Historic Hudson River Towns

Alohomora! Book Talk & Greet
2022-10-18 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Nyack Library, 59 S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, United States
One of the authors of “The Unofficial Harry Potter Companion: Volume One – Sorcerer’s Stone” will discuss the intricacies of turning a podcast into a book! Of course, they will also talk about Harry Potter and all the magnificent, wonderful details that make it a beloved classic. Books and some other goodies will be available to purchase.

Three Poets Reading Poems
2022-10-20 18:30 - 19:30 | Ketonet Passim Books,72 N Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Mary Lou Buschi, Juan Pablo Mobili, and Rebecca Watkins will be reading from their books as well as new poems. Books will be available for purchase.

Nyack Library Book Sale
2022-11-05 10:00 - 17:00, 2022-11-06 12:00 - 16:00 | Nyack Library, 59 S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Book Sale!!
Join us for the Friends of the Nyack Library Book Sale in our Community Meeting Room.
Saturday: 10:00am – 5:00pm, Sunday 12:00pm – 4:00pm
Early Bird Special (cost: $20) is 9am-10am on Sat., November 5th (+ purchase of materials)

Croton Free Library Book & Bake Sale
2022-11-19 10:00 - 15:00, 2022-11-20 08:00 - 17:00 | Croton Free Library, 171 Cleveland Drive, Croton-on-Hudson, NY, 10520
The next Croton Free Library Book & Bake Sale will take place Saturday, November 19th and Sunday, November 20th from 10am-3pm (early bird admission will be from 8am-10am on Saturday for $10). As in years past, the event will take place in the library’s Ottinger room.
We know this is a fun weekend for so many of our neighbors and friends, and we look forward to seeing everyone discover great book, music, and DVD deals. Our sale is fit for all ages, and items are listed at prices that cannot be beat – it is a perfect way to get in some early holiday shopping!
For this sale, we will be having a Sunday Special option: from 12-3p on Sunday, buy a Croton Free Library canvas bag for $20, and fill it with items for free! We are happy to offer this deal and hope it is a way for folks to make the most of this wonderful event.
We will also have delicious homemade baked goods on sale (all safely wrapped) for you to enjoy after a successful shopping experience.

Reading by John Gavin White
2022-11-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Ketonet Passim Books,72 N Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
WordsShed Reading Series. Featuring John Gavin White.

Deconstructing Racism: A Path Toward Lasting Change - Book Talk & Signing with Barbara Crain Major & Joseph Barndt
2023-02-09 18:30 - 20:30 | Nyack Library, 59 South Broadway, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
DECONSTRUCTING RACISM: A PATH TOWARD LASTING CHANGE
Book Talk and Signing with Barbara Crain Major & Joseph Barndt
Thursday, February 9, 2023 | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
at the Nyack Library, 59 S Broadway,

Poetry Workshop with Lily Greenberg at the Nyack Public Library
2023-02-28 18:30 - 19:30 | Nyack Public Library,59 South Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Local Nyack poet Lily Greenberg will leading a generative poetry workshop.
Event description: Imitation of other writers has long been a practice of
poets. By learning how other poems work, we can, in turn, sharpen our tools
to use in our own work. In this one-hour workshop, we will explore two very
different poems and take time to draft imitations, as well as share and
discuss our findings.
About the author: Lily Greenberg is a poet from Nashville, Tennessee and
the author of In the Shape of a Woman, published with Broadstone Books in
2022. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Iron Horse Literary Review
, On the Seawall, Kissing Dynamite Poetry, About Place Journal, and LEON
Literary Review, among others, and she is the 2023 prize winner of Iron
Horse Literary Review’s NaPoMo Contest as well as the 2021 recipient of the
Dick Shea Memorial Prize for Poetry. Her work has been funded by Bread Loaf
Writers, University of New Hampshire, and Maine Writers and Publishers
Alliance. Lily holds an MFA from the University of New Hampshire and lives
in New York where she serves as Grants Coordinator for Columbia University
and Poetry Editor for Longleaf Review. Learn more at
http://lily-greenberg.com/ .

