Our weekly roundup of family activities. This week: Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom at Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre, Luge Challenge at Belleayre Mountain, Hudson River EagleFest, Puppets perform African Adventure Tales at SUNY-Dutchess, Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck presents Jedi Academy, Valentine’s Day fun, Fishkill Model Train & Hobby Show, Sledding party at Clermont, Cookie-decorating at Children’s Museum
“The Hudson Valley has historically been the breadbasket for New York City… For us, whether it’s cheese or cooking, it’s about the producers. We wanted to be close to the producers.”
Smorgasburg Upstate will return to the Hutton Brickyards for a second season in 2017, with the extension of the popular Brooklyn-based food and flea market shifting its focus from every Saturday to Saturdays and Sundays once per month between May and October.
“It will serve healthy locally-sourced sandwiches, soups, salads, wraps, ‘bowls’ and the like. As with their other location . . . overall, a business plan similar to Main Course. The New Paltz location will be open later than Poughkeepsie, will have outdoor seating and is likely to serve beer and wine.”
With three floors of exhibition space, classrooms, a children’s gallery, a world-class archival library, a museum shop and the Crisan Café, the Albany Institute is an appealing destination for tourists and locals alike.
“I decided to do 108 pieces in 108 days: the number of beads in a mala. I wanted to make this a meditation on peace, love and joy.”
I have never heard the WCO sound as good as it did during this concert, under the direction of William Stevens.
“Much of my work, and certainly my book, won’t really make much sense unless you’ve had some taste of obsessive love/unrequited love at some point in your life.”
Barbara Masterson, who lives on a farm at the top of a small mountain in the southern Ulster hamlet of Milton, had always painted landscapes. But one day in May 2015, when she was out painting on a neighboring farm in Marlborough, some migrant workers wandered into the scene and her subject began to change. “I just painted them in quickly,” she said. “It was kismet. I was just innocently painting and they just kind of appeared.”
A new year brings new exhibits at the Woodstock Artists Association Museum.