Historic Hudson River Towns

Haven: Safe Houses of the Hudson Valley
2023-02-18 20:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Rockland Center for the Arts,27 South Greenbush Road, West Nyack, NY 10994, USA
Saturday, February 18 at 8:00pm
Rockland Center for the Arts
27 South Greenbush Road West Nyack, NY
Registration is required and begins Feb. 4th.
Free of charge or by donation.
Masks encouraged.
This play is sponsored in collaboration with The Gordon Center for Black
Culture and the Arts and Shades Repertory Theater.
In Celebration of African American History Month, Shades Repertory Theater
continues on its ongoing journey to bring the rich history of the Black
experience to the stage. Haven is Part One in a series on the Underground
Railroad Safe Houses in the Hudson Valley in the 1860s. Rockland and
Westchester Villages were key routes along the Hudson River, with many
churches, homes and storefronts serving as safe havens for slaves seeking
freedom in Canada. Haven is written and directed by award-winning
playwright Samuel Harps, and stars; Dameon Reilly-Maiysha
Jones-Reilly-Steve Allen-Donna James-Michelle Evans-Brian Bagot and Scott
Schneider with customs designed by Zacha Liz.
RoCA’s programs are made possible, in part, with funds from the New York
State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and
the New York State Legislature. Funding is also made possible by ASG of
Connecticut.

Haven: A play by Samuel Harps
2023-02-18 20:00 - 21:30 | Rockland Center for the Arts, 27 South Greenbush Road, West Nyack, 10994
Haven
A Play by Samuel Harps
Part One: Safe Houses of the Hudson Valley
Saturday, February 18 at 8:00pm
Rockland Center for the Arts
27 South Greenbush Road West Nyack, NY
Registration is required and begins Feb. 4th.
Free of charge or by donation.
Masks encouraged.
This play is sponsored in collaboration with The Gordon Center for Black Culture and the Arts and Shades Repertory Theater.
In Celebration of African American History Month, Shades Repertory Theater continues on its ongoing journey to bring the rich history of the Black experience to the stage. Haven is Part One in a series on the Underground Railroad Safe Houses in the Hudson Valley in the 1860s. Rockland and Westchester Villages were key routes along the Hudson River, with many churches, homes and storefronts serving as safe havens for slaves seeking freedom in Canada. Haven is written and directed by award-winning playwright Samuel Harps, and stars; Dameon Reilly-Maiysha Jones-Reilly-Steve Allen-Donna James-Michelle Evans-Brian Bagot and Scott Schneider with customs designed by Zacha Liz.
For more information or to register call RoCA at 845-358-0877.

The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion - Sculptures by Dorothy Gillespie
2023-02-19 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-20 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-21 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-22 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-23 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-24 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-25 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.

Edward Hopper's Hudson River Boyhood and Emerging Artistic Vision
2023-02-19 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-02-23 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-02-24 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-02-25 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

Unique Crystal Fine Art Paintings
2023-02-19 13:00 - 16:00, 2023-02-25 13:00 - 16:00 | Arts Alive Art Gallery,85 South Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Do you love crystals? Experience the power of crystals
in a new collection of 20+ original fine art crystal paintings.
Each painting combines the power of a specific Color, Image, and Crystal to
produce positive energy for peace, joy, success, and/or wealth. Crystals in the paintings include: Citrine, Amethyst,
Rose Quartz, Clear Quartz, Peridot, Moonstone, and others.
You will feel the power of these unique crystal paintings when you visit.
Paintings come with info about the crystal, color, and image used
and are affordably priced from $60 to $195.
This is a must-see, brand-new, unique fine-art genre.
Arts Alive Art Gallery, 85 South Broadway, Nyack, NY
Saturdays & Sundays 1 – 4 pm.

Opening Reception - New Voices: Rockland's Next Art Generation
2023-02-19 14:00 - 17:00 | Rockland Center for the Arts,27 South Greenbush Road, West Nyack, NY 10994, USA
Please join Rockland Center for the Arts for New Voices: Rockland’s Next
Art Generation, opening Sunday, February 19th from 2-5pm. During RoCA’s
75th Anniversary, in 2022, it presented Rockland’s Women of South Mountain
Road. These women had achieved national and international notoriety in
their various fields. We are excited to start off our 76th exhibition year
by presenting some of the younger talent in Rockland, as part of the next
art generation. Each artist has a unique style and perspective on the world
they see today.
Artists are Nina Berlingeri, Joel Blenz, Matt Casanova, Danielle McDonald,
Alice Mizrachi, and Nate Singer.
Please join Rockland Center for the Arts for New Voices: Rockland’s Next
Art Generation. The exhibit opens with an artist reception on Sunday, Feb.
19th, 2:00pm – 5:00pm. The exhibit will be on view through April 1st, open
Mondays – Saturdays 11am – 4pm, (closed Sundays). Free to the Public (masks
encouraged). Also on view, Window into Color: Works by Art Gunther in
Gallery One and Art-ifacts: Works by William Rauschenberg in Gallery Two.
For more information call (845) 358-0877 or visit
http://www.rocklandartcenter.org.

