The walls have a fresh coat of white paint, the aged carpet is gone from the staircase, and the former Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia’s community gallery that closed in February, is about to reincarnate under new proprietors and a new name.
Completely new this year at the Woodstock Bookfest will be its first gathering of writers who specialize on the subject of autism, at 4 p.m. Saturday, March 24 at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock.
From the look of the Woodstock Arts Association & Museum’s new exhibits opening this weekend, with receptions set for March 24, abstraction’s back in town…if it ever really left.
March 22-25: Author panels, readings, parties, workshops and more.
When the email invitation came from David Byrne, best known for fronting the hit band Talking Heads (“Burning Down the House”) in the 1980s, native Woodstocker Simi Stone was so ecstatic, she cried.
Local artists are mourning Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia’s community art gallery, which has closed down after 14 years of operation.
In Remembrance, honoring and featuring the work of the late Woodstockers Jane Axel, Lenny Kislin, Pia Oste-Alexander and Sandra Palmer Shaw, will then run through March 11, with a special reception to take place 4 p.m.-6 p.m. Saturday afternoon, Feb. 10.
The big classical music event of January in our area was the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra’s concert at the Woodstock Playhouse on January 6.
Feb. 2: Omega Institute co-founder Elizabeth Lesser, who wrote a book about donating bone marrow to treat her sister’s lymphoma, said that despite all the associated trauma, “It’s a magical, mystical experience, giving another person part of your body to help them live. There’s something profound and mysterious about it.”
An increased number of big-budget film productions in the mid-Hudson region in 2017 have resulted in a 300 percent increase in direct spending, according to the Hudson Valley Film Commission.