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THROUGH WEDNESDAY JUNE 8, 2022
Become a Benefactor of the 2022 Annual Benefit
ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, VILLAGE OF TANNERSVILLE, NY
We are looking forward to this summer’s benefit party, which will take place on Saturday July 9th at the Orpheum Performing Arts Center in Tannersville. We are eager to reconnect. We hope that you will join us as a Benefactor and help the Catskill Mountain Foundation continue our programs that are enjoyed by so many residents, visitors, and children in our community. If you make a commitment by June 8, your name will be included in the gala program, and for any donation of $1,000 or more we are again offering the opportunity to name a seat at the Orpheum.
THROUGH SUNDAY MAY 22, 2022
Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
DOCTOROW CENTER FOR THE ARTS, VILLAGE OF HUNTER, NY
Dr. Stephen Strange casts a forbidden spell that opens the doorway to the multiverse, including alternate versions of himself, whose threat to humanity is too great for the combined forces of Strange, Wong, and Wanda Maximoff. PLEASE NOTE COVID RESTRICTIONS:Masks Are Required Except when Seated to Drink or Eat unless proof of vaccination is provided
THROUGH SUNDAY MAY 22, 2022
Downton Abbey: A New Era
DOCTOROW CENTER FOR THE ARTS, VILLAGE OF HUNTER, NY
Follow-up to the 2019 feature film in which the Crawley family and Downton staff received a royal visit from the King and Queen of Great Britain. "...two hours of charming, breezy escapism that made me happy to see this ensemble learn to grow beyond the roles they've been given to play." —Slashfilm PLEASE NOTE COVID RESTRICTIONS:Masks Are Required Except when Seated to Drink or Eat unless proof of vaccination is provided
THROUGH SUNDAY MAY 22, 2022
Everything Everywhere All at Once
DOCTOROW CENTER FOR THE ARTS, VILLAGE OF HUNTER, NY
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led. "It's impossible to describe
May 28, 2022
The Violin Comes of Age: Italian and German Virtuoso Violin Music and Cantatas Circa 1700
DOCTOROW CENTER FOR THE ARTS, VILLAGE OF HUNTER, NY
Catskill Mountain Foundation’s Piano Performance Museum presents The Canzonetta Baroque Ensemble, “The Violin Comes of Age” on Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 8:00 PM at the Doctorow Center for the Arts in Hunter, NY.
June 4, 2022
Manhattan Cabaret
DOCTOROW CENTER FOR THE ARTS, VILLAGE OF HUNTER, NY
Tune in to the Catskill Mountain Foundation’s Facebook and YouTube pages on Saturday, June 4 at 8 pm for a special evening called Manhattan Cabaret, hosted by Mark Singer and backed by the Bob Dawson Trio, with special guest Darcy Dunn. Together they will present some of the best-loved repertoire of the genre, and offer a behind-the-scenes look into a world that sadly is no longer, but will not be quickly forgotten. Don your evening finest (or your PJs … we won’t tell), mix yourself a cocktail, and enjoy!
June 6 - July 25, 2022
Basics & Beyond: Weaving
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This is a project-based class designed to teach students the mechanics of four-harness floor weaving
June 8 - 10, 2022
Workshop on Maintaining Historical Pianos, Harpsichords and Clavichords
DOCTOROW CENTER FOR THE ARTS, VILLAGE OF HUNTER, NY
This workshop provides the participants with a better understanding of the unique structure and mechanism of historical keyboard instruments, guides the participants to identify issues with the instruments and causes of the issues, propose proper solutions, and how to maintain the instruments through regulation and tuning.
June 11, 2022
Viennese Masters and Ukrainian Dreams: Fortepiano Music from the 18th and 19th Centuries
DOCTOROW CENTER FOR THE ARTS, VILLAGE OF HUNTER, NY
The renowned faculty of the Academy of Fortepiano Performance will present a diverse program of music played on historical pianos from the Catskill Mountain Foundation Piano Performance Museum, Steven E. Greenstein collection. The sound world of the Viennese masters like Mozart and Schubert is recreated as the music is performed on the instruments of their time. Viennese influence stretched to the cultural life of Ukraine, as will be heard in the music of Ukrainian composers Dmitri Bortnianskij and Mykola Lysenko.
June 11 - 19, 2022
Academy of Fortepiano Performance
DOCTOROW CENTER FOR THE ARTS, VILLAGE OF HUNTER, NY
The Academy of Fortepiano Performance is a perfect introduction for pianists who have an interest in playing early instruments, as well as an intensive study opportunity for experienced students of period performance practice. Led by renowned performers and specialists, students will participate in lessons, master classes, and workshops supported by plentiful access to pianos from the 18th and 19th century or their modern replicas.