Window of Color - Works by Arthur Gunther
2023-02-19 14:00 - 2023-04-01 16:00 | Rockland Center for the Arts,27 S Greenbush Rd, West Nyack, NY,
Window of Color, Works by Art Gunther is on view Feb 19 – April 1, open
Mondays – Saturdays, 11am – 4pm. The opening reception will be Sunday, Feb.
19th, 2pm – 5pm.
For 25 years, 1981-2006, Gunther penned The Column Rule, a newspaper
opinion piece at The Journal News in Rockland County, New York.
Gunther’s primitive-style paintings are inspired by the light and space of
Edward Hopper and Rockland County. His work is a comment on places and
things – in Rockland and beyond.

Jazz in the Afternoon
2023-02-19 15:00 - 16:30 | Christ Church San Marcos, 43 South Broadway, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
Christ Church San Marcos relaunches its live music program with a benefit concert on February 19. Concert features Lynn Viggiano on piano and Ken Matthews on bass. All donations and sales proceeds support the continuing music series.
This is the church where Washington Irving was a vestryman, warden, Sunday School teacher, and regular parishioner until his death in 1859. His pew is still marked with a brass tablet.

The Spectre Bridegroom and Other Valentine's Ghost Stories by Peter Royston
2023-02-19 18:30 - 19:30 | Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main Street, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
Love conquers all – even Death! This Valentine’s Day, gather up your loved ones (or just come yourself!) and head to the Tarrytown Music Hall to meet THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM AND OTHER VALENTINE’S GHOST STORIES. This lushly eerie event tells two romantic ghost stories adapted for the stage by Peter Royston.
The Spectre Bridegroom, based on a story by Washington Irving, the creator of Rip Van Winkle and The Headless Horseman, is a fun and passionate tale of love at first – and last – sight! On her wedding day, a young woman meets her betrothed, only to find that he may have other, ghostly, plans!
In the other tale, Death Rides Fast, another young woman rides through the night on a magical horse with a man who may, or may not, be her long lost husband!
In THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM AND OTHER VALENTINE’S GHOST STORIES, the audience moves with the action of the stories throughout the beautiful, historic Music Hall!
Please join your Ghost Hosts at the Tarrytown Music Hall for THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM AND OTHER VALENTINE’S GHOST STORIES! It’s a 45 minute romantic, exciting and spooky event for Valentine’s Day – a perfectly delightful way to celebrate love, passion and thrills!
Tickets:
$25 Adults
Special Valentines Day Event pricing: $30 *
*Additional $10 long-stem rose available for pre-sale purchase
The Box Office will not be open for these performances, please have your digital tickets available
Please arrive 15 minutes before scheduled tour time – No late entry will be permitted
The 45-minute tour kicks off in the theater lobby and does include climbing stairs and extended periods of standing.
Maximum 60 patrons per event.

