Sunday, Oct. 8: Combining food, music and fun with a sense of heritage and service, this free waterfront festival includes recognition of the Italian Signora and Signore of the Year and a visit from the reigning Miss Italy New York.
Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 7-8: This fair features fine art, folk art, decorative art, textiles, samplers, weathervanes, English furniture, country furniture, formal furniture, quilts, trade signs, antique and estate jewelry, painted furniture, pottery, silver and garden architectural items presented by 125 dealers.
Over-the-top sexism apparently still doesn’t hurt one’s election chances, so maybe we haven’t really come such a long way, baby.
Fridays-Sundays in Oct.: It’s the same core group of madcap creative types at the New York Renaissance Faire that ratchets up the fear at this award-winning Halloween attraction — considered one of the scariest in the Northeast.
Festivals at Forsyth Nature Center in Kingston and along the Wallkill in New Paltz; “What are you afraid of?”
Wednesday-Sunday, Oct. 11-15: This “independently fierce” cinematic juggernaut will feature four world premieres, five North American premieres, one US premiere, 20 East Coast premieres and 10 New York premieres. There will be screenings in Woodstock, Kingston, Rhinebeck, Saugerties and Rosendale and you can get your tickets now.
Oct. 12-13: Worldwide, the number of democracies is declining. In America, social and institutional trust has weakened. In this year’s conference, “Crises of Democracy: Thinking in Dark Times,” Bard’s Hannah Arendt Center looks at how we got here and what the future may hold.
Oct. 11-15: There are many to choose from. Here’s a start.
Activities will take place each weekend, and include history talks, eco-art displays, writing workshops, youth art exhibits, roots music presentations, creative writing, art and music, belly dancing classes, stand-up comedy shows, street dancing, and jewelry-making demonstrations, health and food, yoga, performance art and a community forum.
There’s a moving image of a tadpole swimming upstream in murky waters on the website of Christy Rupp, whose exhibition, “Catastrophozoic,” opens at Cross Contemporary Art in Saugerties with an artist’s reception this Saturday, September 30. There are skeletal sculptures, embossed glassware, collages and posters. An entire world of the fragile and natural is under attack from manmade objects and methodologies.