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SUMMARY:"Salvage Stories" Opening reception
DESCRIPTION:Seven sculptors transform the mundane trash of contemporary society into sculpture that ranges from emotional resonance to historical allusion\, grounded earthiness\, and musical innuendo. Though their decision to repurpose discarded detritus connects to the environmental movements of our time\, more significantly\, these seven artists have chosen upcycled materials because of the compelling textures\, colors\, and indeed also mystique of the items’ utilitarian origins. This show is an exhibition of contrasts between the “high” and “low” of society’s creations\, the destruction of consumerism and the discoveries of art\, the ugly and the beautiful\, the serious and the playful. With skillful twists of form\, manipulation of abstraction\, and subtle – and sometimes even quite direct – references to the figure\, these sculptors bring the long-forgotten stories of human refuse into the poignant personal stories of the artist\, and in the process\, turn the ashes of our manmade world into poignant works of art. Curated by Alice Zinnes and Carol Diamond \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nEric Banks– Using everything from lint to rusty pipes\, Eric Banks creates unified raw constructions of hope within decay and humor within life’s tortured complexities. \nKen Butler is a musician-artist. Recombining disassociated found objects\, he constructs – and often performs on innovative musical instruments\, transforming our useless waste into objects of whimsy\, joy\, and rhythmic musicality. \nIn Carol Diamond‘s artworks\, found street “junk” of metal\, glass\, concrete\, fabric\, and wire mesh expresses tensions that synthesize into a vision of unity\, repair\, and wholeness. \nBonny Leibowitz produces objects\, installations\, and paintings utilizing manmade and organic materials in ways that often disguise their origin\, blurring the boundaries between the manufactured and the natural. \nReferencing ancient artifacts\, Shari Mendelson’s glistening vessels\, made from plastic bottles\, are so elegant\nand authentic\, that their humble origins are all but impossible to believe. \nWith repurposed cardboard boxes\, concrete\, and sand particles\, Mark Van Wagner’s sculptures suggest archaeological\, architectural\, and anthropomorphic metaphors of conflict and ruin\, protected within a shield of humor and restoration. \nFragility and healing are themes that characterize Shivani Patel’s sculptures and wall pieces. Assembled from scavenged metals\, umbrellas and found rods\, old jewelry\, and other sundry things\, they evoke an intimate poetry of twisting costume design\, and the ornate details of ancient religious architecture\, reflecting her family’s Hindu-Indian heritage. \nABOUT THE CURATORS: \nAlice Zinnes has had seven solo NYC exhibitions\, as well as shows upstate and beyond.  She is a tenured adjunct full professor at Pratt Institute\, and writer of @Entropvisions\, a blog about art exhibitions. She has been an environmentalist her whole life. Between 2007 and 2014\, she was at the center of the burgeoning anti-fracking movement\, and more recently\, she served as the Sustainability Coordinator in her department at Pratt.  She has received awards from The VCCA\, Cummington Community for the Arts\, and The National Academy of Design. \nCarol Diamond is an artist and educator based in New York City.  Her current body of work focuses on hand-built sculpture made from found materials.  Awards include a Purchase Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and the National Academy Museum’s Edwin Palmer Prize.  Her art writing has been published in journals such as Art Critical and Two Coats of Paint. Diamond’s artwork is included in public and private collections\, including the Portland\, Oregon Museum of Art. \nRuin\, reconstruction\, and rebirth come into play in the spontaneous processes of these 7 artists – processes open to subconscious unveilings – and which present as enigmatic expressions of the rich mutability of materials. \nFor the exhibition’s closing event\, Ken Butler will perform his original music on some of the sculptural instruments he has made. \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, August 2\, 4-6 pm\nClosing Event and Ken Butler Musical Performance: Sunday\, Sept. 14\, 2-5 pm