June 17 - 21, 2022
Walking the Edge Along Cone 6 Salt (Call to be placed on the waiting list)
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
Please call our office at 518-263-2001 to be placed on the waiting list for this course. This workshop with one of the country’s dynamic newcomers will provide a wonderful opportunity to work alongside Ms
June 18, 2022
Pierre Goy and Friends: A Fortepiano Concert
DOCTOROW CENTER FOR THE ARTS, VILLAGE OF HUNTER, NY
Pierre Goy returns from Switzerland for his second concert at the Doctorow Center. He will be joined by some of the young artists who are attending the AFP workshop.
June 18 - 19, 2022
Capturing the Great Outdoors: Plein-Air Painting
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This Plein Air Painting workshop is appropriate for beginners, intermediate and advanced landscape painters
June 20, 2022
CALL FOR AUDITIONS!
ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, VILLAGE OF TANNERSVILLE, NY
The Catskill Mountain Foundation is auditioning children 6-17 for their production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This unique production of Shakespeare’s iconic comedy is the perfect introduction to both Theater and Dance
June 22 - August 24, 2022
Clay for Seniors (Call to be placed on the waiting list)
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
Please call our office at 518-263-2001 to be placed on the waiting list for this course. This enjoyable class, taught each year by renowned potter Susan Beecher, is offered to senior citizens living in the Mountain Top area
June 22 - August 24, 2022
Basics & Beyond (Call to be placed on the waiting list)
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
Please call our office at 518-263-2001 to be placed on the waiting list for this course. This enjoyable class adds a spark to the mid-week and introduces students to the amazing world of wheel-thrown ceramics
June 24 - 28, 2022
Zoomorphics, Contemporary Vessels, and Other Good Things
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This course will cover both throwing and hand building techniques and include discussions about design considerations and conceptualization. Ken will focus on thrown and altered/hand built animal sculptures while Galen will cover thrown and altered functional forms, including topics such as handles, spouts, and combining thrown parts. We will also explore surface treatment both pre and post firing
June 25 - 26, 2022
Chinese Brush Painting
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
Nature is the heart of Chinese Brush painting
July 1 - 5, 2022
Minimalist Forming and Atmospherics at Cone 2
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This 5-day workshop will cover numerous making techniques focusing primarily on wheel throwing with additional emphasis on altering, bisque molds, handles, spouts and trimming on and off the wheel. We will use red earthenware clay to develop several functional forms and talk about surface solutions using tape, wax, slips and underglazes
July 1 - 5, 2022
Alternate Ways Towards New Forms
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This workshop will focus on different hand-building methods for creating pottery forms, using a combination of coiling and slab-work
July 8 - 12, 2022
Delicious Dishes and Appendages (Call to be placed on the waiting list)
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
Please call our office at 518-263-2001 to be placed on the waiting list for this course. This workshop provides the opportunity to study with a beloved teacher who will help students refresh and improve their throwing skills. Students will be introduced to ways to shape round pots into various other geometric forms such as ovals, squares, and rectangles thus breathing new life into the ordinary
July 9 - 10, 2022
Intro to Rigid Heddle
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
In this introductory level rigid heddle weaving class you will learn to warp the loom and practice basic weaving techniques
July 11 - 22, 2022
National Dance Institute Mountaintop Summer Residency
ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, VILLAGE OF TANNERSVILLE, NY
National Dance Institute (NDI), founded by Jacques d’Amboise, brings its award-winning dance program to the Catskill Mountain Region, with a two-week residency for children entering 4th through 8th grades. Under the Artistic Direction of NDI choreographer Dufftin Garcia, the children will participate in high energy dance classes and choreography workshops, culminating in a performance on stage at the Orpheum. Colorful banners created over the many years of our collaboration will provide a backdrop for the performance.
July 15 - 19, 2022
Facet and Frame: Surface Composition of the Altered Form
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
Explore how the natural world provides a rich playground for image creation and use the dynamic shapes of pottery as your canvas
July 15 - 19, 2022
Just Add Plaster: Mold-Making for Ceramics
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
Adding plaster to your studio practice will open new possibilities for form and function
July 15 - 17, 2022
Light on the Figure
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
The ability to observe and accurately represent the fall of light on the figure can be developed with practice and perspective
July 22 - 26, 2022
Melt It Perfect But Just for You: Glaze and Materials Technology for the Ceramicist
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
Please call our office at 518-263-2001 to be placed on the waiting list for this course. A first for Sugar Maples Center for the Creative Arts, this workshop offers participants the rare opportunity to study with one of the world’s foremost scientists who delve into the ceramic arts as part of his life’s curiosities
July 22 - 24, 2022
Introduction to Painting and Synesthesia
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
In this introduction to painting workshop, participants will learn about acrylic painting tools, techniques, and mediums, basic color theory, two-dimensional design principles, and gain a deeper understanding of their own subjective experience in the process
July 23, 2022
National Dance Institute Mountaintop Summer Residency Performance
ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, VILLAGE OF TANNERSVILLE, NY
National Dance Institute returns to the Catskill Region this summer to conduct a two-week dance intensive for local children. This year’s theme, "A Beautiful Mosaic," reflects our diverse community residing in the natural beauty of the Catskill Mountains, home of America's first School of Art.
