June 1st
Jane St. Art Center ✹ 11 Jane St. Suite A.
Saugerties on-site performance video “The Speak to Me” will be complete and installed at Jane St. Art Center. This is a site-specific piece that talks about our consumption. Suprina will be shooting May 1-8 with Rock Wilk, an incredible filmmaker also living in Poughkeepsie. Suprina will start her travels at the Saugerties Library, then move to the 15 Minutes of Frame, the Lighthouse, Arm of the Sea, and possibly Opus 40 and other sites while wearing her plastic bag outfit. As she travels from one place to the next she comes upon different “objects”; that have been left behind, abandoned or castaway. These objects ’talk’ to her, they tell her their stories…. Who owned them, when they were purchased and why they were left behind. As each tells her their story, she picks them up and places them into her broken (also a discarded object) red wagon. After visiting all these location’s, Suprina walks into her Silent Stories forest art installation at Jane Street Art Center to ‘plant’ her new found objects. This finished video will be on view at Jane St. Art Center from June 1 to June 22.
June 2nd
Upstate Films ✹ 198 Main St. ✹ 6:30pm
Head over to the Orpheum for a screening of Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea. This dramatic recounting of the life of artist, combat veteran, and acrobat H. C. Westermann pays special attention to the art he made to process his trauma from the Korean War. Director Buchbinder was once a professional dancer, and tried to capture the movement found in Westermann’s sculptures using 3-D and slow, rotating close-ups. Narrated by Ed Harris, the film features interviews with luminaries including Ed Ruscha, Billy Al Bengston, Frank Gehry, and more. It contains music by Laurie Anderson, the Kronos Quartet, Terry Allen, and others. It makes for a supergroup homage to this singular artist.
June 3rd
Upstate Films ✹ 198 Main St. ✹ 7pm
Head over to the Orpheum for the screening of Amy. Behind six-time Grammy winner Amy Winehouse’s genius lay a troubled and fragile personal life. This gripping documentary illuminates struggles that kept her from her pure desire to create music. Interviews from friends and producers show Amy Winehouse as a fierce and singular talent that will be remembered for years to come. Buy your tickets here.
June 4th
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 at 9W Diner. This month’s event will feature poet Tom Romeo, painter Richard Pantell and singer/songwriter and poet Marco Delgado. There will be a Q&A plus an open mic afterwards (three performers max, 3 minutes each). The $10 suggested donation goes to the artists.
June 5th
Saugerties Public Library ✹ 91 Washington Ave ✹ 6:30pm
Join Saugerties Public Library for Wizard of Oz trivia in honor of the 85th anniversary of the film and Judy Garland's birthday on June 10!
June 7th
Upstate Films ✹ 198 Main St.
Beth Lisick and Jodi Lennon in conjunction with Upstate Films are elated to announce the first annual More Than A Feeling Comedy Fest. A 3 Day mini comedy fest for your maximum pleasure. Featuring all kinds of comedy: Standup, Sketch, Variety, Solo Shows, Improv, and Music! From June 7th through June 9th.
Saugerties Public Library ✹ 91 Washington Ave. ✹ 3:30pm
Head over to Saugerties Public Library to enjoy stories all about the wonders and importance of nature, gardening, and plants. Then, plant your own flowers to bring home. Open to children of all ages. Weather depending, this program will meet outdoors in the library backyard.
June 9th
Clove Lea ✹ 134 Burt St. ✹ 11-12pm
Come join fellow writers for a monthly writing circle at Clove Lea! Each month we will gather together and explore different writing exercises, recommended readings and seasonal plant allies to help hone our personal practice and build place-based relationships with those who live in community alongside us. All writers and flower lovers are welcome to join us. The class is $25 and will include a reading packet and herbal formula or flower essence inspired by the season. Reserve your spot here.
Upstate Films ✹ 198 Main St. ✹ 5:30pm
Head over to the Orpheum for a screening of Alice in the Cities. Before directing Wings of Desire and Paris, Texas, Wim Wenders made this beautiful, charming film about a frustrated and disillusioned German photojournalist roaming through America. While in New York, Phillip (Rüdiger Vogler) reluctantly agrees to deliver Alice, a nine-year-old German girl, to her mother in Europe. After the screening, singer-songwriter Sibylle Baier, featured briefly in the film, will be in conversation. Interspersed will be a listening session featuring songs from her album “Colour Green” recorded between 1970 and 1973 and released in 2006 (she will not perform live). Buy your tickets here!
Upstate Films ✹ 198 Main St. ✹ 7pm
Head over to the Orpheum for the screening of One Hand Don’t Clap. From African-East Indian traditions of Trinidad and Tobago, to mainstream success by artists like Harry Belafonte, the history of calypso is exalted in this musical doc.
