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Olana Midsummer Pollinator Walk, Aug 21

Recently Olana added new Guided Tours to their outdoor offerings.

Explore Olana’s artist-designed landscape through the perspective of pollinators. Join beekeeper Chris Layman in an hour-long guided outdoor walk and learn more about the importance of honeybees during Frederic Church’s lifetime and our own.

Chris Layman and his wife Lisa run Fox Farm Apiary, a honeybee rescue and sanctuary in the Hudson Valley. In partnership with Olana, Fox Farm maintains an apiary onsite at Olana’s farm complex. This program covers approximately 1/4 mile. For more information, please contact education@olana.org or call (518) 751-6938.

DATE/TIME: Friday, August 21, 2020 / 4pm

ADMISSION: $15 person, $10 members / Registration Required
Visit https://tickets.olana.org

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

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New Olana Outdoor Tours

Recently Olana added new Guided Tours to their outdoor offerings.

Olana’s landscape and carriage roads have been open to the public and are always free to visit from 8AM to sunset. Recently Olana added new Guided Tours to their outdoor offerings.

Guided tours (walking and driving) of the historic landscape will be offered on Saturday and Sunday from 10 AM to 4 PM. Tours are limited to 14 guests.

There are four different tours including the Family Explorer Tour (a 1/4 mile-long walk with family-friendly discussion and activities), the Landscape and Architecture Tour (a 1/4 mile-long tour focusing on the integration of landscape and architecture), the Art and Environment Tour (a mile-long tour that provides a comprehensive introduction to Frederic Church’s work as an artist and landscape designer), and the Electric Carriage Tour (a five mile-long driving tour providing the most comprehensive exploration of Olana’s landscape).

All tour participants are required to:

Wear a mask covering the mouth and nose during the tour.
Maintain social distance (six feet) at all times.

ADMISSION: Prices range from $15 to $50 / Registration Required.
For pricing & registration, visit olana.org/tour-category/individual

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

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The ECLECTIMANIAC Radio Show Airs Tonight, Oct 16

The next ECLECTIMANIAC Radio Show is tonight (Wednesday, October 16, 2019), at 8 pm on WGXC 90.7 FM Acra/Hudson!

The next ECLECTIMANIAC Radio Show is tonight (Wednesday, October 16, 2019), at 8 pm on WGXC 90.7 FM Acra/Hudson! Join hosts @tonyatlarge, @sethdavisphoto & Columbia County Current’s Jeff McKinney (@jeffmmckinney) as they make the world a better place one jam at a time!

On this episode, Tony@Large chats with NYC interior designer Brown Cranna about growing up in Columbia County, his beginnings as a decorative painter and founding his successful design firm.

The ECLECTIMANIAC Boys (@tonyatlarge, @sethdavisphoto and @jeffmmckinney) also discuss Madonna canceling (at the last minute!) the Madame X performance Jeff & Seth had tickets for, Halloween preparations, Joaquin Phoenix, the new Ken Burns’ documentary Country Music, and the return of Lil’ Kim. Music from The Midnight, Missy Elliott, The Cars, Miley Cyrus, The S.O.S. Band and more! Plus new tracks from Post Malone and Christina Aguilera.

Listen @ 90.7 FM Acra/Hudson/Catskill on your radio or live stream WGXC.ORG.

DATE/TIME
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 / 8pm – 10pm

TO LISTEN
Live stream: WGXC.ORG
Tune in: 90.7 FM Acra/Hudson

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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.

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Skywalk Arts Festival at Rip Van Winkle Bridge, Sep 22

Historic Bridges of the Hudson Valley presents the Third Annual Skywalk Arts Festival is this Sunday with celebrations on both sides of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge.

Historic Bridges of the Hudson Valley presents the Third Annual Skywalk Arts Festival this Sunday, with celebrations on both sides of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge.

Activities at Olana: 9am – 4pm – Get some exercise with yoga in the landscape, poetry walks, walking tours & Gracie’s food truck.

Festival at the Rip Van Winkle Bridge Park- Catskill: 12pm – 4pm – Enjoy local art, art activities, music & Carnival Foods food truck.

Performance of Light across the Hudson River: 1pm – Experience a performance by contemporary artist Shi Guorui connecting the three Skywalk locations with beams of light over the Hudson River.

Contemporary Art Opening – Catskill: 2 – 4pm – See the new exhibition SHI GUORUI: Ab/Sense-Pre/Sense featuring giant camera obscura landscape photographs at the Thomas Cole Historic Site.

DATE/TIME:
Sunday, September 22, 2019 / 9am – 4pm

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

Rip Van Winkle Bridge
99 NY-23
Catskill, NY 12414

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Exhibition Opening at Olana, ‘In Frederic Church’s Ombra’, May 12

“In Frederic Church’s Ombra: Design in Conversation with Nature” showcases multimedia design concepts and installations, developed by leading architects and select artists.

“In Frederic Church’s Ombra: Design in Conversation with Nature” showcases multimedia design concepts and installations, developed by leading architects and select artists. As Guest Curator, Barry Bergdoll (of Columbia University and the Museum of Modern Art) invited a group of today’s most exploratory architects to respond to the transitional outdoor rooms at Olana that are so essential to the original 19th century design of Olana’s Main House. These architects were asked to examine assumptions about the relationship of architecture and landscape at Olana, as well as to explore the Main House’s transition to the surrounding natural environment, particularly in our time of climactic and environmental change. The resulting exhibition combines hand-drawn sketches, painted renderings, three-dimensional models, and video and computer animations.