Hudson Area Library Author Event: Rick Winston “The Hollywood Blacklist”

The Hudson Area Library presents “The Hollywood Blacklist” a talk by Rick Winston, author of the recently published Red Scare in the Green Mountains: Vermont in the McCarthy Era 1946-1960.

The Hudson Area Library presents “The Hollywood Blacklist” a talk by Rick Winston, author of the recently published Red Scare in the Green Mountains: Vermont in the McCarthy Era 1946-1960.

In the late 1940s through the early 1960s, many screenwriters, directors, and actors were victims of what became known as the “Red Scare.” They were rendered unemployable due to their refusal to testify before Congressional committees, or refusal to inform on their friends and colleagues. This talk explores the origins of the blacklist in the formation of the Screen Writers’ Guild in 1933, Hollywood’s labor unrest in the 1930s and 40s, how the blacklist worked, and what led to its ultimate end. Controversial personalities of the time (studio boss Louis B. Mayer, writer Dalton Trumbo, and director Elia Kazan, among others) are discussed and clips from films that were affected by the fear that consumed Hollywood, including High Noon, On the Waterfront, and Salt of the Earth will be shown.

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Mr. Winston will show that Elia Kazan used On the Waterfront (here with Marlon Brando) to justify his actions as an informer

 

Copies of Mr. Winston’s book, Red Scare in the Green Mountains, will be for sale, courtesy of Spotty Dog Books & Ale, with a portion of the proceeds going to the library and the author will be available to sign books. Refreshments will also follow the talk.

A native of Yonkers, New York, Rick Winston graduated from University of California,
Berkeley and shortly afterward moved to Calais, Vermont. He owned and managed the Savoy Theater, Vermont’s premier art cinema, from its founding in 1981 until 2009 and was Programming Director of Montpelier’s Green Mountain Film Festival from 1999 to 2012. During the past few years, he has been lecturing and teaching on a wide variety of film topics, in addition to completing his book, Red Scare in the Green Mountains.

DATE/TIME:
Thursday, September 27, 2018: 6pm to 7:30pm

LOCATION:
Hudson Area Library
Community Room, (wheelchair accessible)
51 N. 5th St. (at State St.)
Hudson, NY 12534

ADMISSION:
Free and open to the public.

MORE:
HudsonAreaLibrary.org
email: programs@hudsonarealibrary.org
Tel: 518-828-1792 x101, or visit the main desk in the library

 

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Pamela Badila’s “Folktales & Stories” at Hudson Area Library

The Hudson Area Library presents “Folktales & Stories for Children & Families” with Pamela Badila Sundays, beginning September 9. Mrs. Badila just completed directing and performing at “The Badila Family: A Celebration of Community and Culture,” a successful summer weekend at Hudson Hall.

The Hudson Area Library presents “Folktales & Stories for Children & Families” with Pamela Badila. Mrs. Badila just completed directing and performing at “The Badila Family: A Celebration of Community and Culture,” a successful summer weekend at Hudson Hall. This artistic and cultural celebration included Mrs. Badila’s production of “Spirit of the River” based on a West African folktale.

“This library program will focus on tales throughout the world with a mix of reading many beautiful children’s folktale stories, telling folktales to represent the oral tradition they began in, and performing and doing crafts with the children based on what we’ve read and heard.” stated Mrs. Badila. This special story hour will give families the opportunity to explore stories, told through generations, that formed the traditions and ethics of particular cultures.
Pamela is best known as the matriarch of the Badila clan and co-founder, with her late husband Elombe, of the Diata Diata International Folkloric Theatre. This community theatre company is known for their percussion ensemble, featured annually at the Hudson Winter Walk event and many others in the Northeast. Pamela writes and produces for Diata Diata, and for many years has brought people together through the power of stories.

Info from Hudson Area Library / PHOTO CREDIT: JD Urban

DATE/TIME:
Sundays, beginning September 9, 2018: 2 – 3pm

LOCATION:
Hudson Area Library
Community Room, which is wheelchair accessible.
51 N. 5th St. (at State St.)
Hudson, NY 12534

ADMISSION:
“Folktales & Stories” is geared towards children ages 6-11 however children of all ages are welcome.
Free and open to the public.

MORE:
HudsonAreaLibrary.org
email: programs@hudsonarealibrary.org
Tel: 518-828-1792 x101, or visit the main desk in the library

 

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Wish You Were Here: A Look Back at Life in Hudson Through Vintage Postcards at Hudson Area Library

The Hudson Area Library presents Wish You Were Here: A Look Back at Life in Hudson Through Vintage Postcards. 


The Hudson Area Library presents Wish You Were Here: A Look Back at Life in Hudson Through Vintage Postcards. This marks the library’s first ever History Room collection exhibit, and is curated by David Murphy of Hudson, former president of the library’s Board of Trustees and a member of its History Room Committee.

What did people do to connect with each other before telephones, internet, and instant messaging? Many sent postcards, even if it was to a friend or relative just a few miles away. Wish You Were Here examines and celebrates that era.

The Hudson Area Library History Room has collected an extensive set of postcards from this river city, most from the early 1900s, that tell charming personal stories about life here 100 years ago. The collection illuminates how essential this widely used method of communications was for travelers, family and friends in and around Hudson. It includes many street scenes of Hudson, prominent buildings such as the county courthouse, and parks such as Promenade Hill.

There will an opening reception on Thursday, September 6, which includes a presentation on the collection, hosted by Gary Sheffer, a native of Hudson. This will be followed by a wine and cheese gathering. The library will also have note cards and t-shirts for sale with an image of an iconic historic Hudson postcard.

