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Thursday, May 17

Our next B.A.S.H. (Business After Store Hours) event will be held this Thursday evening, May 17th, from 5:30-7:00 PM at Mill Street Loft’s Riverside Gallery, which is located in the red barn building at Long Dock Park.

As always, the B.A.S.H. is open to Chamber members and non-members alike. We hope to see you there!

Welcome them to Dutchess at stops in Poughkeepsie and Beacon on May 17 & 18^th. Hear them speak at Beacon Sloop Club’s clubhouse on Thursday, May 18^th at 8:30pm, and be on hand to tell them all about the Hudson River!

Dutchess County “Spare Seat”

 Thursday, May 17, 3:30 pm

Bring bells & noisemakers to welcome British explorers Richard Harpham & Glenn Charles, as they arrive at Waryas Park, Poughkeepsie, 3:30 pm. Other paddlers welcome to join in at Quiet Cove Park, Poughkeepsie, at 3 pm.

Depart 4:30 pm for New Hamburg, arrive Whites Marina, 6 pm.

Thursday, May 17, 8:30 pm

Beacon Sloop Club hosts Richard Harpham for community discussion on the Hudson River: history, environmental impact and recreational opportunities, with outdoor enthusiasts including Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and Scenic Hudson members.   Beacon Sloop Clubhouse beaconsloopclub.org

Friday, May 18, 12:30 & 1:30 pm

See Richard Harpham off as the next leg of the expedition begins!

Depart New Hamburg, 12:30 pm for Beacon’s Long Dock Park; tour Scenic Hudson & Mill Street Loft’s River Center for the Arts and kayak pavilion, 1:30 pm.

scenichudson.org & millstreetloft.org

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 Learn more about Dutchess County’s events and activities by visiting

dutchesstourism.com

Hudson Valley Outdoor Adventure Expo 

Saturday & Sunday, June 2 – 3

Waryas Park, Poughkeepsie

Vendors, demos, bands & more! Sign up for competitions on Raceit! 

outdooradventureexpoHV.com.

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For more information about the New York State Spare Seat Kayak Expedition,
visit thespareseat.com or iloveny.com/Summer/Themes/Spare-Seat-Expedition.aspx

To plan your trip in New York State, visit iloveny.com

Photo: Monica Church

Two sister events will be taking place on Poughkeepsie’s Main Street! Please join us, the artists and writers of the city of Poughkeepsie, as we pay homage to our city’s green spaces and gorgeous architecture with two site-specific events on Main Street that viewers can attend in tandem.

Vestibule-an exhibit: Artists exhibiting include: Monica Church-Photography; Charles Geiger-Mixed media paintings; Ariel Gonzalez-painting; Liliana Washburn – Ink on Yupo Paper. 303 Main Street, 5-8:00 PM.
Bertha’s Funeral: Artists & Community Come Together to Say Goodbye to the Poughkeepsie Sculpture Park with a performance beginning at 5pm in the Poughkeepsie Sculpture Park.
Authors and actors present work by Hudson Valley writers in a site-specific reading in the Poughkeepsie Sculpture Park featuring authors reading their own work: Fiction by Nora Olsen and Tom Winchester, Poetry by Karen Michel and Peter Van Aken, Drama by Cate Fricke. Actors include Michele McNally, Mark Stochmal, JD Whitt, and Linda Roper.

The sculptures in the park (Bertha included) are destined for removal soon. Through these events, we hope to show what is possible by keeping the parcel of land at Main and South Bridge St. a green space that the whole community can enjoy.

This is collaboration between Cate Fricke, Sovereign Nation, and the Dutchess County Arts Council.

Call the Dutchess County Arts Council for more info: 845-454-3222
FBook Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/301015459980861/
Cate’s Blog Post: http://wp.me/p1V65o-5V
SN Post with “Teaser” Video: http://wp.me/p1bJs4-Ai

About Dutchess County Arts Council

The Dutchess County Arts Council, founded in 1964, is a non-profit arts service organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting artists and arts organizations in the Mid-Hudson Valley region. The mission of the Dutchess County Arts Council is to provide the leadership, funding, encouragement, and services necessary for the highest quality of art to thrive in our county and region, and for citizens to value the arts as an important part of daily life, economy, and social fabric of our communities. Programs and activities include: grants to established organizations, community based projects and Arts in Education programs; folk arts research and presentation; technical assistance, professional development, and cultural community networking opportunities; awareness and advocacy; and community-wide fundraising efforts including the Dutchess County Art Fund. Programs are funded by the County of Dutchess, the New York State Council on the Arts, and private donors.

It is time again for the next edition of what was formally known as  the Beacon Arts Magazine and now known as The Beacon SCENE to hit the stands. We changed the name so we would be not confused with our friends at BACA and because we are getting larger and more diverse with articles on a whole range of subjects related to the greater Beacon area. That’s why The Beacon SCENE is all about Stage, Cuisine, Exhibits, Nature, and Entertainment – the perfect fit for a diverse area! With a new look and cover to match the branding we are doing at The Beacon, it seemed the perfect time to change the name.

But, some things don’t change and we now need from the community the art and culture events that will be happening between June and September of 2012 that you are aware of.

BACA was nice enough to send this out because even though we receive submissions from Dia, BACA, the Chamber, and the Howland, we know we are missing important contributions at other venues.

So following the short 3-4 line blurb format that you see in the present BAM, please give us the what, when, where, price, and contact info on how to buy tickets if there are any. We will fit for space and, of course, there is no charge. Please send the information (and your contact info in case we have a question) to thescene@thebeacontheatre.org

4000 copies will be distributed in the greater Beacon area, including Cold Spring/Garrison and the Newburgh waterfront.

