Have you received your BACA member card yet? If not, send me an email. Most have gone out but there are a few stragglers (I might need an address, etc.) Not a BACA Member? What are you waiting for? You can get discounts at the following Beacon hotspots!
Artisan Wine Shop
Beacon Bath & Bubble
Beacon Pilates
Cup and Saucer Tea Room
Dia:Beacon
Fire Lotus
Homespun Foods
Hudson Beach Glass
Max's on Main
MountainTops
Paper Presence
Piggy Bank Restaurant
RiverWinds Gallery
Sukhothai Restaurant
VanBrunt Gallery
All this plus postings on our website and in our newsletter for only $25.00 per year (for artists and individuals) AND now you can also become a member of the Dutchess County Arts Council for only an additional 25$. That's half off their regular membership. |
|
|
Events, Openings, and other Fun Stuff |
|
Away We Go (2009) by Jonathan Allen at GoNorth
FRIDAY, JULY 24
Wine Tasting 4-7p - Artisan Wine Shop
FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE QUAFFERS
180 Main Street
www.artisanwineshop.com845.440.6923
Beacon Open Studios Registration Party
5-7pm at Max's on Main
246 Main Street
Happy hour specials for all who come
Come find out more about this great opportunity to show your stuff!
Film 730p - ZUZU'z Leaf and Bean
screen16 - Three short films
LSD Insight or Insanity (1967) GREAT 25 minute short narrated by SAL MINEO. Documentary short about an urban NYC playground with a soundtrack of Scott Joplin music. Also, a thoroughly fascinating portrait of career of General Douglas MacArthur.
453 Main St.
845-765-0679
Film 730p - BEAHIVE
OPEN HIVE / Happy Hour & Film Screening. No charge - bring friends and snacks to share.
BYOB Happy Hour @ 7:30 Screening @ dusk. This month's film: Persepolis 95 minutes.
291 Main St
Music 8p - Howland Cultural Center
John Hammond in Concert - Grammy winning blues artist John Hammond inaugerates the Howland Contemporary Masters Concert Series $25.00
845-831-4988
Music 930p - Max's On Main
James Patrick brings his electric/acoustic show performing Beatles to Zevon-- get ready to dance and sing a-long
246 Main Street
845-838-6297(MAXS)
SATURDAY, JULY 25
Beacon Open Studios Registration Party
10am-noon at Zuzu's
453 Main Street
- a free upgrade on your coffee for those who register and the first 10 people to sign up will receive a free cupcake (who doesn't love a cupcake?)
Fishkill Watershed Day 11a-5p - Beacon Institute 1pm Author Talk with Jim Heron - "Denning's Point: A Hudson River History." Book signing and Q&A will follow. This event is part of the Dutchess Watershed Awareness Month. 199 Main St www.bire.org845-838-1600
Gallery Talk 1p - Dia:Beacon
Christina Rosenberger, Research Coordinator, Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art at Harvard University Art Museums, will lecture on Robert Ryman.
3 Beekman Street
www.diaart.org845.440.0100
Wine Tasting 3-7p - Artisan Wine Shop
GOIN' AMERICAN FOR BACKYARD BBQS
180 Main Street
www.artisanwineshop.com845.440.6923
Silk Screen Party 4-7p - gallery506
Bring shirts, pants, dresses, boxes, paper, any wild material that you can grab and get a cool silkscreen image on it for only 5$. Or just come with money and get a shirt of your choice for 10-20$.
Music 930p - Max's On Main
The Klubnik Band
246 Main St
TUESDAY, JULY 28th
Info Session 6-8p - BEAHIVE
TASTING OUR VALLEY: A Celebration of Local Flavors
LOCAL FOODS: SAMPLE, LEARN, GET HOOKED
$7 for members* / $12 for non-members SPACE IS LIMITED!
Produced by Hudson Valley Real Food (previously Beacon Food Group), a buying group and information source for local, sustainably produced foods. Members support the buying group and are able to place orders for local, fresh dairy products, cheese, meats and
fruits directly from area farms. More info and Register online at www.hvrealfood.com291 Main Street
845.765.1890
THURSDAY, JULY 30
Music 630p - Piggy Bank Restaurant
Tiki Thursdays (FREE!) Concert Series
A Fragile Tomorrow
Powerful, melodic songs from a band of (young) brothers
448 Main Street
845-838-0028
|
 (WOMS) |
August 8 - September 12, 2009
Windows on Main Street is entering it's fifth year in Beacon, NY. Participants create site-specific works of art as a means to engage the community, residents, and businesses through a month long exhibition displayed in store windows located along Main Street.
