Victorian Christmas at the Octagon House
2022-12-11 10:00 - 16:00, 2022-12-12 10:00 - 16:00, 2022-12-15 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Armour-Stiner Octagon House, 45 W Clinton Avenue, Irvington, NY, 10533, United States
Celebrate the holiday season in Victorian splendor at The Armour-Stiner Octagon House in Irvington, New York. Join us for an opportunity to experience this lyrical, eight-sided home surrounded by the sights of Christmas in 1872. The restored National Landmark will be filled with elaborate holiday décor featuring wreaths, garlands, and the sparkle of ornaments on a grand Christmas Tree inside the salon.
Created as a whimsical summer retreat in 1872 by tea-importer Joseph Stiner, this National Historic Landmark’s shape was based on the theories of Orson Squire Fowler, a phrenologist, who believed octagonal houses enclosed more space, allowed the sun in at all times, and permitted more views into the landscape. The Armour-Stiner Octagon House retains its magnificent ornamentation and furnishings and includes the only remaining Egyptian Revival Room in America with its original decoration and furniture.

Affordable Art and Pottery Bazaar
2022-12-11 11:00 - 16:00, 2022-12-12 11:00 - 16:00, 2022-12-13 11:00 - 16:00, 2022-12-14 11:00 - 16:00, 2022-12-15 11:00 - 16:00 | Rockland Center For the Arts, 27 S Greenbush Rd, West Nyack, NY 10994, USA
Artisan made holiday gifts

Brunch•ish & Beats at The Greek•ish
2022-12-11 12:00 - 16:00 | The Greek•ish, 8 North Broadway, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
Join The Greek•ish for Brunch•ish & Beats Every Sunday from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM.
Listen to tunes provided by Joe Davids Events as you enjoy a two-course menu featuring specials like Poached Egg Spanakopita, Greek Honey French Toast & Fruit, or Sausage Spetsofai & Sunny Egg. Plus, Bottomless Mimosas, Bloody Marys, and Rosé on tap.
$35 per person
Reserve your spot now: 845-353-1200

Brunch•ish & Beats at The Greek•ish
2022-12-11 12:00 - 16:00 | The Greek•ish, 8 North Broadway, Nyack, NY, United States

Edward Hopper's Hudson River Boyhood and Emerging Artistic Vision
2022-12-11 12:00 - 17:00, 2022-12-15 12:00 - 17:00 | Edward Hopper House Art Center, 82 N Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Curated by Carole Perry and Kathleen Motes Bennewitz, with Lynne Z. Bassett
This exhibition investigates how the artistic vision of Edward Hopper (1882-1967) coalesced during his youth in Nyack until he moved away in 1908, at age 26, to pursue his career in New York City. It features selections of the artist’s early drawings and sketches on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art, private collections and the Arthayer R. Sanborn Hopper Collection Trust, as well as school notebooks, artmaking materials, and costumes, memorabilia, and artworks by Hopper and family members from the Edward Hopper House Museum’s collection and its Sanborn-Hopper Family Archive. Together, these objects provide a glimpse into Hopper’s early years, the influence of his boyhood proximity to the busy waterfront and commercial district of his hometown, and insights into his life at home and his family’s support of his developing talent and ambitions.
$10 Non-Members
$8 Seniors
Membership checked at door
Exhibit runs from November 3, 2022-March 26, 2023 during the Hopper House’s regular hours, which are as follows:
Thursdays 1pm-5pm
Fridays 1pm-5pm
Saturdays 12pm-5pm
Sundays 12pm-5pm

Lagstein Gallery Presents "art by the people who run this place"
2022-12-11 13:00 - 18:00 | Lagstein Gallery,85 South Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
art by the people who run this place
Opening reception December 11th from 2-4pm
December 11-January 15
Lagstein Gallery
85 South Broadway
Nyack, NY 10960
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Friday 3-6pm, Saturday 1-6pm, Sunday 1-4pm

TACONIC OPERA: Handel’s Messiah, Coton-on-Hudson, Dec. 10 & 11
2022-12-11 15:00 - 16:30 | Holy Name of Mary Church, 110 Grand St., Croton-on-Hudson, NY, 10520, United States
As part of its 25th Anniversary celebration, Taconic Opera invites you to its very first December holiday concert, performing the oratorio that has survived almost 3 centuries since first presented in Dublin in 1742: George Frideric Handel’s magnificent Messiah. No need to go to Carnegie Hall when you can hear it practically in your own back yard.

Hear the Messiah in a whole new way – not as sung by soloists and chorus, but as sung by opera soloists and an opera chorus…and with full professional orchestra.

