This weekend: The Marcel Proust Project at the Fisher Center at Bard College, conceived and directed by Sarah Rothenberg, costume design by Marina Draghici; Ruby Silvious’ Tea & Alchemy Art Show at the Greene County Council on the Arts’ Gallery; And, Writers in the Mountains’ Creative Nonfiction Reading at the Pine Hill Community Center. Read more at Upstater.com. Continue reading Weekend in the Catskills – 1/22/2016
This weekend: Poetry at The Coffee House in Phoenicia; It’s a Wonderful Life at the Shandaken Playhouse, also in Phoenicia; And, a traditional Candlelight Evening at The Farmer’s Museum in Cooperstown. Read more at Upstater.com. Continue reading Weekend in the Catskills – 12/11/2015
This weekend: Hobart Festival of Women Writers is celebrating its third anniversary this weekend with a variety of workshops from poetry and memoir to blogging and publishing. The Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown is hosting its 37th Annual Harvest Festival. And, Basilica Hudson, co-founded by Melissa Auf der Maur, who once played with Smashing Pumpkins, is hosting SoundScape, a weekend of music and art. For more, … Continue reading Weekend in the Catskills – 9/11/2015
Roxbury Arts Center April 12, 2015 Continue reading Meet the Authors – Second Annual Catskills Book Festival
This weekend in the Catskills and surrounding area: books, daguerreotypes, pastels, Brubeck, and poetry: what can be better? Writers in the Mountains’ “Meet the Authors” Book Festival Writers in the Mountains (WIM) is hosting “Meet the Authors,” Second Annual Catskills Book Festival, Sunday, April 12, 2015 from 12 noon to 4 p.m. at the Roxbury Arts Center. Participants include award-winning writers Jenny Milchman, author of … Continue reading Weekend in the Catskills – 4/10/2015
We’re celebrating Valentine’s Day this weekend, leading into the Presidents’ Week – a traditionally good time for skiing in the Catskills. Roxbury Arts Group Roxbury Arts Group in Delaware County will celebrate Valentine’s Day this year with poetry and music. From 1 to 3 p.m. poets Rebecca Andre and Esther de Jong will be on site talking with visitors, and in response writing short poems … Continue reading Weekend in the Catskills – 2/13/15
This weekend in the Catskills: several opening receptions, an Ice Harvest Festival, poetry, and more. Hanford Mills Museum Hanford Mills Museum is hosting its traditional Ice Harvest Festival this Saturday, February 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visitors ride in horse-drawn sleighs and help with the removal of big blocks of ice from a frozen mill pond. Ice cleats are being lent to those … Continue reading Weekend in the Catskills – 2/6/15
January may seem like forever up here in the mountains with cold, long nights, and not enough sun to keep us company. But there is art, and that is nourishing. Many events taking place this weekend: exquisite collections of art at the Hyde Museum in Glens Falls, quirky and fresh Creative Non-Fiction presented by Writers in the Mountains in Pine Hill, the 18th celebration of … Continue reading Weekend in the Catskills – 1/23/15
Art in the Catskills, The Definitive Guide to the Catskills’ Rich Cultural Life is a compendium of one hundred and twenty-three arts organizations, events and other attractions in the Catskills and surrounding area, some in the neighboring Hudson Valley, and others elsewhere upstate New York. The guide includes anything from museums and memorial sites to summer festivals, art galleries and residencies, as well as … Continue reading The Second Edition Is Now Available as Paperback and E-Book
The Red Violin at Bard College Fisher Center at Bard College presents “The Red Violin” this Saturday, November 15 at 8 pm, a concert featuring violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn, and pianist Cynthia Elise Tobey. Pitcairn performs on a 1720 Stradivarius – the famous “Red Mendelssohn Stradivarius” – you can read more about it here. Pitcairn and Tobey will perform pieces by Beethoven, Fauré and Schubert, … Continue reading Weekend in the Catskills – 11/14/14
Art in the Catskills 