Oral Storytelling for All// Your Story Matters
2023-04-09 19:00 - 2023-06-07 20:00 | Rockland Center for the Arts,27 S Greenbush Rd, West Nyack, NY 10994, USA, 2 S Greenbush Rd, United States

A Sherlock Holmes Showcase Opens at Elmwood Playhouse
2023-07-14 20:00 - 22:00 | Nyack, NY, USA
Elmwood Playhouse of Nyack, NY will be presenting A Sherlock Holmes Showcase, written by Tal Aviezer and directed by Margaret Young. The iconic Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson deliver a double dose of danger and detection in these two intriguing one-act adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s mysteries “The Adventure of the Dancing Men” and “The Dying Detective.” A Sherlock Holmes Showcase performances run July 14 through August 5 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m., with an open caption performance on Thursday August 3 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $27 / $24 Seniors, Youth, and Military.
A Sherlock Holmes Showcase features Sam Ruck (of Tappan, NY), Michael Frohnhoefer (of New Windsor, NY), Grace Callahan (of Oradell, NJ), Deidre Cerul (of Bardonia, NY), Stavros Adamides (of Spring Valley, NY), Michael Coyle (of Suffern, NY), and Ralph Bowers (of Stony Point, NY).
Elmwood Playhouse is located on 10 Park Street in Nyack, NY. For reservations, information or directions, call the Elmwood Playhouse Box Office at (845) 353-1313, or visit www.elmwoodplayhouse.com

Author Talk: Richard Lacayo, “Last Light: How Six Great Artists Made Old Age a Time of Triumph”
2023-07-16 14:00 - 15:00 | Nyack Library, Community Room,59 S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA, 2 Nyack Plz, United States
Come here Richard Lacayo,–one of the nation’s top art critics– talk about his new book ‘Last Light” (Simon & Schuster, Nov. 2022). Here, he details how 6 great artists — Titian, Goya, Monet, Matisse, Nevelson and Edward Hopper — made old age a time of triumph by producing some of the greatest work of their long careers—and, in some cases, changing the course of art history. Though these artists differed in many respects, they shared one thing: a determination to go on creating, driven not by the bounding energies of youth but by the ticking clock that would inspire them to produce some of their greatest masterpieces.
Lecture: FREE
Book: $35.00 plus tax
Registrants are invited to visit Edward Hopper House Museum and the exhibition Ellsworth Kelly: “State of the River” following the lecture between 3-5pm.
For more information about the book is available here(https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Last-Light/Richard-Lacayo/9781501146589)
About Ricard Lacayo
Richard Lacayo was a longtime writer and editor at Time, and from 2003 to 2016 the magazine’s art and architecture critic. He has also contributed articles on those subjects to People, Foreign Policy, and Graydon Carter’s new online publication Air Mail. He is the coauthor, with George Russell, of Eyewitness: 150 Years of Photojournalism. In 2013, he delivered one of the annual Clarice Smith Lectures at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, on artists in old age.

Open Call to Artists: Banned Books
2023-07-31 23:30 | Valley Cottage Library,110 New York 303, Valley Cottage, NY 10989, USA
Call for Art Submissions: Banned Books Trading Card Project
The Valley Cottage Library is currently looking for artists for our Banned Books Trading Card Project. We are going to be creating a set of trading cards depicting the covers of banned and challenged books as reimagined by local artists. Each participating artist will receive a full deck of the trading cards and will be invited to participate in our Banned Books Week Read-a-thon/artists’ reception on October 3rd.
For more information visit http://www.valleycottagelibrary.org

August Poetry Slam @ X House in Nyack
2023-08-05 19:30 - 22:00 | X House,48 South Franklin Street, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
We have a monthly poetry slam the first Saturday of each month at X House in Nyack.
What’s a poetry slam? It’s a performance poetry competition judged by the audience. We use anonymous whole-room voting, so everybody in the audience gets to decide how the slam goes.
If you want to complete in the slam, bring at least 3 original poems, each of duration 5 minutes or less. If you want to read in the open mic, bring up to 5 minutes of whatever you feel like sharing.
We are currently requiring masks to show our immune compromised or otherwise high risk friends that we care about them and we want them to included. N95 and KN95 masks will be freely available at the door, with both ear loop and head strap options.
Workshop (6:30 – 7:28)
Bryan, one of our organizers, is leading a free editing workshop before the slam. If you have a piece you want feedback on, bring it.
Sign-ups (7:30 – 8:00)
Sign-ups for both the open mic and the slam will be open from 7:30 PM – 8:00 PM. Admission is $10 general; $5 for students, seniors, and anyone who can’t afford $10 right now.
Open Mic and Slam (8:03 – 10:00)
The event starts with a short open mic. Any number of people can sign up to read in the open mic; we will randomly select 4 of them to share five minutes of whatever they feel like sharing.
After the open mic is our poetry slam. Any number of people can sign up for the slam; we will randomly select 8 of them to compete in it. The slam is 3 rounds. Poets will perform 1 original poem, 5 minutes or shorter, each round.
The whole audience will anonymously vote at the end of each round. Poets with the fewest votes will be eliminated. Poets with the most votes will advance to the next round.
The poet that has the most votes after the third round wins the slam and $75. Second place wins $50. Third place wins $25.
CART captioning is available with sufficient advance notice.
You can contact us with any questions at rocklandpoets@gmail.com mailto:rocklandpoets@gmail.com
Slam format/rules at https://www.rocklandpoets.org/slam-format-rules

