Arts & Entertainment

Hudson Valley Dance Festival in Catskill, Oct 12

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Hudson Valley Dance Festival will bring an all-embracing range of dance styles to the breathtaking banks of the Hudson River when it returns Saturday, October 12. Set amid the stunning foliage on the Hudson River, the sixth annual edition of the festival will again take place inside the transformed 125-year-old wooden warehouse at Historic Catskill Point.

The money raised at Hudson Valley Dance Festival helps provide grants to AIDS and family service organizations across the country, including 12 based in the Hudson Valley.

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Over the event’s six years, Hudson Valley Dance Festival has raised $764,724. The money helps Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS provide grants to AIDS and family service organizations nationwide, including 13 based in the Hudson Valley: Albany Damien Center and Alliance for Positive Health in Albany, Animalkind, Columbia-Greene Community Foundation and Hudson Valley SPCA in Hudson, Matthew 25 Food Pantry and Community Hospice in Catskill, Hudson Valley Community Services in Hawthorne, Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center in Kingston, Rock Steady Farm in Millerton, Roe Jan Food Pantry in Hillsdale, TOUCH (Together Our Unity Can Heal) in Congers and Troy Area United Ministries in Troy.

DATE/TIME:
Saturday, October 12, 2019 / 2pm and 5pm

Festival Schedule

1 pm – Will call opens
1:30 pm – House opens
2 pm – Performance begins
3 pm – Will call opens
3:30 pm – Cocktail reception (included w/ $125 tickets and above)
4:30 pm – House opens
5 pm – Performance begins
6:30 pm – VIP reception at W&G Space, 57 Hill Street (included w/ VIP tickets & above)

The running time for the show is approximately 75 minutes with no intermission.

UPDATE! The 5pm show is sold out, however, there are still tickets available for the 2pm

LOCATION:
Historic Catskill Point
1 Main Street
Catskill, NY 12414

TICKETS:

$25,000 – Presenting Sponsor Contact Knox Martin for more information 212.840.0770 ext 267
• 10 VIP tickets to performance
• Cocktail reception at Historic Catskill Point
• Dinner with the dancers
• Onstage recognition
• Full-page, back cover ad and inclusion on title page in program
• Matted & framed poster signed by artists
• Tax-deductible donation: $24,500

$10,000 – Champion  Contact Knox Martin for more information 212.840.0770 ext 267
• 8 VIP tickets to performance
• Cocktail reception at Historic Catskill Point
• Dinner with the dancers
• Program credit in perpetuity with sponsored new dance
• Onstage recognition
• Premium placement full-page color ad in program
• Matted & framed poster signed by artists
• Exclusive opportunity to attend rehearsal
• Tax-deductible donation: $9,600

$5,000 – Underwriter
• 6 VIP tickets to performance
• Cocktail reception at Historic Catskill Point
• Dinner with the dancers
• Program credit with sponsored dance
• Full-page color ad in program
• Exclusive opportunity to attend rehearsal
• Tax-deductible donation: $4,700

$2,500 – Benefactor
• 4 VIP tickets to performance
• Cocktail reception at Historic Catskill Point
• Dinner with the dancers
• Half page color ad in program
• Tax-deductible donation: $2,300

$1,000 – Contributor
• 2 VIP tickets to performance
• Cocktail reception at Historic Catskill Point
• Dinner with the dancers
• Tax-deductible donation: $900

$275 – VIP
• 1 VIP ticket to performance
• Cocktail reception at Historic Catskill Point
• Dinner with the dancers
• Tax-deductible donation: $225

All leadership supporters receive recognition by category in the festival program and are listed on printed materials at the event and on dradance.org. Ticket packages and sponsorships can also be customized based on your needs.