Fun Facts:

In his piece, Handel combines three concepts: the nativity and its prophecy, the crucifixion and redemption of mankind, and a commentary on the Christian soul and it’s victory over death. The chorus is at the center of all three parts of the piece, accompanied by four vocal soloists and an orchestra.
Messiah was originally intended for Lent, not Christmas. Due to its neglect, the Victorians moved the oratorio to Christmas to revive interest.
Handel wrote the work in just 18 days, and three weeks later he wrote his oratorio Samson.
The King James version of the Old Testament provides the text for nearly all of this work.

Two weekend matinee concerts in central Westchester:
Sat., Dec. 10, and Sun., Dec. 11 , 3 pm
Holy Name of Mary Church
110 Grand St., Croton-on-Hudson.
This beautiful venue is handicap accessible and ideally suited for live sacred music of this caliber due to its acoustical and architectural properties.

Tickets:
Toll-free (855) 886-7372 or
https://taconicopera.org/TIckets/

Ticket Prices:
Advance Sale: $25, Seniors $20, Students $12
Door Sale: $30, Seniors $25, Student -$15
Groups of 5 or more: deduct $5 per ticket
Discounts can be taken together

Hudson Chorale Holiday Concert
2022-12-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Christ Episcopal Chirch, Tarrytown, 43 South Broadway, Tarrytown, NY, NY, 10591, United States
Hudson Chorale Holiday Program – Two live concerts — Camille Saint-Saens’ Christmas Oratorio and Benjamin Britten’s St. Nicolas Cantata — will be performed on Saturday December 10, 2022 and Sunday December 11, 2022 at Christ Episcopal Church at 43 South Broadway, Tarrytown, NY. The concerts will take place at 3 PM on both days.
Hudson Chorale, under the baton of Artistic Director David Baranowski, will perform with soloists including acclaimed tenor Nils Neubert, who will sing the lead role of Nicolas in the Britten.
We usher in the season of light and rebirth with these performances, featuring an ensemble including harp, tympani, violins, organ and piano. Our Saturday concert will additionally be recorded for streaming on YouTube, fulfilling Hudson Chorale’s promise to maintain community access in the time of COVID.
“We are delighted to bring this program to the community before the holidays,” said Artistic Director Baranowski. “Through nearly two years of pandemic, we have nurtured our music through remote and, recently, live rehearsal. We can’t wait to hear these beautiful works soar in this church.”
It is recommended that audience members be masked during the performance.
Tickets can be purchased for $25 each from members of the Hudson Chorale or on the Hudson Chorale website. For further information, please visit www.HudsonChorale.org or email us at info@hudsonchorale.org.

Serenata Series at Maureen's Jazz Cellar
2022-12-11 16:00 | MAUREEN’S JAZZ CELLAR, 2 N Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Dylan Thomas’ beloved story is intertwined with beautiful chamber music and holiday favorites.

Sunday December 11th at 4pm
Maureen’s Jazz Cellar
2 North Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960
Please call Maureen’s for reservations at 845-535-3143

Tickets are $25
Ticket sales support future concerts at The Old Stone Meeting House.

