Join us for a movement workshop followed by a work-in-progress showing by Pillow Fort AIRs Clark Avery Griffin and D’Aangelo Castro!
Drawing on dance, yoga, and holo-fractal theory, this workshop invites participants to engage with their “healical” nature. From micro to macro, from DNA to spiral movement, through breath, exercises, improvisation and phrase work, the class investigates the idea of “DNA repair” at many scales, allowing wellness, coordination and function to unfold as aesthetic.This workshop will be followed by a Work-in-Progress showing of a new piece Clark is working on that explores ideas introduced in the workshop.
Please join us on Saturday August 5th from 4 PM to 7 PM to celebrate the opening of GG Stankiewicz’s solo show “Land, Water, Sky Continuum” at Birdsong Farm.
Pillow Fort Arts Center in Andes is hosting a natural dyeing workshop on Saturday, July 8 2:00-6:00pm. $30 suggested donation
In this workshop, Pillow Fort Arts Center Artist-in-Resident Sophie will lead participants on a brief nature walk around the property, where we will collect leaves for our eco-printing projects. After foraging for materials, Sophie will demonstrate how to efficiently bundle the fabric and steam it to create an eco-print, explaining the Iron Blanket printing method. While our bundles are steaming, Sophie will explain some basics about the natural dyeing process, such as mordants and the play between tannin and iron, which is the basis of this specific eco-printing process.
Artist Talk with Guy Richards Smit in the gallery at Birdsong Farm on Sunday July 30th at 1 PM. Free and open to the public. Learn about Guy’s career and path to cartooning!
Friends of Music of Stamford, NY is proud to present the critically acclaimed Fenimore Chamber Orchestra in concert on Sunday, August 27, 2023. This occasion will present the rarely heard overture to Haydn’s opera Armida and Schubert’s delightful and also rarely heard Symphony Number 5. A special treat will be Mozart’s Horn Concerto number four performed by Principal Hornist Steven Harmon.
On July 8, 1pm, at Margaretville Pavillion, join Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower, a traditional plant medicine person, for an outdoor plant and tree lecture on cultivating intermediary sensory impressions with surrounding land systems.
On Sunday, June 18, at 3PM, Friends of Music of Stamford NY presents a chamber music performance by internationally acclaimed pianist Andreas Klein. This concert is hosted by the First Presbyterian Church at 96 Main Street, Stamford, NY. Admission is by donation at the door; the suggested donation is $12 per person, $6 for seniors & students. There is no charge for those under age 13. Cash or check only; no reservations or advance sales. Masks are encouraged.
Please join us on May 27th from 4 PM to 7 PM to celebrate the opening of Dave Ortiz’s solo show “Alphabet of a Colored Man” at Birdsong Farm. This new work joyfully brings full circle Ortiz’s creative trajectory from street art to fine art painting, exploring where the abstract and urban meet. Each of the thirteen paintings in the series features a letter, some obscured and some more clearly legible. Together, they spell a phrase, which the viewer is invited to decipher. Also on view are select Painted Wooden Objects.
On Sunday, May 21, 3 PM, Friends of Music of Stamford, NY presents Pegasus: The Orchestra in a trio configuration featuring Eiko Kano (violin), Karén Hakobyan (piano), and guest artist Sergey Antonov (cello), the 2007 International Tchaikovsky competition gold medalist. Featuring works by Rachmaninoff, Haydn, and Mendelssohn.
Please note the NEW host venue: the First Presbyterian Church at 96 Main Street, Stamford, NY.
The Nude Party will play at the West Kortright Centre on May 27th at 4pm. A septet formed at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina playing electro-pop and stripped down country. Known for their “Energy and irreverent wit…and a musical and lyrical ambition that makes them one of the best under-30 rock bands around. — Paste Magazine.
Please join Diamond Hollow Books in welcoming Sophie Strand, writer, thinker, inter-weaver and force of nature for an evening of reading and discussion based on her truly groundbreaking book of essays The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine (Inner Traditions, 2022). If we’re lucky, Ms. Strand will also provide a preview from her forthcoming The Madonna Secret, an eco-feminist historical fiction reimagining of the Gospels.
Saturday, June 10, doors at 5 pm, reading begins 5:30.
Music historian and Pratt Professor Cisco Bradley visits Diamond Hollow to present his two recent Duke University Press publications: The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront and Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker.
Sunday, June 18, doors at 5 PM; Reading and special mystery musical guests begins at 5:30. Updates at diamondhollowbooks.com/events .
