This week's calendar (12/27/2021 - 1/2/2022)

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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/

Learn About the County-Wide Shared Services Plan
Thursday, December 30, 2021 • Noon • Dutchess County Executive Marcus J. Molinaro will air a presentation of the County-Wide Shared Services Plan on Thursday December 30, 2021 at 12pm on the County’s Facebook page, Facebook.com/DutchessCoGov. The presentation will also be posted on the County’s shared services website thereafter: Dutchessny.gov/Departments/Budget/County-Wide-Shared-Services-Initiative.htm.

First Day Hikes
This year, DEC and the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation are offering more than 75 First Day Hikes at parks, historic sites, wildlife areas, trails, and public lands across New York. For a list of DEC and partner guided hikes, visit DEC's First Day Hikes webpage.

Hudson Valley/Catskills First Day Hikes

  • Ashokan Quarry Trail, Olivebridge; 10am; 516-647-7776
    FDR State Park, Yorktown; 10:30am; 914-245-4434

  • Little Stony Point/Hudson Highlands State Park, Cold Spring; 11am-2pm; 845-224-7207

  • John Jay Homestead State Historic Site, Katonah; 1-3pm; 914-232-5651

  • Kelly Hollow Trail, Town of Middletown; 11:00 am; 845-586-3112

  • Meads Meadow Loop Trailhead, Woodstock; 9am & 12pm (2 hikes); 845-256-3083 - Jan. 2

  • Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Peter's Kill, Kerhonkson; 9:15am; 845-255-0752

  • Olana State Historic Site, Hudson; 10-11am; 1-2pm; (two hikes) 518-751-0344

  • Old Croton Aqueduct, Dobbs Ferry; 12pm; 646-303-1448 (Jan. 1 & Jan 2)

  • Overlook Mountain Fire Tower, Woodstock; 7:45am; 845-688-3369

  • Rockefeller State Park Preserve, Pleasantville; 10am-12pm; 914-631-1470

  • Rockefeller Preserve Rockwood Hall; Pleasantville; 9am; 914-631-1470

  • Sterling Forest State Park, Tuxedo; 10am; 845-351-5907

  • Stonykill Farm Env Ed Center, Wappingers Falls; 11:00am; 845-831-3800

  • Taconic State Park - Copake Falls, Copake Falls; 1pm; 518-329-3993

  • Upper Esopus Fire Tower, Mt. Tremper; 9:30am-4pm; 845-688-3369

  • Walkway over the Hudson State Historic Park; Poughkeepsie; 2pm; 845-834-2867

For more information and a complete list of hikes, view the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation press release.

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.

UPDATE/CANCELLED: The Sky Tonight: Holiday Edition
UPDATE: All Onsite Programs and Tours are cancelled at HRM through January 2 • Hudson River Museum, Yonkers • Out of an abundance of caution, Glenview Holiday Tours, art and science workshops, and onsite Planetarium shows are canceled through January 2. You can still learn about Glenview and Victorian holiday traditions in Virtual Glenview Holiday Tour: A Gilded Age Christmas, with Laura Vookles, Chair, Curatorial Department. Virtual Planetarium Shows: The HRM will be offering virtual planetarium shows, The Sky Tonight: Holiday Edition, 2pm daily, as part of School's Out, Stars Are In • hrm.org

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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.

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

Mask up indoors, again
Through January 15, 2022 • Masks are required to be worn in all indoor public places unless businesses or venues implement a vaccine requirement. “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

“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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Westchester County Inauguration Ceremony
Monday, January 3, 2022 • 2 pm •  Virtual Ceremony: Facebook.com/westchestergov

Premiere: A Look Inside Eleanor Roosevelt's Wallet
January 5, 2022, 2pm • Virtual event hosted by the FDR Library • The things a person chooses to carry inside their wallet can offer clues about many different aspects of their life. Explore what the contents of Eleanor Roosevelt's wallet reveals about her with Supervisory Museum Curator Herman Eberhardt • YouTube + Facebook

Women In Science Winter Speaker Series
Wednesday, January 5, 2022 • DEC's Hudson River Estuary Program for a virtual Women in Science Winter Speaker Series, six free webinars which take place January - March 2022. Meet and learn from scientists, community leaders, and environmental educators who work at the intersection of research, education, and environmental justice.

