bookstore in Hunter, NY seeks local & regional fi lms and videos: current, signifi cant issues in human rights, expression, liberties, http://arc.cce.cornell.edu/ Query sent 02/16 authors, fi ne artists, and crafters in all media. Send link to work or 5-7 JPEG Financial Assistance... Up to $5,000 grants for writers and playwrights with social justice. Diane Weyermann, Dir. of Soros Documentary Fund, Open Society Arts & Crafts… hive, owned and operated by Theresa Spinelli at 321 Main Street images plus artist statement to - Fine Art & authors: [email protected] th AIDS. Candidates must be published. Fund for Writers and Editors with AIDS, Institute, 400 W. 59 St., New York NY, 10019 Info. 212-548-0657, Fax 212-548- in Schoharie, is looking for artists (of all mediums) who wish to show and sell at - Crafts: [email protected] Updated 02/17 PEN American Center, 568 Broadway, New York, NY 10012. 212-255-7740 4679 [email protected] www.soros.org/sdf. Ongoing Updated 02/16 this unique shop: a bit out of the ordinary, this up and coming venue offers an [email protected] www.salmagundi.org 02/16 VA...NEW! CALL FOR ENTRIES - The Catskill Mountain Foundation - Kaaterskill Film, Video Grants... Seeking projects on contemporary issues of human rights, unusual mix of antiques, vintage, modern, industrial, organic, hand-crafted and Fine Arts and Crafts Gallery and Bookstore in Hunter, NY seeks local & regional civil liberties, freedom of expression, social justice. Up to $15,000 production Relief Fund... Funding artists experiencing serious illness, crisis, or local. bhive supports local businesses and artists and strives to fi nd American- authors, fi ne artists, and crafters in all media. Send link to work or 5-7 JPEG funds of up to $50,000. Sundance Documentary Fund, Sundance Institute, 8857 bereavement. SASE: Artists Fellowship Inc., Emergency Aid, c/o Salmagundi made items and use recycled products. hive is a continuing work in progress images plus artist statement to - Fine Art & authors: [email protected] West Olympic Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90211. www.sundance.org . Ongoing Club, 47 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10003. 212-255-7740 [email protected] www. and will begin a regular concert series in conjunction with their ongoing “Meet - Crafts: [email protected] 02/16 salmagundi.org 02/16 the Artist” events.b hive offers opportunities to display, lecture and more.b Financial and Management Services... NYFA’s new Works and Management Contact Theresa Spinelli at www.hive321.com or email theresa@hive 321.com Film Grants… Eight grants yearly in many categories except commercial ALL MEDIA projects. Send a SASE to Bill Creston, with description, inspiration, source Services offer assistance to individual artists and small arts groups. New York for details. 02/16 All Media... Seeking admissions to slide viewing program. Possible inclusion material, resume, approx. dates of use, experience, and media to eMediaLoft, 55 Foundation for the Arts, 20 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. (212) 366-6900 x 225 Arts & Crafts…New!! Catskill Fine Art and Antiques seeks submissions from in group exhibitions. Applications for membership and curated shows also Bethune St., A-628, New York, NY 10014. 212-924-4893, email abc@emedialoft. or 230.FAX (212) 366-1778 www.nyfa.org Updated 02/16 artists working in any medium for exhibitions at new gallery opening at 410 considered. Slides, CV cover letter. The Painting Center, 51 Greene St., New York, org website: www.emedialoft.org/ Ongoing 02/16 Financial Assistance... For artists in need of emergency aid to avoid eviction, Main Street in Historic Catskill, NY. The gallery features a blend of period NY 10013. 212-343-1060. Ongoing. Film Grant... Independent documentary fi lmmakers may apply. We produce, cover medical expenses, unpaid utility bills, other. Submit description, copies and contemporary original artwork, both two and three dimensional and All Media… The Sugar Maples Center for Arts and Education. Historic church distribute and promote quality ethnographic, documentary and non-fi ction fi lms of bills or eviction notice, resume, two letters of recommendation: Change American antiques. Catskill Fine Art and Antiques welcomes both traditional for gatherings, readings, small musical performances, art studio. Art study from around the world. Send brief description, one page budget. Cynthia Close, Inc., PO Box 705, Cooper Station, NY 10276. 212-473-3742. innercity.org/ and "cutting edge" artwork for shows. Please contact Steve Blendell at info@ vacation, stay in hotel room, dorms on property. Two to four week residencies Exec. Dir., Documentary Educational Resources, 101 Morse St., Watertown, MA columbiaheights/agencys/change.html Ongoing. 02/16 catskillfi neart.com or 518-943-4530 or stop by the gallery space at 410 Main include retreat for performing arts groups. Ellie Cashman, Dir., Catskill Mountain 02472. Fax - 617-926-9519, email [email protected] web site www.der.org/ 800- Street, Catskill Thursday –Sunday from 12 to 5 PM. Please include a small group Foundation, 7967 Main St., Rte. 23A, POB 924, Hunter, NY, 12442. 518-263-4908. 569-6621. Ongoing 02/16 INTERNSHIPS of representative images of your work. 7/2016 ongoing www.catskillmtn.org. [email protected]. 02/16 *International Artists…Trust for Mutual Understanding funds travel & per diem New! Internships…Greene County Council on the Arts is looking for an intern All Media... Art Licensing 101: Selling Reproduction Rights for Profi t. 224-page expenses of professional exchanges, visual & performing arts. Collaborations, to assist with design, social media and exhibitions.b The ideal candidate has LITERARY, FOLKLORE, STORYTELLING book de-mystifi es industry. Action plan in easy to read form. Author Michael curatorial research, performances, lectures. Exchanges relating to Russia, Czech experience in graphic design, writing, and social media. An ability to work both Poets... Seeking teen works for book. Love and affection, friendship, heartache, Woodward has worked in industry for 25 years. Art Network, POB 1360, Nevada Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovak Republic & Ukraine, limited funds for others. independently and closely with the Visual Arts Director on creating graphics pressure, etc. as themes. SASE: June Cotner, Poems by Teens, Box 2765, Poulsbo, City, CA 95959. 800-383-0677. [email protected] , www.artmarketing.com Funds individuals. www.tmuny.org. Deadlines, August 1, Feb 1. 02/16 and posters for exhibitions, managing media deadlines and installing shows is WA 98370. [email protected], www.junecotner.com 02/16 highly valued.b Please email Niva Dorell, Visual Arts Director at niva@greenearts. . Updated 02/16 Literary Grants... Contemporary Literature and Non-Fiction. Black Lawrence Writers… nth position is a free online magazine/e-zine with politics & opinion, org with a resume and cover letter outlining skills and interests.b Go to www. All Media... Info hotline sponsored by American Council for the Arts has referral Press seeks to publish intriguing books of literature and creative non-fi ction: travel writing, fi ction & poetry, reviews & interviews, and some high weirdness. greenearts.org for more information on Greene County Council on the Arts. service, provides information on a wide variety of programs and services. Call novels, memoirs, short story collections, poetry, biographies, cultural studies, http://www.nthposition.com/links.php offers listings for calls for submissions to Ongoing 02/16 Mon.