Mass menorah-lighting at Kingston’s Temple Emanuel
Friday, Dec. 15: Bring a menorah from home and join with others in the experience of lighting hundreds of candles.
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Melissa Etheridge to play UPAC in Kingston
Saturday, Dec. 16: Academy Award- and Grammy-winning artist Melissa Etheridge brings a full band to the newly renovated Ulster Performing Arts Center this weekend.
TSL in Hudson screens Sondheim’s Follies via National Theatre Live
Saturday, Dec. 16: One of Stephen Sondheim’s darkest stageworks — and that’s saying something — Follies, which debuted in 1971, doesn’t get revived very often, despite being regarded as a classic of musical theater. National Theatre’s revival has been called “superb.”
Kenro Izu at the Center for Photography
Saturday, Dec. 16: The exhibition will highlight Izu’s “Sacred Places” series.
The plow, the paint and the pipes
Through Jan. 7: An art exhibit at Red Hook’s Greig Farm runs the gamut.
Rosendale Theatre stages two live plays from golden age of radio
Friday and Saturday, Dec. 15-16: the movie screen will be rolled up and the Rosendale Theatre stage dressed for live performances of two gems from the long and distinguished career of the “Poet Laureate of Radio,” Norman Corwin: The Plot to Overthrow Christmas and The Anatomy of Sound.
Kids’ Almanac (Dec. 7-14)
Dec. 7-14: Nutcracker time, Holiday party at FDR’s house, Gingerbread constructions, Make your own Chanukah gelt.
Bob Schuler (1925-2017)
In 1986, the High Falls artist began the Tethys Project, a sort of personal time capsule that would become his primary artistic endeavor for the rest of his life. Each side of each cube was incised (via sandblasting) with images, glyphs, poetic statements, as well as the latitude and longitude for each block—all created and designed by the artist. The idea was that the Tethys Project would be as close to a permanent artistic statement as possible, with the submerged granite blocks discovered hundreds or thousands of years from now, if then.
Where to find the best Hudson Valley holiday light extravaganzas
Heads up and eyes open! ‘Tis the season to gaze in wonder at the holiday light shows mounted in neighborhoods and commercial venues far and wide.
Cut-your-own Christmas tree at Bell’s Farm
You’ve got your pick of Douglas fir, Canaan fir, concolor fir, Serbian spruce, Colorado blue spruce, balsam fir, grand fir, Korean fir, Meyer spruce, Fraser fir and Fralsam fir. Holly the Dog runs alongside as we cruise through sections planted in each of these varieties, and Gordie talks about the Bell family having worked this farm since the 1900s.