National Book Award finalist Francine Prose, a longtime Olive resident, will be the featured reader in the Catskill Mountain Foundation’s Readers & Writers Series on Saturday, January 13, 2-3 PM, in the CMF Red Barn, Rte. 23A, Hunter Village, across from the CMF movie theaters. Prose will be reading from a selection of her work; a question-and-answer period will follow. Admission is FREE.
Prose, the author of fourteen comic novels and four non-fiction titles, is one of this country’s wittiest cultural satirists. For more information, call 518-263-4908 x287 or visit Catskill Mountain Foundation on-line at www.catskillmtn.org
Thursday 1/4
7:30-9pm Gypsy Tribal Fusion - Middle Eastern Dance at Ancient Callings Studio in Olivebridge, (Beginner Level I and II). 657-7276, www.twistedtassels.com
8pm Movie Night, Oriole 9, Woodstock 679-5763
Friday 1/5
8 pm Cavalcade of Magic. Center for Performing Arts, 661 Rte. 308, Rhinebeck. 845 876 3080 or www.centerforperformingarts.org
10pm The Felice Brothers New World Home Cooking, Saugerties 246-0900
Saturday 1/6
All Day Wall Street Adaptive Awareness Day. Sponsored by MHCF & Pack for Iraq. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. 845 254 5600 or www.belleayre.com
All Day New Years Rail Jam. Hunter Mountain, Rte. 23A, Hunter. 888 HunterMtn, 518 263 4223 or www.HunterMtn.com
10:00 am to noon Olive Historical Society Annual Meeting… program on the Catskill Interpretive Center, past present and possible future. At the Olive Free Library, West Shokan.
10:00 am WinterFest; Creature Feature program, winter bird program and more; family fun; Forsyth Nature Center; Lucas Avenue, Kingston; 331-1682, x132; www.forsythnaturecenter.org
2pm - 4:30pm Tarot-on-the-Hudson Monthly tarot study with Tarot Grand Master Rachel Pollack, 3297 Route 9G. Rhinebeck, 876-5797, www.RachelPollack.com
5:00-8:00 pm First Saturday Art Receptions; held throughout Kingston in various galleries; 338-0331; see www.askforarts.org for schedule
5pm - 7pm Nature Without Glass Exhibit Opening of color pinhole photographs by Mark Stetler, Galerie BMG, 12 Tannery Brook Rd, Woodstock 679-0027
5:30pm Book Signing with Sparrow, Alternative Books, Kingston 331-5439
8 PM Cavalcade of Magic. Center for Performing Arts, 661 Rte. 308, Rhinebeck. 845 876 3080 or www.centerforperformingarts.org
8:00-11:00 pm English Country Dance; Hurley Reformed Church, Main Street ;; 679-8587
8pm Cafe Chronogram featuring Mark Doerrier’s film “In the Land of Goshen”, musician David Perry, art by Kevin Paulsen, DJ Kukicha, coffee, and wine. At Art On Wall, 288 Wall St.. Kingston
Sunday 1/7
All Day Belleayre Jam Series-Terrain Park Jam. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. 845 254 5600 or www.belleayre.com
All Day Mini World Cup #1. Hunter Mountain, Rte. 23A, Hunter. 888 HunterMtn, 518 263 4223 or www.HunterMtn.com
1:00-3:00 PM A Winter Stroll; easy, 2.5 miles; Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz;; 255-0919; www.mohonkpreserve.org
2 PM Cavalcade of Magic. Center for Performing Arts, 661 Rte. 308, Rhinebeck. 845 876 3080 or www.centerforperformingarts.org
2pm - 4pm First Sunday Songwriters Circle Sampler of the region’s finest performing songwriters featuring Vickie Russell, Denise Jordan Finley, Vince Sauter, as well as hosts Elly Wininger and Elise Pittelman Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston, 338-0331 www.askforarts.org
3pm New Vanguard Series featuring pianist David Arner, Alternative Books, Kingston 338-5984
Monday 1/8
6.30 pm Woodstock Democratic Committee meeting at the Center for Photography, Tinker Street,Woodstock. All Democrats are welcome.
7pm Open Mike Night Featuring Rob Reidy and John Holt. Colony Café, Woodstock 679-5342
7:15 pm Mid-Hudson Women’s Chorus Open Rehearsals; St. James Methodist Church, Kingston; 679-71665 or 679-2974
10:30-noon Gypsy Tribal Fusion - Middle Eastern Dance at Ancient Callings Studio in Olivebridge, (Mixed levels), 657-7276, www.twistedtassels.com.
