For those of you who have not seen this classic on the big screen and for those of you who have and would like to see it again, the Rosendale Theatre is screening Easy Rider on Thursday, July 6, at 7PM.

The premier counterculture odyssey of the 1960s, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper motorcycle cross country on their way to Mardi Gras. What they discover along the way is an America that is both beautiful and terrible. Jack Nicholson soon joins them on a journey that would both delight and disturb initial audiences and remains immensely powerful today.

Roger Ebert– “….someday it was inevitable that a great film would come along, utilizing the motorcycle genre, the same way the great Westerns suddenly made everyone realize they were a legitimate American art form, “Easy Rider” is the picture.”

Come see this 1960s counterculture classic on the big screen with full theatre sound to capture the glorious soundtrack.

Thursday, July 6, 2023
7:00PM
  $10/$6 Members

The performance will feature clips from Buffett’s film, television, and philanthropic work, tracing the evolution of his life and career. He will take questions from the audience throughout the show.

Buffett began his professional musical career in San Francisco in the early 1980s. He composed the score for the Fire Dance scene in the film Dances with Wolves and wrote the music for the CBS eight-hour miniseries, 500 Nations. He and his wife, Jennifer, serve as co-presidents of the NoVo Foundation. They said they are “dedicated to resourcing organizations, projects and people that are preparing to meet the conditions of an ever more complex set of collapsing systems.” Buffett’s book, Life Is What You Make It, published in 2010, has been translated into 15 languages.

The performance will include conversations about the work of intensive-style class called “Fundamentals of Grant Writing” taught by Professor of History Rebecca Edwards. The new class is funded by the Community Engaged Intensives in the Humanities grant through the Andrew Mellon Foundation. These “intensives” are envisioned as innovative learning opportunities that build sustainable and equitable collaborations between Vassar College and organizations in Poughkeepsie, and other parts of Dutchess County and the Hudson Valley that address specific community needs and opportunities as articulated by the college’s community partners.

“Mr. Buffett is visiting in conjunction with this course, which pairs Vassar students with small, start-up non-profits in our community,” Edwards said. “Working together, the students and non-profit leaders are researching grant opportunities and the students are learning to write all parts of a grant proposal. The organizations provide prenatal care, after-school and summer camp programs, college preparation, job training, and other supports for disadvantaged youth and families.

“Because Mr. Buffett is not only a major philanthropist but someone who thinks deeply about money, power, and the role of philanthropy in American democracy and culture, it’s a tremendous honor to have him here,” Edwards continued. “The students and community partners will be ready to engage with the big questions he raises, about how we support one another in accomplishing meaningful work and achieving a more just society.”

The event is open to the public with general seating, but tickets are required. For ticket information, go here

Individuals requiring accommodations about accessibility should contact the Box Office in advance. For ticket inquiries, email boxoffice@vassar.edu or call (845) 437‑5599.

Vassar College is an independent coeducational liberal arts college founded in Poughkeepsie in 1861.

Scott Serrano, Professor Hitchcock’s Tentacled Jelly Mellon, 2018, ink and watercolor on watercolor paper. Courtesy the artist.

Bob Barry | Julie Evans | Mara Held | Virginia Lavado | Elisa Lendvay | Claudia McNulty | David Nyzio | Phyllis Gay Palmer | Libby Paloma | Lauren Piperno | Scott Serrano | Jackie Shatz | Linda Stillman | Jean-Marc Superville Sovak | Christina Tenaglia | scrap wrenn | Roberta Ziemba

I am dreaming of the trees that devote themselves to an unending search for aerial balance…Such is the life of a fig tree, like a poet’s: the search for light and the difficulty of remaining in it. There are apple trees that prefer the beauty of their fruit to the maintenance of their balance and so they break. They are mad.
Francis Jammes, Pensées des Jardins (Paris, 1906)

The title of the exhibition, Madness in Vegetables, cites the playful title of a poem by Francis Jammes, a French writer born in 1868 who is best known for his turn from the fashionable 19th c. Symbolist movement, instead drawing inspiration from the natural world and a rustic life far from the decadent center of Parisian literary circles.

Bob Barry, Pod, 2017, ceramic. Courtesy the artist.

Jammes locates the vertical nature of the tree as a site for the imagination, connecting us to the mystery of the subterranean earth where roots converge and pulse with energy, and the determined ascent towards air and light. Madness in Vegetables, the exhibition, explores otherworldly entanglements with vegetal life, and the endless potential for imagination that is found in the darkness of the underbrush and lightness of the overstory.

Elisa Lendvay, Green Orbits (Snake Plant), 2017, Steel, paper pulp and clay, bamboo, aluminum, felt, wire, acrylic paint, marble dust. Courtesy the artist.

