Alice-in-Wonderland Follies at Kaatsbaan in Tivoli, Meet LEGO Pop-Up creator in Rhinebeck, Coming-Out-Day Teen Dance in Kingston, Youth Features at Woodstock Film Festival, Beacon Sloop Club’s Pumpkin Festival, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & more.
Guests will bear witness to the legendary true story of a tormented mother and an unorthodox macabre wedding ceremony, while also learning about sexist witch trials, kidnapped wives, mourning brides and the curse of infertility.
As always, there are too many good bands, too many choices. But here are three you shouldn’t miss: two headliners and an up-and-comer.
This year’s festival will include numerous acts with a feminist bent, underscoring the theme of “Mothers of Invention.” The festival, now in its seventh year, began as a benefit for the large numbers of artists and musicians without health insurance, a problem that has yet to be fully solved. It’s also a fantastic time.
While it’s always skin-crawly fun to experience Nosferatu in a real cinema – you may come out of it feeling about rats the way a lot of people feel about spiders or snakes – what makes this weekend’s presentation in Woodstock extra-special is the musical accompaniment
Billed as “a modern interpretation of a traditional arts and crafts fair,” Field & Supply presents a carefully curated selection of makers highlighting goods, old and new, from a variety of studios and workshops representing a wide range of crafts.
They weren’t actually bred to stand in as comfort animals: the usual dogs and cats and horses that visit senior citizens’ and veterans’ homes or prisons or facilities that serve people with special needs. Yet donkeys – particularly the cute miniature ones – make for excellent partners in human/animal relational development.
The festival will be held October 13-16, bringing movie-industry celebs to the streets of Woodstock and more than 130 films, panels and other events to venues from Saugerties to Rhinebeck to Rosendale.
It’s a simple, and, I contend, the most revealing question that a moviegoer can ask of him or herself. It has very little to do with popularity or publicly accepted “greatness.”
When Elizabeth Lesser learned that she was the only person who could offer life-saving bone marrow to her sister Maggie, she didn’t hesitate. The story of their experience is chronicled in her latest memoir.