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Now Streaming at The Crandell: 2021 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Live Action

Over the next few weeks, the Crandell Theatre is streaming the Short Films nominated for the 2021 Oscar category, Short Films: Live Action.

The Present – Farah Nabulsi (Palestine)
Feeling Through – Doug Roland and Susan Ruzenski (USA)
Two Distant Strangers – Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe (USA)
White Eye – Tomer Shushan and Shira Hochman (Israel)
The Letter Room – Elvira Lind and Sofia Sondervan (USA)

“What Neil Gaiman has written about short stories is certainly true of short narrative films, and here are five live-action films that are ‘tiny windows into other worlds, and other minds, and other dreams. They’re journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.’ These short films, three from the US, one from Israel, and one from Palestine, are each nominated for an Oscar and each will transport its viewers efficiently, dramatically, and powerfully into the lives of strangers, neighbors, and even family.” – Laurence Kardish, FilmColumbia co-artistic director and former senior film curator at MoMA

For more info and assistance on streaming movie from The Crandall, including how to cast from a device to a TV, visit https://crandelltheatre.org/virtual-streaming-assistance/

DATE: Friday, April 2 — Friday, April 23, 2021

TICKETS: $12 per film
Bundle also available

AVAILABLE: Streaming Online via Virtual Screening Room

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Virtual Listening Party: Teach Us, a Listening Party and Community Conversation about Education, Community, Care, and Covid

Join Oral History Summer School and the Hudson Area Library for a virtual interactive listening party with conversation celebrating educators as they respond to their extraordinary experiences of teaching in the age of Covid-19.

The evening begins with audio excerpts from the Education Narratives Project, an oral history project initiated by Oral History Summer School in June 2020. Over the last nine months, educators have been interviewed by ENP interviewers every two-three months, covering subjects including but not limited to: remote learning, illness, progressive education, trauma, disability rights, Black Lives Matter, vaccines, and the future of education.

The evening honors these educators and brings to the forefront crucial issues in education today. How does this unique educational history shine a light on larger questions about the roles and rights of children and educators in our society, the difference between education and childcare and ameliorative uses of technology? What has been destroyed and what do we wish to create in its place?

This event was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services Accelerating Promising Practice for Small Libraries grant.

DATE/TIME: Thursday, April 8, 2021 / 7 – 8:30pm

LOCATION/REGISTRATION: Online via Zoom
For Zoom registration link contact Brenda Shufelt at 518-828-1792 x106 or brenda.shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org.

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Olana’s Fallen: Hemlock Walking Tour, Apr 3

Get up close and personal with hemlocks throughout Olana’s artist-designed landscape.

Get up close and personal with hemlocks throughout Olana’s artist-designed landscape. Rebecca Pinder Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia-Greene Community College, will guide participants in identifying these important trees and learning more about the current challenges facing hemlocks today. As part of this hour-long walking tour, participants will be invited to locate hemlocks throughout Olana’s 250 acres and take part in an immersive tree mapping project by the artist Jean Shin.

This program is offered in conjunction with Fallen, Shin’s site-specific work at Olana on view from May 1-October 31, 2021. To learn more about Fallen, please visit https://www.olana.org/exhibitions/fallen/.

DATE/TIME: Saturday, April 3, 2021 / 1:30-2:30pm

LOCATION: Olana
5720 New York 9G
Hudson, NY 12534

ADMISSION: $15 person/ $10 members
Advanced registration required. For more information, please contact education@olana.org or call (518) 751-6938.

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New Lebanon Library Crafternoon Kids: “Hanging with my Peeps” Garland

To get in the spirit of Spring, the New Lebanon Library presents Crafternoon Kids: “Hanging with my Peeps” Garland craft project.

To get in the spirit of Spring, the New Lebanon Library presents Crafternoon Kids: “Hanging with my Peeps” Garland craft project. This fun craft is a peeps inspired garland. Make as is or jazz it up to suit your decor.

Kits will be ready for pickup on Wednesday, March 31st. The tutorial will be out on the blog this Thursday, April 1st

*Craft kits can be picked up curbside. Call the library and it will be outside waiting for you!*

LOCATION: (Pick up kits) New Lebanon Library

550 State Rte 20
New Lebanon, NY 12125

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518-794-8844
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