Section: Arts & Entertainment

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Honors to Croton Couple at Upcoming Pinkster African-American Heritage Festival

May 14, 2007

Inspired by the grand cross-cultural springtime celebrations enslaved Africans created during colonial times, the Philipsburg Manor community will host its annual Pinkster Festival on Sunday, May 20, 2007, from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

African music and dance are part of the festivities at Philipsburg Manor’s Pinkster Festival (photo: Bryan Haeffele)

As part of the day’s festive events, Historic Hudson Valley, which owns and operates historic Philipsburg Manor, will bestow its African-American Heritage Award on Jerry and Gloria Pinkney of Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., the award-winning, world-renowned authors and illustrators of children’s and general interest books including John Henry, Back Home, Aesop’s Fables, Noah’s Ark, and The Ugly Duckling. Beginning at 12:30 PM, the Pinkneys will sign copies of their books, followed by the award presentation that will take place at 1:30 PM.

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Sunnyside Presents Fine Food & Live Art on Mother's Day

May 8, 2007

Visitors to Washington Irving’s Sunnyside on Sunday, May 13, 2007, can enjoy a different kind of gift for Mother’s Day—watching art being created while dining on festive lunches in a picturesque, outdoor setting. The event, which begins at 10 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m., features more than a dozen artists scattered around the romantic grounds creating new works on site.

Artists-on-the-Hudson provides visitors with a rare opportunity to view the process of art being created and to ask the artists questions. In addition, children and adults are invited to borrow art materials provided by Sunnyside, which is owned and operated by Historic Hudson Valley, to create their own works. Besides watercolor supplies, Sunnyside “then and now” paper is available, which features a reproduction of an 1850’s painting of Sunnyside on one side, and a hand-drawn “frame” on the other side waiting to be filled with current views of Sunnyside. Visitors who bring a camera can capture their loved ones posing inside a life-size picture frame.

Artists taking part include Kevin Cook of New Paltz, Lynda Fassa of Tarrytown, Margaret Leveson of Brooklyn, Helene Manzo of Brooklyn, Costanza Baiocco of Manhattan, Ronnie Levine of Tarrytown, Elaine Friedman of New Rochelle, Phyllis Tarlow of Hartsdale, Betsy Leitzes of Irvington, and Jan Aiello of Croton.

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Artist Monya Brown Opens in Briarcliff with Weekend Reception

April 25, 2007

Croton-on-Hudson Artist Monya Berg Brown opens with a reception featuring her acrylics and collages, sized 6” x 8” to 22” x 24”, on Sunday, April 29, 2007, at the Moonbean Café in Briarcliff Manor. During the reception, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM, the Moonbean café will provide a sampling of baked goods and teas for visitors to the show.

Monya’s works (see her video below) will continue to be displayed at the café until May 25th. The Moonbean Café is located at 1123 Pleasantville Road, Briarcliff Manor, just South of The Patio Restaurant, and is open on Sundays from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Mondays to Thursday from 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM, and Fridays to Saturdays from 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM.

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Learn to Churn Butter, Make Candles, Dye Wool, & More at Van Cortlandt Manor this Weekend

April 24, 2007

VCM staff teaches how to strip bark off a felled log

Visitors to Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton-on-Hudson on April 28 and 29, 2007, can try their hands at more than a dozen colonial-era tasks during “Hands-On Heritage Crafts.” The gardens, grounds, and buildings of this living history museum will be bustling with activity as visitors are encouraged to learn about the traditional activities of the 18th century in an interactive way. Each activity is presented by guides wearing clothing of the period. The event takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on both days.

“Colonial guests” can help make candles, churn butter, create cheese, and stitch brooms. They can also try their hands at coopering (barrel making), wool dyeing and spinning, shoe making, tin smithing, flax breaking and spinning, quilting, weaving, and open-hearth cooking. Particularly popular with youngsters is the chance to help Van Cortlandt Manor’s blacksmith forge iron hooks and other items.

VCM volunteer shows a “modern-day friend” how to weave a fish net

Children can also sew a bag designed to hold medicinal herbs and then have it filled with dried botanicals in the manner of the 18th century. One example is a “sleep bag,” which is filled with a mixture of rose petals, mint leaves, and cloves, and was used by early Americans as a cure for insomnia.

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Shaggy Sheep to be Herded, Sheared at Upcoming Philipsburg Manor Spring Festival

April 18, 2007

Resident sheep Esther and Job of Philipsburg Manor

Sheep anxious to lose their winter coats will be shorn by hand in the style of the 18th century at Philipsburg Manor’s Sheep-to-Shawl festival, taking place Saturday and Sunday, April 21-22, 2007 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

Visitors can see the entire process of making woolen cloth and participate in many stages of the process once the sheep are sheared: picking and carding the wool, spinning and dyeing the yarn, and weaving it into cloth. Interpreters, wearing costume of the 18th century, also demonstrate the labor-intensive process of making linen from the flax plant.

