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Past Events
More than 100 people turned out for our first public meeting on
December 10 in a great show of community support.
We have been having a lot of great thing happening here. Here is a list of past events. Thanks to everyone for your support!
February 6, 2010
DJ Ali Dance Party, Rosendale Cafe, $10, 9 p.m.-midnight. DJ Ali Gruber is bringing back the classic DJ-spun dance party. She spins classic dance music on vinyl LPs and 45s. Soul, Motown, funk, disco, reggae, hip hop, and beyond!
February 6 and 7, 2010
Heart Show and Sale at Canaltown Alley, 7-10 pm (and Sunday the 7th 12-5). Just in time for Valentine’s Day. Heart-shaped art, made with love, by over 30 of the area’s best-known artists. Heart shapes cut by local woodworkers. See a list of participating artists, as well as preview of the completed pieces.
February 7, 2010
Groovin' on a Sunday Afternoon! A Musical Afternoon at the Rosendale Theatre, 2-6pm.
Featuring some of the best musicians in The Hudson Valley including:
Eduardo Parra - Argentinean Folk
Rebecca Coupe Franks - Groovin' Trumpet
Charlie Kniceley Quartet - Jazz
Betty MacDonald - Jazz Violinist and Vocalist
Big Joe Fitz & the Lo Fi's - Blues
MC'd by Studio Stu
Tickets:
$15 in advance available at The Alternative Baker (Rosendale, NY) or Stone
Ridge Wine and Spirits (Stone Ridge, NY) or click here to purchase tickets.
$20 at the door
February 21, 2010
Mardi Gras in Rosendale at the Recreation Center 6-10 p.m. $25 advance and $30 at the door. Celebrate Mardi Gras with a three-course New Orleans-style dinner with music and dance to follow. Music by Jesse Lege.
February 21, 2010
The Muppet Movie and Costume Pageant with Live Banjo! #2 in the Family Fun series at the Rosendale Theatre. 2:00 pm. Featuring the orignal "Muppet Movie" and a costume pageant. Come as your favorite Muppet for the parade!
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Public Meeting - Rosendale Rec Center, 7pm.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
#3 in the Family Fun Series Youth Animations from Around the World - Rosendale Theatre, 2:00pm; Kids free, adults $10 (children must be accompanied by an adult). Children’s Media Project has brought together some of the best short videos produced by young people from around the world.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Say Amen, Somebody! a gospel and jazz brunch at the Rosendale Theatre with the Saints of Swing, featuring Miss Rene Bailey. Food by a variety of your favorite local eateries. 11am - 2pm.
Price: $15 per Adult, $12 Teens and Seniors, $5 for 5-10 year olds, Free for under 5years.
If tickets are purchased in advance one can buy 2 adult tickets for $25
Where to Buy Tickets in Advance: Jack&Luna’s, Stone Ridge Wine and Spirits, The Big Cheese, The Last Bite (High Falls), or tickets can be purchased online HERE.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Write For Your Life: A Memoir Writing Workshop with Laura Shaine Cunningham and
Literary Lunch to follow at the Rosendale Café. Laura Shaine Cunningham is the author of two acclaimed memoirs, Sleeping Arrangements and A Place in the Country. Laura Shaine Cunningham has taught memoir writing at Harvard, NYU and Princeton as well as at Omega and at the Woodstock Writers festival. She calls her method "the anti-angst" approach and says "Writing memoir need not be painful- on the contrary, it can be freeing and relieve you of old sorrows and send you forth with new joy and perspective.
Time: Workshop 10:00–11:30 am, lunch to follow Location: Rosendale Café
Suggested Donation: workshop $40, lunch $15.00, memoir@rosendaletheatre.org
Limited space available, please use our registration form to pay by check, or click HERE to register with a credit card through Brown Paper Tickets.
April 8-11, 2010
4 Days, 40 Potlucks. The area surrounding the Rosendale Theatre will be a hive of potlucks! There will be an Indian food potluck, a wine-and-cheese potluck, even a potluck that's open to the public. The potlucks are all fundraisers for the Rosendale Theatre Collective.
We're still looking for a couple more hosts! If you are interested please contact Gale McGovern (845-657-5759, gale@hvi.net).
The public potluck will be a brunch at the Lifebridge Sanctuary, 333 Mountain Road in Rosendale, from noon to 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 11. The Lifebridge Sanctuary is a 12,000-square-foot, green facility on 95 acres of forest on the Shawangunk Ridge. Please bring food and drink to share and a donation for the Rosendale Theatre Collective. For directions to the public potluck, contact Carrie Wykoff, Carrie@EventsThatMatter.net, or call Lifebridge at 658-3439.
