Category: Happenings

Crandell Theatre Presents Area Premiere of Garden Fit

Crandell Theatre presents the area premiere of GardenFit, a new 13-episode public television series highlighting different garden styles and techniques, while providing advice and solutions for gardeners’ aches and pains. 

With the gardening season just around the corner, Crandell Theatre presents the area premiere of GardenFit, a new 13-episode public television series highlighting different garden styles and techniques, while providing advice and solutions for gardeners’ aches and pains. 

Columbia County residents, creators, and co-hosts of GardenFit, Expert Gardener Madeline Hooper and Fitness Trainer Jeff Hughes will introduce two 30-minutes episodes and conduct a Q&A.

In GardenFit, co-hosts Hooper and Hughes visit more than a dozen stunning private gardens and specialty farms across America, learning about each unique environment and its knowledgeable owner. Every show starts with a tour of the property, highlighting the distinctive gardening style while discussing insights, tips and techniques before discussing the owner’s physical aches and pains. “We’re not teaching people how to garden, “ says co-host Hooper, “We’re starting a GardenFit movement that integrates gardening with fitness techniques to prevent aches and pains.” Read more and view trailer here.

GardenFit is coordinated with the Crandell’s new annual membership program that maintains the $8 box office ticket price for Crandell members and hosts members’ events focused upon film throughout the year. Membership in the Crandell supports one of the few remaining big screen, not-for-profit community movie theaters in the United States and FilmColumbia as well as other film programs.

DATE/TIME: Sunday, March 27, 2022 / 1 – 3:30pm

TICKET PRICES: Free for Crandell Theatre Members
General Public: $10
Available here

LOCATION: The Crandell Theatre
48 Main Street
Chatham, NY 12037

MORE:
CrandellTheatre.org
FaceBook.com/CrandellTheatre

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Maple Weekends at Maple Leaf Sugaring

Join Maple Leaf Sugaring in Ghent, for Maple Weekend and learn how maple syrup is crafted!

Join Maple Leaf Sugaring in Ghent, for Maple Weekend and learn how maple syrup is crafted! During this family friendly event, you will take a short walking tour, see how sweet sap is made into high-quality syrup and enjoy complimentary samples of delicious products.

DATES/TIMES: March 19 – 20 and 26 -27, 2022 / 10am – 4pm

LOCATION: Maple Leaf Sugaring 
93 Dupier Road 
Ghent, NY 12075

MORE:
mapleleafsugaring.com
facebook.com/MapleLeafSugaring

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Columbia County Historical Society Lecture: ’19th Century Photography in Columbia County’

This Saturday, the Columbia County Historical Society presents their third lecture of the 2022 Winter-Spring Lecture Series –  19th Century Photography in Columbia County, a zoom discussion by David Sokosh & Lisa Weilbacker.

This Saturday, the Columbia County Historical Society presents their third lecture of the 2022 Winter-Spring Lecture Series –  19th Century Photography in Columbia County, a zoom discussion by David Sokosh & Lisa Weilbacker.

Join Lisa Weilbacker and David Sokosh as they examine early photographs from the CCHS collection, discuss their place in the history of photography and share information about the County residents shown in the pictures. Sokosh will also show examples of his newly-made images, created using 19th Century photo processes

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

David Sokosh

Artist David Sokosh is a photographer living and working in Claverack, NY. He creates photographs using the 19th Century processes of Cyanotype and Wet-Plate Collodion (tintype) and makes artist’s books using letterpress printing and Cyanotype.  His current project: “Things That Look Like the MOON (but are not the moon), consists of portfolio prints and a hand-made, limited edition, artist book printed entirely with cyanotype. Other projects include:  “Objectified in the Time of Covid” and “John Rogers in the 21st Century, Contemporary Issues Seen Through a 19th Century Lens”. In Clinton Hill, Brooklyn Sokosh was formerly director of the gallery, Underbridge Pictures, which specialized in painted and photographed images of architecture. While in Brooklyn Sokosh worked with a number of nonprofits including the Fort Greene Park Conservancy and Clinton Hill Society, and served on the boards of both groups.