URL:https://www.woodstockguild.org/event/salvage-stories-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Kleinert-James Gallery\, 34 Tinker St\, Woodstock\, NY\, 12498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Opening reception
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SUMMARY:Puppet Making for Stop-Motion Animation
DESCRIPTION:Register here \nEver wanted to bring a creature to life? Take a Sunday and learn how to build a fully-poseable character that you can bring to life through stop-motion animation in this extensive course! \nWe’ll generate ideas (feel free to show up with one!)\, make a bendable wire skeleton\, add hardware so it can stand on its own\, bulk out the body with foam and clay\, and give it some character by needle felting on fur and\, of course\, adding eyes and a mouth \nThis course uses the products Propoxy 20 and Barge All-Purpose Cement\, gloves will be provided and encouraged to be used! \nAll materials are provided and covered in the cost of the class \nJOHN QUINN is a current Byrdcliffe Artist-in-Residence\, graduate of Pratt Institute’s 2D Animation program\, and a presenting animator  in this past year’s Woodstock Film Festival.  His work is often experimental and analog – a mix of stop motion and various mediums on paper.  A goal outside of his personal practice is to make animation more accessible\, which is the idea behind this workshop series.  Lately he’s been drawing inspiration from programs like The Electric Company and Schoolhouse Rock and animators Sally Cruikshank and Vince Collins.  “‘The magic of animation’ I think turns a lot of people away from the medium\, and even though it is kind of magic\, anybody can do it – even people that can’t draw”. \nWorkshop fee: $140 WBG members\, $150 not-yet members\nRegister here \nWorkshop limited to 6.
URL:https://www.woodstockguild.org/event/puppet-making-for-stop-motion-animation/
LOCATION:Kleinert-James Gallery\, 34 Tinker St\, Woodstock\, NY\, 12498\, United States
CATEGORIES:classes & workshops
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SUMMARY:Fail Better\, a reading of a new play by Bay Zisman
DESCRIPTION:Purchase tickets \nDirected by Beth Ryan Troxell \nIn a modern take of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot\, Fail Better follows a conversation between two stoned buddies as they wait for their endlessly late drug dealer. Throughout their intimate back and forth\, the two friends share laughs and secrets as they contemplate the meaning of a life well lived. \nBaila Eve ‘Bay’ Zisman was born and raised in the Hudson Valley and has known she wanted to be a writer since before she was capable of the act. A graduate of NYU Tisch’s dramatic writing program\, her absurdist work often explores life’s subtleties\, magnifying their importance day-to-day. In the summer of 2023\, she assisted Sydnie Grosberg Ronga in staging The Lifespan of a Fact\, at Rosendale Theatre and is delighted to now work with Round The Bend Theatre. \nTickets: $10 members\, $15 not-yet members\nPurchase tickets \nThis performance will take place at the Byrdcliffe Theatre at 380 Upper Byrdcliffe Rd in Woodstock\, NY.  \n\n\n\n\nPart of the Round the Bend Theater Company script reading series. The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is pleased to collaborate with Round the Bend Theatre Company in presenting a series of new plays. Each selected play will be read by professional actors in front of a live audience with the playwright engaging with the audience at the conclusion of the performance. 
URL:https://www.woodstockguild.org/event/fail-better-a-reading-of-a-new-play-by-bay-zisman/
LOCATION:Byrdcliffe Theatre\, 380 Upper Byrdcliffe Rd\, Woodstock\, NY\, 12498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Theatre
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SUMMARY:Flow: David Van Tiegham Acoustic Collaboration with sculptor Ian Laughlin
