Tickets are available by phone (p: 845.679.2079 or f: 845.679.4529) or in person, Monday-Friday 10:00 am - 5:00 PM. The box office is open Saturday and Sunday 12:00-5:00 pm and tickets can be purchased 30 minutes before show times. We accept Visa, Master Card and American Express. Checks, Money Orders and Cash are welcomed as well. There is no ticket fee to your credit card. In the event that a show sells out, you can be placed on a waiting list. If a ticket becomes available, you will be contacted in the order in which you were received.

2008

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May

Spring Celebration with Byrdcliffe Children’s Community Chorus & Adult Community Choir

Dates: Friday, May 9, 2008
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Time: 7:00 pm
Price: FREE!

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Directed by Byrdcliffe Musical Director, Nancy Chusid.

Second Saturday Guided Walking Tour

Date and Time: Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 1 pm
Location: Meet at the Byrdcliffe Theater on Upper Byrdcliffe Road
Cost: FREE!

Join us for a FREE guided walking tour of the Historic Byrdcliffe Arts Colony. Meet at 1 pm at the Byrdcliffe Theatre. Weather permitting.

Blue

Dates: Saturday, May 10 - June 15, 2008
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Opening Reception Saturday, May 10, 6-8 pm (please note time change!)

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An exhibition curated by Portia Munson. Brings together artists who work in a variety of media and incorporate this primary color into their work in very different ways. Resulting in a diverse group of works having the quality of “blueness” in common. Curator: Portia Munson.

Abby Newton; Mother-Daughter String Band Concert

Dates: Sunday, May 11, 2008
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Time: 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Price: $20/Member & $25/General

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Mother's Day Concert with Abby Newton; Mother-Daughter String Band.

Volunteer Day at Byrdcliffe Arts Colony

Date and Time: Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 10 am - 4 pm
Location: Meet at the Byrdcliffe Theater on Upper Byrdcliffe Road

Special project for the whole family, from raking to roofs. Includes lunch and brief walking tour. Learn about the Colony's history and preservation standards. Some tools provided. Woodstock Time Bank Members receive hours for volunteering. Park and meet at the Byrdcliffe Theater on Upper Byrdcliffe Road. For reservations and more info, please contact us: 845.679.2079.

Marc Black & Band

Date and Time: Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 8:00 pm. Doors at 7:30 pm.
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY
Tickets: $20/General & $15/Member

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An acoustic song cycle featuring Marc Black, Warren Bernhardt, Betty MacDonald and Mike Esposito,called Wheel Inside a Wheel. The evening will feature songs and improvisations on guitar, balafon, bass, bicycle wheel, violin, piano and found objects.

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June

Tribute to Dewey Redman

Featuring Joe Lovano, Frank Kimbrough, John Menegon and Matt Wilson

Date and Time: Saturday, June 7th at 8:00 pm. Doors at 7:30 pm.
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Tickets: $25/General & $20/Member

Saxophonist Dewey Redman (1931-2006) left a legacy of music that has a natural, communicative power to engage and provoke. From Southern Blues to the Avant Garde, this Texas tenor’s music will live on. His compositions will be presented by saxophonist Joe Lovano plus the rhythm section of Frank Kimbrough (piano), John Menegon (bass), and Matt Wilson (drums), who had the privilege of playing and recording with Redman over a span of twelve years

Byrdcliffe Afternoons at White Pines

A Lecture by Nancy Green: "Woodstock in Summer: The Art Student's Life at Byrdcliffe" featuring Byrdcliffe painter, furniture designer and potter, Zulma Steele and metal worker, Bertha Thompson.

