Week of March 4-10, 2024

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
Monday, March 4, 2024
Upstate Films, Rhinebeck and The Orpheum, Saugerties
Screening of the documentary by Alex Gibney followed by a Q+A with the editor Andy Grieve and producer Svetlana Zill (Saturday only). https://www.upstatefilms.org/close-up-in-restless-dreams-the-music-of-paul-simon-w-special-guests-in-person

The History of Fly Fishing in the Hudson Valley
Tuesday, March 5, 5:30pm
Red Hook Public Library
Join professional guide Randy German to learn about fly fishing. Continues March 12 at 5:30pm with Introduction to Fly Tying; March 19 at 5pm with Tips and Techniques, March 26, at 5:30pm: Casting Instruction and Practice. Register for the series here.

Re-Presenting Landscape: The Paintings of Lydia Rubio
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 from 6-7pm
Virtual via Zoom
Rubio will explore how her work reinterprets the notion of “landscape,” taking inspiration from Frederic Church and members of the “Hudson River School. Register

Author Talk: Brett Matthews Palfreyman
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at 7pm
Virtual event via Zoom
New York Harbor was once home to the greatest oyster habitat on the planet–before we fished and polluted them out. Now, communities across the city are working to bring the once plentiful bivalves back. This talk examines the past, present, and potential future of oysters in New York’s waters. historicredhook.org/register

Bardavon presents Game Changers
Bardavon + UPAC
Continues on March 7 with “Stray Dog” at UPAC, March 21 with “The Seventh Seal” at the Bardavon, April 4 with “Cleo from 5 to 7” at UPAC, April 11 with “Playtime” at UPAC, April 25 with “The Thin Blue Line” at the Bardavon, May 9 with “Close-Up” at UPAC, May 16 with “Chungking Express” at the Bardavon, May 30 with “Beau Travail” at UPAC, June 13 with “Pan’s Labyrinth” at UPAC and June 20 with “Moonlight” at the Bardavon. bardavon.org

TOP DRAWER
Friday, March 8, 2024, Saturday, March 9, 2024, & Sunday March 10, 2024
Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2pm
Cost: $25
44 West Bridge Street, Catskill
Her father was a closeted gay concert pianist, her mother a thrice-married opera singer with impossibly high artistic standards. And the story of a daughter’s journey to Cuba to find her father’s grand piano, left behind when the family fled the Revolution in 1960, is told in Adelaide Mestre’s remarkable, hilarious, heartbreaking and song-filled one-woman show “Top Drawer”, coming to Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre March 8-10 as part of BST’s 2024 SoloFest. Accompanied by Doug Oberhamer at the piano, Mestre revisits her privileged childhood on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in a family that “didn’t talk about things a lot”, her parents’ doomed love affair, her return to Havana to try to reclaim her family’s heritage, and her struggle, as an artist, to break free from the facade of glamor and perfection that her family seemed to prize above all else. It’s an inspiring autobiographical tale of tragedy and triumph, dysfunction and redemption, shared in story and song. bridgest.org/24solofest2/

Dutchess County Parks Winter Programs
Continues Saturday, March 9, 2024
Various locations
Events include Winter Public Archery, Virtual Base Camp, Senior Park Prints Art Series, Walk Around Wednesdays, Rail Trail Nordic Ski Weekend, Intro to Self Defense, Friday Night Pickleball Under the Lights at Quiet Cove, Archery, Junior Survival, and winter sledding. More info: DutchessNY.gov/Parks.

Kingston Winter Farmers’ Market
Continues Saturday, March 9 and 23, April 6 and 20, 2024 from 10am - 2pm
Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston
https://kingstonfarmersmarket.org

Wolves to Workers
Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 10am
Outdoor Discovery Campus, Hudson Highlands Nature Center, Cornwall
Discover the history and reasons behind our incredible relationship with dogs. Learn about the domestication of wolves and how wild wolves became today's working breeds and furry friends! Make a wolf craft and enjoy a meet and greet with an ambassador service dog! More info