On Sunday, April 16, at 3PM, Friends of Music of Stamford NY’s 37th season opens with a performance by the Telegraph Quartet at a new host venue for the concert series: the First Presbyterian Church at 96 Main Street, Stamford, NY. Admission is by donation at the door; the suggested donation is $12 per person, $6 for seniors & students. There is no charge for those under age 13. Cash or check only; no advance sales. Reservations are encouraged, walk-ups welcome. Masks are recommended. Contact FOMAdmin@friendsmusic.org or (518) 918-8003 to reserve your space.
The Living Archive Project is offering a six-session adult writer’s workshop with Author Anne Elizabeth Moore. Meetups are scheduled for the 3rd Saturday of each month from 3-5 pm at Headwaters Arts Center in Stamford, NY beginning January 21, 2023 and concluding on June 17, 2023.
Friends of Music of Stamford NY closes its 2022 season with a free concert by the Zēlos Saxophone Quartet, featuring Delaware County native Robin Lacey. This holiday performance is generously hosted by the Stamford United Methodist Church at 88 Main Street, Stamford, and funded by the Robinson-Broadhurst Foundation and individual donors.
Friends of Music of Stamford NY presents the Neave Trio on Sunday, November 20, 3PM.
By donation (suggested donation $12; $6 students/seniors; free for under 13).
Violinist Anna Williams, cellist Mikhail Veselov, and pianist Eri Nakamura will play:
Lili Boulanger: Deux pièces en trio
Germaine Tailleferre: Piano Trio
Cecile Chaminade: Piano Trio in G minor
Ethel Smyth: Piano Trio in D minor
The tenth season of Glimmerglass Film Days will be held at multiple locations in Cooperstown, NY, November 10-14, with select films available to stream November 18-20. A program of Otsego 2000, the film festival seeks to highlight the best in independent films with a broad environmental focus. The theme this year is Connection. Seventeen filmmakers will be in attendance. glimmerglassfilmdays.org
On Sunday, October 9, at 4PM, the West Kortright Centre presents Kittel & Co., a cutting-edge American acoustic band led by Grammy-nominated composer and violinist Jeremy Kittel. Kittel & Co. inhabits the space between classical and acoustic roots, Celtic and bluegrass aesthetics, and folk and jazz sensibilities.
On Saturday, October 1, 10 am–noon, the Hobart Rotary Club will host a ‘how-to’ seminar on waste reduction by Whitney Point, NY Rotarians Chris and Cindy Burger. This event will take place at the Hobart United Methodist Church, 204 Maple Avenue at the corner of Pearl Street. Free and open to the public. For information, contact Mary van Valkenburg, 646.279-4175, or via email.
On Thursday, September 29, 6 pm, SUNY-Delhi presents a film screening of CHOSEN (directed by Joseph Juhn, 2022). This documentary follows five Korean Americans, of vastly diverse backgrounds with competing political views, who ran for US Congress in the 2020 election cycle. Screening takes place on campus at E-Tower 104 “Pit.” The director Joseph Juhn will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A. This event is hosted by SUNY-Delhi School of Liberal Arts & Sciences and sponsored by Erpf Sanford Visiting Professors Program. Watch the trailer here.
Textile artist Maggie Pate teaches an introduction to eco-printing at the West Kortright Centre. Capture a moment in time with this seasonal workshop using a mix of summer flowers and fall foliage. Participants will eco-print a luscious 100% silk charmeuse scarf of their own design.
Pre-registration required.
$135/$125 (WKC members) all materials included.
Register online or call (607) 278-5454.
49 West Kortright Church Rd, East Meredith
Maggie Pate is a slow textile artist and natural dyer located in the Hudson Valley. She has spent years experimenting with Nature’s colors and how to utilize them on fiber, weavings, and in paint mediums. Over the course of her 10+ years, she has traveled across the globe to teach workshops and spark interest in the cross section of botanical arts and slow textiles.
Saturday & Sunday, September 17 & 18, 10 am – 4 pm
In this two-day off-site workshop in Jefferson, NY, participants will learn the basics of building free-standing dry-laid stone walls under the instruction of a stone wall professional with over 20 years of experience. Learn how to sort and choose stones, use gravity to create a stable structure, and carve your initials in the new wall.
$200 per person/$180 (West Kortright Centre members)
Ages 17+
Pre-registration required <link>
Address will be sent to registrants.
Bring your own lunch, gloves, heavy boots, and a stone hammer (if you have one).
Instructor Pat Ryan has been building stone walls since 1995. His stonework can be found at Brewery Ommegang, the Lakeview Event Center (in Laurens), and at numerous private residences and religious communities.
On Sunday, September 18, at 3PM, Friends of Music of Stamford NY presents the Mei Stone Wind Trio: Mei Stone (flute), Jin Yingcun Jin (clarinet), and Tristan Baban (bassoon). This special program features works by Mozart, Beethoven, Donjon, Couperin, Walckiers, Villa-Lobos, and Osborne.
