This week's calendar (12/13-12/19/21)

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Mask up indoors, again
Masks will be required to be worn in all indoor public places unless businesses or venues implement a vaccine requirement goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Monday December 13, 2021 through January 15, 2022, at which time the State will re-evaluate next steps. “This determination is based on the state's weekly seven-day case rate as well as increasing hospitalizations … The new measure brings added layers of mitigation during the holidays when more time is spent indoors shopping, gathering, and visiting holiday-themed destinations,” according to a state press release. The requirement applies to all non-private residences, including office spaces. If a business, office space, or venue does not require proof of vaccination as a condition of entry, everyone must wear masks at all times regardless of vaccination status except when eating, drinking, or alone in an enclosed room • More info

HVWiB 7th Anniversary Party & Fundraiser!
Monday, December 13, 2021 • 6pm • $50 • Seasoned Delicious Foods, 11 Lohmaier Lane, Lake Katrine • We are so excited to celebrate HVWiB's 7th Anniversary! That is seven years of women business owners throughout the Hudson Valley leaning on and learning from each other. Let's raise a glass to how much we all learned and grew this year. It may have been tough, but we're better than ever! Cheers to all of us! • LINK

Holiday Cards for Heroes
Deadline: Wednesday, December 15, 2021 • Create holiday cards for active-duty service members and health care workers. Holiday cards should be placed in an unsealed envelope, addressed to NY-19 Rep. Antonio Delgado’s Kingston office, 256 Clinton Avenue, Kingston, New York 12401 • See video

‘Living with Hope in Trying Times’ with Jane Goodall & Satish Kumar
Wednesday, December 15, 2021 • 12:30 pm • Free Online Omega Conversation • Global pandemics, climate change, extinctions, and loss of faith in public institutions are only some of the problems facing humanity. How do we remain true to the best in our natures and serve as a force for good? Where do we turn for hope? • Register


Friday Night Film Series: “The Nightmare Before Christmas” (1993)
Friday, December 17, 2021 • UPAC • Followed by “The Wedding Singer” (1998) on February 11 at the Bardavon, “Akeelah and the Bee” (2006) February 25 at UPAC, “A League of Their Own” (1992) March 18 at the Bardavon, “Monterey Pop” (1968) on April 8 at UPAC • $6 all seats, free for members • https://bit.ly/BardavonFridays2021

Toys for Tots Holiday Drive
Once again the New York State Police in Troop K are joining forces with the United States Marine Corps to collect donated children’s toys as part of the national Toys for Tots program this holiday season. Between now and December 17, 2021, people can drop off new, unwrapped toys at Troop K Headquarters, SP Poughkeepsie, located at 2541 Route 44 in Salt Point, or any of the local Troop K barracks. Representatives of the Marine Corps will pick up the toys for distribution to area children. All 18 Troop K stations located in Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess and Columbia counties are participating in the initiative.

"It's A Wonderful Life" Film Screening
Friday, December 17, 2021 - Sunday, December 19, 2021, Friday at 7pm, Saturday at 2pm, 4:30pm, and 7pm, Sunday 2pm • $2 • 10 Water Street Market, New Paltz • Join the Denizen Theatre as we bring some Christmas magic to New Paltz and host a film screening of Frank Capra’s, "It’s a Wonderful Life.” Come see this holiday classic about a man who gets a chance to see what life would be like if he'd never been born. James Stewart, Donna Reed, and Lionel Barrymore, head the cast. Presented in black and white as the film was intended. • https://secure.givelively.org/event/denizen/it-s-a-wonderful-life-film-screening

Carols with the Cows
Saturday, December 18, 2021 • 11am-1pm and 1-3pm • Catskill Animal Sanctuary, 316 Old Stage Road, Saugerties • A cozy afternoon of carols, cocoa, and cows! CAS has re-written some classic holiday songs for a festive celebration of the season and their beloved rescued cows • $20-$50 • Tickets

