SHANDAKEN CALENDAR
RECOLLECTIONS is the name of the new group show opening up Saturday, December 15 from 6 to 10 PM at The Arts Upstairs, Main STreet, Phoenicia. Featured as solo artist will be H K Pulshen, the “insider’s” outsider artist whose work is seen here.
Call 688-2142 or visit www.artsupstairs.com for further info.
Thursday 12/6
11:00 AM-12:30 PM Breast Cancer Support Group- Olive Free Library, 4033 Route 28A West Shokan 339-HOPE (4673), www.breastcanceroptions.org.
12:00 PM Information Session on Online and Blended Learning. Burroughs Hall, UNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5022
7:30 PM Resorting to Madness: Taking Back Our Mountain Communities film screening and discussion of Belleayre Resort proposal… at Claude’s Bistro, Rt. 214 at Romer Street, Phoenicia, NY 688-2561. Admission free.
Friday 12/7
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Annual Fundraiser/Opening Reception: “ 5 x 7 Show.” Works will be sold for $100 & is anonymous until after purchase. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM Woodstock Holiday Open House… plenty of entertainment, merriment and much more.
5:00-9:00 PM Opening Reception: “Comfort and Joy”; paintings by Cathy Nichols and Marisa Haedike; East Village Collective; Woodstock; 679-2174; www.eastvillagecollective.com
6:15 PM Hanukkah Service Celebration. Services led by Rabbi Tamar Crystal, and include the Yo of Joy Choral. A latke dinner will follow in the social hall. Congregation Ahavath Israel, 100 Lucas Avenue, Kingston. 338-4409
7:00 PM Olive Tree Lighting, Town Meeting Hall, Bostock Road, Shokan.
7:00 PM Phoenicia Phirst Phriday presents singer-songwriter Carl Bethge at the Arts Upstairs Gallery, 60 Main Street, Phoenicia. 688-9453.
7:00 PM SUNY Ulster Chorus with SUNY Ulster Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Peggy Stern and Rebecca Coupe Franks,. Ulster County Community College, Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5262
7:30 PM Family Holiday Show; presented by New York Conservatory for the Arts; 120 Schildknecht Road, West Hurley; 339-4340; www.nyca.org
8:00 PM The Catskill Ballet Theatre presents: The Nutcracker. Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston. 339-6088
9:00 PM Jeffery Gaines, Skytop Steakhouse, Kingston. 340-4277
Saturday 12/8
9:00 AM - 2:30 PM 5-Hour Pre-Licensing Class. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM AARP Senior Driver Safety Class. Business Resource Center, Town of Ulster. 339-7885
10:00-11:30 AM Modern Dance (adult) The Copperhood Inn & Spa, Shandaken 657-4186
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM St. Francis de Sales Annual Cookie Walk & Christmas Sale, Parish Hall, 109 Main Street, Phoenicia. Mrs. Claus will be available for picture-taking!
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM Pure Catskills Holiday Market featuring farm and forest gifts from Catskill artisans. The Peekamoose Restaurant & Tap Room, 8373 Route 28, Big Indian. 607-865-7017 or visit www.buypurecatskills.com
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM Country Christmas Craft Fair and Cookie Sale, Samsonville United Methodist Church, County Rt 3, Samsonville 657-2615
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM Phoenicia Library’s Annual Holiday Open House
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM 2nd Annual Butterflycentric Holiday Crafts Sale. Part of proceeds benefit reforestation of monarch butterfly overwintering habitats.434 Bostock Road, Shokan. 657-8073 or www.spiritofbutterflies.com
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM Robert Selkowitz Studio Open House. 3024 Route 28, Ashokan. 657-6982 or www.artfolks.com
1:30 PM The Tonner Company Doll Store Grand Opening with Ribbon Cutting Ceremony. 14 Hurley Avenue, Kingston. 39-9537 ext. 113 or www.tonnerdoll.com
2:00 – 4:00 PM Cooking demonstration in the Emerson Country Store. 5340 Route 28, Mt. Tremper. 688-5800 for
3:00 PM Tuba Christmas Concert. Clinton Hall, Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5000