2009 Participating Artists
- Rebecca Ambrosini - Muddy Cup Coffeeshop, 129 Main Street
- Kathleen Anderson - Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, 324 Main Street
- Elizabeth Castagna - 500 Main Street
- Carla Goldberg - Beacon Rivers for Estuaries & Rivers, 199 Main Street
- Theresa Gooby - 259 Main Street
- Elia Gurna - 502 Main Street
- Beth Haber - River Winds Gallery, 172 Main Street
- Jason Hahn - 504 Main Street
- Peter Iannarelli & Keisha Luce - Beacon Post Office, 369 Main Street
- Jesse Lebwohl-Steiner & Will Walker - M&T Bank, 200 Main Street
- Beth Lewis-Jackson & Edward Vermehren - Hudson Beach Glass, 162 Main Street
- Teresa Marra - Chill Wine Bar, 173 Main Street
- Eileen McTiernan - Mount Beacon Fine Art, 155 Main Street
- Dana Devine O'Malley - Zora Dora, 201 Main Street
- Joe Pimentel & Melissa Toth - Fire Lotus, 474 Main Street
- Keely Sheehan - Echo, 470 Main Street
- Vicki Raven - Mixture, 209 Main Street
- Steve Rossi - Artisan Wine Shop, 180 Main Street
- Dan Rigney - BEAHive/American Burnish, 291 Main Street
- Emily Sylvester - Poppy's Burger's & Fries, 184 Main Street
- Catherine Welshman - Jacqueline's, 478 Main Street
Panel Discussion:
"Public Art, the Economy and Our Community"
Saturday, August 8, 2009
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Dia:Beacon, 3 Beekman Street, Beacon
Join local and regional professionals in a discussion about Public Art and its effect on the local economy and the various ways Public Art pertains to the community.
- Steven Evans, Assistant Director of Dia Foundation at Dia:Beacon
- Sara Pasti, Director of Samuel Dorsky Museum & Beacon Councilwoman
- Cabot Parsons, Chairperson of Beacon Arts & Cultural Development Committee
- Garin Baker, Orange County Arts Council
- Christopher Albert, Artist
- Dan Weiss, Open Space Gallery, Beacon
Please let us know you're coming at: 17EastMain@gmail.com, or by calling (845) 765-1629.
Opening Reception
Saturday, August 8, 2009
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Chill Wine Bar, 173 Main Street, Beacon
Featuring the chill groove of K. Erik Ino & James
Come meet the artists of Windows on Main Street
For more information see the blog. |
 Beacon Open Studios |
Beacon Open Studios Registration Parties
Friday July 24th from 5-7pm at Max's on Main, 246 Main Street
- happy hour specials for all who come
Saturday July 25th from 10am-noon at Zuzu's, 453 Main Street
- a free upgrade on your coffee for those who register for Open Studios and the first 10 people to sign up will receive a free cupcake (who doesn't love a cupcake?)
Every artist who registers in person at these two registration events will receive a 20% discount on art supplies at Newburgh Art Supplies
Don't wait to sign up for Open Studios!! Do it now to take advantage of these generous offers from local businesses.
For more info on BOS check out the blog. | |
|
|
|
| On Walls |
|
400 Square
www.400square.com
914-522-4736
845-440-7548
The Beacon Institute for Rivers & Estuaries
The Last Gorillas of the Congo -Brent Stirton through August 2 143 Main Sreet
www.foveaeditions.org
845-765-2199
Go North Gallery
Terminal Daydream
347-531-6111
845-831-4988
Hudson Beach Glass
We are Familia
510 Main St. www.openspacebeacon.com
718-207-3793
The Photographer's Place
508 Main St.
917-478-7620
RiverWinds Gallery
Quad 2 - through 7/27
137 Main St.
www.vanbruntgallery.com845-838-2995
vanbruntgallery @ moxie
Quad 2 - through 7/27
544 Main St.
Zahra's Studio
Zuzu's Leaf & Bean
Katie O'Hagan - Beacon Faces
453 Main St.
845-765-0679 |
| At Work |
|
Celebrating the River
by Linda Hubbard. At RiverWinds. |
| BACA Kids |
Creative Dance/Movement for Young Children at the Howland Public Library Saturdays starting: 7/18/2009
Start Time: 10:30 AM
End Time: 11:30 AM
Marlene Pennison will introduce Young children, ages 3-6 with their caregivers, to dance/movement and a bit of theatrics as a way of self expression.
Space is limited so we ask that you register in July by calling Ginny at 831-1134, ex.103.
Singalong Slim and BumbleBEE Art & Music present a weekly kids sing-along led by Singalong Slim (aka Stephen Clair Thursdays at 10 am through the summer! (Except 7/30!)
Only $5 per family. Free if you're already enrolled in a class at BumbleBEE Art & Music.
|
| Opportunities |
|
Large Artist Studio for Rent
900sqft with 15' ceilings, three phase electric, ground floor garage door with street access, private entrance, natural gas, new concrete floors, and will build out to suit. $900.00 per month rent. No real estate fees. Contact Michael Benzer (Hudson Beach Glass) michael@glasstiles.com or 845-831-3116.
Open submission for Photographers
Fovea's volunteer photo editors Kelly Kingman and Amrita Singh are now taking submissions for photo essays for 2009's 'Expanding Visions' projection series. Projections take place both indoors and outdoors and are free to the public. September 12th "Family Values" (submission deadline 8/10) December 12th "Faith" (submission deadline 11/10 Please email submissions@foveaeditions.org for FTP information. |
| Classes, Meetings and Clubs |
|
MONDAY
Bridge Club 10a - Howland Cultural Center
477 Main St.
www.howlandculturalcenter.org
845-831-4988
TUESDAY
Scrabble Competition 6p - ZuZu's
453 Main St.
845-765-0679
THURSDAY
(next session 7/30)
Figure drawing of a professional nude model in an art studio environment will be held at Floor One Gallery on Thursdays from 7:00 to 9:00 PM, located at 17 East Main Street in Beacon. Bring your own materials. $10 a session. Please arrive before the start of the session.
Kadampka Meditation 7pm - Howland Cultural Center
477 Main St.
www.howlandculturalcenter.org
845-831-4988 | |
|