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special sonic collaboration with renowned musician David Van Tieghem\, together with FLOW\, an acoustic sculpture by Ian Laughlin\, on Sunday\, August 10th at 5 pm (rain date August 17th at 5 pm) at the Woodstock Spa located at 62 Ricks Road\, Woodstock\, NY 12498. David Van Tieghem is an American composer\, percussionist\, and sound designer\, best known for his philosophy of utilizing any available object as a percussion instrument. Ian Laughlin is an artist whose work is dedicated to exploring injustices and finding solutions to the many challenges facing the planet.\nMore about past collaborations between these two artists can be viewed here. \nThis special event is part of S.C.A.P E.\, the 2025 outdoor biennial sculpture park sponsored by the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild on the meadows and woodlands of the Woodstock Spa. This concert is free and open to the public. \nABOUT DAVID VAN TIEGHEM\nDavid Van Tieghem is an American composer and sound designer known for his philosophy of utilizing any available object as a percussion instrument. In his long career\, Van Tieghem has performed and composed for numerous films and productions\, as well as collaborating with Steve Reich\, Laurie Anderson\, Brian Eno\, Talking Heads\, David Byrne\, Deborah Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie\, Adrian Belew\, Jerry Marotta\, John Zorn\, Sylvia Bullett\, and Happy Traum. Along with many other awards\, Van Tieghem was the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for Music Composition (2007). \nABOUT IAN LAUGHLIN\nOriginally from New Zealand\, Ian Laughlin is a multi-media eco-artist who was active in New York City’s Lower East Side in the 80s. A resident of the Hudson Valley since 1990\, Laughlin has been dedicated to exploring injustices and finding solutions to the many challenges facing the planet through his art installations and acoustic sculptures. \nABOUT S.C.A.P.E.\nS.C.A.P.E. – (Sculpture\, Community\, Arts\, Peace\, Environment) is an Exhibition of Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture in Woodstock\, NY. Curated by Linda Dubilier and Jen Dragon\, the 2025 outdoor sculpture installation presents contemporary sculpture set in the Catskill Mountain landscape. The Woodstock Spa\, adjacent to the historic Byrdcliffe Colony\, hosts this year’s exhibition. S.C.A.P.E. features fourteen artists’ sculptures that explore The Woodstock Spa’s surrounding meadows and woodlands. Participating artists include: Erika deVries\, Stuart Farmery\, William Greenwood\, Wendy Klemperer\, Bernard Klevickas\, Pascal Knapp\, Alex Kveton\, Ian Laughlin\, Alison McNulty\, Eva Melas\, Lowell Miller\, Portia Munson\, Eileen M. Power\, Gregory Steel\, Suzy Sureck\, Stephen Whisler \nAbout the Woodstock Spa\nThe Woodstock Spa is a day spa that neighbors the historic Byrdcliffe Art Colony in the heart of the Catskill Mountains. With trained practitioners\, modern amenities\, and beautiful surroundings\, the Spa is inspired by nature and art to heal\, support\, and improve the lives of the community.
URL:https://www.woodstockguild.org/event/flow-david-van-tiegham-acoustic-collaboration-with-sculptor-ian-laughlin/
LOCATION:Woodstock Spa\, 62 Ricks Road\, Woodstock\, NY\, 12498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert,Exhibition,Special events
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SUMMARY:"Don Barry: A Quixotic Exploration" free film screening
DESCRIPTION:DON BARRY is a 94 minute cinematic exploration (in English and Spanish\, with subtitles) that seeks to place the first great modern narrative\, Don Quixote\, into the lives of real people in a real place. \nThe film introduces the experimental filmmaker Barry Gerson\, now in his eighties\, as Don Barry\, who mixes his own thoughts into the character’s speech\, much as Miguel de Cervantes’ hero mingled chivalric quotes with his own ideas. Genda Monter\, a young animator\, is the Don’s assistant Sanchia. The setting is the Mexican city of Guanajuato during its high season. \nDon Barry‘s themes are the same as those in Cervantes’ great novel: mortality\, dreams versus accomplishment\, and the means by which one retains sanity in a mad world. In addition\, dives into the beauty of Gerson’s experimental cinema and his work at taking what he’s learned about light as an inspiration for healing. As well as the beauty of allowing one’s life work to become transformative\, and to allow the landscapes we inhabit to provide catharsis for inner growth. \nMusic is by Karen y Los Remedios and Jiony\, two contemporary existential Cumbia artists; the GTO Imp Symph and its talented composers Michael Severens and Alex Applegate; and the late folk-jazz genius John Martyn. \nwritten directed and produced by Paul Smart \nQ&A with filmmakers after the screening \nFree\, donations accepted \n \n 
URL:https://www.woodstockguild.org/event/don-barry-a-quixotic-exploration-free-film-screening/
