Category: Arts & Entertainment

Mary Anne Davis’ Women and Power Show & Reception at Chatham Bookstore

Ceramic artist Mary Anne Davis displays her work inspired by the book, “Women and Power, A Manifesto,” by Mary Beard.

“The Women and Power series was sparked by a sense of enthusiasm for a group of women Davis represented in decorated porcelain. Each of the women articulated in these whimsical representations held a certain kind of power. Many were trailblazers, such as Katherine Graham, Brooke Astor, and Dorothy Draper. They were originally exhibited as a group at the Smithsonian Craft show in Washington DC in 2002-03 and at the Mark MacDonald Gallery in Hudson in 2005.

In an artist’s statement, Davis notes that “this newly reinvigorated women’s movement has elicited their return to public life…. To continue to build the recognition of female influence in the realms of fashion, design, politics, literature, philosophy, and power,” she has added several new pieces to the collection.”

DATE/TIME:
Reception with the artist – Friday, February 23, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
The show runs until April 6th

LOCATION:
The Chatham Bookstore
27 Main Street in the Village of Chatham.

MORE:
ChathamBookStore.com
facebook.com/thechathambookstore

 

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The WGXC Silent Pledge Drive is On

The WGXC Radio Magic Pledge Drive to raise $15,000 toward the station’s operating expenses begins February 14. But to get things going, WGXC has once again added a silent drive, a campaign conducted largely online and through social media, from February 7 through February 13. Contributions gathered during the silent drive will be applied to the Radio Magic Pledge Drive total.

WGXC radio, 90.7-FM, is a community radio station based in New York’s Columbia and Greene counties. It’s part of Wave Farm, which is a non-profit arts organization driven by experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves.

 

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The Tenth Magazine Celebrates Hudson Valley Issue w/ Exhibition at Hudson Hall

Hudson Hall opens the 2018 season with an exhibition curated by the Hudson-based creative team behind ‘The Tenth’, a biannual publication documenting the history, culture, ideas and aesthetics of the black LGBTQ community. The exhibition, The BlkQueer Romantics, celebrates the launch of The Tenth’s fifth volume, and is an exhibition highlighting the artists who have contributed to The Tenth‘s fifth edition. This edition is a homage to the natural landscape and the architectural structures of the Hudson River Valley – from Hudson’s Dr. Oliver Bronson House and a quaint guest house in the Catskills to The Vanderbilt Mansion at Hyde Park, places where many African American artists and entertainers escaped at the turn of the 19th-century.

Taking its name from a W.E.B DuBois essay titled “The Talented Tenth”, The Tenth champions black LGTBQ voices via photographic essays, in-depth interviews, prose, and events. Since the magazine’s first edition was released in 2015, it has received widespread acclaim for its presentation of counter narratives of black gay and bisexual lives, and for its ability to push boundaries and offer stunning visual imagery of and by black LGBTQ artists. The Tenth has curated launch events, exhibitions and symposium with notable partners such as MoMA PS1, the Ace Hotel, and the Provincetown Film Festival, where they partnered with HBO® to present UNTAGGED, a photography exhibition that explored the relationship between perceived and projected identity and to celebrate the premiere of HBO’s new documentary, Suited.

DATES/TIMES:
The exhibition opens in Hudson Hall’s Center Hall Gallery with a party on Saturday, February 10th from 5-7pm. The exhibition is on view until March 18.

LOCATION:
Hudson Hall
at the historic Hudson Opera House
327 Warren Street
Hudson, NY 12534

CONTACT:
www.hudsonhall.org
(518) 822-1438

 

 

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Ghent Playhouse: Clever Little Lies

The 2018 season is already underway at The Ghent Playhouse with Clever Little Lies opening next week.

The 2018 season is already underway at The Ghent Playhouse with Clever Little Lies opening next week.

A mother always knows when something is wrong, and this mother is determined to dig deep for the truth, when her husband returns home, a bit on edge, from a tennis match with his son. Hell-bent on getting to the bottom of things – Determined to get to the bottom of things, she invites her son and daughter-in-law for drinks and dessert, causing uproarious chaos. A shattering and hilarious play about long-term love and marriage… for better… and for worse!

Written by Joe DiPietro
Directed by Cathy Lee-Visscher

DATES/TIMES:
January 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28, February 2, 3, 4, 2018
Friday and Saturday performances begin at 8pm. Sunday matinees at 2pm.

TICKETS:
General $22.00
Members of The Ghent Playhouse $17.00
Student $10.00

Click Here to purchase tickets online or, visit GhentPlayhouse.org.

LOCATION:
The Ghent Playhouse
6 Town Hall Place
Ghent, NY 12075

MORE:
GhentPlayhouse.org.
facebook.com/TheGhentPlayhouse/
instagram.com/theghentplayhouse

 

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Art OMI Exhibit Opening – OnSite: Yolande Daniels

OMI International Arts Center continues it’s OnSite series from Art Omi: Architecture with Yolande Daniels.

The exhibition will feature a steel panel from a 2010 installation of an outdoor pavilion of folded waterjet cut sheet steel and cast concrete hemisphere seating for the Evergreen Museum at Johns Hopkins University. The project responds to the decorative exuberance of a demolished tearoom on the grounds of the former mansion and references tea fantasies from the tranquility of the Japanese tea ceremony to the psychedelia of Alice in Wonderland’s tea party.

– artomi.org

DATE/TIME:
Opening Reception – Saturday, Jan 6, 2018, 1 – 3pm

LOCATION:
Benenson Visitors Center + Gallery at OMI
1405 County Rt. 22,
Ghent NY

ADMISSION:
The opening reception with the architect is free and open to the public.

MORE:
Visit ArtOmi.org.
FaceBook/Art-Omi

 

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