The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion - Sculptures by Dorothy Gillespie
2022-12-12 09:00 - 20:00, 2022-12-13 09:00 - 20:00, 2022-12-14 09:00 - 20:00, 2022-12-15 09:00 - 20:00 | Rockland Center for the Arts,27 South Greenbush Road, West Nyack, NY 10994, USA
The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion
Sculptures by Dorothy M. Gillespie
The Catherine Konner Sculpture Park
Oct. 15, 2021 – Oct. 2023
Free to the Public, Dawn to Dusk
RoCA is proud to present the The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion exhibit as a part of a tribute to the 20th Century artist and feminist, Dorothy Gillespie. The exhibit will open October 15th in The Catherine Konner Sculpture Park at RoCA.
Dorothy Gillespie’s joyful and brilliantly colored starbursts glimmer hanging from the trees as well as lining the pathway. The pieces create an enchanted garden of colors in motion. Though stationary they seem to possess a kinetic quality. Two larger pieces can be seen at the entry to RoCA. The exhibit was partially installed this summer and will be completed for exhibit October 15th. The exhibit will remain on display through October 2023.
Gillespie (1920-2012) was born in Roanoke, VA and lived in Nyack during the later years of her life. She pioneered joyful, new directions of metal sculpture and is best known for large-scale, colorfully painted arrangements of cut aluminum strips curling, radiating, or undulating in giant arrangements of ribbons, enchanted towers, or bursting fireworks. She was well known as a painter, sculptor and installation artist whose work incorporated many significant 20th-century trends in art.
During Dorothy Gillespie’s youth … “girls did not attend art school, at least not ‘nice’ girls,” said Gillespie in 2010. Nevertheless, she was determined to be an artist and attended the Maryland Institute College in Baltimore. She was more fortunate than women sculptors in the 19th Century who were mostly hired as studio assistants by established male sculptors with few exhibitions. Harriet Hosmer, Emma Stebbins, Edmonia Lewis, Frances Grimes and Helen Mears were some of the few who made names in the arts as women during that time. They did not pursue monumental work as frequently as men did and mostly produced works in bronze and consistent middle-class demand for small-scale sculpture to decorate the home and garden. Today many more women are now entering traditional male dominated sculpture roles in metal, wood and stone, thanks to the pioneering activism of women like Dorothy Gillespie in the 20th century.
An influential force in the women’s movement, Gillespie encouraged more women’s art in museums and art in public spaces. In 1970, Gillespie joined Women in the Arts and created picket signs protesting at the Whitney Museum demanding that the curators choose more women artists for their “Annual exhibition. The demonstration worked, and more women artists were chosen for the show. Although the increase was very slow, over time it increased from 8 percent to 40 percent. Gillespie was the Founder of the Women Artists Historical Archives of the Women’s Interart Center in NY, NY, filming and taping interviews of some of the most important women artists of the 20th century as well as presenting her own radio show. Gillespie along with Joyce Weinstein founded a group called the NY Professional Women Artists. The 14 members lectures at Universities and wrote articles to encourage other women artists.
Gillespie also coordinated a course to educate and enlighten women in the visual arts, after being invited to teach at The New School in NYC. The intent was to prepare women for a new, more aggressive role to function in the art world. Due to her already busy schedule, she asked artist Alice Barber to share the task of revealing to the young students the ‘system’ that drove the NY art world and how to succeed. In 1974 she organized an innovative outdoor exhibition, Walk Through Art, mounted in Central Park, Battery Park, and Rockefeller Center, then travelling to fifty colleges, universities and street fairs. Compelled to involve viewers in her work, she created large 7 ft high triangles of art for people to walk through the sculptures. Gillespie has held positions of designing programs as a Professor of Art, being a Board of Trustees for more than one college or art center, as a visiting artist in residency and as the Chairperson of the Fine Arts Committee for the International Women’s Art Festival.
Dorothy Gillespie’s career spanned seven decades, always at the forefront of the American Art movement. She studied at the Maryland Institute College in Baltimore before moving to New York City, where she studied at the Art Students League. Her works grace many institutions, museums, colleges, universities and public spaces, including the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the United States Mission to the United Nations. She was one of the first artists to offer her art to the world through displays in the lobbies of public institutions and governmental centers such as the Mayo Clinic, Epcot Center, Warren Wilson College, Fort Lauderdale Airport-Delta Terminal, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, the Miami Public Library, United States Mission to the United Nations, and the Court House Square – Roanoke, VA and Universities across the country.
Among her many honors, Gillespie received the Alice Baber Art Fund, Inc. Grant Award: a Doctor of Pedagogy from Niagara University in Niagara Falls, A Doctor of Fine Arts (Honoris Causa) from Caldwell College in Caldwell, NY, an Allied Professions Award from the Virginia Society, the American Institute of Architects in Richmond, VA., the Distinguished Alumni Award from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, the Outstanding Services Award from University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art, and the Gala 8 “Distinguished Woman” Award at Birmingham Southern College.
The Catherine Konner Sculpture Park is open from dawn to dusk, free to the public. Brochures can be picked up at the registration desk. For more information visit: www.rocklandartcenter.org or call 845-358-0877.
This exhibition was made possible thanks to the generous support of The Dorothy M. Gillespie Foundation and Gary Israel.
RoCA’s programs are made possible, in part, with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Funding is also made possible by the County of Rockland.
RoCA gratefully acknowledges support for its programs from The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation, M&T Bank, The M&T Charitable Foundation, The Dorothy Gillespie Foundation, Peter & Rebecca Lang, Kantrowitz, Goldhamer & Graifman P.C., Luxury Kitchen and Bath, Golden Artist Colors, Inc., QuietEvents, the Estate of Joan Konner, Lighting Services Inc., Sarah and Stephen Thomas, the Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation, Zaklin Family Charitable Fund, The County of Rockland, Simona and Jerome Chazen, Art Services Group, RoCA members, donors and business members.

