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Support Art Omi with Sumptuous Picnics in the Park

Art Omi presents a new, timely opportunity to show your support by indulging with a sumptuous Picnic in the Park.

Art Omi presents a new, timely opportunity to show your support by indulging with a sumptuous Picnic in the Park. You’re invited to bask in the crisp autumn air with the glorious backdrop of the Sculpture & Architecture Park while enjoying a lavish picnic spread that brings together some of the area’s foremost purveyors of food and beverage.

Order before midnight on Tuesday for pick-up on Thursday through Sunday. When you arrive, you will receive a sturdy Art Omi tote bag at the Benenson Center that contains an array of local delights for you and a companion to enjoy during a leisurely alfresco repast!

Picnics include provisions from: Bimi’s Cheese Shop, Bartlett House, Love Apple Farm, Samascott Orchards, and Talbott & Arding. Picnic in the Park attendees also receive a one-time discount at beverage partner Hudson Wine Merchants.

DATES/TIMES: Thursdays – Sundays, September 25 – October 18, 2020
Picnics may be picked up between 11 – 2 Thursdays through Sundays.
No Picnics in the Park on October 3.

TICKETS: $200 for two people
Picnics in the Park provide Art Omi with critical support during these extraordinary times.

To register, visit artomi.org/support/picnics-in-the-park#register.

LOCATION: Omi International Arts Center
Sculpture Park
1405 County Route 22
Ghent, NY 12075

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ArtOmi.org.
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instagram.com/art_omi

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Spencertown Academy: Steve Charney Virtual Reading Program

Spencertown Academy Arts Center presents children’s entertainer, magician, composer, and ventriloquist Steve Charney as part of its virtual Family Arts Kaleidoscope series.

Spencertown Academy Arts Center presents children’s entertainer, magician, composer, and ventriloquist Steve Charney as part of its virtual Family Arts Kaleidoscope series. Beginning on Thursday, October 1 at 10:00am and available online anytime through Sunday, October 18, “It’s All About Reading” highlights the serious and not-so-serious joys of books and reading and includes Charney’s famous puppet pal, Harry.

“We’re delighted that Steve recorded this program specially for the Academy,” says Kelly Kynion, chair of the Family Arts Kaleidoscope Committee. “And to encourage even more reading, 10 participants will be selected at random to receive a copy of Steve’s book, Hokus Jokus: How to do Funny Magic.”

Steve Charney’s comedy act of magic, music, and ventriloquism has taken him from Africa to California, and his radio program “Knock On Wood” aired on various stations around the country for more than 25 years, including WAMC. He wrote dozens of songs for Jim Henson’s “Bear in the Big Blue House” for the Disney Channel, and his books on comedy and magic have been published by Crown, Troll, Metacom, Meadowbrook Press, Scholastic, and Sterling (a division of Barnes and Noble).

The program is sponsored by Spencertown Academy, with generous support from Hudson River Bank and Trust Foundation and Stewart’s Shops.

The Family Arts Kaleidoscope virtual series continues on Saturday, October 24 at 10:00am live on Zoom with Greg and Elena Mosley presenting “Style and Rhythms of West African Drumming” (for adults and children age 10 and up).

Family Arts Kaleidoscope is made possible with support from Hudson River Bank and Trust Foundation and Stewart’s Shops.

DATES/TIME: Thursday, October 1, 2020 / 10am
Available online anytime through Sunday, October 18

ADMISSION/REGISTRATION: Free and appropriate for all ages
Advance registration is required at SpencertownAcademy.org. Participants will be emailed a link to view the recorded program.

MORE:
SpencertownAcademy.org
facebook.com/SpencertownAcademy
Phone: (518) 392-3693

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New Lebanon Library’s Crafteens: Kawaii Food

The New Lebanon Library has a home-based, crafting workshop for teens, called Crafteens. This week’s project is making Kawaii Food.

Here’s the info from the library:

Why should the kids have all the fun? For young adults ages 12 and up, we’ll be providing you with updated craft kits and more creatively challenging projects for you to work on. This month we are making: kawaii food! Grab your kits and send us pics of what you make!

Kits will be ready for pickup on Wednesday, September 23rd. A tutorial (to give you some guidelines) will be posted on the blog Thursday at 4PM. Let’s get creative!

MORE:
NewLebanonLibrary.org
Facebook.com/NewLebanonLibraryNY
twitter: @NewLebanonLib
518-794-8844
leb@taconic.net

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Scenic Sunday

If you have a Columbia County photo that you’d like to submit for Scenic Sunday, email it to columbiacountycurrent@gmail.com

This week, a panoramic rainbow in Ancramdale.

Thank you Woody for this awesome photo.

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WGXC’s Homeschool Radio Intensive Workshop for Teens

Columbia and Greene Counties’ local radio station, WGXC, is hosting a free, homeschool intensive to teach kids how to produce a radio show.

Artist, teacher, and Wave Farm Fellow Jess Speer will lead this homeschool intensive over the course of two weeks in the fall of 2020. Working both in a large group and in smaller teams, participants will produce a radio project of collective choosing. Participants will have the opportunity to create poetry, sound art, or radio dramas, conduct research and interviews, produce audio in many formats, experiment with form and sound, and get weird, go deep, and listen deeply. The emphasis will be on process and experience rather than a “perfect” final product.

Interested in joining? Contact info@wavefarm.org. The workshop schedule will be designed to best accommodate the schedule of all interested participants.

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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.