4:00 PM - 8:00 PM Second Saturday Opening Reception. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum and other locations, Tinker Street, Woodstock
6:00 PM Game Dinner. bring a covered dish, preferably something made from game. Desserts provided. Phoenicia Fish and Game Association. www.fishandgame.h2ous.net
6:00 – 9:00 PM Catskill Cabaradio!Rides Again! Catskill Community Radio Dinner Party, Live Broadcast and Variety Show Bring a dish to share. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main Street, Pine Hill. 254-5469
7:00 PM Shivastan Book Signing & DJ Dance Party. The Colony Café, 22 Rock City Road. Woodstock 679-5342
7:30 PM Family Holiday Show; presented by New York Conservatory for the Arts; 120 Schildknecht Road, West Hurley; 339-4340; www.nyca.org
8:00 PM Community Chorale of the Catskills Holiday Concert, Purcell Center, Main Street, Margaretville
8:00 PM The Catskill Ballet Theatre presents: The Nutcracker. Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston. 339-6088
8:00 PM Annual Hudson Valley Gamelan Winter Concert. Program features traditional Balinese Folk Music and Dance.Bard College Olin Hall, Annandale-on-Hudson. 679-8792 or 679-8624
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM Acoustic Artists Coalition & Art Party: John Lennon Tribute, All Lennon~All Night! A.I.R. Studio Gallery, 71 O’Neil Street, Kingston
8:00 PM Dashing Through The Slush. The return of Professor Peter Schickele and the warpo-comic tandem of Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine. Bearsville Theater. 679-4406 or www.bearsvilletheater.com
8:00 PM Holiday Contradance with Jay Ungar and Molly Mason. Woodstock Community Center, Rock City Road, Woodstock. 246-2121
8:00 PM Karl Berger and Friends. Featuring accordionist Jean-Louis Martinier. Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock. 679-2079
8:00 PM Woodstock Chamber Orchestra & Kingston High School Choir. Haydn and Brahms. Pointe of Praise Family Life Center, Kingston. www.wco-online.com
Sunday 12/9
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Annual Winter Gift Sale. Hudson Valley Sudbury School, 84 Zena Road, Kingston. 679-1002
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Introduction to Jewish Mysticism Class. Woodstock Jewish Congregation. 657-9873
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM Robert Selkowitz Studio Open House. 3024 Route 28, Ashokan. 657-6982 or www.artfolks.com
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM 2nd Annual Butterflycentric Holiday Crafts Sale. 434 Bostock Road, Shokan. 657-8073 or www.spiritofbutterflies.com
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Annual Holiday Food & Toy Drive. High Falls Firehouse, High Falls
2:00 PM Book Signing for Betty Levine, Colony Café, Woodstock.679-5342
2:00 PM Family Holiday Show; presented by New York Conservatory for the Arts; 120 Schildknecht Road, West Hurley; 339-4340; www.nyca.org
2:00 PM The Catskill Ballet Theatre presents: The Nutcracker. Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston. 339-6088
2:30 PM Community Chorale of the Catskills Holiday Concert, Jay Gould Memorial Reformed Church, Roxbury
3:00 PM Woodstock Chamber Orchestra & Kingston High School Choir. Haydn and Brahms, Bearsville Theater, Woodstock www.wco-online.com
7:00 PM Second Sunday Songwriter Series. The Colony Café, 22 Rock City Road, Woodstock. 679-5342
Monday 12/10
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM Master Class: Dawn Upshaw. Sosnoff Theater, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7196 or www.bard.edu/vap
6:00 – 10:00 PM Presentation on new plans for Belleayre Resort and state-owned ski center’s expansion. Discovery Lodge, Belleayre Mt., Highmount.
Tuesday 12/11
6:00 – 10:00 PM Public Hearing To Determine Scoping Issues on new plans for Belleayre Resort and state-owned ski center’s expansion. Discovery Lodge, Belleayre Mt., Highmount.
Wednesday 12/12
4:00 – 8:00 PM Phoenicia Holistic Community Clinic at the Phoenicia Healing Arts Center. Reservations required. 688-2323.