Second Annual WinterSolstice Celebration
Saturday, December 18, 2021 • 1-5pm • Olana State Historic Site, Hudson • This free community event will feature a variety of programs for Olana guests to participate in as the sun sets on the shortest day of the year. Starting at 1 PM, visitors can take an abbreviated self-guided tour of the Main House until 3:30 PM or immerse themselves in a listening experience from b e i n g - s o u n d. Artists Joro-Boro and Keena.Maya use their mobile tea house stage to incorporate a variety of sound sources to open listeners to the wonders and mysteries hidden in everyday life. For 30 minutes, registered participants will put on a set of headphones and sip tea while engaging with the ambiance of sounds and senses of Olana. Sign-up for a spot at olana.org. Self-guided tours of the Main House are available on a first-come-first-served basis and registration is not required. To conclude the evening, a sunset bonfire will commence by the Main House on the East Lawn. As afarewell to Jean Shin’s art installation, FALLEN, parts of the hemlock will be “cremated into ash and charcoal in the bonfire. What remains of the tree will be returned to the landscape to nourish the living hemlocks at Olana.” • To learn more about the event and to register for the mobile tea house, visit OLANA.org.

CANCELLED! Tivoli Winterfest
UPDATE: Tivoli Winterfest has been cancelled but Santa will still travel around the Village of Tivoli on Sunday, December 19 from 4 to 5pm • Saturday, December 18, 2021 (Rescheduled from 12/11) • Keep your eyes peeled for Santa, who will be touring the village Saturday afternoon with help from the Tivoli Fire Department, starting at 2:30pm. At 4:30pm, join your neighbors at the Tivoli Firehouse for lights, chili, hot dogs, and hot beverages. Enjoy caroling with St. Paul's Choir, horse-drawn wagon rides around the village, and visit our great local shops and eateries festively adorned for the holidays • Link

A Solstice Celebration and Astronomy Night
Saturday, December 18, 2021 • Opus 40, Saugerties • Special celebration with music, a lantern walk and star gazing with the Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association • $20, $15 students, children, $10 members • https://opus40.org/solstice/

Germantown Winter Glow
Saturday, December 18, 2021 • Luminaries will be lit at 4:30pm and you can find Santa at Gtel at 5pm. The Holiday Lights Tour has begun. Map can be found here. (This event was originally planned for last weekend, but was rescheduled due to weather.)

Locust Grove Estate Holiday Tours
December 18-19, 2021 • Locust Grove Estate, 2683 South Road, Poughkeepsie • Tickets are available in advance only • Tours are $15 per person, children under 6 are free • PLUS: The Hudson Valley Art Market, Thanksgiving weekend, with dozens of booths featuring fine art, handmade gifts, and small batch products from Hudson Valley vendors. Open 10am - 5pm, no admission fee • 845-454-4500.

Boscobel Twilight Tours
Through December 18 • Boscobel, 1601 Route 9D, Garrison • With the mansion lit by candlelight, decorated for 19th-century holidays, and resonating with live music, Twilight Tours offer an especially beautiful seasonal experience. At the end of the house tour, guests may visit the Gallery to see an exhibit of lenticular images of Boscobel before and after renovation. After visiting the house and partaking in a cup of mulled cider or hot chocolate, guests are invited to go outdoors and stroll among twinkling lights in the Apple Orchard, Formal Garden, and Maple Lane before stopping into a delightful new Winter Garden full of festive lights and fabulous floral design • Adults $25, Child (ages 5-18) $15, Child (under age 5) free; Member Adult $20, Member Child (ages 5-18) $12, Member Child (under age 5) free • https://boscobel.org/events/twilight-tours/

Give A Little Hope: A Concert to Benefit People’s Place
Sunday, December 19, 2021 • 2-4:30pm • Bearsville Theater, Woodstock • Regional musicians and the Bearsville Theater unite to support People’s Place Thrift Store & Food Pantry in Kingston, the largest food pantry in Ulster County and the only food pantry open 5 days a week • $25 general admission, $35 seated • Link