Used Book Sale for Blodgett Memorial Library
Saturday, March 9, 2024 from 10am to 2pm
Cost: Free admission
37 Broad Street, Fishkill
Drop by Blodgett Memorial Library in Fishkill on March 9 to shop the Friends of the Library used book sale! All funds from the sale benefit the library. Cash only. blodgettmemoriallibrary.org/

Backyard Maple Sugaring
Saturday, March 9, 2024 from 11am - noon
Cost: Free
Norrie Point Environmental Center
DEC education staff will teach the basics of how to make your own maple syrup, how to identify a maple tree, tap the tree, and boil the sap down to syrup. Samples included! https://hrnerr.org/events/

Parade of Green
Saturday, March 9, 2024 at noon
Main Street, Beacon
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with this community event featuring bands, and festivities. https://facebook.com/paradeofgreen

Ntangou Badila: E(n)termal Lighf: The Eternal Ecosystem Exposed
March 9 - April 14, 2024
Opening reception on Saturday, March 9, 2024 from 5-8pm
Hudson Hall
The opening will feature immersive environments, sound bath, music, nervous system care, massage, acupuncture, herbs, tinctures, salves and nutritional information. hudsonhall.org

Guns and Hoses Hockey Game
Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 5pm
Cost: Free
MJN Center, 14 Civic Center Plaza, Poughkeepsie
Local police and fire departments will go head to head in a charity game to raise money for sick and injured members and the families of those who make the ultimate sacrifice of the First Responders within the counties of Dutchess, Putnam, Orange and Ulster. midhudsonciviccenter.org/event/guns-and-hoses-hockey-game/

26th Annual Shamrock Run
Sunday, March 10, 2024 beginning at 12:50pm sharp!
Cost: $35
Starts at the Academy Green and runs down Broadway to the Rondout, Kingston
https://www.shamrockrun.org

Woodstock Film Festival’s 2024 Oscars Viewing Party
Sunday, March 10, 2024 with doors at 6pm, Oscars at 7pm
Cost: $50
Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker Street, Woodstock
Join the Woodstock Film Festival for their annual viewing party of the 96th Academy Awards with drinks and hors d’oeuvres. Tickets include food, drinks and exclusive swag from acclaimed nominated films including Poor Things totes. Tickets

Exhibition: Stanford Kay and Tatana Kellner
On view through March 10, 2024
23 Garrison's Landing, Garrison
Opening of two exhibits at the Garrison Art Center featuring artists Stanford Kay and Tatana Kellner. Both artists embrace spontaneity and intuition in their work, leading them down new and unexpected pathways. From Tatana's experience growing up in communist Czechoslovakia to Stanford's investigations into impermanence, identity, and isolation during the pandemic, their work reflects the complexities of the human experience and our search for meaning and connection in today's rapidly changing world. garrisonartcenter.org

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ONGOING EVENTS

Rivers Flow/Artists Connect
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers
More than 40 American artists, from the 1820s to the present day, capture our profound, symbiotic relationship with major rivers worldwide, from the Hudson and the Susquehanna to the Indus and the Seine. https://www.hrm.org/exhibitions/rivers-flow-artists-connect/

Spring Exhibitions
Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz
Featuring Global Connections: Miguel Covarrubias, Isami Doi, Aaron Douglas and Winold Reiss, and the exhibition: Hudson Valley Artists 2024. newpaltz.edu/dorskymuseum

Peter Demos: Neon
On view through March 13, 2024
Hundred Mile Gallery, 6417 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck
New works by Peter Demos curated by Doron Gild.

I Should Have Been a Pair of Ragged Claws
On view Saturdays through March 16, 2024
Wassaic Project
2023-2024 Wassaic Project’s winter exhibition featuring 11 artist throughout all seven floors of Maxon Mills. Link

Spectacle: Frederic Church and the Business of Art
On view through March 31, 2024
Sharpe Family Gallery, Olana State Historic Site
Frederic Church’s The Heart of the Andes was the pinnacle of his critical and popular success as America’s preeminent landscape artist and now holds center stage at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American Wing. Spectacle: Frederic Church and the Business of Art combines immersive video technology with the wealth of Olana State Historic Site’s archival holdings to demonstrate how Church’s art responded to the most advanced scientific thought of his day and reached a broad public audience, the largest of any 19th-century American artist. This special exhibition responds to two most frequently asked questions by visitors to Olana: How did people experience Frederic Church’s major paintings in the 19th century, and how did the artist Frederic Church make enough money to create Olana? olana.org/spectacle/