-Fri, 2-5PM EST: 1-800-232-2789 and translations from the German and French. The St. Lawrence Book Award writers. Free to subscribe. 02/15 is open to any writer who has not yet published a full-length collection of short New! Internships…Freehold Art Exchange is looking for an intern to assist Books... Catskill Mountain Foundation’s Village Square Bookstore & Literary Arts stories or poems. The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a with fundraising, web development, organic gardening and barn renovations.b Center has over 10,000 titles in stock including books on the visual arts, crafts, PHOTOGRAPHY $1,000 cash award, and 10 copies of the book. Annual Deadline: August 31. The ideal candidate has experience with web design, social media campaigns, fi lm, poetry, drama, children’s storybooks, cooking, gardening and fi ction and Photography…Nueva Luz, photographic journal of En Foco, Inc. ($45 [email protected] 02/16 fundraising, gardening and/or carpentry. Freehold Art Exchange is an artist non-fi ction. Visit them online at http://www.catskillmtn.org/retail/bookstore.html membership) produces exhibitions, publications and events which support residency program for visual and interdisciplinary artists invested in social Literary Grants… Children’s Books. General Work-In-Progress grant. $1,500 to see their Schedule of Literary Events. Updated 02/16 photographers of Latin/Am, African/Am, Asian, Pacifi c Islander and Native justice, environmental sustainability, and community engagement. Our facility is American heritage. View current issue before submitting portfolios of 20 through Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. All genres. SCBWI, Writers... Seeking entries for Very Short Fiction Award. $1,200 and publication on 57 acres of land in the Catskill Mountains of NY, including a vegetable garden unmounted prints or slides for consideration in future Nueva Luz. Subscription 8271 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048. www.scbwi.org 02/16 of work less than 3,000 words. Award granted twice a year with submission and hiking trails.b We are looking for someone dependable, able to work alone $30 USA. Membership, subscriptions, donations, all tax deductible. En Foco, deadlines in January and July. Online submission page: Glimmer Train Press, Music Grants…International Voice Competition in Canada, USA. Altamura/ and collaborate, and not afraid to get dirty!b Please email Molly Stinchfi eld, Co- Inc., 1738 Hone Ave, Bronx, NY 10461. 718-931-9311 FAX 718-409-6445 www. 4763 SW Maplewood, PO Box 80430, Portland, OR 97280-1430. 503-221-0837. Caruso Study Grants Audition. $30,000 cash grant prizes. Performances with Founder and Director, at [email protected] with a resume and enfoco.org 02/16 Online submission page: https://www.glimmertrainpress.com/writer/html/ orchestra. Requirements: 5 (fi ve) arias in the original key and language. One cover letter outlining skills and interest.b Go to www.freeholdartexchange.org for aria will be chosen by the contestant and a second aria by the jury. Aria with index2.asp 02/16 Photography… Salons monthly, preceded by a potluck meal, bring something more information on Freehold Art Exchange. Updated 02/16 to share. Conversations, sharing, seeing, discussions on photography. The cabaletta must be presented in its entirety. One chamber literature work of Writers... Lists of contests, grants, fellowships for fi ction, poetry, drama/fi lm, Internships... Women’s Studio Workshop, a visual arts organization with Center for Photography at Woodstock, 59 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY 12498. 845- contestant’s choice. Contestant must be ready to sing a full recital upon 24-hour non-fi ction, published bi-monthly. Awards for Writers, PO Box 437, Ithaca, NY specialized studios in printmaking, hand papermaking, ceramics, letterpress 679-9957. [email protected] www.cpw.org Updated 02/16 notice. Information and application www.altocanto.org. Sponsored by Inter- 14851. www.ithaca.edu 02/16 printing, photography and book arts. PO Box 489, Rosendale, NY 12472. 845- Photography… Seeking contemporary and traditional work by Native artists. Cities Performing Arts, Inc. 4000 Bergenline Ave, Union City, NJ 07087. Info. Poets & Writers... Literary Horizons, new program is dedicated to professional 658-9133. wsworkshop.org 02/16 American Indian Community House Gallery, 708 Broadway, New York, NY (201) 863-8724 Fax (201)866-3566 [email protected] 02/16 development of writers at all stages of their careers. Poets & Writers, 72 Spring Internships… Arts Administration in exchange for housing on the studio 10003. 212-598-0100. www.aich.org. 02/16 Music Grants… Fostering of musical ideas, new projects promoting original St., New York, NY 10012. 212-226-3586, fax 212-226-3963, www.pw.org. 02/16 complex four miles from beaches of central Florida. Award-winning studios: programming & new performers, rather than supporting performances, tickets Photography… Seeking curators to present exhibition/publication programs resource library, painting, sculpture, music, dance, writer’s studios, black box or tuition.. www.sparkplugfoundation.org. Sparkplug, 877-866-8285. Spring & MUSIC focusing on aesthetic issues. Proposals should include names of possible artists, theater, digital computer lab. Atlantic Center for the Arts or Harris House of program summary, curator’s resume. Kathleen Kenyon, 59 Tinker St., Woodstock, Fall deadlines. Updated 02/16 New! Open Audition for Young Singers 8-18. St. Luke’s Episcopal Church at 50 Atlantic Center for the Arts, Internship Form: Program Dept., Atlantic Center for NY 12498. 914-679-9957. [email protected]. Music Grant… DeLucia Award for Innovation in Music Education in genres, the Arts, 1414 Art Center Avenue, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168. (386) 423-1753 William Street in Catskill, NY announces the formation of a Treble Choir for young Photography… Offer of workshops with speakers, competitions, discounts on instruments, methods, other aspects of music education that can be duplicated. www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org. Ongoing 02/16 people, male and female in the English cathedral tradition. This is an audition The Mockingbird Foundation, c/o Lemery Greiser, LLC, Attn: Jack Leibowitz, only choir under the direction of Ann Carter-Cox, M.F.A. In addition to weekly supplies and processing, newsletter. Greene County Camera Club, POB 711, Internships... High school seniors, college students; Flex-time. Programs in Esq., 10 Railroad Place, Ste.1502, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-3033. Ongoing group instruction and practice, every young person accepted into the program Greenville, NY 12083. 