Tivoli Artists Holiday Show
Through December 19, 2021 • Thursdays, 2pm-6pm; Fridays, 5pm-8:30pm; Saturdays, noon-8pm; Sundays, 1pm-5pm • Tivoli Artists Gallery, 60 Broadway • Over 30 artists have created works in a range of mediums with the holiday season in mind. Greeting cards, prints, paintings, photography, handmade apparel and more • https://www.tivoliartistsgallery.com/current-exhibit

A Christmas Carol
Through December 19, 2021 • Fridays and Saturdays at 7pm (no show 12/17), Sundays at 3pm • The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck | 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck • Now in its 16th year, The CENTER is pleased to present Dicken's classic, A Christmas Carol, adapted and directed by Lou Trapani • $25 • boxoffice@centerforperformingarts.org

The Sky Tonight: Holiday Edition
Saturdays and Sundays • 2pm • Hudson River Museum, Yonkers • Take an awe-inspiring tour of the night sky as seen from our area, with topics ranging from visible planets, bright stars, and the Milky Way, to periodic comets, black holes, alien planets, upcoming rocket launches, and more! Around the Winter Solstice on December 21, the nights are long and dark, with many beautiful sights waiting in the evening sky. This is also the time of year when we hear about legends of light, including the Star of Bethlehem, holiday lights, and yule logs. We’ll highlight the astronomical connections to these traditions this month. Recommended for ages 8+; 60-minute live and interactive show. Capacity is limited to 80 seats per show (65%); advance reservations are strongly encouraged • Tickets

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House Tours at Olana
Fridays - Sundays from 11am to 3pm • Olana State Historic Site, Hudson • Olana's 250-acres will continue to be open and free to roam every day from 8am - sunset • Visit Olana.org for more information.

Handmade Pop-up - Ceramics and Clothing
Through December 24, 2021 • 11am-6pm • 57 Broadway, The Corner Store, Tivoli • Local handmade ceramics and unique one-of-a-kind clothing all made here in Tivoli • http://Openobjects.co

The Woodstock School of Art Instructors Exhibition and Sale
Through December 30, 2021 • 11am - 6pm • 747 Route 28, Kingston • Featuring the work of Savannah Baker, Bruce Bundock, Les Castellanos, Christie Scheele, Peter Clapper, Tricia Cline, Jenne Currie, Melanie Delgado, E S Desanna, Donald Elder, Staats Fasoldt, Joan Ffolliott, Mary Anna Goetz, Tor Gudmundsen, Keith Gunderson, Wendy Hollender, Claire Lambe, Polly Law, Lisa Mackie, Kate McGloughlin, Wayne Montecalvo, Patti Mooney, Jenny Nelson, Ron Netsky, Malgorzata Oakes, Robert Ohnigian, Karen O’Neil, Jeanne Bouza Rose, Meredith Rosier, Muriel Stallworth, John Varriano, Karen Whitman, Marlene Wiedenbaum, Lois Woolley and Hongnian Zhang. The school’s team of talented instructors are well established artists whose work and experience spans the globe. Collectively, their work can be found in Museums and Institutional Collections, as well as shows throughout the United States, Canada, China, Columbia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Sweden, and Taiwan • https://www.thelockwoodgallery.com/

Second Annual Peace, Love and Lights
Through Sunday, January 2, 2022 • Sunday-Thursday: 5-9pm, Friday & Saturday: 5-10pm • $28.75 • 200 Hurd Road, Bethel • Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, home of the historic 1969 Woodstock festival, is excited to announce the return of their drive-thru holiday event Peace, Love & Lights, powered by Healey Brothers and sponsored by Sullivan Catskills Visitors Association with an expanded route, new displays and an enhanced holiday hub. The light show begins on November 19, 2021 and runs nightly through January 2, 2022 • https://www.bethelwoodscenter.org/events/peace-love-lights.

Art Exhibition Reception: “Some Soft Thoughts” from Becca Van K
On view through Monday, January 3, 2022 • Window On Hudson, 43 South 3rd Street, Hudson • Window On Hudson proudly ends the year with “Some Soft Thoughts” by mixed-media fiber artist Becca Van K. Van K has filled the windows and indoor exhibition space with a large grouping of woven objects including wooden chairs, folding chairs, wall hangings, and much more. These functioning furniture pieces are created with bright neon colored yarns, beads, and fake fur, creating the atmosphere of a late 90’s techno club VIP room heavily which is referencing the Memphis interior design style. • If you can not attend a reception but would like to see the indoor works please contact jeremy@windowonhudson.org.