Olana Third Thursdays
Continues the third Thursday of the month, from 11am to 3:15pm
Olana State Historic Site, Hudson
Free monthly tours and programs. Artmaking in the Afternoon, a hands-on, drop-in event will take place from 1-5pm in the Wagon House Education Center. olana.org/thirdthursdays/

Hudson Valley Free Day
Continues on the last Sunday of the month from 10am - 4pm
Dia Beacon
Hudson Valley residents living in Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Sullivan, Ulster, Washington and Westchester counties are invited to explore the contemporary art collection at Dia Beacon on the last Sunday of each month. diaart.org/visit/visit-our-locations-sites/dia-beacon-beacon-united-states

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COMING UP

Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail Public Info Session
Monday, March 11, 2024 from 6-8pm
Dutchess Manor, 263 Route 9D, Beacon
Presentation on an alternative route analysis review and shoreline trail concept design overview. Registration required due to limited capacity but the session will be recorded: https://hhft.org/experience/alt-analysis-and-slt-overview/

Educational Crematory Tour
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 from 6-7pm
Wiltwyck Cemetery, 205 West O’Reilly Street, Kingston
See the cemetery’s state-of-the-art crematory facility and learn about the crematory and cremation process. Light refreshments will be served. RSVP by calling 845-331-0199.

Dutchess County State of the County Address
Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 5:30pm
Red Hook High School, Red Hook
Dutchess County Executive Sue Serino will present her first state of the county address. RSVP to attend by March 12: dutchessny.gov/RSVP

Westchester State of the County Address
Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 6pm
Michaelian Office Building, Board of Legislators Chambers, 8th Floor, 148 Martine Ave., White Plains
Watch live at facebook.com/westchestergov

“A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951)
Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 7pm
Cost: $10, $6 members
The Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main Street, Rosendale
Directed by Elia Kazan and based on Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, this film is a poignant exploration of desire, delusion, and the clash between old and new worlds. rosendaletheatre.org/series/classic-film-series/

THE GREAT DIVIDE
Friday, March 15 - Sunday, March 17, 2024; Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2pm
Cost: $25
44 West Bridge Street, Catskill
Picture this: a trashy NYC apartment, and a dress that's maybe a bit too daring. A New Year's Eve bash where your latest crush is the only familiar face in the room. Every glance, every laugh, every drink could potentially lead to either your own unique "Meet Cute" or possibly a brutal rejection. Which way will things go? That’s the dilemma facing writer/performer Amy Crossman in her darkly comic solo show “The Great Divide” being presented at Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre May 15-17 as part of BST’s 2024 Solofest. What can you do to ease the pain when a relationship you hoped would last forever fades away and then abruptly – ends? Alternately hysterically funny, heartbreaking, and totally relatable, it’s a tragicomic exploration of what it means to love, to have your heart broken, and then to make a fresh start after the storm. “The Great Divide” will be presented for three performances only – Friday March 15 and Saturday March 16 at 7:30pm and Sunday March 17 at 2:00pm. Bridge Street Theatre is located at 44 West Bridge Street in Catskill, NY. Advance tickets for all performances can be purchased online at bridgest.org/24solofest3/ or at the door (subject to availability) one-half hour before each performance.

“Son of Frankenstein” (1939)
Saturday, March 16, 2024 at 9:30pm
Cost: $10, $6 members and those in costume
The Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main Street, Rosendale
rosendaletheatre.org/series/saturday-creature-features/

The Opening of The Fields
Sunday, March 17, 2024 at 4pm
Cost: Free but registration is required
Common Ground Farm, 79 Farmstead Lane, Wappingers Falls
A contemplative walk through the early spring fields, guided by Common Ground Farm staff, with reflections and teachings from community partners. commongroundfarm.org/store/ootf

Women’s Safety Awareness Training
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 7pm
Cost: Free but registration is required
Emergency Response, 392 Creek Road, Poughkeepsie
Designed to encourage and empower women while raising awareness of common safety measures that can be taken to minimize risk, Town of Poughkeepsie Police Detective Lindsay Chomicki and Officer Kristen Norbom will share tips for participants to better understand the important role their instincts and gut reactions play as well as how to identify and avoid potentially dangerous situations, how to make a safety plan and decrease the odds of becoming a victim of a crime. Registration is required by emailing mrc@dutchessny.gov. For more information about the county’s Medical Reserve Corps, including how to volunteer, visit dutchessny.gov/mrc.

