The Nyack Villager

Visual and performance arts in and around Nyack and the River Villages.

Deadline for our next issue  is the 15th of this  month.

 

 At Rockland Center (RoCA)

Rockland Center For the Arts, 27 S. Greenbush Rd. West Nyack (off Thruway Exit 12). Gallery hours 9-5 M-F; 9-4 Sat, 1-4 Sun. Info and a free catalog: call (845) 358-0877 or visit www.rocklandartcenter.org

EXHIBIT

• Postcards From the Edge—an artistic fund raiser featuring works by 200 artists using postcard-sized boards and the theme, Postcards From the Edge. The artworks are on sale at an affordable $50 each, which goes to RoCA programs to offset challenging cuts in government support.

Thru Feb 12

WORKSHOPS

• Lampworked Glass Bead Workshop

Learn the centuries-old methods used by Venetian glass masters in making lampworked glass beads. Students make their own beads, learning through demonstrations and individualized instruction from Stephanie Maddalena. Class size: 8.

One session: Sun, Feb. 5 from 10am-5pm

with 1-hour break for lunch. Fee: $120 +

$25 materials fee.

• Valentine Card Workshop

Make a creative and personalized Valentine for someone you love. Participants will use pop-up structures, stamping, and collage techniques to create a one-of-a-kind tokens of affection. Ages 5 to adult. Instructor is Daly Flanagan.

One session: Sunday, Feb. 5 from 1:30-3pm.

Fee: $25 per person.

 

Art Students League

The Vytlacil Campus is located at 241 Kings Highway, Sparkill. For info call (845) 359-1263 or visit: www.artstudentsleague.org

EXHIBIT

• Open Studio—two abstract painters and an installation artist invite you to view their current work and hear about their residency

at the Vytlacil Campus in Sparkill.

Thurs, Feb 23 from 5 to 7pm.

 

Casting Call

The Nyack Village Theatre will present a Celebration of Black Poetry during Black History Month. Readers will select a poem or two to read on Feb 3, 5, 25 & 26.

Interested? Please reply to this e-mail—

nyackvillagetheatre@gmail.com

Save the Date

Blue Rock School’s Introductory Session and Campus Tour takes place March 3. For more info, visit www.bluerockschool.org

 

Artist Of the Month

Phyllis Rutigliano, New Jersey watercolorist,

will be featured during February at The Corner Frame Shop, 40 Franklin St., Nyack. Gallery hours: Tues-Sat 10am to 5:30pm.

Artist’s reception is Feb 5, from 2 to 5pm.

 

Free First Friday Film

Piermont Library presents a signature film of the French New Wave—Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (1960), with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. One of the influential films of all time, Breathless is still admired for its freshness and bold cinematographic style. The screening is free; discussion follows.

Fri, Feb 3, at 7:30pm at Piermont Public

Library, 25 Flywheel Park West, Piermont.

 

An Evening of Wine & Food

Friends of the Piermont Library will host the 2012 Midwinter Night’s Dream Evening of International Wine and Food in a brand new location—Anthony D’s, in Sparkill. Come enjoy an array of splendid wines and food. Tickets are $50pp.

To purchase tickets, make checks payable to Friends of the Piermont Library and mail to: Friends, 103 Gair St, Piermont, NY 10968. Questions? Call (845) 365-0499.

Fri, Feb, 24 from 7 to 10pm.

 

Jazz & Blues in the Carnegie Room

Concerts begin at 7:30pm in the Carnegie Room at the Nyack Library, 59 South Broadway, Nyack. Light refreshment will be served. More info at www.rcjbs.org Tickets ($25pp adult, with discounts for RCJ&B members, young people and seniors) can be purchased at (845) 608-3593 or www.carnegieroom.org

• Friday Feb 10 Kenny Werner, solo piano

• Friday, Feb 24 Rachel Z, solo piano

 

Two additional concerts are scheduled for March and two in April.

