Paper Spells, is a group art exhibit produced in collaboration with the Elm St.Art Salon. The Salon comprises a group of women artists and writers who have been meeting monthly for several years to share their work and give support to new projects. The Paper Spell project came about in response to the stress and pressures that many of us are experiencing in current times. Paper Spells use the power of images and words to draw positive energies to redirect events that arise in our lives.
Participating artists include Amanda Gulla, Nansi Lent, Ann Sherrill, Elin Menzies, Debra Moskowitz, Tracy Phillips, Martha Hill, Virginia Casper, Joan Barker, Katherine Burger, Leslie Ruckman, Yvonne Rojas-Cowan, Cameron Myler, Sandy Silverman, Veronica Lawlor, Suzanne Parker, Angela Gaffney-Smith, Anne Leith, Anne Crowley, Linda Shultz, Gloria Mirsky, Carol March, Sabine Reckewell, Lucille Colin, Theresa Landi Daniel, Gabrielle Walter and Tania Kravath.

The exhibit will be open Saturdays and Sundays June 8-June 29th from 1-5.

Join us for this interactive workshop for adults, children, and families.

Storyteller and artist Jill Oleskar, recipient of the 2025 Susanna Meyer award, will bring candles down by the Creek for a storytelling circle. There, people can share their stories of the Lower Esopus Creek from Saugerties to the Hudson River. They will then have the opportunity to draw any stories or memories that they have told, as well as any other Creek or River stories that come to mind. Each participant is invited to draw two pennants. One will be hung by the Creek for a while so the stories will be carried to the Creek by the Wind, while the second pennant will be taken home by participants. This workshop will run for roughly two hours. Participants should bring their own lawn chairs if possible.

Can’t make this workshop? Jill is offering a second workshop at the Saugerties Beach on Sunday, June 22 from 1-3PM

Paper Spells, is a group art exhibit produced in collaboration with the Elm St.Art Salon. The Salon comprises a group of women artists and writers who have been meeting monthly for several years to share their work and give support to new projects. The Paper Spell project came about in response to the stress and pressures that many of us are experiencing in current times. Paper Spells use the power of images and words to draw positive energies to redirect events that arise in our lives.
Participating artists include Amanda Gulla, Nansi Lent, Ann Sherrill, Elin Menzies, Debra Moskowitz, Tracy Phillips, Martha Hill, Virginia Casper, Joan Barker, Katherine Burger, Leslie Ruckman, Yvonne Rojas-Cowan, Cameron Myler, Sandy Silverman, Veronica Lawlor, Suzanne Parker, Angela Gaffney-Smith, Anne Leith, Anne Crowley, Linda Shultz, Gloria Mirsky, Carol March, Sabine Reckewell, Lucille Colin, Theresa Landi Daniel, Gabrielle Walter and Tania Kravath.

The exhibit will be open Saturdays and Sundays June 8-June 29th from 1-5. Opening reception is June 8th from 4-6PM

On the first Wednesday of every month, Jan Alexander leads a Fiction based book club focused on novels that reflect the diverse world we live in.

Book Club meets from 5:30 to 7:00 either on Zoom or in-person. Contact info@shoutoutsaugerties.org for more information.

ShoutOut participates yearly in the Annual Saugerties Library Street Fair. This year ShoutOut Member Chloë Saban-Mayor will offer a drawing workshop Animal Alphabet for kids to have fun decorating their names. Materials provided. May 31st, 10am to 2pm, behind the Library.

Jan Alexander leads a Fiction based book club focused on novels that reflect the diverse world we live in. This month features the book, Isola, by Allegra Goodman.

Book Club meets from 5:30 to 7:00 either on Zoom or in-person. Contact info@shoutoutsaugerties.org for more information.

ShoutOut and the Orpheum present an evening of moderated discussion exploring future growth for the Village and Town.

Free.

Facilitated by: Suzanne Bennett, Katie Cokinos

Books Alive presents a reading of selections from the children's classic Charlotte's Web.
Featuring Little Theater of Wonder actors Gary Brownlee, Hannah Munson, Lisa Nicolas, Philip X Levine, and Chantez Engeleit. The reading will be followed by a creative arts activity with Lisa Nicholas. Please contact info@shoutoutsaugerties.org if you are interested in attending.

This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council

Second reading added!

Poetry month is back and we’re celebrating. Poets featured in "Poems in the Windows" will read selected works at The Pig. Join us for an afternoon of poetry!

Taking place in The Esopus Bend Nature Preserve from the Sterley Avenue entrance to the fabulous South Trail, this is the second of four seasonal outings sponsored in part by ShoutOut Saugerties, Susana Meyer grant for the arts.  

On this special day we are also celebrating  WORLDWIDE TAIJI/QIGONG DAY!