518-797-3466, 518-966-4411. publishing and literary presenting business. Marketing, database maintenance, 02/16 will receive an additional half hour individualized voice lesson each week. The Photography... Critical Needs Fund for Photographers with AIDS. Initial Literary Curators website, writing, sending press releases, Workshops for Kids entire program is offered at no charge. Prior musical training or experience is not requests by phone: 212-929-7190. Ongoing. Music Grant... Supporting young composers of classical or chamber music. The program, poetry for radio shorts, video production. Bertha Rogers, Ex. Dir., necessary in order to audition. Call 518-943-4180 or use the contact form on the BMI Foundation, Inc., Carlos Surinach Fund and Boudleaux Bryant Fund. 212- Bright Hill Press, POB 193, Treadwell, NY 13846. 607-746-7306. wordthur@ church website www.stlukescatskill.org. 02/16 830-2520. [email protected] Ongoing. Updated 02/16 catskill.net www.brighthillpress.org Ongoing. Updated 02/16 Sculpture New! Music…Music instructor needed for youth ages 7-18 years. 3-6 students Sculpture… Call for sculptors living within 150-mile radius of Albany for large- Music Grant… Meet the Composer’s Commissioning Music/USA Program for Speakers, Professional Services, Mentoring not-for-profi t performing and presenting organizations commissioning new per week. Must teach piano, other instruments welcome. Call:b Elena Mosley scale works appropriate for high traffi c terminal. Prospectus, info: Sharon Speakers... Speakers in the Humanities, a program of New York State Council works. Support composer, librettist fees, copying, range, support services. 518b-828-3612. 3/2016 Bates, Director, Art& Culture Program, Administration Building Ste. 200, for the Humanities: for a nominal fee, non-profi t NYS organizations may book Rotating basis. www.randallgiles.org/commissioning.html Eddie Fiklin, Senior New! Music…Wanted Male Singers, Tenors, Basses for Male Chorus Volunteer Albany International Airport, Albany, NY 12211-1057. 518-242-2241 arts@ distinguished scholars to lecture on a variety of topics. Applications eight weeks program Manager. 212-645-6949 x102. 75 Ninth Ave., 3R Suite C, New York, NY Group. Call 518-943-2914. 3/2016 albanyairport.com 02/16 prior to proposed lecture. For catalog, application contact: New York Council for 10011. 02/16 Music… International Voice Competition in Canada, USA. Altamura/Caruso the Humanities, 150 Broadway, Ste. 1700, New York, NY 10038. 212-233-1131, MISCELLANEOUS Music Grant…Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ New York State Music [email protected]; www.nyhumanities.org 02/16 Study Grants Audition. $30,000 cash grant prizes. Performances with orchestra. Fund supports exemplary contemporary music, all genres created by today’s Requirements: 5 (fi ve) arias in the original key and language. One aria will be New Website... The Whitney Museum of American Art has portal to Internet art and digital arts worldwide as an online gallery space. Details, scope: www. composer, musicians in written compositions, jazz, around world based living SCHOLARSHIPS & RESIDENCIES chosen by the contestant and a second aria by the jury. Aria with cabaletta must classical, folk, experimental, noncommercial popular music: alternative rock, be presented in its entirety. One chamber literature work of contestant’s choice. artport.whitney.org 02/16 New! - Residency… Byrdcliffe Art Colony Artist in Residence Program (AiR). country, hip hop, others. Supports school, community educational programs. Contestant must be ready to sing a full recital upon 24-hour notice. Information Weekly Electronic Digest... New York Foundation for the Arts features news Application deadline: March 15. $40 application fee. Uninterrupted time and RPA to hold meets to explain process. www.rockpa.org/music. (212) 812-4337 & application: www.altocanto.org. Sponsored by Inter-Cities Performing Arts, updates on social, economic, philosophical, political issues affecting arts and creative space for visual artists, writers and composers at Byrdcliffe Art Colony [email protected]. 02/16 Inc. 4000 Bergenline Ave, Union City, NJ 07087. Info. (201) 863-8724 Fax culture, job listings and opportunities for artists and organizations. Free on-line in Woodstock. Fee schedule and more info, including fellowships, available (201)866-3566 [email protected] 02/16 subscription: www.artswire.org Updated 02/16 *Music Grant…Music Alive with Meet the Composer supports residencies with on line at byrdcliffe.org/artist-in-residence. Residents chosen by committee of professional youth orchestras. Short Term Residencies 2-8 weeks, one season; professionals. 02/16 Music…Capital Area Flute Club for fl utists of all abilities, wide variety of music Rentals... Lighting and audio system packages. LSL Productions, Box 63 Page 14 2018 November/December ALIVE

Through November 11 November 17, 2018-January 12, 2019 Exhibit: AUTUMN HUES. Fall Show at Tannersville Artisan Gift Shop GCCA Exhibit: WINTER SALON & HOLIDAY GIFTS EXHIBIT AND 2018 Cultural Calendar of Events & Gallery. Opening reception September 22, from 4:30 to 7pm. SALE. The winter salon features original artwork and handmade Main Street, Tannersville, NY. giftsb by GCCA Artist Members. Opening Reception November Through November 17 17, 2017, 3-5 pm. FREE & open to the public. Gallery hours are GCCA Gallery Boutique - The Greene County Council on the Arts Last Monday Monday-Friday from 10 am to 5 pm. The Gallery remains open on invites you to visit our gallery boutique, The Artful Hand, in Catskill. (DEC) Exhibit: THE ART OF MUSIC SHOW. Opening Reception Event: POETRY READINGS moderated by visual artist and poet, Saturday Noon to 5 pm. Greene County Council on the Arts, 398 Open year-round, we offer fi ne arts and high quality crafts by local October 12, 6-8pm. A musician and music themed group exhibit. Robert Tomlinson. 394 Main Café, 394 Main Street, Catskill, NY Main Street, Catskill, NY. and regional artists, and books by area authors. Send boutique Heermance Memorial Library, 1 Ely Street, Coxsackie, NY. For more inquiries to [email protected]. The GCCA Catskill Gallery, Tuesdays information contact Luis Macia Studio at luismaciastudio@gmail. November 17, 2018-January 20, 2019 located at 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY. Open Monday through HIP HOP FOR YOUTH. Operation Unite in collaboration with Hudson com or 845-521-1691. Exhibit: FLURRIES. Featured artist Nancy Orr, plus a group Saturday, 10AM-5PM. For more information, contact gcca@ Hall. 5-6pm. FREE.bHudson Hall, 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY. Through November 18 exhibition. Opening reception November 17 from 4:30 to 7pm. greenearts.org or 518-943-3400. FREE. Tannersville Artisan Gift Shop & Gallery, 6055 Main Street, Club: LEGO CLUB FOR ALL AGES, 4:00 PM every Tuesday. Come, (CIP) Exhibit: SPECTRUM, contemporary artworks installed Tannersville NY. Contact Tina Accardi 917-428-3797 Museum: CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION PIANO MUSEUM. explore the world of building with legos, and meet new friends at throughout the historic home, studios, and grounds at the Thomas 18 beautiful examples of piano making from 1783 to the present, your library! Catskill Public Library, 1 Franklin St, Catskill NY. For Cole National Historic Site. www.thomascole.org/visit. TCNHS, 218 November 17 plus fascinating related ephemera, includes pianos from Liberace, more info: www.catskillpubliclibrary.org OR call (518) 943-4230. Spring Street, Catskill, NY. (CIP) Family Theatre: THEATRE DE L’OEIL: A HEART IN WINTER. Sir Roland Hanna’s and a rare Clementi that was played by the Every Tuesday Through November 21 Presented by the Catskill Mountain Foundation. 