Nic Panken is a songwriter, guitar player and singer who grew up in Brooklyn and now resides in Kingston, NY. His first record of solo material will come out later this year, co-produced with multi-instrumentalist Jared Samuel.

For this show he will be joined by a band of smart and sensitive musicians.

FREE

During this weekend course students will create beautiful round baskets from willow. Learn to construct a traditional basket with a circular base, rounded or sharp angled upsett, a choice of side weaves and a woven border. Time permitting, students can weave a complementary handle. Students who have participated in a previous willow weaving class can either revisit that same basket style or explore a different type of round basket. Participants will finish the class with a sturdy and useful vessel. Willow can be challenging to work with, someone with hand issues or weak hands may find this class difficult. Includes 1 hr lunch break – participants bring their own lunch.

SOLD OUT

During this weekend course students will create beautiful round baskets from willow. Learn to construct a traditional basket with a circular base, rounded or sharp angled upsett, a choice of side weaves and a woven border. Time permitting, students can weave a complementary handle. Students who have participated in a previous willow weaving class can either revisit that same basket style or explore a different type of round basket. Participants will finish the class with a sturdy and useful vessel. Willow can be challenging to work with, someone with hand issues or weak hands may find this class difficult. Includes 1 hr lunch break – participants bring their own lunch.

SOLD OUT

When her solo project La Muchacha began to take form, Ramírez looked inward for clues to the sound she sought to create. She realized she was angry. “I would ask myself, ‘Why do so many things bother me? Why does the news bother me so much?’”

Isabel will be joined on our stage by a full band, we are looking forward to hear what she will be bringing us.

$20

The Return of Kidstock!

Fun will be had! Save the Date, come back here for more details soon!

Her music is a game of country mouse and city mouse, as both love letter to New York City with twinges of post punk as well as a deep bow to her Southern upbringing with heart on sleeve echoing of country melodies. It is a queer and feminist reclamation of space in both art and music. Lastly, Hart seems to revel in her songwriting serving as both the author of critique and a proclamation of love and heartbreak.

FREE

Community celebration of 50 years bring art, love and music to this Valley.

Music brought to us by the Big Takeover!
Fronted by the charismatic Jamaican-born singer and songwriter Nee Nee Rushie, the seven-piece New York band The Big Takeover plays original music that is rooted in and reverent toward the genres and rhythms of Jamaican pop: reggae, rocksteady, ska. Their deceptively complex arrangements and big hooks connect with the spirit of Motown and the uptown sophistication of the 21st century retro soul and R&B revival scene.

FREE

This popular longstanding workshop is returning this year though just with one series (rather than two). Stay tuned for dates to be announced soon!

Bring a piece to read that you are working on, up to 6 or 8 pages. We’ll listen as a group and respond with honesty, engagement, and respect. We’ll discuss elements of fiction— voice, character, point of view, plot, imagery— as well as different processes that help bring a story forth.  The singularity of each voice will be encouraged. Our approach will be humble but our purpose will be grand: to give voice to the clarity and energy of the imagination. 

Mermer Blakeslee has published three novels. In Dark Water (Ballantine) was selected by Barnes and Noble for its Discover Great New Writers series. An excerpt from her latest novel, When You Live by a River, won the Narrative Prize. Blakeslee received three fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts.  Drawing on her work with fearful ski students, she wrote the non-fiction A Conversation with Fear. Her roots are in poetry and her current project circles back to a hybrid of that form. She was born, raised, and still lives in New York’s Catskill Mountains. For more info, go to www.mermerblakeslee.com

The Neon Moons are a Country and Eastern mash up of country, rock, and blues. Alway, always fun!!

FREE

This popular longstanding workshop is returning this year though just with one series (rather than two). Stay tuned for dates to be announced soon!

Bring a piece to read that you are working on, up to 6 or 8 pages. We’ll listen as a group and respond with honesty, engagement, and respect. We’ll discuss elements of fiction— voice, character, point of view, plot, imagery— as well as different processes that help bring a story forth.  The singularity of each voice will be encouraged. Our approach will be humble but our purpose will be grand: to give voice to the clarity and energy of the imagination. 

Mermer Blakeslee has published three novels. In Dark Water (Ballantine) was selected by Barnes and Noble for its Discover Great New Writers series. An excerpt from her latest novel, When You Live by a River, won the Narrative Prize. Blakeslee received three fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts.  Drawing on her work with fearful ski students, she wrote the non-fiction A Conversation with Fear. Her roots are in poetry and her current project circles back to a hybrid of that form. She was born, raised, and still lives in New York’s Catskill Mountains. For more info, go to www.mermerblakeslee.com

This popular longstanding workshop is returning this year though just with one series (rather than two). Stay tuned for dates to be announced soon!

Bring a piece to read that you are working on, up to 6 or 8 pages. We’ll listen as a group and respond with honesty, engagement, and respect. We’ll discuss elements of fiction— voice, character, point of view, plot, imagery— as well as different processes that help bring a story forth.  The singularity of each voice will be encouraged. Our approach will be humble but our purpose will be grand: to give voice to the clarity and energy of the imagination. 