The Hudson Valley Artists exhibition is open to all emerging and mid-career artists with an active art practice in Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester counties. This year, artists were invited to submit fine art or craft that engages with natural themes, encouraging work made from locally sourced materials.

Mara Held, Compass of Intervals, 2017, egg tempera on linen over panel. Courtesy the artist.

Artists in the exhibition address the enticing beauty and repellent brutality of nature; the political and civic implications of choosing a rural life; our rapidly changing climate; the wild character of plants, gardens, forests, and fauna; the relevance, power and forms of anthropomorphic mythmaking; and poetic and fantastical interpretations of the woodlands.

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
SUNY New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY 12561
845.257.3844

“A perfect movie” Orson Wells

“One of the very greatest pictures ever made: pagan, poetic, and incomparably witty. If the cinema could only live up to its standards, we should all very soon be spoiled.” Frank Nugent, NY Times

“Flagrantly unfashionable, but bursting with bucolic vigor and and sly, satirical wit.” Geoff Brown, Time Out

Originally titled La Femme du Boulanger, French filmmaker Marcel Pagnol returns once again to the Procencal countryside he knew intimately. The Baker’s Wife is an enchanting slice-of-life comedy from 1938. The peace of a Provençal village is shattered when the baker’s beautiful, and bored wife runs off with a handsome shepherd who is a distinct contrast to her middle aged husband Raimu, who sports a rather “lived in look”. In his despair, Raimu (the only baker in town) becomes heartbroken and can no longer bake. The villagers organize themselves to bring the wife back to her husband and so regain their daily bread. An amusing satire about life in a tiny town and the warmth and wit of auteur Pagnol shines through this droll and perceptive examination of relationships and their complications.

The Rosendale Theatre Collective, a 501©(3) nonprofit organization is dedicated to preserving the historic Rosendale Theatre and enhancing the cultural life and economic vitality of Rosendale and Ulster County.

“The Baker’s Wife” is made possible by the generosity of
“The Bakery” – New Paltz & “Le Canard Enchaine” -  Kingston

Botti is the complete package: a dazzling Grammy winning trumpeter at home in everything from jazz to pop to rock, a brilliant bandleader who lets his killer band shine, and a born showman whose joy at being onstage is infectious.

Chris Botti has amassed a spectacular variety of honors, including multiple Gold and Platinum albums, to become the nation’s largest selling instrumental artist.

Chris Botti

Over the past three decades, Botti has recorded and performed with the best in music, including Sting, Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga, Josh Groban, Yo-Yo Ma, Michael Bublé, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, John Mayer, Andrea Bocelli, Joshua Bell, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and even Frank Sinatra. Hitting the road for as many as 300 days per year, the trumpeter has also performed with many of the finest symphonies and at some of the world’s most prestigious venues from Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl to the Sydney Opera House and the Real Teatro di San Carlo in Italy.

Tickets: $60 -$95, based on location. Members get $5 off.
Members Wednesday, Dec 5 at 11am
General Public Thursday, Dec 6 at 11am

Purchase your tickets in person at the Bardavon Box Office, 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, 845.473.2072 or the UPAC Box Office, 601 Broadway Kingston, 845.339.6088

Online at Ticketmaster : 800.745.3000. Please note that Bardavon Member benefits and special discounts are not available through Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster fees will apply.

Gary Edward “Garrison” Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He is best known as the creator of the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion, which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including Lake Wobegon Days and Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in A Prairie Home Companion comic skits. Keillor is also the creator of the five-minute daily radio/podcast program The Writer’s Almanac, which pairs one or two poems of his choice with a script about important literary, historical, and scientific events that coincided with that date in history.

Performing Arts of Woodstock is a not-for-profit year-round local theater organization presenting new and established plays of quality since 1964, when it was founded by Eda Crist and Edie LeFever. PAW is the oldest, continuously running theater organization in the history of Woodstock!

For more than 50 years, Performing Arts of Woodstock has been mounting quality productions of both new and classic plays — artistically challenging plays such as True West, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Dresser, The Good Woman of Setzuan, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Twelfth Night, Breaking the Code, Endgame, to name just a few from the last several years.

Keillor is donating the proceeds of An Evening of Poetry and Song to 
Performing Arts of Woodstock!

For tickets click the following link — Woodstock Playhouse.
Or call the box office at 845 679 6900  Prices are: $125, $75, $45.
Since PAW is a 501c3 organization, 65% of the ticket price is tax-deductible.

Performing Arts of Woodstock is also hosting a $25 pre-show reception at 6 pm so that Garrison Keillor and some of his fans can enjoy each other’s company. For reception reservations please call Adele at (845) 331‑2369 or email her at adeleacts@gmail.com for reception reservations.