SAVE THE DATE: ARTFUL ENTERTAINING
Saugerties Arts Commission ✹ December 15th ✹ 7-9pm
ILLUMINATING ARTS is an opportunity to mingle with fellow Saugerties Artists and Creatives in a beautiful new venue in the heart of the Village. This is our first Meet & Greet that is a dance party! The DJ will be playing music that is fun to dance to solo or with friends. We typically have 15-30 first-timers come to our events, so this is a fabulous opportunity to make new friends.
Our Winter Meet & Greet, on December 15th, from 7-9pm is at The Local. We will hear about Saugerties-based Music Organizations and dance the night away! Please RSVP as spots are limited (as always, Meet & Greets are free for artists).
December 1st
Saugerties Public Library ✹ 91 Washington Ave. ✹ 3:30 pm
Want to learn what the point of Pointilism is? What Dada art is and how to make it? Become your very own mini artist and art historian over the course of this four-week library program. For children ages 5-12. Registration required. Please call 845-246-4317 x5 to reserve your spot!
The Local ✹ 16 John St. ✹ 7pm
Celebrate the release of local alt-pop songwriter Sandy Bell's first new LP in 6 years Entelechy with a full band performance in the vaulted chapel of new venue The Local. Local dream-pop singer Shana Falana debuts new solo material with support from backing singers The Arcana. Doors open at 6pm. Grab your tickets here!
December 2nd
The Local ✹ 16 John St. ✹ 8pm
For one unique night Johnny Gandelsman, the insatiably curious Grammy award-winning violinist, composer, and producer will perform the complete Bach Cello Suites for violin - acoustic at The Local! Johnny is renowned for combining his classical training with a restless desire to reach beyond the concert hall in exploring contemporary music. As a concert soloist and a founding member of the quartet Brooklyn Rider, Gandelsman has premiered dozens of new works and has released albums by The Knights, the Silkroad Ensemble, Brooklyn Rider, and others on his label, In a Circle Records. Doors open at 7pm. Wine and beer available. Grab your tickets here!
December 3rd
Upstate Films ✹ 156 Main Street ✹ 2-2:30pm
As part of Saugerties’ Holiday in the Village, Ulster Dance Company will perform holiday-inspired dance pieces at The Orpheum. This performance will be free for all who attend.
Saugerties Public Library ✹ 91 Washington Ave.
Join The Friends of the Saugerties Public Library for a Festival of Trees. Organizations and individuals have decorated tiny trees, which will be on display. The public will vote on their favorite.
Newberry Artisan Market ✹ 236 Main St.
Head over to Newberry Artisan Market to celebrate Holiday in the Village and begin your holiday shopping. There will be special pop-up vendors and indie singer/songwriter Honey Babe will be playing live in the back space.
December 4th
Upstate Films ✹ 156 Main Street ✹ 7pm
The punk band The Embarrassment, which formed during the Reagan-era 1980’s, had that special kind of live show magic that catapulted them from Kansas party houses to New York City. Like most indie bands, this one’s mainstream success was kept at bay due to creative differences, but not before drawing the attention of other true originals like Allen Ginsberg, John Cale, and Jonathan Demme. Through interviews, restored concert footage, and appearances by fans including Evan Dando, Freedy Johnston, Grant Hart, and Thomas Frank, we get to revisit a seminal, secret punk band that still has a lot to give to punk culture. Grab your tickets here!
December 5th
Dialogues for the Ear and Eye ✹ 3 Simmons Pl. ✹ 7-9PM
Join Dialogues for the Ear and Eye for their monthly multi-disciplinary arts series curated by Joanne Pagano Weber and Bruce Weber. This month’s event will feature writer Teresa Giordano, painter/sculptor Angela Gaffney-Smith, and harpist/performance artist Elizabeth Clark. There will be a limited open mic, three minutes max following the event.
December 6th
Upstate Films ✹ 156 Main Street ✹ 7pm
Join Upstate Films, ShoutOut, and Inquiring Minds Bookstore to celebrate the publication of the book Crossing Divides: My Journey to Standing Rock, by the late Vernon Benjamin, which recounts the Standing Rock protest. The event features guest speakers, readings, and select video accounts of the 2016 protests against an oil pipeline, and updates on Standing Rock today. Speakers include: Chase Iron Eyes of the Lakota People's Law Project (via Skype) and Wes Gillingham of Catskill Mountainkeeper. Reading selections from Crossing Divides are Jared Reinmuth, performer and co-author of Big Black: Stand at Attica and Patrick Wadden, co-founder and artistic director of Arm-of-the-Sea Theater. The evening is moderated by author Will Nixon best known for Walking Woodstock: Journeys into the Wild Heart of America's Most Famous Small Town and The Pocket Guide to Woodstock. Reserve your tickets here.
December 8th
Upstate Films ✹ 156 Main Street
Head over to The Orpheum to catch the opening of Maestro.“It’s a film for cinephiles as well as musos and romantics, with its discrete ‘movements’ mirroring the movie making style of its time frame.” - Time Out. Grab your tickets here!
Upstate Films ✹ 156 Main Street
The movie Eileen will also be opening at The Orpheum on December 8th. “Eileen is an intriguing little story that shifts and alters the further it goes, playing with the audience, and giving them the opposite of what they’re expecting.” – Collider Grab your tickets here!