June 12th
Upstate Films ✹ 198 Main St. ✹ 7pm
Head over to the Orpheum for a screening of Taxi Driver. Perhaps Martin Scorcesse’ most accomplished work, this gripping story of a psychotic taxi driver who is compelled to protect a young prostitute and impress a beautiful political volunteer, uses violence as an act of love. It’s the movie that put writer Paul Schrader on the map, and seizes American film noir in the dreamy, sometimes nightmarish landscape of 1970’s New York. Grab your tickets here!
June 16th
Jane St. Art Center ✹ 11 Jane St. Suite A. ✹ 1-3pm
Free to the public, Jane Street and Suprina will be inviting the public to bring an object they would normally throw away and donate it to the Silent Stories forest forever. The participants will be photographed with their object and asked to write about the object in a journal. Then Suprina, dressed in her plastic bag outfit, will escort the person and object into the forest. Suprina will pick a place to ‘plant’ the object. Once she and the participant are done, Suprina will ask the person to ‘say a few words about the object’ …..kinda like a memorial. This is how Suprina grows her forest for the next art installation. She states, “you’d be surprised at how people react to this ritual of sorts.”
June 17th
Upstate Films ✹ 198 Main St. ✹ 7pm
Head over to the Orpheum for the screening of Space is the Place. A 1972 Afrofuturist science fiction movie starring Sun Ra as a time traveler destined for another planet.
June 20th
ShoutOut ✹ 31 Market St. ✹ 6pm
Writers Read celebrates Pride Month with Queer Stories at CMM Distillery. Featuring: MC Amy Crossfield, Jill Dearman: Author, metaphysical astrologer, editor, and teacher; Wallace Norman: Playwright, director, actor and singer; and Dan Poblocki: Author of mystery, horror, and adventure novels for young people. This event is free to the public. Books and drinks will be available for purchase.
June 22nd
Round the Bend Theatre ✹ 91 Washington Ave. ✹ 6pm
Head over to the Saugerties Public Library’s Garden for a reading of Dante in the Big Box Store by Richard Gotti and directed by Beth Ryan Troxell. Unmoored by the death of his wife, sinking in an ill-timed retirement, the contentious Professor Ray finds himself in one more hell: searching for a rubber-backed rug in a big-box store. Enter supervisor Eva where forces converge. $10 cash donation at the door (or more if you feel so inclined). Bring a chair or blanket. Rain location: Community Room.
Upstate Films ✹ 198 Main St. ✹ 7:30pm
Songs, stories & celebration: writer-musician-storyteller Robert Burke Warren brings an intimate night of songs – originals and otherwise – and stories – true and otherwise – to the state-of-the-art Mark theate at the Orpheum. Renowned for Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, and Johnny Cash tribute shows, Warren, whose own work appears on releases by RuPaul, Rosanne Cash, and rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson, steps up to the microphone to share his own material, spiced with some surprises.
June 23rd
Upstate Films ✹ 198 Main St. ✹ 7pm
Head over to the Orpheum for a screening of The Cameraman. Buster Keaton stars in this silent film about a clumsy cameraman in love with a woman working at MGM Studios. This classic comedy is accompanied by the adventurous trio Order of the Illusive who have created and performed scores for dozens of films over the last decade. Get your tickets here!
June 24th
Upstate Films ✹ 198 Main St. ✹ 7pm
Head over to the Orpheum for Searching for Sugar Man. The unlikely, magical tale of what happened to a country’s unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, Rodriguez.
June 26th
Saugerties Public Library ✹ 91 Washington Ave. ✹ 3:30pm
Start your summer on the right note! Join the library for an evening of musical adventures courtesy of musician Tom Sieling and his rockin’ guitar! For children and families of all ages!
June 27th
ShoutOut ✹ 31 Market St. ✹ 6pm
JAZZED (formerly Jazz at the Beach) is back! All performances will be at CMM Distillery on Main Street. The season opener features saxophonist, Darryl Brenzel, with Larry Ham on piano, Lou Pappas bass, and Matt Garrity drums. Performance is free, and beverages will be available for purchase.
Inquiring Minds ✹ 200 Main St. ✹ 6-8pm
Inquiring Minds Bookstore and The Bluestone Poets, both of the Village of Saugerties, welcome poets and writers to their Open Round Robin Reading at the bookstore, corner of Main and Partition Streets, every last Thursday of month. You are welcome to read 5 to 6 minutes from original poetry or short fiction. There will be one short break midway in the evening to shop and/or buy refreshments in the store. The readings are chaired by poets and writers Robert P. Langon and Patrick Hammer Jr. Listeners are also welcome.
June 30th
Upstate Films ✹ 198 Main St. ✹ 7pm
Head over to the Orpheum for Close Up: Peter Bradley with Alex Rappoport. 79 years old and overlooked since the 1970s, abstract painter Peter Bradley reflects on life and shares his artistic process on the cusp of his rediscovery.