3:30pm Advance Maestro himself.b Besides the Museum, the Doctorow Center tickets $10; $7 children, Door: $12; $7 children. Tickets at www. KWANZAAbTheater Group. Program AGES 10 and UP. 6-7:30pm. includes 3 movie theaters and a performance space. Across Exhibit: LAURA KAUFMAN: DRAFTER. Sculptures and drawings. catskillmtn.org or 518 263 2063. Orpheum Film & Performing Arts FREE. Operation Unite Education & Cultural Arts Center. 360 the street is a newly revised restaurant, a fi ne Art and Craft gift C-GCC Foundation Gallery. Gallery hours Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. Center, 6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY. gallery and an excellent Bookstore. Doctorow Center, Main Street, Columbia Street, Hudson.bb to 5 p.m. For more information, call 518-828-4181, extension 3241. (DEC) Concert: HUDSON VALLEY CHORAL SOCIETY. A Hunter, NY. 518-263-2036.bHours: 12-4, Friday and Saturday, or by First Tuesday Columbia-Green Community College, 4400 Route 23, Hudson, NY appointment. Groups welcome. 518-263-4908. www.catskillmtn.org program of Bach Chorales, Russian choral music, show tunes Radio: WGXC, PURPLE HOUSE: A MONTHLY FORUM FOR THE Through November 30 and familiar and unfamiliar holiday classics.7pm. Admission: Ongoing ARTS, hosted by visual artist and poet, Robert Tomlinson frequently Exhibit: EUNICE AGAR exhibits fi gurative oil paintings in the Joan $15 adults, $10 seniors, under 18, free. Reception to follow. Prattsville Art Center and Residency. EXHIBITS, CONCERTS, explores the intersection between images and words. 2-3 pm. 90.7 Allen Art Gallery at Camphill Ghent. The artist will give a short talk at Christ Church Episcopal, 431 Union Street, Hudson, NY. LECTURES, ALL AGES MUSIC CLUB AND MUSIC FESTIVALS, FM. an opening reception on October 6, 2018 at 3 PM. Camphill Ghent (DEC) Theatre: THE GOLDILOCKS ZONE by Ian August. 7:30 pm. NEXT GENERATION ART CLUB, WEEKLY DISCUSSIONS & Tuesdays, November 6 -December 18, 2018 is located at 2542 Route 66, Chatham, NY. The gallery is open daily A reception and talkback with the actors, playwright, and director LECTURES, E(ART)H Club for Young Artists. www.prattsvilleart.org, from 9 am to 5 pm. For information call 518-329 2760. follows each staged reading. Included is a list of this season’s plays, or facebook: Prattsville Art Center and Residency Kids: MOTHER GOOSE. Story Time Program for children from birth playwrights, performance dates, and a brief description of each to age 3 and their caregivers. Stories, songs and movement.b10:30 Through December 1 Summer Programs at Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts. play. First Reformed Church, 52 Green Street in Hudson, NY .For AM. Heermance Memorial Library, 1 Ely Street, Coxsackie. FREE. Interactive Installation: FRAMED by YOU. The Olana Partnership CERAMICS, PAINTING, PAPERMAKING AND MORE! 518- additional information call Sandra Gill 518 851-2016. www.heermancelibrary.org, or 518-731-8084. is putting Frederic Church’s landscape masterpiece in a frame in 263-2001 or visit www.sugarmaples.org. Various locations in Puppet Theater: TANGLEWOOD MARIONETTES PRESENTS a scenic spot where Church’s fi rst artist studio was set onsite. The Tannersville & Hunter, NY. Wednesdays HANSEL AND GRETEL. 2 pm. Tickets: Adults $6, $4 for Student, installation encourages cellphone art making, selfi e compositions, Workshop: WATERCOLOR WORKSHOPS for adults with painter. Seniors & Children. 518-828-4181. Arts Center Theater at Year Round Activities & Education Programs: WORKSHOPS, and family portraits and suggested that people view the landscape Washington Irving Senior Center, Catskill, NY, 10AM to Noon. Free. Columbia-Greene Community College, 4400 Route 23, Hudson, CLASSES, OUTDOOR HIKES & ADVENTURES, SPECIAL EXHIBIT through various frames both literal and metaphorical. Plan a picnic Bring own supplies. NY. AND EVENTS. Visit www.olana.org. Olana State Historic Site. 5270 and a portrait of landscape art making session. 8:30AM-Sunset, Route 9G, Hudson, NY.b First Wednesday Location: Near Church’s old art studio location. Free. All Ages. Visit November 17band 18b Full calendar of year round acitivies! PERFORMANCE, Music Workshops: HUDSON RIVER UKES. Ukulele Club. 6:00-7:30 OLANA.org (CIP) Event: Chilly Willy Winter’s Eve.Tours a celebrations of EXHIBITIONS, READING, SPECIAL EVENT, KIDS & FAMILY and PM.Contact group leader Ed Greenaway atbegreenaway@statetel. October 28 Martinmas, St. Nicholas Day and St. Lucia Day. 11am, 1pm and 3pm. after school events. hudsonhall.org. HUDSON HALL AT THE com. Heermance Memorial Library at 1 Ely Street, Coxsackie. FREE. Adult $8, GCHS members and children $4. The Bronck Museum, (DEC) Event: FREEHOLD ART EXCHANGE COMMUNITY DAY. HISTORIC HUDSON OPERA HOUSE, 327 Warren Street, Hudson www.heermancelibrary.org or 518-731-8084. Coxsackie, NY. Visit gchistory.org or 518-731-6490. 6pm. Freehold Art Exchange, FREE. Visit freeholdartexchange.org NY. 518-822-1438 Thursdays November 18 November 2 Reading: TINY TOTS PROGRAM. b Free and open to children Gathering: AFTER-HOURS TEEN TIME, 5-7 PM every Thursday. Concert: THE RUSSIAN VIOLA. Bend the Knotted Oak Chamber Dinner and Dancing: ROCK ‘N’ ROLL DANCE PARTY. The Greene ages birth to pre-K, along with their caregivers, Tuesdays, 1030- Ages 12-17 welcome. Spend an hour on Academic and/or Creative Music (BKO) presents music by unknown Russian composers from Room Players’Songbirds. Sponsored by Palenville, The Hamlet, Inc. 1130AM.b Songs, fi ngerplays and rhymes, books, a simple craft, pursuits followed by an hour of relaxed socializing, games, music, the Revolution for viola and piano. 3 pm. Admission $20, 18-and- $40/person, 6-10 pm. Rip Van Winkle Country Club. Palenville, NY. and free-play time.b Come, have fun, and meet neighbors and etc. Catskill Public Library, 1 Franklin St. Catskill NY. For more info: under free. Hunter-Wade Studio, 40 Church St., Chatham NY. friends, old and new!b Palenville Branch Library, 3335 Route 23A, www.palenvilleny.com for tickets. 518-589-6297 for Songbirds info. www.catskillpubliclibrary.org OR speak to Jesse at 518-943-4230. Live Music: ZACH FERRARA AND ROMÁRIO FERREIRA DUO. Palenville, NY.b For more info: [email protected] bhttp:// Visiting Hours: PETRONIO RESIDENCY CENTER. 