Woodstock Bookfest StorySlam
March 21-24, 2024
Bearsville Theater, Woodstock
Line-up includes Masha Gessen, Sophie Strand, Sari Botton, Mark Whitaker, Gail Straub, Simi Stone and more.https://woodstockbookfest.com

On The Mountain
March 22-24, 2024
Hunter Mountain and Glens Falls House
An ‘80s themed après-ski weekend with live music from the Local Natives, Gus Dapperton, Rubblebucket, Fat Tony, Salt Cathedral, Runnner, Toledo, and Girl Puppy with yoga, somatic breathwork, food pop-ups and more. eventbrite.com/e/on-the-mountain-4-tickets-801666284437

LONGING LASTS LONGER
March 22-24, 2024; Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2:00pm
Cost: $25
44 West Bridge Street, Catskill
Kick-ass comedy with guts! Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre, in collaboration with NYC’s White Horse Theatre Company, closes out its 2024 SoloFest with the legendary downtown performance artist Penny Arcade in her one-woman show “Longing Lasts Longer”. A unique blend of stand-up comedy and memoir set in a riveting rock-and-roll soundscape mixed live onstage by Penny Arcade’s collaborator of 29 years Steve Zehentner, “Longing Lasts Longer” is a fierce, visionary, and ultimately forward-looking critique of the erasure of history, the rise of nostalgia, and the pervasiveness of cultural amnesia created by international gentrification – a crack in our planet’s post-gentrified landscape, shining a light on the path to individual authenticity. This international performance legend, whose name has become globally synonymous with "Downtown New York Art”, combines poetics, comedy, and rock-and-roll into what can only be called cultural critique you can dance to! Advance tickets for all performances can be purchased online at bridgest.org/24solofest4-tickets/ or at the door (subject to availability) one-half hour before each performance.

Poughkeepsie Book Festival
Saturday, March 30, 2024 from 10 am - 3 pm
Cost: Free
Dutchess Community College, 53 Pendell Road, Poughkeepsie
Meet and greet authors and illustrators (covering reading ages from preschool to Young Adult), take your picture with your favorite costumed book characters, and make some fun crafts. Books will be available to purchase, and to have signed by the authors and illustrators who made them. poklib.org/bookfestival/

Citizen's Preparedness Class
Saturday, March 30, 2024 from 10am to noon
Cost: Free
525 Cottekill Road, Stone Ridge
The Citizen Preparedness Corps give residents the tools and resources to prepare for any type of disaster or emergency, respond accordingly and recover as quickly as possible to pre-disaster conditions. Citizen Preparedness Corps training began in February 2014. Trainings are led by the New York National Guard working with experts from the Division's Office of Emergency Management and Office of Fire Prevention and Control. Training sessions are coordinated with local county emergency management personnel at various venues such as armories, community centers and other locations statewide, including the New York State Fair. The course provides an introduction to responding to a natural or human-caused disaster. Participants are advised on how to properly develop family emergency plans and stock up on emergency supplies. A key component of the training is distribution of free NYS Disaster Preparedness Kits to participants (one per family) containing examples of key items to assist individuals in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. The state training and kits will help New Yorkers to be the most-trained and best-prepared citizens in the country. dhses.ny.gov/citizen-preparedness-training-calendar

Policies and Plans: A Conversation with County Leaders
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 8am
Cost: $70, $60 members
DoubleTree by Hilton, Poughkeepsie
Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress will host a candid discussion with county leaders on the region’s civic issues including workforce stress, demographic changes, the housing crisis, infrastructure, economic development and more. Questions may be emailed in advance to rdegoat@pfprogress.org. pattern-for-progress.org/portfolio/countyleaders24/