Masks are required at this indoor concert. Admission is by donation, with a suggested donation of $12 for adults; $6 for seniors and students; free for ages 13 and under. Reservations are recommended as church seating is limited.
Contact FOMAdmin@friendsmusic.org or (518) 918-8003 for reservations. Walk-ups are welcome, space permitting.
This performance is generously hosted by the Stamford United Methodist Church at 88 Main Street, Stamford, and funded by the Robinson-Broadhurst Foundation and individual donors. For more information about Friends of Music, visit www.friendsmusic.org.
Everyone is invited to the next Storytelling Event on Sunday, September 25 at 3pm. The venue will be the Walton Theater, 30 Gardiner Place, Walton. Free for all to attend.
This edition of Storytellers will feature an all-woman lineup. As the political currents in this country begin to push against women’s rights, it’s a fitting time to hear the female perspective on things.
Opening the afternoon will be a short musical performance with Mihoko Suzuki on piano, Mike Suchorski on drums, and Tim Cramer on the bass. It will be an engaging and entertaining afternoon.
For further information, contact Lou Marrelli. loumarrelli@yahoo.com
For-do invites the community to RECOVERY FOR HUMANITY, a carnival held at the Delhi American Legion, 41 Page Avenue, Delhi. Free food, games, music, cotton candy, popcorn, community involvement tables, and a dunk tank! It takes place Friday, September 16, 12 pm–7 pm.
The Tenth Annual Hobart Festival of Women Writers will take place on September 9–11, with workshops and free public readings by a long roster of incredible poets, novelists, and non-fiction writers, including Breena Clarke, Cheryl Clarke, Lisa Wujnovich, Bertha Rogers, Alexis de Veaux, Esther Cohen, and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan. For a full schedule, go to the festival website.
After a two-year hiatus, the West Kortright Centre’s annual family-friendly, summer’s end celebration returns to East Meredith. On Sunday, September 4, from noon–6 PM, the West Kortright Fair features three live bands, fresh local foods, an epic bake sale, local artisans and other vendors, a rummage sale, and plenty of children’s entertainment—including Wacky Wendy and her whimsical paper craft hats. Admission is by pay-what-you-can donation. The concert tent features West Kortright Centre Shakespeare alums Moppy Copperwheat and Zara Zee performing at 12:30 PM as the ”antifolk” duo Sourdoe, followed by the North Atlantic fiddle music of Drank the Gold at 2:15 PM. At 4:30 PM, Atom & the Orbits blast off from the early rock & roll universe with a set of danceable two-minute old-school power pop songs à la Chuck Berry.
Saturday, August 20 Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms, performing at The WKC with a full 6-piece band, channel the spirit of legendary country duos in a contemporary blend of honky-tonk and traditional bluegrass.
This outdoor fundraising event includes a 5PM barbeque dinner and a 6PM concert (two-step dance lessons also included!)
On Sunday, August 21, at 3PM, Friends of Music of Stamford NY presents internationally acclaimed musicians Danbi Um (violin), and JIJI (guitar). This special program features works by Arcangelo Corelli, Amy Beach, Erroll Garner, Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albeníz, Niccolò Paganini, Manuel Ponce, Ástor Piazzolla.
Franklin Stage Company is pleased to present “Bricktop, Legend of the Jazz Age,” August 5–21, a play, written by Cathey Sawyer, directed by Rodney S. Hudson. Bricktop is the story of jazz, of African Americans in performance, of racial relations, and of Paris before and after WWII. Bricktop recounts her humble beginnings in Alderson, West Virginia through her career as a cabaret performer and club owner that took her around the world, made her the companion of royalty, a favorite of writers and musicians, and the “Doyenne” of café society in Paris.
For more information and to reserve seats for this admission-free production (with a suggested donation $25 per person), click here.
Bushel’s neighbors at FOR-DO — Friends of Recovery of Otsego and Delaware Counties — host an ever-increasing number of community classes, workshops, and events including an Open Mic night several nights per month. Check out their calendar here (scroll down for Delhi’s chapter).
They also offer NARCAN training, which takes less than an hour and can save a life. And you can donate or volunteer your support here.
Saturday, August 6, 7PM
at the West Kortright Centre
49 West Kortright Church Road
East Meredith, NY
This collective of women and non-binary singers join together to breathe joy & song into the resistance and to uplift & center women’s voices.
Advance tickets are recommended as seating is limited; walk-ups are welcome. $30 ($25 WKC members) in advance; $35 ($30 WKC members) day-of. $10 for ages 9-19; free for ages 8 & under. Advance ticketing closes at midnight on Friday, August 5.
