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|  | | Looking for something to do this weekend?Come to our Crafts on Stage Fair!Our Prompters have been hard at work acquiring over 100 American craft artists to show their hand-made goods this weekend. Come and see a large variety of items, from jewelry, ceramics, wood, leather, fiber, glass, baskets, fine arts and more. Admission: Adults $8, Seniors $7 Weekend Pass $12 Children under 12 FREE Parking Included Tickets Available at the Door
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The Hudson Valley Beer & Fine Food Festival, Inc. invites all to TAPSMNew York at Hunter Mountain. Craft breweries and brewpubs from across the state will be participating in the most prestigious beer and fine food event in New York. Admission to TAPSM New York includes your special souvenir tasting glass for trying out the over 100 beers representing many styles. You'll also get to sample gourmet foods, plus cooking demonstrations and much more. Join us at TAPSM New York and be a part of the most prestigious beer and food event in New York State. You must be 21 years of age or older to attend TAP New York. No infants or children will be permitted to enter the event. This includes infants in strollers or carried by a parent. For the benefit and safety of your child and all other attendees, please make arrangements to leave your children at home or with friends or relatives. Take the Bus from NYC to TAP New York! |
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We reserve the right to refuse alcohol to anyone who appears to be intoxicated.
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How do you come up with the $550 sponsor fee? Be creative...
The opportunities are endless. All Sponsor names will appear on the Be sure to sign up for your horse before the herd is all adopted!! This is a COMMUNITY WIDE PUBLIC ART event and we encourage participation by all businesses, organizations and individuals. Saugerties students will be given the opportunity to join in the fun by decorating a “Flat Horse”. These special horses will be on display in Village windows and sold at a Silent Auction at the Merry-Go-Round Auction and Gala. Become an Artist Benefactor today!!! Join the many Saugerties businesses and organizations, including the Village of Saugerties. For more information or to set up an appointment please contact the Saugerties Economic Development Office at 845-246-2800 ext. 371 or email: edc@saugerties.ny.us |
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Film Marking Allen’s Return to New York After Four Years of Shooting Abroad Will Screen Opening Night, April 22, 2009, in New York City
[New York, February 17, 2009] - The Tribeca Film Festival and Sony Pictures Classics today announced that Woody Allen’s Whatever Works will have its world premiere as the opening night film of the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by American Express, founding sponsor of the Festival. The highly anticipated new comedy is Allen’s first film shot in New York since 2004. Whatever Works, which is written and directed by Allen, stars Larry David (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”), Evan Rachel Wood (The Wrestler), Patricia Clarkson (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), and Ed Begley Jr. (Pineapple Express.) The premiere will take place on Wednesday, April 22; the Festival will run through May 3.
“I fell in love with New York through Woody Allen’s movies and I am excited we are opening this year’s Festival with Sony Pictures Classics for the world premiere of Woody’s Whatever Works,” said Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal. “Whatever Works is a uniquely funny addition to his body of work.”
Whatever Works follows the success of Allen’s latest release, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which took home the Golden Globe Award for Best Musical or Comedy and garnered Penelope Cruz the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Allen’s last film in collaboration with Sony Pictures Classics, 1999’s Sweet and Lowdown, earned two Academy Award nominations for Best Actor (Sean Penn) and Best Supporting Actress (Samantha Morton).
"A lovely idea of showing my film in a film festival in my own city. It's very exciting,” said Woody Allen.
Sony Pictures Classics states, "The opening of the Tribeca Film Festival is the perfect opportunity to celebrate Woody Allen's return to filmmaking in New York."
The 2009 Tribeca Film Festival will announce its feature film slate on March 9 and 11, 2009.
About Whatever Works
Whatever Works is written and directed by Woody Allen and stars in alphabetical order Ed Begley Jr. (Pineapple Express), Patricia Clarkson (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), Larry David (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”) and Evan Rachel Wood (The Wrestler). The film is produced by Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, with cinematography by Harris Savides, production design by Santo Loquasto, editing by Alisa Lepselter and costume design by Suzy Benzinger.
