Entertainment

Jim Jarmusch brings zombies to the Catskills in The Dead Don’t Die

Jim Jarmusch brings zombies to the Catskills in The Dead Don’t Die

Here’s the cast lined up for Jarmusch’s soon-to-be-released The Dead Don’t Die: Adam Driver (star of his most recent fiction feature, Paterson), Bill Murray, Chloë Sevigny, Selena Gomez, Austin Butler, Steve Buscemi, Tilda Swinton, Rosie Perez, Caleb Landry Jones, Danny Glover, Luka Sabbat, Tom Waits and RZA. Carol Kane, Iggy Pop and Sara Driver all play zombies. So does a young actress from New Paltz, Sophia Weinman – one of many locals hired as extras for the movie, filmed mostly in and around Fleischmanns in Delaware County.

4-H Spring Fun Fest in High Falls

4-H Spring Fun Fest in High Falls

Saturday, April 13: The event will feature a variety of fun activities for all ages, including a chicken scratch treasure hunt, Easter egg coloring and face-painting. Festivalgoers will have the opportunity to plant flowers and vegetable seeds to take home, meet and pet baby chicks, rabbits and other fuzzy critters and learn how to raise backyard rabbits and chickens.

Ephrat Asherie Dance performs at Bard

Ephrat Asherie Dance performs at Bard

Saturday-Sunday, April 13-14: Bessie Award-winning choreographer Ephrat Asherie, artist-in-residence this year at Bard College, makes her Fisher Center debut with Odeon, a high-energy, hybrid dance work set to and inspired by the music of early-20th-century Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth, played live.

Refugee discussion follows screening of Sky and Ground in Rhinebeck

Refugee discussion follows screening of Sky and Ground in Rhinebeck

Saturday, April 13: Amidst the current furor over the inhumane treatment of refugees detained and families separated at the US/Mexico border, public attention has been diverted away from what is undeniably the largest-scale humanitarian crisis of this time: the plight of the millions fleeing civil war in Syria. Following the noon screening, filmmaker Joshua Bennett will join a panel discussion that also includes Lea Matheson, senior advisor on migration and humanitarian issues in the Office of the President at the UN.

Poet Gretchen Primack reads from Visiting Days in Woodstock

Poet Gretchen Primack reads from Visiting Days in Woodstock

Saturday, April 13: In her latest volume of poetry, Visiting Days, area poet Gretchen Primack literally goes to jail. A collection of short, imagistically keen dramatic monologues, Visiting Days captures images, stories, voices and fragments of lives on the inside, connecting them in subtly woven themes to the racial, economic, and human realities that feed the booming and largely private prison complex that is barely ever mentioned in public discourse.