Tickets & more information: https://westkc.org/eventbrite-event/resistance-revival-chorus/
Thursday, August 4, at 7PM
at the West Kortright Centre
49 West Kortright Church Road
East Meredith, NY
Acoustic folk duo The Brother Brothers are David and Adam Moss, identical twins who have a story about everything. Their humble, earnest songs celebrate life and its beauty. The brothers’ virtuosic musicianship and close harmonies have earned them frequent comparisons to Simon and Garfunkel, as well as coveted performance slots at Edmonton Folk Festival, Nelsonville Music Festival, FreshGrass Music Festival, and more. The Brother Brothers were featured on Rolling Stone Country’s 2018 “Top 10 New Country Artists You Need To Know” list.
$10-$20
Tickets and more information: https://westkc.org/eventbrite-event/the-brother-brothers/
6PM – Introduction to Acting’s adaptation of The Love For Three Oranges, based on a story by Carlo Gozzi
7PM – Picnic Dinner (bring your own, or purchase hot dogs/veggie burgers on-site)
8PM – The Winter’s Tale, by the teenage Shakespeare, Music for Shakespeare, and Costume Design participants of the West Kortright Centre’s Young People’s Theater Arts Workshops.
Tuesday, July 12 and Friday, August 12, 6-7:30PM
Lay down and enjoy relaxing subtle frequencies generated by gongs, singing bowls, crystal bowls, voice chanting, & more.
At the West Kortright Centre, 49 West Kortright Church Road, East Meredith.
info@westkc.org
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On Sunday, July 17, starting at 3PM, Friends of Music of Stamford, NY presents the Juilliard Jazz Ensemble. Four of the most talented young jazz musicians in the world will celebrate the music of Miles Davis. The current lineup of the Juilliard Jazz Ensemble features Dave Baron (bass), David Neves (trumpet), Adam Birnbaum (piano), and Jimmy Macbride (drums). (more…)
On Saturday, July 23 at 1pm, the West Kortright Centre presents Elena Moon Park and Friends, a free outdoor concert of reimagined folk music and original children’s songs from around the globe, with an emphasis on East Asia.
On Sunday, July 24, at 4PM, the West Kortright Centre presents a timeless performance by Rachael and Vilray. Rachael Price, frontwoman of the hit multi-genre band Lake Street Dive, and singer and guitarist Vilray Blair Bolles sing intimate arrangements of forgotten treasures, interspersed with original minimalist original works that evoke the Golden Age of radio. The duo’s shared affinity for Jazz Age musicals, Tin Pan Alley music, and other songs from the ‘30s through ‘50s informs their vibrant arrangements, creating a fresh yet nostalgic sound.
Saturday, July 9, 7PM
at the West Kortright Centre
49 West Kortright Church Road
East Meredith NY
www.westkc.org
Award-winning banjoist, fiddle player, and singer Jake Blount is a specialist in the early folk music of Black Americans, including spirituals, blues, and string band repertoire.
“An Afrofuturist in roots-music garb”— NPR.
Tickets: $15-25; $10 for ages 9-19; free for ages 8 & under.
A two-day workshop in Treadwell
Saturday & Sunday, June 25 & 26, 10 am – 4 pm
Learn the basics of building free-standing dry-laid stone walls with Pat Ryan, a stonework professional with over 20 years of experience. Students will learn how to sort and choose stones, use gravity to create a stable structure, and carve their initials in the new wall.
Sunday, June 26, 2022, 10AM – 1PM at the West Kortright Centre 49 West Kortright Church Road East Meredith, NY 13757
Students will create a silk scarf that is bright and unique using dried petals from seasonal flowers, food waste scraps, and pigments from natural dye extracts. In this steam color dye technique, each attendee will lay out their design then bundle their fiber into a roll and steam bath the piece. After 1 hour in a steam bath, the scarves will reveal brilliantly saturated atmospheric patterns. Pre-registration required: LINK
A fun afternoon with live music for kids, featuring Shinbone Alley (a jazz band on stilts), Senegalese percussionist Amadou Diallo, and Miss Pam’s Jamboree. Additional entertainment and activities include Mike the Juggler, the Community Music Network’s instrument petting zoo, face painting, recycled fabric jewelry making, build-your-own-terrarium, native plant giveaway, an obstacle course, and more! Pay what you can (suggested donation: $20/family). Food available from Catskill Momos and The Tulip and the Rose, plus Freestyle Confections. This event is sponsored by Andes Hotel, Bovina Montessori, Catskill Country Living, Ecoagents, and Christine Egan & Scott DeSimon.