New Voices: Rockland’s Next Art Generation
2023-02-20 11:00 - 2023-04-02 16:00 | Rockland Center for the Arts, 27 South Greenbush Road, West Nyack, 10994
New Voices: Rockland’s Next Art Generation
February 19 – April 1, 2023
Opening Reception: Sunday, February 19, 2pm – 5pm
Free to the Public
Please join Rockland Center for the Arts for New Voices: Rockland’s Next Art Generation, opening Sunday, February 19th from 2-5pm. During RoCA’s 75th Anniversary, in 2022, it presented Rockland’s Women of South Mountain Road. These women had achieved national and international notoriety in their various fields. We are excited to start off our 76th exhibition year by presenting some of the younger talent in Rockland, as part of the next art generation. Artists are Nina Berlingeri, Joel Blenz, Matt Casanova, Danielle McDonald, Alice Mizrachi, and Nate Singer.
Nina Berlingeri has solidly planted roots in Rockland’s art scene through a 2014 artist residency at the Arts Students League of New York’s Vaclav Vytlacil studios. She was then awarded the first Edward Hopper House Fellow of Creative Community Outreach for a 2018 artist residency. Further developing her public youth arts programs, “The Nighthawks” connecting local high school students with artworks, and artists with ways to develop and refine their own creative practice. Berlingeri was awarded the Emeritus Award for Historic Site Stewardship from the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2018 on behalf of the museum. Berlingeri’s bold figurative work mirrors her life and the ongoing resonance between her experiences and environment. The deconstruction, distortion, and reinstitution of the figure is regularly evolved through creating a series of multiples- each derived directly from the previous. This enables the distortion of the form to remain malleable and retain its immediacy. Her current work has maintained the focus of the figure, most recently through the lens of reflective self-portraits.
Joel Blenz’s abstract, mixed media artworks play with perception. His work is an examination of the subcultural and natural decayed outdoor surfaces, recreating beautiful textured and blended surfaces into his paintings. He retains the grime, grit, and detritus of a street aesthetic through his manipulation of surfaces. A studio practice has allowed for an exploration of an endless amount of layering and drying time in his painting process. Each piece provides an interactive experience for the viewer. When walking back and forth in front of the work, colors shift and fade creating an illusion that confounds the viewer. He is intrigued with the power of messages in public spaces and how advertising has an impact on our psyche. He consciously makes an effort to create more positivity in this visual landscape by focusing his public art on uplifting and positive messages for the community. His current work is an ongoing exploration of the ambiguous space that graffiti now occupies as both an outsider art form and a legitimate player in the contemporary world. Blenz’s current work has been featured in exhibitions for Pop Up MoMA, New York, Gallery Guichard in Chicago, IL, Scope Art Fair and Graffiti Gardens in Miami FL during Art Basel.
Matt Casanovas’ main focus is on the narrative – collecting from folklore, sentimental memories, and present day stories to create a timelessness through unbounded mediums in painting and printmaking. He pulls the emphatic expressions of both body and sentiment from vintage film promotions as well as stories, and applies them to a contemporary vantage point using materials and techniques of the old masters. Casanovas has exhibited his work at the Garnerville Art Center, Garnerville, NY, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL and Siragusa Gallery, Chicago, IL
Danielle McDonald uses a process of illustration, a system of collecting, deconstructing and reassembling images or fragments of moments preserved and composed in the mind. These images are concrete, symbolic and abstracts parts of life. She plays with scale and perspective to visually imagine the way we prioritize and compose moments in the mind. Parts of stories and images are weaved together, consciously and subconsciously, helping us to make sense of relating and connecting to others. McDonald is a public school teacher and community worker. She has collaborated with schools, shelters, cultural institutions, universities, facilities for incarcerated teens, Groundswell and designed mural walls throughout Philadelphia and New York City, designed sets for Opera Delaware and small independent films.
Alice Mizrachi is a mixed media muralist, fine artist, educator, and curator. Grounded in deep compassion for the human experience across borders, Mizrachi explores both the spiritual and physical dimensions of being human, and in particular, female. Mizrachi’s intentions include the empowerment of self and others through artistic expression, as well as advocacy for women, youth, and the environment. Family, community, and tribe are also recurring themes and are approached as active spaces of shared engagement through her mural making. Her studio practice has developed into a testing ground for explorations in assemblage, sculpture, and installation that has transformed both her painting practice and her work as a muralist. Her spontaneous approach to line, and the deconstruction and reconstruction of figurative elements in her assemblage and ceramic sculpture, reveal a human hand in the making of her work, an intentional maneuver in an increasingly technological age. Mizrachi’s work has been featured in the Museum of the City of New York, the National Museum of Women in the Arts and Albright-Knox Museum.
Nate Singer is a mixed media artists working in ink, paint, sculpture and film. His interest in organic matter led to an intimate understanding of the underlying systems of embedded geometrics within organic matter. At once energetic and poised, Singer’s abstract paintings and ink drawings use saturated, hard-edged shaped and intuitive calligraphic marks to create compositions that resemble organic growth while reveling in technical orchestration. He has exhibited at Garnerville Art Center, Saratoga Arts Center, and Union College with an art residency at Salem Art Works. He has been awarded a Hilda A. Colish Sculpture Award and a NY6 Think Tank Grant.
Please join Rockland Center for the Arts for New Voices: Rockland’s Next Art Generation. The exhibit opens with an artist reception on Sunday, Feb. 19th, 2:00pm – 5:00pm. The exhibit will be on view through April 1st, open Mondays – Saturdays 11am – 4pm, (closed Sundays). Free to the Public (masks encouraged). Also on view in Gallery One, Window into Color: Works by Art Gunther, works inspired by the light of the Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Center and by the realist painter himself. Art-ifacts: Works by William Rauschenberg on view in Gallery Two. Rauschenberg uses the lost art of sand casting to create three dimensional puzzle like pieces. For more information call (845) 358-0877 or visit www.rocklandartcenter.org.
RoCA gratefully acknowledges support for its programs from The Rea Charitable Trust, ArtsWestchester, Sarah and Stephen Thomas, The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation, M&T Bank, The M&T Charitable Foundation, The Dorothy Gillespie Foundation, Walter Cain & Paulo Ribeiro, Kantrowitz, Goldhamer & Graifman P.C., QuietEvents, the Estate of Joan Konner, Lighting Services Inc.,, the Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation, Zaklin Family Charitable Fund, The County of Rockland, Art Services Group, RoCA members, donors and business members.
RoCA’s programs are made possible, in part, with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. Funding is also made possible by the County of Rockland.