The Local ✹ 16 John St. ✹ 8pm
Like so many of music’s most essential singer-songwriters, Emily King has a near-magical gift for digging into life’s deepest sorrows and uncovering unexpected beauty and illuminating truth. Since the arrival of her Grammy Award-nominated full-length debut East Side Story, the New York City-bred artist has brought ever-evolving levels of depth and nuance to her songwriting, rooting each revelation in her mesmerizing blend of soul and R&B and forward-thinking pop. On her new album Special Occasion, King shares a real-time exploration of the endless dimensions of heartbreak—an inquiry informed by the end of her romantic relationship. King and longtime producer Jeremy Most (Grammy nominated producer and multi-instrumentalist) closely collaborated on every track for an intimate and infinitely enchanting look at the ways we love, grieve, and eventually stumble toward a greater sense of self-understanding. Doors open at 7pm. Wine and beer available. Grab your tickets here!
December 9th
Jane St Art Center ✹ 11 Jane St. Suite A ✹ 4-7pm
Head over to Jane St. Art Center for the opening reception of "A Chorus of Angels” This is a juried group exhibition on the theme of angles, from abstract to realism. Over 40 local artists represent their interpretations of our angelic friends. All are welcome to attend! The show will run from Dec 9- Jan 6, 2024.
The Local ✹ 16 John St. ✹ 8pm
Silent Disco is an immersive dance party like no other with 2 live DJs! Participants wear special wireless headphones we provide after you leave your ID or car keys with us til we get the headphones back. The headphones are connected to a transmitter that broadcasts the music from the DJs simultaneously and you can switch listening and dancing between them. The music is not played out loud you can only hear it through your headphones. Everyone in attendance is dancing to their own groove. It’s one of those, “you had to be there” kind of nights. So make sure you’re there—and once you get there make sure you’re there! Doors open at 7pm. Wine and beer available. Grab your tickets here!
December 10th
Upstate Films ✹ 156 Main Street ✹ 7pm
It’s Christmas time again and nobody could be happier about that than our heroes Chris Maxwell, Holly Miranda, and Ambrosia Parsley. One year after their sold-out holiday special at the Orpheum and six months after the infamous camping show, MMP are back with another seasonal classic. Original holiday music mixed with lots of laughs and a supergroup of local musicians are a formula for an unforgettable Christmas extravaganza. This year’s show will be no exception. You’ve heard the scuttlebutt. Maxwell, Miranda, Parsley shows are an almost perfect night of entertainment. Buy your tickets early! MMP shows always sell out.” Grab your tickets here!
December 11th
Upstate Films ✹ 156 Main Street ✹ 7pm
For over 30 years, Aiko Sakurai recreated vintage Zeppelin concerts note-for-note in small Tokyo clubs, until the real Jimmy Page gave him an ovation at a show. Aiko then left behind his day job and family and moved to Los Angeles to join a Zeppelin cover band. A story about chasing dreams despite our circumstances, this fascinating story is bolstered with wit, heart, and music we love. Grab your tickets here!
December 15th
Upstate Films ✹ 156 Main Street
A candy-coated musical fantasy about Willy Wonka’s early days as an eccentric chocolatier premieres at The Orpheum. Packed with psychedelic flora and fauna, as well as a colorful cast including Timothée Chalamet, Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Keegan-Michael Key, Olivia Colman, and Hugh Grant. Grab your tickets here.
Saugerties Art Commission ✹ 16 John St. ✹ 7-9pm
ILLUMINATING ARTS is an opportunity to mingle with fellow Saugerties Artists and Creatives in a beautiful new venue in the heart of the Village. This is our first Meet & Greet that is a dance party! The DJ will be playing music that is fun to dance to solo or with friends. We typically have 15-30 first-timers come to our events, so this is a fabulous opportunity to make new friends. Our Winter Meet & Greet, on December 15th, from 7 - 9pm is at The Local. We will hear about Saugerties-based Music Organizations and dance the night away! Please RSVP as spots are limited (as always, Meet & Greets are free for artists).
December 17th
The Local ✹ 16 John St. ✹ 2pm
A double bill! Improviser, film composer and soundscape artist Torn approaches the far sonic edges of guitar and the High Low Duo with guitarists Jack Petruzzelli and Cameron Greider play original surf and western swing instrumentals inspired by Chet Atkins and Les Paul, but they also venture into classical music with original arrangements of works by Ravel and Bartok. Their debut album makes a good case for the electric guitar as a classical instrument, capable of the range of expression and colors needed to bring these pieces to life. Doors open at 1pm. Wine and beer available. Grab your tickets here!
December 18th
Upstate Films ✹ 156 Main Street ✹ 7pm
World-famous South African singer Miriam Makeba spent half a century traveling the world to sing for fighting racism, poverty, and to promote justice. This documentary highlights moments in her life and visits family and friends who pay tribute to a woman who embodied the hopes and the voice of Africa. Grab your tickets here!
December 22nd
Upstate Films ✹ 156 Main Street
Catch The Boy and the Heron at The Orpheum. This deep and visually complex Studio Ghibli film is about a young boy who, while yearning for his dead mother, develops a relationship with a heron. The heron guides the boy to a world shared by both the living and the dead. Rumored to be Hayao Miyazaki’s final film, and perhaps his finest. Grab your tickets here!