The 31st annual West Kortright Centre Garden Tour will be held on Sunday, June 19 in the Jefferson-Milford-Worcester area. This popular self-guided tour is a beautiful journey along country roads. Support a local non-profit arts organization while getting a rare insider look at how local garden enthusiasts have enhanced their outdoor environments. Pre-registration is required. LINK
Lokasparśa Dance Projects, a recipient of the New York State Council on the Arts 2022 Choreographic Commission, will perform the world premiere of its latest work, Still/Together, on Saturday, June 18, at 7:30 PM at the West Kortright Centre in East Meredith. This new work, choreographed by Artistic Director clyde forth of Jefferson, NY, investigates unnoticed connections, stillness, time, and light, incorporating video projection and vocal/text elements within the dance.
On Saturday, June 11 at 2pm, the West Kortright Centre presents Arm-of-the-Sea Theater’s new mask & puppet production, DIRT: The Secret Life of Soil. Fusing cutting-edge science and age-old puppetry, DIRT takes audiences on an extravagant journey of discovery into the ground beneath our feet. Featuring live music and puppet figures ranging from 12″ to 12′ tall, the show reveals the photosynthetic alchemy of plants, the fungi’s dance of mutual delight, and the microbes’ herculean labors.
This event is free and open to the public. No pre-registration required.
Donations welcome. Bring your own lawn seating. Please arrive at least 15 mins early. Grounds open at 1pm. Picnickers welcome; masks encouraged.
DIRT is made possible by funds from the A. Lindsay & Olive B. O’Connor Foundation and the Robinson-Broadhurst Foundation, by grants from the New State Council on the Arts, and by the generosity of our community sponsors The Andes Hotel, Bovina Montessori, Catskill Country Living, Ecoagents, and Christine Egan & Scott DeSimon.
Join Cara Marie Piazza at Star Route Farm for a comprehensive natural dye workshop over two days on June 4th and 5th. Explore the processes of hot extraction and bundle dyeing with floral waste and locally foraged material. Discussion topics will include a brief history of natural dyes, mordanting and dyeing fibers, and how to bring these techniques into your home. We will also learn about how using household items can shift the colors of your dye by modifying the pH. Each day each participant will dye and keep one silk handkerchief, four 16” x 16” cotton napkins, and four 6” x 18” silk Ahimsa swatches. The class costs $250 per day. Participants are welcome to come for one or both days. All tools and equipment are provided. The class will run from 10 AM to 4 PM with a light lunch at 12 PM. 25% of the workshop proceeds will go to Star Route Farm, which will support their work growing and donating organic produce to food justice organizations in the New York area. Please direct any questions to Cara at cara@caramariepiazza.com
Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner, Oneida Faithkeeper Diane Shenandoah and her son, musician Adah Shenandoah, will present a program featuring the significant influence the Haudenosaunee culture had on American democracy and the Women’s Suffrage movement. This presentation will take place on Friday, April 29, 5:30–6:30 pm, at the Lake House Restaurant, 2521 Cty Hwy 22, Richfield Springs. Free admission; donations requested. For more information, click here for newspaper article about it.
The Delaware County Citizens for Refugee Support (DCCRS) will be attending and invites you to join for a film screening of “Utica: The Last Refuge” at the Stanley Theater in Utica on May 5, 7 pm. The event will be a fundraiser for Ukraine and an intro to the work of The Center in Utica, which provides refugee support. For details, go to Utica’s The Center’s website here.
From Hawk + Hive in Andes: The work in Erika Ehrman’s series UN-SEEN consists of 15 works on paper and explores the idea that the “truth” of family history is shifting and ultimately unknowable. Read more on the Hawk + Hive site, or visit the show, which opens April 16 with a reception from 1-5pm.
There’s nothing like preparing your own fermented medicines from the Earth.
Join Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower at Hawk Circle for a full day of fermenting fun. Start off your morning with details on fermented food benefits. Then immediately move into preparing first and secondary Kombucha fermentation. After lunch, we’ll process Long Term Miso, get to learn to make and taste Short Term Miso and Dandelion, Leek, Nettles, Seaweed Healing Miso.
Go home with educational materials, Miso, a Kombucha Scoby (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) and starter liquid to continue your Kombucha processing.
The Mountain Top Historical Society presents their first program of 2022: “Enslaved: People as Property in Delaware County, 1790 – 1830.”