Tuesday 1/9
7-8:30pm Gypsy Tribal Fusion - Middle Eastern Dance at Ancient Callings Studio in Olivebridge, (Beginner II and III), 657-7276, www.twistedtassels.com
7 pm Onteora School District regular board meeting at Bennett Elementary, Route 28, Boiceville
Wednesday 1/10
3:30 pm Creature Feature; get up close and personal with a resident of the Forsyth Nature Center with a naturalist; Lucas Avenue, Kingston; 331-1682, x132; www.forsythnaturecenter.org
Thursday 1/11
6pm - 8:30pm Acoustic Thursday featuring Elly Wininger, High Falls Café, Rte 213 & Mohonk Rd. High Falls, www.highfallscafe.com
7:30-9pm Gypsy Tribal Fusion - Middle Eastern Dance at Ancient Callings Studio in Olivebridge, (Beginner Level I and II). 657-7276, www.twistedtassels.com
7pm Book Signing with Guy Lawson Author of The Brotherhoods, Barnes & Noble, Kingston, 336-0590
8pm Movie Night, Oriole 9, Woodstock 679-5763
8pm Dream Diary Communing with music by Matthew Cantello, Art Society of Kingston 338-0331
Friday 1/12
All Day Customer Appreciation Day - $15 lift tickets; Belleayre Mountain , Highmount; 800-942-6904; www.belleayre.com
Call for times Tango & Swing Night Workshops and dance party, Bearsville Theater, Woodstock 679-4406
8pm - 11pm Cajun/Zydeco Dance With Jesse Lege & Bayou Brew, White Eagle Hall, Kingston 255-7061
8:00 pm Disney’s “High School Musical”; NYCA Cabaret Theatre; 120 Schildknecht Road, Hurley; 339-4340; www.nyca.org
Saturday 1/13
Email for times Media Reform Meeting of Northeast Citizens for Responsible Media, 349 Ackert Hook Road, Rhinebeck, NY 12572 Contact: Andi Novick- andi@re-media.org
2pm - 4:30pm Tarot-on-the-Hudson Monthly tarot study with Tarot Grand Master Rachel Pollack, 3297 Route 9G. Rhinebeck, 876-5797, www.RachelPollack.com
2pm Woodstock Poetry Society Meeting Featuring poets Susan Hoover and Donald Lev, Woodstock Town Hall www.woodstockpoetry.com
2-3 PM National Book Award finalist Francine Prose reads for the Catskill Mountain Foundation’s Readers & Writers Series, in the CMF Red Barn, Rte. 23A, Hunter Village. 518-263-4908
6pm - 9pm Exhibit A opening, Varga Gallery, 130 Tinker Street, Woodstock 679-4005
8:00 pm Disney’s “High School Musical”; NYCA Cabaret Theatre; 120 Schildknecht Road, Hurley; 339-4340; www.nyca.org
8pm Vlad Girshevich Presented by the Windham Chamber Music Festival, Windham Civic and Performing Arts Center (518) 678-9309
Sunday 1/14
12:00 Noon 10th Annual Shandaken Primitive Biathlon; Upper Esopus Fish and Game Preserve, Oliverea; 688-5560 or 331-5201
2:00 pm Disney’s “High School Musical”; NYCA Cabaret Theatre; 120 Schildknecht Road, Hurley; 339-4340; www.nyca.org
3pm Saugerties Pro Musica presenting Gregory D’Agostino International Organ virtuoso, Saugerties United Methodist Church 246-5021
4pm Celia Linde Classical guitar Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz
255-1559
Monday 1/15
10:30-noon Gypsy Tribal Fusion - Middle Eastern Dance at Ancient Callings Studio in Olivebridge, (Mixed levels), 657-7276, www.twistedtassels.com
11am Eshu Bumpus: Master Storyteller Variety of African, African-American and world folktales leavened with music, humor and mystery at Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum, 75 North Water St, Poughkeepsie, www.mhcm.org
5:30pm - 7pm Stop Smoking Group Hypnosis Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge 336-3646
7pm Open Mike Night Featuring Robin Bernstein and Lori Wilner, Colony Café, Woodstock 679-5342
7:15 pm Mid-Hudson Women’s Chorus Open Rehearsals; St. James Methodist Church, Kingston; 679-71665 or 679-2974
7:30pm - 9pm You’re Getting Very Skinny Group Hypnosis Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge 336-3646
Tuesday 1/16
6pm - 8:30pm Lecture on Honeybees and Organic Beekeeping Sustainable Hudson Valley Resource Center, Rosendale, 255-6113, www.HoneybeeLives.org
7-8:30pm Gypsy Tribal Fusion - Middle Eastern Dance at Ancient Callings Studio in Olivebridge, (Beginner II and III), 657-7276, www.twistedtassels.com
Wednesday 1/17
Free Hat Day; Belleayre Mountain , Highmount; 800-942-6904; www.belleayre.com