LOCATION:Byrdcliffe Theatre\, 380 Upper Byrdcliffe Rd\, Woodstock\, NY\, 12498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:The Fugs: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary Year of Their First Concert
DESCRIPTION:Ed Sanders came up with the idea that became the Fugs in late 1964.  He has led the Fugs in the years since\, through 58 years of albums and performances. The Fugs have had their current line-up since 1985. \nByrdcliffe is excited to welcome back The Fugs for two performances in celebration of the 60th anniversary of their first concert. \n\npurchase tickets for Friday’s performance \npurchase tickets for Saturday’s performance \n\n  \n \n\nAbout the band: \nSteven Taylor collaborated on poetry and music works with Allen Ginsberg for 20 years. Other long-time collaborators include Kenward Elmslie\, Anne Waldman\, Ed Sanders\, and Tuli Kupferberg\, as well as choreographer Douglas Dunn (Bessie Award nomination for best sound design 2015). He joined the Fugs in 1984. His poems\, essays\, reviews\, and songs have been published via magazines\, anthologies\, and albums. He holds a PhD in music from Brown University. His book False Prophet: Field Notes from the Punk Underground was published by Welseyan UP in 2003. His most recent publications are Don’t Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg (Three Rooms Press)\, and William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Ace Records). \nEd Sanders — founder and singer-songwriter — invents musical instruments such as the Talking Tie and the microtonal Microlyre. One of Sanders recent books\, illustrated by Rick Veitch\, is Broken Glory\, the Final Years of Robert F. Kennedy. Sanders is primarily a poet whose collected poems\, Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century won an American Book Award in 1988.  He has written biographies in verse of Charles Olson\, Allen Ginsberg\, and Anton Chekhov.  He is the author of a 9-volume America\, a History in Verse\, and a investigative history of the Manson group\, The Family\, which is in print in a number of countries. \nSteve Taylor— vocals and guitars — his beautiful voice gives the Fugs outstanding vocal qualities on tunes set to the poems of William Blake and classics such as “Crystal Liaison\,” “Slum Goddess\,” and “Morning Morning.” Taylor is a professor of writing at Naropa University in Boulder Colorado\, and a noted composer who performed with Allen Ginsberg for many years. His string quartet setting to Allen Ginsberg’s poem “White Shroud” is an important 20th century poetry composition. \nCoby Batty— drums\, percussion and vocals. Coby is a well known musician and song- writer with his own band in Richmond\, Virginia. Batty has performed with Don Cherry\, John Zorn\, Eugene Chadbourne and many others. He has a powerful singing voice\, and is a renowned actor in movie and television productions \nScott Petito — bass and keyboards — is a well-known record producer who operates NRS Recording studios in Catskill\, NY\, where many groups have recorded such as The Band\, The Fugs\, and a number of others. Petito performs with the singer Leslie Ritter\, and with numerous other important musicians. He has developed an outstanding career as a recording artist\, producing a sequence of acclaimed records. \n  \n\n\n\n\nThe Story of The Fugs First Concert \n\n \n\nRight around the time that Tuli and I decided to form a singing group of poets\, an idea had formed in my noggin— open a bookstore! I could place my mimeograph machine there\, and great poet Allen Ginsberg and I had been discussing forming a Committee to Legalize Marijuana\, which I thought could be run from the bookstore. I started looking for a storefront to rent in the Lower East Side. I intended to call it the Peace Eye Bookstore. \nI was a new father\, had family obligations\, and needed to have a source of income beyond weekends at the Times Square cigar store where I worked the late-night shift. I could put my mimeograph machine there\, and create a cultural facility and the world’s first mimeo print center as well.  \nI signed a two-year lease for Peace Eye on November 10\, 1964. The first year was $50 a month; which went to $60 for the second year.  \nThere was much group singing among my friends from the peace and Civil Rights movements\, and many an acquaintance had a guitar at the ready in their apartments. \nI had been inspired by a benefit for the General Strike for Peace at which an unknown singer with a harmonica wired to his face named Bob Dylan had wowed the crowd at the Living Theater on 6th Avenue.  \nWe began rehearsing at the Peace Eye Bookstore.  Our afternoon rehearsals at Peace Eye became packed with our friends who wanted to savor our songs. Tuli and I added the musical duo of Steve Weber and Peter Stampfel  (also performed The Holy Modal Rounders)\, so we now had a five-man ensemble. \nOur first concert was at the March ’65 opening of Israel Young’s famous Folklore Center at its new location on 6th Avenue and West Third Street in NYC.  The night before our first concert\, Ken Weaver’s buffalo hide drum was stolen during a break-in at Peace Eye\, so for our World Premiere Ken performed with a drum made out of a cardboard Krasdale peach box!!! \n– Ed Sanders \n\n\n\n\nThe Fugs – Celebrating the 60th Anniversary Year of their First Concert\nByrdcliffe Barn | 485 Upper Byrdcliffe Road\, Woodstock\, NY. \nFriday\, August 22nd\nSaturday\, August 23rd\nDoors open at 7:30 pm\, concert at 8 pm. \n\n\n\n\nTICKETS:\n$30/person WBG members\n$35/person not-yet-members\n$35/person at door  \npurchase tickets for Friday’s performance \npurchase tickets for Saturday’s performance \nQuestions: 845.679.2079
URL:https://www.woodstockguild.org/event/the-fugs-celebrating-the-60th-anniversary-year-of-their-first-concert/
LOCATION:Byrdcliffe Barn\, 485 Upper Byrdcliffe Rd\, Woodstock\, NY\, 12498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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SUMMARY:Byrdcliffe Artists-in-Residence Open Studios - Session 3
DESCRIPTION:The Artists-in-Residence at the Byrdcliffe welcomes the public to the third of four Summer Open Studios for 2025. \nCome celebrate the creative work of our artists-in-residence. With map in hand\, meet the artists\, see their studios\, and experience work in painting\, drawing\, sculpture\, ceramics\, writing\, sound\, and more\, all amidst Byrdcliffe’s historic campus nestled in the Catskill mountains. \nFor a map of participating artists\, location of studios\, and performance line up – Go to Villetta Inn (3 Upper Byrdcliffe Way\, Woodstock\, NY.) \nStudios open 1 – 4 pm; readings and performances 4 – 5 pm at Byrdcliffe Theatre. This event is free and open to all! \nCome early and step inside White Pines\, the original home of Byrdcliffe’s founders Ralph and Jane Whitehead\, with Byrdcliffe Historian Henry T. Ford and discover how this 1902 utopian arts and crafts colony began. \nMeet on the front porch of White Pines (454 Upper Byrdcliffe Road\, Woodstock\, NY) at noon; suggested donation\, $10. \n\nHome
URL:https://www.woodstockguild.org/event/byrdcliffe-artists-in-residence-open-studios-session-3/
LOCATION:Villetta Inn @ Byrdcliffe Colony\, 3 Upper Byrdcliffe Way\, Woodstock\, NY\, 12498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open studios
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SUMMARY:The Fugs: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary Year of Their First Concert
DESCRIPTION:The Fugs was one of the leaders of the underground scene of the 1960s and became an important part of the American counterculture of that decade. The group is known for its comedic\, even lewd\, nature but also earned fame through its persistent anti-Vietnam War sentiment during the 1960s. \nEd Sanders came up with the idea that became the Fugs in late 1964.He has led the Fugs in the years since\, through 58 years of albums and performances. The Fugs have had their current line-up since 1985. \n\nByrdcliffe is excited to welcome back The Fugs for two performances in celebration of the 60th anniversary of their first concert. \npurchase tickets for Friday’s performance \npurchase tickets for Saturday’s performance \n\n  \n \n\n\n\nAbout the band: \nSteven Taylor collaborated on poetry and music works with Allen Ginsberg for 20 years. Other long-time collaborators include Kenward Elmslie\, Anne Waldman\, Ed Sanders\, and Tuli Kupferberg\, as well as choreographer Douglas Dunn (Bessie Award nomination for best sound design 2015). He joined the Fugs in 1984. His poems\, essays\, reviews\, and songs have been published via magazines\, anthologies\, and albums. He holds a PhD in music from Brown University. His book False Prophet: Field Notes from the Punk Underground was published by Welseyan UP in 2003. His most recent publications are Don’t Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg (Three Rooms Press)\, and William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Ace Records). \nEd Sanders — founder and singer-songwriter — invents musical instruments such as the Talking Tie and the microtonal Microlyre. One of Sanders recent books\, illustrated by Rick Veitch\, is Broken Glory\, the Final Years of Robert F. Kennedy. Sanders is primarily a poet whose collected poems\, Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century won an American Book Award in 1988.  