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August 2013 Artswnews Artsw AUGUst 2013 ARTSWNEWS www.artsw.org/artswnews ARTSW Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts Suzanne Vega Hudson River Museum, Clay Art Center, The Sweetback Sisters Classes at ArtsWestchester ED st So much to see and do in Westchester EQUE R VICE R E S GE This issue is sponsored by han C MUSIC IN THE AIR (page A12) ArtsWestchester 31 Mamaroneck Avenue Fl3 White Plains, NY 10601-3328 A2 Westchester County Business Journal • ARTSWNEWS AUGUST 2013 contents thisandthatbyjl.com news in brief Page A3 A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM new exhibitions Page A6 IN WESTCHESTER take a class Page A8 Is Westchester a “bedroom community”? I struggled music in the air calendar Page A12 with this question when I first came to Westchester from Boston some twenty years ago. Naysayers told me I was calendar Page A16 coming to a bedroom community. Obviously, a bedroom community is where exhibitions Page A19 you sleep…that’s all. What would I do at night or on weekends? The search committee at ArtsWestchester, then the Council for the Arts in Westchester, proudly gave me a cultural plan report that was done in 1987, which concluded ArtsWNews (www.artsw.org/artswnews), your guide to arts that while Westchester was no longer just a bedroom community, it still sadly and culture in Westchester County, NY, is published by suffered from that image. I discovered that far from being a bedroom commu- ARTSWESTCHESTER, a private, not-for-profit organization nity, Westchester is a happening place filled with arts, music, culture, recre- established in 1965. The largest of its kind in New York ation, restaurants, and a roster of arts venues that would be the envy of any metropolitan region. Being so spread out geographically was the problem, and State, it serves more than 150 cultural organizations, 43 putting all these amenities together to present its huge critical mass was the school districts, hundreds of artists, and audiences numbering challenge. more than one million. Our goal is to ensure the availability, accessibility, and diversity of the arts in Westchester. Now, with 20/20 hindsight, it’s clear to me that our cultural landscape is even richer than it was years ago. There’s the addition of the Jacob Burns Film Janet Langsam, Chief Executive Officer Center, the Taconic Opera, the Axial, Play Group and Hudson Stage theaters, Salina Le Bris, Director of Communications Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Blue Door Gallery, and the White Plains Performing Arts Center. And others like the Clay Art Center, Music Mary Alice Franklin, ArtsWNews Editor Conservatory of Westchester, Westchester Philharmonic and more have Clare Maker, Designer grown and expanded. There’s hardly a reason to look elsewhere for culture. LisaMarie DeSanto, Contributor And now, drum roll please, we have the long awaited Westchester Children’s Alison Kattleman, News in Brief and Calendar Editor Museum adding its luster to the comprehensive roster of cultural places here. For more information about ArtsWestchester, please call 914.428.4220. Some thirteen years in the hatching, the museum is emerging from its early Our work is made possible with support from Westchester County Government. beginnings as a Museum Without Walls to a real space at the old circa 1928 North Bathhouse at Playland Park. The community is ecstatic as is Tracy Kay, Robert P. Astorino, County Executive the museum’s director and Corine Zola, the board president. Kay already Kenneth W. Jenkins, Chair, Westchester County Board of Legislators has a key to the City of Rye from his tenure as Director at the Rye Nature Center. He’ll now be getting a key – along with a ten-year lease – to the 22,000 Westchester County Board of Legislators square-foot bathhouse, which, alas, has no heat or electricity. “Aye, there’s Catherine Borgia James Maisano MaryJane Shimsky the rub.” But, fear not. The board of the museum is dedicated to the idea that Gordon A. Burrows Sheila Marcotte Michael J. Smith Westchester, like any other major cultural location, deserves its own children’s museum complete with interactive displays that encourage kids of all ages David B. Gelfarb Judith A. Myers Bernice Spreckman to discover art, science and the environment, and they are prepared to move Peter Harckham Virginia Perez John G. Testa mountains to transform that bathhouse into a discovery center. Michael Kaplowitz William J. Ryan Alfreda A. Williams With a museum for children on its way, how could anyone think of Westchester Lyndon Williams Thanks to our generous sponsors: as a bedroom community? It’s beyond my imagination! A&A Maintenance, Anchin Block & Anchin, Benerofe Properties, Clarfeld Financial Advisors, Con Edison, Entergy, Ethan Allen Interiors, First Niagara, Gabelli Foundation, IBM, Jacob Burns Foundation, John Meyer Consulting PC, Joseph & Sophia Abeles Foundation, Journal News, JP