Grantee Events

A full-orchestra production by Two of Us Productions. Man of La Mancha is one of the world’s most popular musicals. Inspired by Miguel de Cervantes’ 17th-century masterwork Don Quixote and set during the Spanish Inquisition, the rousing, Spanish-inflected score includes the classic numbers “The Impossible Dream,” “I, Don Quixote,” “Dulcinea,” “I Really Like Him” and… Continue reading Nature’s Palette with Laura Leigh Lanchantin

Jazz and Classics for Change presents: Music by Copland, Bach and Sheila Silver –“If Trees Could talk” for 3 sopranos, a mezzo soprano, 4 singing Tibetan bowls, piano and images from John Feldman’s film, and Resilient Earth, duos for violin and piano. www.jazzandclassicsforchange.org

Join Hudson Valley artist David Sokosh for an illustrated discussion of his project “The Grammar of Olana” which uses cyanotype to capture Frederic Church’s designed home and landscape.Sokosh will share examples of collage prints a newly printed zine and stories of Olana. FREE advanced registration required. Accessible.

The Gather & Swing Community Square Dance will hold its last dance for the year at Van Buren Hall in Kinderhook on Friday November 20 from 7-9:30 PM. Caller Don Stratton joins from Vermont, with wonderful music from Hudson Valley’s Strawberry Wine! Swing your partner and Do-Si-Do to the lively music!

at Prattsville Art Center A composition workshop concerned with examining and re-forming the formal approaches and aesthetics of the obscene, moving outside familiar frameworks of indie sleaze, dirty realism, camp, burlesque, cabaret, erotic transcendence, and empowerment rhetoric. The workshop approaches obscenity as compositional material: a set of languages, conventions, aesthetics, tropes, clichés, and techniques to… Continue reading Nature’s Palette with Laura Leigh Lanchantin