2-4PM. Free. Seminars for HS Students: Senior Track. 4:30-6:30pm. College Gypsy Swing, American Jazz, Brazilian Bossa Nova and more! catskillpubliclibrary.org/b (518) 678-3357. Petronio Residency Center at Crows Nest, 278 Crows Nest Road, preparedness program designed to assist high school seniors 1-4pm. The New York Restaurant, 353 Main Street, Catskill, NY. Round Top, NY TICKETs and info at [email protected] Classes: BANNER HILL SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS AND through the daunting tasks of college applications,b fi nancial aid zachferraramusic.comb WOODWORKING classes in woodworking, ceramics (wheel to RSVP to the event and receive directions.www.petron.io/prc. process, college visits and more. Operation Unite Education and November 21 throwing, hand building), painting and more. For info, visit our Cultural Arts Center, 360 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY. 518-828- Exhibit & Opening: THE PARASOL PROJECT EXHIBITION. Art at website: BannerHillLLC.com; email: BannerHillWindham@mac. 3612. Visit operationuniteny.org Leeds and the Catskill Community Center joint project. Reception Live Music: ZACH FERRARA AND ROMÁRIO FERREIRA DUO. Gypsy com, or call (518) 929-7821 November 2 from 5-7pm. Displayed through spring 2019. Catskill Swing, American Jazz, Brazilian Bossa Nova and more! b6-8:30pm. Second Thursday Classes: ART SCHOOL OF COLUMBIA COUNTY. Arts program Community Center341 Main Street, Catskill, NY. Mediterranean Bistro at 394 Main, 394 Main Street, Catskill, NY. The Greene County Camera Club is a friendly group of intermediate zachferraramusic.comb for adults and children. Classes are held at the Old Schoolhouse, November 2, 3 & 4 1198 Route 21c in Harlemville, at Harlemville Road & County and advanced photographers who meet twice monthly at the November 23, 24 & 25 and December 1 & 2 (DEC) Theater: A TURN OF THE SCREW. Kaaterskill Actors Theater Route 21, next to the Hawthorne Valley Farm Store, one mile from Greenville Library Art Gallery located at the intersection of routes and the Schoharie Creek Player. Friday and Saturday at 7PM Event: HANDMADE HOLIDAY CRAFT AS GIFT SHOW. 10am to 4pm. the Taconic Parkway, at the Harlemville/Philmont/217/21c Exit. 81 and 32 in Greenville.b On the second Thursday, we hold a “digital and Sundays at 2PM. Adult tickets are $15 and kids 12-18 are Admission is free. Spencertown Academy, 790 State Route 203, Call 518-672-7140 or visit www.artschoolofcolumbiacounty.org. critique” in which members submitting images in advance receive constructive feedback on their work.b Friendship and networking, $10. Doctorow Center for the Arts, 7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY Spencertown, NY. 518-392-3693 or www.spencertownacademy. Performance and more! PS21: PERFORMANCE SPACES FOR THE occasional fi eld trips, an e-Newsletter, member shows and November 3 org. 21ST CENTURY presents a full summer season of performances exhibition opportunities and social gatherings are all benefi ts of (DEC associated) Talk & Musical Event: LINCOLN MAYORGA November 24 for people of all ages, concerts, movies and fi lm, staged readings, membership. For more information: Eileen Camuto morninglight1@ TALK ABOUT ORCHESTRATION. 3 pm. Although the event is free, dance and dance workshops and much more. Call 518-392- (CIP) Concert: WINDHAM FESTIVAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA. verizon.netbor Nora Adelman [email protected]. attendees are advised to make reservations at 518-392-4697 to 6121 or [email protected] for information. Visit www. Presented by the Catskill Mountain Foundation. 8pm. Advance assure an available chair. 40 Church Street, Chatham, NY. ps21chatham.org. PS21, 2980 Route 66, Chatham, NY 12037 Fourth Thursday tickets $25; $20 seniors; $7 students, Door $30; $25 seniors; $7 Event: 12TH ANNUAL FALL AUCTION. Columbia-Greene students. Tickets at www.catskillmtn.org or 518 263 2063Doctorow Hikes, presentations & special events. MOUNTAIN TOP HISTORICAL The Greene County Camera Club is a friendly group of intermediate Community Foundation. Admission is $10 and includes live auction Center for the Arts.7971 Main Street, Village of Hunter. SOCIETY. Haines Falls, NY. Call 589-6657 or www.mths.org and advanced photographers who meet twice monthly at the Greenville Library Art Gallery located at the intersection of routes paddle. Silent Auction begins: 4:30 pm, Live Auction begins: 6 November 30, December 1 & 2 Dance Performance Class for High School Students.b Operation 81 and 32 in Greenville.b On the fourth Thursday, a competition and pm. C-GCC Professional Academic Center Funds raised benefi t (DEC) Theater: A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Theater Project of Schoharie Unite. FREE Program. MORE info at 518-828-3612 critique take place.b Friendship and networking, occasional fi eld Scholarships and Collegiate Programs .Call 518-828-4181, ext County. Tickets are $10. General Admission/$7 Seniors/Students. Ongoing: trips, an e-Newsletter, member shows and exhibition opportunities 3327. 4400 Route 23, Hudson, NY. Golding Middle School in Cobleskill, NY. Omi International Arts Center. PROGRAMS AND PUBLIC and social gatherings are all benefi ts of membership. For more Li ve Music: ZACH FERRARA AND ROMÁRIO FERREIRA DUO. Gypsy December 1 EVENTS. Outdoor Sculpture Park, Summer Camps. The Fields information: Eileen Camuto [email protected] or Nora Swing, American Jazz, Brazilian Bossa Nova and more!b6-8:30pm. Sculpture Park, Architecture Omi, and Education Omi - Omi Adelman [email protected]. Mediterranean Bistro at 394 Main, 394 Main Street, Catskill, NY. Family Event: ANNUAL HOLIDAY COOKIE SALE AND HOLIDAY contributes to a vibrant arts culture locally, regionally, and Fridays zachferraramusic.comb BAZAAR. Catskill Community Center and Cultivate Catskill. 9:00 am – 1:00 pm. Catskill Community Center. 344 Main Street, Catskill, NY. internationally. For more information visit:www.omiartscenter.org Get Up & Stay Up Dance-Literacy Program. Operation Unite. FREE. November 4 1405 County Route 20, Ghent NY 12075 Bliss Tower Community Room. 41 North 2nd Street, Hudson, NY (DEC) Concert: MASTERWORKS OF MUSIC. The Upper Catskill December 2, 2018-January 6, 2019 Exhibits, Concerts, Talks, Youth Programs & Art Residencies. Fridays, November 2-December 28, 2018 String Quartet with the New Day Vocal Ensemble. St. Vincent’s, (CIP) Exhibit: WHAT IS A PAINTING and SMALL FACES. Two Many programs are FREE! Prattsville Arts Center, Main Street, Cobleskill, NY, 3PM. The UCSQ will be sharing the concert. Info exhibits. Reception December 8 at 5pm. The Catskill Mountain Kids: CRAFT MANIA. Drop-in Craft Time. 3:00 PM. Kids of all ages Prattsville, NY www.prattsvilleart.org [email protected] or 518-234-2259. Foundation Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery, Hunter Village Square, welcome. Heermance Memorial Library at 1 Ely Street, Coxsackie. 