Morgan Chase, Key Bank, The Liman Foundation, Macy's, Macerich Cross County Shopping Center, MAXX Properties, Morgan Stanley, Nordstrom, Peckham Industries, Inc., PepsiCo, Pernod Ricard, Reckson, A Division of SL Green Realty, RPW Group, TD Charitable Foundation, Wells Fargo Bank, Westchester Community Foundation, Westchester Magazine, White Plains Hospital. D OF L AR EG O I B S Y L T A UNT T N CO Y O U R O S C 1683 W O . D Y E R E . S G A I Z N T N , Y C T HE N STER COU Read a digital version of ArtsWNews every month: /ArtsWestchester @ArtsWestchester /ArtsWestchester www.artsw.org/artsnews AUGUST 2013 Westchester County Business Journal • ARTSWNEWS A3 news in brief Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Cross County Shopping Ben Gordon Community tals of education, arts, health, fit- Opening in Yonkers Center's Sidewalk Chalk Unity Week ness and community, the week-long event is an opportunity for both Art Festival children and adults to bond together toward a common goal of develop- ment through exercise and commu- nity engagement. With a potential reach of over 10,000 attendees, the week’s events includes fun-filled activities for all ages, including a walk-a-thon, talent show, gospel concert, the All-Star Street Ball Competition and much more. Ben Ben Gordon Gordon, who grew up in Mount Vernon, played high school basket- The City of Mount Vernon will ball for the Mount Vernon Knights The new Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in host the 8th Annual Ben Gordon and went on to play profession- Yonkers Community Unity Week from August ally for the Chicago Bulls, Detroit 19-24. The program, sponsored by Pistons, and Charlotte Bobcats. In the mood for dinner and a movie? professional basketball player Ben More info: www.bengordon8.com/ You’re in luck, thanks to the Alamo Sidewalk Chalk Art Festival, Cross County Gordon, is focused on developing ben/charity. Drafthouse Cinema, which opens Shopping Center a strong foundation for inner city on August 5 on Central Avenue in youth. Centered on the fundamen- Yonkers. The Austin-based inde- Thirty artists. Eight hours. One pendent theater chain is far from competition. As part of its your average film-going experience. SummerFest program, the Cross Designed by movie lovers for movie County Shopping Center will be Imagine a place where art and commerce intersect. lovers, the Alamo features a strict holding its first annual Sidewalk no talking, cell phones, or texting Chalk Art Festival on Saturday, policy and an extensive menu of August 10. At 8am, amateur and freshly cooked food and drinks professional artists alike will cre- delivered right to your seat. The the- ate original works of chalk art ater also allows patrons to reserve in designated areas all over the JOIN OUR CREATIVE FAMILY seats online, eliminating the need center’s grounds. Until 4pm, com- to show up early or wait in line. The petitors will work either in teams Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers – the or on their own, taking full creative chain’s first NYC area location – will advantage of the chalk medium to A bank filled with creative energy, a magnificent historic land- show a broad mix of programming, transform the mall into an ecstasy mark tenderly restored as a counterpoint to newly built modern including new releases, classics, of color. In both the “Amateur” and indies, and foreign films. With a “Professional” categories, awards structures — a site where talented visual and performing casual but tasty menu of dishes that will include Peoples’ Choice and artists create, rehearse, mingle and showcase their work — first- through third-place winners. are easy to eat in the dark, such a place devoted to Westchester arts and artists, whether they as pizza, burgers, and salads, and But it isn’t the prizes that will be 32 local and regional beers on tap, remembered at the end of the day. be new and emerging or tried and true, and creative people the new theater is set to provide It’s the celebration of an oft-over- such as architects, designers and entrepreneurs. Westchesterites with a unique, looked art form whose vibrancy cap- appetizing, and interruption-free film tures the dazzling spirit of summer. experience. More info: www.draft- For more information, visit: www. house.com. crosscountycenter.com/events. SPACES AVAILABLE. ContACt: [email protected] or 914.428.4220 x301 The Arts Exchange Building • 31 Mamaroneck Ave • White Plains, NY A4 Westchester County Business Journal • ARTSWNEWS AUGUST 2013 artsw briefs ArtsWestchester Now Accepting Arts Alive White Plains Will Have a Ball on August 11 Grant Applications Making the arts accessible is at the this year’s Arts Alive grants. The heart of ArtsWestchester’s mission, submission deadline is October 18, and the Arts Alive grants are one of 2013. Application workshops will the many ways it makes that hap- take place throughout September pen.
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