He has written biographies in verse of Charles Olson\, Allen Ginsberg\, and Anton Chekhov.  He is the author of a 9-volume America\, a History in Verse\, and a investigative history of the Manson group\, The Family\, which is in print in a number of countries. \nSteve Taylor— vocals and guitars — his beautiful voice gives the Fugs outstanding vocal qualities on tunes set to the poems of William Blake and classics such as “Crystal Liaison\,” “Slum Goddess\,” and “Morning Morning.” Taylor is a professor of writing at Naropa University in Boulder Colorado\, and a noted composer who performed with Allen Ginsberg for many years. His string quartet setting to Allen Ginsberg’s poem “White Shroud” is an important 20th century poetry composition. \nCoby Batty— drums\, percussion and vocals. Coby is a well known musician and song- writer with his own band in Richmond\, Virginia. Batty has performed with Don Cherry\, John Zorn\, Eugene Chadbourne and many others. He has a powerful singing voice\, and is a renowned actor in movie and television productions \nScott Petito — bass and keyboards — is a well-known record producer who operates NRS Recording studios in Catskill\, NY\, where many groups have recorded such as The Band\, The Fugs\, and a number of others. Petito performs with the singer Leslie Ritter\, and with numerous other important musicians. He has developed an outstanding career as a recording artist\, producing a sequence of acclaimed records. \n\n\n\n\nThe Story of The Fugs First Concert \n\n \n\nRight around the time that Tuli and I decided to form a singing group of poets\, an idea had formed in my noggin— open a bookstore! I could place my mimeograph machine there\, and great poet Allen Ginsberg and I had been discussing forming a Committee to Legalize Marijuana\, which I thought could be run from the bookstore. I started looking for a storefront to rent in the Lower East Side. I intended to call it the Peace Eye Bookstore. \nI was a new father\, had family obligations\, and needed to have a source of income beyond weekends at the Times Square cigar store where I worked the late-night shift. I could put my mimeograph machine there\, and create a cultural facility and the world’s first mimeo print center as well.  \nI signed a two-year lease for Peace Eye on November 10\, 1964. The first year was $50 a month; which went to $60 for the second year.  \nThere was much group singing among my friends from the peace and Civil Rights movements\, and many an acquaintance had a guitar at the ready in their apartments. \nI had been inspired by a benefit for the General Strike for Peace at which an unknown singer with a harmonica wired to his face named Bob Dylan had wowed the crowd at the Living Theater on 6th Avenue.  \nWe began rehearsing at the Peace Eye Bookstore.  Our afternoon rehearsals at Peace Eye became packed with our friends who wanted to savor our songs. Tuli and I added the musical duo of Steve Weber and Peter Stampfel  (also performed The Holy Modal Rounders)\, so we now had a five-man ensemble. \nOur first concert was at the March ’65 opening of Israel Young’s famous Folklore Center at its new location on 6th Avenue and West Third Street in NYC.  The night before our first concert\, Ken Weaver’s buffalo hide drum was stolen during a break-in at Peace Eye\, so for our World Premiere Ken performed with a drum made out of a cardboard Krasdale peach box!!! \n– Ed Sanders \n\n\n\n\nThe Fugs – Celebrating the 60th Anniversary Year of their First Concert\nByrdcliffe Barn | 485 Upper Byrdcliffe Road\, Woodstock\, NY. \nFriday\, August 22nd\nSaturday\, August 23rd\nDoors open at 7:30 pm\, concert at 8 pm. \n\n\n\n\nTICKETS:\n$30/person WBG members\n$35/person not-yet-members\n$35/person at doorpurchase tickets for Friday’s performance \npurchase tickets for Saturday’s performance \nQuestions: 845.679.2079