This Zoom talk by Diane Galusha, historian, author and President of the Town of Middletown Historical Society, will examine what the institution of slavery looked like in Delaware County as farms, towns, and industry developed following the Revolutionary War. The talk will identify specific slaveholders – wealthy, landed settlers who brought their servants with them from the Hudson Valley and New England – and will, to the extent possible, describe the individuals they owned and the work they did. Citing personal documents, official records, memoirs, newspaper accounts and other period sources, Galusha will bring this little-known aspect of local history out of the shadows. Email mthsdirector@mths.org for the Zoom link
On Saturday, February 19, 4:30 pm, in conjunction with Roxbury Arts Group’s presentation of The Wilderness Diary by Jessica Farrell, there will be a free artist talk and online panel discussion addressing the mental health crisis in our region and ways we can address the disparities in our healthcare system. Please register here for this program:https://roxburyartsgroup.org/event/the-wilderness-diary-2022-02-19/
Anti-Racist Catskills is hosting a Listening Party (twist on a bookclub): Listen to the 1619 Project podcast and discuss with the group online Tuesdays, 6:30 to 8 pm, in February and March 2022. To sign up and see the supplemental reading list, email: antiracist.catskills@gmail.com and let them know you want to sign up for the bookclub list for the 1619 project.
Anti-Racist Catskills begins their 4th bookclub November 2nd with Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. For information and zoom link, go to their website.
Sade Lanay — author and Bushel Response Space artist — is offering tarot readings at half hidden (next door to Bushel above Delhi Paint and Paper) in October, and also virtually on an ongoing basis. Details are on Sade’s website: https://www.seesade.com/work/tarot
The legendary Hobart Festival of Women Writers is online this year, with five workshops spread out over the course of the fall. Read more and sign up for one of the workshops here:
half hidden welcomes visitors to their exhibition “many portals” viewable and listenable every Friday 4-6 and Saturday 11-6, during the month of September, at 100 1/2 Main Street. Visual arts, secret garden, wordy surprises, aural treats, and an esoteric library with offerings by Matt LeFleur, Melissa Thorne, Nancy Diamond, Emily Sprague, Brian Crabtree, Heather Phelps-Lipton, Kelli Cain, Dan Derks, Jesse Bransford, Trent Gill, and Sean Hellfritsh.
FOR-DO’s The Turning Point is located just down the street from Bushel (next door to Bushel’s old space!), Standing for “Friends of Recovery of Delaware and Otsego [Counties]”, FOR-DO affirms the power and possibility of recovery and accomplishes its mission by:
Providing education and awareness activities in an effort to reduce stigma and discrimination related to Substance Use Disorder.
Advocating for legislation and services that support recovery from a Substance Use Disorder
Operating community recovery centers for those in recovery from Substance Use Disorders and their families, thereby improving quality of life, reducing the risk of relapse, and assisting the development of a sustained recovery through the provision of peer-based support, life skills education and other programs, social activities, informational resources and a place for mutual support meetings
Many of the workshops and programs — including writing workshops, open mic, book club, and meditation — are open to all members of the public whether or not they are participating in the center’s recovery-specific services.
They also offer NARCAN training for opioid overdose prevention, in-person or on Zoom.
Women for Inclusion, Diversity & Equity (W.I.D.E) is hosting a family-friendly event on the Delhi Courthouse Square with kids crafts, family yoga, creative movement, food, live music, bake sale, raffles and prizes. Free & open to the public. Masks, social distancing, and sign in required. Details at www.wideny.org.
Women for Inclusion, Diversity & Equity (W.I.D.E) is sponsoring a new series of monthly Saturday morning workshops for families at the Walton, Andes, and Delhi libraries geared towards children ages 5–12. Stories, activities, food, and music; Each family takes home a FREE book. Starts mid-June. For details & dates at each library, go to: wideny.org.
John’s Flea and Music Series Our next-door neighbor — John’s Flea market at This and That, 110 Main St. — begins a summer music series Saturday, June 5 with local band, Clovis. The flea market is every Saturday starting at 9. Guest chefs serve at 11. Bands go on at 5. Music is sponsored by Birdsong Community Garden. Follow @johnsflea on Instagram and visit johnsflea.com for updates on chefs and bands scheduled all season in addition to vendors selling vintage clothing, home goods, jewelry, bags, and more.
The Petunias Are Doing Amazing: A Prison Journal and Plant Care Guide Bushel hosts virtual monthly meetings of the Inside-Outside Study Group, co-founded by Bushel’s Thursday morning meditation facilitator Molly Yakusan Stevens. Inside-Outside fosters emotional and spiritual connections through prison walls. You can read about their doings here. And definitely check out this book that has come out of the group: The Petunias Are Doing Amazing: A Prison Journal and Plant Care Guide, by Shane Pema Tenzin Marcantel. All proceeds go to the author’s reentry fund.
The Slow Factory offers free and donoation-based online classes at the intersection of Climate & Culture, building anti-racist community and growing climate-positive global movements. Recent and forthcoming classes are on Fashion and Waste, History of Spiritual Activism, Material Literacy, and Cancel Culture, among many others.
Hollaback! (nonprofit fighting harrassment) offers free, one-hour trainings to give people tools on how to safely intervene when you see police-sponsored, anti-black harassment or violence. They also have bystander intervention trainings specifically geared towards addressing gender harrassment and anti-Asian violence.
