Mary Stuart Masterson directs Good Dirt this Sunday at Bard. Following the performance, there will be a community picnic on the Fisher Center’s lawn. Bring your own picnic and blanket, or sample the offerings available on-site for purchase, featuring goods from some of the farmers portrayed in Good Dirt and other local purveyors.
“A lot of people don’t know what a maker- or hackerspace is. It’s a fairly new concept, but they’re all over the world.”
The nature of the narrative is not made clear, but the seductively withholding teaser text may provide some clues: “What if we can shape human destiny, unveil our true superselves and rewrite the story of our time? We Are Making the Movie of Our Lives.”
There’s something giddily freeing about being granted official sanction to do something that’s usually deemed to be transgressive – like creatively “defacing” public property.
Annual apple festival on Huguenot Street gets rebranded, will host spirits-tasting
Ben Neill’s revelatory environmental composition Manitoga somehow manages to transport you to the place where you already are. It is named for the location at which the work is intended to be performed, exclusively: Manitoga, the idyllic-but-subtly-surreal Russell Wright Design Center in Garrison.
Once you’ve been someplace where 55 different knowledgeable garlic farmers congregate, offering varieties that cover the whole flavor spectrum, you’ll never be the same easily satisfied cook that you were before.
“Ulster County was one of the worst [counties] in the state. There’s only one person so far in this county that I’ve been able to identify as an abolitionist. Even the Quakers didn’t want to let go of their slaves.”
“In the midst of America’s epidemic of gun violence that results in 90 deaths, over 200 injuries and a mass shooting every day, this powerful coast-to-coast concert and organizing effort will raise awareness and – very importantly – get out the vote on gun violence prevention in the November elections and beyond.”
You can find her work hanging in the homes of some of the world’s greatest artists and on the refrigerator