Sony Pictures Classics is planning a June 19 release.
Tickets for 2009 Festival
Tickets for the Festival will be $15.00 for evening and weekend screenings and $8.00 for daytime weekday and late night screenings.
Advance selection ticket packages will go on sale Monday, March 9, 2009 for American Express Cardmembers and for the general public on Monday, March 16, 2009. All advance packages can be purchased online at www.tribecafilm.com/festival or by telephone, toll free, at (866) 941-FEST (3378).
Single ticket and discounted ticket package sales begin for American Express Cardmembers on April 14, 2009, for downtown residents on April 19, 2009, and for the general public on April 20, 2009. Single tickets can be purchased online, by telephone, or at one of the Ticket Outlets located at the Tribeca Cinemas Ticket Window at 54 Varick Street, and the AMC Village VII Ticket Window at 66 Third Avenue. Downtown residents can only purchase tickets with a discount at the Tribeca Cinemas ticket window. Discounted packages can only be purchased online and by phone. The 2009 Festival will continue ticket discounts for evening and weekend screenings for students, seniors and select downtown Manhattan residents. Additional information and further details on the Festival can be found atwww.tribecafilm.com/festival.
About the Tribeca Film Festival
Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2001 following the attacks on the World Trade Center, New York City to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of the lower Manhattan district through an annual celebration of film, music and culture. The Festival’s mission is to help filmmakers reach the broadest possible audience, enable the international film community and general public to experience the power of cinema and promote New York City as a major filmmaking center.
Tribeca Film Festival is well known for being a diverse international film festival that supports emerging and established directors. The Tribeca Festival has screened over 1100 films from over 80 countries since its first festival in 2002. Since its founding, it has attracted an international audience of more than two million attendees and has generated over $530 million in economic activity for New York City.
About the 2009 Festival Sponsors
As Founding Sponsor of the Tribeca Film Festival, American Express is committed to supporting the Festival and the art of film making, bringing business and energy to New York City and offering benefits that enhance the festival-going experience.
he Festival is pleased to announce the return of its Signature Sponsors: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Apple, Bloomberg, Brookfield Properties, Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), Delta Air Lines, iShares, NBC 4 New York, RR Donnelley, Snapple, The New York Times, Telemundo 47 and Vanity Fair.
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Local composer and percussionist Joseph Bertolozzi used a variety of hammers to play and record sounds on the steel of the Mid-Hudson Bridge. (Spencer Ainsley/Journal file)
Joseph Bertolozzi for five years has been working on a plan to strike the bridge with a wide range of percussion implements during a live performance that would coincide with this year's quadricentennial celebration.
The poor economy and lack of financial backing, have forced Bertolozzi to reduce the scope of his percussive project. The new plan features a recording of "Bridge Music" and listening stations on the bridge, as well as what he calls "park radios" in the City of Poughkeepsie and Town of Lloyd.
"Bridge Music" is a musical suite featuring Bertolozzi "playing" the bridge.
Bertolozzi is scheduled to announce the project today.
His initial budget was $2.2 million. The revised budget is about $13,000, with $5,000 from the Dutchess County Industrial Development Agency, distributed by Dutchess County Tourism; $5,000 from Ulster County Tourism; and the remaining amount from sponsors.
This project is being presented with the support of Bertolozzi's main partner, the New York State Bridge Authority, as well as the Town of Lloyd, City of Poughkeepsie Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial Committee and Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce.
"This is a real coming together of the different communities, producing public art," Bertolozzi said. "I think it's really a beautiful thing for these groups to work together."
Many special events are planned for 2009 to mark the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's maiden voyage up the river that would later bear his name; Samuel De Champlain's exploration of the lake that would bear his name; and the 200th anniversary of Robert Fulton's maiden steamboat journey up the Hudson.
The centerpiece is the planned opening of the Walkway Over the Hudson, a pedestrian trail on the old Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge.
A spokesman for the New York State Bridge Authority based in Highland, said the composer's grand plan reflects well on the mid-Hudson Bridge.