July 29 - August 2, 2022
The Complexities of the Straight Forward: Approaches in Sculpture
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This 5-day workshop will cover the basic techniques of hand building
July 29 - August 2, 2022
Pouring Vessels: Techniques, Mechanics, and Inspirations
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
From the whimsical to the austere, pouring vessels have an outsized place in the pantheon of pottery forms
July 30, 2022
The American String Quartet
DOCTOROW CENTER FOR THE ARTS, VILLAGE OF HUNTER, NY
Internationally recognized as one of the world's finest quartets, the American String Quartet has spent decades honing the luxurious sound for which it is famous.
August 5 - 8, 2022
Cut, Fold, Sew, Glue: Bookbinding as Collage
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to basic techniques and materials of bookbinding with an emphasis on how the process can inform the product
August 5 - 9, 2022
Finding Inspiration in Your Cultural Heritage
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
In this workshop, we will study images of historical ceramics from our own cultural backgrounds to inspire our work
August 12 - 23, 2022
Building the Sugar Maples Train Kiln (Call to be placed on the waiting list)
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
Please call our office at 518-263-2001 to be placed on the waiting list for this course. Come be a part of a project that has been in the planning since early in the worldwide pandemic; to build a wood-fired train kiln for this amazing art center high in the Catskills
August 12 - 14, 2022
A Midsummer Night's Dream
ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, VILLAGE OF TANNERSVILLE, NY
The magic returns to the Orpheum Theater this summer with CMF’s spectacular production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” which premiered during the summer of 2019.
August 19 - 21, 2022
Transforming the Landscape with a Camera
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This workshop will help participants hone and conceptualize a project, organize and strategize their work, create and execute landscape photography in the wondrous Catskill Mountains.The workshop will include discussions about and preparations for project-based images and historical work as reference, making photographs, and learning to critique one’s own work
August 19 - 23, 2022
Cyanotype Workshop (Call to be placed on waiting list)
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
Please call our office at 518-263-2001 to be placed on the waiting list for this course. This workshop does not require any previous experience and will start with the basics of how to make a cyanotype print from mixing chemistry, coating paper and/or fabric and developing the print using the sun (or occasionally a UV light if inclement weather)
August 26 - 28, 2022
Natural Dye Workshop
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
In this workshop you will learn the basic steps of natural dyeing
August 26 - 30, 2022
Pictorial Porcelain Vessels
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
In this 5-day workshop the student will explore color and surface design by creating etched relief painted vessels using layered washes of underglazes painted with watercolor-like techniques
September 9 - 13, 2022
First Things First: Composition, Planning and Execution
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
The first decision that we make as painters is, what am I going to paint
September 10, 2022
Sylvan Winds Ensemble
ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, VILLAGE OF TANNERSVILLE, NY
Hailed by the New York Times for "…its venturesome programming and stylishness of performance," the Sylvan Winds has appeared under the auspices of Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and the Caramoor International Music Festival.
September 16 - 18, 2022
Introduction to Soda Firing (Call to be placed on the waiting list)
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
Please call our office at 518-263-2001 to be placed on the waiting list for this course. “Soda firing” refers to the addition of soda ash to the kiln to create a rich atmosphere that adds a variety of flavors (colors, surfaces) to the work. Soda firing offers artists interesting possibilities in their personal aesthetic
November 5, 2022
Romantically French: Music of Debussy, Ravel and Cécile Chaminade
DOCTOROW CENTER FOR THE ARTS, VILLAGE OF HUNTER, NY
Come explore the rich variety of French music, from the male and female perspectives, at the turn of the 19th century.
November 26, 2022
Music for Harp & String Orchestra
DOCTOROW CENTER FOR THE ARTS, VILLAGE OF HUNTER, NY
The Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra returns to the Doctorow Center for a Thanksgiving weekend concert featuring Robert Manno, Conductor; Jacqueline Kerrod, Harp; and Sato Moughalian, Flute.
December 2 - 11, 2022
The Nutcracker
ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, VILLAGE OF TANNERSVILLE, NY
The Catskill Mountain Foundation, in cooperation with former Metropolitan Opera ballerina Victoria Rinaldi and choreographer Margo Sappington, presents the world’s favorite ballet, The Nutcracker, a holiday favorite of residents of the Catskills and the Hudson Valley.