Saturday, May, 1, 2010
Collective Unconscious - A benefit for the Rosendale Theater Collective starring
Melissa Leo, Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine, and Lori Wilner
Academy Award nominee Melissa Leo, chanteuse/Broadway star Lori Wilner, and the post-eternity vaudeville team of Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine will stage a rollicking variety show to benefit the Rosendale Theater Collective on Saturday, May 1, at 8 p.m. All proceeds will go to the Collective, which is trying to raise the funds to purchase the beloved theater and transform it into an artist-run, community-based arts center.
Click HERE to purchase tickets in advance through brown paper tickets for the performance.
Mingle with the Stars! - Click HERE to purchase tickets for the VIP cocktail party with the Collective Unconscious stars and performance. Or to purchase tickets to the cocktail party and performance please email RSVP@rosendaletheatre.org. Tickets are limited for this special invitation event, and advanced registration is highly recommended.
MAY 3-9, 2010
Note: This date has changed from April 5.
Incredible Online Auction - An impressive variety of items from art and massages to a day of guided rock climbing. More details coming soon…
Saturday, May 8, 2010
A Middle Eastern Feast and Party at the Belltower, 398 Main Street, Rosendale, New York
Take a magic carpet ride and be transported to an Oasis filled with a delicious Mediterranean feast, live music, belly dancing, and open drumming and dancing. This special exotic event will be from 6 pm to 9 pm. A belly dancing workshop will take place at 4:30 pm. Donations for the evening feast are $25 in advance or $30 at the door. Space for the belly dancing workshop is limited and advance tickets are required, the price for the workshop is $15. All proceeds go to the Rosendale Theatre Collective, a non-profit organization raising funds to buy the historic theater.
Lisa and Yuval Sterer owners of The Big Cheese are experts on Middle Eastern fare and will create a delectable feast for the party. On the menu are: dolmades, hummus and falafel, lamb shish kebab with tahini sauce, roasted eggplant with tahini sauce, Israeli salad, Mediterranean rice, and watermelon. Alcoholic beverages, specialty teas and exotic desserts will be available for purchase.
The evening will feature a fascinating slideshow of images capture by Yuval on a recent trip to Cairo, Egypt. Live music will be provided by the bands Birds of a Feather and Rick Birmingham and Friends. Belly dancing performances will feature the dancers Willow, Twisted Tassels Tribal Dance Troupe, Shivati, and Barushka of Bleeding Hearts Bellydance.
The 4:30 pm belly dancing workshop will be taught by local belly dancer Willow. She has been studying this beautiful and mysterious art form for almost 2 decades, visit www.bellydancewillow.com.
Advance tickets are strongly suggested we expect this event to sell out. Tickets are available below or at The Big Cheese or at Stone Ridge Wine and Spirits.
Click HERE to buy tickets for the Feast and Party!
Click HERE to buy tickets for the Belly Dancing Workshop!
Check out the photos from the event.
Saturday and Sunday, May 15 & 16, 2010
Concrete on Main Street Sculpture Show 2010 - for the second year, Rosendale resident and modern designer, Johnny Poux, will use the material that made Rosendale famous in uncommon ways. Concrete on Main Street is free to the public and will feature large-scale kinetic sculpture in cast concrete, wood and steel, amidst the park's backdrop of now-defunct cement kilns and the looming train trestle.
This year's event will not only show Poux's signature sculptures, it will include showing of Buster Keaton's classic film "The General" at the Rosendale Movie Theatre. Ticket sales for this family-friendly event will support the Rosendale Theatre Collective. Viewing this iconic film provides an exceptional experience of cinema with a potential for broad appeal to generations of people who have never experienced a silent movie on a big screen.
Sculpture exhibit: May 15 & 16 at 1:00 pm, (Free) Willow Kiln Park, Rosendale
Film: May 15 @ 3:00 pm, May 16 @ 12 noon, Rosendale Theatre tix $5
ULSTER SAVINGS BANK
presents:
Asbury Shorts NY's 30th Anniversary
"Short Film Concert"
@
The Rosendale Theater
Friday May 21st @ 7:30pm
Sunday May 23rd @ 2:00pm
$10 general admission
***Special Appearance by County Executive Mike Hein (5/21 show)***
"The Best Short Film Show I've Ever Seen!"
Director Jason Reitman ("Up in the Air," "JUNO" "Thank You for Smoking")
For all show info and ticket reservations: 718-510-6929
www.asburyshortsnyc.com
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Risible in Rosendale
Actors & Writers Reprises Short Plays by Mary Louise Wilson
Actors & Writers, a readers’ theater formerly of Olivebridge, will present its inaugural event at the Rosendale Theater on Saturday, May 29, at 8 p.m., with a reprise of an evening of short plays by A&W member Mary Louise Wilson. The program, titled Remembrance of Shorts Past, was presented at the Odd Fellows Theatre in Olivebridge in May 2009, and the response was so enthusiastic that scores of people had to be turned away. So here’s another chance to see these comic gems, which were also the hit of New Orleans when they were staged at the Crescent City’s Chat Noir. The program, which includes such A&W shorts festival favorites as Deer Play, Lost, and Road Work, will be performed by company regulars.