7950 Main Street, Hunter, NY.b Visit www.catskillmtn.org. Exhibit: SCULPTURE. More than 40 contemporary sculptures FREE. www.heermancelibrary.org, or 518-731-8084. (DEC) Live Music: TOM WHITE AND WILDER HOOK. Sonny in landscape. Daylight hours all year, guided tours, children’s Ochs Not So Quiet Concert Series. 4pm. $10 suggested donation. December 7 workshops. The Fields, Sculpture Park Art Omi International Saturdays Middleburgh Public Library, Main Street Middleburg, NY.bFor more (DEC) Concert: WINTER CONCERT. The Treble Choraliers. Tickets: Arts Center, 1405 County Route 20, Ghent, NY 12075. 518-392- KuumbabDance & DrumbAcademy. Operation Unite in collaboration information contact Sonny Ochs at [email protected]. $10. 7:30 pm. Catskill United Methodist Church. 40 Woodland 7656/392-2848. with Hudson Hall. Africanb Drum 10:30-11:30am.b Africanb Dance November 6 & 7 Avenue, Catskill, NY. Info treblechoraliers.org, applesandmilk@ Film Program: SELECTED FILMS. Popular Hollywood, 11:45am-1:00pm. Adults $5.00 – Youth FREE. Hudson Hall, 327 Professional Class & Exam: UNIFORM STANDARDS OF hotmail.com, 518-943-1030. independent; foreign screenings. Lobby café: espresso, Warren Street, Hudson, NY. PROFESSIONAL APPRAISAL PRACTICE (USPAP).Columbia-Greene December 7 cappuccino, tea, desserts; light suppers Saturday, open 1/2 hour Adult Ballet: ATHENS PRESQUE BALLET:Ballet and other smooth Community College with Abigail Hartmann Associates and Stair before show. Catskill Mountain Foundation Film and Performing moves for women of a certain age and confi dent men. 10:30 -12 Concert: THE SONGBIRDS. Greene Room Players & Mountain Gallery of Hudson. Two-day class and exam. Course fee is $465, Arts Center, Rt. 23A, Hunter, NY 12442. 518-263-4702 www. noon. Improve balance and fl exibility and transform your body Top Library. 7:30 pm. Free. 518-589-6297. Mountain Top Library. which includes the required text, exam, and certifi cation fee. catskillmtn.org. awareness using techniques from ballet, modern dance, jazz, soft Tannersville, NY. th Info/register at 518-828-4181, ext 3342, or communityservices@ shoe, and 4 grade Physical Education class. Taught by Bobby Exhibits, Concerts & Events: HUDSON HALL AT THE HISTORIC sunycgcc.edu. CGCC, 4400 Route 23, Hudson, NY. December 7 & 8 Lupone. FREE Drop-ins welcome. Athens Cultural Center, 24 HUDSON OPERA HOUSE. Classes, Workshops, Exhibits, Concerts, (DEC) Concert: CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD. Schoharie Second Street, Athens, NY. Email to be notifi ed of class cancellations November 8-18 Music, Programs and Special Events. Year round roster of activities Valley Singers. Tickets $8 at the door for adults and senior citizens or changes. for people of all ages. 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY.b518- 822- (CIP) Theatre: CASSE NOISETTE (A Fairy Ballet) by Michael and $3 for children under 12. December 7 at 7:30pm at Cobleskill- 1438. hudsonhall.org Third and Fourth Saturdays Whistler. Thu rsdays-Saturdays 7:30pm, Sundays 2pm. “Pay What Richmond High School Theatre. December 8 at 7:30pm at You Will” performances November 8 & November 11. General Exhibit: SUMMER IN OUR CATSKILLS: MOUNTAINS & VALLEYS Art: ART CLUB FOR KIDS. Free and open to children of all Duanesburg Reformed Presbyterian Church. Admission $25, Students 21 & under $10. Advance tickets at casse. IN LIVING COLOR, a group exhibition of art from the Catskills ages. 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM. Come, have fun, and be creative! brownpapertickets.com or 800-838-3006. Tickets at the door one December 7-9, 2018 and Hudson Valley regions. Reception 4:30 to 7 PM. Open Friday Palenville Branch Library, 3335 Route 23A, Palenville, NY. half hour prior to each performance subject to availability. Bridge (CIP) Dance: THE NUTCRACKER. Presented by the Catskill 11am-5pm, Saturday, 10am to 5pm and Sunday 11am to 4pm. For more info: [email protected] http:// Street Theatre, 44 West Bridge Street, Catskill, NY For more details, Mountain Foundation. December 7 at 7:30 pm, December 8 at 2 917-428-3797 or [email protected]. Tannersville Pop-up catskillpubliclibrary.org/ (518) 678-3357. Market & Gift Shop, 6055 Main Street, Tannersville, NY. visit BridgeSt.org. & 7:30pm, December 9 at 2pm. Advance tickets $25; $20 seniors; Fourth Sunday $7 students, Door $30; $25 seniors; $7 students Tickets at www. Tours, lectures, programs: A living museum. Arts, local history, November 10 Chorus: ATHENS COMMUNITY CHORUS. Anyone who loves to catskillmtn.org or 518 263 2063.. Orpheum Film & Performing Arts horticulture, botany, environment. Individual, group tours, plant Benefi t: FIFTH ANNUAL AWARDS BENEFIT EVENT. The Zadock sing is welcome to join the Athens Community Chorus. There are Center, 6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY. sale. Change of landscape in four seasons. Photogenic woodland Pratt Museum. Copper Tree Restaurant at Peaks Resort at Hunter no auditions or membership dues. All that we require is a little bit of walk, native trees, plants. Call for calendar. The Mountain Top Mountain. Cocktails at 6PM cocktails followed by dinner at December 8 talent and a big appreciation for good music. We will get together Arboretum, Maude Adams Road, POB 379, Tannersville, NY 6:30PM. Ticket prices are $85 per person andb $95 day of event. Event: A HOLIDAY GATHERING. Thomas Cole National Historic once a month to share our talents and to sing a rich and diverse 12485. 518-589-3903. www.mtarbor.org Contact Switlana Breigle at [email protected] or 518- 929-2447. Site. Cocktails and a guided lantern tour $45. Cocktails, a guided selection of vocal works, from classical to jazz standards, and November 11 lantern tour and a private dinner party $145. 5-7 pm Cocktails, 6 & Class: FOLLIES WITH BOBBY: Ballet and other smooth moves Broadway to madrigals. FREE Drop-ins welcome. Athens Cultural nd 7 pm Guided lantern tours, 7 pm Guests proceed to private dinner for women of a certain age and confi dent men. Saturdays, 10:30- Center, 24 2 Street, Athens, NY. Email to be notifi ed of class (DEC) Concert: MOZART: THE REQUIEM, K. 626, AND THE parties. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 Spring Street, 11:30 AM and Mondaysb6- 7 PM. Improve balance and fl exibility cancellations or changes. SINFONIA CONCERTANTE, K. 364. Soloists in the latter are violinist and transform your body awareness using techniques from ballet, Helena Baillie, and violist Judith Nelson. Concerts in the Village. Catskill, NY. Tickets at 518-943-7465 or thomascole.org/events. Exhibits, cinema: TIME AND SPACE. Exhibits, classical movies modern dance, jazz, soft shoe, and 4th grade Physical Education 3PM. Kinderhook Reformed Church, 21 Broad Street, Kinderhook, December 9 on weekends. Time and Space Warehouse Cultural Center. 