Date and Time: Saturday, June 14th at 2:00 pm.
Location: White Pines, Upper Byrdcliffe Road, Woodstock, NY
Tickets: $12/General & $10/Member

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Nancy Green is Senior Curator at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. She was the editor and a contributor of Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony catalog and curator of the 2003-05 traveling Byrdcliffe Centennial Exhibition. Nancy has written and lectured extensively for the past 22 years. She has written on Byrdcliffe for several publications, including the British Decorative Arts Journal and Style 1900. Her book, Arthur Wesley Dow and American Arts and Crafts sparked her interest in Byrdcliffe. Byrdcliffe Afternoons is funded with a generous grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.

Authentic Writing Retreat At Byrdcliffe Arts Colony

A five-day Authentic Writing retreat with Fred Poole and Marta Szabo

Dates Monday, June 16 to Friday, June 20, 2008
Time: 10am to 6pm, with a 2-hour lunch break each day.
 (European breakfast included. Participants responsible for all other meals & accommodations)
Location: Eastover Cottage, 378 Upper Byrdcliffe Road, Woodstock, NY 12498
Workshop Fee: $400/Guild Members & $500/General Public. Pre-registration is required.

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The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild proudly presents a five-day Authentic Writing retreat with Fred Poole and Marta Szabo, from Monday, June 16th to Friday, June 20th. This intensive writing studio is for all writers - the experienced and the brand new. Here, each person is committed to the search for her or his truest version of reality, writing is treated as art, and each person’s story is sacred.

There will be long periods for writers to actually write during the workshop, followed by sessions to read out loud what they have written if they wish, something that most participants quickly become comfortable with and value as a vital element in the Authentic Writing process. Fred and others in the group will offer each writer supportive response - words that will help writers see what they have accomplished through their work and galvanize them towards further writing.

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July

The Woodstock Chimes Fund presents the 17th annual 2008 Woodstock Beat

A benefit concert for the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, featuring the Canadian ensemble NEXUS and special guest Peter Schickele

Date and Time: Saturday, July 5th at 8:00 pm. Doors at 7:30 pm.
Location: Maverick Concert Hall in West Hurley, NY
Tickets: $70, $50 and $30

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NEXUS will be performing at the Maverick Concert Hall in West Hurley, NY on Saturday Evening July 5th at 8 PM with special guest performer Peter Schickele. Many of the compositions from their newest recording, “WINGS”, will be presented with narration by Schickele. The music featured on the CD includes original arrangements by NEXUS members of popular songs written by the distinguished Japanese composer, Toru Takemitsu.

Woven Walls - Harry Roseman Solo Exhibit

Dates: Saturday, July 07 - July 27, 2008
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Artist Reception: Saturday, July 12, 2-5 pm (Second Saturday)
Artist Lecture: Saturday, July 19, 2008 at

Show featuring the work of Harry Roseman.

Byrdcliffe Afternoons at White Pines

A Lecture by Tom Wolf on "Byrdcliffe Photographer: Eva Watson-Schutze"

Date and Time: Saturday, July 12th at 2:00 pm.
Location: White Pines, Upper Byrdcliffe Road, Woodstock, NY
Tickets: $12/General & $10/Member

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Tom Wolf is currently Art History Professor at Bard College at Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. He was also a contributor to Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony and has worked extensively on Woodstock artists for the past 20 years. Tom Wolf has written widely about 20th-century American art, including studies of the arts colony in Woodstock, New York, and the Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States. Byrdcliffe Afternoons is funded with a generous grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.

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August

Byrdcliffe Afternoons at White Pines

A Lecture by Cheryl Robertson on "The Architecture of Byrdcliffe"

Date and Time: Saturday, August 9th at 2:00 pm.
Location: White Pines, Upper Byrdcliffe Road, Woodstock, NY
Tickets: $12/General & $10/Member

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Cheryl Robertson is a Cambridge-based independent scholar and consultant who has served the museum field for over 25 years as an American decorative arts curator, exhibition director, public historian, program coordinator, and teacher. She is the author of works on architecture, interiors and design history, material culture and domestic life. She wrote the architectural essay for Byrdcliffe: An American Arts & Crafts Colony. Byrdcliffe Afternoons is funded with a generous grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.