Edward Hopper Art Center

82 N. Broadway, Nyack. Info call (845) 358-0774.

 

• School Break Acting Intensive

For Middle Schoolers—a 2-day workshop on Shakespeare and stage combat. Learn fun, safe stage combat skills. Learn to slap, punch, and kick for the stage. Fee: $25 non-members per day, $20 per day members. Instructors: Rachael Solomon & Samuel Anderson

Mon, Feb 20 & Tues, Feb 21, 11 to 1.

 

New & Soon-To-Open Businesses

Good luck to our new neighbors—

 

• Tre Amici Café,

a hybrid eatery with homemade deli-style cooking and a fantastic pizzeria. Eat here or take the food home—whatever you choose, you will enjoy our comforting food—everything cooked on the premises, never frozen. The best eggplant parm you ever had!

Opening soon at 402 Nanuet Mall South,

Nanuet; call (845) 627-7773. Catering.

 

• 16 Handles,

a self-service frozen yogurt shop due to open the first week of February. It’s a cool store with great tasting yogurt and an incredible selection of toppings. It will be located in the Clarkstown Plaza on Main Street, New City.

Interested in a franchise of your own? Check out 16handles.com

 

• Nyack Fencing Academy

is Rockland County’s first fencing club that helps develop life skills in young people through fencing. Co-owner and head coach Mika’il Sankofa, a 30-year veteran in the sport, aims to teach kids lessons of respect, honor, self-reliance, discipline and focus during scheduled group classes and private lessons. For more info and cost of classes, log on to www.nyackfencing.com

 

• Nyack Art for Kids

Artist/educator Lotte Petricone brings a lifetime of art-making combined with two decades of art education to teach art to children in grades 2 through 8, using a variety of techniques and media: drawing, painting, sculpture and simple printmaking. Located in Nyack on Burd Street. More info: log on to http://www.nyackartforkids.com/ or call Lotte at (845) 548-2618.

 

Photography Showcase

Works by members of the Piermont Photography Club are on display this month at the Haverstraw Youth Theater, 64 New Main St., Haverstraw, NY. Opening reception is Sat, Feb. 11 from 4 to 6:30 pm.

 

RIVERTOWN FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS IN FEBRUARY

At Nyack Center, South Bdwy at Depew, Nyack

All films presented digitally. Tickets—$10 gen’l adm; $8 students seniors & gen’l members; $7 student & senior members Info: www.rivertownfilm.org

 

Wed, Feb 8 at 8pm

• I’M CAROLYN PARKER: The Good, the Mad & the Beautiful

USA (2011) 91 min.

Documentary directed by Jonathan Demme. Meet the filmmakers: Producer/Director Jonathan Demme and Producer Daniel Wolff, in a discussion moderated by author James McBride. Within months of Hurricane Katrina, Jonathan Demme and Daniel Wolff began documenting New Orleans’ residents who were demanding their “right to return” to the city they loved. After five years of regular visits, the filmmakers have produced the first of a series of profiles, focusing on a fiercely determined, inspiring woman named Carolyn Parker. Her struggle to rebuild her home and life transcends her surroundings to become a film about an unlikely American hero.

 

Wed, Feb 22 at 8pm

• THE LOVING STORY

USA (2011) 77 min.

Documentary Directed by Nancy Buirski. Meet the Filmmaker: Director Nancy Buirski. Community Partner: VCS.

The story of two little-known heroes of the Civil Rights Era—Mildred and Richard Loving, whose interracial marriage was considered a crime in their home state, Virginia. Their determination not to live in shame or exile led to a landmark case that overturned so-called anti-miscegenation laws in 1967.

 

Wed, Feb 29 at 8pm

• AMERICA’S HOLY WAR

USA/UK 60 min.

Documentary directed by Anne MacGregor.

Meet the Filmmaker: Anne MacGregor

Filmed over a 4-year period, America’s Holy War reveals unintended social & environmental consequences of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) in towns and villages in the Lower Hudson Valley—among many communities affected by a law designed to prevent religious discrimination that undermines every planning and environmental law on the books.