Friday-Sunday, Sept. 13-15: Basilica SoundScape is an annual festival loaded with experimental art, literature, music and film. Held in the cavernous and heightened spaces of Basilica Hudson’s reclaimed waterfront factory, SoundScape has earned its stripes year after year as one of the least compromising festivals dedicated to new thought and different art.
Saturday, Sept. 21: It was Winston Churchill who, in a 1946 speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, coined the term “Iron Curtain” to characterize the growing divide between the capitalist and communist wings of the World War II Allies. Churchill’s granddaughter, the noted artist Edwina Sandys, MBE, has called the Berlin Wall “the physical embodiment of the Iron Curtain.” After the Wall was dismantled in 1989, the reunited German government gave Sandys her pick of eight of its concrete panels to use as a medium for her art.
Sunday, Sept. 15: Mužijevic presents the timeless music of Johann Sebastian Bach in conversation with two 21st-century works, David Fulmer’s whose fingers brush the sky and James Joslin’s Cadequésan Landscape.
Sept. 14: A town-wide reception on Saturday, September 14 will launch “Woodstock Collects,” a first-time collaboration among five not-for-profit arts organizations: the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, the Historical Society of Woodstock, the Woodstock School of Art and the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Sourced entirely from local private collections, the works in this joint exhibition have rarely been seen in public spaces.
Saturday, Sept. 21: See Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s award-winning one-woman show that inspired the BBC’s hit TV series Fleabag, broadcast live from the West End.
Thursday, September 12: Upstate Films in Woodstock offers a sneak preview of the eagerly anticipated Downton Abbey feature-length film. Writer Julian Fellowes, director Michael Engler and the original cast return to tell the continuing story of the Crawley family, picking up the plotline in late 1927.
Yesterday a jury found Joshua Stuart, 42, of Kerhonkson, guilty on a number of charges in connection with a series of violent crimes that took place in the town of Wawarsing last September.
A 32-year-old Newburgh man died yesterday in a crash on I-84 in the town of Montgomery.
Short-term rental guests can’t get enough of Ulster County. According to Airbnb, the county had significantly more guests using the service this summer (Memorial Day to Labor Day) than other mid- and lower-Hudson Valley counties, despite Ulster’s comparatively modest population.
The SUNY Ulster Office of Continuing and Professional Education is offering a series of web development courses this fall.