And so it begins.....the official shopping season. This year make a choice to shop local! Main Street has enough variety to make all your holiday shopping a snap. From the outdoor enthusiast, to the art lover, to the gourmand to the young and young at heart. For more on why shopping local makes community sense -
see the new column Why Shop Local?.
BUT it doesn't cost ANYTHING to be a part of the Holiday Season in Beacon. There are many FUN and FREE events for you and your family; including the FREE Holiday Concert TONIGHT at 5p at the Howland Cultural Center.
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What a great idea!! - Know a local artist who's not a member of BACA? Get them a membership. Only 25$ for a gift that lasts all year!!
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| BACA Artists AT WORK |
Maragaret McDuffie TODAY Friday 11/23
at the Howland Cultural Center 5p and at Piggy Bank Fridays 8p!
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Mark MacKinnon of The Photographer's Place
is showing in the 10th Annual Downtown Delray Beach
Thanksgiving Weekend Art Festival in Florida, November 28-29
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Stephen Clair (aka Singalong Slim) at Zuzu's on Tuesday's 4pm.
(Bring your kids!)
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Theresa Gooby: "PAST AND PRESENT" at Amos Eno Gallery
November 25 - December 19 Opening Reception: Thurs December 3 5:30-8:30P
111 Front street, suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Tel: 718-237-3001
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Kelly Ellenwood in Kingston! Tuesday, December 1, 2009
CD Promotion Showcase "Black Bear's Hudson Valley Tale"
Barnes & Noble, Kingston NY
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"HEY! I'm a BACA Artist too! How do I get featured in this section??"
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| Openings, Theatre, Music, Film and so on.... |
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27
Wine Tasting 4-7p - Artisan Wine Shop
Holiday Concert 5p - Howland Cultural Center
"Jingle Bell Jazz & Holiday Lighting" A music program presenting Margaret McDuffie, jazz vocalist and Art Labriola, pianist & composer. Come to enjoy a round of jazz standards and sing a round of Christmas carols. Light refreshments will be served. Mayor Steve Gold will throw the switch to officially mark the opening of the Holidays in Beacon. Concert is free.
www.howlandculturalcenter.org
477 Main Street
845-831-4988 Opening Reception 6pm - Hudson Beach Glass
Mike and Doug Starn headline Zen Holiday Zen Holiday curated by
Music 9p - Piggy Bank Fridays
LOCAL 845 presents Margaret McDuffie
Satisfying, but not filling! On Black Friday evening, The McDuffie Trio digs into some great jazz & blues, with Steve Raleigh on guitar, Mark Hagan on bass, and Margaret McDuffie on the mic. No cover, no minimum.
Music 930p - Max's On Main
Singer/Guitarist Petey Hop Hopkinson bring his take on all your favorites from the 60s to today.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28
Saturday and Sunday Holiday Store Front Decorating Contest
This year there is a theme - snowflakes! The judging by Garden Club members for the Best Decorated Storefront on Main Street will occur on November 28th and 29th. Banners with the winners logo for first, second and third places will be awarded along with publicity in local newspapers.
Dennings Point Walking Tour 12a - CEIE
The last tour of the year on Denning's Point. The Points trails are closed from December 1 to April 1 to protect the Bald Eagle habitat. Last chance ... don't miss this last Fall look at this very famous island. Jim Heron, author of Denning's Point A Hudson River History will be leading the tour. www.bire.org 199 Dennings Ave 845-838-1600 x16
Gallery Talk 1p - Dia:Beacon
Reiko Tomii on On Kawara Reiko Tomii is an independent art historian and curator, who investigates post-1945 Japanese art in global and local contexts. Based in New York, she has curated the Japanese sections of Global Conceptualism (Queens Museum of Art, 1999) and Century City (Tate Modern, 2001). Her recent publications include Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York (Japan Society, 2007) and Kazuo Shiraga: Six Decades (McCaffrey Fine Art, 2009). Free with museum admission. For reservations click here. www.diabeacon.org 3 Beekman St. 845-440-0100
Music 830p - Chill Wine Bar
Saturday Nov 28th - Margaret Slovak Returns with her Classical Jazz guitar 8:30 pm till midnight.
Music 930p - Max's On Main Hank And The Skinny 3- CD Release Party. Hank and the skinny 3 debut release COYOTE SPEAKS is finally here. Recorded in Mountainville Ny with the help of Jeremy Backofen (felice brothers, frightened rabbit) mixed by hank and mastered by Alan Douches Coyote Speaks inhabits a dark but beautiful place. It embodies all of Hanks and the Skinny 3's favorites music folk rock, surf, rockabilly country blue grass post punk and rock n roll and thers more more hidden in the layers of a record that was tracked and bounced it way into existence via an 8 track tape machine and Logic. www.maxsonmain.com 246 Main Street 845-838-6297(MAXS)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29
Saturday and Sunday Holiday Store Front Decorating Contest
This year there is a theme - snowflakes! The judging by Garden Club members for the Best Decorated Storefront on Main Street will occur on November 28th and 29th. Banners with the winners logo for first, second and third places will be awarded along with publicity in local newspapers.