434 class. Taught by Bobby Lupone. Drop-ins welcome. Athens Cultural NY. Expected contribution is $20. Visit concertsinthevillage.org, or Columbia St., Hudson, NY. 518-822-8448. www.timeandspace.org Theater: A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Doors will open at 1:30 pm, Center, 24 2nd Street, Athens, NY. [email protected] call 518-758-6869. performance at 2 pm. Tickets $10 Adults/ $8 Students, Seniors Events noted (DEC) have been supported through a Classes: RIVERTIDE AIKIKAI, Martial Arts Instruction For All Ages. Concert: KIDS NEED MUSIC BENEFIT CONCERT with internationally &Children. Call 518-828-4181. Arts Center Theatre. Columbia- Decentralization grant from the NYS Council on the Arts through 3198 Old Kings Rd. just off of Rt. 23A in Catskill.b Call 518-943- acclaimed guitarist Maria Zemantauski. 1pm. Proceeds will be used Greene Community College. 4400 Route 23, Hudson, NY. the Community Arts Program in Greene, Columbia or Schoharie 4000, [email protected] visitbwww.rivertideaikikai. to purchase musical instruments for the Hudson City School District County. Puppet Theater: THE SHOEMAKERS & THE ELVES with org. music department. General admission $25 in advance and at door. Dancing Hands Puppet Troupe at 3pm. Holiday Party Events noted (CIP) have been supported through a grant from the Spencertown Academy, 790 State Route 203, Spencertown, NY. Hudson Juggling Club: OPEN TO ANY AND ALL YOUTH AND follows. North Chatham Free Library, 4287 SR-203 North County Initiative Program of the Greene County Council on the Arts 518-392-3693 or www.spencertownacademy.org. ADULTS WITH AN INTEREST IN THE MANIPULATIVE ARTS OF Chatham 12132. [email protected] or 518-766-3211. with public funding from the Greene County Legislature. JUGGLING, FLOW, AND OTHER CIRCUS SKILLS. Juggling clubs, Film: BROUGHT TO LIGHT. Barbara Reina documentary fi lm about December 30 balls, scarves, spinning plates, diabolos, and unicycles are just Through November 6 local black history. 3 pm. Q&A follows screening. Free. North (DEC) Concert: WINDS IN THE WILDERNESS CONCERTS. some of the items we share. FREE. 6-8pm, Montgomery Smith Chatham Free Library, 4287 SR-203 North Chatham, NY. nclibrary@ Tours: HISTORIC LANDSCAPE TOURS give visitors new views and Suggested donation of $15 at door, children, students, underserved Intermediate School, 102 Harry Howard Avenue, Hudson NY. fairpoint.net or 518-766-3211. celebrates Frederic Church’s legacy which is Olana in its entirety. FREE.3PM, Ticket at 518 329-1577.Church of St. John in the Email [email protected], or call 518-828-7470. Tours Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday; Walking Tour 10:30, November 14 Wilderness, 261 Route 344, Copake Falls, NY. Mondays, November 5 -December 31, 2018 Electric 12:30 & 2:30; Book a Tour on OLANA.org. (DEC) GCCA Technical Assistance Seminar: NONPROFIT 101, December 31 Kids: Raising Readers Program. Craft and snack included. Exhibit: TEACHING/TAUGHT group exhibit featuring the work with the Albany Law School Community Development Clinic. 5PM. Live Music: ZACH FERRARA AND ROMÁRIO FERREIRA DUO. Call Appropriate for preschool aged children and their of ASCC faculty members and students in outreach programs. The seminar will include a PowerPoint presentation and Q&A; for time at 518-947-4774. Mediterranean Bistro at 394 Main, 394 caregivers.10:30 AM. FREE. Heermance Memorial Library, 1 Ely Opening reception September 29 from 5- 7 pm, and is free, open questions may be submitted to [email protected], which Main Street, Catskill, NY. zachferraramusic.comb Street, Coxsackie. FREE. www.heermancelibrary.org or 518-731- to the public. www.artschoolofcolumbiacounty.org. will be passed along to the clinic in preparation for the seminar. January 20, 2019 8084. Through November 10 FREE &Open to the public. GCCA Catskill Gallery. 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY. Visit www.greenearts.org or call 518-943-3400. Live Music: ZACH FERRARA AND ROMÁRIO FERREIRA Mondays (September – mid-December, January – mid-May) GCCA Exhibit BRIGHT FUTURE GROUP SHOW’. Opening DUO. Gypsy Swing, American Jazz, Brazilian Bossa Nova and Rehearsal: CATSKILL GLEE CLUB REHEARSAL at the Community Reception: Saturday, September 29, 6-8 p.m. Gallery Hours: M-F November 16, 2018-January 16, 2019. more!b1-4pmbThe New York Restaurant. 353 Main Street, Catskill, Life Church in Catskill, every Monday, 7-9:15PM, starting 10-5, Sat. 12-5. FREE.b GCCA Gallery, 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY. Exhibit: WINTER LIGHT. Oil Paintings by Chatham artist Gail NY. zachferraramusic.comb September. Men of the community are welcome to join the group. Visit www.greenearts.org. Giles. Reception November 16, 5 to 7 pm. The Chatham Visit CatskillGleeClub.org or email [email protected] Bookstore, 27 Main Street, Chatham, NY. www.chathambookstore. for more information. com or 518-392-3005. ALIVE 2018 November/December Page 15

Law Offi ces of Andrea Lowenthal; Greg Supporters Bogyo, Lucy Blaire Bohnsack, Thomas Thank you to our Lebow, Esq.; Christoperh Leonard; Clay Bonville, Annie Borgenicht, Kenneth Members & Donors & Sue Lepola; Lex Grey & the Urban Anne Miller & Stuart Breslow, Mr. & Mrs. E. Bovat, Jr., Kate Boyer, Charity K. Pioneers; Lioness Club of Catskill; William L. Deane, Stephen & Jackie Brauchler, Patricia Britton, Toni Brogan, LOWE’S; Maggie’s Crooked Café; Paul Dunn, Peter & Sarah D. Finn, Michel Emily Brooks, Allen Bryan, Ross As a not-for-profi t, community-based organizations, Macko; Main Brothers Oil Company, Goldberg, Robert & Ann Hallock, Burhouse, Alicia Burnett, Marueen the Greene County Council on the Arts depends Inc.; Main Care Energy; Mahogany Warren & Eden Hart, Julia Johnson Burns-Bowie, Sarah Butler, Rita Buttiker, upon the on-going support of our members to help Tables, Inc.; Management Advisory Rothenberg, Ph.D., Carol Slutzky- Laura Cannamela, Virginia Chakejian, us maintain our core programs through which we Groups of NY; Peter Margolius, Esq.; Tenerowicz, Robin & Martin Smith, McWillie Chambers, Emily Chameides, provide a variety of services. A continually growing Mark Bronstein-Markertec; Marshall & Barbara L. Walter, Gilbert & Mary Ann John R. Cooley, Rosalie Cornell, membership is crucial to our efforts to deliver these Sterling Upstate, Inc; Massage ‘n Mind; Bagnell, Tom Bellino, Albert Scott & Theresa Corrigan, Paul Cort, Walter services so that we may better serve our communities Merko Motion Pictures, Inc.; Mental Lee & Eleanor Coyle, James Cramer, through all the arts. Tracy Berwick, Naomi Blum, Clesson Health Association of Columbia-Greene & Jean Bush, Samantha F. Butts, Dina Stancia Cramer, Bob Crimi, Linda We at the GCCA would like to take this opportunity Counties, Mid-Hudson Cablevision, Inc.; Cross, Thomas Culp & Charlie Wagner, to thank those who, through their tax-deductible Bursztyn & Julie Chase, Ann L. Clapper, Millspaugh Camerato Funeral Home; Lydia Daniel, Shelley Davis, Annick de contributions, help to make our work possible. 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A young student attended the 2018 Hunter Stone Carving Studio that took place over two weeks in July. Lead by stone carver, Kevin VanHentenryck, this free seminar was funded in part by the 2018 NYSCA/Decentralization Community Arts Grant Program and served 78 individuals of all ages and stone carving abilities.