Mary Louise Wilson has had a glittering career in film, on television, and on stage. She received a 2007 Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Edith Bouvier Beale in the Broadway production of Grey Gardens; she also won a Drama Desk Award for Full Gallop, her solo show based on the life and outrageousness of Diana Vreeland. She is the chief subject of a forthcoming documentary on acting, currently being made by her fellow A&W member, Ron Nyswaner.
Though admission to all A&W events is free, donations are always welcome. Doors open a half hour before show time. For more information, visit www.actorsandwriters.com.
Saturday, June 5th
PERROTTA is a fashionable pop rock trio that combines songwriting aptitude with a grand and sweeping soundscape. The band features Sarah Perrotta: Rhodes piano, Moog synthesizer, and voice; Johnnie Wang: guitar and voice; and Will Olsen: drums. With their romantic melodies and driving rhythms, Perrotta's sound evokes an array of influences such as The Cure, Sigur Ros, Jeff Buckley, and Portishead.
This captivating band will hold a live performance of their new album, "Tonight", in its entirety at the historic Rosendale Theater. The live performance will be accompanied by a video art projection show. An after party will be held across the street at the Bywater Bistro, 419 Main Street, Rosendale, NY.
The album "Tonight" was produced by Christopher Bittner at Applehead Studio in Woodstock, NY, and was mastered by Chris Athens at Sterling Sound, Manhattan, NY. Veteran prog rocker Tony Levin joined the band in the studio on bass.
Ticket pre-orders are now underway for $10 at www.perrottamusic.com, Jack's Rythms (New Paltz, NY), Burt's Electronics (Kingston, NY) and The Big Cheese (Rosendale, NY). For additional information and to hear PERROTTA's music with your own ears visit www.perrottamusic.com or www.myspace.com/perrottasound.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
The Rosendale Theatre Collective is proud to present the New York premiere staged reading of:
The Master Forger: The True Story of the World's Greatest Art Forger, by David Wiener on Sunday, June 13 at 3 PM. This play is based on the book Van Meegeren: Master Forger by Lord John Kilbracken. This reading is directed by Susan Einhorn and features David Little as Han Van Meegeren with a cast that includes Jason Downs, Sophia Raab Downs, Brian Smiar, Carl Welden, Adam LeFevre and Michael Frohnhoefer. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door.
The Master Forger is the true story of the world’s greatest art forger, Han van Meegeren. In 1945, in the shattered city of Amsterdam, van Meegeren, an obscure art dealer, is arrested for selling a priceless Vermeer to the Nazis and charged with treason. But the investigation takes a bizarre turn when he claims the Vermeer in question is his own forgery. The authorities challenge him to prove his ridiculous claim or face the gallows. The master forger must create his greatest fake – or die.
After the play there will be a discussion about art forgery and the other artistic issues the play raises led by Tom Sarrntonio, professor of art at SUNY New Paltz, and including Rich Corozine, a local artist and writer.
Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door.
Click HERE to Puchase tickets online
THURSDAY JUNE 17, 8PM
Double Bill: Playback Goes to the Movies and Musician Jude Roberts
A Benefit for the Rosendale Theatre Collective
On Thursday, June 17 at 8:00 PM a double bill of Playback Theatre and singer-songwriter Jude Roberts takes place at the Belltower in Rosendale. In Act I, the Hudson River Playback Theatre presents Playback Goes to the Movies. Movies are part of our lives--watching them, talking about them, and imagining our own lives as movies. This show gives movie lovers a chance to tell their personal stories about going to the movies, or stories about the dramas of their own lives—then watch as the talented improvisers of Hudson River Playback Theatre bring the stories to life on the spot, complete with music. They’ll even enact favorite moments from favorite movies.
In a Hudson River Playback Theatre show, audience members tell stories from their lives, then watch as actors and musicians bring them to life on the spot without script, score or rehearsal. Any experience can become a playback story. Together, audience and performers create theatre about the lives of the people in the room.
In Act II, singer -songwriter and local favorite Jude Roberts will take the stage. Roberts has a unique ability to convey emotion to an audience. His songs are memorable, lilting melodies with evocative lyrics, strong vocals, and solid guitar playing. Roberts has performed with notable musicians Karan Casey, Dar Williams, and Pete Seeger.
The show takes place at the unique Belltower, a former Methodist Church built in 1896. It was restored by its current owner and transformed into an elegant venue for events, private parties, and weddings while keeping the integrity of the vaulted tin ceilings, small stage and idyllic natural lighting.
Suggested donation is $15. Snacks, desserts, and alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages will be for sale.
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