DATE/TIME:
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 6, 2018: 6 – 8pm
Exhibition: September 6 – October 31, 2018

LOCATION:
Hudson Area Library
51 N. 5th St. (at State St.)
Hudson, NY 12534

ADMISSION:
Free and open to the public

MORE:
For more information email programs@hudsonarealibrary.org, call 518.828.1792 x101, or visit the main desk in the library.
HudsonAreaLibrary.org
Tel: 518-828-1792

 

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Living Poetry at the Library: Divya Victor/Cat Tyc at Hudson Area Library, Jul 31

The Hudson Area Library presents “Living Poetry at the Library: Divya Victor/Cat Tyc”
next Tuesday at 7 pm.


The Hudson Area Library presents “Living Poetry at the Library: Divya Victor/Cat Tyc”
next Tuesday at 7 pm. This ​event represents an ongoing collaboration between Fence, a
​locally produced, ​nationally renowned literary ​press, and the Home ​School, an annual poetry conference that takes place ​in Hudson ​every summer and which brings more than 60 poets to meet, study, read, and write. ​This collaboration puts visiting poets and the Home School community in touch with our local community of readers and writers.​

Divya Victor is the author of Kith (Fence, 2017); Natural Subjects (Trembling Pillow Press, 2015), winner of the Bob Kaufman Award; Things To Do With Your Mouth (Les Figues, 2014); Partial Derivative of the Unnameable (Troll Thread, 2005); and Goodbye John! On John Baldessari (2012); and the chapbooks UNSUB (2014), Hellocasts by Charles Reznikoff by Divya Victor by Vanessa Place (2011), and SUTURES (2009). Her poetry, poetics, and criticism have appeared in Dusie, Journal of Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies, Crux, and P-QUEUE, among others, and her poetry has been translated into French and Czech. She has been a Mark Diamond Research Fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, a riverrun Fellow at the Archive for New Poetry at University of California San Diego, and a writer-in-residence at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibit (LACE). Her work has been performed and installed for or
at Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Singapore, LACE, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). She earned a PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo and is an assistant professor of Poetry and Writing at Michigan State University.

Cat Tyc is a writer and artist. Her video work has screened locally and internationally at spaces that include the Microscope Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, CUNY Graduate Center, Brooklyn Museum, Kassel Fest and the PDX International Festival. She has directed music videos that have been added to the rotation on LOGO’s NewNowNext as well as MTVu. In 2006, she was awarded a Flaherty Seminar Fellowship in “Creative Demolition: Reconstructing Culture through Innovations in Film & Video” at Vassar College. Some of her videos have been anthologized in the "Journal of Short Film" series distributed by Ohio State University. Her most recent writings have been published in Weekday, The Sink Review and 6×6 and she has contributed to BOMB and Topical Cream. She teaches writing throughout New York City within the CUNY system and works as the Program Coordinator for The Home School based in
Hudson, NY.

Fence is a locally produced, nationally distributed and recognized literary press which recently won the prestigious Whiting Magazine Award. Since 1998, Fence publishes a literary periodical in print twice a year and round-the-clock on the internet at fenceportal.org, as well as Fence Books.

The Home School organizes weeklong conferences for poets and artists. In August, they take residence in Hudson, New York at Time & Space Limited. In January, they gather in locations across the country. Participants spend six days immersed in an intensive program that foregrounds interdisciplinary experimentation and collaboration. Programming includes daily poetry workshops questioning received poetics and evening performances celebrating eclectic voices.

DATE/TIME:
Tuesday, July 31, 2018: 7 pm

LOCATION:
Hudson Area Library
Community Room, which is wheelchair accessible.
51 N. 5th St. (at State St.)
Hudson, NY 12534

ADMISSION:
Suggested Audience: Adult
Free and open to the public.

MORE:
HudsonAreaLibrary.org
email: programs@hudsonarealibrary.org
Tel: 518-828-1792

 

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Drag Queen Story Time w/ Merrie Cherry at Hudson Area Library, Jul 14

Out Hudson and The Link Project welcome Brooklyn’s Merrie Cherry for Drag Queen Story Time at the Hudson Area Library.


Out Hudson and The Link Project welcome Brooklyn’s Merrie Cherry for Drag Queen Story Time at the Hudson Area Library.

Named one of “Brooklyn’s most beautiful people” by Paper magazine, Merrie Cherry is a drag queen and nightlife event planner based in New York City. She created the Brooklyn Nightlife Awards, an annual awards show honoring the creative output of the Brooklyn borough. She is the host and creator of DRAGnet, the longest running drag competition in Brooklyn. She has performed in various festivals and shows across the United States, including the Austin International Drag Festival, Bushwig, and the Queer New York International Arts Festival.

What do drag queens and children have in common? They love dressing up and all things sparkly! There will be a drag queen treasure chest of costumes for kids. Complimentary cookies provided by Trixie’s Oven.  The first 15 families will receive a free copy of “I Am Jazz”, a story of a transgender child based on the real-life experience of Jazz Jennings.

DATE/TIME:
Saturday, July 14 2018: 11am – 12pm

LOCATION:
Hudson Area Library
51 N. 5th St. (at State St.)
Hudson, NY 12534
(518) 828-1792

ADMISSION:
Kids (ages birth to 7), and families are welcome to this family-friendly and inclusive event.
Free and open to the public.
To register email ‘youth@hudsonarealibrary.org’ or call 518-828-1792.

MORE:
HudsonAreaLibrary.org
Tel: 518-828-1792
OutHudson.com
facebook.com/hudsonvalleylinkproject

 

 

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