Post-Impressionism In Its Own Right: Online Class
2023-02-21 10:00 - 11:00 | Bethany Arts Community, 40 Somerstown Rd, Ossining, NY, 10562, United States
Join Jill Kiefer, Ph.D. as she leads her Online Course series for BAC entitled: “Post-Impressionism In Its Own Right” for 6 Tuesdays, 02/21-03/28, 2023 from 10 – 11 AM.
Discussions of Post-Impressionism are often limited to its relationship with Impressionism. But this diverse and distinctive movement stands very much on its own—having traveled quite different paths than those explored by the Impressionists. Indeed, Post-Impressionism embraced the past, the present, and the future—and its influence remains a force today.
In this program, we’ll focus on the key Post-Impressionists (Seurat, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin) to examine their unique achievements. Which ones most avidly pursued symbolic and subjective meanings in their art? How and why did structure, optics and order become the obsession of others? In what ways did their combined efforts and aesthetic visions define what would become the modern idiom? Join us as we seek the answers to these questions, and identify how Post-Impressionism fits into the broad tapestry that is art history.

Reflections from the Shallow End of the Dating Pool
2023-02-21 18:30 | Black Parakeetz Paint, Swig, and Sing, 298 Main Street, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
REFLECTIONS FROM THE SHALLOW END OF THE DATING POOL
2/21 at 6:30pm
What happens when a woman turns 50 and decides to enter the murky waters of online dating? She finds herself turning to social media to keep her laughing about the ridiculousness of it all, and discovers a sisterhood in shared experiences. Born out of a desire to find solid ground through humor, Debbi Hobson’s Reflections from the Shallow End of the Dating Pool shines a light on the farcical experience of midlife dating.
Black Parakeetz in Nyack
298 Main St, Nyack, NY 10960

NOSH AND PLAY! - A BI-WEEKLY ADULT "RETREAT"
2023-02-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Creative Arts Workshop, 48 Burd St, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
NOSH AND PLAY! – A BI-WEEKLY ADULT “RETREAT”
Every other Wednesday 6:30-8:15pm
$25 per visit
A continuation of our “Paint, Nosh, Reflection” series.
This go around we will have guest facilitators lead a group activity which will be focused from theatre, the arts, dance, or mindfulness.
This is an easy to swallow (pun-intended) evening meant to relax, inspire, and engage all of your senses.
So come join the fun and get out of the week-day brunt and let’s Nosh and Play!!
Each week a special “nosh” will be featured to “feed the soul” in a very figurative way!
This is a safe space to make art, be yourself, and heal. Please come with that in mind as we hold space and kindness towards one another in the shared retreat.
Come for one or all evenings.

Nyack Farmer's Market
2023-02-23 09:00 - 13:00 | 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 9am to 1pm, 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.

Food Enthusiast Program: Butchering & Knife Skills
2023-02-23 18:30 - 21:00 | RCC Hospitality and Culinary Arts Center, 70 Main St, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
FEBRUARY 23 @ 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM EST
Hospitality and Culinary Arts Center
70 Main Street, Nyack NY
Cost: $70 per person
In this class, students will butcher whole chickens and pork tenderloins.
We will also demonstrate and practice knife skills you will need for cutting meats and vegetables for all your future culinary creations.
Students will take home their personalized roasted & braised meals along with a “stock in a bag” to prepare on their own at home.
*In this class we will focus on the cooking methods of roasting & braising along with soup and stock making.
Snacks are provided upon your arrival and you get to take the food you make home with you.
Contact Mark Davidoff at 845-875-7571 or mark.davidoff@sunyrockland.edu with any questions.
Please arrive on time.