Special Event 4p - Cup and Saucer Tea Room
"Hansel & Gretel Gingerbread House Workshop Tea" at 4:00 PM. Please call for reservations 831-6287. The houses will be raffled off on 12/19 and the proceeds will be split between The Bannerman Castle Trust, BBA and BACA. For more information on the CONTEST click here.
Cup & Saucer Restaurant
165 Main Street
845-831-6287
Film 6p - Daniel Aubry Gallery
"Experience the wonderment of our world in a way that will enthrall, captivate and inspire you! Award-winning aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand and narrator Glenn Close take you on a spectacular voyage around the world in Home, a unique film with such breathtaking imagery, you'll want to enjoy it time and time again." You bring a folding chair , we'll provide the wine and snacks! $5.00 suggested donation per person www.danielaubrygallery.com 426 Main Street
Theatre 7p - Howland Cultural Center
Flying Swine Presents - Death and the Maiden - A play by Ariel Dorfmann #7 in our series of PORCINE PREVIEWS (pre-production readings of a plethora of plays) directed by GORDON STEWART with JENNIFER LEE ANDREWS, DONALD KIMMEL, HAL ROBINSON live musical accompaniment by OPEN HEART STRING QUARTET Including excerpts from Schubert's 'DEATH & the MAIDEN' & Mozart's 'DISSONANT QUARTET' FREE TO THE PUBLIC. DONATIONS GRATEFULLY ACCEPTED www.flyingswine.org www.howlandculturalcenter.org 477 Main Street 845-831-4988
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1
Music 4p - ZUZU'S LEAF & BEAN
Singalong Slim
453 Main Street
845-765-0679
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2
Film 7p - BEAHIVE
This month's film: The Age of Stupid (2009) The new four-year epic from McLibel director Franny Armstrong. Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking, Why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance? (89 mins.) BYOB Happy Hour @ 6. Screening @ 7-ish. Open to the public - bring friends. No charge. www.beahivebeacon.com 291 Main St (corner of S. Brett) 917-449-6356 | |
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| Why Shop Local? |
The TOP TEN Reasons to Shop Local
(excerpted from 10 Reasons Why Vermont's Homegrown Economy Matters
And 50 Proven Ways to Revive It by Stacy Mitchell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance and published by the Preservation Trust of Vermont October 2003. Available here as a downloadable pdf.)
1. Local Character and Prosperity In an increasingly homogenized world, communities that preserve their one-of-a-kindbusinesses and distinctive character have aneconomic advantage.
2. Community Well-Being Locally owned businesses build strong communities by sustaining vibrant town centers, linking neighbors in a web of economic and social relationships, and contributing to local causes.
3. Local Decision-Making
Local ownership ensures that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.
4. Keeping Dollars in the Local EconomyCompared to chain stores, locally owned businesses recycle a much larger share of their revenue back into the local economy, enriching the whole community.
5. Job and Wages
Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do.
6. Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship fuels America's economic
innovation and prosperity, and serves as a key means for families to move out of lowwage
jobs and into the middle class.
7. Public Benefits and Costs Local stores in town centers require
comparatively little infrastructure and make
more efficient use of public services relative to
big box stores and strip shopping malls.
8. Environmental Sustainability
Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact,
walkable town centers-which in turn are
essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use,
habitat loss, and air and water pollution.
9. Competition A marketplace of tens of thousands of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.
10. Product Diversity
A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based, not on a national sales plan, but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices. |
| On Walls |
Shows closing IN RED!
Back Room Gallery
475 Main Street
845-838-1838
Bannerman Island Gallery
"CELEBRATING THE HUDSON
bau
BAU 59: Anna Jacob On Glass
The Beacon Institute
for Rivers & Estuaries
Linda Cross | Reflections on the
River. Paintings exploring the
Daniel Aubry Gallery
Works by Purvis Young, Sheila Metzner, Jock
Floor One
Recovena: the artwork of
Jon Patrick Murphy
17 E. Main
Showing by appointment (17EastMain@gmail.com)
FoveaFaith, Photographs by
Christopher Churchill.
On view through January 10th
www.foveaeditions.org
845-765-2199
Gallery G
New works by Will Walker
15 East Main Street
by appointment
new work from Ghostfuk3r
(aka David Carson)
Paintings by Christie Scheele and Charlotte Schulz on view
through November 30.
137 Main St.
www.vanbruntgallery.com
845-838-2995
vanbruntgallery @ moxie
544 Main St.
Zuzu's Leaf & Bean
"Small Works Holiday Show"
453 Main St.
845-765-0679 |
| BACA for Kids (and adults too!) |
Music 4p - ZUZU'S LEAF & BEAN
Singalong Slim
453 Main Street
845-765-0679
December
Creative Dance Theater
for Children
taught by Marleen Pennison
Saturday December 5, 12, and 19
3, 4, and 5 year olds -- 10:30-11:30 Fee: $36. Single Trial Class: $15.
Studio 108 A
Old Beacon High School
211 Fishkill Ave.
Beacon, NY 12508
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