Following an opening poetry welcome by Mikhail Horowitz, Celeste will lead a group qigong session to attune with the nature of the season, preparing bodies, minds, hearts and spirits for a silent walk through the preserve to the edge of the creek.  Upon returning there will be an opportunity to share experiences and to watch presentations of Taiji and Qigong forms offered by Ulster County students and practitioners of these arts.

Meet up for carpooling at Simmons Plaza, (northerly side), 1 pm.

Contact Celeste for more information:

celestegraves@gmail.com   845 943 0375

Raindate: April 27

Poetry month is back and we’re celebrating. Join Tina Barry, Mikhail Horowitz, Guy Reed and others in our annual poetry reading. Guy Reed’s latest book “Time Under the Overlook” will be available for purchase at the event. About the Poets:

Tina Barry: Books: I Tell Henrietta (Aim Higher, Inc.), Beautiful Raft and Mall Flower (Big Table Publishing). Once a restaurant critic for the Brooklyn Paper, she wrote food and relationship stories for the NY Daily News, among other papers; 5 Pushcart Prize nominations. Teaches at The Poetry Barn and Writers.com

Mikhail Horowitz: Books: Big League Poets (City Lights; The Opus of Everything in Nothing Flat (Outloud/Red Hill; Rafting into the Afterlife (Codhill Press); Ancient Baseball (Alte Books). Performed throughout the U.S. with Giles Makine, musician and composer. Wrote and performedwith Actors and Writers of the Hudson Valley. For years, Horowitz was Arts Editor for the Woodstock Times.

Guy Reed: Books: Time Under the Overlook (Bushwack Books), Second Innocence (Luchador Press), The Effort To Hold Light (Finishing Line Press), and co-author, with Cheryl A. Rice, of Until The Words Came (Post Traumatic Press). Winner 2022 Littoral Press poetry prize. Graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, wrote and performed for the film I Dream too Much. 

Following the reading, a conversation will take place among the authors facilitated by Phillip X Levine, poet and editor of poetry for Chronogram.

Doors open at 5:00. Beer, wine, sodas, coffee, and food will be available for purchase during the event.

This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Books Alive presents a reading of selections from the children's classic Charlotte's Web.

Featuring Little Theater of Wonder actors Gary Brownlee, Hannah Munson, Lisa Nicolas, Philip X. Levine, and Chantez Engeleit. The reading will be followed by a creative arts activity with Lisa Nicholas. All are welcome.

On the first Wednesday of every month, Jan Alexander leads a Fiction based book club focused on novels that reflect the diverse world we live in.

Book Club meets from 5:30 to 7:00 either on Zoom or in-person. Contact info@shoutoutsaugerties.org for more information.

Venerable memoirist Abigail Thomas reads from her new book, Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing.

Jana Martin, recipient of the 2024 Susana Meyer Creative Arts Award for individual art, will lead a discussion about Thomas’s passion for spinning everyday life events into irreverent prose, the writing life with canine companions, and the memoir form in general.

Beer, wine, sodas, coffee, and food will be available for purchase during the event.

An evening of moderated discussion exploring current issues, including the local retail economy, housing, state of public transportation, and pedestrian safety. Plus stories of creative community-driven design.

Speakers include: Diane Colello, Rosemary Quinn, Karine Duteil; Stephanie Bassler, Alex Rappoport

Open to all. First come, first served seating.

Facilitated by Suzanne Bennett and Katie Cokinos

Celeste Graves leads seasonal Qigong excursions into movement, art and nature. This will be the first in a series.

Easy to follow, pleasurable movements restoring harmony and balance to the body, mind and spirit. Followed by Tai Chi and Qigong Demonstrations performed by Celeste and other students of the Qi-Arts. Also appearing is special guest poet, Mikhail Horowitz. All are then invited to join in a silent walk to the Historical Society grounds where we will conclude our winter excursion amongst the extraordinary trees that live there. They are expecting us.

Partially funded by the ShoutOut Saugerties Susana Meyers grant for the arts.

For more information contact Celeste: Celestegraves@gmail.com

Readings from THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX by Kate DiCamillo. This Newberry Award winning fantasy adventure tells the story of a brave French mouse who betrays his mouse heritage for his love of music, and infatuation for the human Princess Pea.

Historian Bruce Weber discusses painter Charles Edward Townsend’s beautiful landscape, Catskill Mountains from Barclay Heights, and what led his move to Saugerties.

Bruce Weber is an historian of American art whose recent focus has been on the Woodstock art colony.

Registration required: 845-246-4317 ext.2

For Zoom email: bruweber942@gmail.com

ShoutOut and Orpheum present:

Community Spaces: Balanced Growth, Moving Forward

An evening of moderated discussion exploring current issues, including the local retail economy, housing, state of public transportation and pedestrian safety. Plus stories of successful community-driven change. 