Thursday 12/13
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM 2007 Flu & Pneumonia Clinic. Town of Olive Legion hall, Mountain Road. Shokan. 340-3093 or www.co.ulster.ny.us/health
Friday 12/14
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM Living Nativity and Indoor Marketplace. Wesleyan Community Church, 19 DuBois Road, Ashokan. 657-6451
7:30 PM Holiday Benefit Event. SpokenWord/Dance/Art/Music/Songs with Vita, Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso, Peter Blum, Linda Diamond & CO. All profits go to FAMILY of Woodstock. Kleinert James Art Center, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock. 684-5022 or vita@vita.us
8:00 PM A Phil Ochs Birthday Tribute The Colony Café, 22 Rock City Road, Woodstock. 679-5342
8:00 PM Into the Light! Annual Vanaver Holiday Spectacular, this year featuring Arm-of -the- Sea Theater by Livia Vanaver and Patrick Wadden. Quimby Theatre, Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 256-9300
8:00 PM The Annual Solstice Concert with Artie Traum & Friends with Larry Campbell, Cindy Cashdollar, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, John Sebastian. Bearsville Theater, 679-4406
Saturday 12/15
10:00-11:30 AM Modern Dance (adult) The Copperhood Inn & Spa, Shandaken 657-4186
2:00 PM Into the Light! Annual Vanaver Holiday Spectacular, this year featuring Arm-of -the- Sea Theater by Livia Vanaver and Patrick Wadden. Quimby Theatre, Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 256-9300
2:00 PM. Gingerbread Cookies! at the Emerson Country Store, 5340 Route 28, Mt. Tremper. 688-5800
2:00 PM Town of Shandaken Historical Museum Reopening Academy Street, Pine Hill. 254-4460.
2:00 PM Woodstock Renaissance, vocal octet celebrating the Four Seasons in Song. Overlook United Methodist Church, 233 Tinker Street, Woodstock
5:00 Introduction To Self-Hypnosis, Woodstock Library
6:00 – 10:00 PM Art Opening: RECOLLECTIONS, with solo exhibit by H K Pulshen, The Arts Upstairs, Main Street, Phoenicia. 688-2142. www.artsupstairs.com
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM Living Nativity and Indoor Marketplace. Wesleyan Community Church, 19 DuBois Road, Ashokan. 657-6451
7:00 PM Francesca Tanksley. Adam’s Space, Route 28, Olivebridge. 331-1300 or www.adamspiano.com
8:00 PM Mendelssohn Club Christmas Concert; Old Dutch Church, Kingston;; 338-6759; www.olddutchchurch.org
8:00 PM Into the Light! Annual Vanaver Holiday Spectacular, this year featuring Arm-of -the- Sea Theater by Livia Vanaver and Patrick Wadden. Quimby Theatre, Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 256-9300
9:00 PM An Evening with Leon Russell. Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker Street, Woodstock. 679-4406
Sunday 12/16
12:00 noon Shandaken Theatrical Society Christmas Show: A fun-filled, small-town holiday experience—Free! STS Theater, Church Street, Phoenicia. Followed by Railroad Museum party!!!
12:30 PM Annual Holiday Gathering. “Celebrating Human Greatness.” Peace Village Learning & Retreat Center. Haines Falls, 518-589-5000 or www.peace-village.org
2:00 PM Into the Light! Annual Vanaver Holiday Spectacular, this year featuring Arm-of -the- Sea Theater by Livia Vanaver and Patrick Wadden. Quimby Theatre, Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 256-9300
2:00 PM Woodstock Renaissance, vocal octet celebrating the Four Seasons in Song. Overlook United Methodist Church, 233 Tinker Street, Woodstock
2:30 PM Trail Mix Concerts: Members of “Classical Jam”, with Special Guest Thomas Rosenkranz doing Beethoven, Faure and more at Olive Free Library, West Shokan. Preceded at noon by lecture: “Thoughts on Contemporary Violin Making” with Master Violin maker David Wiebe
3:00 PM Community MESSIAH Sing; Old Dutch Church, Kingston; 3:00 PM; 338-6759; www.olddutchchurch.org
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM Living Nativity and Indoor Marketplace. Wesleyan Community Church, 19 DuBois Road, Ashokan. 657-6451
7:00 PM Cherish the Ladies’ Celtic Christmas; Ulster Performing Arts Center; 601 Broadway, Kingston; 339-6088; www.upac.org
Tuesday 12/18
6:00-8:00 PM Opening Reception: “Call It Home”; photography about the homeless; Center for Photography at Woodstock; 59 Tinker Street;; 331-7080, ext. 127; on view until December 23; www.familyofwoodstock.org
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM The Ulster County Shandaken Women?s Network Fall Series: Featuring Pauline Oliveros, founder of the Deep Listening Space in Kingston,
Copperhood Spa, Route 28, Shandaken. 688-5472 or www.shandakenwomen.net
7:00 PM Onteora School Board, Woodstock School