Poetry Slam
2023-09-02 19:00 | XHouse
Second (I know, this event is before the other one; second in urgency, not in chronology), our September poetry slam will be on Saturday, Sept 2, which is Labor Day weekend. I’m worried that our attendance will be low, so to hopefully avert that, we’ll be having a $150 first place prize. Is that enough of a draw to counteract the holiday weekend? Guess we’ll find out!

Poetry Hike
2023-09-03 12:00 - 15:00
First, by popular demand (well, like two people asked), we’re having another poetry hike. Sunday, Sept 3, 12 PM – 3 PM or thereabouts, going to go for a hike in Upper Nyack / Hook Mountain area. We’ll hike up to an overlook, spend some time writing, spend some time sharing, then head back. No cost except you’ll have to sign a liability waiver in case if you get injured or someone’s poem breaks your heart or whatever. Email: rocklandpoets@gmail.com mailto:rocklandpoets@gmail.com .

Circle Up
2023-09-07 17:45
Circle Up @ X House is a new mostly-weekly poets circle happening in Nyack. We have a rotating set of facilitators and formats. Each gathering will have a sharing circle where people can read poems of their own or poems they like. We’ll also have a writing workshop, editing workshop, performance/delivery workshop, or featured poet, depending on the week.
It’ll be happening the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th Thursday of each month.
For Thursday, August 31st, our facilitator will be Bryan. The first half will be a generative/writing workshop; the second half will be a sharing circle. Bring whatever you like to write with — notebook, paper, tablet, laptop, phone, whatever. Never written a poem before? That’s okay, come anyway.
Doors will open at 5:45 PM; event will run from 6 PM to 7 PM.
Admission is on a sliding scale —
$5 general,
$3 students, seniors, and anyone who can’t swing $5 right now,
$7+ people who really like us, want to keep the series going, and have some extra money
We take cash, Cash App, Venmo, and PayPal.
The admission money is used to pay the venue, to pay guest facilitators, and to pay featured poets. Any excess beyond that will be used to make up the difference on weeks when attendance is low. Anything beyond *that* will support special programs (like our Rockland Poets High School Poetry Prize) or normal operating expenses (e.g. Meetup.com https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FMeetup.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1OGz5Gj6f_Z0S-tDgBtznziholw6KW27znn3jXLN_g9eFHz8pcJ3gnfSA&h=AT3j8JDYQacU8plavXVyRsiuSMHI-FEle62gW8YV-8RR3WPEV5Wvv67y58HwBxZHzFyR8lQw0MVfxJOA4LnAaGQrhEnOUvbCn6pI_ZuJBzKQLcmqmoABf3A4uWlVmYVF9o0ieY6FylaPpkTTGBIveGM&__tn__=q&c=AT2aVty8Bvp0mUgprn7skyV3EYCH89ug1XIng58RtoOJF435ZUgzegVU4V85zdft9I_-fADJW06kyVtopjkQxxiPLWirYaGPg-btXaWhuBf3mi1kdOuTOk7OLW0LL2fW9LEnOSifnzIizX98XEhS4y7rz2wK fee, pens, index cards, our mail box, our text reminder platform, printing flyers).