Bellucci added Bertolozzi's plan has "developed into quite a unique feature."
Bertolozzi spent several days on the bridge in July 2006 and June 2007, with a team that included a sound engineer and New York State Bridge Authority employees, armed with a laptop and microphones.
Bertolozzi and his team recorded sounds made when the bridge was struck by a variety of objects - hammers, a sledgehammer and small log among them.
Bertolozzi then cobbled those sounds together into a song - "Bridge Funk" - which he used to pitch his project. "Bridge Funk" is part of a musical suite called "Bridge Music" that lasts about 38 minutes.
Bertolozzi had hoped to assemble a team of 24 percussionists to "play" the bridge, with speakers set up in Waryas Park.
Those plans now call for a recording of "Bridge Music" to be played at four listening stations.
Two stations are planned for each of the bridge's two towers, with weather-resistant speakers.
FCC-approved radio transmitters, which only broadcast in a 150-foot radius, will be installed in Waryas Park in Poughkeepsie and Johnson-Iorio Park in Highland. Visitors will be able to listen to the recording by tuning in to 87.9 FM on a radio, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The listening stations on the bridge would operate from April 1-Oct. 31. There is no cost to listen at any of the sites.
Signs will explain the project, as well as outline which parts of the bridge were used to create which sounds.
Four ribbon-cuttings, one at each station, are set to launch the project June 6.
Bertolozzi plans to release a CD, "Bridge Music," during the last week of May, as the ribbon-cutting ceremonies draw near. He also hasn't given up hope of staging that live concert.
"The live event is postponed," he said, "until we can finance it."
John W. Barry at jobarry@poughkeepsiejournal.com or 845-437-4822.
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| GREG HAYMES The Hudson River is thing of undeniable beauty. A century and a half ago, it was the inspiration for British-born landscape painter Thomas Cole, who responded with canvas after canvas that captured its natural splendor in luminous, almost religious visions. In turn, Cole led a parade of like-minded painters whose artistic style became known worldwide as the Hudson River School. It was America's first and arguably most important movement of landscape art, celebrating the river in all of its natural glory. Frederic Edwin Church, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Albert Bierstadt, John Frederick Kensett and Asher Durand were just a few of the many painters who were held spellbound by the beauty of the Hudson and its environs in the mid-1800s. Today, as we celebrate the 400th anniversary of the river's discovery by its namesake, Henry Hudson, the Hudson River continues to inspire artists, including Len Tantillo, who lives near the river in Rensselaer County. "The Hudson River School was an artistic celebration of the magnificence of the Hudson River Valley landscape," he says. "A lot of those painters responded to the landscape in a spiritual fashion. They made people really appreciate the beauty of the Hudson River Valley because of the way they could handle color and drama." The Hudson River School painters focused on nature, while minimalizing the impact of the Industrial Age. "Yes, they idealized the landscape, but the remarkable thing is that the landscape is still there," Tantillo insists. "When you travel the Hudson River from here to New York City, you're taken by the number of places along the river that really haven't changed all that much in the century and a half that has passed since those paintings were done." "You can see the influence of the Hudson River School in quite a few artists today, not just landscape painters," he says. Tantillo's own paintings focus on New York state, with an emphasis on the Hudson River. "But one of the main differences between my work and the paintings of the 19th century is that I tend to focus on the kinds of things that they weren't interested in the kinds of things that they, in fact, avoided. While they were more focused on nature, I'm more interested in the man-made environment around the river. What I hope to do with the body of work that I've produced is to give people a sense of the evolution of the past 400 years and to make people more aware of the changes that have happened along the river for better or worse. And that's an ongoing story." Jane Bloodgood-Abrams is one of the contemporary artists carrying on the traditions of Cole and his compatriots, imbuing a luminous, spiritual quality to her Hudson River paintings. "I feel a real connection to those artists who lived and painted here so long ago," she readily admits. "The dramatic light and expansive views