Individual Ticket Levels

$ 275 – Day Trip Package
• Round-trip luxury bus transportation from midtown Manhattan
• Tour of Olana State Historic Site
• Champagne Lunch
• 1 VIP ticket to performance
• Cocktail reception at Historic Catskill Point
• Tax-deductible donation: $165

$125 – Orchestra Ticket
• 1 orchestra ticket to the performance
• Cocktail reception at Historic Catskill Point
• Tax-deductible donation: $85

$40 – Rear Orchestra Ticket
• 1 rear orchestra ticket to the performance

To purchase, visit https://tickets.broadwaycares.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ticket.start&eventID=611

MORE:
dradance.org
facebook.com/DRAdance
instagram.com/dradance

 

 

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Columbia County Living, Happenings

Chatham OctoberFeast 2019 is October 5!

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Chatham OctoberFeast is an annual village-wide celebration of fall and the harvest. On Saturday, October 5, this family friendly event will feature great local food, beer, bands and plenty of kids activities.

Enjoy all your favorite fall foods from local restaurants, as well as outside food vendors and food trucks. There will be live entertainment, plenty of free activities, a community harvest table, and much more. Main Street will be closed to traffic and picnic tables will be set up. There will be two stages of entertainment, and WDST will be doing a live broadcast.

Here’s the line-up and vendor list:

Chatham Brewing Stage/Parking Lot

Noon-1:00pm Brasskill Visit the website
1:30-3:30pm The Purple Stuff Visit the website
2:00pm Keg Tap
4:00-6:00pm Eli’s Gin Visit the website
3:00pm Stein Hoist
7:00pm-10:00pm Side Show Willie Visit the website

10 Main Street Stage

3:00-4:30pm Rock Academy – Woodstock Visit the website
4:30-6:00pm Roger Mason and friends

Kids Activities at the Gazebo

11:00am-6:00pm Chatham MED PTA- Kids Crafts, selling hot chocolate, ice tea, Mac n cheese, chili, some baked goods and a candy apple buffet where you can purchase an apple and use toppings to create your own candy apple.
1:00-4:00pm Face Painting by Stellar Body and Art Visit the website
1:00-4:00pm Giant Slide

Chatham’s Plaid Picnic

This community harvest table and alfresco dining experience kick off at 1:00pm to prepare for a 2:00pm seating. Download the PDF for full details.

Please bring the following:


  • Your own picnic table setting
  • A dish to share
  • Wear something plaid

Tables and chairs will be provided but everything else is BYO.

 

Participating Local Restaurants

Bimi’s Cheese Shop Giant games and an expanded eating area in front of the store 21 Main Street
Blue Plate Oktoberfest specials for dinner. Beer bratwurst and other favorites. 1 Kinderhook Street
Chatham Brewing Wunderburger will be offering a pig roast, with Spetzel and red cabbage slaw in front the restaurant 59 Main Street
Kouri’s new restaurant preview 17-19 Main Street
Main St. Goodness/PieconicNY Whole pies, pies by the slice, and hand pies. Now taking Thanksgiving orders. 20 Main Street
Scoop518 Selling ice cream 41 Main Street
The People’s Pub The People’s Lunch” at noon. Offering $5 German beers on tap along with Angus and Gray  Barbecuing brats outside. All drafts, cocktails and wine inside will be available to go. 36 Main Street
Toast Café 41 Main Street

Food Vendors

Chuck Wagon Visit the website
Desserts by Design Visit the website
Hudson Valley Pretzel Company Visit the website
Just Dogs
Pixie Floss
Wunderbar and Bistro Visit the website
Yummy Kitchen Visit the website

Vendors

CABA T-shirts & wooden nickels
Campside Chef Visit the website
Olde York Farm Distillery and Cooperage Visit the website
Righteous Rags Visit the website
WellNow Urgent Care Visit the website
Yankee Distillers Visit the website

Farmer’s Market

Alima’s West African Cuisine
Hand Hollow Maple Syrup
Hawks Roost Farm Visit the website

MORE:
visitchathamny.com/chatham-octoberfeast
facebook.com/VisitChathamNY
instagram.com/visitchathamny

 

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Home, Garden, Design, Shop

Master Gardener Fall Plant Sale, Oct 5

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The Cornell Cooperative Extension of Columbia and Greene Counties is the organizer of a Fall Plant Sale, Workshop and Garden Advice event happening on Saturday, October 5.