Sheep-to-Shawl, which heralds the arrival of spring in earnest, will be augmented this year with special tours of the site’s Manor House, which is reopened after a year’s worth of renovations—the first in more than 40 years. The circa 1680 building was given an exterior and interior overhaul. The $500,000 renovations not only included routine maintenance—replacing systems that have a life span such as the roof and shutters—but changes that reflect new scholarship and new discoveries about how residents of the Manor lived and worked there.

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Croton's Funny Young People to Improvise Friday

March 27, 2007

Croton Academy of Comedic Arts students

The always-funny Croton Academy of Comedic Arts, aka CACA, is set to stand up for another evening of comedy improvisation at the Croton Free Library on Friday, March 30, 2007. The performance, beginning at 7:00 PM features CACA students in grades 7 through 12. A sure-fire highlight of the evening will be the debut three original comedy skits by the seventh grade class. Best of all, admission to the show is free.

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Photographers of Northern Westchester Mark 25 Years with Week Long Exhibit

March 26, 2007

Dancing at Senasqua by Brian Stanton

The Photographers of Northern Westchester opened their week long 25th Annual Exhibit on Sunday, March 25, 2007, during a reception held at the Unitarian Fellowship Meeting House, located on Route 9A in Croton-on-Hudson.

The exhibit, featuring the works of more than 60 photographers, is open to the public, free of charge and continues until Sunday, April 1, 2007 while maintaining the following hours: March 26th to 30th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM and March 31st and April 1st, 2007 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM. Additionally, many of the photographs—from still life to landscape, from portrait to documentary, from traditional photographic processes to current digital photography, including also ultra-creative computer-enhanced pieces—on exhibit are for sale. For further information, please call Maggie Loewenwarter at 914-271-1037.

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Crotonite Peter Calo in Concert Saturday for Hometown Performance

March 21, 2007

Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist Peter Calo returns to the Croton Free Library after a busy season as senior band-member for Carly Simon and as guitarist for the Tony- and Grammy-winning Broadway hit “Hairspray” for a concert performance geared towards an adult audience. Recently, Calo was also the musical consultant to director Julie Taymor for her upcoming film titled “Across the Universe.”

Peter, called “an exceptionally versatile and accomplished talent” by WBZ-TV, Boston, will play to his hometown of audience of Croton on Saturday, March 25, 2007 in the Ottinger Room at the Croton Free Library. Further, says the Boston Globe about Peter, the performance promises something “bluesy, funky, folksy,” from a “master musician.” Starting at 7:30 PM, Calo will perform his original tunes and tribute songs from old and upcoming recordings.

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Croton Watercolor Painter Tara Marean to Open Show in Shrub Oak

March 12, 2007

“Path to Popham, Watercolor, 20x16”

Croton painter Tara Marean opens her watercolor show at the John C. Hart Memorial Library on Saturday, March 17, 2007, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. Ms. Marean’s work is on display at the library from March 2nd to April 12th on Monday-Thursday from 9:30 AM to 8:00 PM, Friday-Saturday from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM, and Sunday from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

The John C. Hart Memorial Library is located at 1130 Main Street, Shrub Oak, New York. For more information on the show, call 914-245-5262.

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E.Y.E.'s Exhibit Wide Open at Black Cow Coffee Shop

March 8, 2007

A group of eight artists and a band of seven musicians, who call themselves E.Y.E., took over Croton’s Black Cow Coffee Shop on Saturday, March 3, 2007, for a live performance of mixed media. After all of the chairs, couches and tables were moved out of the coffee shop, the walls were covered with white paper, the artists got underway to the sounds of live free-form-jam-style music. And for two hours, the artists would take turns adding to each other’s work—all started with some basic shapes. “Along with the E.Y.E. artists were thirty to forty people who watched, listened and chatted over coffee,” said curator and coffee shop owner Michael Grant.

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“They had a video monitor projecting the event from a hand held camera that a guy was walking around with, on one of the canvases while the artists were painting on it or not,” recounts Grant. Saying, “Everyone had a blast,” and that since it was “all in all a really cool event, it makes me want to do many more like it.”

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Mr. Grant added that “the actual paintings they will be up for the month of March” and encourages those interested to visit the coffee shop, located next to Wachovia Bank at 51 Maple Street, Croton-on-Hudson, New York (map) and see them (the artwork) up close.

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