The Gold Standard at '76 House
2023-02-23 19:00 - 22:00 | The ’76 House,110 Main St., Tappan NY
Mark Attebery (flutes) & Ben Carriel (vibraphone) perform at the ’76 House
Thursday Feb. 23, 7-10 PM.

Bored Teachers Comedy Tour
2023-02-23 20:00 - 21:30 | Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main Street, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
The biggest entertainment platform for teachers in the world, Bored Teachers, presents the funniest teacher-comedians in the world all on one stage.
Their hilarious skits have amassed hundreds of millions of views on the internet, and they’re all joining comic forces on the stage for a night of laughter you do not want to miss. Put that red pen down, pause that Netflix series you’ve been binging, throw on your comfiest teacher tee, call your teacher besties, and come burn off some of that stress this school year has been dumping on you.

The Irish Comedy Tour
2023-02-24 20:00 - 22:00 | Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, 1008 Brown St, Peekskill, NY, 10566, United States
THE IRISH COMEDY TOUR Returns this February!
The Irish Comedy Tour takes the party atmosphere of a Dublin pub and combines it with a boisterous, belly-laugh band of hooligans.
The group’s comedians and musicians, whose ancestors hail from the Emerald Isle, include Detroit native Derek Richards; Washington D.C. born Patrick Garrity; Ohio’s Michael Malone; Nova Scotia’s Damon Leibert; and from Inchicore, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland Derrick Keane.
Audiences howl at Richards’ tales about his child free existence, living in Las Vegas and his blue collar upbringing . He has appeared on Amazon Prime, The Bob & Tom Show, SiriusXM, and The Weather Channel’s Top 10. He just released his fourth album, Double Down, available on iTunes, Spotify and Soundcloud. Leibert’s unique and energetic style of fiddle playing lies somewhere between the driving dance beat of Cape Breton, and the lyrical music of Ireland. His power packed performance adds an incredible dimension to the show. Keane, originally from Inchicore, Derrick first distinguished himself musically when the duo in which he sang and played swept the All Ireland Talent Competition. His band, Inchicore, sets the gold standard for the Irish music scene in New England and across North America. A brilliant voice and razor sharp wit make him a huge hit on the tour. Garrity is known for his constant road schedule appropriately dubbed, The Never Ending Tour. This 20 year comedy veteran brings his hilarious observations and impressions to the stage. He’s a favorite from coast to coast and across the border in Canada. And finally, Malone, with his blistering humor that focuses on breaking down the idiotic ways we deal with life, death, love, and grief. An absolute hammer of a comedian seen on Fox, Comedy Central, Showtime and HULU. Watch his special, Laugh After Death.
Don’t miss these hilarious Irish American comedians as they tear apart as well as validate all of the Irish myths and stereotypes.

Photo Exhibit: 82 Pieces of '82: Main Street, Nyack
2023-02-25 - 2023-02-26 | Historical Society of the Nyacks 50 Piermont Ave., Nyack, NY, 50 Piermont Ave., Nyack, 10960, United States
82 Pieces of ’82
Main Street, Nyack
Photos by Brad Hess
The Historical Society of the Nyacks
50 Piermont Avenue

The exhibit will be open Saturdays from 1 – 4 January 21st through April 15th
In 1982, photographer Brad Hess walked Main Street in Nyack every Sunday morning, taking over 3,000 black and white photographs. Trying out a new film, he decided Main Street was where he would experiment with it. As the images emerged from his dark room, he became fascinated with the quality of the film as well as the opportunities Main Street offered him. He returned nearly every Sunday morning for the next year, walking from 9W to the riverfront.

82 Pieces of ’82, Main Street, Nyack will be our first traditional “opening” since COVID. Please join us in thanking Brad for sharing his amazing work with us, and hearing what he has to say about these street scenes and their meaning for Nyack. We look forward to your questions, feedback and commentary. Brad will have the floor around 1:30. Please come masked – we want to minimize everyone’s exposure to our current variant with its high transmission potential. And for that reason also, our refreshments are very minimal.

Murder Mystery Dinner, Wine & Evening of Glamour and Glitz
2023-02-25 17:30 - 19:30 | Hotel Nyack,400 High Ave, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Join us for another night of delicious food, crooning, cocktails, and a murder!
Prizes for best costumes and whodunit include a free night stay at the Hotel nyack as well as a four pack of food tour tickets to any Joey G’s Nayak food tours!
Ticket includes appetizers, Champagne, dinner, wine/beer, desserts, coffee, and plenty of MAYHEM! All gratuities and taxes included in ticket. Ages 21 to drink.
