Plenty of local talent and familiar scenery at this year’s Woodstock Film Festival
The festival, which runs from Oct. 11-15, features many films by local directors and shot in the Hudson Valley.
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Eight films to check out at the Woodstock Film Fest
Oct. 11-15: There are many to choose from. Here’s a start.
2017 Woodstock Film Fest lineup is varied, plentiful, dazzling
“Cosmopolitan” is the word Woodstock Film Festival Executive Director Meira Blaustein is using to describe the 18th outing of the annual event set to run from October 11 through 15th in Kingston, Rhinebeck, Rosendale, Saugerties and Woodstock, its center.
The art biz ain’t what it used to be
‘The middle class has dissipated. Those buyers are gone…’
Mario Cantone headlines Woodstock Comedy Fest Sept. 15-17
Mario Cantone, whose rapid-fire, over-the-top humor entertained audiences at the first Woodstock Comedy Festival, returns on Saturday, September 16, to headline this year’s event, the fifth annual comedy fundraiser for Family of Woodstock and the Polaris Project against human trafficking.
Woodstock School of Art exhibit typifies its approach
One of the delights of the Woodstock School of Art’s second annual Monoprint Invitational and Exhibition is the way the show both meets and sidesteps expectations.
Woodstock Museum Free Film Fest has international feel
Works for the festival, which runs through Sept 4, will be coming from Canada, Japan, India, France, the UK, Iran AND Irag, Italy, Brazil, Sweden, Ireland, Bulgaria, Australia, Denmark, Greece The Netherlands, Palestine, Singapore, Turkey, South Africa, and all over the U.S. and Northeast.
Grants, music, awards mark Byrdcliffe’s end of summer
It must be the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild’s time. Consider all that’s been swirling about it, both in the hamlet at its Kleinert/James Arts Center, home to a vibrant and groundbreaking new exhibit that brings together visual and musical artistry on its walls.
Susan Sarandon is Film Fest’s Maverick Award Recipient
Iconic actor and producer Susan Sarandon was announced this week as the Woodstock Film Festival’s honorary Maverick Award recipient.
WAAM’s Radius 50 show
Radius 50, the new regional exhibit that’s up at the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum this month, pushes both WAAM and the Woodstock art scene into fresh territory via its serious inclusion of bold new visions, savvy Janus-faced simultaneous takes on a shared art history and emerging visual culture, and diverse receptivity to our contemporary world.