Kyra Sedgwick makes her directorial debut in Woodstock
Saturday, July 15: The film will be shown here for the first time, before its official television premiere on the Lifetime network. The director’s husband, actor Kevin Bacon, stars in the film.
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Hike with your hound, study nature at Mills Mansion and make a cyanotype at Storm King.
Pig Toast at Catskill Animal Sanctuary
Saturday, July 15: After treating the pigs to watermelon, visitors will enjoy a gourmet vegan barbecue prepared by Sanctuary chefs.
Wynton Marsalis to host Summer Jazz Academy at Bard
Jazz at Lincoln Center comes up the river to run a rigorous training institute for 42 of the world’s most advanced and dedicated high school jazz students. This two-week program is taught by Wynton Marsalis and a select faculty of musical heavyweights, and if you act fast, you can hear them play.
Voice Theatre performs The Skin of Our Teeth at Byrdcliffe
Next two weekends: On the surface, The Skin of Our Teeth couldn’t seem more different from the Thornton Wilder piece that everybody knows: the universally produced Our Town. It was written as a spark of absurd hope amidst the despair of World War II, but takes on new layers of meaning whenever troubled times roll around.
Wooster Group’s A Pink Chair at Bard Summerscape
Through July 23: Downtown Manhattan’s longest-running and most accomplished experimental theater ensemble pays a 100th-birthday tribute to the trailblazing “Theater of Death” director Tadeusz Kantor.
Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival in Oak Hill
July 13-16: Every summer, the venerable festival showcases the full spectrum of American bluegrass and folk: the old and the new, the traditional and the progressive, unknowns and certified national treasures with last names that strike awe.
Monastery Vinegar Festival in Lagrangeville
Saturday-Sunday, July 15-16: The vinegarmaking at Our Lady of the Resurrection began four decades ago, when the monastery’s founder, Benedictine monk Brother Victor-Antoine d’Avila-Latourrette, came across a vinegar recipe dating to the Middle Ages.
Bearsville Theater to host Mavi Díaz & Las Folkies
Sunday, July 16: This ensemble is widely considered to be one of the best in contemporary Latin music.
The Schindler of Kingston
Part mischievous trickster, part Old-World aristocrat, László Ocskay saved over 2000 Jews from the Holocaust. But because of Cold War politics, few in his native Hungary knew about it. He lived his last years quietly in Kingston. Recognition came later.