OUR MISSION To support and advance the arts and cultural community by broadening enriching creative resources and economic growth in the region.

Dear Members, Donors and Friends,

Greene County Council on the Arts has entered its 43rd year of service to the arts and in our work ahead we envision a community that celebrates artistic and cultural diversity and inspires creative engagement.

GCCA participated in events and festivals throughout the year offering information on its various programs and services. GCCA was instrumental The impact we have made in 2018 is astounding. Through our in the promotion for The Corning Museum Glass Barge in June, Hudson Black Art & Culture Festival, Catskill Street Festival, Historic Bridges of NY various programs GCCA remains strong in its arts advocacy work, service to Skywalk Festival in September and most recently the Hudson Valley Dance Festival in October. Pictured is GCCA Artist member Susan Nicolini painting plein air, who was one of the 13 GCCA Artist members participating in the Skywalk Festival. Photo by Chuck Pierce Photography. the arts and strides in public engagement.

As the year comes to a close, we’re appealing to you to make a tax-deductible year end gift to an institution that has been the bedrock for our creative economy for the past 43 years. Your gift is an investment in GCCA as it looks forward to another 43 years of service.

Please donate online at www.greenearts.org/donate/ or call GCCA at 518-943-3400.

We look forward to hearing from you and wish you the happiest of holidays!

Marline A. Martin Executive Director The Freehold Arts Exchange was awarded funding from the 2018 NYSCA/Decentralization Community Arts Grant Program in support of its “From River Bed to Pit-Fire” project – a free eight-class ceramics workshop with resident Ceramics Gallery Visitor Hannah Sparagana views an etching by Martin Katzoff during the Bright Future Facilitator Asia Sosnowski. Participants made vessels Exhibit opening reception. The Bright Future group exhibit featured the work of nine artists. using clay deposits from Greene County. The workshops Annually the GCCA Catskill Gallery Program serves an estimated 770 individual artists of culminated with a pit fi re and free Community Day on which 350 are student artists whose works are shown in the annual Outside the Lines Youth October 28, 2018. Photo credit Molly Stinchfi eld. Art Exhibit. Photo by Chuck Pierce Photography

23 Arts Initiative presented its 5th annual 23Arts Summer Music Festival in the village of Tannersville, NY from July 13 through August 5, 2018. Kicking off this year’s festival was a jazz-themed weekend with leading In July Hudson Hall presented three days of theater and music performed by Pamela Badila, co-founder Artist Maria Kolodziej-Zincio talks about the selection from her series “The Forgotten Holocaust-A Family Story” with viewers during GCCA’s artist Brianna Thomas, a renowned jazz vocalist named of the family’s Diata Diata International Folkloric Theater. Directed byb Pamela Badila,b Spirit of the Resident Alien Exhibit in April. The series of encaustic mixed media works detailing the story of her family’s survival of the Soviet aggression “the best young jazz singer of her generation” by The Riverbused the stories, colorful dancing and rhythmic drumming of West Africanbfolklorebto tell a dramatic in western Poland and mass deportation of its people to labor camps in the tundra of Siberia and the dramatic route to safe ground in Wall Street Journal. 23Arts Initiative received funding tale of courage, mystery, betrayal and love. Spirit of the River received support from the 2018 NYSCA/ from the 2018 County Initiative Program in support of the Hudson Valley. Her project was funded through the NYSCA/Decentralization Community Arts Grant Individual Artist Tier in 2013. The its concerts and free outreach programs. Decentralization Community Arts Grant Program in Columbia County. Badila Archival image. Resident Alien exhibit provided opportunity to 14 artists whose works were viewed by more than 400 gallery visitors. Photo by Alon Koppel.

The Upper Catskill String Quartet is a familiar ensemble to audiences and their performances present the Catskill Mountain Foundation received support from the 2018 County Initiative 23Arts Initiative brought world-class performing artists to thebmountaintop communities through rare privilege of hearing classical music performed in Schoharie County. Their 2018 season, with concerts Program in support of its 20th Anniversary Season which included “American artistic residencies, communityb outreach, and educational opportunities with internationally- presented at various locations and often with guest ensembles, was made possible, in part, with public funds Dream,” an inspiring afternoon of dance for all ages in March, presented by recognized artists, including violinist Jaram Kim, throughout the year. Portions of 23Arts’ 2018 from the NYSCA/Decentralization Program through the Community Arts Grants Fund in SchohariebCounty. the Valentina Kozlova Dance Conservatory of New York and Windham resident, season were made possible, in part, with public fundsbprovided by the Greene County Legislature former Metropolitan opera dancer Victoria Rinaldi. Photo Credit Sydney Hense. through the Greene County Cultural Fund administered by the Greene County Council on the Arts.

GCCA hosted Age of Instagram Panel Talk in association with its No Nudes, No Sunsets exhibit on September The GCCA Gallery Program 15. Moderated by Niva offered a guided tour and art Dorell, panelists Alon making activity to the Catskill Koppel (exhibit curator), Middle/High School Art Club Julia Joern and Richard during the Conversations in T. Scott addressed Color exhibit. This particular the audience about gallery program served 24 their experience using students and their participation Instagram. With 34 was accompanied by three people in attendance art teachers. Photo by Emily the program served an Haliotis. estimated 27 artists.

ARTSR ALIVE ANGEL Contributions from the following donor is helping to underwrite the cost of producing our bi-monthly newspaper Arts Alive. GCCA launched its 2018 exhibition season with As production costs escalate, we owe our continued ability to “Ginnie Gardiner & Martin publish to the advertisers you see on these pages and to the Katzoff: Conversations in Wishing GCCA generous support of our Angels. Color.” Pictured are some Continued Success of the works displayed by Ginnie Gardiner. In March To become an Arts Alive Angel contact Sharon Shepherd Gardiner and Katzoff participated in an Artist Talk at 518-943-3400 or email: [email protected]. about painting and color attracting an audience of 20 THANK YOU - with an estimated 13 artists in attendance. A Student Marshall & Sterling Upstate Gallery Visit also took place during the exhibit.