Richard Haas: Circles in Space
On view through January 9, 2022 • Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton Ave., Yonkers • Exhibition explores the intersections between abstraction, color theory and the geometry of the universe • hrm.org/richard-haas

“WinterOver?”
On view through Spring 2022 • Time & Space, Ltd. 434 Columbia Street, Hudson • Featuring the sculpture of Pamela Blum, Jeremy K. Bullis, Nurya Chana, Dan Devine, Mimi Graminski, Chiarra Hughes-Mba, Linda Mussmann, Gelah Penn, and Katharine Umsted. George Spencer, the curator of “WinterOver?”, asked the artists to produce outdoor sculptures that will deteriorate over time. With the pieces standing in the yard of TSL for 6 months they will be exposed to nature’s extreme elements. Heat, wind, rain, snow, insects, mold, and mushrooms will cause the work to bend, crack, warp, fade and dissolve. Spencer uses this deterioration as a metaphor for the destructive changes (like the attempt to overturn the 2020 election, the countless unnecessary deaths resulting from the incompetent response to COVID-19, the attack on the Capitol, and so much more) occurring in the world around us. In the early Spring of 2022 the artists will be asked to revisit their work and assess the damage done during the Winter months. Is their sculpture still standing; do only fragments remain; it is disfigured but still recognizable? (Much like the questions Spencer asks about our Country.) What then is the individual artist’s response to these changes? Do they rebuild; build something new; make repairs; or leave things as they are? (These are the questions we must constantly ask ourselves about life.) • http://timeandspace.org/

What Comes After
On view through March 19, 2022 • Saturdays, noon to 5pm; Third Fridays: 1/21, 2/18, 3/18, 4 to 6pm • Maxon Mills, Wassaic • Curated by Eve Biddle, Bowie Zunino, Jeff Barnett-Winsby, and Will Hutnick,What Comes After, the Wassaic Project’s 2021–2022 winter exhibition, presents ten artists throughout the seven floors of Maxon Mills who are, in one way or another, reflecting on life in the aftermath — no cause, all effect. • LINK

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ASTON MAGNA CHAMBER PLAYERS
HANDEL & BACH: MUSIC FOR A WINTER SOLSTICE
Tuesday, December 21, 2021 • 7pm • Hudson Hall, 327 Warren Street, Hudson • $40 in advance, $45 at the door, $15 for under 30 with ID, Free for full-time students with ID • Embrace the change in seasons with serenity as Aston Magna Chamber Players returns to Hudson Hall to perform masterworks by Handel and Bach • LINK

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2022

FW Murnau’s The Last Laugh
Sunday, January 9, 2022 • 2pm • $6 • The Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main Street • Murnau’s silent film The Last Laugh tells the tragic story of a self-confident hotel doorman, brilliantly portrayed by Emil Jannings, who is demoted to lavatory attendant because he is considered 'too old'. Janning’s entire identity is based on his position and especially on his uniform, which symbolizes power and respectability to his lower-middle-class community of family and friends. Proud of his position, responsibilities and uniform, and shocked by his demotion, humiliated, the old man struggles to carry on with his life. The question is: who will have 'the last laugh'? • 845-658-8989.

HUDSON JAZZ FESTIVAL 2022
February 10-13 & 17-20, 2022 • Hudson Hall, 327 Warren Street, Hudson • Expanded, two-weekend festival features performers The Baylor Project, Alexis Morrast, Daniel J. Watts, Warren Wolf, Jazzmeia Horn, and Jimmy Greene; film, visual art, and spoken word/music partnership with Louis Armstrong House Museum & Archives • Single event tickets start at $25, Weekend Festival Passes (Valentine's Weekend or President's Weekend) start at $68. Tickets and information at hudsonhall.org or by phone (518) 822-1438.

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