FIRE CIDER Sunday, February 28, 2021 4 PM – 5:30 PM via Zoom
Come explore this age-old, versatile cold and flu remedy with herbalist AnnMarie Tedeschi. In this workshop, we will discuss how to make fire cider, a vinegar-based infusion of spicy roots, herbs and vegetables. We will talk about its many medicinal and culinary uses, its fascinating history and why the name Fire Cider can’t be trademarked.. We will also cover different seasonal herbs that can be included for added benefit and variety.
WHO:W.I.D.E is a local group of women promoting inclusivity, diversity and equity in our community through education, literature and the arts. Due to Covid, most of the funding is going to updating the local libraries and classrooms with modern literature that includes multicultural themes and minority voices.
WHAT:#DinnerforaDifference is an Italian style dinner created by local Chef Deanna D’Angelo (ChefDeanna.com) with food donations by Catskill Regional Harvest. Suggested donation is $25 per plate and features a Farm Fresh Salad, Home Made Manicotti and Meatballs, and Garlic bread.There is a vegetarian option without the meatballs. There will also be baked goods to buy at pick up to satisfy your sweet tooth, again, by donation.
While the suggested donation is $25/plate, any amount is happily accepted and dinners can also be sponsored. One can pay for a dinner and we will get it to a family in need.
WHEN:Order today for pick up on Wednesday, January 20th from 4-6PM
WHERE: Two convenient pickup locations in Delhi and Bovina.
This is a full (digital) course in holistic herbal community care offered as Mutual Aid (on a sliding scale donation basis) by CommonWealth Center for Holistic Herbalism. Get it at: Herbal Community Care Toolkit
The River Newsroom, which brings us the regular Coronavirus Roundup for our region, is hosting a roundtable: “Everything you always wanted to know about COVID but were afraid to ask”. November 19 at 4:30 pm. Register here.
On Sunday, October 11, 6–9 pm, OSMOS Station will host a live-performance event featuring Lindsay August-Salazar, Julian Fleisher, Glockabelle, Remy Holwick, Carter Mull, and other guests. OSMOS Station is located at 24 Railroad Avenue, in Standford, NY. For more info, email osmos.address@gmail.com or call 917.362.5415.
Announcing upcoming courses in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction:
My Name is Thimo Wittich. I am a Yoga, Mindfulness Meditation and MBSR Teacher (qualified through MBSR Teacher Education at the Mindfulness Center at Brown School of Public Health). Originally from Germany I recently moved with my wife and daughter from New York City to Andes where I am starting to teach MBSR Courses frequently beginning this Fall online and at Streamside Yoga.
Bright Hill poetry workshop publishes new collection of poems
An opera singer, a veterinarian, an organic gardener, an oncologist, a college teacher, a golf course owner, a biologist, and fourteen other brilliant, hard-working people: what do they have in common? Poetry, of course, and the love of words led them to gather in person, then virtually, and now between the covers of Seeing Things: An Anthology of Poetry. The volume includes poems by both well known and newly published authors David Bachner, Robert Bensen, Rana Bitar, Diane Bliss, Jesse Hilson, Liz Huntington, Lynne Kemen, Annie Kuhn, Karen Miritello, Cicada Musselman, M. W. Piercy, Bertha Rogers, Liz Rosenberg, Pam Strother, Julie Suarez, Lexington Swartwood, Mary van Valkenburg, Julene Waffle, Vicki Whicker, Teresa Winchester, and Lisa Wujnovich.
Wendy’s Subway has organized an ongoing abolition reading group — free on Zoom — which starts this Saturday, July 18. Register here. Readings for the first session are here.
“In this first Abolition Reading Group session, we envision an end to political policing and police violence with Alex S. Vitale and Philip V. McHarris. Join us for an introductory presentation and discussion by Vitale, followed by a moderated reading group conversation with McHarris.”
Racism in Rural NY Thursday, July 9. 7-9pm Streaming on Facebook Join us for a panel discussion about the expressions and impact of racism in rural communities in New York.
This will bring together leaders from four regions of the New York State Poor People’s Campaign (North Country, Central New York, Western Southern Tier, and Eastern Southern Tier) as well as Scipioville Presbyterian Church, Be You and MR Hess Home Works.
Micah Herskind from the Souther Center for Human Rights has put together this resource and reading list on prison and police abolition and the intersections of abolition movements with the coronavirus.
Verso Press is giving away the e-book of Alex Vitale’s THE END OF POLICING. “The problem is not police training, police diversity, or police methods. The problem is the dramatic and unprecedented expansion and intensity of policing in the last forty years, a fundamental shift in the role of police in society. The problem is policing itself.”