Locally-grown perennials will be available for sale. Due to the invasive jumping worm occurrences reported in both counties and the lack of a proven, researched-based solution to the problem, this event will be strictly plant sales as opposed to swaps conducted in prior years. Master Gardener Volunteers will be using best practices to provide both annual and perennials grown from seed in sterile soils to prevent further broadcast of worm cocoons into our soils.

Master Gardeners will be available to answer gardening questions and preform pH tests on garden soil samples. The cost is $2.00 for first sample and $1.00 for each additional sample.

A hands on workshop about Putting the Garden to Bed will be held at 10:30 am and Winterizing Your Garden Tools will be held at 11:00 am.

DATE/TIME:
Saturday, October 5, 2019 / 9am – 12pm

LOCATION:
Cornell Cooperative Extension Columbia & Greene Counties
Extension Education Center
479 NY-66
Hudson, NY 12534

MORE:
ccecolumbiagreene.org
facebook.com/CCEColumbiaGreene
instagram.com/ccecgc

 

 

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Movies

James Franco’s ‘The Pretenders’ to Premiere at the Palace Theatre in Albany, Oct 5

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The Palace Theatre along with Film Albany is excited to roll out the red carpet for the Capital Region premiere of James Franco’s THE PRETENDERS on Saturday, October 5.  Filming for THE PRETENDERS took place in 2016 throughout Albany and the Capital Region including the Palace Theatre.

Directed by James Franco, the drama, written by Will Patterson and Jesse Woods – stars Jack Kilmer (The Nice Guys), Jane Levy (Don’t Breathe), Shameik Moore (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse), Tyler Alvarez (American Vandal), Brian Cox (X2: X-Men United), Dennis Quaid (The Day After Tomorrow), Juno Temple (Maleficent) and James Franco.

Life imitates deadly art as French New Wave obsessed film student Terry (Jack Kilmer) and his best friend, the smooth talking Phil (Shameik Moore) are both seduced by mysterious actress Catherine (Jane Levy). The longer they know each other, the more they realize they don’t truly know the real Catherine. After years of sex, betrayal, and collateral damage, the three careen into a lifestyle that leaves one of them fighting for their life.

DATE/TIME:
Saturday, October 5, 2019 /  7pm (movie begins) doors open at 6pm.

TICKETS:
$10
Tickets can be purchased in person at the Palace Theatre Box Office, online at palacealbany.org or by phone at 518-465-4663.

LOCATION:
Palace Theatre
19 Clinton Ave, Albany, NY 12207

MORE:
palacealbany.org
facebook.com/PalaceAlbany
instagram.com/palacealbany

 

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Columbia County Living, Happenings

Columbia Land Conservancy’s Sip & Stroll Series: Bats and Brews at Harris Conservation Area, Oct 3

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The Columbia Land Conservancy continues their Sip and Stroll Series with ‘Bats and Brews’ at Harris Conservation Area on Thursday, October 3.

Enjoy a beer and a casual, guided walk around Harris Conservation Area. The Harris property includes 1.9 miles of trails on 76 acres of land. There are a number of different ledges on the property, creating excellent bat habitat.

DATE/TIME:
Thursday, October 3, 2019 / 5:30pm – 7pm

LOCATION:
Harris Conservation Area
105 Bloody Hollow Road
Austerlitz, NY 12037

COST/REGISTRATION:
Free!
Registration is required so that the CLC can be in touch in the event of a cancellation. Visit https://clctrust.org to register.

MORE:
http://clctrust.org
facebook.com/ColumbiaLandConservancy
Columbia Land Conservancy Inc.
49 Main Street Chatham, NY
info@clctrust.org
518.392.5252

 

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