SOMEHOW: Thoughts on Love
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at 7pm
Bardavon, Poughkeepsie
Anne Lamott in conversation with Elizabeth Lesser. Cost of admission includes a copy of Thoughts on Love. Tickets

“Harold and Maude” (1971)
Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 7pm
The Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main Street, Rosendale
rosendaletheatre.org/series/classic-film-series/

‘Ten Films That Changed America’
Friday, April 12, 2024
Cost: $40, $25 for college students with ID
Woodstock Playhouse
Bard Professor Joseph Luzzi will discuss ten notable films that have profoundly impacted our nation’s culture, history, and politics – Casablanca, Rebel Without a Cause, The Graduate, The Godfather, Jaws, China Syndrome, Philadelphia, Barbie – and some lesser-known movies as well. Proceeds will benefit the 25th Annual Woodstock Film Festival. woodstockplayhouse.org/thoughtfulproductions

Lecture - Wiltwyck Cemetery's Titanic Victim: William Gwynne
Saturday, April 13, 2024 from 1-2pm
Cost: Free
205 West O'Reilly Street, Kingston
Join Wiltwyck Cemetery in a lecture focusing on William Gwynne, a worker and victim of the sinking of RMS Titanic, whose cenotaph is here within our grounds on the 112th anniversary of the tragic event.
Our presenter, Hannah Speregen, will cover Gwynne's life before the Titanic's sinking, the colleagues he worked with, and what the final moments were like for Gwynne and his fellow Postal Clerks before the ship went down. This presentation will have amplified sound as well as a slideshow presentation to go along with these subjects. This lecture will take place within the cemetery where Gwynne's cenotaph is placed. A limited number of folding chairs will be available but attendees are highly encouraged to bring their own folding seats. Rain Date: Sunday, April 14, 2024. Call the office at 845-331-0199 to RSVP by April 12. fb.me/e/3K8U4fEBV

Skilled Trades Fair for Students and Young Adults
Thursday, April 18, 2024 from 6:30 - 8:30pm
Roy C. Ketcham High School, 99 Myers Corners Road, Wappingers Falls
The opportunity for students and young adults to learn about different career paths available in our region. No advance registration is required. For more information, call 845-486-2000 or email CountyExec@dutchessny.gov.

2024 Tulip Walk
April 27 and May 4, 2024
Cost: $15, free for kids under 12
Meadowbrook Farm, Catskills
Over 15,000 flowering bulbs, plus music, children's activities, crafts and bulbs for sale. meadowbrookfarmcatskill.com

Mohonk Tulip Festival
May 3-5, and May 10, 2024
Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz
20,000 tulips grace the site’s show garden with tours, workshops, and tastings. https://www.mohonk.com/events/tulip-festival-2

Arlene Shechet: Girl Group
Opening May 4, 2024
Storm King Art Center
Girl Group will debut six new large-scale commissions—spanning heights of ten to twenty feet and lengths of up to thirty feet—along with complementary indoor works in wood, steel, and ceramic. The exhibition asserts a feminine sensibility across Storm King’s hills, fields, and galleries. This series of sculptures adapts the monumental vocabulary of the Art Center to Shechet’s unique voice. Recognized as a leading sculptor who has radicalized ceramics, Shechet now takes on industrial materials and inaugurates a new phase of her work. She brings an array of vibrant colors—pinks, oranges, yellows, greens, blues, and purples—to Storm King's terrain for the first time. Learn More

Norah Jones
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 at 8pm
Bardavon, Poughkeepsie
A “rare, intimate theatre show” with the nine-time Grammy Award winner. Tickets on sale Tuesday, January 23 for members, and Friday, January 26 at 10am for the general public. Tickets

Ruges Annual Go Topless Day
Sunday, May 19, 2024 from 10am to 2pm
6882 Route 9, Rhinebeck
Approximately 150 Jeeps will be on display as part of a worldwide Jeep tradition. Free hotdogs, music and giveaways. Leashed dogs are welcome. rugescdj.com

Michael Franti and Spearhead with special guest Stephen Marley
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Hutton Brickyards, Kingston
https://www.tixr.com/groups/impactconcerts/events/michael-franti-spearhead-and-stephen-marley-94033

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