Embrace Your Inner Cailleach
2022-12-12 18:30 - 20:30 | Modern Druid, 60 S. Broadway, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
Who is the Cailleach?
The ‘Crone’. A powerful personage, full of wisdom and experience…A seasoned deity who rules the winter months…In keeping with the triple aspect of the Celtic tradition, the Cailleach evolved from the Maiden and The Mother. She is the embodiment of our Wise Selves. She is the Wise Old Woman.
Our guide, Patricia (Patsy) Brennan is a native of Ireland and a lover of the Old Ways. Formerly a scientist, she is a folklorist, breathwork trainer and crystal lover, Patsy considers herself a fully evolved Cailleach, and Creative Researcher Of New Experiences (CRONE) as she continues to research Life and all that intrigues her.
Over the course of three evenings, Patsy will explore the influences of each of the triple aspects (Maiden, Mother and Crone) and through them, how it is that we have come to be who it is that we now are. Through exploring the lore, meditation and cognitive practices and by sharing our collective wisdom, this series is designed to be a celebration of the wisdom and gifts of women in their middle and later stages of life.
Only $33 per person for all 3 classes
Sign up here:
https://modern-druid.shoplightspeed.com/the-callieach.html

Ogham with Morgana @ Modern Druid
2022-12-14 - 2022-12-15 | Modern Druid, 60 S. Broadway, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
OGHAM WITH MORGANA
Ogham, the mysterious ancient Irish alphabet, is based on a set of characters (feda) that are associated with specific trees and/or plants and is considered to represent an ancient system of knowledge. Most often used today for divination, each letter symbol has specific, and often complicated, and multi-faceted, concepts associated with each one. The 20 symbol letters (‘feda’) are organized across 4 ‘families’ (aicme). Morgana will guide us in learning about each feda and its associated plant over the course of a year.
We will learn where Ogham originated, how to pronounce and write the feda, and utilize plant matter, teas, poetry, art, historical lore, guided meditations and of course the Ogham Intention Oils, to integrate us with each plant’s healing essence.
Sign up for a single class, an Aicme of 5, or all 20 classes!
December 14: Fern (Alder)
https://modern-druid.shoplightspeed.com/ogham-class-with-morgana-aicme-1-fern-alder.html
January 11: Sail (Willow)
https://modern-druid.shoplightspeed.com/ogham-class-with-morgana-aicme-1-sail-willow.html
January 25: Nin (Ash)
https://modern-druid.shoplightspeed.com/ogham-class-with-morgana-aicme-1-nin-ash.html
Each class only $21
Each Aicme (5 Feda) $90 (save $15)
All Feda (20) $360 (save $60)
(Already missed a few? You can sign up to watch the recordings)

Rockland County Pride Center Holiday Party
2022-12-14 18:00 - 21:00 | Black Parakeetz Paint, Swig, and Sing, 298 Main Street, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
Wednesday, December 14
Starts @ 6:00 PM
Black Parakeetz, 298 Main Street, Nyack
Get your Karaoke on with the Pride Center at Black Parakeetz in Nyack.
– $20 suggested donation (to benefit Pride Center Youth Programs)
– Free Apps
– Cash Bar
Questions? Contact Matt at MattKoke@rocklandpridecenter.org

Rockland County Pride Center Holiday Party
2022-12-14 18:00 - 21:00 | Casa del Sol,104 Main St, Nyack, NY 10960, USA, 1 Main St, United States
Wednesday, December 14
Starts @ 6:00 PM
Casa del Sol, 104 Main Street, Nyack
Get your Karaoke on with the Pride Center at Casa del Sol in Nyack.
– $20 suggested donation (to benefit Pride Center Youth Programs)
– Free Apps
– Cash Bar
Questions? Contact Matt at MattKoke@rocklandpridecenter.org

Nyack Farmers Market
2022-12-15 08:00 - 14:00 | Main Street Parking Lot, 119 Main Street, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
Nyack Farmers Market – A Four Season Outdoor Farmers Market
The Market offers a cornucopia of the best local produce, grass-fed meat, fresh seafood, beautiful baked goods, perfectly prepared foods, and handcrafted goods ready to fill your tables and gift baskets.

Nyack Farmers Market
2022-12-15 08:00 - 14:00 | Main Street Parking Lot, 119 Main Street, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
Nyack Farmers Market – A Four Season Outdoor Farmers Market
The Market offers a cornucopia of the best local produce, grass-fed meat, fresh seafood, beautiful baked goods, perfectly prepared foods, and handcrafted goods ready to fill your tables and gift baskets.

HOURS:
Thursdays from 8am to 2pm, outdoors year-round in the Main Street parking lot year-round.

PARKING:
Parking in the Artopee Lot is free during Market hours, and street parking is free before 10am. Meters throughout the Village are in effect Monday-Saturday from 11am to 7pm. Farmers Market vendors and patrons: please do not park in the M&T Bank parking lot.

North Broadway Friends & Family Shopping Event - SIP & SHOP!
2022-12-15 12:00 - 20:00 | Downtown Nyack, Main Street & Broadway, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
Join us for North Broadway’s first ever friends and family holiday shopping event!
Thursday, December 15th from 12pm-8pm
Come stroll, shop, and dine North Broadway’s shops and restaurants from Main Street to First Avenue including:
Hope Wade Designs (15% off)
Honor & Blume (buy 1 item, get 20% off the second item)
Gena Lisa
The Editor
A Second Chance
Knitting Nation