Illuminated Words
2023-09-07 19:00 | Carson McMuller House,131 S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Illuminated Words is a community of writers that meets at the historic Carson McCullers House of Nyack for regular writing circles, which include generative writing prompts and time to share with a warm and supportive community. Facilitated by Anupama Amaran, MFA, and Lily Greenberg, MFA. No experience needed, all levels welcome. Admission is $10.
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LILY GREENBERG is a poet from Nashville, Tennessee and the author of In the Shape of a Woman (Broadstone Books 2022). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Iron Horse Literary Review, Eco Theo, On the Seawall, Cortland Review, and The Shore, among others, and she is the 2023 prize winner of Iron Horse Literary Review’s National Poetry Month Contest as well as the 2021 recipient of the Dick Shea Memorial Prize for Poetry. Her poetry has been funded by Bread Loaf Writers, University of New Hampshire, and Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, and she holds an MFA from the University of New Hampshire. She serves as Poetry Editor for Longleaf Review and Advisory Committee Member of Hudson Valley Writers Center’s Slapering Hol Press. She lives in Nyack, New York. More about her at lily-greenberg.com https://lily-greenberg.com/ .
A. ANUPAMA is a Tamil-American poet, visual artist and translator whose work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Tupelo Quarterly, Numéro Cinq, and elsewhere. Her poetry chapbook Saffron Threaded is available from Dancing Girl Press. A graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts and Northwestern University, her recent honors include Pushcart Prize nominations and a fellowship at the Center for Book Arts in NYC. Anupama lives with her family in Upper Nyack, New York. More about her at aanupama.com https://aanupama.com/ .
Writer’s BlockWriting WorkshopsWritersCreative WritingPoetry
Thursday, September 7, 2023
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
Carson McCuller House https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=41.085987%2C%20-73.919235
131 S Broadway · Nyack, NY https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=41.085987%2C%20-73.919235

Illuminated Words: A Writing Circle
2023-09-07 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-09-14 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-09-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Carson McCullers House Nyack,131 South Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Illuminated Words: A Writing Circle is a series of generative writing sessions held at the historic Carson McCullers House of Nyack, New York. Each week offers a different prompt, time to write, and time to share in a warm and supportive group. Co-facilitated by Lily Greenberg, MFA, and Anu Anupama, MFA, these are drop-in only (no registration) and open to all genres and experience levels. $10 admission supports ongoing programs at the McCullers House.
More information about programs at the McCullers House can be found on the McCullers House of Nyack Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mccullershousenyack/ .

Warnings
2023-09-13 18:30 | Nyack Library,59 S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Join us for an Author Talk with Leonard Grob, author of the new book, Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy.

Illuminated Words
2023-09-14 19:00 | n McCuller House,131 S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Illuminated Words is a community of writers that meets at the historic Carson McCullers House of Nyack for regular writing circles, which include generative writing prompts and time to share with a warm and supportive community. Facilitated by Anupama Amaran, MFA, and Lily Greenberg, MFA. No experience needed, all levels welcome. Admission is $10.
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LILY GREENBERG is a poet from Nashville, Tennessee and the author of In the Shape of a Woman (Broadstone Books 2022). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Iron Horse Literary Review, Eco Theo, On the Seawall, Cortland Review, and The Shore, among others, and she is the 2023 prize winner of Iron Horse Literary Review’s National Poetry Month Contest as well as the 2021 recipient of the Dick Shea Memorial Prize for Poetry. Her poetry has been funded by Bread Loaf Writers, University of New Hampshire, and Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, and she holds an MFA from the University of New Hampshire. She serves as Poetry Editor for Longleaf Review and Advisory Committee Member of Hudson Valley Writers Center’s Slapering Hol Press. She lives in Nyack, New York. More about her at lily-greenberg.com https://lily-greenberg.com/ .
A. ANUPAMA is a Tamil-American poet, visual artist and translator whose work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Tupelo Quarterly, Numéro Cinq, and elsewhere. Her poetry chapbook Saffron Threaded is available from Dancing Girl Press. A graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts and Northwestern University, her recent honors include Pushcart Prize nominations and a fellowship at the Center for Book Arts in NYC. Anupama lives with her family in Upper Nyack, New York. More about her at aanupama.com https://aanupama.com/ .
Carson McCuller House https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=41.085987%2C%20-73.919235
131 S Broadway · Nyack, NY

