Saturday & Sunday, Oct. 21-22: The difference between the yarns available at chain stores and the yarns brought to the festival is the difference between fast food and fine dining: One will tide you over and fill a need, but the other fills the soul.
Sunday, Oct. 22: New Yorkers get to start celebrating the centennial of women’s suffrage nearly three years earlier than the rest of the country. The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was formally adopted on August 26, 1920. But it was in a referendum on November 6, 1917 that 54 percent of New York’s all-male voters approved the addition of a women’s suffrage amendment to our state constitution, after it had been approved by two successive State Legislatures.
You can’t beat the Ashokan Reservoir trail for an easy in-and-out affording stunning autumnal panoramas. If you can time it to catch the sun setting behind the Catskills, all the better.
The 18th annual Woodstock Film Festival is now in progress, with dozens of films being screened in Woodstock and neighboring towns.
Wednesday-Sunday, Oct. 11-15: Subjects include Joan Didion, Arthur Miller and Hedy Lamarr.
Children’s Day at Headless Horseman, a musical round robin in Beacon, and Fall Family Fun Fest at Ashokan Center.
Saturday, Oct. 14: Named for a river that runs through the northwestern region of Tuva, Alash is an ensemble comprised entirely of master Tuvan throat singers. The singers learned the traditional technique from their families, and later banded together under the name Changy-Xaya as students at Kyzyl Arts College.
Saturday, Oct. 14: Sybil Kempson became interested in the Catskills as a performance site after learning about its high rate of alleged Bigfoot sightings.
Saturday, Oct. 14: One-time Motown rivals, trading hit-for-hit blows and one-upping each other with extravagant stage shows, the Temptations and the Four Tops today find themselves roadmates and soulmates, recapturing a peak period of American pop music.
Saturday, Oct. 14: Francesco Mastalia launches new book of 108 portraits of yogis with exhibition and readings. “The significance of the number 108 is that it’s a sacred number in Eastern religious traditions,” Mastalia explains. “One stands for God or higher truth, zero stands for emptiness or completeness in spiritual practice, eight stands for infinity or eternity.”