Sokosh’s artistic work is included in the permanent collections of Polaroid Corporation; the Kinsey Institute; Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, FL; Shelburne Museum, VT; Pfizer; and others; his work is represented in Hudson by Carrie Haddad Gallery.

Lisa Weilbacker

Lisa Weilbacker is Curator of Collections and Historic Properties and Executive Director at Columbia County Historical Society. 

​The lecture will be followed by a question-and-answer conversation.

DATE/TIME: Saturday, March 19, 2022  / 4:30pm

ADMISSION: $10/$15
$10 for CCHS members
$15 for non-members

​NOTE: TICKETS ARE  STRICTLY ​LIMITED

Tickets: cchsny.org/winter-lectures-2022.html

LOCATION: Online via Zoom
ZOOM LINK will be emailed after Payment, on DAY of Lecture

MORE:
www.cchsny.org
facebook.com/cchsny
twitter.com/cchs_ny

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‘Belfast’ at the Crandell Theatre, Mar 11 & 13

Opening today at the Crandell Theatre Belfast.

Opening today at the Crandell Theatre Belfast.

BELFAST is a movie straight from Branagh’s own experience. A nine-year-old boy must chart a path towards adulthood through a world that has suddenly turned upside down. His stable and loving community and everything he thought he understood about life is changed forever but joy, laughter, music and the formative magic of the movies remain.

View the trailer at CrandellTheatre.org

  • Rating:PG-13 (Strong Language|Some Violence)
  • Genre:Drama
  • Director: Kenneth Branagh
  • Writer: Kenneth Branagh
  • Box Office (Gross USA): $8.7M
  • Runtime: 1h 37m

DATES/TIMES:
Friday, March 11, 2022 / 4pm
Sunday, March 13, 2022 / 4pm

TICKET PRICES: $7 – $9
Chatham Film Club Members: $8
Non Members $11
Children (12 and under) $7

LOCATION: The Crandell Theatre
48 Main Street
Chatham, NY 12037

MORE:
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FaceBook.com/CrandellTheatre

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Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association Star Party, Mar 12

The Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association is throwing a star-gazing party at Lake Taghkanic State Park, on Friday, March 12th.

The Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association is throwing a star-gazing party at Lake Taghkanic State Park, on Friday, March 12th.

Enjoy the night sky away from the bright lights of the towns and cities in our area! The night will be dark – perfect for star gazing. Bring your own telescopes and binoculars or use those provided by our members. A telescope is not required.

Telescope operators arrive about 30 minutes early to set up. Observing begins about an hour after sunset and will probably end around 11, or whenever club members decide. All will take place at the park’s West Beach parking lot.

ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST WEAR MASKS AND MAINTAIN 6 FEET OF DISTANCE FROM OTHERS. The number of people will be limited to 50 in one group. The lot where we meet is large enough for two groups if needed.

You must RSVP with your car’s make, model, and license plate number at least one day beforehand. This info is required by and sent to Park management, the State Police, and the State Park Police because we are there after park hours. If you attend without being on the list and the police show up, the consequences can include revocation of our permit for after hours use.

Please review our guide to star party etiquette if you have not been to one of our star parties before: https://files.meetup.com/2674222/MHAA%20Star%20Party%20Etiquette%20Guide.pdf

You can see the Clear Sky Chart for Lake Taghkanic State Park at the address below. It will show various viewing conditions (cloud cover, transparency, darkness) as well as temperature, wind, etc.
http://www.cleardarksky.com/c/LkTagNYkey.html

Note: Winter and late Fall viewing conditions can be very clear – but also very cold. As you’ll be standing around looking at the stars for a while you may feel even colder than otherwise when outdoors. Dress warmly and consider bringing extra layers in case you get colder as the night goes on.

DATE/TIME: Friday, March 12, 2022 / 6:30pm

ADMISSION: Free
RSVP is required at least one day beforehand. You will be asked to provide your license plate number and make/model car, so Park Management and Police have a record of who will be in park after hours.
Visit https://www.meetup.com/mhastro/events/275468188/ to register

LOCATION: Lake Taghkanic State Park
1528 Route 82
Ancram, 12502

MORE:
www.meetup.com/mhastro/
parks.ny.gov/parks

Call or text Tim Denman at 845-245-5483, for more information.

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