Readings from THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX by Kate DiCamillo. This Newberry Award winning fantasy adventure tells the story of a brave French mouse who betrays his mouse heritage for his love of music, and infatuation for the human Princess Pea.

Featuring Little Theater of Wonder actors Gary Brownlee, Hannah Munson, and Nabil Viñas. The reading will be followed by a creative arts activity with Lisa Nicholas.

Following the death of a beloved pet, four middle school students wrestle with loss, new friendships, and the challenges of fitting in in a post-Covid world.

According to playwright Cheri Magid, “When I started writing ‘Playing Dog’, my kids’ play about two tween sisters reeling from the death of their dog, I knew I was writing a comedy about grief. What I didn’t know was I was also writing about ultimate frisbee. And what I absolutely didn’t know was I was also writing about death metal. But here we are.”

This delightful play for families, recommended for ages 8 and up, mixes realism with fantasy and includes several original death metal songs, performed to comic effect.

Tickets: https://bridgest.org/playing-dog-tickets/

Saugerties is applying for a Downtown Revitalization Initiative, $10M, as a joint application with the Town and Village. In response to information the grant requires, citizens will have an opportunity to discuss ways that our town can improve and respond to needs and demographics. Briana Maloney, grant writer, will discuss the grant and successful past applicants from towns in the Hudson Valley.

Links to the grant and survey:

https://www.ny.gov/programs/ny-forward

https://www.ny.gov/downtown-revitalization-initiative/dri-focus-case-studies-successful-dri-communities-projects#brownfield_redevelopment

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7-EXvGFV4xw6GtE4N0er-07komw5FdH4NzZ7CtX4__3TRcA/viewform

Community Conversations at the Orpheum presents "Balanced Growth, Saugerties”: a public informational forum regarding the proposed Winston Farm development. With Town Supervisor Fred Costello and Adriana Beltrani, Senior Environmental Planner, who will give a brief history of the Winston Farm development plans, including the current situation, zoning, and environmental review. 

Free. First come, first served; No RSVPs. Please bring your questions.

Augusta Savage, a renowned sculptor who lived in Saugerties in the 40s. Savage’s monumental sculpture “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” shown at the 1939 World’s Fair, honors African-American music through the portrayal of 12 singers, arms raised in the air to create the silhouette of a harp. The evening will include a performance of the song, now an iconic Black hymn, by Imani-Amie, a showing of the recent PBS documentary Searching for Augusta Savage, and a remembrance read by Lisa Nicholas of a childhood friendship between a local resident and Savage. 

With audience discussion.

Throughout the exhibit, work will be exhibited at The Lamb Center, a historic home in the heart of the Village of Saugerties, and virtually through the Emerge Gallery shop on Artsy.net.

Anne Leith Paints to Music.

Anne is a painter based in the Hudson Valley. In her own words - I am a painter of places, going out in all weather conditions and often working large scale. In my studio I paint imaginary and often fantastical landscapes. A few years ago, I began incorporating metallic leaf into my work. It brings 3D to a 2D piece.The immense pleasure that I get from making art is unlike any other activity.

Throughout the exhibit, work will be exhibited at The Lamb Center, a historic home in the heart of the Village of Saugerties, and virtually through the Emerge Gallery shop on Artsy.net.

The Extinction of Irena Rey - This hilarious, thought-provoking second outing by award-winning translator and author Jennifer Croft is a brilliant examination of art, celebrity, the natural world, and the power of language. It is an unforgettable, unputdownable adventure with a small but global cast of characters shaken by the shocks of love, destruction, and creation in one of Europe’s last great wildernesses. - goodreads

In person and on Zoom. Location will be given with RSVP.

For more information contact info@shoutoutsaugerties.org

Conversation with featured artists about their work and music.

Throughout the exhibit, work will be exhibited at The Lamb Center, a historic home in the heart of the Village of Saugerties, and virtually through the Emerge Gallery shop on Artsy.net.

July 27 through August 25 - ShoutOut and Emerge Gallery present For the Record, exploring the relationship between artists and music. As Saugerties looks back on Woodstock ’94 and its role in history, For the Record will celebrate the direct influence music has always played in the work of our artists.

Work will be exhibited at The Lamb Center, a historic home in the heart of the Village of Saugerties, and virtually through the Emerge Gallery shop on Artsy.net.

Pamela Pentony, voice; Paul Duffy, piano; Jim Curtin, bass; and Joe Corozza, drums, and Bard Jazz Students.

**The 2024 Susana Meyer Creative Arts Awards will be presented prior to the performance**

Performance is free, and beverages will be available for purchase.