captured in so many of their works is a real parallel to what I witness in the area still, and it inspires my work." Today, she lives in Kingston and can walk to the river from her studio. "Even though I grew up here, I had a sort of awakening to the Hudson River Valley. I began spending more time in the mountains and along the river, reconnecting to my spirituality. I love being in the river swimming, on the river in a boat or standing on a high bluff overlooking the Hudson as it winds away from me," says Bloodgood-Abrams. "I think that any artist who is living in the Hudson Valley is in somewhat affected by the river, by the light no matter the style or medium." Although composer Annea Lockwood was born nearly 9,000 miles away in New Zealand, she knows the Hudson River more intimately than most of us who have spent our whole lives near its banks. During 1980 and 1981, Lockwood explored the length of the Hudson, stopping at various locations to collect tape-recorded sound samples of the river. Commissioned by the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, she wove together the recordings into a captivating two-hour audio installation, "A Sound Map of the Hudson River," part of the museum's "Riverama" exhibit. She had collected river recordings since the mid-'60s, but "A Sound Map of the Hudson" was the first time that she tackled an entire river from top to bottom, from the Hudson's source at Lake Tear of the Clouds in the Adirondacks to its terminus in New York harbor. "Each stretch of the Hudson has its own unique sonic texture, formed by the terrain, varying according to the weather, the season and, downstream, the human environment, whose sounds are intimately woven into the river's sounds," Lockwood says. "Tracing one single river was really fascinating. There's such a tremendous variety of sounds to the Hudson." Lockwood has installed "A Sound Map of the Hudson River" at locations around the world from New Zealand to England, and the University at Albany will be hosting it in October. Composer-violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain also has drawn musical inspiration from the Hudson River. Last April, he premiered a new 23-minute composition "Soundtrack for a Shared Dream" at The Egg, which commissioned the work. His six-part tale of a town along the Hudson in which residents have shared dreams about what he calls "USOs or unidentified submerged objects" was inspired by the proposal to build the St. Lawrence Cement plant on the banks of the Hudson. "The environmental issues became very important to what I was trying to do with the piece, which is really about the future of the river and our relationship to it as New Yorkers and, really, even as a country," he says. Roumain, who has lived near the Hudson in Harlem for 10 years, is performing the piece again this month and will stop at the Albany Institute of History & Art at 2 p.m. today to deliver a lecture about his composition. "As a Haitian-American composer, bodies of works have always been a very important part of my life," explains Roumain, whose music bridges the gulf between classical and hip-hop. "So it was very natural for me to consider the possibilities and the consequences of the future of the Hudson River. The piece is about what the river has meant to us historically and what it means to us today as we continue to figure out our relationship to and the importance of the Hudson River in our daily lives." Greg Haymes may be reached at 454-5742 or by e-mail at ghaymes@timesunion.com. Arts events Here are a few events at the Albany Institute of History & Art (125 Washington Ave., Albany) regarding the Hudson River's influence on art and artists: 2 p.m. today: Lecture and demonstration by musician-composer Daniel Bernard Roumain on "Composing for the River: Soundtrack for a Shared Dream" 1 p.m. Sunday, March 29: Hudson River Panorama Family Festival, featuring storyteller Jonathan Kruk, folksinger Rich Bala, more 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 3: Gallery talk by photographer Harry Wilks on his exhibit, "Hudson Valley: Spanning the Banks" 2 p.m. Sunday, April 19: Lecture by artist Len Tantillo on "Painting the Valley: History and Process" 6 p.m. Friday, May 1: Lecture by artist-mapmaker Connie Brown on "The Hudson and Its Watershed: The Making of a Map" 6 p.m. Friday, June 5: Lecture by artist Anne Diggory on "Artistic License and Artistic Truth" 2 p.m. Sunday, June 14: Lecture and performance by author-folksinger Jerry Silverman on "New York Sings" Note: For more information about these upcoming programs, please contact the institute at 463-4478 or http://www.albanyinstitute.org. On the Web Fred LeBrun visits the Albany Institute of History & Art. Watch his visit at http://timesunion.com/multimedia. |