Mermer Blakeslee has published three novels. In Dark Water (Ballantine) was selected by Barnes and Noble for its Discover Great New Writers series. An excerpt from her latest novel, When You Live by a River, won the Narrative Prize. Blakeslee received three fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts.  Drawing on her work with fearful ski students, she wrote the non-fiction A Conversation with Fear. Her roots are in poetry and her current project circles back to a hybrid of that form. She was born, raised, and still lives in New York’s Catskill Mountains. For more info, go to www.mermerblakeslee.com

This popular longstanding workshop is returning this year though just with one series (rather than two). Stay tuned for dates to be announced soon!

Bring a piece to read that you are working on, up to 6 or 8 pages. We’ll listen as a group and respond with honesty, engagement, and respect. We’ll discuss elements of fiction— voice, character, point of view, plot, imagery— as well as different processes that help bring a story forth.  The singularity of each voice will be encouraged. Our approach will be humble but our purpose will be grand: to give voice to the clarity and energy of the imagination. 

Mermer Blakeslee has published three novels. In Dark Water (Ballantine) was selected by Barnes and Noble for its Discover Great New Writers series. An excerpt from her latest novel, When You Live by a River, won the Narrative Prize. Blakeslee received three fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts.  Drawing on her work with fearful ski students, she wrote the non-fiction A Conversation with Fear. Her roots are in poetry and her current project circles back to a hybrid of that form. She was born, raised, and still lives in New York’s Catskill Mountains. For more info, go to www.mermerblakeslee.com

This popular longstanding workshop is returning this year though just with one series (rather than two). Stay tuned for dates to be announced soon!

Bring a piece to read that you are working on, up to 6 or 8 pages. We’ll listen as a group and respond with honesty, engagement, and respect. We’ll discuss elements of fiction— voice, character, point of view, plot, imagery— as well as different processes that help bring a story forth.  The singularity of each voice will be encouraged. Our approach will be humble but our purpose will be grand: to give voice to the clarity and energy of the imagination. 

Mermer Blakeslee has published three novels. In Dark Water (Ballantine) was selected by Barnes and Noble for its Discover Great New Writers series. An excerpt from her latest novel, When You Live by a River, won the Narrative Prize. Blakeslee received three fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts.  Drawing on her work with fearful ski students, she wrote the non-fiction A Conversation with Fear. Her roots are in poetry and her current project circles back to a hybrid of that form. She was born, raised, and still lives in New York’s Catskill Mountains. For more info, go to www.mermerblakeslee.com

This popular longstanding workshop is returning this year though just with one series (rather than two). Stay tuned for dates to be announced soon!

Bring a piece to read that you are working on, up to 6 or 8 pages. We’ll listen as a group and respond with honesty, engagement, and respect. We’ll discuss elements of fiction— voice, character, point of view, plot, imagery— as well as different processes that help bring a story forth.  The singularity of each voice will be encouraged. Our approach will be humble but our purpose will be grand: to give voice to the clarity and energy of the imagination. 

Mermer Blakeslee has published three novels. In Dark Water (Ballantine) was selected by Barnes and Noble for its Discover Great New Writers series. An excerpt from her latest novel, When You Live by a River, won the Narrative Prize. Blakeslee received three fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts.  Drawing on her work with fearful ski students, she wrote the non-fiction A Conversation with Fear. Her roots are in poetry and her current project circles back to a hybrid of that form. She was born, raised, and still lives in New York’s Catskill Mountains. For more info, go to www.mermerblakeslee.com

This popular longstanding workshop is returning this year though just with one series (rather than two). Stay tuned for dates to be announced soon!

Bring a piece to read that you are working on, up to 6 or 8 pages. We’ll listen as a group and respond with honesty, engagement, and respect. We’ll discuss elements of fiction— voice, character, point of view, plot, imagery— as well as different processes that help bring a story forth.  The singularity of each voice will be encouraged. Our approach will be humble but our purpose will be grand: to give voice to the clarity and energy of the imagination. 

Mermer Blakeslee has published three novels. In Dark Water (Ballantine) was selected by Barnes and Noble for its Discover Great New Writers series. An excerpt from her latest novel, When You Live by a River, won the Narrative Prize. Blakeslee received three fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts.  Drawing on her work with fearful ski students, she wrote the non-fiction A Conversation with Fear. Her roots are in poetry and her current project circles back to a hybrid of that form. She was born, raised, and still lives in New York’s Catskill Mountains. For more info, go to www.mermerblakeslee.com

This popular longstanding workshop is returning this year though just with one series (rather than two). Stay tuned for dates to be announced soon!

Bring a piece to read that you are working on, up to 6 or 8 pages. We’ll listen as a group and respond with honesty, engagement, and respect. We’ll discuss elements of fiction— voice, character, point of view, plot, imagery— as well as different processes that help bring a story forth.  The singularity of each voice will be encouraged. Our approach will be humble but our purpose will be grand: to give voice to the clarity and energy of the imagination. 

Mermer Blakeslee has published three novels. In Dark Water (Ballantine) was selected by Barnes and Noble for its Discover Great New Writers series. An excerpt from her latest novel, When You Live by a River, won the Narrative Prize. Blakeslee received three fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts.  Drawing on her work with fearful ski students, she wrote the non-fiction A Conversation with Fear. Her roots are in poetry and her current project circles back to a hybrid of that form. She was born, raised, and still lives in New York’s Catskill Mountains. For more info, go to www.mermerblakeslee.com