URL:https://www.woodstockguild.org/event/the-fugs-celebrating-the-60th-anniversary-year-of-their-first-concert-2/
LOCATION:Byrdcliffe Barn\, 485 Upper Byrdcliffe Rd\, Woodstock\, NY\, 12498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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SUMMARY:Nanna\, a reading of a new play by David Simpatico
DESCRIPTION:Purchase tickets \nDirected by Sydnie Grosberg Ronga \nNanna\, an 88 year-old woman comes back from the dead to settle some unresolved issues with her grandson\, but along the way\, examines her own history of child abuse and her role in the intergenerational pathology of incest. Part sex comedy\, part Greek tragedy\, Nanna uses black comedy to examine the intimate turmoil of intergenerational incest\, and to find a potential escape from the cyclical prison of abuse. \nDavid Simpatico\nCareer highlights include: the book/stage adaptation of Disney’s High School Musical; The Screams of Kitty Genovese (Jonathan Larson Award; music by Will Todd); Garden of Light\, libretto for choral symphony\, with composer Aaron Jay Kernis. His musical adaptation of Twelve Angry Men\, music and lyrics by Michael Holland\, received its world premiere production in June\, 2022 at Theater Latte Da in Minneapolis\, directed by Peter Rothstein. His grand opera\, The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing\, with music by Justine F. Chen\, received its world premiere at Chicago Opera Theater in March\, 2023\, also directed by Peter Rothstein. He is currently adapting Wally Lamb’s She’s Come Undone\, with co-bookwriter Darrah Cloud\, and composer/lyricist\, Michael Holland. He is also working on That Hellbound Train\, a new jazz opera with composer Lisa DeSpain\, based on the short story by Robert Bloch. His oratorio adaptation of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol\, with score by Will Todd\, received its first production with Opera Holland Park in London\, Dec\, 2024. \nTickets: $10 members\, $15 not-yet members\nPurchase tickets \nThis performance will take place at the Byrdcliffe Theatre at 380 Upper Byrdcliffe Rd in Woodstock\, NY.  \n\n\n\n\nPart of the Round the Bend Theater Company script reading series. The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is pleased to collaborate with Round the Bend Theatre Company in presenting a series of new plays. Each selected play will be read by professional actors in front of a live audience with the playwright engaging with the audience at the conclusion of the performance.  
URL:https://www.woodstockguild.org/event/nanna-a-reading-of-a-new-play-by-david-simpatico/
LOCATION:Byrdcliffe Theatre\, 380 Upper Byrdcliffe Rd\, Woodstock\, NY\, 12498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Theatre
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SUMMARY:Women Sculpture Group Walkthrough of SALVAGE STORIES exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a gallery walkthrough hosted by the Women Sculptor Group (WSG) in collaboration with the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild\, of the current exhibition\, Salvage Stories: Seven Sculptors\, co-curated by Alice Zinnes and Carol Diamond. This special sculpture show features artworks by Eric Banks\, Ken Butler\, Carol Diamond\, Bonny Leibowitz\, Shari Mendelson\, Shivani Patel\, and Mark Van Wagner.\nExhibiting artists Carol Diamond\, Shivani Patel\, Shari Mendelson\, and Eric Banks\, will be present to speak about their work\, together with co-curator Alice Zinnes as moderator.\nPanel Artists: Carol Diamond\, Shari Mendelson\, Shivani Patel\, Eric Banks in conversation with co-curator Alice Zinnes\n\nAbout Salvage Stories: Seven Sculptors: Seven artists transform the mundane detritus of contemporary society into sculpture that takes on new life from upcycled materials. Curated by Alice Zinnes and Carol Diamond. Exhibition Catalogue. \n\nAbout the Women Sculptor Group: The Women Sculptor Group is a NY-based organization that supports women sculptors by attending shows\, doing walk-throughs\, and sponsoring open calls and exhibition events.
URL:https://www.woodstockguild.org/event/women-sculpture-group-walkthrough-of-salvage-stories-exhibition/
LOCATION:Kleinert-James Gallery\, 34 Tinker St\, Woodstock\, NY\, 12498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist talk,Exhibition,Special events
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