Illuminated Words
2023-09-21 19:00 | cCuller House,131 S Broadway · Nyack, NY

Open Mic for All. Hosted by K. Elevitch.
2023-09-23 20:00 | Studio 101,48 Burd St, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Join us! All are welcome. We love all forms of performance and creative arts, WIP, experiments, poetry, music, songs, rap, stories, improv, even short films. Come find out what has kept this unique Nyack open mic going strong since 2018! Hosted by K. Elevitch. For more info or questions, don’t hesitate to DM me.
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WHAT: Open Mic for All: Sat. Sept. 23rd, 8PM.
WHERE: Studio 101, 48 Burd Street, Nyack https://www.facebook.com/groups/142610946237506/user/100064694166135/?__cft__=AZXikycXqZs3EuvSaGSm2axlqqQewqtI8lwHOqRDCgndqOy3HvRhfGDHIF-vhiHh3wlgq1ATjRVYSGtKDnwqXCqcUDZbO_pJcfndzSaGc57CbNzpLTcYCcjdj_NTQ3aOUO1HG7Prux9uSVHu26I4UHJAsMQEJjwOhuiBxynX3jduN4Lxq25hw6-W9HoPhooMzkcKsWUDOyb6800wwm2JcViX&__tn__=-]K-R , NY.
WHY: Creative community, connection, collaboration…
DETAILS: $5 Students; $10 Everyone else; No one turned away for lack of funds. Venmo, Zelle, Paypal, cash. All proceeds 100% support the Artist run Open Mic program.

Stories For Freedom
2024-06-26 19:00 - 21:00
Stories for Freedom has gathered ten storytellers, who have been cultivating practices of liberation within their work and lives, to join a TMI Project true storytelling workshop to craft their stories of love, resistance, and growth; stories that can be used to further their work and serve as a blueprint for radical generations to come.
By crafting radically true stories, Stories for Freedom amplifies the voices of artists, activists, and artivists to inspire identification and belonging in audience members, and challenge all of us to take bold action in the disruption of systemic oppression.
The cohort includes people selected from an international call, hailing from our hometown of Kingston, as well as across the US, and as far off as South Africa.
Stories for Freedom pays specific homage to the practices of liberation that have emerged from Black and Indigenous communities. For centuries, Black and Indigenous communities have created templates for other marginalized groups to take action to resist oppression. This program aims to acknowledge and celebrate these roots.

Phoenix Festival: Autumn Serenades with Ellen Mandel & Jessica Crandall
2024-09-17 19:00 - 20:00 | First Reformed Church of Nyack, 18 S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
An evening of music by celebrated composer Ellen Mandel sung by Jessica Crandall.
Each of Mandel’s songs creates its own little world: this one’s a smoldering romance, that one’s all beauty and springtime, the next is dark and dangerous, next a song of flirtatious and witty wordplay, and then one that will break your heart. You’ll hear songs from Ellen’s song cycle inspired by Edward Hopper’s magnificent paintings. You’ll watch the play Waiting for Godot contained in one fun and lively jazz number. You’ll receive the prophetess Cassandra’s warning, in Trojan language, from the ancient Greek tragedy Agamemnon. And to finish, you’ll be treated to Ellen’s hilarious self-help song—a blues, of course—singing along to internalize her therapeutic message.
Crandall has sung with the New York Choral Society at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. She is currently at work on an original song cycle with composer and Guggenheim Fellow Carman Moore
The duo has charmed audiences all over New York City and beyond, with their expert musicianship and playful banter. They love performing, and you’ll love being taken on an emotional journey with them.
The extraordinary beauty and acoustics of the First Reformed Church elevate this concert to an event for all senses.
“Mandel’s songs are ardent, spiky and refreshingly organic.” – NY Times
“Songs are sung so exquisitely by the extraordinary Jessica Crandall.” – Inside Press

Phoenix Festival: The Portable Dorothy Parker by Annie Lux
2024-09-19 18:30 - 20:00 | Nyack Library, 59 S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, United States
The year is 1943; the place, a hotel apartment in New York City. Dorothy Parker, famed for her wit and her presence at the legendary Algonquin Round Table–sorts through her works, looking back on her life: her many loves and heartbreaks, her famous friends (Lillian Hellman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway), the wits of the Round Table (Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley…), the founding of The New Yorker, and her time as a Hollywood screenwriter, as she prepares her famous collection for Viking Press: The Portable Dorothy Parker

Phoenix Festival: Vita & Virginia by Eileen Atkins
2024-09-20 19:00 - 20:00 | Big Red Books, Main Street, Nyack, New York, 10960, United States
Virginia Woolf meets fellow author Vita Sackville-West in London in the 1920s. They embark on a 20-year relationship that inspires one of Virginia’s most famous novels, Orlando. Vita and Virginia deftly brings to life the real letters and diaries of the two women, revealing the deep friendship, wit and passion between them.
Directed by Craig Smith
Featuring Elise Stone and Karen Case Cook
