Join Hawthorne Valley on Saturday, October 8th as they celebrate 50 years of renewing soil, society, and self and look toward the next 50 years.
“Roots to Renewal” Celebrates Hawthorne Valley
Ghent — Hawthorne Valley’s “Roots to Renewal: A 50th Anniversary Celebration” is on Saturday, October 8 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Attend for panel discussions, poetry readings, food from local vendors, and musical performances.
Events include “Roots to Renewal:” a 50th Anniversary film premiere; A Founders and Pioneers panel discussion reflecting on the early years at Hawthorne Valley; the premiere screening of an episode of HUDSY TV’s original series This Organic Life featuring Hawthorne Valley Farm; performances of The Earth on the Turtle’s Back, a puppetry presentation by The Magical Puppetree with gratitude to the Haudenosaunee community; readings will be by Hudson Valley poets Billie Chernicoff, Evelyn Reilly and Stacy Szymaszek; music and entertainment will be provided by The Kitchen Kaylie Band and Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School’s Chamber Orchestra; contra dancing with Aldo Lavaggi and friends; as well as informational booths and tabling and more.
For more information, visit our website. Hawthorne Valley is located at 327 CR 21C, Ghent, NY 12075.
“Deeper Than The Skin” Explores Race Relations
Spencertown — Spencertown Academy presents “Deeper Than The Skin,” a musical presentation by Reggie Harris and Greg Greenway about race relations on Sunday, October 9 at 2:00 p.m.
Harris and Greenway—born three days apart, both with roots in Richmond, VA—are on a pilgrimage together that began three decades ago. The racial divisions that are the reality of America started them in two different worlds, but the bonds of music, respect, admiration, and shared vision have brought them together as friends and colleagues.
This performance is presented in conjunction with the Academy’s annual regional juried gallery show, which invited artists to investigate “deeper than the skin” as a theme in their submissions. Admission is free (with a suggested $20 donation to benefit the Academy); advance reservations are required via www.spencertownacademy.org.
The Academy has installed multiple Blueair HealthProtect 7470 air purifiers and is limiting seating in its auditorium; masks are strongly recommended. Academy leadership is closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation in Columbia County, as well as recommendations from health authorities, and will adjust protocols as necessary.
Free Artist Talk Dives Deeper into the Meander Exhibition
Williamstown — Tauba Auerbach will present a free artist talk at the Clark Art Institute on Sunday, October 9 at 6 p.m. Tauba Auerbach is one of the two artists featured in the Meander exhibition, and will share stories from a path of research on the nineteenth-century mathematician Giuseppe Peano.
The Peano curve is named for Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932), an influential teacher who printed his own books, advocated for international languages, and was a committed feminist. The Peano curve describes a space-filling curve, or a line that, if folded infinitely in a particular fashion, passes through every point of a square. In their work PEANOPOEM I, Auerbach creates progressive iterations of that curve using the letters S and Z, a convention the artist often uses to symbolize opposite directions of rotation. Each cluster of nine letters is expanded in the grouping below, in which the letters S and Z form larger versions of themselves, creating a symmetry across scales that could continue indefinitely (and is mirrored across the fold of the page). Auerbach’s abstracted poem nods to early twentieth-century concrete poetry, in which the arrangement of linguistic elements conveys meaning, but is distinctive for its mathematical rigor. Auerbach’s monograph, Diagonal Press, published PEANOPOEM I at the time of the opening of the Meander exhibition.
Tauba Auerbach and Yuji Agematsu: Meander is on view in the Lunder Center at Stone Hill on the Clark Art Institute’s upper campus through October 16, 2022.
This program will also be broadcast simultaneously on Zoom. Advance registration for the Zoom transmission is required. Register at clarkart.edu/events.
Exploring the Future of the Hudson River with Riverkeeper and other events at OLANA
Hudson — On October 8, at 1 p.m. investigate the future of the Hudson River at OLANA. The Riverkeeper president Tracy Brown will give a guided walk focusing on the future prospects of the Hudson River
Other upcoming OLANA events include: “Thinking in Systems: What Church and His Contemporaries Knew About Climate Change with Partners for Climate Action.” On Saturday, October 15 at 1 p.m. learn more about how scientific thinking in Frederic Church’s era connects to our own contemporary climate crisis.
On Wednesday, October 19 at 6 p.m. attend the Webinar “Art, Ecology, and Olana’s Native Forest.” Washburn and Susan Oberwager President of The Olana Partnership Sean Sawyer will discuss how Frederic Church engages with the emerging field of ecology in the 19th century.
Learn about how The Olana Partnership with Scenic Hudson have joined forces to protect Olana’s scenic viewshed on Saturday, October 22 at 3 p.m. with the talk “Inspiring Partnerships to Protect Inspiring Views with Scenic Hudson.”
Mahaiwe Upcoming Events Includes Observing Indigenous People’s Day
Great Barrington — The Mahaiwe presents Honoring Native America on Saturday, October 8 at 7:30 p.m. by Alliance for a Viable Future. This event features Carlos Nakai, the world’s premier performer of the Native American flute; words and songs from the Stockbridge-Munsee educator Shawn Stevens and the Powwow Drum Family, GiiTaa’se Singers and Joan Henry; Grandmother Margaret Behan from the Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, with Chief Justice Emeritus Robert Yazzie and Cheryl Fairbanks, Esq. speaking about Indigenous PeaceMaking. Tickets are $25 available here; free for students.
Other upcoming events include Corey Zink and Company on Monday, October 10 at 4 p.m. This Tennessee-based classic country band headed by Berkshire native Corey Zink will perform a free concert for the community at the gazebo behind Town Hall. Bring lawn chairs and blankets!
Lenny Bruce will come to life at the Mahaiwe on Friday, October 14 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, October 15 at 8 p.m. Live on stage, I’m Not a Comedian… I’m Lenny Bruce chronicles the life and death of the most controversial comedian and undisputed legend of all time…Lenny Bruce. Written and performed by Ronnie Marmo and directed by Joe Mantegna. Tickets start at $25. Contains explicit language, mature content, and brief non-sexual nudity.
Met Opera Live in HD presents Cherubini’s Medea on Saturday, October 22 at 1 p.m.
Pink Martini featuring China Forbes performs its multilingual repertoire on Friday, October 28 at 8 p.m.
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Golden Leaf Rag Time Blues
October 08 - October 30 @ 07:30 pm - 09:30 pm
Alliance for a Viable Future Presents – Honoring Native America
An evening of big band jazz, with Grace Kelly and the UConn Jazz Ensemble
ARTIST’S TALK: TAUBA AUERBACH—PEANOPOEM
Close Encounters With Music Presents: Grand Opening: Otherworldly Schubert and “One Earth”
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