The six webinars include:

  • Predicting Sewage Pollution Persistence in the Hudson River Estuary, presented by Elise Mckenna Myers, Ph.D.
    Find out if it is safe to swim in the Hudson River.
    Jan. 5, 3-4 p.m. • Learn more and register

  • Demolishing Dams and Stereotypes, with Laura Wildman, P.E.
    Meet the women who are removing dams and restoring our rivers.
    Jan. 26, 3-4 p.m. • Learn more and register

  • A Love Affair in STEM, with Shihadah “Shay” Saleem.
    Learn how a Black woman’s love of marine science blossomed into a holistic passion for STEM education, empowerment, and community elevation for New York City youth.
    Feb. 2, 3-4 p.m. • Learn more and register

  • Field-Based Learning Connects and Empowers Students, with Margie Turrin. Explore how youth on the Hudson and in Greenland are working to bring hands-on, intergenerational learning into their education.
    Feb. 16, 3-4 p.m. • Learn more and register

  • Turning Data Into Action, with Tracy Brown. Hear about ways that scientists and advocates are working together to bring about a cleaner environment while letting data tell the story.
    March 2, 3-4 p.m. • Learn more and register

  • Reaching Local Communities With Equity, Access, and Inclusion in Environmental Education, with Eli Caref. Learn how bringing more equity and inclusion into the environmental field is the best way to reach our communities.
    March 9, 3-4 p.m. • Learn more and register

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.

Sermons in Stone: The Stone Walls of New England and New York
Wednesday, January 12, 2022 • 7-8pm • Virtual event hosted by the Putnam History Museum • What do we know about stone walls? About the people who built them, and why? Stone walls are not simply monuments to the skill of Yankee farmers. The historical record makes clear that many were built by enslaved people, Native Americans, indentured servants, and children. Written by Susan Allport, Sermons in Stone is the illuminating history of the walls, a story that begins in the Ice Age and that has been shaped by the fencing dilemmas of the nineteenth century, by conflicts between Native Americans and colonists over land use, by American waves of immigration and suburbanization • LINK

Discovery of a Masterpiece
Wednesday, January 12, 2022 • 7-8pm • Virtual event via Zoom hosted by the Tivoli Free Library, the Staatsburg Library, Morton Memorial Library and the Starr Library • Mallory Mortillaro shares the story of how she uncovered a Rodin masterpiece that had been lost to the art world since the 1930s, becoming one of the biggest art finds in recent history • Register at bit.ly/DiscoveryMasterpiece

Weird Science with Professor Sparks
Saturday, January 15, 2022 • 10:30am • Free • 117 Harry Howard Ave., Hudson • Come spend the morning exploring the science of fire! Professor Sparks and her robot canine companion, Spot 2000, will present an interactive program that is full of surprises! After the program make your own “slime” to take home! Only Professor Sparks can make learning about science this much fun. This hands-on program is appropriate for children ages 5 and up • http://www.fasnyfiremuseum.com/museum-events

Print, Gossip & Duel: Alexander Hamilton & the Art of Political Combat
Thursday, January 20, 2022 • 7-8pm • Virtual lecture hosted by the Putnam History Museum • Don't let Alexander Hamilton's polished manners fool you: he was a political brawler at a time when the new nation's survival was at stake. The Founding Fathers didn't have cable tv or social media, but they did have their own battlegrounds and tactics to make sure their vision of the republic won. Dr. David Head explains how early American politicians like Hamilton battled each other in public, in private, and, sometimes, on the dueling ground • LINK

Call for Seeds for National Seed Swap Day
The Morton Seed Library is planning a virtual seed swap for Saturday, January 29, 2022 (National Seed Swap Day). Did "your garden grow"? Did you save seeds? Would you like to share? Please contact sandy@mortonrhinecliff.org with your inventory by January 15 and it will be added to the master list before the swap on the 29.

HUDSON JAZZ FESTIVAL 2022
February 10-13 & February 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.


Friday Night Film Series: “The Wedding Singer” (1998)
Friday, February 11, 2021 • Bardavon, Poughkeepsie • Followed by “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

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