A living document intended for white people and anyone wanting to educate themselves about anti-racism, and with a section dedicated to resources for parents of young children.
From Critical Resistance, founded by Angela Y. Davis and others to combat and abolish the Prison Industrial Complex. Download the toolkit here.
“HIS TOOLKIT EMERGED OUT OF DISCUSSIONS THAT BEGAN IN BOSTON IN MARCH 2002. MEMBERS OF CRITICAL RESISTANCE (CR) AND PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS GATHERED FOR A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON ABOLITIONIST ORGANIZING STRATEGIES. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE AGREED WE NEEDED TO STRENGTHEN OUR WORK WAS A SET OF IDEAS, EXERCISES, AND RESOURCES TO SHARE WITH THE PEOPLE WE ORGANIZE WITH THAT WOULD EXPLAIN THE IDEA OF ABOLISHING THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX (PIC) AND WOULD HELP US TAKE CONCRETE STEPS TOWARD THAT GOAL.“
This e-book is being offered free by Haymarket Books. Download your copy here.
About the book:
“What is the reality of policing in the United States? Do the police keep anyone safe and secure other than the very wealthy? How do recent police killings of young black people in the United States fit into the historical and global context of anti-blackness?
This collection of reports and essays (the first collaboration between Truthout and Haymarket Books) explores police violence against black, brown, indigenous and other marginalized communities, miscarriages of justice, and failures of token accountability and reform measures. It also makes a compelling and provocative argument against calling the police.”
UDP, which has been a friend of Bushel and whose books have been on our shelves since the beginning, is offering some wonderful online writing workshops and readings. Here is their announcement: ———
We’re continuing our programming, events, and collaborations online and hope that you’ll virtually join us in the coming months! Read more about our seminars, free online reading and podcasts, and upcoming events below. (more…)
Today (May 5) at 5pmEST, a discussion hosted by Between the Lines, Verso, A Radical Guide, Melville House, and PM Press, with panelists including Bushel friend and “Signs of the Times” participant L.A. Kaufman. as well as Gary Kinsmen, Dr. OmiSoore H. Dryden, Peter Linebaugh and Timothy Faust.
“While many have pointed to the similarities between the 1918 flu and the COVID-19 pandemic, there are many examples of past health crises that radicals might reflect on when trying to make sense of the current crisis. Most recently, the activist response to the HIV-AIDS crisis offers lessons for how activists might respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dana’s Kids: Dana has been teaching in early childhood classrooms for 15 years, consulting in early childhood programs and supporting families.
Learn At Home: Early Childhood Instructional Resources: As children play, they’re learning about the world around them and practicing important skills. To support their play, early childhood programs typically arrange their spaces into learning areas or centers. Click for a list of no-tech activities and play suggestions organized around these same learning areas.
The Busy Toddler: Susie is an early childhood education advocate, former teacher, and mom of 3, bringing hands-on learning back to childhood. Follow her on Instagram @busytoddler for lots of ideas.
Legendary movement/dance studio Movement Research is hosting a multitude of online restorative practice and dance-related courses including Feldenkreis, Alexander Technique, Pilates, Qi Gong, Improvisation, and much more.
Chad McAvoy (running for NY State Assembly District 101) has been posting educational nature-themed videos for those stuck at home. More will be available to educators through NY Teachers Union (on microscopic pond life, insect ecology, regional agricultural history), but here is one to check out on fossil hunting. (more…)
Three wonderful writers who each have connections to Bushel are leading “Writing as Healing” workshops as part of Northeastern University’s Writing Workshop. The first of the weeklong workshops is led by Cat Tyc, and starts April 27, followed by workshops by Ed Steck (starting May 4) and Emmalea Russo (starting May 18). Workshops are free and open to the public, and writers of all levels are encouraged to register.
Watch Astra Taylor (director of What Is Democracy? and author of Democracy May Not Exist But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone) discuss her experience being home-schooled (or un-schooled) without a curriculum or schedule, and how it has shaped her educational philosophy and development as an artist. Hosted by the Walker Art Center (from 2009, recently re-shared by Taylor).
Current/recent “Against the Grain” episodes focus on the politics of pandemics; connections between environmental, health and social justice struggles; and possibilities for the future.
Poets House is hosting free online readings with contemporary poets Joy Harjo, Ed Roberson, Caroline Bergval, Major Jackson, and more. Readings are also archived on their website.
ModPo is a fast-paced introduction to modern and contemporary U.S. poetry, with an emphasis on experimental verse. Lots of content is online all the time (including teaching resources), and synchronous seminars start up in fall. College credit available. Watch an introductory video here. More info here.
The Climate Justice Alliance has a robust slate of webinars for activating movement-building amid the pandemic. There are also calls for action (petitions, campaigns, etc) on the site.