Also, this edition has an advertising offer to galleries and individual artists for a color strip ad to promote your gallery for only $75.
If you are interested just write us at the address above and Jim Brady will come visit you. Larger ads are still available as well.

Thanks and have a safe and profitable summer!

Pat Manning
The SCENE

Hiddenbrooke and Margaret Sanger…

The Tioronda Working Group invites you to join us for our monthly discussion, Friday, May 25, 7PM – Beacon Yoga , 464 Main Street ., Beacon

We will discuss the history of Hiddenbrooke and its future, as well as the legacy of some of the people who resided there, including Margaret Sanger. Anyone who has been part of Hiddenbrooke over the years will be very welcome to tell us all about it.

A donation will be appreciated.
For more information go to www.tiorondaworkinggroup.com

The mission of the Tioronda Working Group is to learn our past and apply those lessons to issues we are facing today. Join us and you can share in the unique history of the Hudson Valley. that we all share.

Dancers from the Dutchess Dance Company. Photo: Kathy Cassens

On Saturday, June 2nd, Dance Beacon/Ballet Arts Studio, together with The Dutchess Dance Company, will present Vivaldi’s Suites of the Seasons at the Bardavon Opera House in Poughkeepsie, NY.  The show will feature many local young dancers from Beacon and surrounding towns in Dutchess, Putnam and Orange Counties.

Vivaldi’s Suites of the Seasons will showcase the talents of Dance Beacon/Ballet Arts Studio students, aged three through 18, in choreography to The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi, as well as other baroque composers.  The energetic and eclectic program will highlight the classical and conservatory-level training offered at the studio and will include a selection of modern, African and jazz pieces.  The program will also include the studio’s pre-professional dance company, The Dutchess Dance Company, in premieres of modern and contemporary ballet pieces by Artistic Director Alex Bloomstein and studio Ballet Mistress Denyse Looney.  Additionally, the Concert will premiere a classical ballet piece created exclusively for the Company by Resident Choreographer Todd Hall.

The Dutchess Dance Company (DDC) is designed to generate professional-level training and performance opportunities for talented, young dancers age twelve and up.  DDC performs at community events and venues throughout the region, including recent appearances at DanceFest in New Paltz and a benefit concert for the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck.

Dance Beacon/Ballet Arts Studio is a conservatory-level dance school located in the heart of Beacon, New York.  For more than forty years, Dance Beacon and Ballet Arts Studio have offered students ages three through adult classes in all levels of ballet, modern, African, and jazz dance, taught by experienced instructors who have all worked as professional dancers.

Budding Ballerinas. Photo by Ray Erlacher

Vivaldi’s Suites of the Seasons will take place on Saturday, June 2nd at two showtimes; 1:00 pm and 5:30 pm. Tickets, on sale now, are $15 for adults and $12 for groups of ten or more, and children twelve and under. To purchase tickets, visit the Bardavon Box Office, 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, (Tel: 845.473.2072), purchase online or by telephone at www.ticketmaster.com (Tel: 1.800.745.3000), or by calling the studio at 845.831.1870.

www.BalletArtsStudio.com

This isn’t your Mother’s Landscape! In fact, let’s take the word landscape out of the quotient and instead replace it with the concept of light and space.

In the Kitchen Gallery: Colin Barclay
Colin Barclay’s paintings strive to portray the unique grandeur of the Maine coast and New York’s Hudson River Valley. The artist’s chief concern is capturing the subtleties of atmospheric perspective, revealing a landscape transformed by weather and the changing light of early morning or dusk. Though his paintings ignore overt signs of human presence and often depict stormy, restless skies his work is not simply Romantic and is distinguished by a distinctly contemporary mood.

“I never want to paint a static landscape where everything seems

at rest,” he says, “I always push for the work to feel as if it’s suspended or tensed against itself-just caught in the midst of movement.”

In the Hearth Gallery: Susan English

Aequora: Poured:

These paintings come out of a process that mimics nature: A pool of paint hardens like ice or mud, it is subject to temperature and humidity, and it’s thickness and viscosity impact how the surface dries. The drawing in the paintings – the cracks, coagulations and streaks of unmixed pigment – is the result of a delicate and flexible relationship between control and accident.    A landscape lives inside of us. An internal space. A rich accumulation of places, experiences – a visual emotional memory bank of time in space and space in time. The “Aequora Poured” series draws on this internal space.

In The Skylight Gallery Sheilah Rechtschaffer 

Memory Language; Pastels and Paintings is the sequel to Green in Vietnam as artist Sheilah Rechtschaffer explores the terrain of the interface between war, peace, memory and visual expression.

After studying the forms of Kanji and Ancient Vietnamese calligraphy, she decided that it was impossible to attempt to copy the calligraphy herself. But what she could do was to look at the form and rhythm of the symbols for peace, love, friendship, home, destiny etc. and pay homage to that beauty in her instinctual mark making while retaining the vibrant colors which have been her hallmark.

BEACON IS CHANGING. YOU CAN HELP!

• The Comprehensive Plan recommends encouraging more people to live and work in the Main Street area in order to create a more vibrant and attractive streetscape and a healthier local economy.
• The Comprehensive Plan suggests that the City can achieve these goals by allowing building heights of up to four stories, easing parking requirements, and making development of empty parcels more attractive to developers.
• Other possible changes would help further define our City–what it will look like, how we use it, and how others see it.